Have a brilliant idea for a web app…
… but never had the skill or budget to realise it?
The guys at Contrast have just launched App School 2008 - they will pick an idea submitted by an Irish startup, charity, non-profit or individual and teach it how to be a fully-grown app. And, will cover 95% of the cost!
I’m also offering to help by providing the winning application with a true enterprise, scalable platform to grow on, with the Hosting365.com Cloud solution – and stump up €3,000 worth of hosting to power the App for the first year of it’s life!
See more at http://www.contrast.ie/blog/app-school-2008/
Excellent explanatory video…
on one of the fundamental benefits of using a cloud provider – namely, you do not have physical servers, routers, switches, firewalls and other kit to worry about!
http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud/cloud-computing-101/
Now if only we could get fully automatic, belt fed weapons in this country for demos!
TV3.ie goes live on Hosting365 Cloud
www.tv3.ie, Ireland’s second Television Network, went live today on the Hosting365.com Cloud computing and storage platform.
Featuring video streaming and lots of new content, as well as a snazzy new style, the site was launched this morning and is performing extremely well !
Coming Soon – Run Windows on EC2
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/10/coming-soon-ama.html
Fair play to Amazon for this coup, up until now one of the big factors with EC2 was the absence of Microsoft Platforms (already available on our cloud platform for more than a year).
Register365 is not Hosting365
I know it takes time to alter customer perception, and for many of our former shared hosting customers, they had been with hosting365 a very long time, but it’s amazing how many people still confuse hosting365 and register365.
As per the post back in May, Register365 was bought by www.names.co.uk back on the 27th of May 2008, and Hosting365 is a different company, that does not provide domain registration, email services or web hosting, and we have no control over or involvement with those services any longer!



