Superb Internet Completes SAS-70 Type II audit!

That’s right, after months of hard work we have successfully passed a SAS-70 type II audit. An independent auditing service examined the business processes, and policies in place at Superb Internet and HopOne for the period of January 1st 2010 - Sept, 30th 2010, and found us to be in full compliance.

What is SAS 70?

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) developed a set of guidelines for evaluating service organizations. These guidelines are called the Statement of Auditing Standards Number 70 (SAS 70). An independent service auditor provides an extensive assessment of the service organizations’ control objectives, safeguards and other activities. Their audit report is called a SAS 70 report.

How do you benefit?

There are two ways in which you benefit:

• As a SAS-70 certified company it shows that we have implemented effective control measures and activities, which minimizes the risk in dealing with us an outsourced service provider. It demonstrates a degree of control and discipline that most service providers cannot.
• Many of you may also require a SAS-70 audit of our facility for your own financials, and since we have taken on the burden ourselves, we can pass that savings on to you. Instead of doing your own audit you can use ours instead -saving you many 10’s of thousands of dollars in the process.

E- Mail sales if you have any questions about getting a full copy of our SAS-70 report.

New Aflliate Payout Structure Coming Soon!

If you haven’t already signed up for our affiliate program, maybe this will convince you; effective, Jan 1st, 2011, we are launching and all new affiliate pay out structure that will give you more than ever before. We challenge you to find a better paying program out there.

Here’s the deal: now you will be able to get the following very generous payouts for shared hosting (GIP) and VPS accounts referred by you:

All VPS offerings: $150 one time payout.

GRID Lite: $60 one time payout.

GRID Pro: $90 one time payout.

GRID Max: $120 one time payout.

Superb VPS For Linux And Windows

Did you know that we recently launched Virtual Private Servers for both Linux and Windows? This means that you can get a lot of the benefits of a dedicated server for closer to the price of shared! That’s right, a VPS gives you full control with root/admin access, while also giving you guaranteed resources such as CPU cycles RAM, and diskspace. We even have some very cloud-like features that can give you on-demand access to additional RAM and CPU power (burstable).

>Worried about managing a server on your own? Not a linux guru? Not to worry, all VPS’s come with the ability to add a control panel such as Plesk or Cpanel so that you can manage your server easily with very little command line/windows admin knowledge!

So if you are ramping up for a big year and are feeling a little constrained by your current shared hosting account, then you need to check out our all new VPS line, and right now until the end of the year, you can get 25% off any VPS plan, so be sure check it out here: http://www.superb.net/vps/

Tell Us What You Think!

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Editor’s Note: Happy Birthday Internet!

So how old is the Internet (at least the world wide web anyway)? Well last month it turned 20! It is hard to imagine a world without the Internet, but just 20 years ago there wasn’t much of World Wide Web to speak of, cell phones were about 5 pounds, and mobile apps? What the heck is that??? It is really hard to imagine doing research for a college paper, competitive intelligence for your job, or just getting directions somewhere without the power of the Internet.

I remember my first sales job, I was handed a price sheet and given a desk with a landline phone (yep I am dating myself), and a pad of paper ... how did we survive? And yet somehow the world did go around. Somehow despite being in a recession like today, I feel the country was somehow better off then, now after all the wars, Internet bubbles, 9/11, still more wars, George dubbya, and the complete bankrupting of the US economy by Wall street, it is hard to imagine how things could be any worse.

And yet here we are, still plugging away, still innovating, and still depending on the entrepreneur to pull us out of yet another near calamity. Every day I see new businesses starting up (one benefit of being in the hosting industry), and I can’t help but marvel at the ingenuity and tenacity of the American entrepreneur. It gives me hope, and reinforces my faith in the human spirit to prevail in the face of adversity. No one can be certain where this path will take us, whether this will be a double dip recession, a quick recovery, or a long drawn out painful journey to prosperity, but what is certain is that there will be winners, and there will be losers, and the people who give up will always be losers.

So hats off to the entrepreneurs of America and the world and hats off to the Internet which has opened up the world to a whole new way of everything that wasn’t even conceivable a mere 20 years ago! Makes me wonder what the next 20 will bring as clearly this is just the very beginning of something so transformational it is staggering.

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