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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalists
Over the last one months Sun Startup Essentials & EveryCity have been attending and sponsoring a number of events and running a photothon for the most creative photo which includes one of our stickers and a person.
The winner will win £5000 of hosting from EveryCity and one runner up will win an ipod touch from Sun Start-up Essentials. In the event that the winner doesn’t want their prize they can nominate a Start-up or a charity.
We’ve narrowed down all the entries and come up with six finalists below. The winners will be those with the highest number of re-tweets on Saturday 20th June 2009.
Sander Koppelaar - @koppelaar - Koppelaar Training Management Software
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
Dimitris Kalogeropoulos - @dkalo - Pestaola.gr Blog
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
Jamie Rumbelow - @jamierumbelow - BinaryCake Development Screencasts
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
Laura Kalbag - @laurakalbag
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
Nick Barker - @nickpoint - Aware Monitoring
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
John Shepherd - @john_shepherd - OffExploring.com Online Travel Journals
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
Dan Rubin - @danrubin - SuperfluousBanter Blog
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalist - Sander Koppelaar
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Sander Koppelaar - @koppelaar - Koppelaar Training Management Software
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalist - Jamie Rumbelow
To see all of the finalists click here
Jamie Rumbelow - @jamierumbelow - BinaryCake Development Screencasts
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalist - Laura Kalbag
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Laura Kalbag - @laurakalbag
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalist - Nick Barker
To see all of the finalists click here
Nick Barker - @nickpoint - Aware Monitoring
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalist - John Shepherd
To see all of the finalists click here
John Shepherd - @john_shepherd - OffExploring.com Online Travel Journals
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalist - Dan Rubin
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Dan Rubin - @danrubin - SuperfluousBanter Blog
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
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Sun Start-up Essentials & EveryCity Photothon Finalist - Dimitris Kalogeropoulos
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Dimitris Kalogeropoulos - @dkalo - Pestaola Tech Blog
To vote for this photo re-tweet it by clicking left. The photo with the highest number of tweets on the 20th June 2009 will win £5000 of hosting and one runner up will win an ipod touch.
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EveryCity Support Comic Relief
I’m pleased to say that we are supporting Comic Relief with their campaign.
Comic Relief Status App
The Comic Relief Status donate application which lets you donate your status to Comic Relief to allow them to post a message each day to help raise awareness. The application also helps promote the FunnyForMoney application which was the winner of the Hackathon (see below).
The app was created by iPlatform who do great things integrating isolated brands social networks/hompages with Facebook, MySpace and other apps.
Facebook Developers Garage Hackathon
Not long ago there was a Comic Relief Facebook Developers Garage Hackathon. Three teams came together on a Saturday at Microsofts office in Knightsbridge to compete to create an application which would help raise money for Comic Relief.
The winner, FunnyForMoney, is an application which allows users to create jokes which get ranked according to how many votes they get. For a user to vote they need to donate £1 to Comic Relief.
You can find more information and videos from the event @ www.comicrelief-hackathon.com
How we are supporting Comic Relief
EveryCity has been supporting Comic Reliefs facebook efforts by providing on-site support at the Hackathon as well as free hosting for the ComicReliefStatus App & FunnyForMoney application.
Who Else is helping
London Facebook Developers Garage - The London Facebook Developers Garage have been promoting the Comic Relief Hackathon as well as promoting the cause.
Adknowledge - A worldwide banner network they have donated 5 million ad impression to help promote both of the Comic Relief applications
Add comment March 10th, 2009
EveryCitys New On-Demand Scalable Hosting Platform
It’s very rare that I talk about my work on this blog and indeed I think it might be the first time ever. We have launched a new on-demand managed hosting platform, so below is a quick pitch of what it is.
Why do I need scalable on-demand hosting?
If you are running a campaign/website/application that could get very busy then you face two challenges, unpredictability of visitors & cost.
Currently most agencies plan for busy sites by paying for lots of
servers to be set-up which costs lots of money.
The way to avoid this problem is to use a scalable on-demand platform.
What does this mean?
Simply said we are able to scale your websites & applications very easily and in a large number of cases, without you even having to change any code. The most important part to you is that you don’t have to do anything as this is a fully managed service.
What we are offering
The solution to agencies, applications & businesses who want to harness on-demand computing and make use of flexible contracts to help their businesses save costs & improve service.
Classic vs On-Demand
Under a classic model if you had a 3-month campaign or busy period then you might have to buy a full load balanced infrastructure.
Cost Comparison
| 12 months - Managed Dedicated
4x servers @ £400/m |
3 months - Managed On-Demand
4x servers @ £400/m |
What it looks like - Classic vs. New
Our on-demand service works just the same as a normal dedicated server with additional benefits.
In the On-demand diagram the two extra servers are whited out as you can use them as needed.
Advantages
Flexibility
- If you need to upgrade you let us know and restart your server
- You can change your infrastructure on a month-by-month basis
- Add zones/instances to scale whenever you need
Cost & Time Reduction
- Pay for what you need when you need it rather than x-times more
- Rather than having to plan months in advance, decide on the day
Zero-Hassle
- We offer a fully managed service, set-up, monitoring backups..
- A team of experts are available to help you with your app/site
Disadvantages
- You won’t get to sign off those huge hosting budgets anymore
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