Building your Game Platform
As web gaming is growing, more and more needs to be taken into consideration when designing a new game or platform. This sentiment is underlined by a recent quote from John Carmack: “I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f*d up is that?”
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What is the most cost efficient way to manage infrastructure for the increasingly popular Free-to-play model?
Free to Play, often abbreviated to F2P, means you can play a game without paying a dime for it. Sounds great doesn’t it? Some industry experts say that F2P might be the first step towards a totally new gaming market. Until then, some games start out as a Pay to Play version (like DC Universe Online, Age of Conan or League of Legends), who later switch to F2P. Other games are designed with F2P in mind, like the recently released Tribes: Ascend. The F2P model is one that truly provides a win-win outcome for gaming companies and players alike.
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LeaseWeb USA – Invitation to join our family!
I can’t believe it’s already been 1.5 years since the birth of LeaseWeb USA, Inc!
Strategically, for the LeaseWeb brand, it was the obvious step after strongly leading the European hosting market – the US was what our customers were continuously asking us for. So LeaseWeb USA, Inc. was established specifically for targeting and supporting the US market.
An orange affair…
Every year the Dutch celebrate the Queen’s birthday by dressing up in orange and partying on the streets. At LeaseWeb, we thought it would be great if our (international) clients could also experience the orange craziness so we invited 30 of them to our annual Queen’s Night party. The Dutch Queen Beatrix celebrates her birthday on 30th April, but festivities start the night before.
Introducing Lawton Cheney
Who would have thought that the Dutch hosting company I work for in Europe would be who brought me home?
Hi, I’m Lawton Cheney and I am LeaseWeb USA’s new vice president of Business Development writing to you from our offices here in Manassas, Virginia – a short drive from Washington DC and from where I grew up in Maryland. As I began my commute to the office on my first day, I saw the neighborhood kids waiting at the same bus stop I used to go to. To give you an idea of how long ago that is, the Washington Redskins were at the very top of pro football in those days.
Teaming up with our customers for cool ideas
When you run into someone in the hallways of the LeaseWeb’s offices and say ‘Hey, how’s it going?” the most common answer you will get is “Great! But busy!”
It’s true, we’re all so involved with whatever it is we’re doing, literally running sometimes day and night to meet deadlines. From my point of view, you really need to be smart about striking a balance between meeting those deadlines, while still taking your time to be creative to bring that extra something into your work.
Press release: LeaseWeb and StopBadware unite to combat cybercrime
LeaseWeb, a leading global hosting provider, is sponsoring StopBadware (www.stopbadware.org) to make the internet safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of malware websites. LeaseWeb will provide hosted server infrastructure, physical capacity and redundancy for the network and services, to support the growth of the global initiative.
Flying high with the Hoogvliegers foundation
Last Saturday, a team of LeaseWeb employees travelled to the Dutch city of Lelystad. Their mission: help make 71 children pilot for a day!
LeaseWeb Express Cloud: one small change and four days of discount
The new LeaseWeb Express Cloud platform has been live for almost a month now and we’re quite happy with how it performs. The platform is gaining more and more popularity at a steady pace, and we keep expanding capacity to accommodate all our enthusiastic customers. So far the results have exceeded our expectations, so if you’re a LeaseWeb Express Cloud customer: thanks!
LeaseWeb Self Service Center updated
The LeaseWeb Self Service Center (SSC) is the place where you can manage many features of your hosting infrastructure solutions. We deployed a few new features, which we describe below.