This year XmasRadio picked a charity to raise money for and listeners voted and by a landslide the Lions Club won. To date we have raised…

Google  $0.83
Amazon  $6.20
Donations $30.00

Total  $37.03

How can you help?
- You can donate to XmasRadio and the Lions Club.
- You can advertise on XmasRadio.
- You can install our XmasRadio Facebook Application and invite 10 friends.
- You can blog about XmasRadio.

As a community at BlueFur I am sure we can raise $500+ for the Lions Club this year.

It is that time of year again to hang your lights and roast chestnuts by the fire. To bring in the holidays again for a third year with 24 hour Christmas music streamed live from our office. We now have over 4 days worth of music so your guaranteed to hear all your favorite Christmas tunes. This free service will run from December 1 to January 2, 2008.

This year we will be working on raising money for a local charity through the radio. We have put up a poll to choose a deserving charity, vote if you have not done so already. If you wish to advertise on XmasRadio.ca you can view those details here. All proceeds will be donated to the charity of choice.

You can access the Site at XmasRadio.ca

Less then 3 days ago we announced our year end  Holiday Managed Blog Hosting Blow-Out special. This special has been keeping our staff busy with over 103 sign-ups.

This special is limited to 200 sign-ups so if you or anyone you know wants to take advantage of this special now is the time to sign-up.

Not sure what the special is? You can see more on our $10 a year blog hosting special.

Also remember that if you sign-up for this plan you automatically get 5 entries into the 2 monitor give away.

So what are you waiting for?  Go sign-up!

We are still working on our article and customer blogs section of our site. Anyone go in and test it out yet?

I think we will be calling it the BlueFur Library. A place to go and read articles and share knowledge but of course you can be as noisy as you want to be. What do you think of name BlueFur Library?

So moving forward are we ready to have our own Social Network?

There is lots of software available and have seriously considered using SocialEngine for creating our own Social Network on BlueFur.com.

From current usage of our community tools I’m not sure we are ready to move on to having our own Social Network.

What do we need to do get Forum and Wiki usage up?

Since launching our development servers last week they have been selling extremely well. I took some time to get some feedback from these customers as to why they picked a development server and how they are intending to use it. Here is what a few of them had to say…

Brian a web developer told me, “I have been bouncing from shared host to shared host trying to get the most up to date software so that I can develop sites for my customers. I have finally found an affordable server.”

Olivia a student shared that, “I am currently taking classes that require me to use Oracle. I have been looking for a solution where I can install and have full control of my own database. The server fits right into my budget…”

Olaf a software developer commented, “I have several successful online scripts I sell on my sites. I have not had a chance to test them using PHP 5 and MySQL 5. Finding a host that has a server that fits my needs to test my scripts is extremely valuable for the future of my online business.”

We also have sold our first Xcluster server and you can read John Chow’s review on his blog.

What’s holding you back from getting your own development server?

We have launched 3 new server offerings each with their own specific target markets.

Development Server (Xdev)
This server is great for developers who wants to install and develop using the latest software. Unlike a VPS you won’t need to share any resources at all and the servers RAM and hard drives can be upgraded easily. Some great uses for these servers are PHP 5, MySQL 5, Oracle, ColdFusion, Java and Ruby on Rails. Our Xdev server is economical at $59.95 per month.

Backup Server (Xbackup)
This server has 960 GB of space running on a RAID 5 system. The server is great for large volume file storage. It is essential to do backups of your business and/or site and our backup server makes that easy. Our Xbackup server is $349.95 per month.

Cluster Servers (Xcluster)
This solution starts off with 6 servers and is scalable to fit your specific needs. The cluster system uses 2 load balancers, 2 web servers, 1 database and 1 backup server to dish up millions of hits a day. This solution is great for sites that require a high up time and have a lot of traffic. Our Xcluster solution pricing starts at $2099.95 per month.

We will be launching our SaaS servers soon but we feel these servers make for a great addition to our current server offerings.

What do you think?