After several months of full dedication we have been able to pull together a major milestone for the Leanservers project.
We engaged a design studio that sat and talked to us; they understood what our product is about and the philosophy of the company. Then they designed.
The results are substantial; the new look and feel is slicker and leaner. Text can be read comfortably and the images fit perfectly. Everything has been thoroughly thought. Nothing is random.
Our new slider provides an overview of our differentiators: affordability, quality, no-contracts and modularity. This slider has been easily implemented thanks to Drupal’s versatility and robustness. It’s a pleasure to develop new features with such an advanced framework.
We have added and polished a number of user specific features, such as: My Account, My Details, My Usage, My Domains, My Backups and added shortcuts to backend controlling pages: Webmail, Email Admin, DNS Admin and phpMyAdmin. All of these are now conveniently accessible through our elegant LEANMENU, a JQuery based user menu. Extremely slick.
It is now possible to know how many webroots we have, how much bandwidth we’ve used so far, manage our passwords, import unlimited sized MySQL databases and a significant number of other things that deserve a blog post on their own.
One of our strengths is modularity: you can increase or decrease the level of services with us anytime. Plus we bill you monthly. We know that some people (specially companies) prefer to pay yearly. That is also possible. We always wondered why people had to commit for 1 or 2 years of hosting when they didn’t know whether they would need it for that period of time.
All our payments are being managed at the moment through 2checkout. We don’t have access to any credit card information. They do it for us. We can simply stop recurring payments and refund money. That’s pretty much all. They take care of passing the fraud checks as well.
We always feel proud of letting people know that our servers have an average of 4% of CPU utilization. And that is where our clients host their sites. The load is minimal.
Our provisioning system deserves some air time as well. Everything is automated, there is no human intervention that’s why it’s so fast. Including the decision on where to create the account. Automatic.