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BluePink Cloud Hosting

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Hi, my name is Cristian Seceleanu and I am from Romania. I am 30 years old and have been working as an IT Specialist / Software Engineer for about 12 years now.

In 2007 i founded the BluePink project here in Constanta, Romania (project website is www.bluepink.ro ) as a small personal business which at that time provided software development services, remote server maintenance and deployment and basic hosting services for free and open-source projects. The project has one main goal: provide good quality paid services in order to sustain the project and help the open-source community in anyway we can. As years went by the project became more popular and registered a little success which lead to several investments in infrastructure and expansion which allowed us to provide web design and paid hosting services and also provided enough resources to help out a few open-source project based here in Romania.

About 2 years ago i had the idea to start a web hosting service like no other at that time and began research about solutions which provided high availability for webservices: fault-tolerance, replication, scalability and geo distribution for web services (similar to what google, facebook, amazon and others are doing) and try to design and implement an infrastructure which would make such a service viable, cost effective, secure and reliable.

At this point I can say for sure that my team an I are able to design, implement and deliver this service to customers (as a paid service) as well as to free and open-source projects, foundations, ngo's and startup projects (as sponsorship) but this will only be possible if you can help us raise the required funds.
What We Need & What You Get
We need to raise about 132000 USD to have this service running at 100% operational level in order to be able to guarrantee 99.999% uptime to our users. The whole plan is to start with at least 2 distinct locations where we will have servers installed which will be providing the hosting service and a third location where we will install backup servers for all services .

The first location where we need to purchase and install equipment is our main office in Constanta, Romania where we have our own datacenter already setup.

The required equipment list is as follows:
1) power generator apx 10000 USD
2) cooling system apx 6000 USD
3) 8 refurbished new generation servers apx 20000 USD (2500 USD / each server - dell r900 family)
4) Internet access apx 18000 USD (total cost for 1 year)

The second location where we need to purchase and install equipment is a datacenter in USA (preferably in New York but we are still researching)

The required equipment list is as follows:
1) 8 refurbished new generation servers apx 20000 USD - servers will be ordered remotely and delivered to datacenter via courier or postal office
2) Internet access & colocation apx 30000 USD (total cost for 1 year)

The third location (backup) is a datacenter in Europe (preferably in Frankfurt but we are still researching)

The required equipment list is as follows:
1) 4 refurbished new generation servers apx 10000 USD - servers will be ordered remotely and delivered to datacenter via courier or postal office
2) Internet access & colocation apx 18000 USD (total cost for 1 year)

Location1 and location2 will be running the main web hosting services and location3 will be a backup location where we sync with the live environment but this location becomes active if location 1 or 2 is down.
Each location holds it's own backup infrastructure and is connected to all other locations to have data in sync.
All web services will be replicated and geo distributed which means that your websites will be accessible from any of the 2 live active locations (depending on network routing).

The beauty of this service is that you will be running a website which will be able to scale to any size due to the underlying infrastructure on which it is hosted ... you will no longer have to consider migrating from a hosting provider to another or to different setups like move from 1 dedicated server to another ... a simple package upgrade will allow your website to access any number of required resources all in a matter of seconds. You will no longer have to consider backing up your data since we will be covering this aspect as well and also no more problems related to datacenter interruptions due to ISP problems (if route to location1 fails you will have the backup route to location2 active thus having your website online for your customers)

The first milestone would be to have Location1 fully operational so that we can start to operate the service and start receiving money from our customers so even if we don't reach our goal here we can still complete the whole setup in time and have this service at 100% operational level.

Any help from you is appreciated and for this reason we have setup a few perks which will give you access to amazing services.(All perks represent preferential prices for you, the person that believed in our project.)
The Impact

When this project is live and kicking it will mark the beginning of a new era in web hosting services. Websites will no longer have interruptions due to maintenance work, every business (small or big) will be able to host their website or webapplition online withoug having to think about infrastructure and technical skills required for deployment, companies will start to see open-source software with different eyes (since this whole project is 100% based on open-source software - some having contributions or being developed by our team), others who want to start similar web hosting services will be able to do so either in collaboration with us (as resellers) or by using the tutorials and open-source software that we have developed.
Other Ways You Can Help

You do not necesarily have to contribute with money, you can contribute by spreading word about the BluePink Cloud Hosting project to your friends or people you know. Even if maybe you are not interested in web hosting services it does not mean that that is also true for other people.

Please remember that any help is appreciated.

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