Status Reports

November 2006:

• Tremendous growth!

October 2006:

• We have expanded to a full cabinet at United Layer's facility at the carrier-class 200 Paul datacenter in San Francisco.

September 2006:

• Graham Freeman joins Cernio in a full-time capacity!
• We now offer technology consulting services.
• We are preparing to expand to a San Francisco-based colocation facility.
• We're about halfway through a transition from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Ubuntu Linux.
• We now offer virtual servers via Xen!
• Work continues on the cooperative transformation.

May 2006:

• Our colocation efforts have grown significantly.
• Work continues on the cooperative transformation.

December 2005:

• Established local telephone number for customers in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• Began process of determining best political entity under which to incorporate as a cooperative. Considering, in order of preference, Canada, the United States, and the European Union.
• Moved all photo galleries to new servers; major upgrade to photo gallery software.

November 2005:

• Purchased and deployed new server hardware.
• Serious research and preparation for shift to a cooperative business model.

March -> October 2005:

• Maintained status quo.
• Consistent anti-spam and anti-virus upgrades.
• Established a physical office in Davis, California.
• Quiet contemplation of motivation and future plans.
• Serious consideration of cooperative business model.

February 2005:

• Graham Freeman, President of Cernio, was a panelist at a Stanford University conference on building global civil society. (You may download the hand-out.)
• Cernio is mentioned, and its founder quoted, in an article [web | PDF] in Stanford University's Cardinal Inquirer newspaper.
• Began transition to new server software
• Deployed new server hardware
• Upgraded billing system and procedures
• Can now accept credit card payments

January 2005:

• Business development
• Anti-spam and anti-virus upgrades
• Major network upgrade
• Testing & development for future product offerings

December 2004:

• Upgraded customer configuration tool
• Can now receive faxes and send invoices via fax
• Added a toll-free (within the US) telephone number
• Greatly improved system status monitoring tools
• First phase of anti-spam upgrade is complete
• Completed massive server software upgrade

November 2004:

• Began planning for greatly enhanced e-mail infrastructure
• Began significant anti-spam upgrade

October 2004:

• Upgraded billing system
• Upgraded backup system

September 2004:

• Enhanced database server infrastructure

August 2004:

• Upgraded network for additional capacity, increased security, and greater reliability

July 2004:

• Doubled our bandwidth and rack space commitment due to rapid growth
• Upgraded our power distribution equipment
• Upgraded anti-virus and anti-spam controls on mail servers
• Enhanced DNS server infrastructure

Notable works in progress:

• Implementing sophisticated authentication/authorization infrastructure
• Upgrading customer support infrastructure
• Bringing additional technical talent on-board

Note: In the interest of avoiding undue attention, most security enhancements will be performed without being mentioned publicly. Rest assured that security is always among our top priorities. If you have specific questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us.