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Information on the Partnership:

APUG ran into some major problems with our server and hosting situation. Things were NOT looking good and we needed a massive change to ensure this site remained reliable or 'mission critical' so to speak. We have a mass of traffic and data used per day so we needed a new system to accomodate this. What we found after much research was that this would be impossible because such a system could push us towards 10k a year in operating costs. Still not giving up, we decided to contact 4 companies to see if they would like to partner with APUG and help offset most of these costs. Much to our relief these 4 companies stepped up to the plate and saved the day by equally contributing to make our recent server and host move to rackspace.com a reality. To give you an idea of the shop we are now housed at, Rackspace as of 2005 host 15% of the websites for the Fortune 100. This likely could not have been made possible without the support of our these 4 companies.

We are still 100% in control of APUG. The partnership involves corporate support to our community and the community giving visibility of that support (a block on the homepage and site footer for example). Also, plans are in place for a quarterly APUG newsletter which will contain apug news as well as messages from our partners. We wanted to choose a diverse group of partners, companies that we respect and will enjoy working with.

We look forward to their continued support as well as returning the favor.

Thank You,
Sean Ross -owner/operator APUG.ORG