Finally we are happy to announce that the development of monstermegs.com is back on track and moving forward as planned. We are still unsure of an official release date at this time and will only announce the official date once we are 100% sure that will be official launch. We are guessing it will be somewhere around the start of 2011.

For the next couple months or so the development will be a slow process as time is still limited, but progress is once again being made. Since it has been awhill since we worked on the site and structure we need to review everything and update our plans. Many things can change in a short time, so new features may be included that were not planned months ago and hosting packages may increase. Not to mention we have plans for additional services being added to the official launch.

To wrap up this update, we are moving forward as we stated we would. MonsterMegs will be exploding into the internet very soon. So get ready for a new level in web hosting.

As the title states the official release of MonsterMegs is now on hold. While we were planning the release for June 1st 2010, this is no longer the case. Last week I was hired on a large job that will consume all of my time at the moment and will run until around November. This was an unexpected opportunity and one that could not be passed up. So at this point there is no official release date. My best idea would be toward the end of this year or the very start of next year.

I want to ensure that there will be a release and plans for this company are in NO way being scraped. It will be up and running, we are just entirely sure when at this moment. We will be still working on the website throughout this time, but not on a regular basis like before. With myself busy with this hire on I do not feel comfortable opening the company without the proper attention it needs, especially in the opening stages. That would not be fair to the customers or do justice to the MonsterMegs name under those conditions. So we feel it is better to wait until I am available since I am the head of operations and guarantee the launch gets the proper attention.

The updates on this blog will be far and few in-between during this span until November. We ask that you do check back from time to time and see if there are any further developments.

It has been a week or so since we have received the final files for the new web layout and thought it would be a good time for an update. Currently we have completed 4 pages and setup the main structure of the site. Everything is coming along very well. Our rough estimate shows we have around 20-25 pages for the start of the site and more will be added after our operations are 100% up and running. Once we have the main pages done we will move on to the designs of the billing, support, affiliate system, and so on.

I feel our progress is now back on track or maybe a little ahead of schedule. So there are no worries that we will be ready for launch on June 1st. We have also been looking at servers and various datacenters. At this time it looks that will be using Netdepot for our servers and network. I have used them in the past and have been very satisfied with their performance and network speed. Right now we are debating which datacenter to us for our first location. Either Texas or Georgia are our current choices. The server we are looking at right now will have the follow specs:

Dual Processor Quad Core Nehalem E5520
8 processing cores @ 2.26 GHz
12 GB DDR3 RAM
2 x 750 GB SATA II Hard Drives
10,000 GB (100 mbps uplink) Bandwidth

This server will for our shared and reseller customers. This is not the final decision on the server, but a rough idea. If we do get anything different the specs will be higher than this. As for our Semi-Dedicated hosting, we are still looking into the best solutions for that.

I will continue to update this on a weekly basis and keep everyone informed on our progress.

Check your mirror, tune the radio, and start your engines. That’s right MonsterMegs is all fired up today. After a long long wait we have finally received the final coded version of our new website design. Let me just say this design is incredible and will catch everyone’s attention immediately. I have never seen another design remotely close in quality and branding. I believe the response when we launch on June 1st of this year will be overwhelming.

So after being on hold for the last month or so MonsterMegs is back on track and moving forward on a rapid pace. Even though I just got the new design last night there has already been a ton of work done. This process will move quite fast due to the fact that design is so much fun to work with and the results of each modification and addition to the site is looking  just that much better than the last one. Expect to be impressed is all I can say. Time to slide the status bar….

I know there has not been an update in awhile and there is a very good reason for that…..there simply has been nothing to post about. We are still waiting on the final coded pages of our new design. Since this site has many advanced features including things like ajax and jquery it is taking some time to code. It is also all tableless coding that will be xhtml and css validated. Talking with the designer today we should expect to have the final coded pages on Wednesday of this week.

Once we get the design in a few days we will be work hard each and every day to get everything back in development. We are predicting around 24-35 pages, so it will take some time to complete, but with all this waiting time we have some really great and unique ideas to incorporate into the site. So stay tuned as we begin the process of building the website you will come to see very soon.