Raising the curtain
Today the covers finally come off. The full Ninefold website is now live, allowing anyone to sign up, come in and kick the tyres.
It’s always a nervous time when all of your hard work is unleashed - like standing naked in front of a lecture hall full of critics (that dream again). Thankfully, after all the work from some incredibly talented people, I’m reasonably confident that no one will be pointing and laughing (so, not like that dream at all, then).
What will people think? Will all of our careful efforts suddenly be undermined by overlooked typos or errant code, or will all the long nights, lost weekends and obsessive attention to detail actually pay off?
Hopefully you will agree that Ninefold.com doesn’t look like any other cloud provider. Hopefully, you’ll also agree that’s a good thing. We’ve worked hard to create a different and unique experience, not only with the website but right through to the features of the service.
Reliable infrastructure may be our business, but to you it’s just a means to an end. Most of you probably don’t get excited about virtual servers. More likely, they are a necessary step along your path to your own creative goal. The excitement comes from being able to do whatever it is you want to do - faster and easier.
We get that.
We are just the blank canvas. It’s what you do with it that matters. More importantly, our Beta program has helped us immensely in identifying areas for improvement and catching unexpected bugs while at the same time proving many of our theories of what functions and features customers really value.
So Ninefold is live. We’re out there. Over to you...