Gippy's Internet Solutions

In 1998 Nevin Lyne founded Gippy's Internet Solutions, a technology consulting company focused on primarily the high performance web server needs of a group of niche industries. In 2002, Nevin Lyne and Rick Ellis met, and setup a deal which opened pMachineHosting.com in October of that year, to provide secure and stable hosting for the growing community of pMachine Pro, Rick Ellis' original blogging/CMS tool. In 2005, we shifted our primary data center location to Minneapolis, Minnesota from our single location in Fremont, California, keeping the Fremont location in place, and starting our voyage away from non-load-balanced web hosting solutions to fully load-balanced web hosting in the process. In 2007, pMachineHosting.com changed its name to EngineHosting.com to better communicate our focus on fully load-balanced, clustered web hosting solutions for ExpressionEngine, and other apache/mysql/php based web applications which continued the tradition of our focus on Security, Performance and Stability f or our web hosting clients. In 2007, added a marketing agreement with Userscape, Inc. the makers of the advanced helpdesk web application, HelpSpot, again focused on providing hosting services to a market with a critical need of our three business focuses, Security, Performance and Stability. In 2008, we expanded to a third data center location with an eye towards disaster recovery and off-site backups conducted over fully private metro-optical ethernet connections. This data center location is directly linked to our primary data center for higher performance and full security of data in transit between the two locations, rather than relying on routing across the public Internet. Our support/help desk systems are also run out of this data center. In 2009, we continued our focus on our primary goals by moving our infrastructure into the cloud computing world by fully using the advanced technologies of VMware vSphere. This included automated high availability, "Live migration" of any service between physical servers or storage arrays, and the full separation o f our services from the underlying hardware that drive our infrastructure. 2012 and beyond: We will be introducing more exciting new products and services for our clients and partners, and continuing to push our focus on providing o ur clients with solutions rather than excuses.