Party at Toronto’s C Lounge celebrates PEER 1’s customers’ achievements.

October 1, 2007 (TopHosts Event Coverage) - Web Host PEER 1 threw a party at Toronto’s upscale C Lounge on September 26th to honour its’ clients achievement.

In a brief speech to the sizable crowd consisting of PEER 1 employees and customers, president and CEO Fabio M. Banducci joked that he wasn’t one of the dancers on the small stage (near the back of the venue that seemed to be receiving most of the attention) then thanked everyone for coming out to what was the first customer appreciation night in almost two years, adding that the client base was well-represented.

“Without customers, we wouldn’t have a business and so we’re very much customer-focused and (with) our whole vision, our aim is to enhance our customer experience and part of that experience is being able to share our gratitude,” Banducci said.

He added that the Web hosting company is seeing very good market dynamics across all of its core services and a large number of its customers are finding new and novel ways to leverage the Internet which is increasing their dependency on the Web and driving the need for outsourced resource solutions. There’s a strong need for this in the small- and medium-sized business market.

“These are important decisions our customers face in terms of outsourcing their infrastructure so we’re just very grateful that there are over 9,000 customers that we have currently, (and) that we’re their infrastructure provider of choice.”

This was a sentiment that Domenic Macchione, president of Rebel Networks, a Mississauga-based outsourced internet infrastructure and managed website hosting solutions provider shared. He said the party was “awesome” and that it felt good to be appreciated.

“I’m very happy with the service from PEER 1 Networks,” Macchione said. “We have our equipment in data centers in the US and what I like is specifically in the Canadian marketplace (is) their network covers a lot of hot spots in Toronto.”

Roger K. Yang, CEO of Avema Corporation, a Toronto-based telecom solutions provider, was also enjoying himself. He said that during the four years that Avema has been with PEER 1, they have not experienced an outage, not even during the blackout of August 2003.

Ultimately, the event was for clients like Macchione and Yang according to Rajan Sodhi, vice president of marketing and communications for PEER 1.

“The way we look at it is that customers are doing cool and innovative things online and happen to be leveraging our IT resources to be able to do so, speaks volumes and volumes to what we do,” Sodhi explained. “So what we want to do is that make sure we celebrate what they’re doing, celebrate their success stories, celebrate their business and show our appreciation.”

Please visit the TopHosts.com gallery to see pictures from the event.