Since 1999, Gossamer Threads has been a tenant in an early 20th century building called The Sun Tower, a structure that enjoys special historical status in the young city (incorporated in 1886) of Vancouver. Built in 1912 for local newspaper The Vancouver World, the tower was the tallest building in the British Empire at the time of its completion, succeeding the previous record-holder, The Dominion building, located just two blocks away.

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Part of our managed hosting service includes the active monitoring of your servers. If ever there is a bottleneck or a slow down in your website, we can tell you exactly where it is occurring and how to remedy the issue. Our consultation also allows for you to anticipate growth, plan for the future, and handle the mass amounts of traffic that you might expect.

We’ve now added MySQL performance monitoring to give you more information at your fingertips, so you can know exactly what is going on with your site.

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Magnify.net is a social media site, allowing users to create video channels and upload their own productions and clips. Users can even add a widget to their existing site, allowing the, “integration of user-generated video.”

What this means for readers is a specialized, targeted and most of all, relevant collection of video clips for their viewing pleasure. Connecting users to an overall message or theme has never been easier, thanks to Magnify.net.

Handling the Magnifty.net operation is quite an intensive load, however nothing is too big a task for the Gossamer Host servers!

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Ian and his creation

While many probably consider a coding house starchy and lacking in spontaneity, nothing could be further from the truth here at Gossamer. However, when Halloween rolls around, there can definitely be a certain um…nerdy quality to the choice of costumes on display.

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Name: Aki Mimoto
Role at GT: Code Master Supreme
Quote to live by: Exploding High-Five!

Looking at this photo, you’d probably think we hired a 19th century photographer with a ridiculously nice hat. But we at Gossamer Threads have not yet mastered the art of time travel - not yet at least.

Meet Aki! - The first in a series of our special interest pieces on Gossamer employees.

Read on to learn a little more about one of the star players here at Gossamer Threads.

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