About Us

Neowin.net was launched in October 2000 by Steven Parker & Marcel Klum, and is a technology news website that actively focuses on Microsoft, Apple, and sometimes Linux.

Neowin LLC is part owned by Stardock (40%) represented by Brad Wardell, with Steven Parker & Marcel Klum equally sharing the remaining 60%; Neowin LLC was setup in March 2005.

Neowin runs under the slogan "Where unprofessional journalism looks better."

While Neowin does not employ a team of full time professional journalists, we offer community and staff members the ability to try their hand at submitting articles to our news system. Staff are paid on merit for their original stories, based on amount of views, comments, and reach; we also pay out weekly and monthly bonuses. Anyone can apply to be a News Reporter on Neowin. Please view this forum topic to see if you can meet our criteria.

For a brief summary of the different staff groups on Neowin, please click here.

News management:

Senior Editor

Editors

News Reporter (full time)

News Reporter (part time)

Contacting & Following us

You can use the Tip Us form, or Like and follow us on Facebook and Twitter @NeowinFeed.

Please note that we do not respond to personal technical support requests, for that you can register on our forums and ask our community for assistance.

Server Hardware

Our Servers run the latest stable version of Redhat Enterprise, or CentOS. We use Dell 19" rack Servers hosted on a multi-homed connection, all are Intel Pentium Xeon's with at least 4 GB of system memory per server. Our database is managed by MySQL (latest stable) and we currently run PHP 5 on our Apache servers.

In 2008 we purchased a 64-bit Intel Pentium Xeon Quad core Dell Server to manage our MySQL database, this came with 16GB of system memory.

In 2009 we purchased another 64-bit Intel Pentium Xeon Quad core Dell Server with 24GB of system memory to run various virtual machines using VmWare ESXi. Servers 2 & 6 below run on this box. This server will allow us to start up additional virtual machines should a hardware failiure knock one of the others offline, giving us greater fault tolerance.

  • Server 1 (Built in 2008) - MySQL
  • Server 2 (VM) - Development Server
  • Server 3 (Built in 2005) - Apache (Web Server 1), IRC
  • Server 4 (Built in 2005) - Apache (Web Server 2)
  • Server 5 (Built in 2005) - Apache (Web Server 3)
  • Server 6 (VM) - MySQL

Fair usage of the Neowin logo

The Neowin logo was created by Jason Kelley and was based off an earlier version that Larry Cook made in 2001. While the Neowin logo is currently not a legal trademark, we do allow external websites to use it in reference to Neowin.net. The logo has seen many incremental "polish" updates, but remains the same branding.

Neowin policies

For information on Neowin's policies please see our policy page.