WordCamps will always happen. But having sponsors just makes it that much easier. Today we want to thank our Mt. Rainier Sponsors.

IvyCat is a small, agile team of WordPress developers and server geeks based in lovely Gig Harbor, Washington. We spend our days creating custom WordPress sites designed to sell products and services; especially event management and e-commerce sites, Hosting WordPress sites (others too) for clients that need top-shelf, managed hosting with outstanding technical support where everybody knows your name, and providing WordPress Maintenance & Support. We love, live, and breathe WordPress; it’s much of how we make our living, so we’re grateful to be able to participate in the WordPress community.

You can learn more about IvyCat by visiting their site or follow them on Twitter.

Washington State University was founded as the people’s university in 1890. WSU’s mission is to improve the lives and livelihoods of people around the world with world-class education, research, and community outreach. More than 26,000 students attend WSU at campuses in Pullman, Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver, as well as through the Global Campus, a nationally recognized online learning community serving people worldwide.

Based on its philosophy of serving the public good, WSU is committed to an active partnership with the WordPress and open-source communities to help make the web a better resource for all.

You can learn more about WSU by visiting their site or follow them on Twitter.

WP Engine is the premium managed hosting platform for websites and applications built with WordPress. WP Engine powers tens of thousands of websites and apps built with WordPress, delivering the fastest, most reliable, and most secure web experience possible. Businesses large and small rely on WP Engine’s exceptional customer service team that specializes in quickly solving technical problems, and creating a world-class customer experience. The service includes top-notch support (the most WordPress experts on staff per 1000 customers), one-click backup/restore, one-click deployment from staging to production, version control, optimization for speed and scalability, and security features that include automatic software upgrades.

You can learn more about WPEngine by visiting their site or follow them on Twitter.

Rightside™ inspires and delivers on new possibilities in digital identity. We give you the freedom to tell your story, your way. Our domain name services provide the entry point for individuals and organizations to define themselves. Our value-added services help them tell their stories online. And our turnkey service platform is the easiest way for resellers, registries, registrars, and domain investors to build their businesses. More options mean more opportunity—for storytelling, for commerce, for innovation, for you.

You can learn more about Rightside by visiting their site or follow them on Twitter.

Parallels, a leading hosting and cloud services enablement provider, will showcase the new Parallels Plesk 12, featuring a powerful new security core, a full-featured WordPress Toolkit and four distinct editions of the software designed to deliver targeted functionality to web administrators, application developers, web professionals and hosting service providers.

You can learn more about Parallels by visiting their site or follow them on Twitter.