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Colocation Web Hosting Report, Released by Hosting.com

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:22:39 +0000

Louisville, Kentucky - (The Hosting News) - October 15, 2008 - Global hosting solutions and services firm, Hosting.com, has unveiled the results of a new survey highlighting 2008 colocation industry trends, indicating that improved reliability is the most important reason for colocating.

Hosting.com surveyed over 200 individuals to develop its first annual study on the colocation industry. Topics include virtualization, disaster recovery, green initiatives, and value-add services. Hosting.com completed the report based on data it collected over a four-week period through surveying its own colocation clients and clients of other colocation providers. Over 200 business and IT executives responded to the survey.

Aaron Hollobaugh, Director of Marketing and Communications for Hosting.com remarked, ''Client engagement is paramount to our success, but the true test is a company's ability to take this information during an economic downturn and continue to provide and develop solutions that are client-centric and relevant to the current marketplace. We are taking these responses and rolling out enhanced value-add services (in December 2008) for our colocation clients.''

Key findings from the survey include: -- 67% of companies choose to colocate their data infrastructure to 'Improve Availability and Reliability,' and 44% expect to see a ROI (Return on Investment) within 24 months. -- 40% of respondents foresee virtualization having an impact on their datacenter space requirements, 21% expect no reduction and 37% are unsure. -- Bandwidth, Security and Redundancy are the three most important factors for most companies when choosing a colocation provider. -- Colocation clients are increasingly interested in managed services provided by colocation providers. 53% of respondents view 'Remote Hands as a Service' as an important value-add service. -- 70% of respondents have a Disaster Recovery plan, but only 46% have a budget to execute on their plans.

The recent economic downturn presents an opportunity for colocation providers to more proactively consult with their clients to help them realize the reduced cost and security of virtualized environments, more effectively estimate their total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investments (ROI) when colocating, and provide the specific services they need from a provider to reduce their internal expenses.

Over 20% of respondents were CEOs or business owners. The demographics of the respondents ranged from companies with as few as two employees to well over 100,000 employees. Diversity was also evident in the revenues of the companies that responded, ranging from under $1 Million to over $100 Billion annually. The 2008 Colocation Industry Trends Report was published in the form of an e-book, and is available for download at Hosting.com.

Since 1996, Hosting.com has provided enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 certified data centers in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; Boston, Massachusetts, and is currently expanding into Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia.

For more information about Hosting.com, please visit: www.hosting.com.

Web Hosting as Semi-Dedicated Clustered Solution, Debuts at ReliableSite.Net

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:11:19 +0000

Vancouver, British Columbia - (The Hosting News) - October 15, 2008 - Web hosting company serving individuals and businesses, ReliableSite.Net LLC, has debuted Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting, a new service offering the performance and capacity of a dedicated server, as a more cost-effective solution.

Radic Davydov, owner of ReliableSite noted, ''Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting provides our customers with the equivalent performance of a powerful dedicated server, at a fraction of the cost and without the hassle of managing a server. We handle everything, from security to software updates, so our clients can concentrate on what they do best.''

Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting works by distributing important services, such as web, email, and database - across a variety of dedicated servers, and repackaging them into a virtual platform. Ultimately, clients are able use the distributed services with greater flexibility and power than allowed by a sole dedicated server. The cluster also balances server load and adds redundancy.

Powered by Dell and SuperMicro hardware, each cluster is limited to a maximum of 10 clients and built to prevent the degradation of any particular service during periods of high use. Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting plans offer full access to ASP, ASP.Net 3.5, MS SQL 2005, MS SQL 2008, PHP, and MySQL.

Customers also enjoy quick account setup and easy administration, through a traditional hosting control panel. Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting is geared primarily for businesses and individual webmasters with resource-intensive Web sites. The company also hopes to lure customers away from traditional Virtual Private Server plans and dedicated servers.

ReliableSite offers a power uptime guarantee in its New York datacenter, outfitted with UPS and diesel generator backups, cooling backup with multiple redundant temperature and humidity controls, and round-the-clock network uptime with a series of premium top-tier bandwidth providers.

Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting is available from $63.20/monthly on a Windows platform with 20GB of disk space and 100GB of monthly data transfer.

Since 2006, ReliableSite has been serving individuals and businesses internationally with its line of award-winning shared and dedicated Web hosting solutions. Offering 24/7/365 technical support, all technicians are Microsoft Certified Professionals and fully qualified in their field.

To learn more about ReliableSite, please visit http://www.reliablesite.net.

Hosting, Virtualization, Automation, SaaS, Featured at Parallels Summit 2009

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:49 +0000

Renton, Washington - (The Hosting News) - October 15, 2008 - Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, will host its Summit 2009, spotlighting Cloud Computing, SaaS, hosting, virtualization and automation.

The Parallels Summit 2009 registration is now open, for the event scheduled to be held Monday, February 2 through Wednesday, February 4 and will take place at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Kurt Daniel, Senior Vice President, Parallels noted, ''In addition to the being a well-respected industry event that draws participants from over twenty countries, Parallels Summit uniquely offers a focus on quality, depth and particularly strong networking and collaboration. Momentum from last year's event will accelerate as the Summit quickly becomes a premier event for service providers, ISVs, developers, hardware vendors and other industry experts.''

''Cloud Computing'' will be an over-arching theme for the event, with sessions also covering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), virtualized hosting and the future of automation. The Planning is underway for the 4th annual Parallels Summit and there will be something for everyone with live demonstrations of current and upcoming Parallels releases, key players in the hosting and service provider industry and the opportunity to establish new business relationships during multiple evening activities.

Business people can expect to learn how Parallels products can help grow your revenue and improve their companies by exploring strategies with numerous industry leaders.
Technical people can expect to interact directly with Parallels senior engineers, learn how to optimize usage of Parallels products in open advanced training forums with other users of Parallels products and give feedback on improving Parallels products.
Application vendors can expect to learn and understand SaaS business strategies to find out how easy it is to offer their application in the SaaS delivery model.

Parallels expects over 1000 attendees at the event and space is limited, with registration and hotel accommodations subject to availability.

Sponsors for last year's Summit represented many of the world's leading technology companies - including Microsoft, AMD, Intel, Novell and IBM. If you are interested in being a sponsor this year, please contact sponsors@parallels.com.

To learn more about how to register, reserve a hotel room or check out the agenda, please visit: www.parallels.com/summit.

For more about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Server Cloud Hosting Provider, GoGrid, Reports Windows is Preferred Operating Sy

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:46:53 +0000

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - October 15, 2008 - GoGrid Cloud server hosting provider, has indicated that Windows is its preferred Cloud operating system, in comparison to the Linux solution, having provided Windows 2003 Cloud servers since March 2008.

Windows Cloud Servers accounts for approximately two-thirds of all Cloud servers deployed by customers within the GoGrid infrastructure. According to the company, GoGrid Windows Cloud Servers saw enthusiastic adoption since the initial launch of GoGrid in March with Windows Server 2003. In mid-August 2008, GoGrid was first to market with Windows Server 2008 in the Cloud. GoGrid parent company, ServePath (http://www.ServePath.com), is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner and SAS70 Type II certified which includes the GoGrid products as well.

John Keagy, CEO of GoGrid remarked, ''The demand for providing Windows in the Cloud is incredible. Back in March, 2008, it was critical for us to launch a complete Cloud infrastructure in order to capitalize on that tremendous Windows demand. GoGrid is currently the only Cloud Infrastructure Provider offering a complete Windows environment in the Cloud.''

GoGrid will be exhibiting at the upcoming Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC) where it will announce exciting developments and features specifically targeted towards Windows developers. The PDC is Microsoft'ss premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects and is the event to learn about the future of the Microsoft platform, exchange ideas with fellow professionals and hear about upcoming Microsoft Server related products.

GoGrid provides Cloud Hosting solutions for Windows developers and partners with a wide variety of Windows 2003/2008 Cloud Servers. On GoGrid, Windows Servers can be instantly provisioned with options that include:

32 and 64-bit Windows Server 2008
32-bit Windows Server 2003
IIS 6.0 's38; 7.0
ASP.NET
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express, Workgroup and Standard Editions

Paul Sterling, the 2008/2009 Umbraco MVP and principal of Motus Connect was searching for a Cloud provider to support Umbraco (http://www.umbraco.org/), a Windows-only Content Management System (CMS) based on Microsoft'ss ASP.NET and notes ''We're thrilled with the 'you can do this now' state of Umbraco on GoGrid. We looked at all the offerings and found that only GoGrid provides the flexibility to run the Umbraco web services on IIS/Windows and the Umbraco database on mySQL/Linux.''
Because Windows users and developers frequently leverage the rich Windows user interface, GoGrid web-based portal provides the familiar and easy-to-use environment that Windows users are accustomed to. The GoGrid Graphical User Interface (GUI) and iconography allows for point and click deployment of complex, instant and flexible network infrastructures, which includes free load balancing and multiple web and database servers, and, coming soon: Cloud Storage. Of particular interest to Microsoft partners is GoGrid'ss public Application Programming Interface (API) which developers and partners utilize to programmatically control their GoGrid infrastructure and that of their clients.

GoGrid is a leading Cloud Computing, hosted, Internet service that delivers true Control in the Cloud's8482;. GoGrid enables system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control. Bringing up servers and server networks takes minutes via a unique web control panel or GoGrid'ss award winning API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, ASP.NET, multiple Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS) and supports application environments like Ruby on Rails. Free f5 hardware load balancing and other features are included to give users the control of a familiar server environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud.

ServePath is a leading managed and dedicated hosted server provider, delivering custom solutions and managed services to businesses that need powerful Internet hosting platforms for their production environments. Thousands of companies worldwide look to ServePath for its reliability, customization, and speed. ServePath has a Keynote-rated A+ network and guarantees uptime with a 10,000% guaranteed's8482; Service Level Agreement. The employee-owned company has been in business for six years and operates its own San Francisco data center.

To learn more about GoGrid, please visit: www.gogrid.com.

For more information about ServePath, please visit: www.servepath.com.

Web Hosting Firm, 34SP.com, Celebrates 8th Anniversary in Business

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:05:05 +0000

Manchester, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - October 14, 2008 - Web hosting provider, 34SP.com is celebrating its 8th year in the hosting business, by offering free web site hosting. The company's offerings include a range of accounts, as well as upgrades with additional plan features.

Stuart Melling, Business Director at 34SP.com offered, ''A lot has changed over those 8 years. We started out on humble Cobalt RaQ servers, which is a far cry from the Quad core systems we use today. We have evolved so much over those years.''

Mr. Melling added, '' What hasn'st changed at 34SP.com is our commitment to reliable web site hosting coupled with professional support. That was our main goal way back when we started in the year 2000. Over those years we have built a solid support team. Everyone on the team has a wealth of experience, everyone has been a webmaster at some stage, even myself. We know the challenges and demands of running a successful web site, and we are here to help whenever our clients need it.

''We couldn'st let the special occasion pass without at least a small thank you to everyone. Seeing as we couldn'st easily send everyone free birthday cake in the mail, we had to come up with something else. As such to celebrate our birthday we are giving away free hosting accounts to everyone. This will last through the next month. All you need to do is buy any domain name from our site, and we will throw in the hosting for free. No hidden charges or set-up fees, completely free for one year.''

Founded in the year 2000, 34SP.com was established with the aim of bridging the gap between sophisticated hosting solutions and affordable prices. 34SP.com has become synonymous with content management focused hosting, reliability, professionalism and value for money. The company is head quartered in central Manchester, England.

To learn more about the new offers, please visit: www.34sp.com/free-hosting.

For more more information about 34SP.com, please visit: www.34sp.com.

Internap Hosting, Engages Data Center Connections with Interxion

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:53:35 +0000

Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - October 14, 2008 - Internet performance network services company, Internap Network Services Corporation, has expanded its presence in both of Interxion's London and Amsterdam data centers.

As a US-based provider of end-to-end business solutions, since becoming a customer less than a year ago, Internap has doubled its footprint in the Interxion London facility in response to a sharp rise in customer demand.

Greg McCulloch, Managing Director at Interxion UK noted, ''Our relationship with Internap is growing fast in London because we are uniquely located on the edge of the City, and house a vibrant and interactive customer community. Add to this high availability and high power density, and the data centre becomes an extremely attractive European gateway for Internap customers.''

Daniel Beazer, General Manager, Internap UK remarked, ''Interxion brings all the ingredients our customers need together under one roof in London. Our customers have access to the latest high-specification space, an exceptional platform for our IP networking and CDN services and, with 13 megawatts of power, the data centre can easily meet our customers' medium-to-high power capacity requirements.''

The Interxion London data centre provides 2N redundancy configurations as well as high power density of up to 20kW per cabinet. It also hosts a Point of Presence for the London Internet Exchange (LINX), providing a connectivity-rich environment for customers.

Internap offers its 3,700 enterprise clients a complete package of high-performance IP networking, data centre colocation, and content delivery network (CDN) services. They have 44 data centre locations around the world and a global, route-optimized network infrastructure. Internap deploys patented MIRO (Managed Internet Route Optimiser) technology to enhance customer data communications. MIRO monitors the performance of Internet backbones and automatically selects the best path to global destinations, thus providing maximum reliability and low-latency data and content delivery.

Internap is a leading Internet solutions' company that provides ''The Ultimate Online Experience'' by managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with unsurpassed performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed Internet services, a content delivery network (CDN) and content monetization services, Internap frees its customers to innovate their business and create new revenue opportunities. More than 3,000 companies across the globe trust Internap to help them achieve their Internet business goals.

Interxion is a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centres. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 23 carrier-neutral data centres located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion's data centres offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks.

For more information about Interxion, please visit: www.interxion.com

To learn more about Internap, please visit: www.internap.com.

Colocation Web Hosting Provider, iWeb Group, Restructures Management

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:42:23 +0000

Quebec, Canada - (The Hosting News) - October 14, 2008 - Internet hosting infrastructure provider, iWeb Group Inc., and subsidiary of iWeb Technologies, has restructured its management team, including Martin Leclair, iWeb co-founder, as President of Products and Technology.

Marc Guindon has become Executive Vice-President of Resources, and Philip Tousignant was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Company, a function previously occupied by Marc Guindon.

Mr. Leclair, who is actively involved in the evolution and development of new technologies within the Company, becomes President of Products and Technology ? a role which will enable him to further strengthen iWeb's position as a leader in the IP infrastructure hosting industry.
By becoming Executive Vice-President of Resources, Marc Guindon will be responsible for material, financial and human resources; the three elements whose recent and future growth will be directly linked to the success of the Company, according to Martin Leclair, co-founder of iWeb.

Newly appointed to the role of CFO, Philip Tousignant was previously Corporate Controller at iWeb. Internal processes have improved consistently since Philip joined iWeb in May of 2007, particularly in the presentation of financial information, indicated Eric Chouinard, President and CEO of iWeb. Mr. Tousignant, who holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Sherbrooke, occupied various financial functions at Bombardier and Avestor prior to his arrival at iWeb.

iWeb's management team also includes Eric Chouinard, President and CEO, Sylvain Leclair, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, Hugo Denommee, Vice-President of Development and Automation and Cyrille Mertes, Vice-President of Global IT infrastructure.

Many changes are also underway within the Customer Service departments, who have recently filled new positions, including: Director of Client Management, Project Manager, Continuous Improvement as well as Director, Managed Services.

Recently, iWeb opened its new head office, located on on Nuns' Island, housing a completely redundant IT center. Mr. Chouinard noted, ''The new headquarters addresses two major objectives; to provide a high quality colocation infrastructure for our clients, and to reunite almost all of our employees by providing a unique working environment. Until recently, iWeb's 120 employees were spread out in our three data centers.''

The company attained ranking among Profit Magazine's top 100 Canadian companies, based on revenue growth over the past 5 years. From 2002 to 2007, the company's revenues have gone from 1.35 million to 9.82 million as of October 1st 2007, an increase of 627%; enough for iWeb to make its entry into the 100th position on the annual ranking. The PROFIT 100 is the annual ranking which rates the top 100 Canadian companies based on the percentage of their revenue growth over a 5-year span. Produced by the business magazine PROFIT, 2008 marks the 20th edition of the ranking.

iWeb is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V : IWB), and is one of the largest Canadian providers of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure. With three secure data centers, all in Montreal, iWeb has carved out an enviable position on the international scene with more than 60% of its revenues from abroad. Founded in 1996 in Montreal, iWeb has recently completed a $22M financing agreement with investment banking giant Goldman Sachs. iWeb now has over 120 full-time employees and more than 17 000 customers in 145 countries.

To learn more, please visit: www.iweb.com.

Hosting Cloud Application Launched, by cloudAPPy Service

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:29:22 +0000

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - October 14, 2008 - A new drag-and-drop hosting cloud service has been developed and launched by cloudAPPy, designed for easier deployment of applications in a load-balanced high availability environment.

The service cuts down deployment time by providing an advanced easy-to-use web control, that with a drag of the mouse, enables users to quickly deploy applications to load-balanced clusters of application servers. The way the service works is that users upload an application and drag-and-drop to deploy it via the Control Panel. The application gets automatically propagated to various nodes in a load-balanced cluster in the cloud. The number of load-balanced nodes can be increased or decreased on demand.

Gabriel Wong, Chief Architect/Founder, cloudAPPy noted, ''We have created an affordable cloud environment for developers requiring high-availability, for their applications, through an expandable-automated load-balancing system. We have combined best-of-breed web solutions to produce this one of a kind service. For instance, the default Enterprise server for deploying Enterprise Applications is Glassfish. For Enterprise Applications and EJBs, our customers are demanding Glassfish over other vendor solutions.''

Supported Application programming languages/frameworks includes JAVA, RAILS, and PHP. The service automatically configures the database and application for the application to run automatically in the load-balanced cloud. The company is now offering free developer accounts.

To learn more, please visit: www.cloudappy.com.

Dedicated Web Hosting Company, UK2, Celebrates 10th Anniversary

admin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:02:23 +0000

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - October 13, 2008 - British web hosting company, UK2.net, is celebrating its tenth year as a hosting provider, with a 10% off all purchases promotion, following its incorporation a decade ago, in 1998.

Having been founded by Danish entrepreneur Bo Bendtsen, the service began as a provider of low cost Domain Names. Over the past decade UK2.net has grown into one of the UK's biggest and most successful hosting providers, now boasting an impressive portfolio of hosting services which now includes Web Hosting, E-commerce, Reseller Solutions and Dedicated Servers.

Ditlev Bredahl, Managing Director / CEO of UK2 noted, ''Everyone at UK2.net is proud to be part of the company at such an exciting time, celebrating ten years of being in business. We have had a very successful 2008 so far, so seeing out the year with a birthday celebration and ten weeks of special offers is going to be incredible.''

The UK2 birthday celebration includes a 10% off all purchases promotion for the duration of the birthday weekend, then every week for the next ten weeks there will be a different tenth birthday related offer or giveaway. Each week details of the new offers will be posted on the UK2 Blog (www.uk2.net).

During the summer, UK2 debuted the launch of a newly enhanced, instant domain look up tool, as part of a larger project, including a complete revamp of the UK2 order process. Intended to modernize the way customers buy hosting products and services, the new domain look up tool allows customers to search for multiple domains, and make changes to their shopping basket, in a single browser window. It also uses Ajax technology for searching instantly - beginning the search as soon as you start typing. All of this means that if a customer wants to register multiple Domain Names and multiple types of TLD in a single order, they can do this in a fast and efficient way by using the new UK2 domain look up.

UK2.net has been a significant player in the British and European hosting markets since 1998, and is the founder brand of the UK2 Group. UK2 Group provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many global customers through its family of hosting brands - UK2.net, midPhase, 10TB.com, Resell.biz, WingSix, AN Hosting, US2.net, Autica, Supreme Support and Dotable. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centres and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support.

To learn more about UK.Net, please visit: www.uk2.net.

Web Hosting Security Services, Comodo TrustConnect Solution, Enables Wi-Fi

admin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:53:53 +0000

Jersey City, New Jersey - (The Hosting News) - October 13, 2008 - Internet website security provider, Comodo, In the spirit of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, reminds concerned Wi-Fi users that its TrustConnect service allows laptop owners to enable individual network style security.

Comodo reporst that according to a recent study from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, most wireless connections at hotels are still unsecure. Wi-Fi users at hotels are at risk of man-in-the-middle attacks that can mislead patrons into giving out sensitive information. In unsecured networks, users risk hacker tampering with unencrypted emails and web exchanges.

TrustConnect, which works on Windows, Mac and even Linux OSes, uses an SSL certificate to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN). This VPN allows TrustConnect to essentially put a shield around the user's connection to the Internet, preventing hackers from accessing the protected system while on a public wireless connection. This protection extends no matter what network users are logged onto, be it in a hotel, on the road, or anywhere else.

With a 7-day free trial and affordable monthly and annual rates, TrustConnect from Comodo is one of the most secure, reliable services available to assure users that they are protected, no matter what network they are connected to. Hotels may have to catch up on their network security, but laptop owners don't have to wait for them.

The Comodo companies combine security and authentication technologies to shape a new paradigm-the Trusted Internet-where people worldwide use the Internet confidently in their personal and professional lives. Comodo was founded in 1998 with a passion to create trust online. With that bold vision, Comodo consistently delivers innovative patent-pending technologies that free people to trust their online connections in education, philanthropy and commerce.

Comodo serves over 250,000 businesses, and millions of consumers, with its trust infrastructure including a broad array of security and authentication technologies encompassing encryption, digital certification, identity and access services, PKI, secure communications, desktop security solutions and vulnerability management services.

To learn more about n Comodo, please visit: www.comodo.com.