Web Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO - Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting, today announced that Razorfish™, one of the largest digital marketing companies in the world, has selected Rackspace’s cloud hosting platform.

Razorfish is working with Rackspace’s cloud hosting division, Mosso®, to build consumer-facing websites and web applications that can handle large traffic spikes during major promotions and product launches of brands. In particular, Razorfish develops microsites, community platforms, blogs, and web video for its clients using Rackspace’s Cloud Sites™ and Cloud Files™ hosting services. Continue reading “Razorfish Selects Rackspace Hosting for Cloud Services” »

Web Hosting News – NEW YORK, NY - New York Internet, the preferred data services provider for New York’s financial community, has been named “Most Reliable Hosting Company“ for January 2009 by Netcraft, an Internet services company based in Bath, UK, that is also a respected authority on networking data and analysis.

The award, which New York Internet shares with two other providers, is the second consecutive #1 win for the acclaimed provider, who also clinched the top spot for December 2008. It additionally represents New York Internet’s fourth consecutive appearance in the Netcraft Top 10. Continue reading “Netcraft Names New York Internet “Most Reliable Hosting Company“ for January” »

Hosting News – OVERLAND PARK, KS - Aplus.net, a leading Web hosting company and Internet solutions provider, has added PRWeb.com to its growing list of online Marketing Resources. PRWeb resources are designed to help small businesses increase the visibility of their news, drive Web site traffic, and improve search engine rankings.

PRWeb is a leader in online news and press release distribution. Founded in 1997, the service has been used by more than 40,000 organizations to leverage the Internet to communicate their news to the public. PRWeb was acquired in 2006 by Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS), a leader in on-demand software for Public Relations, and has been featured in publications such as Fortune and The Wall Street Journal.

“Small businesses often produce news stories of interest to their customers and prospective customers, but they may lack the resources necessary to generate the publicity they deserve,” notes Alex Yevelev, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “Whether established or start-up, these organizations can tap PRWeb’s expertise and distribution channels to boost their online visibility using all the tools the Internet has to offer.” Continue reading “Aplus.net Partners with PRWeb to Help Customers Increase Online Visibility and Drive Traffic” »

Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer today announced new advanced features for CDNLayer, the company’s proprietary content delivery network. The features can be accessed and controlled through the SoftLayer Customer Portal and API, and include:

• Content Authentication: providing digital transaction control to restrict content access and enable e-commerce solutions.
• Cache Clearing: eliminating cached files from all CDN PoP’s to remove time sensitive material quickly and easily

CDNLayer has been greatly successful since launching a year ago, with bandwidth consumption growing 500% from the third to fourth quarters of 2008 alone. Enterprises of all sizes have found exceptional opportunities and value in the service’s capabilities and no-contract pricing model. Customers pay only $0.20/GB for bandwidth used. Combined with SoftLayer’s other standard, commitment-free services, this makes CDNLayer a highly cost-effective solution, especially for customers that face periods of unexpected traffic spikes and Internet bottlenecks. Continue reading “SoftLayer CDNLayer™ Grows Even Stronger” »

Hosting News – Philadelphia, PA - Fasthosts Internet, a leading reseller web hosting provider, announced they are participating in a green initiative, which ensures all services run from a green data center. Fasthosts is part of United Internet’s Global Green Initiative whose renewable resources save 30,000 tons of CO2 every year. Fasthosts is certified by Green-e, the nation’s leading voluntary certification program for renewable energy. Fasthosts is purchasing enough Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) from the non-profit, Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF), to match 100 percent of the electricity used at the company’s data center.

“At Fasthosts it is important for us to offer our reseller’s a service that will allow them to succeed. Environmentally conscious products and services are in a great demand now, so we’ve decided to offer our resellers the ability to sell a green product at no extra cost. Besides being a valuable selling point for our resellers, Fasthosts is proud to be an environmentally responsible company,” said Steve Holford, CMO of Fasthosts. Continue reading “Fasthosts Launches Green Initiative” »

Hosting News – HOUSTON – A group of companies with a primary focus on small- and medium-sized businesses today announced the formation of the first industry coalition to measure the IT effectiveness of SMBs around the world. The Information Technology Effectiveness Index – ITEI – provides business owners and IT executives with a free online benchmarking tool that uses a methods-based framework to compare the effectiveness of their IT systems with companies in the same industries and peer groups.

Participants who take the 12-question, 10-minute survey receive an immediate and confidential score, accompanied by a detailed report with consultative suggestions about how to improve their IT processes. In December, the ITEI Partners will publish the SMB IT Effectiveness Index Annual Report, which will be provided free-of-charge to survey participants. Continue reading “Leaders Form Industry Consortium to Measure SMB IT Effectiveness” »

Hosting News – Amsterdam – VMware, the market leader in virtualization software, and LeaseWeb, one of Europe’s largest business hosting providers, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement.

The agreement will allow LeaseWeb clients to rent rather than buy VMware software for their Web environments. As the European VSPP, LeaseWeb will be present with an exhibition stand in the vCloud pavilion during VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes from February 24 through 26: http://www.vmworld.com/community/conferences/europe2009/sponsors. Continue reading “LeaseWeb Becomes VMware Service Provider Partner” »

Hosting News – Victoria, Australia - Flexihostings Singapore presents newly Revamp website with competitive pricing.

“We have decided to lower our profit margin in times of great difficulties So that more people who may have been affected by the down turn can now look to a cheaper way to start their business online. This is fully inline with our mission statement – Empowering Web Entrepreneurs. Flexihostings have the expertise to not only provide web entrepreneurs to competitively setup their business online, we also have web designing, Search Engine Optimisation to help fellow web entrepreneur kick start their business. We are essentially your one stop shop for anything online.” Says Albert.G, CEO Flexi e-Solutions Pty Ltd. Continue reading “Flexi Hostings Launches New Singapore Site” »

Hosting News – Berkshire, UK - NetHosted have released their VPS servers to the public, targetting business clients with their high end support packages.

NetHosted Ltd. a provider of UK web hosting services announced yesterday the release of their VPS services. These are available in either unmanaged or managed cPanel VPS featuring the WHM control panel interface. Continue reading “NetHosted Launch UK VPS Hosting” »

Web Host News – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange today announced a comprehensive feature update for the Open-Xchange Server 6 product family – adding support for Dutch and Spanish languages, as well as more than 50 improvements to the Linux-based collaboration suite.

The Service Pack 5 update for Open-Xchange Server 6 provides users with new features, a large number of improvements requested by customers as well as the additional language support – added to existing support for English, French and German. Continue reading “Open-Source Collaboration Software Adds Language Support, Enhances Usability” »