Web Hosting News – Pasadena, CA - DiscountASP.NET, announces expanding their Open Control Panel API with the addition of APIs for DNS management. The new DNS management API is part of DiscountASP.NET’s Open Control Panel Initiative, whose goal is to provide customers with maximum control over their hosting presence management.

Previously, DiscountASP.NET introduced an ASP.NET web service API library which customers can use to develop their own web, desktop, or mobile applications that interface directly with their web hosting account management. Over the years, DiscountASP.NET has exposed methods to retrieve resource usage information, to recycle application pools, and to backup SQL 2008 and SQL 2005 databases. Today, DiscountASP.NET exposes methods for customers to retrieve, add, and delete their DNS A, CNAME, MX and TXT records. Continue reading “DiscountASP.NET Expands Open Control Panel Initiative with DNS Management APIs” »

Web Hosting News – CINCINNATI – Peak 10, Inc., the leading independent data center operator and managed services provider, announced today that dunnhumbyUSA, an international leader in building sales and brand value for consumer goods and retail companies, will house mission-critical information within its state-of-the-art Cincinnati facility.

“Our deciding factor in selecting Peak 10 was not only the customization and scalability of its services, but the responsiveness and caliber of its staff. We noticed an obvious compatibility of our company cultures,” said Ron Hubbard, director of technical services for dunnhumbyUSA. “We appreciate Peak 10’s responsiveness and focus on customer service. As our company and customer base continues to grow, we look forward to expanding our relationship with Peak 10 to meet our evolving data and IT infrastructure needs.” Continue reading “Peak 10 Cincinnati Delivers Enterprise-Class Solutions to dunnhumbyUSA” »

Web Hosting News – DENVER, CO – Secure64 Software Corporation announced today that Qwest Communications, Inc. is quickly implementing the company’s Secure64 DNS Signer and Secure64 DNS Authority products to increase security of its Internet infrastructure, including DNS services. The Domain Name System (DNS) is responsible for translating host names to IP addresses (and vice versa) and is critical for the normal operation of internet-connected systems.

Qwest is the choice of 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies, offering a full suite of network, data and voice services for business customers and government agencies. Additionally, Qwest participates in Networx, the largest government communications services contract in the world. The Qwest network covers the continental United States with one of the largest fiber footprints capable of supporting 40Gbps data transmission rates. Continue reading “Qwest Purchases Secure64 Domain Name System Software” »

Web Hosting News – Sunnyvale, CA – Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) has demonstrated working photonic integrated circuits (PICs) delivering 400 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) of optical capacity in a single pair of chips using complex modulation formats. The 400G PIC will enable Infinera’s next generation optics to deliver up to 80% power savings over competitor 40 Gb/s wavelength optics based on conventional discrete optical components. Infinera’s 400G PIC will operate over Infinera’s ILS2 line system with 25 Gigahertz (GHz) channel spacing, delivering double the spectral density of competitor systems which operate over 50 GHz spacing.

Infinera’s 400 Gb/s transmit PIC, working in Infinera’s labs today, integrates more than 300 optical functions and enables a reduction in optical component packages from around 70 to just one. The 400G PIC pair marks a new and important landmark in Infinera’s PIC roadmap. It represents a fourfold increase in “bits per chip” over today’s 100 Gb/s Infinera PICs, and a forty-fold increase over chips in today’s competitor systems. Last year at this time, Infinera introduced our industry roadmap for the progress of photonic integration, setting out our goals for a 400 Gb/s PIC in 2009 and a doubling of bandwidth capacity or bits per chip every three years. Continue reading “Infinera’s 400 Gb/s PIC Sets New Record for Integration” »

Web Hosting News – SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - AYKsolutions, a provider of Shared, Reseller and Dedicated hosting solutions, announced today it has begun offering the benefits of its Partner Program to all customers – benefits normally reserved only for affiliates.

The Partner Program enables affiliates to refer customers to AYKsolutions and receive a hosting credit or cash PayPal payout after each sale. Commissions are based upon the value of the service, with hosting credits ranging from $20-$100 per sale and cash PayPal payments ranging from $10-$50 per sale. Partner Program participants can choose between hosting credits or cash PayPal payouts. Continue reading “AYKsolutions Offers Partner Program Benefits” »

Web Hosting News – SAN JOSE, CA - Concentric® announced the launch of Concentric Business Messenger, an enterprise-class, encrypted, fully managed messaging and collaboration solution designed for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Concentric Business Messenger helps employees communicate more efficiently using real-time instant messaging without the security risks of a public chat service. All communications via Concentric Business Messenger are encrypted with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) giving SMBs security comparable to online banking applications. Unlike public chat services, Business Messenger allows IT managers to take control of instant messaging by restricting communications just to people in the organization, ensuring that information shared is secure and private.

“Concentric Business Messenger is part of our continued strategy to provide our SMB customers with enterprise-class applications at affordable prices,” said Craig Collins, president of Concentric. “A growing concern for SMBs is the increase in instances where worms or viruses enter their network through a public instant messaging network. By using Concentric Business Messenger, SMBs can have the benefits of chat without the risks while enabling employees to stay connected in the office and on the go.” Continue reading “Concentric Offers Secure and Affordable Instant Messaging for SMBs” »

Web Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO, TX – ServerBeach, a PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TIX:PIX) company specializing in dedicated hosting, supported customer, ComicConnect, for its record-breaking, rare comic book auction that ran from February 24 to March 13. ComicConnect, the online marketplace for comic buyers and sellers, auctioned off the first-ever Superman comic, the 1938 “Action Comics #1,” for a record sale of $317,200. During the auction period, ComicConnect experienced unprecedented traffic rates due to the auction bidding and when news of the auction made international headlines.

“ServerBeach went the extra mile to provide the hosting support we needed for this auction,” said Ben Smith, vice president of ComicConnect. “With a high profile online auction such as this, the ability to scale to support peak traffic flow is imperative and everything went off without a hitch. We worked closely with ServerBeach to prepare for the auction and our account representative was available at all times to address any potential hardware or software issues common with this intensive type of online event.” Continue reading “Comic Book Auction Gets Record Bid with ServerBeach Support” »

Web Hosting News – WASHINGTON - DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc.(NYSE: DFT) today announced details of a lease agreement at its ACC5 data center facility in Ashburn, Virginia, earlier announced with the fourth quarter 2008 results. A total of 2.275 megawatts (MW) of critical load was pre-leased to Net2EZ Managed Data Centers, a national provider of collocation, metro-connectivity and managed data center services. The space represents 12.5 percent of ACC5′s Phase I available critical load and is included in the 57 percent of space pre-leased to date at that facility.

DuPont Fabros began ground-up construction of ACC5 in the first quarter of 2008 and expects to deliver the facility in the third quarter of 2009. When completed, ACC5 will comprise two phases of 18.2 MW totaling 36.4 MW of critical load. Continue reading “DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. Provides ACC5 Data Center Lease Details” »

Web Hosting News – LOUISVILLE, KY – Hosting.com the first name in global hosting solutions and services, today announced their selection as a Featured Presenter at Cloud Slam ‘09. Cloud Slam, the world’s largest virtual cloud computing conference will promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in cloud computing April 20 – 24.

Hosting.com launched CloudNine, a cloud hosting platform solution in 2008. The launch of CloudNine was preceded and followed by intensive client research to ensure Hosting.com created an infrastructure-as-a-service product that is based on technological advances and real business demands as they exist today. Continue reading “Hosting.com Selected as Featured Presenter for Cloud Slam” »

FindMyHost.com interviews Lyubomir Dukov, Founder and CEO of Extreme Hosting.

Extreme Hosting specializes in offering high quality shared web hosting to the adult industry.

While many hosts shy away from the adult industry, Extreme Hosting welcomes the customers and their demands by providing robust hosting solutions at affordable pricing.

Please tell us the year established and brief history of Extreme Hosting?
Extreme Hosting was established in 2001 by a group of web hosting specialists. Being in this area for many years before that like regular customers helped us to create a successful web hosting company.

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?
We offer a totally different web hosting solution based on a custom software and customer control panel, which makes us stand before the competition.

Our web hosting solution is totally customizable dislike many standard web hosting solitions other web hosting companies offer.

What is the most challenging aspect to offering Adult Web Hosting?
The most challenging aspect in providing adult web hosting services is to maintain a true 99.99% uptime and real 24/7 support to our customers with minimal response time.

What is it that makes Extreme Hosting a competitive company in the Adult Web Hosting market?
Extreme Hosting is among the leading companies in adult web hosting market due to the fact that we use our own custom built software and control panel.

If you need to find a company that is different from all the others, that is Extreme Hosting.

What new features have Extreme Hosting added for its customers in the past year?
We are constantly developping our system and adding new features for our customers.  We were last upgrading all our servers to support the latest versions of PHP5 and MySQL. We also had a nice facelift of the control panel recently. Continue reading “Web Host Interview with Lyubomir Dukov at Extreme Hosting” »