Web Host News – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced that The DJ Booth (www.djbooth.net) has selected the Northstar Managed Hosting platform for its IT infrastructure. Headquartered in New York, The DJ Booth provides DJs, music professionals, and trendsetters with a place to hear and discuss the best in urban music and hip hop. With more than 700,000 visitors each month, The DJ Booth has become an online destination for users looking for the latest music from new and established artists.

The DJ Booth relies on its user community to provide feedback and ratings on its music, then compiles the best tracks into its four popular music charts in all subgenres of urban music. This feedback has proven valuable to music industry professionals, allowing them to discover emerging trends and artists before they’ve reached the mainstream. The DJ Booth also provides its users with exclusive interviews, album reviews, audio equipment reviews, and much more.

“In order to be successful we have to be on the cutting edge of the music industry,” said The DJ Booth Founder and CEO Dave Macli. “If an artist releases a song and we don’t have it up the next day, our users will let us know about it. Continue reading “The Planet Adds the DJ Booth to Managed Hosting Portfolio with its Anticipation Advantage Methodology” »

Web Host News – VANCOUVER, BC – PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX: PIX), a global online IT hosting provider, has expanded its reach into Europe, with the opening of a European headquarters in Southampton, United Kingdom, and named Dominic Monkhouse, managing director.

“We have seen consistent demand from our customers for a hosting facility in Europe,” said Fabio Banducci, president and CEO of PEER 1. “Strong demand, favorable exchange rates, falling real estate prices and a UK market growth rate of 25 percent make this an opportune time for PEER 1 to expand its presence in Europe. The office will support more than 500 UK and European-based customers, who currently utilize PEER 1′s North American hosting services, and expand quickly to help additional businesses manage their online presence.” Continue reading “PEER 1 Expands To Europe With New Data Center” »

Web Host News – SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting, today announced that Radio Flyer, the 92-year-old company famous for the bright red wagon for children, has chosen Cloud Sites™ from Mosso | The Rackspace Cloud, to power the company’s corporate site, RadioFlyer.com. Radio Flyer’s decision to move the site to the highly scalable Cloud Sites platform was spurred by the company’s future marketing initiatives to connect more creatively with customers through interactive online marketing activities which are intended to drive traffic to the site and support the future growth of the business.

“When the time came for Radio Flyer to make the transition into the cloud, we needed a solution that offered the support and scalability to propel us to the next level,” said Tom Cesario, director of information technology for Radio Flyer. “Our business is growing and we’re reaching out to customers in new ways that will bring them to our site. We believe a cloud approach is the best path for us in order to support unpredictable traffic spikes and the customer service provided by Rackspace has been superb – allowing us to focus on strategic business issues and not technology issues.” Continue reading “Radio Flyer Chooses The Rackspace Cloud for Sky High Scalability” »

Web Host News – ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - Alentus Corporation (Pink Sheets:ALNS), a leading provider of web hosting, sharepoint hosting, dedicated servers, and datacenter services, today announced it has been accepted as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

By achieving the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, Alentus has achieved the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies. This level of expertise allows Alentus to leverage unique resources and tools to help drive business innovation and form a trusted foundation for strategic decision making, increased agility, and long-term competitive advantage for our customers. Continue reading “Alentus Corporation Achieves Microsoft Gold Certification” »

Web Host News – New York - Responding to the overwhelming success of Gmail, Mailspect has released a new suite of tools that enables enterprises to create centralized repositories of disparate Gmail mailboxes for retention and cross-account search / retrieval purposes. Accordingly to USA Today (April 2008) Google had 91.6 million users, ranking it third behind Microsoft and Yahoo.

“Gmail is truly a terrific email product, but its email archival and retention features are geared towards individual mailboxes and cannot consolidate multiple mailboxes into a single enterprise archive. For enterprises worldwide, this is a serious issue because governments are imposing stringent email retention and retrieval regulations that can only be met using ultra-fast centralized archives,” said Michael Katz, CEO, Mailspect. Continue reading “Centralize Gmail Archives with Mailspect MPP” »

Hosting News – Allentown, PA - INetU Managed Hosting completed its fifth annual customer service survey and the results are in. INetU has achieved a satisfaction rate of 96.5%. More revealing, INetU earned a Net Promoter Score of 58, which is nearly 50% higher than recognized industry leaders.

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a key customer service metric, defined by the percentage of customers likely to recommend a company to others (promoters) subtracted from the percentage of customers unlikely to do so (detractors).

Other results from the survey:
• 99.1% of customers say that INetU’s network performance meets or exceeds expectations.
• 92.7% of customers are satisfied or extremely satisfied with their Account Manager.
• 94.7% of customers are satisfied or extremely satisfied with INetU’s Support team. Continue reading “INetU Shines in Service: 96.5% Client Satisfaction; NPS of 58” »

Hosting News – DALLAS, TX – ZipServers, Inc., provider of Managed Dedicated Servers & VPS solutions announced today it has enhanced its portfolio with the introduction of solid state drives (SSD’s) on its duoZ line of servers. SSDs are an enterprise-level solution for reliable and secure storage. Unlike disk-based storage drives, SSDs have no moving parts. This decreases power consumption, cooling needs, and performance latency. It also greatly reduces their risk of mechanical failure, making SSDs more durable than traditional disk-based drives.

“Performance and reliability is of the utmost importance to our customers,” said Charles Nix, Vice President of Sales for ZipServers. “Providing customers with solid state drives is yet another way ZipServers is meeting the needs of its customers. SSDs is an enterprise-class, leading-edge technology solution providing greater performance and power efficiency, which can be leveraged to attain a higher margin of cost-effectiveness.”

Beyond the advantages of low latency and decreased power and cooling, ZipServers solid state drive offering provides: Continue reading “ZipServers Releases Solid State Drives In DuoZ Servers” »

Hosting News – LOUISVILLE, KY – Hosting.com, the first name in global hosting solutions and services, today announced that its industry-leading cloud solution, CloudNine, will be available as a free trial following the launch of VMware vSphere™ 4 earlier this week. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud, complementing the robust CloudNine solution, which is built on a standards-based architecture that includes the VMware platform.

CloudNine provides cloud hosting and Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions to companies and organizations across all verticals and segments. CloudNine delivers virtually unlimited computing resources, a redundant infrastructure, outstanding flexibility and easy expandability on the reliable VMware platform. Continue reading “Hosting.com Partners with VMware to Deliver Cloud Trial Offer” »

Hosting News – Glasgow, UK - The 2009 Award nominations for the annual storage awards, organised by Storage Magazine, have just been unveiled and iomart hosting is delighted to be nominated in two categories – Green Storage Solution of the Year and Data Centre Operator of the Year.

Now in its sixth year, the Storage Awards, or ‘Storries’ as they are affectionately known, allows the readers of Storage Magazine to vote for, and reward, companies and services that they believe have made significant contributions to the IT industry during the year. The 2008 Awards saw in excess of 18,000 votes cast. Continue reading “iomart Hosting Nominated for two major Storage Awards” »

Hosting News – Montreal, Quebec - iWeb.com announced an important milestone for the company on Tuesday, when it confirmed that it had installed its 10,000th dedicated server in its data centers. For the occasion, iWeb has just launched a promotional campaign in which 10,000Gb of traffic will be allocated to every new server worth at least 99$ a month. Also, 10,000$ in hosting credits will be won, 10 draws of 1000$ each will take place, and prizes will be awarded to visitors of the iWeb site who simply complete a quote request for a dedicated server, during the promotional period.

iWeb clients are invited to complete a customer service survey, which, when completed, will give them a chance to win an upgrade to 10 000 Gb of monthly traffic for their server, permanently. There will be 10 daily draws, for a total of 200 upgrades.

“Sites and applications need more and more bandwidth, and our clients are consistently asking for more traffic. We think they will love the opportunity to get 10,000Gb, an amazing amount of monthly traffic for their dedicated server!” mentions Martin Leclair, iWeb co-founder. “This is possibly one of the most appealing server promotions ever.” Continue reading “iWeb Launches New Giveaways In Celebration of Milestone” »