Hosting News – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Peak 10, Inc., the leading independent data center operator and managed services provider, announced today the enhancement of its managed services portfolio with the addition of a new virtualized service. VirtualDR leverages Peak 10’s virtualization services so that customers can implement reliable, cost-effective disaster recovery solutions in multiple data centers.

Peak 10’s VirtualDR product offers companies a software-based approach to replication. This solution enables full, differential or hybrid backups of customer owned or hosted virtual machines to dissimilar hardware in geographically redundant data centers. While Disaster Recovery and high availability solutions are complex and often require higher upfront costs, Virtual DR reduces the cost of the overall solution while enabling more productive use of existing system resources. Continue reading “Peak 10 Announces New VirtualDR Service Offering” »

Hosting News – Spain – arsys.es, a provider of Internet services, today announced it is the first company in Spain to offer Cloud Hosting services. The new line of services introduces an à la carte view of services into hosting with scalability, affordability and redundancy as its key advantages. arsys.es unveils its Cloud Flexible Server as the first Cloud Hosting service of its new line of services.

This way, introducing into the Spanish Internet services’ market the Cloud Computing technology where applications are separated from infrastructure. Applied to hosting, applications are no longer limited to a single physical piece of hardware, as with traditional hosting, but are run on a technological platform where servers are shared by many applications and run virtually everywhere. This means users don’t have to worry about the servers nor the applications; they can contract a cloud service anywhere and just pay for what they need and use. Virtualization is what powers Cloud Computing; it brings the server utilization up and the cost down. Continue reading “arsys.es Launches First Cloud Hosting Services in Spain” »

Hosting News – Manchester, UK - Customer focused website hosting company, 34SP.com, has announced the introduction of a new professional website hosting account. According to information released by the company, the new service is entitled the Professional Hosting plan and breaks new ground in account specifications and customer support.

While the main specifications of the account are among the highest in the industry – 5GB disk space, 20GB monthly transfer, 100 emails, 10 MySQL databases, included shell access, SMTP, and comprehensive weekly backups – the value proposition for 34SP.com customers has always been the company’s commitment to service and support. When a recent 34SP.com client survey asked, ”How likely are you to recommend 34SP.com?” a stunning 98 percent affirmed that they would refer the company. The company points to this data as confirming the positive effect that outstanding customer service has on referral rates. Continue reading “34SP Launches New Hosting Services” »

Hosting News – Panama - SiteGround web hosting company recently announced the launch of multiple new functionalities in its customized cPanel theme Crystal. The most important new additions were specifically requested by customers and include: multiple languages, important notices section, and instant full and partial backups.

After the launch of the company’s customized cPanel’s theme Crystal in the beginning of March, SiteGround has requested feedback from customers on what features they would like to see embedded in Crystal. The top two user suggestions were multilanguage support and instant backups. Just a few weeks later, the company introduced the requested enhancements. Continue reading “SiteGround Adds New Features To Control Panel” »

Hosting News – SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Go Daddy posted more growth as a provider of SSL certificates than any other company so far this year. In fact, according to an April 2009 Netcraft Ltd. report, Go Daddy has been the leader in industry growth for seven consecutive months.

Go Daddy provided consumers with more than 40 percent of the net-new SSL certificates found by Netcraft last month alone. According to the report, Go Daddy added nearly three times the number added by VeriSign in the same time period. Continue reading “Go Daddy Reports SSL Certificate Growth” »

Hosting News – ANDOVER, Mass. - NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions, today announced the addition of a Dedicated Microsoft Exchange 2007 offering as a mid-tier solution to compliment its current Exchange portfolio including On-Demand Hosted Exchange 2007 and highly customizable Enterprise Exchange 2007. The new offering includes customer-dedicated mailbox servers built on NaviSite’s powerful On-Demand Hosted Exchange Platform. It is available in a single server configuration with a dual-server redundancy option using Microsoft Exchange 2007 best practice CCR clustering, allowing NaviSite to confidently offer SLA uptime commitments up to 99.9%.

“What we have seen in the market over the past year is demand for an enterprise-class email and collaboration solution designed specifically for organizations that are somewhere between a multi-national corporation requiring a globally distributed and redundant enterprise solution, and an SMB that needs a few dozen mailboxes with a predictable fixed monthly cost,” said Tony Rorai, Director of Product Management – Messaging and MBS at NaviSite. “We believe that providing a Dedicated Exchange 2007 solution with fixed monthly per-seat pricing is a first in the industry and allows IT managers to switch from a budgeting dilemma for a critical but non-strategic function to a predictable cost model, freeing up resources to focus on core business priorities.” Continue reading “NaviSite launches a mid-tier Dedicated Exchange Hosting solution” »

Hosting News – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced that it will sponsor a seminar and networking event that discusses how businesses can stretch their IT budgets by leveraging a combination of hosting technologies. Titled “The Movement Toward Zero CapEx IT,” the event will be held at Hill Country restaurant in New York City today, April 22, from 4 to 7 p.m. Featured speakers include Alex Hyman, president of in8 Mobile; and Rob Walters and Carl Meadows of The Planet.

“In today’s difficult economic environment, companies are exploring opportunities to reduce their IT infrastructure costs,” said Steve Kahan, vice president of marketing and product management at The Planet. “New York is a hotbed of technology development, and we have a number of customers located in the area. We’ll offer an overview on hosting opportunities and also speak with existing customers who plan to join us.” Continue reading “New York Seminar on ‘Cap-Ex-Free IT’ Hosted by The Planet” »

Hosting News – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced today a deal with Versatel, Germany’s third-largest telecommunications provider, to bring free webmail to Versatel’s customers, which include more than 1.3 million e-mail accounts.

By offering the Open-Xchange e-mail and groupware solution as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Versatel enables its customers to work productively anywhere they have access to a browser and an Internet connection. That is because Open-Xchange users can get access to their e-mails, appointments and documents anywhere and at any time via their desktop, laptop or smartphone. Continue reading “Versatel Offers Webmail Solution from Open-Xchange” »

Hosting News – AUSTIN, Texas — Dedico was created by a group of Internet professional who collectively have more than 30 years of experience.

“Having been founded amongst trying economic times is a fact that Dedico embraces, and feels has given it the unique opportunity to put into motion aggressive yet fiscally responsible business structuring and product development initiatives,” the company said, “ones are geared from the ground up to equate to a lean business model.” Continue reading “Dedico Unveils New Web Hosting Services” »

Web Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies, the on-demand IT services provider, announced it has upgraded its network with more robust bandwidth connections and new features. The upgrades include a new 10G peering connection with Telefónica in Dallas that improves performance for South American customers connecting to all three SoftLayer data centers.

SoftLayer also added enhanced network monitoring tools with bandwidth monitoring and free inbound bandwidth. New bandwidth graphs in the company’s Customer Portal and forums provide more detailed feedback. Free inbound bandwidth gives customers substantial cost savings—20% of SoftLayer’s typical customers’ total bandwidth traffic is inbound. Continue reading “SoftLayer Completes Additional Network Upgrades” »