Web Hosting News – Montreal, Quebec - iWeb announced today that it has reached the mark of over 10,000 dedicated servers hosted for its customers. The rise of media-rich applications available online, combined with demand for increased IT capacity has grown the Internet hosting provider’s footprint from 3000 servers in 2006 to over 10,000 dedicated servers today.

“The fact is that many companies today are using IP-based technologies to keep IT spending under control, or to reduce spending. IT budget restrictions mean that the companies we work with are outsourcing their infrastructure to iWeb instead of financing their servers, maintaining them and building their own data centers.” says Eric Chouinard, iWeb’s President and CEO. He adds that “because they have trusted iWeb with the management of their servers, iWeb’s customers can focus on their core business.”

iWeb, who provides hosted dedicated servers as a monthly service, has seen its revenues increase at least 60% every year since 2003.

“When iWeb started providing dedicated server hosting in 2002, it was as an experiment, 10,000 servers later it has become iWeb’s core business” says iWeb’s President of Products and Technology, Martin Leclair. “iWeb is now in a position to start creating a server product that has even more value for the customer” confirms the enthusiastic co-founder of iWeb. Continue reading “iWeb reaches the 10,000 Server Milestone” »

Web Hosting News – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the immediate availability of Dell servers powered by Intel’s next-generation processor technology featuring its Nehalem microarchitecture. The new server, packaged as the Dual Xeon 5530, is based on the Dell PowerEdge R710 platform and features 6GB of RAM with the option of either a 250GB SATA or 146GB SAS hard drive. As an added benefit, The Planet includes 80GB of Network Backup and Alpha Server Monitoring with each Dual Xeon 5530 purchase at no charge.

Now the fastest server in the company’s fleet, the Dual Xeon 5530 delivers twice the speed of the company’s most popular high-end configuration. Continue reading “The Planet Introduces New Intel Nehalem Servers” »

Web Hosting News – PALO ALTO, Calif. - VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced VMware vSphere™ 4, the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud, enabling the delivery of efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service. With a wide range of groundbreaking new capabilities, VMware vSphere 4 brings cloud computing to enterprises in an evolutionary, non-disruptive way – delivering uncompromising control with greater efficiency while preserving customer choice.

As the complexity of IT environments has continued to increase over time, customers’ share of IT budgets are increasingly spent on simply trying to “keep the lights on.” With the promise of cloud computing, customers are eager to achieve the benefits, but struggle to see the path to getting there. Leveraging VMware vSphere 4, customers can take pragmatic steps to achieve cloud computing within their own IT environments. With these “internal” clouds, IT departments can dramatically simplify how computing is delivered in order to help decrease its cost and increase its flexibility, enabling IT to respond more rapidly to changing business requirements. Continue reading “VMware Unveils the Industry’s First Operating System for Building the Internal Cloud” »

Web Hosting News – London, UK - Leading domain registration and web hosting company, LCN.com, today announced a new strategic partnership with one of the largest email marketing service providers in the UK, Mailing Manager. This partnership will result in both new and existing LCN.com customers being entitled to a full Mailing Manager account and the ability to send up to 500 emails at absolutely no cost.

Mailing Manager offers an advanced system that allows users to manage every aspect of a successful Email Marketing Campaign with mailing list hosting, campaign creation, autoresponders, website integration, and in-depth email tracking all easily managed from a personal control panel. Continue reading “LCN Offers Email Marketing Solution” »

Web Hosting News – London – The organisers of the 5th Data Centres Europe Conference and Awards have said that despite the downturn, attendance figures have been sustained from last year with more than 300 executives – some 25% of which are at CXO level – converging on the two-day event which begins tomorrow in London.

5th Data Centre Europe is the leading regional forum for data centre, managed services, outsourcing and cloud computing businesses. The conference brings together Data centre operators, service providers, telcos, network infrastructure providers, managed services specialists, systems integrators, enterprise and government IT directors, property and investment firms, law firms, professional intermediaries, consulting firms, regulatory bodies, and supplier organizations to inform and update, provide critical insight and offer top level networking opportunities. Continue reading “5th Data Centres Europe Attracting Bumper Audience” »

Web Host News – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today launched a new video that provides an in-depth view of its new North Dallas colocation facility. Planned for an early June opening, the 86,000 square foot facility – the company’s eighth data center – accommodates the expansion of its existing Dallas colocation services. Preleasing on the first 12,000 square feet is underway, with several key accounts already committed for opening day.

The new data center features N+1 cooling and power architectures, with state-of-the-art, high-efficiency water-cooled chillers. The new “green” design, which costs an additional $2 million to build, provides a planned return on investment in 30 months. An equipment galley located outside of the actual data center floor houses six large air-handling units and all chilled water piping. The design, which provides twice the efficiency and uses half the energy of The Planet’s existing data centers, eliminates the possibility of an interior water leak since all water is located outside of the actual server room floor. The company expects to achieve a 1.3 “co-efficiency of efficiency” ranking, which is well below the 1.6 “ideal” rating recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Uptime Institute. Continue reading “The Planet Unveils Colocation Facility Video” »

Web Host News – MIAMI - Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced IDG’s Computerworld, the “Voice of IT Management,” has selected it as one of the top Green-IT Organizations for 2009. This honor is part of the IT media outlet’s annual Top Green-IT Organizations feature, which was published in the April 20 issue of Computerworld and online at Computerworld.com.

For the second year in a row, Computerworld set out to identify organizations that are implementing smart, efficient strategies to achieve “green IT.” Computerworld then applied a set of criteria, developed with the help of green-IT industry experts, to identify the organizations that are working to reduce energy consumption in IT equipment and are using technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions. Based on the weighting scheme developed, the top 12 Green-IT Users and top 12 Green-IT Vendors lists were chosen from the 94 participating organizations. Continue reading “Terremark Named as One of the Top Green-IT Organizations by IDG’s Computerworld” »

Web Host News – Amsterdam - AVG Technologies, developers of the world’s leading free anti-virus software, is today launching AVG LinkScanner as a free standalone product to protect users against random, invisible online threats. On any given day, some two million web pages are poisoned by hidden threats. And every day, 60 percent of those threats shut down or move to a different destination on the web – which makes real-time link scanning crucial. Any type of site can be affected, from a small business to a government department to a major brand-name company. If a user simply visits one of these poisoned web pages they don’t even need to click on anything to get into real trouble, to lose their credit card details, their ID or other valuable information or files. Regular anti-virus software alone cannot protect against this type of threat.

AVG LinkScanner gives users an additional real-time layer of protection on top of their existing security software. It works by looking at the web page behind a link or a web address typed into a browser and analyzing whether it harbors a threat. If it does, then AVG LinkScanner stops the user from downloading that page. This means that, for the first time, Windows XP and Vista users can truly know whether it is safe to click on a link at the only time that matters – when they click on it. Continue reading “AVG Launches Free Protection Against Online Threats” »

Web Host News – HERNDON, Va. — LinkTogether™, the recently launched Web developer community from Network Solutions®, has already given Web designers and developers another avenue to grow business, show talents and make more money. This destination has expanded as it now provides an outlet for web designers and developers to sell original content.

In addition to previously available resources for the Web developer community, LinkTogether members can now share original content with the community for free, or they may list items for sale. Members can create a seller’s account allowing them to list items, assign and price for sale, and track sales. Network Solutions will collect a 15 percent seller’s fee. Continue reading “LinkTogether from Network Solutions Now Allows Web Developer Community to Sell Original Content” »

Web Host News – Tempe, AZ - Secured Servers, a global leader in dedicated server hosting, has announced the official launch of their new affiliate program. They will offer publishers and affiliates a recurring % of the Sale Price of the service(s) purchased.

CIO Ian McClarty states “We are excited about being able to provide such a competitive affiliate program that would meet the demands of the people we serve. We look forward to building strong relationships, and bringing our affiliates financial success well into the future. And to commemorate this release, we are cutting the price of our plans by 70%, so you can get a 10 Meg dedicated server for $29/mo.” Continue reading “Secured Servers launches affiliate program” »