Hosting News – Portsmouth, NH – GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced a new partnership with Black Lotus Communications, a leading provider of DDoS protection, managed hosting, and unmanaged dedicated servers.  The newly formed partnership will allow Black Lotus to enhance their leading protection solutions by offering GlobalSign’s highly trusted, future proof SSL Certificates.

Since 1999, implementing robust and cost effective DDoS protective solutions has been the foundation of Black Lotus Communications. Black Lotus Communications has since expanded their service portfolio to include everything needed to protect websites, servers, and hosting environments.  By adding SSL Certificates to their portfolio, Black Lotus will not only enhance its protection services, but will truly offer customers a one-stop-shop online security service.
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Hosting News – ALISO VIEJO, CA - Alentus Corporation (PINKSHEETS: ALNS), a leading provider of web hosting solutions including managed services, sharepoint hosting, dedicated servers, Windows and Linux web hosting, and Microsoft exchange email services, today announced that the Company and its senior lender have entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) which will provide the required flexibility for Alentus to substantially restructure its balance sheet including debt obligations. The Company anticipates completing the restructuring process in the first quarter of 2010.

William King, CEO of Alentus, commented, “We are pleased to enter into this LOI which will allow Alentus to aggressively pursue the renegotiation of our existing debt and result in a debt load that is in line with the Company’s expected free cash flow. It is our belief that this restructuring process, although not guaranteed, will result in the best possible outcome for all the Company’s debt and equity investors and allow us great flexibility to grow our business.”
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Hosting News – San Jose, CA - Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of solutions for continuous data availability, advanced database replication, backup and database performance scalability, today announced availability of Continuent Tungsten 1.2.1 for MySQL® and PostgreSQL. Continuent Tungsten offers an easy to manage, dynamic database replication solution with automatic failover, cluster management, high availability and scalability.

Tungsten Community Edition harnesses the latest innovations from the open source database clustering community with no up-front acquisition costs, and provides a clear path to more advanced capabilities through an optional upgrade to the commercial Tungsten Enterprise editions. Continuent’s commercial Tungsten Enterprise editions combine the power of open source and commercial technologies to deliver data availability solutions that are based on the Tungsten open source components, a unique collection of solutions for database scale-out.
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Hosting News – SAN FRANCISCO - Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced support for Sun Microsystems GlassFish application server in Elastra Cloud Server Enterprise Edition and Elastra for Amazon Web Services.

In this release, ECS lets customers compose, orchestrate and deploy application infrastructure consisting of the GlassFish application server. ECS already supports popular application servers like JBoss from RedHat and WebLogic from Oracle as well as servlet containers like Apache Tomcat.
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Hosting News – HOUSTON - CyrusOne, the leading Texas enterprise data center colocation provider, announced today that its West Houston data center is fully commissioned and ready for customer installation. The 94,000 square foot facility represents phase one of the 200,000 square foot master planned site. The company will continue to lead in total data center square footage in Texas with seven facilities totaling 480,000 square feet, including three facilities in Houston, three in Dallas and one in Austin.

CyrusOne’s construction team broke ground on the “green field” project in June 2009 and completed in record time in six months by December 2009. Building from the ground up, these projects typically take at least 18 months to complete and commission.
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Hosting News – Overland Park, KS - Following a detailed evaluation of its solutions-based products and services, Codero has successfully joined the Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Program – recognizing several areas of technical and business expertise as a hosting provider. This certification represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, offering priority access to the Certified Partner Network, Knowledge Base, specialized training, resources and more.

Through the detailed enrollment process, Codero was awarded three key Microsoft Competencies — Networking Infrastructure Solutions, Security Solutions and Hosting Solutions – as well as the Small Business Specialist designation. In addition to achieving at least one competency, members are required to earn 120 Partner Points through additional competencies, sales performance, customer references and participation in a Customer Satisfaction Index.
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Hosting News – Herndon, VA — The .MX domain name extension is no longer exclusive to Mexican government websites.  Now any organization or business can take advantage of the shorter and more direct domain name to highlight their Mexican heritage or promote a Mexican themed business in marketing communications or company advertising.  Network Solutions® will offer the .MX domain name extension for a limited time at $10 off the regular price.

The .MX extension can be used for promoting websites or incorporated in email addresses.  Additionally, organizations that already have .COM, .NET and .ORG domains registered can further protect their brands by registering the .MX extension. Continue reading “Network Solutions .MX Domain Name Extension – Now Available to Everyone” »

Hosting News – PHOENIX - No matter how well designed a website is, it must be vigorously promoted in order to attract visitors—and search engine optimization (SEO) is the most cost-effective marketing strategy an online business can have.

“Your website is your storefront, and how you prepare your store for business will have a direct impact on how well your business will do online,” said Tim Uzzanti, CEO of SmarterTools. “Ignoring SEO is like having no signs and blank windows in your building. Potential customers will drive past your store, not even realizing you are there.”
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Hosting News – ASHBURN, VA — Sliqua, a provider of custom hosting solutions, today announced it has enrolled in the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program (R1HPP) to qualify for aggressive volume discounts on R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) products.

R1HPP volume license discounts enable Sliqua to offer its Enterprise Shared Hosting customers reliable data protection with a two-week backup retention free of charge. Sliqua Complex Hosting customers benefit from the discounts as well with the option to add CDP for a low fee. As an R1Soft Hosting Partner, Sliqua also acquires access to priority technical support and an assortment of sales and marketing resources to help it effectively market and implement R1Soft CDP software.
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Hosting News – EDEN PRAIRIE, MN – VISI, Minnesota’s largest data center services and managed hosting provider, is pleased to announce the launch of Cloud Storage, a pay-as-you-go cloud offering geared for business customers.

As the need for storage increases, many companies find themselves unable to justify the capital necessary to expand their storage pool. With VISI Cloud Storage, there is no need to spend valuable capital on storage hardware. Cloud storage is an elastic, pay-as-you go service, meaning businesses pay only for the storage and data transfer actually used.  Files are easily accessed with WebDAV, NFS, or HTTP protocols.
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