Web Host News – Orem, UT - Lee Livingston, CFO of fast-growing Dedicated, Cloud, and Virtual Hosting Provider NetHosting recently sat down with BusinessQ’s Jeanette Bennett and eight other Utah-based business leaders for an involved question and answer session on “Starting a Business 101.”

Casting an informed look on success strategies for businesses hoping to succeed in an unsettling economy, the participants, including Mr. Livingston, illuminated such topics as what accounting tasks should be addressed from the start, how to anticipate growth in small business, and how to spot the commonalities in business that are successful.
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Web Host News – West Chester, OH - HostingCon, the premier conference and trade show for the web hosting and hosted services industry, today announced the theme for HostingCon 2010 in Austin, Texas: Piloting Into the Cloud – Setting a Course for the Future.

“Without a doubt, the Cloud is the 800-pound gorilla applying market pressure and likewise opening new opportunities within the industry,” stated Kevin Gold, the Chairman of HostingCon 2010. “Whether a company decides to go up, around, through or beneath it, one way or another, companies must strategically confront the Cloud and set a plan in motion for how to compete.”

The conference is adding a dedicated Cloud track to its educational program to reinforce the important role it will play in the future of the web hosting industry. Additional tracks covering Marketing & Sales, Technology, Business Development and Data Centers round out the HostingCon 2010 program. Continue reading “HostingCon Announces Theme of 2010 Conference” »

Web Host News – ALLENTOWN, PA - In an economy driven by cost cutting and harsh operational decisions, one company continues to stand apart by putting the customer in the driver’s seat:

INetU recently completed its sixth annual customer service survey, achieving a 96.2% overall satisfaction rate and earning a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 53.  NPS is determined by calculating the percentage of customers likely to recommend a company to others (promoters) minus the percentage of customers unlikely to do so (detractors). To date, INetU has not discovered a higher published NPS in the Managed Hosting space.

Some other key results from the 2010 client survey:

* 100% of respondents say that INetU’s network performance meets or exceeds expectations.
* 94.8% of respondents are satisfied or extremely satisfied with their Chief Hosting Officer.
* 94.2% of respondents are satisfied or extremely satisfied with INetU’s Support team.
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Web Host News – SCOTTSDALE, AR -  This Thursday, April 29, is the third annual Web Professionals’ Day.  Go Daddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar and Web hosting provider, created the holiday two years ago to honor the pros whose daily work is to keep the Internet up and running.

Since the 1950s, Administrative Professionals have also been recognized with their own special week or holiday.
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Web Host News – FREMONT, CA — 3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member. As the first storage vendor to join the CSA, 3PAR brings expertise and leadership in utility storage to help define best practices and guidance for secure data storage and management in cloud computing environments. Specific areas of focus include: disaster recovery; secure administrative segregation of users, hosts, and application data; and data “lock down” to aid eDiscovery and enterprise compliance.

The CSA was created in 2008 to promote best practices for assuring security within cloud computing environments, and to educate the IT industry on the uses of cloud computing in helping secure other forms of computing. 3PAR raised awareness for the efficiency and agility benefits of cloud computing services in July of 2009 with the announcement of 3PAR Cloud-Agile, a program introduced by 3PAR to encourage the development of a mutually beneficial, robust cloud computing ecosystem. By joining the CSA, 3PAR is furthering these objectives while promoting a specific focus — the need for cloud security standards.
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Web Host News – Lancashire, UK — NuBlue, a leading UK hosting provider, announced it has partnered with R1Soft, the developer of Continuous Data Protection® (CDP), to offer a full-proof hosting platform featuring reliable CDP backups for its Linux clients.

R1Soft’s next-generation CDP software, which offers continuous disk-to-disk data backups for Linux servers, currently runs across NuBlue’s entire hosting platform located in a Tier 1 state-of-the-art datacenter facility. With the addition of R1Soft CDP, NuBlue benefits from many highly functional features including low overhead backup and restore procedures, the capability to easily restore portions of data with file-level restore, and ease of backing up to and from various locations from a single location.
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Web Host News – United Kingdom - UK cloud provider, Memset announced the acquisition of URL shortening service, Is.gd. The purchase comes days after both Amazon and Twitter announced they are rolling out their own URL shortening services putting the longevity of small players in jeopardy.

But Memset has secured the future of Is.gd and plans to maintain it as a non-advertising-supported, free Internet service indefinitely, giving users assurance that their Is.gd URLs will be around forever. Continue reading “Memset Acquires URL Shortening Service, Is.gd” »

Web Host News – Reading, UK – Cloud is now a major marketplace strategy for any company aiming to deliver high quality services to customers, over a variety of channels, involving high levels of online traffic.  But how does an organisation know if, and which, Cloud is best?  DediPower Managed Hosting aims to make Cloud migration successful for organisations by offering a full consultative service that helps companies assess their core business requirements and choose the correct Cloud option.

DediPower’s 5 point audit simplifies Cloud hosting and helps you find the best solution:
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Web Host News – Louisville, KY and Portland, OR - Managed DNS provider, Comwired Inc. announced today that it has acquired the industry’s category-defining domain name DNS.com in a private transaction and is launching the company’s most advanced hosted DNS solutions under the new URL.

Having built the first enterprise-class DNS network with local geo-aware capabilities, Comwired Inc. serves websites that require maximum protection against DNS-based online attacks and other forms of downtime. In addition to selling directly to businesses and consumers, the company offers its hosted DNS services via resellers including web hosting companies and domain name registrars.
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Web Host News – New York, NY - Small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) decrease power consumption and reduce utility bills when switching to cloud-based communication services, according to Intermedia, the world’s largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider. Intermedia delivers Exchange, the leading business email platform, from its cloud infrastructure – four datacenters – direct to nearly a quarter million business people.

According to Michael Osterman, principal of industry analyst firm Osterman Research, “The savings stemming from eliminating on-site servers can reach thousands of dollars per month for the average 100-person business. The source of these savings is primarily reduced license and staffing costs, but lower power consumption alone contributes up to about $870 in savings per server each year.”
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