Web Hosting News – Independence, OH - CybrHost Corporation today announced the acquisition of Green Dedicated Host, an Austin, Texas based web hosting company. Green Dedicated Host provides services to customers all over the world. They combine the best of Open Source technology with a strong commitment to the environment to better serve their customers and the planet.

“CybrHost has been in the hosting business for 15 years,” said Matt Whitted, Hosting Director. “We are dedicated to providing a stable web hosting environment with a focus on customer service and support. I am confident customers of Green Dedicated Host will benefit from this focus.” Continue reading “CybrHost Corporation Acquires Green Dedicated Host” »

Web Hosting News – HOUSTON, TX - SharkSpace, a world wide provider of shared, reseller, and VPS Web hosting, announced today its partnership with SiteLock, a leading web security and technology firm. SiteLock is renowned for their web security and can provide its clients with a verified degree of security on each of its clients website. The partnership between SharkSpace and SiteLock offers all of SharkSpace’s current and future customers to purchase SiteLock’s trusted services at an exceptionally discounted price.

“Partnering up with SiteLock was an easy decision when considering the safety of our customers and their enterprises,” commented Jon Eichler, CEO of SharkSpace. SharkSpace customers will now have the option of adding any one of SiteLock’s monthly packages to their website for nearly half of SiteLock’s publicly advertised price. “I personally would hate to own a website without SiteLock’s services attached to it,” continued Jon Eichler with SharkSpace, “and now, thanks to our newest partnership with SiteLock, SharkSpace customers have every incentive to protect their online investments as well.” Continue reading “SharkSpace Partners with SiteLock to Ensure and Offer the Upmost Protection” »

Web Hosting News – ALISO VIEJO, CA - Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced the release of Quest® Cloud Automation Platform 7.5, its next generation of enterprise-class cloud automation and management technology. Originally developed by recently acquired Surgient, Quest Cloud Automation Platform enables IT to maximize the utilization of cloud infrastructure, fully automate the delivery of complex IT services, and automatically reclaim unused infrastructure, driving down IT costs and delivering unmatched productivity gains across the enterprise. The Surgient acquisition is part of Quest’s greater virtualization and cloud strategy, which will be formally unveiled Aug. 31 at an invitation-only event for media and analysts during VMworld. Those interested in attending should contact Daphne Kent at daphne.kent@questsoftware.com or Ken Montgomery at ken.montgomery@questsoftware.com.

“The Quest platform (formerly Surgient) is designed to work alongside a customer’s in-place helpdesk system, IT service catalog, CMDB, runbook automation framework, and so on. It assumes the presence of virtual infrastructure from VMware or Microsoft, and plays nicely with physical provisioning and automation from the likes of HP and Symantec,” said Rachel Chalmers, research director of infrastructure management at The 451 Group. “What it adds to these is a self-service portal backed by automated service delivery and recovery, just-in-time self-service and scalable, user-centric services. In practice, this means that IT operators can configure resources and policies, users can request services as needed, and [the platform] manages the provisioning, use and recovery of the underlying resources. Presto—private cloud.” Continue reading “Quest Delivers Advanced Private Cloud Automation Platform” »

You may have heard rumors that virtualization, cloud hosting, VPS services, and other “virtual” solutions are more expensive, unreliable, slower, have a complex migration, and are difficult to manage. However, all of these could be far from the truth.  What is certain is that with virtualization you will be spending more time and energy on your business and improving your offerings than on worrying about datacenter issues and downtime.

Virtualization is a loosely used term for too many offerings and solutions that today’s web hosting companies are trying to sell you. What is virtualization? At the most fundamental level, virtualization is the ability to run one environment, such as an operating system, inside of another environment (such as an operating system). Imagine running Windows Vista inside of Windows 7 or running multiple instances of Linux inside of Windows (or any other operating system).  Virtualization simply lets you allocate different amounts of resources and privileges to other parts of the physical server.

You may be asking yourself how this is any different from the classic shared hosting environments you are used to renting from GoDaddy, 1and1, and others. All of these services are “shared” in nature, but you aren’t actually renting a piece of the entire server that your website is on, only some web space to upload your files over FTP and to run your website through their web server.

Which sort of virtualization is right for your needs? If you have a small website with a few hits, then you should continue paying your webhost $10/month or less for your FTP space and web server access. But what if you have something more complex such an open-source forum, a small MySQL database, some custom PHP content, and your website? Again, it depends on how much traffic you get. If you receive very little traffic, shared hosting may still be your solution. By now you must be wondering why you’d ever need anything besides shared hosting for $10/month.

The answer is you probably don’t and the salesman on the other end of the phone is trying to sell you services that are too powerful for your needs. What if you really have a need for serious web hosting services? It’s clear that there are plenty of companies that have a requirement for better computing resources, so what sorts of requirements do you need to justify higher costs and a more sophisticated hosting environment?

Part 1 – Ownership:

When you own your own servers, much like you own your car, your sense of ownership may provide you with a false feeling of security. It’s true that by owning your servers you feel like no one can access or tamper with them, but what about the downsides? Hard drive failures, motherboard failures, network card failures, power supply failures, etc. In addition to your responsibility of maintaining the hardware, you will probably also need to purchase remote IP KVM’s or computers with remote access integrated into the motherboard which carry a higher price tag, remote power rebooters so you don’t have to painfully wait for datacenter technicians to restart your servers, and shipping spare parts when they are needed. With a virtual solution all of these problems do not exist. In a virtual environment, you can experiment and customize your server as much as you want, break it, and just start a new virtual instance at any time without worrying about anything. Continue reading “The Pros and Cons of Virtualization Web Hosting” »

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Web Hosting News – ORANGE, CA - AFCOM, the world’s leading data center association, today announced the release of “Guiding Data Centers to Cloud Computing,” a position paper by the Data Center Institute that presents specific concepts and issues that it recommends organizations consider before they begin the transformation to public, private or hybrid cloud computing. This paper is the only available resource designed to provide information on cloud computing specifically for data center and facilities management professionals.

Modern data centers face a myriad of technical and business issues, including underutilized servers, security and governance risks, and difficulty in scaling services to meet changing requirements. However, cloud computing eliminates the need for corporate or government data centers that do not host their own internal clouds to house, own, operate or maintain all of their own hardware, software and data, thereby reducing the total cost of ownership through economies of scale. The purpose of the Data Center Institute’s “Guiding Data Centers to Cloud Computing,” is to help organizations better understand if they are well suited and ready to migrate to the cloud. Continue reading “AFCOM Releases Cloud Computing Guide for Data Center Managers” »

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Web Hosting News – Phoenix, AZ – Phoenix NAP®, a next-generation datacenter and network  access point, announced today that Hurricane Electric, a leading Internet backbone and colocation provider, has established a point-of-presence (PoP) within the Phoenix NAP facility.

“Having Hurricane Electric operate a PoP out of our facility presents a tremendous opportunity for area and regional businesses to obtain quality connectivity solutions. Featuring one of the top ranked international Internet backbones in the world, Hurricane Electric can help our clients meet their transit needs, and we’re happy to have them in our datacenter,” said Ian McClarty, president of Phoenix NAP.
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Web Hosting News – CUPERTINO, CA – Cloud.com, a leader in open source private and public cloud computing software, today announced that its industry leading platform, CloudStack now supports VMware vSphere™ 4.1 and VMware vCenter™ Server. This new support enables enterprises and service providers who have already standardized on VMware virtualization technologies to extend their capabilities into the cloud without requiring changes to their existing infrastructure or virtualization management tools. Cloud.com will be demonstrating CloudStack on VMware vSphere at VMworld 2010, taking place August 30 – September 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

“We are pleased to see Cloud.com add support for VMware vSphere™,” said Jian Zhen, director, cloud computing solutions, VMware. “Cloud.com’s support underscores customer demand for developing cloud strategies on the industry’s only enterprise-class virtual infrastructure.  Cloud.com’s customers can now choose to deploy their cloud infrastructure on the leading virtualization and cloud platform.” Continue reading “Cloud.com Brings Open Source Cloud Computing to VMware Customers” »

Web Hosting News – HOUSTON, TX - 180Servers, on-demand dedicated Web hosting provider, announced today that due to their rapid rate of growth, the company has decided to further their expansion into their ash1 facility, located in Asheville, North Carolina. The company has bought an adequate amount of new servers, ready to be installed and deployed into their ash1 facility.

With further expansion into the company’s second geographically diverse location, 180Servers new growth will more than double their current hosting capacity by offering even more on-demand dedicated servers. “We searched everywhere and found two of the best datacenters in the country to allow for the most growth, dal1 in Dallas, TX and ash1 in Asheville, North Carolina,” commented Anthony Morgan, General Manager of 180Servers. Continue reading “180Servers Expands into Asheville Facility” »

Web Hosting News – HAMILTON, Ontario — Carat Networks, a leading global IT hosting service provider, announced today it has made available Capture and Store Backup services on all Virtual Private Servers, starting at just $10 per month.

The new backup service enables customers with a Virtual Private Server to instantly create and store snapshots of their entire hosting environment, which are securely housed and available when needed. Backup services can be added on either Windows or Linux Virtual Private Servers. Continue reading “Carat Networks Adds New Backup Options to Virtual Private Servers” »

Web Hosting News – PORTAGE, Mich. – Web Host Boot Camp today announced the launch its free online webinar series for hosting industry professionals, the first of its kind in the hosting industry. Last year, the company unveiled the industry’s first-ever online virtual conference in the industry.

Each webinar will last up to an hour, and will be led by a distinguished industry leader. Topics include marketing, technology, news, and industry trends. Marketing strategist Hartland Ross, founder of eBridge Marketing Solutions, will lead the first session, scheduled for September 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM EST. Details on subsequent webinars are available at www.webhostbootcamp.net/category/webinars/. Continue reading “Web Host Boot Camp Launches Free Webinar Series for Hosting Industry Professionals” »