Website Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO — Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, has bolstered its Cloud hosting capabilities with two new products to better serve the Enterprise market. Cloud Connect offers customers a seamless integration of The Rackspace Cloud and dedicated hosting. The new Critical Sites service level provides advanced monitoring for customers who rely on their websites and applications as mission critical components of their business. With these products and others, Rackspace gives businesses the power to choose compute platforms and service offerings to best meet their unique IT needs.

“Businesses of all sizes and budgets now have access to Enterprise-class infrastructure, backed by our industry-leading Fanatical Support,” said John Engates, chief technology officer for Rackspace. “The recent additions to our portfolio, including Cloud Connect and Critical Sites, make logical business sense for those looking for best-in-class hosted solutions as alternatives to expensive and inefficient on-premise IT infrastructure.” Continue reading “Rackspace Boosts Enterprise Services with Cloud Connect and Critical Sites” »

Website Hosting News – ATLANTA – A Small Orange, a provider of high quality shared, VPS, reseller, and dedicated web hosting announced today that is has officially launched a new service offering called Proactive Support.

Proactive Support enables dedicated server and VPS hosting customers to have a one-on-one phone consultation with a systems administrator from A Small Orange to define a personalized list of activities, checks, or other functions that the systems administrator will then perform once a month.

For example, a dedicated/VPS hosting customer could work with a system administrator to create a checklist that includes the system administrator checking if updates are available for a script, that backups are running properly, and that no email accounts are at risk of exceeding their quotas. All of these things would then by checked by A Small Orange once a month and the results of the checks would be communicated back to the customer.

In addition to defining checks, customers with Proactive Support can work with their dedicated system administrator to define regular maintenance tasks. For example, the system administrator could optimize databases tables, delete old backups, or other similar tasks.

“There are things that people should do consistently to ensure their web hosting accounts and servers are as secure, reliable, and functional as possible,” said Douglas Hanna, CEO of A Small Orange. “Proactive Support takes that burden off of our customers and shifts it to our team of professionals.”

Proactive Support can be added to new or already existing dedicated or VPS hosting plans at A Small Orange. Pricing, which varies depending on whether customers have dedicated or VPS web hosting, starts at $15 per month.

Visit www.asmallorange.com for more information. Continue reading “A Small Orange Launches Proactive Support for Dedicated, VPS Hosting Customers” »

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Website Hosting News – Allentown, PA - Leading managed cloud and hosting provider INetU has been recognized as the most reliable hosting provider in the world by Netcraft, a web analytics company, for November 2010. Netcraft is an Internet services company that provides independent monthly research reports on the web hosting industry.

“We are delighted to once again be named the world’s top host by Netcraft and are dedicated to maintaining our current level of exceptional performance,” said Dev Chanchani, president of INetU. “It’s nice to see our strategy of overbuilding and underutilizing network capacity to deliver superior web site reliability for our clients.”

INetU was Netcraft’s most reliable host in November, responding to all but three requests. They captured the number one spot after ranking third in October 2010 and regularly appearing in Netcraft’s top-ten monthly rankings.

Netcraft’s rankings measure the response time of fifty leading hosting companies worldwide. Hosting sites are ranked primarily by the least amount of failed requests and secondarily by the shortest amount of time to connect. This gives a clear indication of network capacity and congestion. Continue reading “INetU Named Most Reliable Hosting Provider in the World” »

Website Hosting News – Lenexa, Kan. – Technology industry veteran Jonathan Ewert has been named President and CEO of Codero, a leading provider of optimized hosting infrastructure. He will also serve on the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Ewert was formerly SVP Corporate Development for LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK) and CEO of ePALS.

Since its launch last year, Codero has been recognized with multiple industry awards in the dedicated and managed hosting industry. In addition to being a pioneer in “green hosting”, Codero has achieved a number of business milestones, including SAS Type II certification, PCI compliance, and Microsoft Gold Certification.

“Codero is attracting more customers in the e-commerce, SaaS, web development, advertising and media sectors – all areas in which Jonathan has a strong track record,” said Tyler Newton, partner with growth private equity firm Catalyst Investors, Codero’s principal investor. “His background makes him the perfect fit to lead Codero as the company grows.”

“Codero is a market leader and I’m excited to join a company that is ideally positioned to expand,” said Mr. Ewert. “In this fast-moving space, we see many enterprise customers who are paying for colocation and don’t need to be. We also see a natural progression toward margin compression in cloud computing.  There is enormous opportunity for Codero to provide cost-effective hybrid infrastructure solutions with no capital investment or additional staffing, so that our customers can allocate capital and management to the growth of their core businesses.” Continue reading “Codero Names Jonathan Ewert as President and CEO” »

Website Hosting News – Andover, MA – NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today announced the availability of its TestDev Cloud solution. As part of TestDev Cloud’s introduction, NaviSite is offering a free, no-risk, 30-day trial.

NaviSite TestDev Cloud, built on the enterprise-class NaviCloud platform, is designed to address the development and testing requirements of ISVs and enterprises with in-house development teams. It is an agile, on-demand development platform that is suitable for development and testing initiatives of any size. TestDev Cloud provides added flexibility, with role-based access control to ensure complete, secure resource governance, as well as an easy-to-use web console that simplifies management and administration. Continue reading “NaviSite Unveils Cloud-Based Development and Testing Solution” »

Website Hosting News – United Kingdom - UK2.net has confirmed they are now the 100th member to join LONAP’s peering network. LONAP, a not-for-profit IXP, facilitates traffic interchange between its members and operates its service out of 5 state-of-the-art data centres within London. LONAP will provide UK2.net with a connections of 10GBps, with a fast switch fabric and inter-site links to ensure UK2’s speed of connecting to the peer network remains as fast as possible, giving their users better connectivity to the site and thus improving their overall web experience.

Another advantage for UK2 on LONAP’s IXP is reduced latency. Members are able to keep traffic local by exchanging it closer to the source, which means that the time it takes for a data packet to reach its destination is reduced. LONAP will also provide UK2 with additional routes to sites hosted on LONAP’s peering network and therefore increasing the resilience of UK2’s connectivity into the UK infrastructure. Continue reading “UK2.net becomes 100th member of LONAP’s peering network” »

Website Hosting News – Paris - NextiraOne today announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco to accelerate the adoption of virtualised data centre solutions in Europe. Together, Cisco and NextiraOne will focus on delivering advanced communications applications, including Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco Contact Centre hosted in virtualised data centre environments, which bring real value to customers.

NextiraOne will invest in developing its already successful Cisco data centre capabilities through certification of people, labs and demonstration equipment across the European group. The initial focus will be in six major European markets – Austria, Belgium/Luxemburg, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK – but will extend in the coming months to include all 16 countries where NextiraOne has a direct sales and service presence. Continue reading “NextiraOne Expands Cisco Data Center Capabilities Across Europe” »

Website Hosting News – Denver – ViaWest, a leading provider of adaptable colocation and managed services, has announced the company’s acquisition of SingleEdge, a colocation and managed service provider based in Salt Lake City. With the acquisition, ViaWest will increase its footprint to seven data centers encompassing approximately 120,000 square feet of usable raised floor in the greater Salt Lake City area.

“SingleEdge has demonstrated strong growth and a high level of customer satisfaction,” said Roy J. Dimoff, ViaWest’s Chairman & CEO. “Following the completion of our acquisition of Consonus, we felt that acquiring SingleEdge would solidify our emphasis in this region and best position ViaWest to meet the growing demand of the Utah market.” Continue reading “ViaWest announces the acquisition of SingleEdge in Salt Lake City” »

Website Hosting News – Phoenix, AR - i/o Data Centers (“i/o”), the leading provider of data center as a service (DCaaS™), today announced that it will be leading a panel discussion on “Trends in the Data Center.” The panel will be moderated by i/o CEO George Slessman with representatives from BMC Software, CBS Interactive, DirecTV and Mozilla.

“This is a key event in the IT industry and we are looking forward to a strong turnout this year,” says Jason Ferrara, VP Marketing for i/o. “The panel discussion is sure to draw a large audience because of the participating industry experts. These are some of the largest consumers of data center services on the planet and their perspective on trends in the data center will be very well-received.” Continue reading “i/o to Lead Panel Discussion at Gartner Data Center Conference” »

Website Hosting News – DULLES, VA - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today launched a new, in-the-cloud service to ease the implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). The VeriSign DNSSEC Signing Service is being offered to registrars to help them incorporate signing and provisioning into their infrastructure, while reducing costs, complexity and the administrative burden associated with implementing DNSSEC support for their customers.

DNSSEC provides an additional layer of security to the Internet by protecting against cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks, in which forged data is used to redirect unsuspecting users to fraudulent websites and unintended addresses. DNSSEC is becoming essential to maintaining trust in the Internet; however, implementing DNSSEC can be a complex process. Continue reading “VeriSign Launches New DNSSEC Signing Service” »