Hosting Reviews – LONDON - A total of 46 per cent of British consumers have cancelled plans to spend with a small business after finding a poor quality website, according to research released today by 1&1 Internet Ltd, a global leader amongst web hosts.  From a study of more than 1800 UK adults, 37 per cent have walked away completely whilst a further 9 per cent have opted to spend less as a direct result.  Many consumers feel that small business websites today are mostly unattractive and often contain errors.  Whilst 1 in 3 consumers are willing to provide valuable feedback to business owners, a further study of small firms finds that half have never asked clients about their experiences of using their website.

The majority of UK businesses have now taken steps to launch a website and battle for valuable online visibility.  However, 1&1’s ’2011 Digital High Street Audit’(1) finds worryingly low levels of consumer satisfaction with the small business websites available to them.  The risk to firms from providing a bad online experience is clear – 49 per cent of consumers believe that a bad website makes a worse impact than a business having no website at all.  This conclusion has led 37 per cent to walk-away from companies completely, in favor of using a competitor.  An additional 9 per cent of Britons have found themselves reducing their spend with small companies as a direct result of being deterred by a poor company website. Continue reading “Consumer Study Shows Small Business Lose Customers from Poor Websites” »

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Hosting Reviews – REDMOND, WA — Microsoft Corp. today released its global “SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011,” which investigates how cloud computing will impact small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the next three years. The research finds that 39 percent of SMBs expect to be paying for one or more cloud services within three years, an increase of 34 percent from the current 29 percent. It also finds that the number of cloud services SMBs pay for will nearly double in most countries over the next three years.

The findings show an increasing opportunity for hosting service providers to profit in the cloud from offering services such as collaboration, data storage and backup, or business-class email. Some key findings include the following: Continue reading “Microsoft Survey Reveals 39 Percent of SMBs to Pay for Cloud Services Within Three Years” »

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Hosting Reviews – ONTARIO, CANADA – HostPapa Green Web Hosting has partnered with Love Trees for an exciting Earth Day celebration. With the participation of HostPapa’s clients and friends, HostPapa continues its commitment to going green by seeking to donate 10,000 trees, through Love Trees, by Earth Day 2011.

HostPapa was one of the first web hosting companies to make a public commitment to going green. HostPapa continues to offer high-value, low-cost web hosting services that are powered 100% by renewable green energy sources. Continue reading “HostPapa Partners with Love Trees for Earth Day” »

Hosting Reviews – Englewood, CO - To meet a growing need for data center power, cooling and space in the market, Latisys today announced a significant expansion to its Ashburn, Virginia data center campus that includes 14 megawatts of additional power and 26,000 square feet of new, available raised floor space. The company also announced a new data center-as-a-service offering optimized specifically for large enterprises, public sector organizations and service providers throughout Greater Washington that have significant requirements for high-density (HD) data center power, cooling and capacity.

Commissioning 14 Megawatts of new HD data center colocation power uniquely positions Latisys with available inventory for enterprise IT infrastructure requirements. In addition to the Ashburn data center campus expansion, which is implemented on similar designs to its growing Chicago and Irvine data centers, Latisys is able to deliver flexible deployments which can scale to an average of 220 watts per square foot and also tie customer infrastructure seamlessly into the company’s disaster recovery solutions. Continue reading “Latisys Continues Expansion of Northern Virginia Data Center” »

Hosting Reviews – JAIPUR, INDIA – Cloud services enablement leader, Parallels, today announced that India’s fourth largest web hosting company, ZNet has become a Gold Partner.  With this partnership, ZNet will deliver shared web hosting and virtual private servers to small businesses in India using Parallels Plesk Panel 10 and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.

ZNet needed a solution to help its customers, especially the small businesses, gain a strong position in the hosting industry.  It selected Parallels Plesk Panel 10 as it is the industry leading control panel that enables service providers to easily deliver the most profitable services to its entire customer base with the most stable and secure multi-platform hosting control panel at a click of a button. Continue reading “ZNet Becomes Parallels Gold Partner in India” »

Hosting Reviews – PHOENIX, AR - i/o Data Centers (“i/o”), a leader in digital energy technology, today announced the opening of the world’s largest modular data center in Edison, New Jersey, which will be called “i/o NEW JERSEY”. Several enterprise customers have already purchased Data Center as a Service (DCaaS™) capacity at i/o NEW JERSEY and additional capacity is available for delivery. i/o NEW JERSEY joins i/o PHOENIX (recently recognized as the seventh largest data center in the world) and i/o SCOTTSDALE as part of i/o’s North American data center footprint.

In making the announcement, George D. Slessman, CEO of i/o, said, “i/o now controls two of the largest data centers in the world and has the ability to deliver Data Center as a Service (DCaaS™) across the entire continent of North America.” Slessman added, “We can bring a data center of the magnitude of i/o NEW JERSEY online immediately because of our i/o ANYWHERE™ modular data center technology. Today’s announcement reinforces why the world’s largest enterprises rely on i/o for always-on data center solutions.” Continue reading “i/o Opens Modular Data Center in New Jersey” »

Hosting Reviews – Lenexa, KA – Provider of optimized hosting, Codero, will be in attendance at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, March 28 – 31, to showcase its most innovative product, Cloud beta. The company is offering two Cloud plans at lower prices during the beta period which is for a limited time only.

Web 2.0 Expo is in its fifth year at the Moscone West in San Francisco where it showcases the latest business models, development paradigms, and product and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation web. The multi-track conference brings designers, developers, entrepreneurs and startups together to hear influential keynote speakers and attend workshops.

According to Shelby Garlock, Director, Marketing, “We are excited to have this public forum to share our Cloud with Web 2.0 attendees because our beta is unique in the industry. Our customers are finding our Cloud beta a cost-effective option to other hosting solutions.  This is a great time to try Cloud before the prices rise after the beta period. You can test out how it can scale to meet your increased traffic demands and then give us feedback to help Codero plan the exciting future direction the new Cloud takes.” Continue reading “Cloud Beta from Codero Rolled Out at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco” »

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Hosting Reviews – BELLEVUE, WA - eNom, Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesale registrar, today announced the launch of a new portal, org.eNom.com, designed to drive awareness of the multiple uses for the .ORG top-level domain name (TLD). The new .ORG marketing portal features information to help companies and organizations learn how to best use the .ORG TLD in order to create programs around corporate and social responsibility.

“We believe that .ORG is a powerful and universal brand,” said Chris Sheridan, vice president of business development for eNom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Demand Media™. “Through our partnership with The Public Interest Registry (PIR), we have leveraged our content creation platform to develop a destination that can educate people on the benefits of the .ORG TLD.” Continue reading “eNom Announces New Portal to Promote and Educate on Uses of .ORG” »

Hosting Reviews – Pasadena, CA – DiscountASP.NET, a leader in Microsoft ASP.NET web hosting and Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting, announces a partnership with Urban Turtle, a leading agile project management solution developed by Pyxis Technologies. Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET introduces a hosted Urban Turtle solution which is available to their TFS hosting customers as an add-on. In addition, DiscountASP.NET customers can get discounts for the purchase of Urban Turtle solutions for on-premise use.

The Urban Turtle solution helps agile teams plan, prioritize, manage and track their software development work. With drag and drop capabilities, organizing and planning software development projects becomes much easier. Continue reading “DiscountASP.NET Partners with Urban Turtle for Hosted and On-Premise Agile Project Management” »

Hosting Reviews – Dallas, TX – CoreXchange, provider of the most comprehensive suite of data center and network-layer managed services, today announced it has received equity capital funding from ORIX Corporate Capital.  Red Barn Investments, an existing investor in CoreXchange, also provided additional funding alongside ORIX. CoreXchange will use the proceeds of the funding to expand its data center infrastructure and fuel continued growth of its expanding colocation service offerings. The terms of the financing have not been disclosed.

“ORIX coming on board as a new equity investor is compelling validation of the CoreXchange business model and the continued strong growth of our business,” said Peter Pathos, chairman of CoreXchange. “They bring a highly experienced team of investment professionals and significant access to a variety of capital solutions that will help us achieve even greater scale in our company’s growth.” Continue reading “CoreXchange Secures Equity To Increase Dallas Data Center Footprint” »