Web Host News – Sarasota, FL - Accrisoft will be exhibiting at HostingCon (booth # 140) in San Diego, CA on August 8–10, 2011 displaying its software products and allowing attendees to participate in hands-on demonstrations.

Part of Accrisoft’s strategy to enhance visibility in 2011, HostingCon will be their fourth trade show of the year. “We’ve had incredible success with trade shows this year,” said Mary Houston, VP of Customer Care at Accrisoft. “People have been very enthusiastic about participating in our demonstrations. Because of the intuitiveness of our software, we’re able to show people how it works in real-world situations right on the show floor. People really love it.”
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Web Host News – NEW YORK – NTT America, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and a Tier-1 global IP network services provider, today highlighted several key trends and upcoming industry developments in the broadband and IP transit industry.

“New technology innovations, global developments and the changing nature of how both businesses and consumers are using the Internet are all impacting our industry greatly,” said Michael Wheeler, vice president of NTT America’s Global IP Network business unit. “Now is the time for businesses to make the adjustments needed for success in the future.”
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Web Host News – Jersey City, N.J. – Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for mission critical IT and cloud computing, announced today that revenue growth in the second quarter of 2011 was equal to the total growth the company experienced in all of 2009.

Supporting this growth, Datapipe is currently completing expansions of its data center facilities worldwide. In the third quarter the company will triple its data center capacity in London, and significantly expand its San Jose, Calif. and Hong Kong capacity. In addition, Datapipe is doubling the capacity of Somerset Two, its New Jersey data center that opened in May of 2010.
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Web Host News – Austin, TX – Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center outsourcing, secure colocation and disaster recovery solutions, announces today the opening of Texas 1 , the first purpose-built, carrier-neutral data center in the Central Texas region. The initial phase of the highly anticipated 250,000 square foot data center is now fully operational and the first customers have started moving in. With the addition of Texas 1, Data Foundry now operates three carrier-neutral data centers in Texas: Texas 1 and ADC, located in Austin, and HDC in Houston.

Texas 1 is unlike any data center in the Central United States. Texas 1’s unique infrastructure features independent and diverse power, water and network feeds without a single point of failure in its power, cooling and network systems. Texas 1’s power system is fed from two independent substations and showcases an underground power feed enclosed end-to-end in a concrete duct bank – a rare feature for modern data centers.  The chilled water system enables flexible cooling solutions ranging from single cabinet deployments up to high-density configurations. Even the most complex High Performance Computing (HPC) environments can be properly cooled in Texas 1. With over 17 network carriers available, Texas 1 offers a wide variety of carrier-neutral options for its customers.
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Web Host News – Schenectady, NY - AYKsolutions, a New York-based market leader in the field of dedicated server hosting, shared hosting, and virtual private server (VPS) hosting, announced today a generous new sponsorship plan to support the ongoing growth of Linux Mint operating system. AYKsolutions is happy to encourage further development within the Linux community and hopes to help Linux Mint reach as many users as possible.

“Linux Mint is a great, free, and actively supported operating system that is easy to use and light on resources,” says Artyom Khmelnitsky, President of AYKsolutions. “With the popularity of the Linux operating system growing at an incredible rate, we are proud to offer two servers at our Denver data center facility, which Linux Mint currently uses for its repositories. This is an exceptional opportunity for us to give something back to the Linux community that we depend on so heavily in the hosting industry, and we are excited to be involved.”

Started in 2006, Linux Mint is a free Linux based operating system distribution that boasts flexibility, responsiveness, and a wide range of supported software packages. Linux Mint is the second most popular Linux variant in the world and the fourth most popular operating system overall, after Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, and Canonical’s Ubuntu. Distinctively, Linux Mint offers centralized software sources in a similar style to the Apple App Store and the Android Marketplace, allowing Linux Mint’s users to easily browse, download, and install new software as well as application updates. As a direct result of this centralized approach and stunning growth in popularity, Linux Mint now requires a “best of breed” dedicated hosting solution to cater to its users, provided by AYKsolutions.

“With millions of users and a significant increase in our user base this year, our existing servers in Germany simply could not handle the amount of data needed to serve our users efficiently,” says Clement Lefebvre, Founder of Linux Mint. “When thousands of users hit the same server at exactly the same time, you need not only a server that can handle the processing of the information with RAM and CPU, but also, most importantly, a server that can output that much information at a time. The servers provided to us by AYKsolutions respectively serve 100Mb and 1Gb of data per second, enabling us to meet the ever increasing demands of new and existing Linux Mint users.”

There are many varied elements that can have an impact on the overall performance of a web hosting service, and it is common to find a service range that excels within one area but falls short elsewhere. For example, on hosting accounts that provide incredible connectivity features within a facility, a strict bandwidth restriction may be imposed to limit day-to-day usage. Linux Mint requires a dedicated server hosting solution with consistently high performance across all aspects of the hardware. AYKsolutions currently offers competitive hosting services in ten data centers worldwide, with disk space of up to four 1.5TB hard drives, RAM of up to 128GB, and 10Mbps/100Mbps/1Gbps dedicated uplink. This incredible specification is offered with unmetered bandwidth, allowing customers like Linux Mint to benefit from the full capacity of their hardware without the fear of usage restrictions.

“One of the most valuable aspects of the servers provided to us by AYKsolutions is unmetered bandwidth,” says Linux Mint’s Lefebvre. “This means that we can focus on improving our operating system, enjoy the benefits of its success, and see our user base grow even more without having to worry about not being able to serve them.”

“AYKsolutions is honored to be one of the core server providers for Linux Mint,” adds Khmelnitsky. “Without leaders such as Mr. Lefebvre, there would not be the leaps with open source distributions that we see here today. AYKsolutions will continue to support and work together with Linux Mint for as long as necessary.”

By offering the unrivalled power of unmetered dedicated server hosting to these key members of the Linux community, AYKsolutions is demonstrating an ongoing commitment to the development of operating system technology that makes Linux computing accessible. With this new partnership, set to become a long-term arrangement, both Linux Mint and AYKsolutions can continue to be leading forces in the growth of the web hosting and IT industry.

About Linux Mint
Since development began in 2006, Linux Mint has become the fourth most popular operating system in the world and the second most popular Linux OS variant on the market. Linux Mint is a modern, elegant system that blends remarkable ease of use with astonishing power and versatility. In addition, Linux Mint offers a centralized software store, allowing millions of users worldwide to access and download new software for their system as well as regular updates. Linux Mint is also completely free to download and use and is open source with an active development community looking to improve the main feature set on an ongoing basis.

For more information about Linux Mint, visit www.linuxmint.com.

About AYKsolutions
AYKsolutions is a leading web hosting company that has been providing high quality hosting services since 2004. AYKsolutions offers a comprehensive range of web hosting solutions to meet the needs of Internet professionals and enterprise customers. The company’s product line includes shared hosting, dedicated server hosting, VPS hosting, reseller hosting, cloud hosting, and Vault Data Protection. With a roster of high-end data centers across the US and now Europe, AYKsolutions is able to provide dedicated clients with innovative and improved service levels and a professional, painless, and polite hosting experience.

For more information about AYKsolutions, visit www.ayksolutions.com.

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Web Host News – Phoenix, AZ - Stable Host, the Phoenix-based host of over 15.000 international websites, is proud to expand their product line with the introduction of Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Ideal for customers who have seen their web needs outgrow the limitations of shared severs, VPS service from Stable Host allows continued, unfettered growth. Starting at just $19.95/month, with a 50% off limited-time discount to celebrate the launch of the service, VPS is as affordable as it is powerful.

VPS service from Stable Host is powered in part by SolusVM™, the state-of-the-art control panel which allows users to manage their server with a seamless, simple interface. It’s the kind of user-friendly experience Stable Host customers always enjoy. “One of the reasons we have been so successful is the fact that we are always responsive to our customer base and understand what they want. We build our business around their needs.” said Ryan Pekarik, VP of Technology at Stable Host. “I’m very excited for the release of VPS, as it allows our customers to grow their business with us, all the time enjoying the rock-solid web hosting and excellent customer support they’ve always received from us.” said Pekarik.
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Web Host News – SEATTLE - Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that IGN, an Internet media and services provider focused on gaming and entertainment, is successfully using Hosted Chef from Opscode to integrate datacenters and automate and virtualize the company’s infrastructure. The solution saves IGN precious man-hours and increases customer access.

IGN Entertainment, a business unit of News Corporation, is experiencing tremendous growth. With its main headquarters in San Francisco and offices throughout North America, Europe and Australia, IGN’s properties reach more than 70 million unique users worldwide. Because of the company’s significant growth, IGN was planning data consolidation and migration to a single, large scale datacenter in Las Vegas. IGN was faced with challenges including the immediate need for better configuration management, and requirement to rapidly virtualize that hardware into a virtual configuration.
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Web Host News – DALLAS — SoftLayer^® Technologies, the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed Hosting, today announced the introduction of High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls to its lineup of security solutions. SoftLayer customers have the option of adding this high level of protection as a new service for current or new Cloud, Dedicated, or Virtual systems that share the same VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network).

“High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls provide our customers with greater peace of mind,” said Matt Chilek, Vice President of Systems Development and Technology at SoftLayer. “Unfortunately, malicious network activity can happen to anyone, so we’re dedicated to providing our customers with the best protection possible so they can focus on their business and not worry about the security of their infrastructure.”

High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls go beyond protecting servers from malicious activity. The service includes a secondary physical firewall for failover protection, and automatic fall back when the primary firewall regains service.

SoftLayer’s firewalls stand between the entire VLAN and the Public Network, analyzing and filtering all network traffic. With the company’s simple-to-use Customer Portal, customers can easily configure the firewall settings for the entire VLAN as well as for individual computing systems. The Portal also provides a library of templates for applying protection rules and configurations for specific applications. Current templates include mail and Web services, Parallels^® Plesk, and cPanel.

High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls are the newest addition to SoftLayer’s selection of firewall security services, which includes Dedicated Hardware Firewalls and Standard Firewalls. All can be provisioned on demand and without service interruption through the company’s leading Customer Portal. The extra security of these firewalls complements SoftLayer’s effort to provide further individualization for each customer’s network security strategy to help them achieve even greater uptime, accessibility, and control.

For more information about these and other SoftLayer security solutions, visit softlayer.com/solutions/security.
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Web Host News – McLean, VA – ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed hosting for enterprises worldwide, today began implementing the largest free Virtual Private Server (VPS) resource upgrade in its history.

The upgrade will take two forms.  First, disk space on all hosting packages will be increased by 20 percent.  Second, as a result of the Company’s decision to reduce the number of customers allocated to each virtualized server, most VPS customers will enjoy greatly increased access to RAM, CPU and other performance-impacting resources.  On average, these resources will increase by 33 percent, resulting in a measurably faster end-user experience.

ServInt today also introduced a new service package, Essential+ VPS, that offers 33 percent more RAM than its entry-level Essential VPS counterpart, in addition to greater access to CPU and other performance resources – for only $10 more per month.

“The goal of our new Essential+ VPS is to take the incredible value of our entry-level Essential VPS and augment the specs for our customers who are looking for a little more power, but are not quite ready to make the leap into our Signature VPS or Ultimate VPS packages,” said ServInt Chief Operating Officer Christian Dawson.

ServInt Chief Technology Officer Matthew Loschert said, “With the expansion into our new Northern Virginia data center complete, we’ve been able to add a vast quantity of new hardware to our platform.  We have used this opportunity to dramatically enhance the specifications of all our VPS packages, at no additional cost to our customers.”
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Web Host News – Mountain View, CA - .CO Internet S.A.S. announced that Google has acquired the domain name G.CO and will use the URL to more easily connect, communicate and engage with customers by launching an official shortcut for Google’s products and services. The Registry also announced that well-known Silicon Valley Seed Fund and Incubator, 500 Startups, will be rebranding its web address from 500Startups.com to 500.CO.

Just days ahead of the one year anniversary of the public launch of the .CO domain, on July 20th, 2011, momentum continues to be strong as world-leading companies and entrepreneurs increasingly embrace the .CO platform. Since it launched, the .CO domain has attracted more than one million registrations by individuals, organizations and businesses in more than 200 countries worldwide, including major brands like Twitter, Amazon and Overstock – and hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs around the globe.
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