Web Hosting News – Sierra Madre, CA – DiscountASP.NET, a leading innovator in Windows Server hosting, announces extending its free Web Matrix v2 beta hosting sandbox program for the web developer community. The free beta hosting offer was first unveiled during the Microsoft //BUILD Conference mid-September 2011 as a way for developers to experience the next-generation version of Web Matrix.

Microsoft WebMatrix is an all-in-one Web development tool that allows web developers to easily install open source web applications and use web templates as a starting point to develop customized web sites. Web Matrix v2 includes enhancements such as remote editing, integrated ASP.NET Web Pages package service, enhanced editing capabilities for HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and PHP, integrated color picker, improved database management, and much more.

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Web Hosting News – SUNNYVALE, CA – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced immediate launch and availability of its AMD Opteron™ 6200 and 4200 Series processors (formerly code-named “Interlagos” and “Valencia”). The new AMD Opteron processors are designed to give enterprises:

- Better performance for business with up to 84 percent higher performance(i)
- Increased scalability for Virtualization with up to 73 percent more memory bandwidth, enabling servers to host more virtual machines and also handle increasing workloads(ii)
- More efficient economics for the Cloud with half the power per core(iii), requiring 2/3 less floor space(iv) and up to 2/3 lower platform price(v)

“Our industry is at a new juncture; virtualization has provided a new level of reliable consolidation and businesses are now looking to the cloud for even more agility and efficiency. We designed the new AMD Opteron processor for this precise moment,” said Paul Struhsaker, corporate vice president and general manager, Commercial Business, AMD. “The wait for the most anticipated new product and architecture for servers is over. Leading OEMs are now offering cloud, enterprise and HPC customers a full suite of solutions based on the industry’s most comprehensive server processor portfolio, the new AMD Opteron family of processors which deliver an inspired balance of performance, scalability and efficiency.”

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Web Hosting News – Omaha, NE – PowerDNN, the worlds largest DotNetNuke hosting provider, and a platinum sponsor of the DotNetNuke World conference, has announced the immediate release of the PowerGrid Global Cloud solution for DotNetNuke.

The PowerGrid Global Cloud leverages a variety of enterprise technologies used by companies such as Facebook and Google, to provide a seamless, global web presence.

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Web Hosting News – Ann Arbor, MI – Nexcess, a web hosting provider with data center facilities in Dearborn and Southfield, Michigan, has announced the release of a new web hosting platform that is designed specifically for hosting WordPress web sites.

While many web hosting companies tend to carry a very generic focus in their product lineups, Nexcess has spent their 10+ years in the web hosting industry focusing on being very good at providing hosting for just a few scripts. This is shown very clearly in the company’s relationship with eBay-owned Magento, with which Nexcess maintains a gold level partnership, a title held by only four other companies. As with Nexcess’ popular Magento MAG-SIP hosting plans (which stands for Secure Isolated Platform), the new WordPress web hosting options (similarly titled WP-OBP, or “Optimized Blog Platform”), are a unique and isolated web hosting environment that has been specially optimized for the best possible web hosting experience for a WordPress site.

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Web Hosting News – BUCHAREST, Romania — RSERVERS, a managed solutions provider, today announced the addition of a fully-managed backup service featuring R1Soft’s all-new industrial strength Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) 3.0 technology. With this new premium offering, Rservers clients including SMBs, healthcare, and hosting companies can expect an increased confidence that their mission-critical data is protected.

As the industry standard for data protection, R1Soft’s cost-efficient CDP backup software permits Rservers to enhance its services and build client loyalty, all while generating additional revenue. R1Soft CDP software quickly backs up data through server snapshots, without adversely affecting server performance. CDP then stores these snapshots as multiple data retention points from which data can be rapidly restored using CDP’s Bare-Metal Restore (BMR) technology.

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Web Hosting News – REGENSBURG – The .CO backorder service is the latest function InterNetX has added to its domain management software AutoDNS 3.0. The service allows AutoDNS users to register .CO domains which have not been renewed just before their cancelation, thereby increasing the chances of getting popular .CO domains before possible competitors.

In the AutoDNS 3.0 user interface, a list of .CO domains available via the .CO backorder service is displayed. Each .CO domain is listed there 15 days prior to being deleted. Following a “first-come-first-served” principle, only one binding .CO backorder will be processed per domain. If the registration is successful, the domain will be allocated for 12 months after a 5-day “Pending Delete” phase. The new backorder function gives domainers attempting to register highly profitable .CO domains a significant speed advantage.

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Web Hosting News – LONDON, UK – VPSLAND.com has deployed more than 1,000 Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for customers on its new OnApp Cloud platform, the company announced today. Based in the US, VPSLAND.com provides VPS hosting worldwide, with particularly strengths in the US, UK and Brazil, and in services for entrepreneurs, developers and other business customers. VPSLAND.com launched a new range of cloud VPS services in mid-2011, powered by OnApp Cloud software, and attributes its rapid growth to the flexibility, stability and ease of use of the OnApp platform.

Using OnApp Cloud, VPSLAND.com has built a range of configurable VPS hosting services that combine the simplicity of traditional VPS with the resilience and scalability of a cloud hosting service. To mark the 1,000th VPS machine deployed with OnApp Cloud, VPSLAND.com is offering a lifetime 25% recurring discount on any of its OnApp-powered VPS hosting plan.

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Web Hosting News – CLOUD COMPUTING EXPO WEST, SANTA CLARA, CA – CloudSigma, the international, pure-play cloud server and virtual data center provider, today launched the industry’s first solid-state drive (SSD) storage solution for a public cloud IaaS environment at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo. The new solution is designed to help eliminate the growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud brought on by traditional magnetic-based storage solutions’ inability to keep pace with the requirements of a multi-tenant environment. With CloudSigma’s SSD storage product, companies can achieve higher performance than dedicated or private cloud arrangements, even in a public cloud, multi-tenant environment. Being able to handle the explosion of input/output (I/O) operations caused by the increasing adoption of server virtualization was identified by CloudSigma at an early stage as a key success factor for its cloud.

The growth in large-scale virtual deployments has caused a surge in the amount of random I/Os between virtual machines (VMs) and magnetic storage systems. As I/O operations become even more random in multi-tenant, public cloud environments, magnetic storage solutions that rely on physical, spinning disks simply cannot keep up. Additionally, pathways to storage systems are only so big and this rise in errant I/Os causes a massive performance bottleneck for storage systems and networks. This is especially the case since magnetic storage products can only process thousands of I/O operations per second, meaning they force today’s powerful CPUs to wait until the I/O transactions have completed, thereby holding up data access, resources and performance. What’s more, with server virtualization sales for public clouds predicted to grow to $718 million by 2014, according to research from IDC, the storage I/O bottleneck will increasingly challenge companies investing in the cloud, creating poor price-performance, as well as cloud migration issues for infrastructure that requires stable, high-capacity storage performance.

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Web Hosting News – Pasadena, CA – DiscountASP.NET, a global leader in source control hosting solutions for .NET developers, announces expanding its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with managed TFS hosting services.

The managed TFS hosting is a premium service that gives customers their own instance of Team Foundation Server on a dedicated VM which is not shared with any other customer. While source control and work item tracking is part of the managed TFS hosting solution, the customer also has the option for SharePoint and reporting as well. Managed TFS hosting is available in USA-based and Europe-based data centers.

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Web Hosting News – San Francisco, CA – Scality, the pioneer of organic storage, today announced that Italian webhosting provider HostingSolutions.it has launched a geo-redundant public cloud storage offering powered by Scality’s high-performance RING Organic Storage™ technology. Based in Florence, HostingSolutions.it is a top 10 Italian webhosting provider and the main branch of the group Genesys Informatica Srl. After long evaluation of various technology options, HostingSolutions.it decided to implement Scality’s RING Organic Storage software to support the delivery of a secure, reliable and cost effective cloud service targeting enterprises of all sizes.

“We chose RING Organic Storage because it is architected to scale indefinitely without encountering any problems with performance or capacity,” said Luigi Corbacella, President of HostingSolutions.it. “RING Organic Storage reduces our storage and maintenance overheads and eliminates downtime, which means we can use the platform to provide a better service to our customers and save money on the bottom line.”

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