Web Hosting Reviews – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Web Hosting Directory and Review site www.FindMyHost.com released its May 2012 Editor’s Choice Awards today. Web Hosting companies strive to provide their customers with the very best service and support. We want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the hosts per category who have excelled in their field. The FindMyHost Editors’ Choice Awards are chosen based on Editor and Consumer Reviews.

Customers who wish to submit positive reviews for the current or past Web Host are free to do so by visiting the customer review section of FindMyHost.com Click here to submit a review for your Web Host and nominate them for next months Editors’ Choice awards. We would like to congratulate all web hosts and The following list of web hosting providers excelled in their field of service, congratulations to all and keep up the great work!

DEDICATED SERVERS	BUSINESS HOSTING	BLOG HOSTING
www.LimestoneNetworks.com	www.BrainHost.com	www.Hostgator.com
GAME SERVERS	MANAGED HOSTING	CLOUD COMPUTING
www.ZipServers.com	www.Codero.com	www.Constant.com
GREEN WEB HOSTING	VPS	ENTERPRISE HOSTING
www.ServInt.com	www.KnownHost.com	www.Softlayer.com
SHARED HOSTING	WINDOWS HOSTING	BUDGET HOSTING
www.WinHost.com	www.INetU.Net	www.ServersAndDomains.com
CPANEL HOSTING	COLOCATION	RESELLER HOSTING
www.Hostgator.com	www.Superb.Net	www.Kualo.com
DOMAIN REGISTRATION	E-COMMERCE	HYBRID SERVERS
www.Kualo.com	www.Superb.Net	www.myhosting.com

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Web Host News – McLean, VA – ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed cloud hosting for enterprises worldwide, today announced the commercial availability of Jelastic, the world’s first software stack-agnostic, platform-as-a-service cloud hosting offering for Java applications. ServInt is the exclusive provider of Jelastic cloud hosting services in the United States, and the first service provider to offer Jelastic commercially.

ServInt’s Jelastic release follows the introduction last month of the ServInt Flex line of “dedicated cloud” servers, which combine the scalability advantages of cloud hosting with the sole-owner benefits of dedicated servers. ServInt now offers hosting products in both the IaaS and PaaS categories, with more cloud offerings and enhancements scheduled for release soon.

“This isn’t the first PaaS solution on the market – even for Java – but it’s the first one that leverages best-of-breed systems from both the hosting and the PaaS software industries,” said ServInt CEO Reed Caldwell. “The folks at Jelastic are amazing software developers. We are a world-class hosting provider. Too many PaaS providers try to be too many things to too many people, and that lack of focus makes them ineffective. We have collaborated directly with Jelastic every step of the way to ensure that Jelastic is the best designed, most reliable and best supported PaaS on the market.”

Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov added, “Since we launched our public beta in October of last year, we have been growing at a rapid pace. Demand hasn’t slowed and the question of commercial availability has become even more frequent. Today, through our U.S. partner ServInt, Jelastic is now commercially available. This is a major step toward making our vision of a truly global, no lock-in, standards-based Java PaaS a reality.”

Unlike other Java PaaS and IaaS options on the market, Jelastic does not require customers to code to any specific API. Jelastic dynamically and instantaneously allocates resources for hosted applications, scaling servers up and down to make sure hosted apps have the resources they need, when they need them.

ServInt’s Jelastic customers are charged only for the actual RAM and CPU resources they consume, rather than for any predefined hosting service package or server they might otherwise purchase. This means hosting costs automatically go down when applications are off or not being used.

Jelastic measures resources being consumed in “cloudlets”, with one cloudlet equal to 128 MB of RAM and 200MHz of CPU processing power. Pricing is set at $0.02 per cloudlet/hour and there is no practical limit on the number of cloudlets that can be deployed. Jelastic does not require any application code changes. This means developers can simply upload their Java package or specify connection to their SVN or GIT code repository, and have their application running in the cloud in a few minutes – with no lock-in whatsoever.

Jelastic is fully compatible with all major Java software stacks, including Tomcat, GlassFish, Jetty and JBoss application servers – as well as with SQL (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB) databases.

For more information on ServInt’s Jelastic Java Cloud Hosting Platform, please visit www.servint.net.

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Web Host News – DALLAS, TX – SoftLayer^® Technologies, a leading provider of global cloud infrastructure, and RightScale^®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, have partnered to provide unmatched scalability and automation solutions that allow internet-centric companies to speed their time to market. Companies such as social gaming developer Broken Bulb Game Studios are able to use SoftLayer’s public and private cloud infrastructure with RightScale cloud management to easily deploy, automate and manage their computing workloads across the globe.

“Our business is growing dramatically as we launch new games on Facebook and mobile platforms,” said Robert Nelson, CEO at Broken Bulb Game Studios, which is the developer of games such as My Town, Braaains, Ninja Warz and Miscrits. “The combination of RightScale and SoftLayer has made our cloud environment more robust and simplified our deployment process, enabling us to automatically scale to meet customer demands. With this solution, we have lowered our costs and increased our redundancies allowing us to quickly react to massive influxes of new traffic as our games spread extremely rapidly to new players.”

The partnership between RightScale and SoftLayer offers a solution that is ideal for all types of web savvy companies that need to easily scale IT resources to meet the toughest workloads or steepest Internet traffic demands. This helps enable users to rapidly rollout new web-based services, applications and games through a flexible consumptive monthly billing cycle.

Companies are able to choose and deploy workloads on SoftLayer’s global cloud infrastructure, which spans 13 data centers in the United States, Europe and Asia, with RightScale cloud management.  RightScale increases IT efficiency by enabling faster cloud on-boarding and greater automation with pre-built ServerTemplates™, as well as access to the RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace for ready-to-run, customizable templates, scripts and architectures from RightScale and its partners.

“Being able to achieve a faster time to market and scale rapidly is critical for companies to succeed in today’s business environment,” said Bailey Caldwell, Vice President of Business Development at RightScale. “SoftLayer understands these needs, and has built a world-class global infrastructure that delivers flexibility and scalability.  We’re thrilled about this partnership and we’re already seeing great synergy with SoftLayer cloud solutions managed with RightScale cloud management.”

SoftLayer’s unique CloudLayer® services allow users to seamlessly integrate virtual and dedicated computing resources, creating a hybrid environment that delivers the ultimate in flexibility. With SoftLayer and RightScale, users can achieve the highest levels of efficiency, control and scalability by being able to manage their SoftLayer cloud workloads through a single Customer Portal and API.

“Customers, such as Broken Bulb, are now experiencing the advantages of working with two leading cloud solutions providers,” said Duke Skarda, Chief Technology Officer of SoftLayer. “The combination of SoftLayer and RightScale delivers exactly what companies need to effectively manage large-scale cloud infrastructure.”

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Web Host News – DALLAS, TX – Scientists, engineers and software developers are always looking for innovative ways to accelerate performance and shorten computational cycles. SoftLayer is looking to help them out by offering a new high-performance computing (HPC) cloud-enabled solution consisting of servers powered by the latest GPUs (graphics processing units) from NVIDIA.

SoftLayer’s new offering provides an on-demand, consumption-based model for high-performance computing (HPC) users looking to meet the most compute-intensive environments. These environments include traditional HPC fields such as data mining, numerical and seismic analysis as well as advertising agencies, game developers and interactive media firms with needs including video processing and 3D rendering.

“Using GPUs for running applications is an emerging trend in HPC today. Computing requirements continue to skyrocket but users remain as demanding as ever. They want capacity on-demand and prefer to pay only for what they use. It is incumbent on hosters to deliver this capacity in a cloud-like fashion if they want to break into this market,” said Philbert Shih, Managing Director, Structure Research Ltd. “Giving people the ability to scale GPU resources adds incredible flexibility in the way research, engineering and development projects are conducted. By putting such raw computational power into a user’s hands, in an easy pay as you go model, the focus is on research results not acquiring or maintaining the latest technology.”

GPUs work in conjunction with the server’s CPU to accelerate application and processing performance. The GPU offloads compute-intensive portions of the application from the CPU to accelerate overall performance of the machine, dramatically boosting overall application performance. SoftLayer’s solution consists of dual-processor Intel E5-2600 (Sandy Bridge) based servers supporting one or two NVIDIA Tesla^® M2090 GPUs, the flagship of NVIDIA’s range of data center GPU products, delivering up to 665 gigaflops of double precision floating point performance. As a result, SoftLayer users will see a massive performance boost with HPC applications accelerated by as much as ten times. SoftLayer’s HPC servers are available on-demand and can be provisioned via the company’s portal, mobile apps or API.

“We are offering breakthrough performance in a unique delivery model,” said Duke Skarda, Chief Technology Officer of SoftLayer. “The beauty of this solution is the way users can break down the toughest computational problems and largest blocks of data to work them in parallel over our network driving quicker results. GPU technology is still in its infancy but customer demand continues to soar as more and more HPC applications get migrated over to cloud infrastructures.”

“The SoftLayer HPC cloud offering brings the game-changing benefits of GPU technology to significantly more scientists and industrial users around the world,” said Sumit Gupta, senior director of NVIDIA’s Tesla business. “Tesla GPUs deliver power-efficient, ultra-high performance to accelerate a range of computationally intensive HPC applications.”

Key features and benefits:

• Cost effective HPC (ideal for scientific and technical computing)
• Massive compute performance increase while accelerating application speeds by up to 10x
• Cluster management and GPU monitoring
• Parallel compute environment operates invisibly to the user
• GPUs specifically designed to work as computational accelerators

Availability & Pricing
SoftLayer HPC servers with NVIDIA GPUs start at $879.00 per-month for a configuration including one GPU, 16GB of RAM and 500GB of storage. Continue reading “SoftLayer Adds High-Performance Computing to Global Platform” »

Web Host News – Hudson, FL – Ahosting, industry leading provider of reseller hosting solutions for both personal and enterprise levels has partnered with Softaculous Ltd., developer of innovative Softaculous Auto Installer, which allows one-click script installation on various hosting platforms. The partnership will provide Ahosting’s clients with access to the Softaculous auto installer and its extensive database of available scripts.

Softaculous’ remarkable software auto installer was designed to allow users to install software products in just one step. Software vendors can simply create an installation package for Softaculous and it will be made available through the Softaculous Installers around the world. This product is ideal for web hosting companies, like Ahosting, because it offers an added level of convenience for the end user.

In an effort to continue to offer innovative software and web solutions, Ahosting.net recognized that their clients would greatly benefit from the ability to install and upgrade various applications more quickly and efficiently. Upon further research, they determined that the Softaculous Auto Installer was well-designed to meet this need and was much faster than other products on the market, installing all scripts in just one step.

“Softaculous offers a wide variety of regularly updated apps that we felt would serve our valued customers well,” stated Daniel Page, Director of Business Development at Ahosting, Inc. “Their software is easy to use, is faster and offers more choices than similar products. The Softaculous website also features user ratings and reviews as well as software demos, which help other users make more informed buying decisions. We’re thrilled to provide this added benefit to our customers,” Page added.

“We are extremely excited that Ahosting.net has chosen to partner with Softaculous. We are confident that their customers will benefit from, and appreciate the convenience of our innovative product,” said Pulkit Gupta, COO of Softaculous Ltd.

The Softaculous apps library contains 260 popular applications, all of which can be instantly installed with just one click. Everything from copying the files to creating a database is handled by Softaculous, making the experience fast and convenient. Coupled with Ahosting’s superior hosting solutions, end users will enjoy a much more positive overall web experience. Continue reading “Ahosting.net Announces Partnership with Softaculous” »

Web Hosting Reviews – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Web Hosting Directory and Review site www.FindMyHost.com released its April 2012 Editor’s Choice Awards today. Web Hosting companies strive to provide their customers with the very best service and support. We want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the hosts per category who have excelled in their field. The FindMyHost Editors’ Choice Awards are chosen based on Editor and Consumer Reviews.

Customers who wish to submit positive reviews for the current or past Web Host are free to do so by visiting the customer review section of FindMyHost.com Click here to submit a review for your Web Host and nominate them for next months Editors’ Choice awards. We would like to congratulate all web hosts and The following list of web hosting providers excelled in their field of service, congratulations to all and keep up the great work!

DEDICATED SERVERS	BUSINESS HOSTING	BLOG HOSTING
www.Constant.com	www.WinHost.com	www.Hostgator.com
GAME SERVERS	MANAGED HOSTING	CLOUD COMPUTING
www.ZipServers.com	www.ServInt.com	www.INetU.Net
GREEN WEB HOSTING	VPS	ENTERPRISE HOSTING
www.Codero.com	www.myhosting.com	www.LimestoneNetworks.com
SHARED HOSTING	WINDOWS HOSTING	BUDGET HOSTING
www.ServersAndDomains.com	www.PrestigeTechnologies.com	www.JustHost.com
CPANEL HOSTING	COLOCATION	RESELLER HOSTING
www.Kualo.com	www.Superb.Net	www.Softlayer.com
DOMAIN REGISTRATION	E-COMMERCE	HYBRID SERVERS
www.BrainHost.com	www.Hostgator.com	www.KnownHost.com

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Tell us here @FindMyHost and our readers how Softaculous started?

I noticed the difficulty people had in installing and maintaining their websites if they don’t have a technical background, which many people don’t have. The idea came from this very observation. I started writing the code for Softaculous in January 2009. The first version was launched in April 2009. BTW, the name Softaculous is a combination of Software + Spectaculous

What control panels is Softaculous available for?

cPanel was the first panel we integrated into, Then DirectAdmin and Plesk were integrated.

At present we support cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, H-Sphere and Interworx. But we also have a Custom Panel integration solution.

What are some of the most popular scripts that can be installed using Softaculous?

WordPress, b2evolution, StatusNet, Drupal, Joomla, Concrete5, phpBB, MyBB, SMF, bbPress, Coppermine, Gallery, Mediawiki, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, Elgg, Dolphin, OpenX, SquirrelMail, LimeSurvey, Piwik, Mantis, SugarCRM, WHMCS, PrestaShop, Magento, CraftySyntax, osTicket, Moodle, Claroline, etc. There are 259 Apps at the moment. Softaculous Auto Installer is used by millions of users in over 130 countries.

Can Web Host owners do a trial or free version of Softaculous?

Yes, we offer a Free Version with 59 Apps and a Trial version of the Premium Version. To get the free version simply install Softaculous on your server and a FREE version will be issued. To get a Trial Premium License, use the following link : http://www.softaculous.com/for_hosts

Do you have special pricing for bulk purchases such as for Web Hosting companies?

Yes, we do have a different type of Account for Bulk License Purchasing – NOC Account. NOC accounts get a better price with more licenses.

We also have a NOC API to buy licenses. More information about the NOC Account can be found here: http://www.softaculous.com/NOCs

Also SOME of our NOC partners: http://www.softaculous.com/noc_partners

Does Softaculous handle the updates? I know WordPress seems to have an update every other day and it is hard to keep up with.

Yes, Softaculous does have the capability to update installations. As soon as an Update becomes available, our team will push the updates to all the servers.

The users then have the option to Upgrade by a click.

Do you provide support for end users of Softaculous?

Yes, if a user faces any difficulty with the installation or upgrade, they can email our support team and we will be happy to assist you.

We also have a Desktop version of Softaculous called AMPPS which is now a POPULAR WAMP (windows) and MAMP (Mac) stack. Its free and is used by Developers for developing Websites as it has 259 apps to install by the click of a button. AMPPS has the most updated versions Apache, PHP, MySQL for the desktops.

Where is the best place for webhosts to purchase Softaculous?

Webhosts can Buy Softaculous from their Datacenters if they offer Softaculous. Otherwise they can buy directly from our Website: http://www.softaculous.com

If you are using a Virtual Server we also have a Standalone Softaculous version called Webuzo: http://www.webuzo.com

Web Host News – Akron, OH – Spring has sprung, and Brain Host is celebrating the end of winter. New customers who sign up through this special promotion will get a free personal website upgrade with their hosting package purchase.

With a personal website from Brain Host, users can create an attractive website that’s all about them. Included in the package is Brain Host’s proprietary personal website editor, LaunchPad.

LaunchPad allows users to quickly and easily edit the content on their personal website with just a few mouse clicks – no HTML or web design knowledge needed. Users can also use LaunchPad to create email accounts for their domain, check their traffic statistics, and purchase account upgrades and add-ons.

“Launch Pad makes it really easy for anyone to create a great looking personal website,” said Brain Host President Corey Hammond. “It doesn’t matter if you don’t know anything about updating and maintaining a website, because LaunchPad does all the hard work for you. Just choose your template, enter your text at the prompts, and LaunchPad will do the rest.”

To take advantage of this special offer and get your own free personal website, visit www.brainhost.com/special-offer

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In my travels to various web hosting and internet marketing conferences I run across people with popular and profitable web sites. It is always interesting to learn more about how they began and created such popular sites.

Eventually the conversation turns towards their current and past web hosts.

Each person has a very similar story!

Why A Virtual Private Server?

During the conventions I get ample time to pry a bit deeper and find out the specifics about the web hosting solutions these internet entrepreneurs use.

Usually they tell me they are now on a dedicated or virtual private server after going through a painful process of manual migrations from shared while trying to find the right hosting solution. Upgrading from shared was a necessity due to their success. Their sites became popular and were driving consistent traffic not designed for a shared environment.

To a person, their web host had told them it was time to upgrade. Each one eventually migrated, but reluctantly.

When I asked them why they didn’t want to upgrade even though they knew they had outgrown shared, they had one answer….. no time. To be honest, the Web Hosts are 100% right, these people had outgrown a shared environment and needed to upgrade.

Shared is not scalable, and popular websites run the risk of being forced to migrate to more powerful solutions inevitably.

Migrating though is a real pain and it DOES take a LOT of time!

Not every website owner has the time or skills to migrate databases, emails, forms, scripts, cron jobs, etc.. Paying a professional to migrate is expensive.

What is a Virtual Private Server?

I always like to get the definition of technology from Wikipedia. Wikipedia usually provides a concise message such as the following:

Virtual private server (VPS) is a term used by Internet hosting services to refer to a virtual machine. The term is used for emphasizing that the virtual machine, although running in software on the same physical computer as other customers’ virtual machines, is functionally equivalent to a separate physical computer, is dedicated to the individual customer’s needs, has the privacy of a separate physical computer, and can be configured to run as a server computer (i.e. to run server software). The termvirtual dedicated server or VDS is used less often for the same concept, however it may indicate that the server does not use burst/shared ram through multiple machines, as well as individual CPU cores.

In addition to reducing hardware and power expenses, virtualisation allows businesses to run their legacy applications on older versions of an operating system on the same server as newer applications.

Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system and can be independently rebooted.

In a nutshell, a Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting) is a flexible, scalable, and economical hosting solution that can fit the needs of almost any kind of website.

Do I Need a VPS?

YES! If you plan on growing your website, you need to be prepared in ADVANCE to handle that growth.

Preparing in advance means choosing a scalable solution in advance. Shared hosting is great, but it is limited. Most web hosts have thresholds on performance. Once your site exceeds that threshold, they will suggest you migrate to another solution. Most likely it will be a VPS. Continue reading “Complete Guide to Virtual Private Servers (VPS Hosting)” »

Web Hosting News – DALLAS —SoftLayer Technologies^®, the innovation leader in on-demand cloud and dedicated hosting, today announced it will be the first hosting provider to offer servers featuring Xeon E5 2600 series processor. The E5-2600 series is based on Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture and delivers more cores, memory support and I/O bandwidth making it ideal for powering cloud applications, virtualized computing and content streaming.

“We have always prided ourselves on making the most advanced technology available to our customers, and the Xeon E5 2600 series is no exception,” said Sam Fleitman, Chief Operations Officer for SoftLayer. “We are ensuring that the newest Sandy Bridge processors are publicly available on day one for our power-hungry customers, who are looking to create tomorrow’s leading Web applications and advanced online services.”

Key features and benefits of the new Xeon E5 2600-based servers include:

• Up to 80 percent performance boost over previous generation of Intel Xeon 5600 series processors;
• New Intel Integrated I/O with PCI Express 3.0 can up to triple the movement of data in to and out of the processor so information can be made available faster than ever to support data-hungry applications;
• Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) — a new, 256-bit instruction set extension to Intel SSE that accelerates floating point intensive applications and reduces compute times; and
• Hyper-threading technology that enables up to 16 computational threads.

“Once again SoftLayer demonstrates its ability to deliver leading technology to customers time-to-market by offering platforms with the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family,” said Jason Waxman, GM of Intel’s Cloud Infrastructure Group, “Our latest Intel Xeon processor-based platforms deliver leading energy efficient performance, greater bandwidth and I/O, power management and built in security features that are ideal to meet cloud computing requirements.”

“SoftLayer’s data center, cloud computing and hosting services are legendary in the industry and Supermicro is dedicated to our longstanding partnership as their premier provider of Data Center Optimized (DCO) computing platforms,” said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. “With our extensive line of next-generation server solutions supporting Intel processor E5-2600/1600 families, Supermicro’s new DCO solutions deliver the exceptional performance, scalability, efficiency and reliability that SoftLayer and their customers demand.”

The Sandy Bridge microarchitecture is a significant advance in processor integration and manufacturing. It unifies processor cores, memory controller, last-level cache (LLC), and graphics and media processing for new advantages including fast core access to shared data in last-level cache, higher memory bandwidth, and intelligent “performance to workload” matching.

Pricing
List prices start at $400 for a single processor Intel Xeon E5 2600 server with 8 GB RAM and $500 for a dual processor server with 16 GB RAM per-month. Continue reading “SoftLayer Empowers Customers with Next Generation Intel Xeon Processors” »