Web Hosting News – Orlando, FL – Atlantic.Net (http://www.atlantic.net/), a privately held leading hosting solutions provider, announced today that all VPS & Cloud Servers have been upgraded to include 1TB of free outbound data transfer. All inbound data transfer continues to be free.
This upgrade means customers can now send 1000 times more outbound data from their VPS and Cloud Servers at no additional cost. This effectively eliminates the bandwidth costs for most VPS & Cloud Servers hosted on the Atlantic.Net platform.
“We are excited to provide this significant additional bandwidth at no extra cost to our customers,” said Marty Puranik, President and CEO of Atlantic.Net. “As our clients continue to require increased bandwidth, our company is paving the way for accelerated demand for VPS and Cloud Servers.”
Web Hosting News – Amsterdam – SpamExperts, Amsterdam based leading provider of email security products is proud to reveal an industry-first innovation called “The Complete Service Provider Package”, the largest giveaway in the history of HostingCon. The package will consist of separate service offerings to complete a prize pool for hosting providers which sets new records in terms of giveaways and value-creation for HostingCon participants.
HostingCon is the elite annual conference and trade show for the hosting services industry in the US. SpamExperts, a premium supplier of email security services for webhosts, will attend the conference and exhibition as Gold sponsor for the 5th consecutive year.
In line with the conference’s theme “Raise the Game”, SpamExperts has initiated an unprecedented package of webhosting-centered services, where timely access to the right licences, software and benefits for a webhosting provider is the driving factor.
The package is co-sponsored by leading players in the industry and totals an amazing $65,000 making it the most valuable prize ever offered at HostingCon.
Sponsor: Bobcares
Services:
- Power Pack support bundle*
- Unlimited help desk support for 5 shared hosting servers
- 24×7 US based English phone support for 500 mins
- 500mins German phone support during business hours
*Valid for 3 months
Sponsor: CloudLinux
Services:
- 100 server licenses for CL
Sponsor: cPanel
Services:
- 2 Year Free cPanel license
- (1) One Time WHMCS license
Sponsor: eBridge Marketing Solutions
Services:
- $800 of Internet Marketing Services
Sponsor: ISPsystem
Services:
- 100 ISPmanager Pro lifetime licenses for web server management
Sponsor: LuxCloud
Services:
- 100 free Hosted365 licenses included in one free of charge LuxCloud Reseller Account*
- Set up fees included
- No sales commitment (for 1 year)
* Subject to a LuxCloud Sales Partner Agreement.
Sponsor: Open-Xchange
Services:
- OXrate Starter Pack – license for 5000 Mailboxes
*Support is not included.
Sponsor: Tucows/OpenSRS
Services:
- Free OpenSRS signup
- 300 free gTLD registrations
* Winner would still have to pay the registry fee and the ICANN fee.
Sponsor: The SSL Store
Services:
- SSL Reseller Starter Package: Symantec Secure Site EV for the partner site
- 5 RapidSSL, 3 GeoTrust TrueBusinessID or QuickSSL Premiums, and 1 Thawte SSL123 pre-loaded
Sam Renkema, CEO of SpamExperts, said: “The innovative Complete Service Provider Package brings together service offerings into a single solution for a webhosting provider. It gives the lucky winner the opportunity to start or boost his business, provide just-in-time knowledge and reduce personal risk. The project is the result of a collaboration with a network of leading players in the hosting industry, backed by HostingCon organizers. SpamExperts was responsible for identifying, researching and composing the package in order to help the winning business become more competitive through the application of new techniques, technologies and processes at no cost. We hope to demonstrate its usefulness and versatility, and we thank all co-sponsors for embracing our idea. With such a high concentration of services, we have reached an impressing package worth 65.000 $.”
“We are proud to partner with SpamExperts in The Complete Service Provider Package. Our offer consists of 10 of the most globally recognized SSL certificates in the industry along with our highest level of reseller pricing on all future SSL purchases for FREE, more than a $2,000 value. With our offer, the winner of this competition will have immediate and free access to all of the tools they need to truly profit from SSL.”, says Kevin Johnson, Channel Manager of The SSL Store.
“As a software provider to the hosting industry, we are constantly introducing state-of-the-art technology to respond to the requirements of our customers in a fast evolving environment. We hope you appreciate the value of the Complete Service Provider Package. We invite you to stop by our booth #333 to know more about our solutions and get our exclusive gifts”, says Tatiana Kizhnerova, Marketing Director of ISPsystem.
“We are giving out $12,000 worth of CloudLinux licenses”, says Igor Seletskiy, Founder & CEO of Cloud Linux Inc., “Over the years, we had raised the bar for stability in shared hosting, and this giveaway should allow the lucky winner to significantly boost their shared hosting platform.”
“We have been offering internet marketing consulting services to companies in the web hosting and B2B tech space since 2001 and have attended HostingCon for the last eight years,” shares eBridge Marketing Solutions President Hartland Ross. “We’re thrilled to be a part of this value-packed promotion put on by our friends at SpamExperts. The winning business will be able to leverage our experience in the industry and choose a service that will be most suitable to them. We very much look forward to working with the winner.”
Marco Houwen, LuxCloud Founder & CEO, added “We are delighted to support our partner SpamExperts on this excellent initiative. With 100 Hosted365 licenses offered for a value of $16,000, LuxCloud’s contribution is significant.” Marco continued,”Hosted365 enables the delivery of a hosted desktop with Web based versions of Microsoft Office programs; resellers retain full customer ownership and benefit from automated ordering, provisioning and billing. Hosted365 is fully customizable and features a centralized one-click access to all cloud applications from a single sign-on interface, making it the ultimate cloud service bundle for hosters.”
“The Complete Service Provider Package is an exciting innovation from SpamExperts, and Bobcares is delighted to be a part of it. Bobcares has always been on the forefront of service innovations, and this HostingCon give-away provides a unique platform to combine our strengths with other industry leaders. Our exclusively created Power Pack support bundle consists of services worth $6000! With our ISO certified support team joining your ranks, you will see significant improvement in customer delight. To know more about how best to configure your support services, please stop by our booth #532 near the networking lounge.” says Visakh S, Branding Lead , Bobcares.com
The prize will be drawn on Wednesday, June 19th. For more information and details on how to participate, follow further announcements on Twitter, FaceBook, check the HostingCon Bag Insert, or visit us at booth 623.
Web Hosting News – Softaculous Ltd., the developer of Softaculous Auto Installer that simplifies Application deployment on various hosting platforms, unveils Softaculous Remote and Softaculous Enterprise on 6th May.
Softaculous Remote and Softaculous Enterprise is designed for web hosts who have developed their custom panels and do not use standard panels like cPanel, Directadmin, etc.
What is Softaculous Remote ?
Softaculous Remote lets the users install web applications ON-THE-GO. Using FTP protocol Softaculous will install Web Application on your users domain. So you just need to install Softaculous on one server and you users can install apps on their account by accessing Softaculous on this server.
What is Softaculous Enterprise ?
Softaculous Enterprise is suitable for a clustered setup where you have multiple servers which are connected over NFS. Softaculous Enterprise Integration is suitable for a system where NFS access is possible. Softaculous will be installed on a single VM or dedicated server and will install applications over NFS.
Recently Softaculous apps library touched a figure of 300 apps which lets the users choose a script from a wide range of options available.
Softaculous Auto Installer allows users to install any application by the click of a button. There are lots of script categories like blogs, forums, micro blogs, wikis, social networking, image galleries, ERP, Project Management, Educational, etc. One can also upgrade these applications with one click when new versions become available. Softaculous also offers Demos, Ratings, Reviews and screenshots of the various applications.
“Softaculous Remote and Softaculous Enterprise will now make it easier to integrate Softaculous into the custom panels developed by web hosts.” said Pulkit Gupta, Softaculous founder and CEO. “We already have several web hosts using Softaculous with their custom panel however making it available to all makes the integration a rather automated process.”
The Softaculous apps library already contains popular applications, including: WordPress, b2evolution, StatusNet, Drupal, Joomla, Concrete5, ShopSite, 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. most of which can be installed in several languages by just choosing the language on the Install form.
To address the needs of different hosting providers, Softaculous is available as a Free product or as a Premium product. The Free version has only 54 apps while the Premium version currently has 300 Apps.
“Softaculous Remote and Enterprise can now be offered by web hosts with custom panels allowing their users to install apps with just ONE click.” said Jigar Dhulla, Software developer at Softaculous.
The company also offers AMPPS – a WAMP and MAMP stack with Softaculous installed. AMPPS is a complete package on your desktop, same like the server that provides many open source web applications. Application Management, Domain management, Database management, etc are provided in a secure environment to ease your development.
Web Hosting Reviews – Oklahoma City, OK - Web Hosting Directory and Review site www.FindMyHost.com released its May 2013 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. By doing so, you nominate your web host for next months Editor’s Choice awards.
We would like to congratulate all the web hosts who participated and in particular the following who received top honors in their field:
Web Hosting News – Softaculous Ltd., the developer of Virtualizor VPS panel which allows admins to create a VPS on the fly by the click of a button, announced the release of Virtualizor 2.2.8 on 25th ApriThis version includes minor GUI changes a few bug fixes.
Virtualizor 2.2.8 has the following changes:
1) Added New Traffic shaping Algorithm for XEN.
2) Added 1gbps and 10gbps VPS bandwidth control Support.
3) [GUI] Admin can view the additional VPS info in List VS page.
4) [GUI] Rescue mode notification is provided in Virtualizor admin panel.
5) Bug Fix : Traffic shaping parameters are vanished in KVM after VPS and main Server restart. This is now Fixed.
Recently Virtualizor added features like Rescue Mode, Optimized Backup, Secondary CD-ROM, and many more in the previous version 2.2.7.
Virualizor is a powerful web based VPS Control Panel. It supports OpenVZ, Xen PV, Xen HVM and Linux KVM virtualization. Admins can create a VPS on the fly by the click of a button VPS users can start, stop, restart and manage their VPS using a very advanced web based GUI. Users and Admins can see various sorts of Graphs in order to better manage their resources.
“A new traffic shaping Algorithm has been added for XEN in this version of Virtualizor.” said Pulkit Gupta, Softaculous founder and CEO. “We have also made a few GUI changes to simplify tasks for users.”
Virtualizor has 150+ OS templates that you can download and use by the click of a button ! New OS templates of various linux distros like CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE are added regularly. These templates are available for all Virtualization types i.e. OpenVZ, Xen and KVM.
Virtualizor is developed by Softaculous Ltd which has also developed Softaculous auto installer which is used by over 3 Million users, simplifying the apps installation process for them. Softaculous auto installer has over 300 scripts in its library which can be installed with ONE CLICK. Continue reading “Virtualizor 2.2.8 released with minor GUI changes and bug fixes” »
Web Hosting News – Chicago, Illinois – Steadfast.net, a dedicated server & colocation provider, today announced the addition of Tata Communications to its network. The addition provides a high-performance, fully redundant network which utilizes routing and switching products from Brocade, Cisco Systems, and Juniper Networks.
A representative for Steadfast said, “We added Tata Communications to our network because of the company’s strong connectivity to India as well as other developing countries and markets. The company has a solid management team that continues to expand their presence into many markets most of which are under-served by other carriers.” Steadfast now enjoys a better overall global connectivity so it’s able to server a broader customer base.
“We have been very pleased with our experience working with Steadfast and with the quality of the products and services we have received. Our account manager has been extremely responsive with any requests we have had and is instrumental in getting new IP allocations. We have some very specific needs that are imperative to our business and Steadfast has been able to meet all of these. Their flexibility they provide us and the way they manage their IP space from a spam reporting standpoint is unmatched.” – Joe Scharf VP Support Operations at SendGrid
Tata Communications is a Tier 1 global carrier and it is one of the top 8 global IP networks in the world. The addition allows Steadfast to connect to 6 of the 8 largest IP networks in the world and increases the company’s network capacity to 113 Gbit/sec. When that’s combined with Steadfast’s InterNAP FCP and it’s hundreds of direct peering relationships, it instantly gives the company one of the highest performing networks in the industry.
Steadfast already enjoys a 100% network uptime SLA and company executives believe it’ll be hard for anyone to find a better quality network product anywhere. The company’s representative said, “This capacity allows us to serve the needs of even the largest demands for capacity and scalability, while assuring we do not see any of the negative effects of network congestion, even during large traffic spikes.”
The company has been in a steady growth pattern for the past 15 years and its powerful cloud hosting platform hasn’t gone unnoticed. In fact, in October of 2012 Steadfast.net was chosen by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s College of Business and Economics to host its online video streaming. The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is the largest business school in the state. The school’s faculty has been making video recordings of lectures since its online MBA program’s inception in 1999 and it now boasts more than 5,000 videos all of which are hosted by Steadfast. Continue reading “Steadfast.net Adds Tata Communications to Improve Network Capacity and Performance” »
Web Hosting News – Orlando, Florida - Atlantic.Net (http://www.atlantic.net/), a privately held leading hosting solutions provider, today announced a steep price reduction of up to 50% off on all Windows and Linux Cloud Server hosting plans. Both new and existing customers of Atlantic.Net can take advantage of this reduced pricing on all new Cloud Server deployments.
Backed by SSD accelerated redundant storage housed on separate disk arrays, Atlantic.Net Cloud Servers offer much faster build times and performance than traditional cloud servers. Coupled with Mellanox’s Infiniband technology, Atlantic.Net Cloud Servers are an effective cloud solution for organizations looking to increase efficiency and in turn, reduce their overall IT costs.
“Not only have we reduced our Cloud Server pricing by up to 50%, we are continuing to offer per-second billing, which is extremely beneficial for organizations with large server deployments.” said Josh Simon, Director of Data Center Services for Atlantic.Net. “The efficiencies gained by the recent expansion of our infrastructure has allowed us to pass along huge savings to our customers, while maintaining our high quality of service.”
In addition to the new reduced pricing, Atlantic.Net’s Cloud offers many innovative features such as API Access, 24/7/365 support, free DNS management, additional IP addresses, cPanel & WHM, and much more!
Web Hosting News – Singapore – Some of today’s hottest tech companies looking to expand their reach globally are relying on SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure to break into new markets. Companies such as Distil Networks, Tiket.com, Simpli.fi, 6waves, and Beijing Elex are leveraging SoftLayer’s Asian footprint to build out their customer base in the Asia-Pacific region.
These companies run the gamut from next generation e-commerce to interactive marketers and game developers who require high performance cloud infrastructure to build and scale the next leading application or game. SoftLayer’s Singapore data center provides them with exceptional speed and performance through SoftLayer’s network, enabling customers to deliver their application or game to users across the region with extremely low latency.
SoftLayer established its Asian presence in September 2011, opening a data center in Singapore and concurrently extending its private network across the continent with network points-of-presence (PoPs) in Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. The private network provides customers with high-capacity connections across SoftLayer’s global footprint.
For Tiket.com, an online booking agency for hotels, movies, concerts, and movies, SoftLayer’s infrastructure enabled the company to sell out tickets within two minutes for Japanese rock band L’arc~en~Ciel, who were touring in the region. The portal continues to scale and gain momentum as more users turn to Tiket for booking their entertainment.
“After enabling SoftLayer technology we thought our first sale was big, but then we sold 5,000 Big Bang concert tickets in 15 minutes, with 15,000 concurrent users at one time,” said Natali Ardianto, Tiket.com’s CTO. “There were only two online ticketing platforms selling the tickets, and our competitor’s servers died for four hours.”
US-based Simpli.fi has developed a powerful, real-time marketing platform that offers highly targeted digital advertising. Through bidding, reporting, and optimization using unstructured data instead of pre-packaged audience segments, Simpli.fi delivers improved campaign performance, deeper insights and complete transparency.
“Our partnership with SoftLayer is two-fold,” says Frost Prioleau, CEO of Simpli.fi. “First we gained closer access to one of our fastest growing customer segments in Asia through Singapore. Second, it gives us a high-performance and scalable cloud platform that can easily meet the stringent requirements of a global real-time bidding environment without any glitches or downtime.”
Further demonstrating SoftLayer’s commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, SoftLayer recently appointed industry veteran Daryl Webb as the new general manager for the company’s Asian operations, based in Singapore. With more than 10 years’ experience in the hosting industry in the region and 25 years in the ICT sector, Daryl has joined the team to drive the expansion of SoftLayer’s presence in Asia and to provide strategic support for clients in the market.
“SoftLayer is committed to building our customers’ businesses,” says Webb. “We are seeing huge growth in both cloud-native companies and new cloud adopters in the Asian markets. These customers are taking advantage of our fully automated provisioning and our on demand model. SoftLayer enables their business growth with high performance scalable solutions that match their business requirements.” Continue reading “SoftLayer Sees Accelerating Growth in Asia Fueled by Demand for High Performance, Scalable Cloud Infrastructure” »
Web Hosting News – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – ServerGenie, a managed hosting provider, today announced the company is now offering fully managed WordPress hosting that’s insanely fast and infinitely scalable. Plans start at only $20 per month and include free migration from a client’s old hosting provider regardless of the number of blogs and domains to be moved.
ServerGenie’s entire customer support staff are WordPress and cPanel experts who are able to instantly assist a client with any hosting issues twenty-four hours a day. The company’s fully managed WordPress hosting accounts are hand-tuned to deliver the fastest WordPress experience available. A representative for ServerGenie said, “Our cloud servers also give us the capability to scale your sites with zero downtime in case of heavy usage or during the holidays when Internet shoppers are at their peak.”
“ServerGenie lets me scale my websites as my traffic needs change frequently. When I needed to scale up to handle a large influx of traffic from a big affiliate, I was prepared and ready to go. There’s even a cool little scroll bar where I can choose the resources I need on the fly”. – Rick Kaselj, ExercisesForInjuries.com
In today’s technologically advanced world website load speed matters a great deal. In fact, Google recently reported that slower sites lose about 20% of their traffic for each additional 100 milliseconds it takes a page to load into an Internet browser. Google changed its algorithm several times last year. One of those changes incorporates a website’s page-load time into its rankings so that only the fastest sites are displayed on the search engine results pages.
The company’s free migration assistance includes moving a client’s website, email, and all configurations from their previous web host. The company’s representative said, “We’re so confident that we provide the best fully managed WordPress hosting services that we give each new client 30 days to test it, and if they don’t like it, we will move them back to their old host or a provider of their choice for free.”
Web Hosting News – Softaculous Ltd., the developer of Softaculous Auto Installer that simplifies Application deployment on various hosting platforms, announced the release of Softaculous 4.2.2 on 22nd April.
This version has several new features which include Auto Upgrade, Password strength meter and more and a few bug fixes.
Softaculous 4.2.2 has following changes:
1) Added Auto Upgrade feature : Now users can choose to auto upgrade to the latest version of a script as soon as it is available. Admin can also control the list of scripts which can be auto upgraded. (Note : This feature is available for selected scripts at the moment.)
2) Added Password Strength check for Enduser while installing any scripts. Admin can limit the minimum required strength for password.
3) Now the TOP scripts for the enduser panel can be controlled from Softaculous Admin panel as per the Admin preference.
4) Implemented CageFS Hook for correct detection and changing PHP Version for each user on server with CageFS installed.
5) Pre Downloading scripts : Admin can select which scripts should be pre-downloaded on the server and which ones should be downloaded when a user installs a script. This will help to save server’s space and bandwidth.
6) Admin can now display his Custom Scripts in TOP 15 list in the Softaculous Enduser panel.
7) Improved the API to check the minimum requirements of a script.
8) API improved for scripts version checking.
9) Added check to disallow special characters in directory name while installing any script.
10) On ISPManager control panel, if AutoSubdomain is enabled for users than Softaculous will read the users directories and will list the directories ending with domain name as subdomain in domain list.
11) In case of scripts with multiple branches, all available versions will be displayed on the script overview page.
12) Improved the Softaculous SDK included in the package.
13) Previously, when a license was upgraded from Free to Premium all scripts were not enabled by default and the Admin had to choose the scripts manually. We have now changed this behavior and all scripts will be enabled when a license is upgraded from Free to Premium.
14) When editing an installation in Softaculous, the script version of the installation will be detected and also prompted to the user IF it does not match with the Softaculous records. The user will get an option to update the version in our records.
15) Now you can check the license information from the command line.
16) Softaculous will load the custom theme instead of default, if a theme folder is present in Softaculous which has the same name as user’s cpanel theme.
17) Bug Fix : On few servers the PHP version was not detected properly when output_handler was turned On and due to that users were not able to install the scripts. It is now fixed.
18) Bug Fix : On few PLESK servers with E_STRICT checking Softaculous footer was not loaded. It is now fixed.
19) Bug Fix : Softaculous search was not working on InterWorx Control panel. It is now fixed.
20) Bug Fix : While importing installations which have customized admin folder name (e.g. WHMCS), Softaculous was unable to determine the customized folder name. It is now fixed.
21) Bug Fix : Cron command language string was not displayed on edit installation page. It is now fixed.
22) Bug Fix : While installing custom scripts “undefined” was displayed on Task List page. It is now fixed.
23) Bug Fix : While listing all installations from API in XML format it was giving invalid XML output. It is now fixed.
24) Bug Fix : Emails for update notification were not being sent on InterWorx Control panel when script updates are available. It is now fixed.
Recently Softaculous apps library touched a figure of 300 apps which lets the users choose a script from a wide range of options available.
Softaculous Auto Installer integrates into popular hosting control panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, H-Sphere, Interworx and ISPSystems and allows the user to install any application by the click of a button. There are lots of script categories like blogs, forums, micro blogs, wikis, social networking, image galleries, ERP, Project Management, Educational, etc. One can also upgrade these applications with one click when new versions become available. Softaculous also offers Demos, Ratings, Reviews and screenshots of the various applications.
“Softaculous 4.2.2 adds the apps auto upgrade feature which will allow Endusers select the installations which they want to be updated as soon as a new version is available in Softaculous.” said Pulkit Gupta, Softaculous founder and CEO. “This feature can be disabled from the Softaculous Admin panel.”
The Softaculous apps library already contains popular applications, including: WordPress, b2evolution, StatusNet, Drupal, Joomla, Concrete5, ShopSite, 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. most of which can be installed in several languages by just choosing the language on the Install form.
To address the needs of different hosting providers, Softaculous is available as a Free product or as a Premium product. The Free version has only 54 apps while the Premium version currently has 300 Apps.
“Softaculous 4.2.2 includes the Password strength meter which will help the users to choose a secure password for their installations.” said Chirag Nagda, Senior developer at Softaculous. “Admin can also set the minimum password strength.”
The company also offers AMPPS – a WAMP and MAMP stack with Softaculous installed. AMPPS is a complete package on your desktop, same like the server that provides many open source web applications. Application Management, Domain management, Database management, etc are provided in a secure environment to ease your development. Continue reading “Softaculous launched auto upgrade apps feature with version 4.2.2” »
Web Hosting News – Orlando, FL – Atlantic.Net (http://www.atlantic.net/), a privately held leading hosting solutions provider, announced today that all VPS & Cloud Servers have been upgraded to include 1TB of free outbound data transfer. All inbound data transfer continues to be free.
