Web Host News – DALLAS — Telx®, the leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has been selected as a connectivity partner by SoftLayer®, a global provider of on-demand data center, hosting, and cloud services. SoftLayer has established a Point-of-Presence (POP) within Telx’s secure, connection-rich colocation facilities in Atlanta and New York City, enabling secure, reliable delivery of services across several key U.S. cities at an accelerated market entry schedule.

“In any given market, there are probably 10 or more providers that we could have gone to, especially in a place like New York or Atlanta,” said George Karidis, chief strategy officer at SoftLayer. “We looked for the best provider that had the right cost structure, the right flexibility, and the right amount of connectivity. Telx was that provider. Today, our customers can directly tap into our infrastructure on a guaranteed, high-speed connection without going over the public Internet. The Telx solution provides high redundancy, security, and limitless scalability.”

As a connectivity partner, Telx delivers a secure, connection-rich environment from which SoftLayer can offer low-latency access to its applications and network infrastructure. A customer in Atlanta, for example, can connect to a SoftLayer data center in Dallas, Seattle, or Washington DC, through either a VPN or Metro-LAN connection. The Telx interconnection replaces the need for a public Internet connection, ensuring that the network is more secure, latency is reduced, quality of service is enhanced, and the number of hops is minimized. This empowers SoftLayer’s customers to optimize application performance, while keeping SoftLayer’s market entry speed high and operational costs low.
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Web Hosting – Overland Park, Kan. – Following a detailed, independent assessment of internal controls for company-wide policies and procedures, Codero has completed its first SAS 70 review.

SAS 70 Type I certification evaluates the current state of a service provider’s control environment and effectiveness in meeting control objectives. This structured, multi-step process focused on the following areas: Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting – McLean, VA - ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, today introduced its new line of Managed Enterprise Dedicated Server solutions.  ServInt’s new dedicated servers, starting at $199 per month, offer peak stability and reliability for companies with consistently high-performance web-hosting and application-hosting requirements.

ServInt’s competitively priced dedicated servers are ideally suited for established e-commerce sites, resellers and mid-size companies seeking high value, high redundancy and manageability.

The introduction of ServInt’s new Managed Enterprise Dedicated Servers is the perfect complement to the Company’s industry-leading Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions.  Today’s announcement demonstrates ServInt’s ability to stay ahead of rapidly changing market demands and meet the hosting requirements of any type of business.
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Web Hosting – Philadelphia, PA -  1&1 Internet Inc, the world’s largest Web host by known servers, is the first Web hosting company to globally launch dedicated servers with Hexa-Core processors (also known as Six-Core AMD).  1&1 has expanded its server portfolio with two additional premium models for professional use as a Web or application server.  The advantages include outstanding performance with high-level availability and supreme reliability, with the servers benefiting from excellent connectivity to 1&1’s best in class data centers.

1&1’s new flagship server is the Hexa-Core 3XL, with 2 AMD Hexa-Core Opteron 2423 CPUs, a massive 32 GB of RAM, professional redundancy with RAID 5 and 2 Terabytes of usable disk space.  The Hexa-Core 3XL is priced from $599.99/month.  The second newcomer, the Hexa-Core XXL, also provides the same 12 processor cores, with 16 GB RAM and 1.5 Terabytes of usable disk space.  The Hexa-Core XXL is priced from $499.99/month.  This extremely powerful hardware is most beneficial when used for resource-intensive applications such as developing and hosting applications, distributed computing, virtual platforms, or online games.
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Web Hosting – CHICAGO, IL – SingleHop, Inc., a leading Chicago-based dedicated and managed web hosting provider, today announced it will offer free high-performance, disk-to-disk R1Soft CDP backups to all Windows and Linux server clients.

By offering R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) software for free, SingleHop enhances the customer experience with reliable backups, MySQL table-level restoration, and an overall higher value of service. Customers will also benefit from the convenience of simple backup management provided by R1Soft’s easy-to-use interface.
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Web Hosting – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced its participation in the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, scheduled for March 1-3, 2010, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. In booth 1326, the company will showcase The Planet Partner Plus, its program for referral partners, resellers and affiliates.

“Customers consistently cite the quality of our network and data centers as reasons why they choose The Planet, which in turn gives our partners great confidence in referring our hosting solutions to their customers,” said Thomas Blair, vice president of global sales. “Partners will hear first-hand about our new partner program, including referrals with the industry’s best commission rates and newly enhanced reseller opportunities. This conference is a great forum to meet new partners who want to grow their business with The Planet and our broad range of products and solutions.”
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Web Hosting – DALLAS , TX - Cassiopeia Internet, Inc. today launched Constellate, a new brand for the Dallas, Texas-headquartered company, committed to connecting dedicated server, colocation and managed services customers.

With the new brand, Constellate has established a 20,000 square-foot datacenter sized to grow over the next several years, ably managing the hosting needs of customers of all sizes, in an area and time that datacenter space is scarce in availability but premium in need. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – Southampton, UK - PEER 1 Hosting the global online business hosting provider has today announced the launch of a dedicated smart-phone app hosting service, taking advantage of its peering relationships with mobile network operators. The company, which provides dedicated hosting solutions through ServerBeach, has assigned a specialist “Host My App” team tasked with supporting fast growth innovators who are developing smart-phone apps, to enable the potential explosion in popularity that successful apps attract.

In addition to peering with mobile operators, including Vodafone and O2, which ensures that apps are downloaded quickly to end users and operate at optimum speeds, the Host My App team offers flexible and scalable month-to-month contracts. These elements, coupled with the ability to offer robust hosted test development environments, have been packaged to create a bespoke hosting solution specifically to meet the needs of smart-phone app developers.
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Web Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO – The Rackspace® Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), today announced its new Partner Program benefiting resellers and affiliates.  After soliciting feedback from its large community of partners, The Rackspace Cloud focused on designing a flexible program that streamlines interactions between Rackspace and its solution partners.

With the new program, these partners can leverage simple set-up, sign-up and payment processes, both for themselves and their customers.  The program includes online resources such as a web portal for tracking and reporting; webinars and marketing collateral; opportunities for co-marketing; and open, standards-based APIs that are easy to build upon.  These tools were designed to help make partners more efficient in reselling our services and adding affiliates.  Taking it another step, The Rackspace Cloud also provides end-user billing and end-user support services to help eliminate time-consuming tasks from the partner’s day-to-day business.
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Web Hosting News – ALLENTOWN, PA - The Pokemon Company International, a worldwide leader in children’s entertainment, has partnered with INetU Managed Hosting to launch their newly redesigned website using private cloud technology.

To launch their new site, Pokemon knew that they’d need a hosting partner with the technical expertise to accommodate the new site, and the experience and dedication required to see the project through to completion. They turned to INetU.

“To ensure Pokemon.com became the immersive online destination that we envisioned for our fans, we knew we needed a technology partner like INetU to help us achieve our lofty goals,” said J.C. Smith, The Pokemon Company International’s Director of Consumer Marketing. “We would highly recommend INetU to anybody launching a mission-critical web project.” Read the rest of this entry »