Articles in Hosting News
First Colo Opens New Data Center in Frankfurt
The new high-performance data center of the First Colo GmbH was successfully taken into operation after over one year of hard work. Just as planned, it went online on February 1, 2011. No noteworthy complications occurred during the 2.5 million Euro project’s construction stage, the relocation of the server systems in the end of February also went smoothly. The First Colo team can be more than satisfied with the final result: The ... Read More
iomart Group Completes Maidenhead Data Centre Expansion
iomart Group, one of the UK’s leading managed hosting and cloud computing service companies, has today announced the completion of the second phase of an expansion programme at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead data centre. The programme, another sign of strong customer demand for both the Group’s cloud computing and hosting services, provides iomart with a further 650 square metres of new data centre space, or 300 high density racks, ... Read More
Flagship Solutions Group Unveils New IBM Blade and Storage Systems Center (BSSC)
During the evening of March 9, Flagship Solutions Group welcomed customers, IT partners and employees to the Grand Opening of their new global headquarters in Boca Raton, FL. They viewed the new office facility and celebrated as Flagship unveiled a new IBM BladeCenter and Storage Service Center (BSSC). The BSSC is a world class facility that utilizes the latest IBM products and technology, including IBM disk, tape, and storage management ... Read More
Layered Tech Names Brad Hokamp as new President
Layered Technologies, Inc. has named Brad Hokamp president of the company. With more than 26 years of IT and networking experience, Hokamp will spearhead Layered Tech’s sales, marketing, product management, business-development and customer service initiatives. Layered Tech founder Todd Abrams will now focus exclusively on further expanding the company’s roster of enterprise clients as executive vice president of business development ... Read More
Heritage Web Solutions Closes
Provo based Heritage Web Solutions also known as HIT Web Design has gone out of business. 30,000 customers were reported to have been moved to Fibernet Corporation, another Web-hosting business According to a report from the Better Business Bureau, 972 complaints were filed about Heritage in the last three years. More than half of those were in the last year. The complaints surrounding Heritage alleged that verbal statements weren’t ... Read More
iWeb in Discussions Regarding Acquisition Proposal
iWeb Group Inc. announced that it has received from a private equity fund (the “Fund”) a non-binding proposal to acquire, together with financial partners, all of the outstanding common shares of iWeb at a price of $1.50 in cash per share, and has agreed to grant exclusivity to the Fund until May 3, 2011. The transaction contemplated by the non-binding proposal, if completed, will lead to iWeb’s privatization. The Fund has until ... Read More
DreamHost Adds Jetpack to WordPress One Click Installer
DreamHost, announces the integration of the new plugin, Jetpack, into its One-Click WordPress Installer. Jetpack launches self-hosted WordPress sites into the stratosphere by allowing them access to features that are typically reserved for blogs hosted on WordPress.com. Jetpack was developed by Automattic and is a collection of eight popular plugins (e.g. WordPress.com Stats, Twitter Widget, and Sharedaddy). For example, Sharedaddy ... Read More
A2 Hosting Partners With CloudFlare To Offer Free CDN
Linux Hosting provider www.A2Hosting.com has partnered with www.CloudFlare.com to offer their content delivery network (CDN) solution to their Web Hosting customers. CloudFlare’s service helps websites load an average of 30% faster. While most hosting companies charge their customers to use a CDN, A2 Hosting offers this service for free. A2 Hosting customers can opt into CDN Hosting (http://www.a2hosting.com/services/cdn-hosting) with ... Read More
Datapipe Powers Data Centers with 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Datapipe, announced today that all of its U.S. based data centers are now powered by 100 percent renewable energy. This makes Datapipe the only IT Company in NJ and one of thirteen nationwide to be a member of the EPA’s Green Power Leadership Club. As part of the company’s sustainability strategy, Datapipe’s California data center, located in San Jose, has fully converted to running operations on renewably sourced electricity. ... Read More
ServInt Leases New Data Center Capacity
ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed hosting for enterprises worldwide, today announced it has leased more than one-half a megawatt of data center capacity at CoreSite Realty Corp.’s expanded facility in Reston, Va., which is now under construction. CoreSite is a national provider of powerful, network-rich data centers. Grubb & Ellis Associate Vice President David Horowitz and Senior Vice President William Moser, both in ... Read More
Interoute Opens New Operations Headquarters in Prague
Interoute, owner and operator of Europe’s most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, has opened its Operations Headquarters in City West Prague, which won the award for New Administrative Center in the prestigious Best of Realty 2010. Interoute’s new and expanded Operations Headquarter represents a significant milestone in the company’s dramatic growth as a leading International provider of ICT solutions and ... Read More
1&1 Internet Launches Free Site Analytics Tool
Small- to medium-sized businesses can now benefit even more from their online presence with 1&1’s new statistic tool, 1&1 SiteAnalytics. The tool shows at first hand, where website visitors come from and which content of the site is most popular. SiteAnalytics is now available with all three MyBusiness site packages at no additional charge and can be used for already existing websites. By using the analytics tool, users can ... Read More
VMware Announces VMware vCenter Operations
VMware, Inc. today announced a strategy and a new solution to simplify and automate how IT organizations manage services in dynamic virtual and cloud environments. VMware vCenter™ Operations will help customers transform IT operations to achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing. Cloud computing represents a fundamentally different approach to IT where resources are pooled across multiple sources, provisioning and capacity ... Read More
Bolt Web Hosting Launches WHM / cPanel Scalable Reseller Hosting Plans
Bolt Web Hosting has announced scalable reseller hosting plans have been added to their hosting services. Reseller hosting plans allow customers to act as a web hosting company by selling server space and bandwidth on behalf of the hosting provider. “Until now, we’ve been focused solely on shared web hosting,” Christian Little, CEO of Bolt Web Hosting reports. “We’ve wanted to offer reseller plans for a while. We get several ... Read More
NaviSite Named Best Managed Hosting Service
NaviSite, Inc. announced that it has been recognized as Best Managed Hosting Service in the 5th Annual Web Hosting Awards by HostReview, a top-rated online resource for the web hosting industry since 1998 and part of the DevStart Network. HostReview’s Annual Web Hosting Awards are a global recognition of innovators and market leaders, set up to reward outstanding contributions to the web hosting industry. The HostReview editorial ... Read More
