Daily Archives: August 17, 2010

Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces that in the last 90 days, it has been selected by 16 dedicated and virtual server providers and data centers covering a broad geographical spectrum of markets including Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Russia, Norway, Romania, Portugal, Belgium, Latvia, Ireland, U.K. as well as the U.S. and Canada. As a result, Cloud Linux is now available in the top global hosting markets. These new service provider partners recognize the value of CloudLinux technology, bundling it with their server offering alongside with popular control panels, driven by the growth in popularity of CloudLinux among shared hosting providers.
The newest CloudLinux customers include Hosting Ireland Limited, VeriPortal (Turkey), Usonyx (Singapore), TopHostingCenter (Canada), CH-Center Hosting (Romania) and UK2Group, which operates a family of brands across the U.K. and Europe including VPS.net brand. CloudLinux is gaining traction among a wide range of customers because CloudLinux is uniquely able to address complex shared hosting server issues because now they can reclaim control of their environments, improving stability and performance and making their servers virtually “crash proof.”
“We are grateful to our community of users who have shown tremendous support and interest in our solution,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. “The LVE technology was specifically developed for this market and we are honored that these leading edge technology companies trust us to introduce CloudLinux to their infrastructure.”
A key problem that CloudLinux addresses is that while hosting providers often host hundreds or thousands of customers on one server, even with vigilant monitoring, a single customer can affect performance of the entire server adversely. CloudLinux technology allows service providers to control CPU resources at an individual tenant level, significantly improving stability and reliability of the server. Its cutting-edge technology offers service providers the ability to double the density on its servers and control server resources via its new Lightweight Virtual Environment™ (LVE). Priced at a fraction of the cost of other options, CloudLinux LVE helps extract more performance per server, provides flexibility in management and better, faster updates. In addition, CloudLinux recently introduced a series of tools to help hosting providers gain more control over their server environments including:
Secure LVE (beta) extends LVE isolation to users with a virtualized file system. The file system will separate each user into its own environment, preventing one user from seeing any other users on the server. This creates a new level of security, making it much harder for hackers to attack, deface, or steal data from the shared web server.

MySQL Governor (beta) monitors MySQL users and restricts connectivity if they start using too many resources. The tool comes with a utility to see current usage giving unprecedented control and visibility over MySQL usage, significantly diminishing the number of support issues caused by MySQL abuse.

LVE wrappers are the set of tools that allow system administrators to run various users, programs & daemons within a Lightweight Virtual Environment. It provides control over system resources at the application level and prevents misbehaving programs running within the LVE from draining resources and slowing down or taking down the whole system.

Cloud Linux is becoming a popular choice among the wider community of hosting services providers since it is proving to be efficient, profitable and effective at reducing operational downtime. For more information on LVE technology, please visit www.cloudlinux.com

Go Daddy, the world’s largest Web host provider and number one domain name registrar headquartered in Scottsdale, matched all online donations during the live telethon to give a total donation of $100,000 to help Arizona’s sheltered animals. Go Daddy’s generosity helped push this year’s Arizona Humane Society (AHS) telethon total to more than $316,600.

Go Daddy has been part of the annual telethon for five consecutive years, stepping up as the title sponsor the past two. The Internet giant also worked again this year to keep the AHS website up and running, and provided employee volunteers to answer the phones.

“Our employees are all about making a difference,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “Go Daddy is proud to be in a position to help those less fortunate, and we think our contribution will go a long way to help thousands of animals for years to come.”

Bob and Renee Parsons’ dogs, Max and Chief, have also played a role in the telethon over the last several years, delivering the ‘big check’ on live television for the telethon’s big finish. This year, the Parsons’ border terriers were on vacation, appearing instead in a picture postcard during the broadcast. Max and Chief sported leis, keeping with tradition practiced at their tropical retreat.

“We continue to be amazed with Go Daddy’s level of support and sharing in our mission of helping every pet get the good life they deserve,” said Guy Collison, executive director of the Arizona Humane Society. “Go Daddy has played a vital role in the telethon year after year, keeping the website running smoothly, providing volunteers during the event and giving a huge donation of one hundred thousand dollars this year!”

Thousands of sick, injured and homeless animals across Arizona will have their lives saved or improved with the money raised through the telethon. The annual charity event not only generates much needed money for these animals, but also provides low-cost spay and neuter services, as well as educational programs, including how to better care for pets, fight animal cruelty and adopt a pet.

Go Daddy’s philanthropic works support a wide variety of charitable and community organizations dedicated to such causes as domestic violence, child abuse, disabled children, teenage homelessness, Parkinson’s research, breast cancer and more. Go Daddy donated $2.5 million to charitable causes last year and has already surpassed that amount in the first half of 2010.

To learn more about the Arizona Humane Society please visit www.AZHumane.org.

To learn more about establishing your online presence, easily and affordably, visit www.GoDaddy.com

Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing, has announced the general availability of its Cloud Servers for Windows offering. The new service delivers a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications and supporting the high levels of traffic required for launching online gaming platforms or the next social networking phenomenon.

Designed for small to medium businesses, .NET developers, system administrators, IT Pros, and current Rackspace customers, Cloud Servers for Windows features include:
– Custom configurations with full administrator access
– Ability to upgrade server size on-demand
– Add or delete servers on the fly
– Rescue mode
– Management via the Rackspace Cloud Control Panel and the Cloud Servers API
– Ability to add additional IP addresses
– Pay only for what you use with a utility payment model with hourly billing; no contracts or upfront costs
– Backups and Snapshots to Cloud Files™ (coming soon)
– Enterprise-class SLAs
– Support for a broad array of the latest Microsoft Windows Server Images including: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Enterprise Edition 32-bit; Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2 Enterprise Edition 32-bit

“Microsoft is committed to delivering a broad set of enterprise-ready products and services that build on the existing capabilities and skill sets of service providers like Rackspace” said John Zanni, general manager of Worldwide Hosting for the Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp. “As a long time partner of one of the industry’s top cloud hosting providers, we are excited that Rackspace’s Cloud Servers for Windows offering has exited beta and is now available to the thousands of businesses that have built their infrastructure around Microsoft Windows and Microsoft .NET technologies”

SpaBooker, a SaaS scheduling and point-of-sale (POS) application specifically designed for the spa, salon and wellness industry, utilizes Rackspace’s hybrid solution by using managed dedicated servers in addition to their cloud computing solution, Cloud Servers for Windows. Daniel Lizio-Katzen, SpaBooker Managing Director, states: “When we set out to look for a cloud computing solution, we didn’t hesitate to look at Rackspace Cloud first as we’ve been very pleased with the high level of support received from their managed dedicated servers. Rackspace Cloud Servers has been the ideal solution to separate our actual application from our public facing website. We currently have our entire staging environment running on the Cloud Servers for Windows Beta and the overall ease of use has been phenomenal. The cost savings compared to traditional dedicated hosting are also substantial”

“We’re constantly looking for ways to increase the flexibility and choice customers can find with Rackspace Hosting. After several months of successful beta testing with hundreds of customers, we’re excited to remove the beta label and offer Cloud Servers for Windows to the market” said Pat Matthews, VP and GM of Cloud Hosting, Rackspace. “We believe this product will be attractive to new Rackspace customers as well as those we are already serving”

The service provides a full suite of features supported by the industry’s leading Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Rackspace’s hallmark customer service, Fanatical Support. Pricing currently begins at $0.08 an hour for 1GB RAM and 40GB disk.

About Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing industry and has been ranked in Financial Times Top 50 Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom for the past six years. Rackspace provides Fanatical Support to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including virtualisation, data centres and hybrid hosting.

www.rackspace.co.uk

CirtexHosting, a leader in Linux Web hosting, today announced it has added CloudLinux on all hosting servers, which is designed to increase server stability and prevent downtime, ultimately improving performance for customers.

CloudLinux is a commercially supported operating system that is interchangeable with the most popular RPM-based distribution on the market. It is specifically designed for hosting service providers, and therefore offers a wide-variety of features designed to make better use of server resources on servers hosting multiple customers.

CirtexHosting also added Memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system, intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. It is used by many of the Web’s largest destinations, including LiveJournal, Wikipedia, Twitter, YouTube, and WordPress.

“Our technicians continually search for new enhancements we can introduce into our hosting environment. After testing a variety of alternatives in our everlasting quest to boost performance, we identified CloudLinux and Memcached as important upgrades to add to our mix of performance optimizations. We’ve already noticed substantial performance increases, which in the long-term reduces downtime and helps our customers keep their websites running fast, even at peak usage times,” said CirtexHosting President John Xie.

All Shared hosting plans from CirtexHosting now offer unlimited RAID protected disk space and unlimited premium bandwidth. Plans start at just $2.49 per month and include Colortex cPanel, 24/7 premium support, and SiteBuilder software. Reseller hosting plans also offer unlimited bandwidth and start at just $24.99 per month.

“CloudLinux shares CirtexHosting’s commitment to provide the highest quality and best performance for their hosting customers,” said Igor Seletskiy, Cloud Linux Inc.’s founder and CEO. “CirtexHosting customers will benefit from the control and reliability our proven technology can deliver.”

In July, CirtexHosting announced a seismic-shift in the way it sells hosting services, dropping both bandwidth and disk space quotas in its entire line of shared hosting services, and dropping bandwidth quotas on everything else. It is also adding telephone-based customer support for the first time.

To learn more about CirtexHosting, please visit http://www.cirtexhosting.com.

CirtexHosting is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cirtex Corp., on the web at http://www.cirtex.com

WebNet Hosting, Premier Partner Miva Merchant Web Hosts and leading providers of managed and e-commerce hosting solutions has partnered with R1Soft in order to extend Continuous Data Protection to all new and existing clients. Already renowned for their reliability and excellent technical support, WebNet Hosting is excited to offer their clients this new data protection service.

R1Soft is the leading commercial backup software for Windows and Linux servers, protecting nearly 200,000 servers worldwide and growing everyday. Their Continuous Data Protection (CDP) services are fast, user-friendly and flexible, giving clients a sense of security and safety regarding their data.
With R1Soft’s backup system, customers can browse and restore files as well as schedule their own backups with the simple integrated control panel feature. After completing just one initial replica of the desired protected data, full virtual backups can be created in just minutes.
The system provides full on-site and off-site data protection. This means that all of the data stored on WebNet Hosting’s servers will be backed up in the same data center facility and also at another location. Sending data off-site ensures that servers can be reloaded with the latest data in the case of a natural disaster, accidental error or crash of the system.
WebNet Hosting offers fully PCI Compliant Hosting as well as basic web hosting plans at the industry’s best prices. Additionally, WebNet Hosting is a Premier Partner with Miva Merchant and offers the PA-DSS certified Miva Merchant shopping cart software with all of their e-commerce plans.
Miva Merchant is distinguished as the most customizable shopping cart and payment application platform on the market. Miva utilizes a user-friendly interface and system of templates designed to simplify all aspects of creating, managing and marketing an online business.
All of WebNet’s Miva Hosting plans include the following:
· Free Miva Merchant 5.5 License (a $995 Value!)
· Upgrades from older Miva sites to the new version 5.5
· Free Migration from previous hosts with no downtime
· Spam and Virus Protection
· 24/7/365 Technical Phone Support with instant response
· cPanel Automated Control Panel
· MySQL, PHP 4/5, CGI, Perl
· Webmail + Unlimited Email Accounts
· …Plus over Fifty Additional Features!
About WebNet Hosting, LLC:
WebNet Hosting offers hassle-free shared and dedicated Miva Merchant Web Hosting for any size business as well as basic hosting services. The distinguished WebNet team strives to be a friendly and accessible group of experts that always puts the client first. As a premier partner with Miva Merchant since 2004, WebNet Hosting has become an expert in the e-commerce hosting sector. Established or prospective online storeowners need to search no further than WebNet Hosting LLC for all of their web hosting and e-commerce solutions.

www.webnethosting.net

Dell has signed an agreement to acquire 3PAR, a leading global provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions with advanced data management features, including dynamic tiering and thin provisioning, for multi-tenant cloud-computing environments. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.15 billion, net of 3PAR’s cash. Terms of the acquisition were approved by the board of directors of each company.

In the ‘Virtual Era,’ Dell is driving an open and integrated approach to data management. Dell is delivering increased efficiency with a goal of radically reducing data management costs and significantly streamlining operations. These savings enable Dell customers to make room in their budgets for other strategic investments. 3PAR’s product portfolio complements Dell’s goal to make IT simpler and more affordable.

As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, 3PAR has designed its products to minimize upfront and ongoing capacity purchases, and to reduce power consumption and energy costs. 3PAR’s multi-tenant, clustered storage architecture is the underlying technology platform for IT organizations to build agile and efficient virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR provides rapid provisioning and predictable performance for customers facing ever-increasing storage capacity requirements.

3PAR’s storage arrays are designed to overcome the limitations of traditional modular and monolithic arrays. 3PAR addresses the problem of costly, complex, and rigid IT environments and enables organizations to treat storage as a utility – allowing them to use and pay for only the capacity and performance they need, and only when they use it.

Dell plans to make 3PAR an integral part of its industry-leading storage portfolio, including PowerVault, EqualLogic and Dell/EMC. With 3PAR, Dell will offer innovative systems and customer choice at every storage tier, from direct-attach to highly-virtualized, clustered SANS.

3PAR was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Fremont. After closing, Dell plans to maintain and invest in additional engineering and sales capability. There are no plans to move the current operations.

About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers worldwide innovative technology, business solutions and services they trust and value. For more information, visit www.Dell.com.

About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, dynamically tiered, multi-tenant storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient and to eliminate the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com

Independent internet services provider and design agency, Larrytech has moved its hosting from the USA to UK-based DediPower in order to obtain a more competitive and personal service and to boost its data handling and processing speeds.

Offering full web hosting and IT consultancy for a broad range of international and British companies in the leisure, security, and commercial property sectors, Larrytech undertook extensive supplier evaluation before switching to DediPower’s hosting services. DediPower now supplies Larrytech with a bespoke infrastructure comprising shared and dedicated servers to meet their needs.

Larrytech founder and Director, Lawrence Hardcastle, explains, “In the past, customers just wanted cheap hosting. Now they realise the value of their digital assets. Consequently, their fragmented approach to website management is being replaced by consolidated, integrated digital activity designed to deliver long term ROI, efficiency and value. In this environment, it is no longer acceptable to supply ‘boxed’ hosting solutions, which is why we moved to DediPower.”

He continues, “Larrytech wanted a hosting partner that could understand its business and offer value added support. DediPower was the best -solid advice, tailored products; a low-pressure, personal approach; and a passion to maintain uptime and availability. Consequently, our hosting system is now super efficient and makes the best use of our resources while giving us complete flexibility and control.

“The payback in terms of faster processing is also very impressive. When we migrated to DediPower, many of our clients were amazed at the difference to their website’s performance. Where relatively small uploads used to take 15 minutes they now take only two. This means we spend more time doing our job than waiting for the system to catch up. This has had a positive impact on our productivity and our own client service.”

Responsiveness was also a key selection criteria according to Lawrence, “Infrastructure acts as the foundation for all our business, so its smooth operation is crucial. DediPower has given us a new level of proactivity – they are fast, responsive and able to meet our demanding requirements and tight deadlines. The stability and quality of solution is excellent, their dedicated Data Centres are designed to ensure 100% availability 24/7 365 days a year. They are also at the forefront of advances in hosting, investing in state of the art solutions – deploying the very latest technology such as Cloud if ever we require it.”

Craig Martin, DediPower CEO confirms, “Larrytech and DediPower share a common goal – to deliver excellence and add outstanding value. Our inherent commercial flexibility and in-house technical expertise means we can both evolve solutions to meet our customers needs – no matter how arduous their operating environment or application.”

About DediPower Managed Hosting

A leading UK provider of managed hosting and data centre solutions, DediPower makes internet and eBusiness innovation a reality and delivers outstanding ROI for organisations of all sizes. Current clients include Sony, Virgin, ITV, NHS and The BRIT Awards. Focused on delivering service excellence through its Support with Passion(R) philosophy, DediPower’s enterprise class data centres offer 100% availability and accredited data security to support business critical, data-rich, ecommerce, interactive and web-based applications. It provides bespoke managed hosting, managed private cloud, virtualisation, multi-server clusters, and co-location services. DediPower is a winner of numerous hosting awards and is a Microsoft Gold certified partner and RedHat Ready hosting partner. DediPower’s headquarters is located in Reading Berkshire, UK. For additional information, visit http://www.dedipower.com or follow DediPower via Twitter, http://twitter.com/dedipower

Hosting Metro, Inc. announced today that it has acquired long-time Windows web host company Win Web Hosting. With the agreement in place, Hosting Metro is migrating existing services and marketing to its own operations, and will be able to offer Win Web Hosting customers expanded support through a dedicated 24/7 support line, as well as additional hosting features and services previously unavailable to Win Web Hosting customers. Some of these new features include Cloud Hosting, Cloud Storage, VPS, Dedicated Servers and shared web hosting.

Tony Chu, CEO of Hosting Metro stated, “By acquiring Win Web Hosting, we looked to increase our support of Windows by integrating the expertise of Win Web Hosting’s development and support teams into our already reliable infrastructure. In addition, with our recent integration of ASP.NET 4.0 and our pending rollout of the newest Windows control panel Enkompass on September 1st, we feel that this is a perfect time to expand our Windows capabilities and service offerings.”
Musa Gursay, former CEO of Win Web Hosting has agreed to stay on with the new company and will continue to provide consultation services focused on the Windows community. “Hosting Metro is a great company, and I am very confident that they will exceed the needs of their customers. I have been especially impressed by their ability to deliver leading technologies at cost effective prices, and their Campfire Support system is unparalleled in the industry. When you combine those elements with their solid infrastructure it is truly a winning scenario for their Windows-based hosting customers.”
About Hosting Metro
Hosting Metro is dedicated to developing innovative services and providing exceptional technical support to meet the Web hosting needs of its customers. As an independent company, they have 13 years of experience in the web hosting industry, and work to integrate emerging technologies and provide comprehensive, integrated solutions to their hosting clients. With their innovative Campfire Support system, Hosting Metro moves beyond standard support by providing leading technical support and a range of hosting solutions that are focused on improving productivity, increasing profitability, and empowering their clients’ to achieve their goals. For more information go to http://www.hostingmetro.com or visit their forum for the latest web hosting news.