Liquid Web Inc., a Lansing-based Web hosting company with more than 20,000 clients in more than 120 countries, today launched Storm On Demand, a flexible cloud hosting platform that can benefit any business that has or needs a computer server.
Storm on Demand’s unparalleled ease of use augmented by Liquid Web’s industry-leading customer support will help differentiate the product, company executives said.
“Virtually every business or anyone with a personal Web site can benefit from Storm On Demand,” said Liquid Web founder and CEO Matthew Hill. “Cloud hosting is revolutionizing computer server deployment, migration and cloning. Storm clients will enjoy its intuitive and responsive interface, speed and flexibility, and the superior customer support that we are well known for here at Liquid Web.”
Liquid Web Director of Marketing Travis Stoliker said Storm On Demand is a cost-effective, secure, easy to use, and fast solution for any company that wants to deploy a server, replace a server, clone a server, or simply increase server capacity.
“Cloud hosting and cloud computing are technology advances that make it easier and less expensive for clients to deploy, migrate, backup, and scale their server in near real time with the click of a mouse,” Stoliker said. “This will be a significant advance for Liquid Web, our clients and for the State of Michigan, which is working hard to move its economy from smokestacks and assembly lines to advanced computing technologies and fiber lines.”
Storm On Demand is being launched after nearly two years of product development by Liquid Web engineers and private beta testing by Liquid Web clients.
In November, Liquid Web opened a new $80 million, 90,000 square-foot data center in Lansing to support the launch and deployment of Storm On Demand. The company is in the process of hiring 600 new employees to service clients from the data center over the next five years. Already because of Storm on Demand, 38 new jobs have been created over the past three months at Liquid Web, which also operates two other data centers in the Lansing area with 150 employees. The three data centers will hold 35,000 computer servers that host the Web sites of clients across the world.
Cloud-computing is an application that has been taking IT and the technology sector by storm. The term “cloud” is translated loosely to mean “the Internet.” “Hosting on the cloud” means resources from several servers are pooled together to power a Web site or application. Cloud hosting is attractive to many IT professionals because products such as Storm On Demand allow easy scaling up and down for various levels of Web traffic. Storm customers will only pay for the amount of server space they use, much like any company or home pays only for the amount of electricity or water consumed. Storm also has the remarkable ability to “clone” entire servers in minutes and to test changes to Web sites before they are launched and activated.
Other companies offer Web hosting services via “the cloud,” including Internet giant Amazon.com. Its subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, offers a collection of cloud-platform Web services.
Because so many companies have computer servers, the number of companies seeking cloud hosting services is growing at a strong pace. Even the White House is looking to the cloud to cut IT costs. The Obama administration announced in September 2009 a long-term cloud-computing policy intended to cut costs on infrastructure and reduce the environmental impact of U.S. government computing systems.
To learn more about the cloud-hosting platform Storm, visit www.StormOnDemand.com
Alentus Corporation, a leading provider of web hosting, sharepoint hosting and dedicated server hosting, announces today the start of their No-Setup-Fee promotion.
The promotion, which runs until January 31, 2009 waives the setup fee on all hosting products, for all billing cycles on all new contracts and signups. The promotion is designed to help businesses get online sooner by further reducing the hassle of up-front costs.
“Increased systems automation has enabled us to reduce costs and waive setup fees for this limited time promotion,” said William King, CEO. “Coupled with our 30 day satisfaction money back guarantee, the waived setup fees enable small businesses and savvy web developers to try our hosting products, excellent support and extensive hosting features with no risk.”
King added, “We are confident that once new customers experience our reliable hosting services and take advantage of Alentus’ technical support they will quickly discover why Alentus customers refer and recommend us to friends, colleagues and clients.”
For more information about Alentus product and services, please visit http://www.alentus.com
About Alentus
Alentus Corporation is based in Aliso Viejo, California with Data Center and NOC facilities in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Columbus, Ohio and Austin, Texas in the United States; and in London, United Kingdom. The company provides Windows hosting, Linux website hosting, SQL and mySQL hosting, Exchange Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, and dedicated server services to thousands of small- to medium-sized companies and customized solutions to larger organizations including many Fortune 500 clients. Alentus is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner.
HostPeekhas introduced a new free resource for Web hosting consumers to compare and contrast the world’s leading Web hosting providers, using performance and uptime data as a guide.
The new site, which has been in development for the past six months, provides rankings for 9 leading Web hosts in categories of uptime, server performance, and network speed. Uptime data is provided by Pingdom and Server/Network data is generated internally by HostPeek, through frequent testing.
Unlike many “top hosts” sites, which exploit the naivety of online consumers by providing biased or artificial rankings, HostPeek is oriented toward real comparisons backed by actual data. To assure the independence of all ranking data, HostPeek has anonymous hosting accounts at each of the hosting providers it ranks. HostPeek uses this access to the hosting servers to generate server performance and network speed data.
“HostPeek goes well beyond monitoring uptime. Unlike many sites, we place a real focus on the performance of servers. Some of the more technical folks will find very interesting data once they visit each host’s review page, and those who are less technical can read the explanatory articles to get up to speed on what each term means and how to interpret the data correctly,” said Dan Lemnaru, founder of HostPeek.
To learn more about HostPeek, please visit http://www.hostpeek.com.
To learn more about HostPeek’s ranking data, please visit http://hostpeek.com/explanations/charts-and-meanings.html.
About HostPeek
Launched in 2010 by Dan Lemnaru, HostPeek provides a data-driven approach to comparing and contrasting some of the Internet’s leading Web hosting providers. The site caters to both tech-savvy and novice hosting consumers, and offers explanatory articles and other resource guides. Lemnaru also operates http://www.whreviews.com, an acclaimed destination for independent Web host reviews.
Heart Internet, a leading web hosting company based in the UK, has announced Windows hosting packages in now free for resellers as part of their monthly fee.
Heart Internet used to charge a £10 fee for resellers who required Windows hosting, but it is now included for free within a normal reseller hosting package. This practice is rare for a reseller package to utilise and gives Heart Internet a distinct advantage over its competitors in the reseller hosting market.
A Heart Internet reseller hosting package already offers unlimited web space and bandwidth, with the ability to host unlimited domains. By having free windows hosting available as part of the monthly fee, they have created an attractive reseller hosting package for prospective clients to sign up to.
“By offering Windows hosting for free within the monthly package, we are capitalising on an area of the market that our competitors seem to be overlooking,” commented Jonathan Brealey, Managing Director of Heart Internet. “We believe that offering Windows hosting for free should be commonplace with any reseller package as it makes up so much of the hosting market. By including it in our reseller package for free, we are still head and shoulders above our competitors, offering the best reseller hosting services within the UK.”
To find out more about Heart Internet’s services, visit www.heartinternet.co.uk or telephone 0845 644 7750.
NeoSpire, Inc., a provider of mission critical managed hosting; today announced it has again received an exception‐free Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS‐70) Type II certification, performed by independent auditors BKD, LLP, one of the 10 largest CPA and advisory firms in the U.S.
The SAS‐70 Type II certification is an internationally recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. An exception‐free SAS‐70 Type II Certification report is well‐known by organizations in the United States and Europe as a reliable indicator that a service provider has implemented an effective control environment. The report is also acknowledged as a critical component for companies due to the Sarbanes –Oxley Act of 2002.
Under Section 404 of Sarbanes‐Oxley Act (SOX), most companies require a SAS‐70 Type II certification report from their service providers to evaluate controls, data centers, security, backup and system availability. NeoSpire’s SAS‐70 Type II certification permits the company to deliver confirmation of the controls required for compliance with the Sarbanes‐ Oxley Act.
“We understand the ever increasing importance of corporate governance and the impact our services have on our clients’ systems of internal control,” explained Mitch Gervis, CEO of NeoSpire. “Another year of attainment of an exception‐free SAS‐70 Type II certification validates our continued commitment to maintaining the highest level of internal control to deliver the most reliable, stable and secure compliance processes available.”
NeoSpire’s SAS‐70 controls covers physical security of the facilities, environmental controls, network security, server security, backup and restore, problem management, and change management. Independent auditors BKD, LLP collected evidence and held detailed testing of NeoSpire’s controls over a six‐month auditing period and found NeoSpire’s controls to be effective and implemented consistently without exception.
About NeoSpire
NeoSpire Inc. is a premier provider of full‐service, mission critical managed hosting solutions for organizations that demand 100% uptime. Since 1999, NeoSpire has been providing the infrastructure, security, expertise and customercentric support required by clients that rely on Web sites and Web‐based applications for critical business purposes.
Visit www.neospire.net for more information. To schedule interviews, contact Joy Hays, Director of Marketing at (214) 292‐8100, or via e‐mail at [email protected]
HosTek.com offers highly requested framework PHP 5.3 to customers. A leader in web hosting HosTek.com, based in Tulsa OK gives option for PHP 5.3 on all hosted platforms, Windows .NET, Windows ColdFusion and Linux cPanel plans.
PHP 5.3, being recently released, was requested almost immediately by customers and non-customers wanting a web host to provide this new framework. New customers can request PHP 5.3 as well as existing customers. HosTek.com will make PHP 5.3 available on all new server deployments while maintaining PHP 5.2 on existing servers for software compatibility.
Support for the recently released PHP 5.3 deployment on their hosting platforms is provided by their U.S.A based support team, which is available 24/7/365 by ticket system, email, chat or phone.
Developers, hobbyists and beginners can utilize the new features of PHP 5.3 in their custom applications as well as in software packages such as WordPress. HosTek.com maintains a list of popular software packages which are PHP 5.3 compatible.
“Our main focus is the customer,” says Jon Cavanaugh, Operations Manager of HosTek.com. “By offering PHP 5.3 we are satisfying our commitment to our customers and the php community, to provide the best hosting experience.”
HosTek.com is currently developing a custom control panel for Windows ColdFusion 9 and Windows .NET web hosting.
About HostTek.com
HOSTEK.COM was founded in 1998, with the goal of providing hosting services with the focus on excellent customer service. For more information, please visit www.hostek.com
Leading domain name registration and web hosting company, LCN.com today announced it will be offering free .UK domain names as part of its “10th Birthday Countdown Promotion”. The discount will be applied to a .UK domain name when a customer purchases any other two year domain extension in the same order.
Mark Boost, Managing Director, LCN.com, said: “Cybersquatting is fast becoming one of the most serious brand management issues for website owners. When cybersquatters pick up unregistered variations of a company’s web address, businesses are exposed to both dangerous and costly implications. The free .UK domain offer will benefit customers wishing to protect their brand by registering multiple domain extensions.”
Recent research conducted by Nominet, the registry that manages the .uk top level domains, highlighted that more than three-quarters of Britons would rather visit a .co.uk website than a .com domain.
Commenting on the report in November, Phil Kingsland, director of marketing and communications at Nominet, noted: “The report demonstrates that both consumers and businesses are willing to invest in ‘local’ domains because they are seen as reliable, relevant and trusted, and will give them a direct route to their target audience.”
The free UK domain name offer will available on all new purchases made before midnight on 19 January. On 20 January a new offer will be launched as part of the LCN.com “10th Birthday Countdown Promotion”.
To benefit from the current LCN.com promotion visit www.lcn.com
To follow LCN.com on Twitter visit www.twitter.com/LCN_com
To become a fan of LCN.com on Facebook visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/LCN/168945496998?ref=ts
About LCN.com
LCN.com has been providing world class web hosting since 2000 and is one of the UK’s largest web hosting companies with 180,000 current customers hosting over 350,000 sites. For more information, visit www.LCN.com
Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider, debuts its new range of high-performance dedicated servers for IT professionals.
The new Fasthosts dedicated servers feature the latest Intel Xeon quad core processors, 100Mbps connection and Fasthosts’ unlimited bandwidth. Deployed in minutes and available in either Linux or Microsoft operating systems, the servers provide a reliable, secure and highly flexible server platform. Fasthosts’ robust network and unlimited data transfer can further benefit individuals and enterprises that generate or process large volumes of data.
Dedicated servers represent a cost effective and reliable solution for hosting core IT infrastructure such as websites or business application software. They provide a secure and private environment for the user’s applications to be operated and data to be stored. Business users can enjoy the full power of the hardware and guaranteed access to bandwidth, and retain complete hands on (KVM) remote control of their server at all times.
The latest Fasthosts Dedicated Server packages provide IT professionals and businesses with reliable server operations without the capital expenditure investment in the servers or in the physical space associated with running hardware on their premises 24/7. The latest-spec Intel processor in Fasthosts servers delivers powerful, energy-efficient performance so users can run several intensive programs at once without slowing down. Each server is maintained with the latest operating system updates to maximise efficiency and security.
Fasthosts’ brand new range of Dedicated Server packages comprises the DS300 (Dual Core & 2GB RAM), DS500 (Dual Core & 4GB RAM), the DS700 (Quad Core & 8GB RAM), DS900X (Xeon Quad Core & 8GB RAM), and the DS1000XX (2x Xeon Quad Core & 16GB RAM). Servers are available in either Linux or Windows configurations and feature full admin control as well as Fasthosts’ unlimited bandwidth and 100Mbps high-speed virtual data pipe. Businesses are assured that Fasthosts guarantees 99.9% server uptime. Technical support is provided 24/7 from UK by email or online.
Steve Holford, CMO Fasthosts Internet Ltd., said “We have upgraded and invested in our Dedicated Server range to ensure unbeatable service delivery and excellent ROI for business users. In an increasingly digital economy, success often begins with a robust and reliable server access that you have confidence will be working for you round the clock, day in day out, with all the benefits, but none of the high costs of running it as an internal operation”.
Fasthosts offer a range of powerful control panels enabling the user to set up websites and applications quickly and easily, meaning more time to focus on running their business. The award-winning Plesk 9 control panel interface provides ultra-intuitive server maintenance and control.
Mount Hosting, a leading web hosting company, announced today that it has started a partnership with MyAntivirus.info, the known reseller of antivirus and IT security software products.
To celebrate this partnership, Mount Hosting offers to all of its users a 10% discount on all of the security products you can find on www.myantivirus.info
In order to purchase one of the products of www.myantivirus.info with the 10% discount the user can enter the discount coupon “mounthosting2010” during the order process. This promotion will be valid until March 31st, 2010
Among the security applications offered by myantivirus.com you can find Avast Antivirus, PC Tools Internet Security, Prevx 3.0 – the anti-phishing software, and much more.
Brett Stevens, Sales Manager of Mount Hosting, said: “Nowadays internet security is a big issue for any IT company. At Mount Hosting we believe that the only way to be safe is to be protected by strong and efficient products. This is why we partnered with myantivirus.info, a great provider of security solutions.”
About Mount Hosting
Mount Hosting is a leading web hosting company, in the IT market since 2007. Mount Hosting offers shared hosting on Linux machines, VPS hosting on Linux and Windows servers, cheap domain names and more. www.mounthosting.com
About MyAntivirus.info
MyAntivirus is one of the largest internet IT security software stores and is the one stop online shop for IT Security Software products. We resell products from many leading manufacturers including Avast, PcTools, GFI, Prevx and many others.
The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced sweeping changes to its server fleet with the addition of free services bundled with every new server purchase. Across the board, customers now benefit from a free control panel, free antivirus software and 10GB of free Cloud Storage on every server leased from The Planet.
The bundle includes Symantec Endpoint Protection — business-class antivirus software — along with Storage Cloud, the company’s robust cloud storage solution. Customers can also choose from either Parallels Plesk Panel or cPanel/WebHost Manager (WHM) for their hosting environments.
“As more companies adopt hosting for their IT infrastructures, we’ve seen that they often choose not to invest in additional security and storage to protect their servers,” said Rob Walters, director of product management with The Planet. “We have a vested interest in ensuring our customers are protected, so we’re providing these services at no charge on every server from The Planet. Coupled with their choice of control panels, again at no charge, we’re delivering even more value.”
About the New Bundle
The Planet provides customers with tools to enhance their hosting experience, as well as protect and back up critical data:
10GB of Storage Cloud: Through a partnership with Nirvanix, the company’s Storage Cloud provides the speed and flexibility of on-premise Network Attached Storage (NAS) with the scalability and global accessibility of cloud storage. Stored on the Nirvanix local node in The Planet’s Dallas D2 data center, customers are connected to The Planet’s world-class network for unprecedented performance and rapid access to data.
Symantec Endpoint Protection: Customer data is protected with a single agent that combines Symantec AntiVirus software with advanced malware threat prevention. Integrated security technologies include antivirus, antispyware and firewalls to prevent security breaches.
Parallels or cPanel Control Panels: Customers can choose from either the Parallels Plesk Panel with 100 domains for Windows or Linux, or cPanel/WHM for Linux only. Both help hosters more easily and effectively manage their servers with intuitive interfaces, tools to manage domains and e-mail accounts, and options to automate daily tasks.
For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.theplanet.com/value-bundle.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 18.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting™ and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com
iomart Hosting is named as a Readers Choice by web hosting review sites on both sides of the Atlantic
iomart Hosting is delighted to announce that it has received formal public recognition from the readers of two respected web hosting industry sites as one of the UK’s leading managed hosting companies,
It was announced yesterday that iomart Hosting (www.iomarthosting.com)had achieved a ranking of 7 in HostReview’s Annual Readers Choice Award, the only European representative in the top 10.
Earlier this month, iomart Hosting ended the decade sitting atop a list of 25 major web hosting companies as “the most popular company” on the UK Dedicated Server Directory site.
Sarah Haran, Managing Director at iomart Hosting stated: “We are extremely pleased to have been recognised by the readers of both HostReview and Dedicated Server Directory in this way. It’s a ringing endorsement of the investment that we have made in our people, our infrastructure and the innovative hosting services that we design, deliver and manage on behalf of our growing customer base, over the past year”
Sarah added: “We are particularly delighted that our reputation as a quality managed hosting company appears to be extending overseas, and we are very proud to be the only non American Hosting operator to be included in HostReview’s Readers Top 10 for 2009. It represents a great end to the noughties for us and one which will inspire us to build upon our performance during 2010 and beyond.”
The HostReview Readers’ Choice Award is decided entirely by its readers and is independent of the judgment of any editorial team. During the month-long voting phase, thousands of HostReview’s visitors cast their votes for their favourite web hosting companies. Likewise the UK Dedicated Server Directory “25 Most Popular List” is also based on the number of votes a company receives from its readers.
About iomart Hosting
iomart Hosting is one of the UK’s leading providers of hosting services. From a single server through to private cloud networks, iomart hosting specialises in the delivery and management of mission-critical hosting services, enabling customers to reduce the costs, complexity and risks associated with maintaining their own web and online applications.
By physically owning and managing its own network infrastructure, including five state-of-the-art data centres in the UK, it offers world-beating levels of service to its customers.
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