New UK Colocation Facilities Announced by Datum Group

Two new data center facilities will be opened in 2024 by the Datum Group, a supplier of service-enhanced colocation across the United Kingdom. The move, which comes after Datum’s announcement in 2022 of the purchase of Teledata, a colocation data center in Manchester, will see the business extend its service-enhanced colocation offering to satisfy the rising demand for data center capacity.

The two new colocation facilities, FRN2 and MCR2, will be situated where the Datum Group’s current data centers in Farnborough (FRN1) and Manchester are now located (MCR1). They will provide Datum’ customers more options and freedom when selecting a colocation provider.

At the Teledata facility in Manchester, MCR2 will provide up to 25,000 square feet of space, 4MVA of power, and more than 1,000 additional server racks in both high and standard density.

HostPapa Announces New Managed WordPress Service

HostPapa Inc., the leading Canadian web hosting and cloud service provider for small and medium businesses (SMBs), announced that they are offering a Managed WordPress solution under their portal and brand, offering both new and existing customers a fast and easy way to deliver a premium WordPress website worldwide.

With Managed WordPress, HostPapa offers customers an opportunity to take WordPress to its fullest potential by delivering an optimized and configured WordPress on the world’s fastest CDN without a hefty price tag.

So many entrepreneurs and freelancing professionals have thrived with HostPapa, but with growth comes a challenge. When a website grows to new heights, it needs a solid WordPress infrastructure to stabilize and nourish that growth. For those who don’t need or can’t afford a full in-house web development team, HostPapa created the Managed WordPress service pack.
With Managed WordPress, there is no need for these entrepreneurs to know how to install and update plugins, or how to deal with traffic surges, or with sophisticated DDoS or brute-force security threats. The HostPapa Managed WordPress solution takes care of it all on their behalf, so they can just focus on growing their brand and business.

About HostPapa
HostPapa (www.hostpapa.com), based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, is a web hosting and cloud services provider for small businesses across the globe that started its journey in 2006. HostPapa is committed to providing a complete array of enterprise-grade solutions to every business owner. These services, traditionally out of reach to smaller businesses, are offered in a one-stop shop, making it quick and easy for customers to select the services they need to grow. HostPapa backs these offerings with 24-7 award-winning multilingual customer support provided by a team of experts.

GreenGeeks Launches Singapore Data Center Location

GreenGeeks, a leading green energy web hosting platform, today announced the launch of its newest data center location in Singapore. The new location will service customers within the Asia-Pacific region and be the fourth data center location available to customers, in addition to existing locations in Chicago, Montreal and Amsterdam.

The Singapore location will provide all of the same services as GreenGeeks’ other locations, including WordPress hosting, shared hosting, reseller hosting and VPS hosting packages. All services are backed by 24/7 support.

“We are proud to carry on our commitment of providing reliable green energy web hosting solutions by expanding our reach into this part of the world,” said Kaumil Patel, COO of GreenGeeks. “Our goal is to make sure that no matter where you are located in the world, customers have access to fast page loading speeds and reliable performance when it comes time for you to host your website or application.”

The new location will mean faster response times and improved overall performance for customers located in the Asia-pacific region as compared to other locations in North America and Europe.

GreenGeeks looks forward to serving their current customers in the Asia-Pacific region better with their new expanded services thanks to their new Singapore data center location.

More Information: greengeeks.com

DartPoints Announces Bare Metal Cloud Server Solution

DartPoints®, the colocation, cloud, infrastructure, and security solutions provider for mid-size markets, announces the latest offering in its line of cloud solutions: bare metal servers. DartPoints’ new bare metal package offers dedicated servers that allow tenants to take full control of their IT infrastructure, achieving cloud-like agility with highly secure physical equipment. The service is aimed at organizations looking for particularly high levels of security, performance, and customization.

DartPoints’ entry into the bare metal market represents a response to a rise in demand for data center services at the edge with a fully personalized environment. Constant data growth and the rise of hyperconverged technology has some experts predicting that bare metal’s popularity will grow by over 20% in the next year, and more than 125% by 2027.

Bare metal users can build, test, deploy, and maintain their own workloads all on a unified platform. Where fine-tuning aspects like compute or storage configurations in response to organizational demands can be troublesome without a dedicated compute environment, a bare metal setup offers full control, greater processing power, and maximized performance. Bare metal is ideal for various use cases, including high computing power workloads, big data analytics, and hosting applications with constant rendering requirements.

Due to the servers’ single tenancy and physical isolation, overall security is drastically simplified. This makes bare metal attractive for those with especially stringent policy or compliance mandates, such as financial, legal, or government organizations.

Financial considerations are another major reason that bare metal makes sense for some users. “With our bare metal services, clients can rent server capacity in an ongoing operating expense (OpEx) pricing model,” explains Alexander. “Instead of dealing with heavy capital expenditures, you can gain all the performance and control you need with a steady, predictable overhead to boot.”

More information: https://dartpoints.com

HostPapa Acquires Osiris Communications

HostPapa, a leading global web hosting and cloud service provider for small and medium businesses (SMBs), announced today that it has acquired the web hosting provider service, Osiris Communications.

Based in Scottsdale, AZ and founded in 1997, Osiris Communications has always strived to offer their customers Rock Solid Hosting™. For over 20 years, Osiris has covered the demand of quality hosting in the Northern USA, by delivering a broad range of affordable services, including high-quality web hosting, domain registration, Virtual Private Server, Dedicated Servers, and eCommerce solutions.

“We are excited to add the Osiris Communication technology and ground coverage to our growing list of solutions to help small and medium businesses achieve their website goals with affordable enterprise-level performance,” said Jamie Opalchuk, HostPapa Founder and CEO. “We will be bundling the key features of Osiris Communications into our growing portfolio of managed services, including the consolidated PapaCare+ experience. We will also consolidate the service coverage using our pre-existing data centers and the new ones acquired from Osiris to provide the fastest and smoothest website experience in North America.”

“Osiris Communications has always strived to offer affordable and reliable hosting solutions for its customers, enabling them to have smooth-running websites regardless of the website size, and prides itself on offering them great support as they build their online presence,” noted Osiris’ founder, Brent Larson. “We believe HostPapa’s broad range of services and extensive experience in supporting the online growth of freelancers and businesses of all sizes makes them the ideal new haven for Osiris customers to continue their online journey with a flawless web hosting foundation.”

About HostPapa
HostPapa (www.hostpapa.com), based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, is a web hosting and cloud services provider for small businesses across the globe that started its journey in 2006. HostPapa is committed to providing a complete array of enterprise-grade solutions to every business owner. These services, traditionally out of reach to smaller businesses, are offered in a one-stop shop, making it quick and easy for customers to select the services they need to grow. HostPapa backs these offerings with 24-7 award-winning multilingual customer support provided by a team of experts.

ClouDNS Announce New Monitoring Service

With the ClouDNS Monitoring service, clients have the ability to pay close attention to their services in real-time, and it provides a way for checking for any network issues. As a result, the client’s network could run at the most optimal level and optimize the efficiency of their services. Besides, that new service helps with preventing downtime, discovering and fixing network or services issues faster, and maintaining better network resilience and visibility.

In addition, the clients of ClouDNS have the opportunity to choose from many different types of checks, monitoring intervals, and different regions for the purpose of accomplishing the best analysis of their network.

They can choose from the stack of various check types, depending on their Monitoring purpose – Ping, HTTP, HTTP with custom string, HTTPS, HTTPS with custom string, TCP, UDP, and DNS.

Aside from the option for receiving email messages for notification, the clients are able to use webhooks, which give the ability for fully customizable actions during UP or DOWN events. That way, if there is an issue, you will get an instant notification.

ClouDNS also shares that it has completed all of the necessary preparations, and the best experience of this service is guaranteed. Additionally, it offers a free 30-day trial with a different number of checks depending on the type of Premium Monitoring plan. However, there is also a perfect option for small business owners – a Forever Free Monitoring service plan.

More information: https://www.cloudns.net

IONOS and MongoDB announce partnership to extend IONOS Database-as-a-Service offering

IONOS and MongoDB, Inc. have formed a strategic partnership to extend IONOS’ Database-as-a-Service offering. MongoDB is the world’s most popular database and has a huge developer community. Its software has been downloaded over 265 million times. Over the last five years, MongoDB has been consistently voted the “most wanted” database by developers via Stack Overflow.

Working together, IONOS and MongoDB will be able to provide organisations the ability to innovate and build modern applications with all the advantages of the cloud. MongoDB’s developer data platform provides a modern, elegant experience and covers a wide variety of use cases to allow developers to focus on creating compelling customer experiences, enabling new capabilities to transform businesses, and increasing operational efficiency via more sophisticated automation.
As a document database, MongoDB stores information in documents, which makes it intuitive, flexible and scalable to empower developers to create, transform and disrupt. This makes them suitable for applications that need to handle large amounts of data, such as Big Data analytics or business intelligence applications.

The MongoDB-as-a-Service on IONOS is based on strong security and privacy foundations that meet organisation’s needs for both innovation and data sovereignty and compliance. In addition to offering MongoDB on IONOS, the partnership will see both companies work together to provide direct support for organisations implementing the solution.

The partnership included the joint implementation of the MongoDB service on the IONOS cloud, as well as technical support from MongoDB and joint marketing activities. Development of the service has already begun, with a launch planned for this autumn. Both a community and enterprise variant will be available.

More information: https://www.ionos.co.uk

IONOS and Fasthosts open new data centre in Worcester

IONOS, Europe’s largest hosting services provider, and Fasthosts, its UK subsidiary, have opened a state-of-the-art data centre situated at Worcester Six Business Park.
The 43,708 sq ft unit comprises a cutting-edge 30,729 sq ft data centre and 12,978 sq ft of ancillary offices.

The data centre represents a £21M investment in the local Worcester community. It has been designed with a modular approach, with each module at the site fully independent and, technically speaking, a data centre in its own right. This provides the opportunity for expansion with three extra modules to support future growth.
Sustainability is at the forefront of the data centre, with a wide range of sustainable and energy-efficient features, including solar photovoltaic panels covering up to 10% of the energy use at the site. All necessary carbon used for the construction of the building envelope has been compensated.

Designed and constructed to a Tier IV standard, the data centre is connected to the middle of the UK’s fibre figure of eight, linking the site directly to IONOS’ backbone network with an outside capacity of 3,000 Gigabit per second. This strong fibre optic connectivity will help drive the latest technology in the region to support business growth, all whilst operating securely and sustainably.

More info: https://www.ionos.co.uk/newsroom/

DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways

DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, startups and SMBs, has entered into an agreement to acquire Cloudways, a leading managed cloud hosting and software as a service (SaaS) provider for SMBs. The acquisition will simplify workflows for small to medium-sized businesses that are looking for easier ways to build and scale their digital businesses.

loudways provides simple onboarding and day-to-day management that is purpose-built for certain SMBs looking to outsource their on-ramp to the internet, helping them offload the complexities of cloud infrastructure so they can spend more time running and scaling their businesses. The acquisition of Cloudways expands DigitalOcean’s serviceable market within global SMBs and increases options for digital agencies, eCommerce sites, bloggers, freelance developers and builders hosting on WordPress, PHP and Magento. WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) and, according to W3Techs, it powers 43% of all websites on the internet.

Entrepreneurs and SMBs choose Cloudways to optimize the performance, value, support, reliability and flexibility of their infrastructure and application management. As a result, they can save time and money while they grow their businesses. Cloudways provides a differentiated offering with an open and flexible platform, an incredible price-to-performance ratio and superior customer experience.

DigitalOcean and Cloudways have been close partners since 2014 — Cloudways currently relies on DigitalOcean infrastructure to power approximately 50% of its customers. Cloudways serves an international and growing customer base with an industry-leading NPS score of 71. Together, DigitalOcean and Cloudways will serve over 124,000 customers paying over $50 per month, representing approximately 84% of the pro forma company’s total revenue.

“SMBs represent more than 50% of global gross domestic product (GDP) and spend $70 billion on cloud infrastructure today. With this acquisition, we are making it easier to launch, build and scale a business on DigitalOcean,” said Yancey Spruill, CEO at DigitalOcean. “Cloudways and DigitalOcean share values around simplicity, community, openness and support that are vital attributes to how we differentiate in the marketplace. Together, we will be focused on providing a simple, easy, intuitive and trusted platform to better serve SMBs so they can build their businesses and pursue their dreams of entrepreneurship.”

Cloudways has built a rapidly growing business generating free cash flow in addition to impressive customer metrics. Spruill continued, “Importantly, we are excited to add Cloudways to the DigitalOcean family as they not only share our vision for the SMB market opportunity but are also a Rule of 50 business that shares our commitment to delivering compelling returns for our investors.”

“We have worked closely with the DigitalOcean team since 2014 and are now incredibly excited to officially be a part of the company,” said Aaqib Gadit, co-founder and CEO at Cloudways. “SMBs love simplicity, performance, predictability, affordability, and great support. Together with DigitalOcean, we can turbocharge our mission of helping SMBs grow through our cloud offerings.”

In addition to expanding DigitalOcean’s technology and tooling, the acquisition of Cloudways also increases DigitalOcean’s global employee base by 30% — adding expertise in key growth areas that will continue to drive productivity and performance across the platform.

Transaction Terms and Expected Financial Contribution

Under the terms of the transaction, DigitalOcean will acquire Cloudways for $350 million in cash, including a significant portion of the consideration to be paid over a 30-month period following the closing.

Cloudways will be accretive to DigitalOcean’s revenue growth rate and will not impact the fiscal year 2022 operating profit margin and cash flow margin outlook that was provided on August 8, 2022, as part of the Q2 2022 earnings release. Cloudways is expected to generate more than $52 million in revenue in fiscal 2022, representing a three-year compound annual growth rate in excess of 50%.

The transaction is expected to close in September and DigitalOcean is forecasting for Cloudways to contribute between $13 and $15 million of revenue in fiscal 2022.

For more information on DigitalOcean, visit https://www.digitalocean.com

Get Pixabiz Announce Website Building Lifetime Service Packages

Get Pixabiz, a digital marketing agency serving the UK, announced lifetime packages for creating a fully functional small business website, which means clients only need to pay once and they get the website practically for free forever. They offer two kinds of “lifetime” packages with the basic package costing only £99 as one-time payment with no monthly costs.

Ismail Ougradar from Get Pixabiz says, “I started receiving requests for websites during the pandemic, then, due to effects of Brexit, and now the cost of living crisis, forcing people to find alternative forms of income. People have started selling cupcakes and other confectionery from home, some have started a service such as tuition for school children and others are selling clothing or any products that they ‘know’ people would buy.”

Get Pixabiz is striving to help these new entrepreneurs in launching their businesses through the provision of a low-cost website. With the Pixabiz Lifetime Package, clients get professional fully-functional websites within just seven days that have no complex tech, are easy to use, with no ongoing hosting charges. This lifetime package offers an attractive professional multi-page pixabiz.co.uk website built based on the specific needs of the client. The features of this lifetime package include: fast loading pages; regular backups; web hosting & SSL; a WordPress CRM website; an easy to use editor, products & services pages; first class security; all branded to the client’s business; choice of URLand design template; premium plugins; in a 7-day turnaround; and responsive to all devices. They also provide 12 months custom domain transfer; SEO integration; social promotion; and third party integrations.

The Pixabiz “Pro” package from the cheap website builder, named “Get” Pixabiz includes everything that is provided in the Pixabiz “Lifetime” package plus additional features, such as: 2x email addresses; optimised Google Business Profile; an option to have one’s own domain name; basic on-site local SEO; 5 directory submission; premium widget templates; Facebook and Google Pixel integration; a standard press release; social feeds to the site; appointment booking function and e-commerce. This package will cost only £199 one-time payment plus a £20 monthly fee.

More information: https://pixabiz.co.uk

Web Hosting Market To Surpass USD 288.29 Billion Revenue by 2030

According to a comprehensive research report by Market Research Future (MRFR), “Web Hosting Market Analysis by Type (Website Builder, Dedicated Hosting, Collocated Hosting), By Application (Public Website, Mobile Application, Intranet Site, Online Application), By Connectivity (Fiber, MPLS, Ethernet), Deployment (Public, Private, Hybrid) – Forecast till 2030” valuation is poised to reach USD 288.29 Billion by 2030, registering an 16.31% CAGR throughout the forecast period (2020–2030).

There is an expectation that the requirement for the enhancements in the web site’s performance will automatically rise in the global market in the forthcoming years. During the forecast period of 2020 to 2030, there will be more steady growth in the Web Hosting Services Market size due to the increasing demands for communication channels and their uses worldwide. Furthermore, technological developments play a crucial role in boosting the demand for web hosting services across the globe. The constant rise in the need for digitalization and increasing demand for servers, higher usage of the internet, increments in e-commerce markets, and the growing number of start-ups are projected to increase the demand for these services over the coming years.

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Cloudways Partners With Cloudflare

Cloudways the leading cloud hosting provider, is announcing the launch of a new integration in partnership with Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet. The integration will equip Cloudways customers with enterprise-level performance and security features. In a few clicks, at a fraction of the cost compared to other cloud hosting providers, and without an existing Cloudflare account, customers can make use of this new add-on inside the Cloudways platform.

With a global network of 250 cities in over 100 countries, Cloudflare’s security technology mitigates DDoS attacks in under three seconds while analyzing millions of sites (32 million requests per second) to intelligently identify and block attackers with a web application firewall (WAF). Performance capabilities are equally as impressive with Cloudflare’s CDN serving cached content by way of a reserved-for-enterprises network.

Through the integration, Cloudways will be able to offer web professionals and SMBs the choice to upgrade to a plan that includes access to superior speed and security capabilities offered from Cloudflare, reserved only to Cloudways customers, for only $4.99 per month per website, with volume discounts dropping the price down to $1.99.

“After a thorough evaluation of all the available solutions, Cloudflare was the obvious choice for us,” said Cloudways CEO and Co-Founder, Aaqib Gadit. “We’re always looking for innovative ways to provide more capabilities to our already powerful platform. Partnering with the leading edge development platform in the world will enable us to serve a broader audience of web professionals and SMBs.”

For more information visit: https://www.cloudways.com/blog/cloudflare-hosting