Web Hosting Blog – CENTENNIAL, CO – Verio Inc., the leading provider of online business solutions to SMBs worldwide, including business web hosting, application hosting and Software as a Service (SaaS), and  Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. (NYSE: ARW), today announced a North American distribution agreement.

Through the Arrow Fusion℠ Professional Services Program,  Arrow ECS will connect its global network of value-added resellers (VARs) to Verio’s full suite of services including  Verio’s Virtual Private Servers , Managed Private Servers, Shared Hosting, Domain Name Registration, Hosted Microsoft® Exchange and SharePoint, and other SaaS solutions. Arrow ECS will work directly with Verio’s sales force to identify new VAR opportunities and educate VARs about the value of offering hosted solutions, and how those solutions can help minimize the typical time required to generate new customer revenue.

Arrow ECS VARs can now offer hosting and other managed solutions to their existing customers and prospects, representing an alternative form factor to traditional information technology services. Also, they can take advantage of the additional professional services offerings that are backed by the strength of the viaVerio Partner Program and its industry-leading benefits. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – SAN FRANCISCO – Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp.

The open source version of ConVirt has been available for more than three years and is broadly deployed and well-tested in real-world data centers — having been downloaded more than 30,000 times. In fact, ConVirt1.x is included in most major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Open SUSE, Debian and others. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – Pleasant Hill, CA - SiteValley.com, web hosting service provider, announced that starting from July 30th, 2010 registration of .CO TLD is available to all its customers at the rate of $30/year. Moreover, free .CO registration is available with every annual small business hosting package purchase.

Domains with .CO extension have gained enviable popularity as this TLD is associated with companies, corporations and commerce in common. Websites for such projects usually require a more serious solution, than a simple shared plan. A solution, similar to Small Business Hosting package, SiteValley.com offers. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – UNITED KINGDOM - StratoGen completed today the final phase of its strategic upgrade of core network facilities.

The upgraded network can carry more than 10GB of data per second and will provide customers with increased scalability, higher capacity and total resilience. It took 6 months to design, build and deploy. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – Princeton, NJ – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announces that ISPsystem will support SecureLVE™ in their control panel, ISPmanager. As one of the leading web server control panels, ISPmanager allows hosting service providers to manage various aspects of a web server via a friendly and easy-to-use web interface. Integrating SecureLVE into the control panel gives hosting providers new security controls previously unavailable.

SecureLVE is based on CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment™ technology and creates a new level of security for shared hosting servers. SecureLVE provides a virtualized file system, which separates each user on the server into its own environment, preventing one user from seeing any other users on the server. This new server security makes it difficult for hackers to attack, deface, or steal data from the shared web server. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – San Antonio TX - DualRack announced today its new Enkompass web hosting packages which run on multiple Windows Server 2008 machines. The Enkompass control panel, also known as the Web Site Owner (WSO) panel, is very similar in its look and feel as compared to the existing cPanel Linux control panel. This will make it extremely easy for current cPanel users to make the switch over to a Windows hosting account.

cPanel has been hard at work over the last couple of years trying to get a stable release of Enkompass out there. The first stable version has now been released and DualRack is one of only a small number of web hosting providers that offers it. Two DualRack CEO’s, Andrew Wietlispach & Neilson Robin stated that they “Wanted to make their companies windows web hosting as user friendly as possible.” Andrew also quoted “We have always had outstanding feedback on the cPanel control panel from our Linux customers and we knew this was going to be our choice when it came to offering Windows web hosting.” Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – READING, UK - DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers, today launched its third data centre to accommodate its rapidly growing managed hosting business which includes dedicated servers, co-location options, virtualisation platforms and Cloud based solutions.

Designed to accommodate expansion of DediPower’s existing client base, which includes Virgin, Sony, ITV, the NHS, and The BRIT Awards, the new 11000 sq.ft tier 3 data facility has the capability to house 200 additional racks at 6kw each and affords FM200 fire suppression.  Delivering high capacity, robust and reliable storage, its enterprise class infrastructure is ideal for companies seeking secure off-site data storage or business recovery and compliance requirements. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – NEW YORK, NY - Telx®, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has been selected as a colocation provider by DediPower, a UK-based managed hosting and on-demand data center company. Telx’s secure, connection-rich colocation facility at 60 Hudson Street in New York City is now DediPower’s primary Point of Presence (PoP) within the U.S., enabling secure, reliable delivery of on-demand cloud application and managed hosting services, including its recently-launched Public Cloud offering, to customers in three continents.

“DediPower was in need of a Manhattan colocation facility to extend our state-side coverage and provide connectivity to our overseas customers,” said Craig Martin, CEO of DediPower. “We looked for the colocation partner within the U.S. that had the most strategic locations and the largest number of service providers we could choose from to ensure reliable application and storage service delivery. Our international and North American customers can directly tap into our infrastructure on a guaranteed, high-speed connection in the 60 Hudson Street location, without going over the public Internet. The Telx solution provides our managed private cloud network the high redundancy, security and connectivity choice we require.” Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – PALO ALTO, CA - HP (NYSE:HPQ) today introduced a new way for clients to cut capital investment requirements for the design and build of data centers in half while significantly decreasing their carbon footprint.(1)

The patent-pending HP Flexible Data Center (HP Flexible DC) offers a standardized, modular approach to designing and building data centers that allows clients to replace traditional data center designs with a flexible solution that can be expanded as needed while conserving resources. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Blog – LOS ANGELES - PEER 1 Hosting (TSX:PIX), a global online IT hosting provider, today announced the availability of the industry’s first large-scale, hosted graphics processing unit (GPU) Cloud at the 37th Annual Siggraph International Conference.

The system runs the RealityServer(R) 3D web application service platform, developed by mental images, a wholly owned subsidiary of NVIDIA. The RealityServer platform is a powerful combination of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and 3D web services software. It delivers interactive and photorealistic applications over the web using the iray(R) renderer, which enables animators, product designers, architects and consumers to easily visualize 3D scenes with remarkable realism. Read the rest of this entry »