Frontpages Web Hosting Network, a shared hosting provider, announced that it has launched its brand new product: Total Care Support, which is an extension to its management services’ menu. This offering is an opportunity for dedicated hosting customers to have access to better management. Total Care supports 24/7 hardware monitoring and alerting. Moreover, on monthly basis, it notifies crucial hardware occurrences that consists of disk space, CPU and memory. Other features include controlled patching. Within 72 hours of release, the system applies critical security patches. Standard patches get applied within 14 days or when the customer request it.
The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner since January, offering hosted applications including SharePoint, MOSS, Exchange, CRM, SQL Server, in addition to its dedicated servers. MOSS 2007 offering has been introduced by the company in late April. For details: Frontpages announces MOSS 2007
Host Color, a dedicated hosting provider, introduced its open source ticket support system: osTicket. Three of their shared packages, Max, Mega and Multi Domain will feature osTicket software. The company integrates osTicket in its PowerTools application library, enabling access easily from user’s hosting control panel.
The company claims that osTicket provides an organized solution for entrepreneurs as well as other website owners to deal with customer requests and control their preferences. According to the company, osTicket is a simple ticket software that gathers comments or requests received via mail or an online form into an easy manageable web interface. The system stores customers’ requests and responses enabling you classify them and support your customers with quick and precise answers.
Planet Online, a shared hosting provider, declared that it has acquired SeeMoreSearch.com, which offers SEO services for businesses. Planet Online highlighted that it immediately start offering search engine optimization services in addition to its domain and web hosting services.
The company expresses that SEO services are inevitable to get more traffic to your website, which means more success in business. It adds that SeeMoreSearch’s experience on SEO will be a great advantage for the company to provide their clients with better options and services. Possible discounts and SEO services bundles are on the way.
Dedicated hosting provider Peer 1 has donated IT infrastructure to support Pangea Day Worldwide Film Event. Peer 1 will provide free managed hosting services, database failover services, systems architecture, on- site, day-of-event technical support for the Pangea Day IT network with 15 data centers at 17 points in North America. The company aims to show its allegiance to the Internet that according to the company crosses borders and brings individuals, organizations and businesses of all kinds around the world together.
The event will last for one day and connect participants from all over the world through live broadcast. There will be 24 short films and presentations of speakers and musical performers. The films were chosen out of more than 2,500 submissions from 100 countries. For more information about attending scheduled events or hosting events, please visit Pangea Day website at pangeaday.org
Top 10 Dedicated Server Hosting, a Dedicated Hosting Reviews organization, calls for participate in its 2008 Dedicated Hosting Award Program. Special awards will be distributed for each category and subcategory. The most successful service provider who keeps stimulating the industry will receive the best dedicated hosting provider award .
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Infrenion.com, a shared hosting provider, introduces its affiliate marketing program that offers a 10% commission on each sale and a $10 sign-up bonus.The company points out that anyone can be a part of its affiliate program for free. Payout Duration Payments are made once a month via Paypal, for the past month. Affiliates can manage their links, Traffic Logs, and commissions using company’s Affiliate Account control panel. They may put visuals, text links, and other marketing materials. Their website will also contain affiliate code to guide customers to Infrenion’s website.
Marketing department of Infrenion claims that affiliate program helps them a lot meeting new customers and since the program is free to join, everyone can benefits from it.
Easyspace, a shared hosting provider, declared that May 2008 promotions are available. Customers will have the opportunity to save 40% on the standard price of the domain. Customers who purchase a domain name will get any .biz domain name for just £7.50 for one year. The promo will last until 31st May.
The company highlighted domains’ features including MX Control, Name Server Control and web redirection. It added that added new mailbox and forwarding features are available on all domain registrations. Moreover,each domain name comes with £100 Pay Per Click Vouchers. The company had launched virtual servers and improved specification dedicated servers. Moreover,it had reduced prices of its virtual servers.
i9Biz, Korean shared hosting provider, announced that it has selected GigaFin Networks to use Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attack technology to protect server performance. i9Biz has installed FlowLine 500 network analysis and correcting appliances from GigaFin after an comprehensive evaluation to determine the solution that is the most trustworthy, stable and cost-effective. i9Biz observed that Korean sites that it provides hosting services has been facing DDoS attacks mainly everyday. Network’s guarding was not sufficient to protect the customers against attackers. Consequently, they started choosing higher-speed links expecting get rid off server and bandwidth overload caused by the attacks. Unfortunately, attackers were inspired to attack more intensively. To impede negative effect on its customers’ operating costs, revenues and satisfaction levels, i9Biz examined leading security vendors and decided to choose GigaFin.
The company first installed four Flowline 500 appliances for one of its larger customers. In less than an hour, the solution showed its effect and running smoothly, and prevented attacks were immediately reported. The company explains the FlowLine 500’s success claiming that it provides the anti-DoS features, scalability and better performance to work on its customer’s servers and reduces operating costs.
i9Biz serves over 200 companies, mostly headquartered in South Korea that is one of the leading sources of online gaming and Internet services. DDoS has been an exceptional problem for South Korea. An estimated damage of over US$1 billion has been caused by recent DDoS attacks on virtual game item trading companies.
SoftLayer, a dedicated hosting company, announced the opening of its newest data center in Washington DC. This expansion brings additional 10,000 server capacity increasing the total capacity to 45,000 servers. The new data center connects directly to its data centers in Dallas and Seattle. The company claims that the new data center has one of the highest concentrations of fiber connectivity in the USA, enabling them and their customers multiple network options and high class performance.
SoftLayer Washington D.C. is 7 miles away from Dulles International Airport in a facility designed to full Tier IV standards. Its support staff work 24×7 and multiple security protocols check access to the building. Moreover, the facility provides infrastructure features:
34 x 480v 3-Phase PDUs
Redundant 30-ton CRAC Units
FM-200 Fire Suppression System with VESDA
Biometric Security System
Digital Security Video Surveillance
SoftLayer has already started pre-selling servers in DC data center to current customers, receiving an excessive demand causing a high backlog of server requests. This new data center is the third one the company has opened in the last five months.
The Planet, a dedicated hosting company, announced that it has expanded its private rack portfolio with of a new virtual rack solution. The company states that new virtual rack offers cost-effective hosting solution for customers with as few as two servers. It also offers a smaller footprint.
The company claims that virtual racks provide hosting to customers who require cost-effective scalability and security with the power and flexibility for their multi-server solutions. The company expresses that customers can host multi-server online applications without compromising the control since they have the option to choose from a wide range of servers, bandwidth pooling and unlimited server-to-server data transfer.
Beginning today, this offering will be available only for a limited time. The first month is free on all Kentsfield servers that are hosted in a virtual rack.
