Dedicated Hosting
Wachovia Capital Partners declared that it has acquired HostMySite. The company states that HostMySite is a leading hosting provider, delivering managed hosting, dedicated hosting, virtual private servers, and shared hosting. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
HostMySite.com, founded in 1997 provides service With over 250 employees, 4,000 servers and state of the art datacenter facilities. Wachovia Capital Partners is a private equity investing firm. It is a part of Wachovia Corporation, which is the fourth largest bank holding company in the USA.
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The Planet, a dedicated hosting provider, has announced four new hosting promotions for June. After the outage at their H1 datacenter, the company designed various promotions aiming to keep strong relations with their existing customers, as well as new ones. The offerings include: Fill Your Cart, Crush The Competition, Fee free Private Rack, Virtual Racks Intro Offer, Firewalls from $69/month, 50% off upgrades, 2x RAM, HD, BW for free.
The Double Down Select allows customers to choose to double RAM, hard disk space or bandwidth for no additional cost. Current servers the Celeron 2.0+ and Xeon 3210-SAS are available for upgrades. Applicable servers will change weekly.
Discounted firewall upgrades allow customers to save up to $50 a month. There is 50% off upgrades.
Existing customers have the opportunity to reach 50% off RAM, hard disk or bandwidth upgrades.
Double Down Select promotion will end on June 16, 2008. The other promotions are available through June 30 or while supplies last.
For more information, you can check out: www.theplanet.com/promotions
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Peak 10, a dedicated hosting provider, will provide solutions to Spatial Networks, a Clearwater-based geospatial solutions provider. The company states that it cooperated with Spatial Networks to create a solution which will ensure security, scalability, and high availability to customer data. It adds that it will support Spatial Networks with a complete virtual platform from its advanced Louisville, Kentucky data center as well as a hot site in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Peak 10 states that partnership with its customers is the only way to build a solid business relationship and Spatial Networks is welcome to Peak 10. The company developed a virtual platform designed to meet Spatial’s needs that pays attention on security and availability.
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LeaseWeb, dedicated hosting provider increased its hosting network from 160 Gbps to 210 Gbps. The company’s goal is to keep having twice as much capacity available as the bandwidth used by clients with their web sites.
The company achieves its goal by obtaining new port capacity from telecom carriers (transit traffic) and an internet exchange (peering). Leaseweb added total of 50 Gbps of port capacity. It has bought 10 Gigabits of additional port capacity from Tata Telecommunications and Global Crossing. It has purchased an additional 20 Gigabits of port capacity from TeliaSonera. The company has bought 10 Gigabits of new port capacity from the London Internet Exchange (LINX), for additional peering capability.
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Dedicated hosting company The Planet’s H1 data center in Houston, Texas, exploded on Saturday. Approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers were affected.
The explosion broke down three walls of electrical equipment room. Along with the fire, it damaged the underground cabling that supplies power for the first floor of the facility. Neither injuries, nor any server damage were reported. The company has kept in touch with its customers via its forum and customer portal.
After officials inspection, company restored power to the facility. It immediately turned on the generators to supply power on the second floor. 90% of the second floor servers were back on after more than 40 hours of troubleshooting. Technicians tries to manually restore the remaining 10%, as well as restore power to the first floor. Many customer still feels upset by the period of time that recovery process took, leaving comments on forums.
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RSHosting.com, a dedicated hosting company, declared that it offers RVSiteBuilder as an option. This online website builder helps customers building their professional websites easily in a short time.
It also features a powerful WYSIWYG html editor and allow users to preview sites before publishing them. Customers receive a bundle of business-management software, a billing software and Enom account, for free. Moreover, the company avers that its plans feature FFMpeg hosting, 100% Private Nameservers, 24/7 technical support, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
The company also notes that now its reseller hosting plans offer more storage space, bandwidth, and additional features.
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AIT, announced that it had added a new dedicated server product, reinforcing its hosting services. The company binds high performance and live support with administrators certified in both Linux and Windows based hosting services.
According to the company, this shows its devotion to “manage everything so the customer can concentrate on productivity and revenues.” The company highlights that it offers implementation, customization, troubleshooting, patching, monitoring, administering, back-up and support.
The Enterprise Hosting Suites features 2 x 160GB disk space, a 2.9 GHz prosessor, 1GB RAM, virtualization, free domain registration and more than 100 free tools, with no setup fees. Moreover, it offers hosted Exchange email accounts, a free website builder and collaboration application Meeting Bowl.
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Hosted Solutions, a dedicated hosting provider, declared that the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has chosen its services. The company currently operates two data centers in Charlotte, as well as facilities in Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts.
The company expresses that The College of Health and Human Services’ web-based portal will be hosted on its servers. Hosted Solutions will provide bandwidth, managed firewall, collocation, SPLA licensing, OS management, managed backup services out of its SAS 70 Type II certified data center facility.
The portal is a part of the State Center for Health Statistics project, North Carolina Community Health Assessment Initiative. Information about people’s health care needs and strengths will be collected in this portal, enabling professionals to necessary information to build effective programs and policies and follow the results of these observations.
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C I Host officially introduced the SecureStore backup system. It offers a complete backup solution especially for enterprise customers, as well as dedicated hosting customers.SecureStore simply offers an enhanced level of security and reliability and the user can customize it to the level of protection needed.
The company states that the backup solution is a safety measure to secure data, containing critical business systems, file permissions, system state, registry and SQL databases. SecureStore can be used with all Windows and Debian Unix servers. Backups are stored off-server in C I Host’s NAS to keep critical system information continuously protected, even in case of system failure. The solution also minimizes administrative overages since backups do not increase customer’s bandwidth use.
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The Planet, one of the biggest dedicated hosting provider declared that it calls Internet product developer Directi a member of its affiliate program. Directi with more than 7,000 web hosting partners is The Planet’s largest affiliate to day. Directi’s businesses include ResellerClub, LogicBoxes WebHosting.info, and publicdomainregistry.com.
The Planet’s affiliate program, launched this January, gives partners the opportunity to receive a one-time 65% commission for each new dedicated customer referred to The Planet, after that customer’s third month. The company points out that its current commission range is between $44 and $1,700. It adds that the average commission is $139.62 per sale.
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