Aplus.Net announced that it offers dedicated servers built on the Windows Server 2008 platform that provides several innovative improvements and upgrades over Windows Server 2003.
Upgraded Windows Server 2008 features enhanced network and performance control, network access protection, and active directory federated rights management. Power Shell, Hyper-V, Kernel Transaction Manager and Windows Hardware Error Architecture are some of the services that are improved. Moreover, the company informs that a limited-time promotion of free setup on Windows Server 2008 is available with all dedicated hosting. Windows Server 2008 licensing is priced at $89 a month.
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.
Shared hosting company, Host the Best, has introduced HTB Monitoring Script version 4.6, which is a stand-alone script enabling users to obtain private-labeled website monitoring and server uptime services. It allows users to start their own precise, to-the-second monitoring service.
HTB Monitoring Script includes various administration and reporting features such as detailed member administration options, templates to show uniqueness, and a fully-featured control panel that enables users to control almost every aspect of their service. The new version has a unique feature: WinApp System Tray Add-on that incorporates browser functions in a tiny application that sits quietly in the Windows System Tray; multiple integrated payment gateways.
The script is priced at $99.99 and supports nearly all protocols and services. Moreover, it allows users to monitor user-defined TCP ports. They can set monitoring interval between 2, 10, 15, 30 and 60 minutes.
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
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.
Verio launches new Virtual Private Server hosting plans. The new plans are created for businesses that have their current shared hosting due to experienced or expected growth.
The company targets resellers and small to medium sized businesses that are interested in gaining greater reliability and scalability than what the basic shared hosting plans offer due to their needs for more dedicated space and enhanced scalability.
The plans work on both on both Linux and FreeBSD platforms. They feature multiple domain names to host multiple web sites, deliver increased storage, memory and process limits to provide high-capacity that growing businesses need. VPS Starter Plans offer solutions such as data backups, server security, and software updates to Verio which allows companies to have more time to work on core businesses functions rather than on IT management. It highlights that offering individual and isolated space on Verio servers, Verio’s FairShare technology allows customers take advantage of dedicated-like performance of the VPS solutions.
Dedicated hosting provider Future Hosting declared that it will start providing Virtual Private Servers in its Washington,DC data center facility to expand its worldwide VPS service.
The company’s target is to reach customers along the East Coast of the United States who need better connectivity. It states that more direct data paths are available to ISP’s in South America and Europe. The plans are priced at the same level as plans hosted in four other locations serviced by the company.
Introductory offer will include SA-SCSI disk space and the option to choose from a cPanel- or Plesk-based management platform. With the new facility, offering competitive opportunities to both prospective and existing clients, the company expects to serve enterprises and Fortune 500 companies. The company believes that VPS have proven their strategic importance globally. As an addition to the company’s assets, it will try to benefit from them to the most.
UK hosting provider Hostway has launched its virtualized dedicated server range. The new virtualized servers enable companies that could not previously afford virtualization by using a hosted solution benefit from it. Moreover, they increased reliability, scalability and economical advantage of hosting solutions.
The new server range offers better performance than standard one because now companies don’t have to depend on the performance of a single server box, providing solid business continuity in case of a physical server failing. Furthermore, now, Hostway customers are able to build new web sites, database or application servers in about 30 minutes. They don’t need to spend days to build and configure the server. This means high scalability for their infrastructure and support with a pay-per-resource idea.
Colocation hosting provider Center 7 announced that it will provide colocation and network business solutions for OrangeSoda. The company states that unparalleled colocation and bandwidth services will help their customers to have access to their own customers to run new business. Center 7 pointed out that providing colocation and network solutions to other companies like OrangeSoda, it benefits from their leading colocation and data security systems.
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.
