Cyrus One Expands Dallas Data Centre

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 17 Jul

An announcement by collocation provider Cyrus One to expand its already existing data centre in Lewisville, Dallas from 80000 square feet by adding another 81000 square feet. This comes in the wake of previous announcements which Cyrus One made to expand its centre in Houston by adding to it another 25000 square feet. The centre in Houston was already a humongous 125000 square feet in size. Once this is completed, Cyrus One would be the owner of 5 facilities in Texas covering a total area of 31000 square feet.

IBM Launches Cloud Division, Strategy

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 14 Jul

IBM decided to take up the challenge against its cloud competitors by announcing the development of its cloud division on Wednesday. It further announced the initiation of a new cohesive cloud computing strategy.

IBM has decided to tie up with Amazon Web Services to offer to clients its innovative cloud software with new strategies such as “pay as you go” program. This plan will help clients to access knowledge and software in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Environment. This is not a new development for IBM as its past business partnerships show that it had made a $ 300 million investment for the development of 13 cloud computing centers in the month of November in 2008.

VERIO Partner Summit

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 14 Jul

Renowned web hosting provider held their annual viaVerio partner summit in March, from the 15th-17th, 2009. The summit will be organized at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia.

The basic aim of this summit will be to address the huge number of participants in the company reseller program and will help them by giving headers to grow their business in stringent economic conditions. The company also disclosed the primary topics which are going to be discussed which include search engine optimization, lead generation, virtual private servers and managed private servers.

Right Servers Deploys App-Logic Based Grid

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 10 Jul

3Tera- a leading grid hosting software developer on the global front, announced that Right Servers, a Canadian hosting provider has launched a new grid-based hosting service using 3Tera’s AppLogic cloud computing platform.

The aforementioned product will help Right Servers to offer a variety of services, including among them grid-based virtual private servers. The development of cloud computing was primarily done by 3Tera and it since then become a popular concept with technology executives and IT managers all over the globe. AppLogic is one of the best avenues which one can utilize for building cloud computing but apart from this, there are a lot of other options as well.

Afilias Launches Managed DNS Service

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 25 Feb

One of the leading names in the domain registry industry, Afilias announced the entry of one of its products in the market on Tuesday. It is a managed DNS service which is available for commercial purposes. Though the company is entering an already crowded market, it is doing so with a product which is very well developed, evident from the fact that it supports 15 registries. Furthermore, it also confirmed that Afilias provides support to more than 14 million domain names and has been in this business for a period spanning 8 years. The .me registry which forms a constituent part of Afilias’s product recently crossed the 200000 mark.

Limestone Introduces High End Line

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 07 Feb

Limestone Networks, a Dallas, Tx based hosting service provider, has launched a new high end line of servers which will be included into their product line. This is more for the “Enterprise” customer that needs this sort of power. This new line of servers consist of Xeon 5400 series, dual-processor, quad-core servers with Harpertown processor cores, that support more than 48GB of RAM on a single server and offer up to 3.0 Ghz processing power. These packages start at $250 and up.

Fireproof Hosting

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 11 Dec

Do we really need fire-proof web hosting? Integristech.com has moved into their new datacenter facitlity with a fire-proof make-up. Firelock, supplying the technology, can withstand 2000 degrees Fahrenheit and keeping internal temp below 125 degrees for a few hours. Data is important these days and you have got to protect it, but don't ever leave it up to the hosting provider. When keeping integrity of something this important, you better have a plan B, C and D. Don't trust anyone. It's always good to be prepared.

Holiday Season Turmoil

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 01 Dec

The colloquial term Black Friday has in effect transpired on to the online market with a force over the last decade or so. Each year the online industry is growing by leaps and bounds, but it seems that during this time, site speeds and downloads have slow for the online market. Sears was the most recent ecommerce site to feel the wrath of shoppers, experience downtime, the morning of Black Friday. The consensus is that web hosts are not up to par with the sudden burst of traffic this time of year and are not nearly prepared as they should be.