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IT services hosting provider, Rackspace, will provide comprehensive monitoring, software, hardware, and network guarantees, designed to deliver high platform availability for SaaS software vendor, Confirmit.

Hostway Corporation, the global Web services leader, launched its Hybrid Exchange email platform this week. Now all new customer accounts will automatically be placed on this platform at no extra charge, allowing them to mix and match email plans for the perfect fit. "Using proprietary routing technology, we've done away with the all-or-nothing approach to hosted Exchange," said John Lee, senior vice president of small business hosting."Hostway's new Hybrid Exchange helps bridge the gap between traditional POP3/IMAP and hosted Exchange email. The synergy of our new platform will allow our customers to create their own email solutions."

The provider of quality VPS Hosting (http://www.hostcolor.com/vps) Host Color said to web hosting media that it has increased the features of all Virtual Private Servers. The web host also announced that it has launched a coupon - VPS2009 - that offers 1 free service month with all virtual private servers. The coupon is valid until April 30 2009.

Dalabelos is a family run, model eco-tourism complex built within the confines of a working estate located in the Prefecture of Rethymno, east of the town of Rethymno and surrounded by the villages of Panormo in the north and Angeliana in the south with easy access to the national road. The ten units of Dalabelos each about 25 sq. m. are situated amongst the 8 acres of olive trees, vineyards and aromatic plants with breathtaking views over the Cretan landscape and the Cretan Archipelago.

The company offers globally dispersed locations to meet their customers' requirements, wherever they are located around the world. Customers can choose from an on-premise local node in The Planet's Dallas D2 data center, or from locations on the East or West Coasts, Europe or Asia, through its partnership with Nirvanix. The company also offers Storage Cloud options for organizations that do not require hosting solutions.

Drive Headquarters, Inc. (http://www.DriveHQ.com/), the leading Online Data Storage, Sharing, Backup, Synchronization and FTP Server Hosting service provider announced a new version DriveHQ FileManager 4.5, the flagship product for Online File Storage, Sharing and Folder Synchronization.

Data center and managed services provider Hosted Solutions (www.hostedsolutions.com) has completed more than $6 million in enhancements to its Boston data center in response to growing customer demand throughout New England.

Managed hosting and data center services company, iomart hosting, has introduced a new brand identity, unveiled as the first in a series of steps which the company is undertaking in its business upgrade mission.

The internet has perhaps had more influence on the way people interact with the world than any other invention in recent history. In the last decade, the internet has increasingly become a ubiquitous feature throughout society, with a large proportion of UK households now having access to the World Wide Web, providing them with round-the-clock access to the global community.

Internet services company, Netcraft, has named Acens, Hosting 4 Less, ReliableServers.com and Swishmail as the most reliable hosting company sites in March 2009, with each site failing to respond to only two of the requests made by Netcraft's performance collectors

Jason Waxman, General Manager of High Density Computing at Intel remarked, "Intel collaborated with SoftLayer to offer leading-edge technology for on-demand data center services and technology innovation to its customers. We are pleased that Intel's next generation microarchitecture in the Xeon 5500 series servers will provide breakthrough virtualization performance and enterprise class features to meet SoftLayer's growing industry demand."

HostSearch.com provides unbiased information about web hosting providers and the web hosting industry. The site maintains the largest database of information about web hosts available and continually upgrades its service to ensure the information it provides meets the requirements of its visitors. The latest HostSearch version is a complete overhaul of the site, incorporating an entirely CSS-structured design that offers an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that guides visitors to the information they are looking for.

Apps4Rent LLC, a Microsoft Gold Partner and a leading provider of hosted Exchange, SharePoint and other applications, today announced value price plans for Microsoft Hyper-V hosting services. Apps4Rent's Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) plans offer the Web hosting industry's best value to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) and resellers who are looking for alternatives to dedicated or virtual private servers (VPS).

The Kalypso Cretan Village is situated at Plakias, 31 kms south of Rethymnon and 115 kms of Heraklion Airport. The Hotel is located in the grandiose environment of a small isolated gulf. It lies in 50.000 sq meters full of gardens and hanging rocks and has been created with respect to nature beauty and keeping the traditional Cretan style.

Host Color said to web hosting media that it now runs a series of web hosting coupons and instant rebates which gives its new customers a good opportunity to cut their annual costs for IT hosting and data storage with 10% to 15%.

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced its new 'Lowest Price on The Planet' promotion, the most aggressive offer in its history. To encourage companies using other hosting organizations to consider The Planet, the process is simple: bring an invoice from a competitor, and The Planet will beat the offer on price, with an equivalent configuration for either self-managed dedicated or fully managed hosting. Also included in the promotion is one month of free hosting, free migration assistance with relocation from a competitor, and a free month of monitoring with reaction, one of its Alpha Advanced Services offerings.

Host Color said to web hosting media that it has discounted the price of its Dedicated Power (http://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/dedicated-power) server with 15%. Dedicated Power is a server hosting solution based on 2 x Quad Core Xeon 2.50 GHz machine which features 8 GB RAM and 2 x 500 GB hard drives. The service comes with 2,500 GB (2,5 TB) data transfer quota per month.

It's been two years since John started his online business. He is very much satisfied with his current web host whose services he acquired one year ago. Today John is relaxing in his chair and thinking about the initial days when he spent many hours on the Internet collecting information related to web hosting. Like him there are many John's out there who are in search of information everyday, visiting this and that website hoping to find the most illuminating advice. The problem is that common topics of interest can be found on most of the websites whereas other relevant issues are not dealt with everywhere. This article is going to touch on one of those areas: various concerns related with domain names.

Managed hosting provider iland Internet Solutions (www.iland.com) announced on Tuesday it has selected AboveNet (www.above.net) as one of its top two Tier1 IP providers to connect the iland Virtual Data Centers, located in Los Angeles, Boston, Reston, Virginia and Dallas. AboveNet has provided iland with additional 4 Gbps IP network connectivity for each of its virtual data centers, providing iland and its customers with further redundancy, flexibility and cost effectiveness. "We continue to invest in our network construction to offer a broad array of high-bandwidth fiber optic connectivity solutions," says MaryBeth Nance, executive director of business development and marketing at AboveNet. "We provide reliability and scalability to meet iland's highest requirements for data center connectivity, IT virtualization, and consolidation and optimization services. By delivering a bundled, managed solution to iland within all four of its virtual data center markets, we also help control iland's network operating costs while enabling fast and scalable deployments."

If you have made the decision to switch from your expensive web host to a cheaper web host to host your website, you may be a bit overwhelmed over the thousands of cheap web hosting providers available on the internet. When choosing a web host, you will want to make sure that the provider is reliable, continues to update the server hardware and software, and has excellent customer service. You should also check the customer testimonials.