Web Hosting News

There have been a number of web hosting promos this week aimed at companies that are upping their online presence (such as the VPS and dedicated hosting offers from ServerChoice and Host Color) as well as those intending to make their online debut (such as the shared hosting deals from Evohosting and IntelWeb.biz).

Launched in early 2008, HostDime Mexico offers a variety of services in multi-domain hosting, shared hosting, reseller hosting, dedicated servers, and colocation. The Mexican division operates out of offices in Guadalajara, Mexico and hosts clients in HostDime's central data center in Orlando, Fla., with some servers hosted in Monterrey, Mexico for clients requiring localized services.

Triple Fiber Network (http://www.3fn.net) is proud to announce the launch of its All-In-One Services Portal (http://virtual.3fn.net), which will grant the access to all services provided by the company from one place. The new All-In-One Services Portal allows to enhance the connection between our customers and the company by providing access to the comprehensive management tool. Providing web hosting services information, statistics and new offers in one secure place on the web, 3FN is creating a place to manage almost entire online business operations. By registering on the portal customers can obtain control over shared hosting services, dedicated servers, domain registration, data backup, DDoS protection, and have access to the new reselling partner program.

Web Hosting News - LOS ANGELES, CA - InMotion Hosting, Inc. one of the fastest growing business web hosting providers in the U.S., announced today the opening of a new data center near Washington, D.C. Along with their data center located in Los Angeles, CA, this additional data center dramatically reduces the time it takes for clients to perform functions such as the sending and receiving of email and the uploading of web pages and other online content. 3rd party performance tests report an up to 6x improvement in speed when accessing websites from locations within one of InMotion Hosting's Max Speed Zones.

Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, will participate in the Web 2.0 Expo, scheduled for March 31 - April 3 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. The company will showcase its IT infrastructure solutions at booth 723, as well as give away a Flip Video MinoHD camcorder. Expected to draw nearly 8,000 attendees, the Web 2.0 Expo is the industry's leading conference and trade show for those who mold the 'next-generation' web, including designers.

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."

Google has launched Google Ventures, a new venture capital fund that will invest in innovative startup companies, including health care, IT, consumer Internet products and biotechnology firms, Healthcare IT News reports. Rich Miner - co-founder of Android, a mobile platforms company acquired by Google in 2005 - and Bill Maris, who founded Web hosting pioneer Burlee.com, will serve as Google Ventures' managing partners. Miner and Maris, wrote on the Google Blog, "This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies." They added, "Economically, times are tough, but great ideas come when they will. If anything, we think the current downturn is an ideal time to invest in nascent companies that have the chance to be the 'next big thing,

The company explains that ServInt's new Dedicated Server offering, introduced earlier this year, provides web and application hosting for established e-commerce sites, resellers and mid-size companies seeking manageability and high value. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides scalability to underpin this offering by facilitating easy movement of server content from one hardware environment to another with little downtime. The technology does this by enabling users to simultaneously run multiple execution environments called "containers" on a single physical server and OS installation. Customized management tools in the product reduce ServInt's management burden, allowing the hosting provider to re-focus on sales and customer support without the worry of managing co-location space, power, cooling and hardware support.

If you have no idea what you are doing in regards to web design, directing cyber traffic to your website or anything else that is technical, you will want a web host that has accessible tech support. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week is optimal as servers are known to go down at any time. For "full service" users, you can still expect affordable web hosting; however, it still may be a bit more than what an experienced web user pays with another company where only support via email or IM is available.

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."

EyeWide Hotel Internet Marketing Services, a company providing web hosting, construction, development and Search Engine Optimization of web pages, launched the brand new internet site of Kalypso Hotel in Plakias, Crete. Welcome to the land of the legends in Plakias Rethymno Crete - Kalypso Hotel: According to the myth, Zeus, father of the gods of Olympus, chose the island of Crete for his "human" residence. Taking the form of a white bull, he abducted his beloved Europe and hid her in the marvellous beach of Preveli and its nearby palm grove before consecrating her into a goddess. Later on, Odysseus, hero of Troy and the one who imagined the Trojan Horse, on his return journey from Troy was captured by the magnificence of the landscape and the beauty of the mythical queen Kalypso. He spent seven whole years in the area before continuing his return journey.

Q Point Technology (www.qpointtech.com) has selected The Planet's (www.theplanet.com) new Storage Cloud service as the platform for its TrueSafe (www.truesafe.net) software infrastructure, which lets service providers offer their own online backup service. According to on-demand IT hosting provider, the Planet, which made the announcement Monday, Q Point Technology is the latest company to use its Storage Cloud, delivering its easy-to-use backup platform TrueSafe on The Planet's highly scalable, on-demand cloud storage service. TrueSafe is available through a Software-as-a-Service subscription model, letting any service provider immediately offer a branded backup service to their customers to preserve and protect server, laptop and workstation data off-site.

The first and most important option when managing multiple domains is to decide whether or not to do so with the same web site host. Most web site hosts include in their packages a feature that would allow several sites on one account, or allow each individual sites to be managed and operated under separate accounts.

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.

Rack-Soft announced today the general availability of 4PSA VoipNow 2, a Unified Communications software system that integrates a powerful IP PBX, supporting voice, video, presence, and faxing with instant messaging capabilities. The new VoipNow 2 targets Internet Telephony service providers and web hosting providers that want to increase their revenues by offering value added unified communications services to their customers.

Members of the web hosting community are set to benefit from an expanded version of Google Services for Websites, according to the Official Google Enterprise Blog. A new version of the access provider program will feature Google Site Search, as well as Custom Search and AdSense. Google Site Search enables website owners to customise their search options and utilise flexible branding, according to the search engine

Web hosting tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has released 300 new tutorials in 14 new tutorial series. This includes 178 new voice tutorials, standard tutorials, and tutorials in other languages including French, Greek, Brazilian and Bahasia. In addition, DemoWolf is currently offering all tutorials at 50% off, as well as "bundles" of tutorial series for even greater savings, through March 31, 2009.

The new dedicated web services are designed to help businesses improve uptime, security, reliability and data backups, with flexible managed hosting solutions that provide support on a wide array of routine tasks as well as expert guidance on managing firewalls, load balancing, and other custom services. Managed Hosting from Aplus.net offers several benefits for small- and medium-sized companies in terms of time, cost and efficiency as an alternative to self-managed servers.

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.

Ms. Bartz remarked, "The Yahoo! brand is one of our most valuable and strategic assets, and Elisa is charged with unlocking its potential globally. Elisa has an outstanding track record in leading global marketing, branding, and communications teams, and we're excited to welcome her to Yahoo!'s executive staff. Yahoo!'s marketing strategy and teams have become decentralized over time - hiring Elisa in the CMO role will quickly mobilize our plan to integrate the function globally and more effectively represent the Yahoo! brand."