Latest Industry News from WebHostingTalk

1. Hosting.com, Web Hosting Company, to Expand High-Density Data Center - Managed hosting and colocation solutions provider, Hosting.com, is expanding by opening a 30,000 square foot datacenter and 13,000 square foot corporate complex in the Denver metro area in late August.
2. Web Hosting Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Platform, Astro, at Layered Tech -
   Provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, Inc., has made Microsoft Windows Server 2008 available for rapid server deployments via Astro, the company’s proprietary automated web hosting platform.
3. Sun Microsystems, Web Hosting Provider, Upgrades Developer Community, NetBeans - The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.7 has been released by web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the NetBeans developer community.
4. Hosted Cloud Services with Multi-Tenancy, Released by Gear6 - The next version of Gear6 Web Cache, specifically targeting the needs of cloud providers, has been released by provider of scalable Memcached solutions, Gear6.
5. Web Hosting Firm, Lunarpages, Selects CoreLink Data Centers - Tier 3 provider of colocation and disaster recovery solutions, CoreLink Data Centers, has been chosen by provider of web hosting services, Lunarpages, as its datacenter provider in Las Vegas.
6. Network Solutions Web Hosting Firm, Debuts July 4th Promotion - Web hosting provider, domain name registration and services firm, Network Solutions, recently announced, in celebration of Independence Day, that it will offer .US names at a discounted price.
7. Hosting SIP Plans Power E-Business, from Nexcess Magento - Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

   Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand - but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”
   Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”
   The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

8. Hosted Data Center Provider, Digital Realty Trust, Welcomes Capgemini - Wholesale datacentre provider, Digital Realty Trust, Inc., has completed a Turn-Key Datacentre lease agreement with consulting, technology and outsourcing services firm, Capgemini.
9. Web Host Boot Camp Participants, Offered Discount, by Kayako - Kayako, along with Web Host Boot Camp, is offering a special sales promotion for hundreds of its conference attendees on Kayako’s award-winning customer service software solutions.
   Jamie Edwards, operations manager at Kayako stated, ”Kayako has a long established presence in the web hosting and internet service provider community, supplying customer service and live engagement software solutions to providers of all kinds and sizes. We are very excited to be sponsoring the Web Host Boot Camp 2009 virtual conference, a first of its kind for this industry.”
10. Dedicated Server Hosting Company, ServerPronto, Joins Twitter - Dedicated server provider, ServerPronto, has joined the popular social networking platform, Twitter, a free microblogging site incorporated in 2007, which has fast become one of the most popular ways for companies to interact with customers and learn more about their clientele’s needs.

Latest Industry News from The WHIR

1. 42U Offers Data Center Energy Savings Calculator - July 2, 2009 — Data center efficiency solutions provider 42U announced on Thursday it has launched a free, interactive Data Center Energy Savings Calculator to help data center managers quantify the energy, cost, and CO2 savings possible through efficiency efforts.
   

   

2. 3FN Shutdown Costs Adult Affiliate Operator $5K a Day - July 2, 2009 — After the US Federal Trade Commission effectively pulled the plug on web host 3FN in early June for alleged distributor of spam, child pornography, and other illegal content, a mid-size Spanish pornography company that operates affiliate programs said the shutdown has cost its legitimate business $5,000 a day.
   

   

3. Data Center Pulse Reaches 1,000 Members - July 2, 2009 — Non-profit data center organization Data Center Pulse announced on Thursday it has enrolled its 1,000th member.
   

   

4. Web Host Value Reseller Acquires LogicSupport - July 2, 2009 — Little more than a week following its acquisition of Javascript Zoom, private-label reseller web hosting services provider Value Reseller has added another key piece to its reseller hosting offering by buying LogicSupport, which provides white-label, outsourced technical support, administration and management services exclusively for web hosts.
   

   

5. NTT America Names Two Executives - July 2, 2009 — Telecommunications provider NTT America announced on Thursday it has appointed Michael Wheeler the company’s vice president of the global IP network business unit.
   

   

6. Datapipe Tops Netcraft’s June Hosting Site Uptime List - July 2, 2009 — Responding to each and every request from Netcraft’s performance collector without fail for the entire month, managed services provider DataPipe had the most reliable hosting company site in the Internet security and analytics provider’s monthly survey.
   

   

7. Web Host Fasthosts Names New CEO - July 2, 2009 — UK web hosting provider Fasthosts Internet announced on Wednesday it has named Andy Burton the company’s new CEO of Fasthosts Internet, as well as of the company’s subsidiary in the US.
   

   

8. GoDaddy.com Launches New SEO Tool - July 2, 2009 — Giving its customers more of a chance to complete with the more than 200 million websites in existence, domain registrar web host Go Daddy has released “Search Engine Visibility,” a new search engine optimization tool that walks users through a step-by-step process to make their website search engine friendly, not only making a search engine more likely to index the entire site, but also to help the website rise in search engine rankings.
   

   

9. NSA Plans 1M Square-Foot Utah Data Center - July 2, 2009 — The National Security Agency has revealed plans to build a 1-million-square-foot data center at Fort Williams in Utah, which borders Salt Lake and Tooele counties, according to a report by the Salt Lake Tribune.
   

   

10. Hosting.com Plans 30k Square-Foot Denver Data Center - July 2, 2009 – Managed hosting and colocation solutions provider Hosting.com plans to open a a 13,000 square foot corporate office complex and a 30,000 square foot data center in the Denver metro area by late August, providing multiple layers of connectivity, redundancy, and security.