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(The Hosting News) - NetDepot, a Global Net Access GNAX company, a leader in infrastructure as a service and hosted VMWare based, shared and private cloud hosting services, made a revolutionary and industry-first announcement regarding bandwidth overages and pricing. The new efforts, dubbed operation “Don’t Tread on Me”, are geared to simplify the way business is conducted and give peace of mind to both new and existing NetDepot customers regarding their bandwidth usage. NetDepot is doing away with overage charges and allowing customers to focus on their core business without worrying about the end of the surprise bill.

“This effort will clear the way for hosted solutions to grow without worrying about busting the budget,” claims Jeff Hinkle, President and CEO of GNAX. “Ongoing research and analysis has been conducted on our business-class users and we’ve identified one obstacle they’ve been faced with in a data center outsourced situation – bandwidth overages and utilization. With the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ effort active and ready to go, our customers, both new and old, will no longer have to stress over bandwidth any longer and can simply focus on their business.”
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NetDepot’s customers will now be empowered with the ability to choose a hosting solution that satisfactorily meets their needs regardless of bandwidth limitations. The new announcement applies to dedicated servers and cloud services, and all existing customers currently using either service. Hinkle concluded, “A new era of hosting and flexibility has arrived in this industry and businesses of all shapes and sizes will benefit from this exponentially.” This new program will also insulate our channel partners and resellers from the occasional abuse issue and or incoming DDoS overages that can cause financial issues from month to month. This new standard will apply on NetDepot’s premium gold network which it delivers its mission critical services on.

About NetDepot:
NetDepot is the cloud brand of Global Net Access, LLC – GNAX. With over 15 years in the industry and 2000 customers worldwide, NetDepot has carved its mark as one of the top on-demand data centers and enterprise-level cloud providers in the industry. NetDepot’s 75,000 square foot, SAS 70 Type II-certified mission critical data center in Atlanta, Georgia serves as its home base and a facility in Dallas, TX. NetDepot focuses on high availability VMWare based hosted solutions. NetDepot’s redundant network service and 99.999% reliability gives it the stability to offer only the best in dedicated server hosting, cloud hosting and enterprise-class hosting solutions. NetDepot has a strong reseller and channel partner program for delivering its online solutions and is always looking for new partners.
Those interested in learning more about NetDepot’s new Managed Hosting Services can call 1-877-334-4629 or visit www.netdepot.com to learn more about dedicated server hosting, cloud hosting.
Contact:
Brandon Hale
NetDepot
+1-404-230-9150 x 227
sales@gnax.net

Web Site:

http://www.netdepot.com

NetDepot Announces No More Overages on Hosted Servers

(The Hosting News) - NetDepot, a Global Net Access GNAX company, a leader in infrastructure as a service and hosted VMWare based, shared and private cloud hosting services, made a revolutionary and industry-first announcement regarding bandwidth overages and pricing. The new efforts, dubbed operation “Don’t Tread on Me”, are geared to simplify the way business is conducted and give peace of mind to both new and existing NetDepot customers regarding their bandwidth usage. NetDepot is doing away with overage charges and allowing customers to focus on their core business without worrying about the end of the surprise bill.

“This effort will clear the way for hosted solutions to grow without worrying about busting the budget,” claims Jeff Hinkle, President and CEO of GNAX. “Ongoing research and analysis has been conducted on our business-class users and we’ve identified one obstacle they’ve been faced with in a data center outsourced situation – bandwidth overages and utilization. With the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ effort active and ready to go, our customers, both new and old, will no longer have to stress over bandwidth any longer and can simply focus on their business.”
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NetDepot’s customers will now be empowered with the ability to choose a hosting solution that satisfactorily meets their needs regardless of bandwidth limitations. The new announcement applies to dedicated servers and cloud services, and all existing customers currently using either service. Hinkle concluded, “A new era of hosting and flexibility has arrived in this industry and businesses of all shapes and sizes will benefit from this exponentially.” This new program will also insulate our channel partners and resellers from the occasional abuse issue and or incoming DDoS overages that can cause financial issues from month to month. This new standard will apply on NetDepot’s premium gold network which it delivers its mission critical services on.

About NetDepot:
NetDepot is the cloud brand of Global Net Access, LLC – GNAX. With over 15 years in the industry and 2000 customers worldwide, NetDepot has carved its mark as one of the top on-demand data centers and enterprise-level cloud providers in the industry. NetDepot’s 75,000 square foot, SAS 70 Type II-certified mission critical data center in Atlanta, Georgia serves as its home base and a facility in Dallas, TX. NetDepot focuses on high availability VMWare based hosted solutions. NetDepot’s redundant network service and 99.999% reliability gives it the stability to offer only the best in dedicated server hosting, cloud hosting and enterprise-class hosting solutions. NetDepot has a strong reseller and channel partner program for delivering its online solutions and is always looking for new partners.
Those interested in learning more about NetDepot’s new Managed Hosting Services can call 1-877-334-4629 or visit www.netdepot.com to learn more about dedicated server hosting, cloud hosting.
Contact:
Brandon Hale
NetDepot
+1-404-230-9150 x 227
sales@gnax.net

Web Site:

http://www.netdepot.com

Source: NetDepot Announces No More Overages on Hosted Servers

(Gawkwire.com) – SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced the release of its Mobile Client application for the iPhone® OS. The new app brings SoftLayer customers robust server and account management tools for iPhone, iPod touch®, and iPad™.

SoftLayer was early to market with a mobile version of its leading Customer Portal suited for various cellular phone web browsers. The new Mobile Client application goes even farther, leveraging recent advances in smart phone hardware and software paradigms to deliver a native application with capabilities including:

 Tickets: Allows the creation and viewing of tickets for support questions or requests.
 Servers: Provides details about Dedicated Servers, Virtual Servers, and CloudLayer™ Computing Instances, as well as the ability to manage system startup, shutdown, pinging, and reboot.
 Bandwidth: Delivers bandwidth usage information for Dedicated Servers, CloudLayer Computing Instances, and Virtual Racks.

“We’re excited to take the ease of use and control that our Customer Portal has provided and pair it with the convenience of a native mobile application,” said Nathan Day, SoftLayer Chief Technology Officer. “At SoftLayer, we try to put our customers first; this new application allows customers to access the management portal from any location, any time at all.”

SoftLayer Mobile Client for iPhone OS is available for free download through the iTunes® Store. Native Mobile Client applications will be available for additional mobile devices soon.

About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer is a best-in-class, infrastructure-as-a-service provider with data centers in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC, and network Points of Presence across the US. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements, allowing customers to create cloud, dedicated, or seamless hybrid computing environments managed through a single interface. Enterprises of any size can have complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management in an on-demand IT solution. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638..

http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/softlayer_launches_mobile_client_app_for_iphone_os.html

95^th percentile monitoring is a collocation technical term that relates to bandwidth. This method of monitoring logs 30 days worth of traffic samples every 5 minutes. This log is then sorted in descending order, placing the largest traffic spikes at the top of the list. These top 5% traffic spikes are thrown out.

This remaining top value, within the 95^th percentile, is the bandwidth usage for the month. Colocation hosting providers often use this method to bill their corporate customers. Most collocation hosting companies feel this is the most fair and effective method for conducting business with corporate clients.

This method of billing is only really seen in peering arrangements between corporate networks. Since internet service providers need consistent data rates for planning, this method is far from appealing to them. Most sites generate the bulk of their traffic on Mondays. Therefore, Monday practically determines the billable rate for the entire month.

The primary advantage is the user can accumulate up to 36 hours of peak traffic that will be ignored on that month’s bill, regardless of the height of the spikes. Unfortunately this bill method attracts a few criticisms.

For instance:

• Potential to pay for unused bandwidth
• Inbound and outbound traffic calculated separately

Although the primary advantage is attractive, it works both ways. Users can potentially pay for unused bandwidth. For example, if a website only uses 2Mbps for 5% of the time and nothing more, the client would be billed as if they had utilized 2Mbps for the entire month. If this were the case, the cost could be driven down by sending data reducing the bandwidth to the 95th percentile thus knocking the 5% off.

Another criticism is the split calculation of inbound and outbound traffic. Since these are calculated separately, the highest value is used for billing and not the total sum. This is another issue that could cause for a surprising bill. Critics of this method prefer the flat rate billing system, the average amount of data transferred or billing per byte.

Web hosting providers offer many different types of billing. Some colocation providers even offer a 90% billing method to attract those with inconsistent bandwidth usage. There are so many different steps to getting a website up and running and ever-increasing options to keep it maintained. 95^th percentile monitoring is a fair and effective billing method, but it’s generally more useful for individual users to find an alternative with a better fit.

95^th percentile monitoring is a collocation technical term that relates to bandwidth. This method of monitoring logs 30 days worth of traffic samples every 5 minutes. This log is then sorted in descending order, placing the largest traffic spikes at the top of the list. These top 5% traffic spikes are thrown out.

This remaining top value, within the 95^th percentile, is the bandwidth usage for the month. Colocation hosting providers often use this method to bill their corporate customers. Most collocation hosting companies feel this is the most fair and effective method for conducting business with corporate clients.

This method of billing is only really seen in peering arrangements between corporate networks. Since internet service providers need consistent data rates for planning, this method is far from appealing to them. Most sites generate the bulk of their traffic on Mondays. Therefore, Monday practically determines the billable rate for the entire month.

The primary advantage is the user can accumulate up to 36 hours of peak traffic that will be ignored on that month’s bill, regardless of the height of the spikes. Unfortunately this bill method attracts a few criticisms.

For instance:

• Potential to pay for unused bandwidth
• Inbound and outbound traffic calculated separately

Although the primary advantage is attractive, it works both ways. Users can potentially pay for unused bandwidth. For example, if a website only uses 2Mbps for 5% of the time and nothing more, the client would be billed as if they had utilized 2Mbps for the entire month. If this were the case, the cost could be driven down by sending data reducing the bandwidth to the 95th percentile thus knocking the 5% off.

Another criticism is the split calculation of inbound and outbound traffic. Since these are calculated separately, the highest value is used for billing and not the total sum. This is another issue that could cause for a surprising bill. Critics of this method prefer the flat rate billing system, the average amount of data transferred or billing per byte.

Web hosting providers offer many different types of billing. Some colocation providers even offer a 90% billing method to attract those with inconsistent bandwidth usage. There are so many different steps to getting a website up and running and ever-increasing options to keep it maintained. 95^th percentile monitoring is a fair and effective billing method, but it’s generally more useful for individual users to find an alternative with a better fit.

95^th percentile monitoring is a collocation technical term that relates to bandwidth. This method of monitoring logs 30 days worth of traffic samples every 5 minutes. This log is then sorted in descending order, placing the largest traffic spikes at the top of the list. These top 5% traffic spikes are thrown out.

This remaining top value, within the 95^th percentile, is the bandwidth usage for the month. Colocation hosting providers often use this method to bill their corporate customers. Most collocation hosting companies feel this is the most fair and effective method for conducting business with corporate clients.

This method of billing is only really seen in peering arrangements between corporate networks. Since internet service providers need consistent data rates for planning, this method is far from appealing to them. Most sites generate the bulk of their traffic on Mondays. Therefore, Monday practically determines the billable rate for the entire month.

The primary advantage is the user can accumulate up to 36 hours of peak traffic that will be ignored on that month’s bill, regardless of the height of the spikes. Unfortunately this bill method attracts a few criticisms.

For instance:

• Potential to pay for unused bandwidth
• Inbound and outbound traffic calculated separately

Although the primary advantage is attractive, it works both ways. Users can potentially pay for unused bandwidth. For example, if a website only uses 2Mbps for 5% of the time and nothing more, the client would be billed as if they had utilized 2Mbps for the entire month. If this were the case, the cost could be driven down by sending data reducing the bandwidth to the 95th percentile thus knocking the 5% off.

Another criticism is the split calculation of inbound and outbound traffic. Since these are calculated separately, the highest value is used for billing and not the total sum. This is another issue that could cause for a surprising bill. Critics of this method prefer the flat rate billing system, the average amount of data transferred or billing per byte.

Web hosting providers offer many different types of billing. Some colocation providers even offer a 90% billing method to attract those with inconsistent bandwidth usage. There are so many different steps to getting a website up and running and ever-increasing options to keep it maintained. 95^th percentile monitoring is a fair and effective billing method, but it’s generally more useful for individual users to find an alternative with a better fit.

95^th percentile monitoring is a collocation technical term that relates to bandwidth. This method of monitoring logs 30 days worth of traffic samples every 5 minutes. This log is then sorted in descending order, placing the largest traffic spikes at the top of the list. These top 5% traffic spikes are thrown out.

This remaining top value, within the 95^th percentile, is the bandwidth usage for the month. Colocation hosting providers often use this method to bill their corporate customers. Most collocation hosting companies feel this is the most fair and effective method for conducting business with corporate clients.

This method of billing is only really seen in peering arrangements between corporate networks. Since internet service providers need consistent data rates for planning, this method is far from appealing to them. Most sites generate the bulk of their traffic on Mondays. Therefore, Monday practically determines the billable rate for the entire month.

The primary advantage is the user can accumulate up to 36 hours of peak traffic that will be ignored on that month’s bill, regardless of the height of the spikes. Unfortunately this bill method attracts a few criticisms.

For instance:

• Potential to pay for unused bandwidth
• Inbound and outbound traffic calculated separately

Although the primary advantage is attractive, it works both ways. Users can potentially pay for unused bandwidth. For example, if a website only uses 2Mbps for 5% of the time and nothing more, the client would be billed as if they had utilized 2Mbps for the entire month. If this were the case, the cost could be driven down by sending data reducing the bandwidth to the 95th percentile thus knocking the 5% off.

Another criticism is the split calculation of inbound and outbound traffic. Since these are calculated separately, the highest value is used for billing and not the total sum. This is another issue that could cause for a surprising bill. Critics of this method prefer the flat rate billing system, the average amount of data transferred or billing per byte.

Web hosting providers offer many different types of billing. Some colocation providers even offer a 90% billing method to attract those with inconsistent bandwidth usage. There are so many different steps to getting a website up and running and ever-increasing options to keep it maintained. 95^th percentile monitoring is a fair and effective billing method, but it’s generally more useful for individual users to find an alternative with a better fit.

End-user’s can enjoy server control through Apple OSX, Windows Vista, and Adobe AIR.

Chicago, IL: April 12, 2010: Dedicated and complex hosting provider, SingleHop, today released a new addition to its revolutionary Tandem server reseller system, the Tandem Widget. The Widget is a comprehensive cross-platform application that allows instant server management without the need of a web-browser, and straight from the end-user’s OSX or Windows Vista desktop.
SingleHop’s Tandem Server Reseller system, launched in February of this year, has reshaped the reseller industry by providing more control, higher margins, and stronger sales opportunities through a broad range of benefits and perks.

“Most reseller programs offer limited control to the reseller themselves, and virtually no control to the end-user. Tandem has redefined the industry by offering resellers datacenter grade control through SingleHop’s LEAP system and the ability to offer their end users 100% white-labeled online, mobile, and now even browser-free desktop tools like Tandem Widget,” commented Mike Crosse, SingleHop’s Channel Program Manager and Tandem program manager.

The Tandem Widget allows end-users to submit new tickets, review and update support tickets, view bandwidth usage, remote reboot, and more just by opening the Tandem Widget from the desktop. The widget currently supports Windows Vista and Apple OS X natively, as well as various types of Linux and Unix-based operating systems that support Adobe AIR. Tandem Widget is the first tool within the reseller hosting industry that allows for quick and easy server management on your desktop, and entirely independent of a web browser.

“Widgets are mini-applications that sit on your desktop ready to get stuff done on a moment’s notice. We could not think of a more appropriate way to allow our clients to quickly reboot their servers,” said Andy Pace, VP of Operations for SingleHop.

Other unique benefits offered by SingleHop’s Tandem Reseller program include:

• Free Tandem Control Panel for end-users.
• Free Tandem Mobile for end-users.
• Free $50 ad credit from MySpace MyAds.
• Free $25 ad credit from Yahoo! Search Marketing.
• Free SiteLock security scanning and security seal for reseller websites.
• Free PDF marketing collateral for all server models, data centers, and aspects of service that are brandable in the resellers style and image.

About SingleHop, Inc.

SingleHop, Inc., is a full-service managed dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective, dedicated servers. The company was founded by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites from around the world. SingleHop competitors include: SoftLayer, ThePlanet, FastServers, and RackSpace. The cornerstone of SingleHops’ managed hosting is the à la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full-array of transparent management services designed and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise. www.singlehop.com

Chicago, IL: March 19, 2010:  SingleHop, a leading Chicago-based dedicated and managed web hosting provider, today announced that their unique server resellers system’s Tandem Panel, an end-user control panel which can be entirely white labeled by the reseller is now available in over 15 languages, including:

•    Portuguese (Brazil)
•    Portuguese (Europe)
•    French (Canada)
•    French (Europe)
•    Arabic (Jordan)
•    Bulgarian
•    Chinese
•    German
•    Hindi
•    Italian
•    Japanese
•    Korean
•    Russian
•    Ukranian
•    Spanish

SingleHop’s Tandem system was launched on February 10th and has revolutionized the way that servers are resold by solving some of the reseller business’ toughest issues: Lack of control, limited economies of scale, and marketing and R&D budget constraints. As part of the webhosts focus on providing dedicated server resellers with more control they released the end-user control panel in over 15 languages. All the current functionality and access features of the Tandem Panel will be retained in each of these different language options.

The Tandem Panel is fully customizable with resellers’ logo, brand, colors and image, includes a fully-featured help desk with advanced ticketing functions, enables remote reboot and support, supplies server and bandwidth usage information, and is available as a mobile and webtop application. SingleHop is not offering support in these fifteen languages, only the end-user control panel.

“We’re offering the Tandem control panel in these 15 languages because we’re truly committed to fulfilling the Tandem principle of helping our clients’ have more control and sell more servers,’” says SingleHop VP of Sales and Marketing Dan Ushman. “This will enable our reseller clients to better serve and access both new and existing markets. We understand that having this type of control and flexibility has a direct impact on sales and profit, and the Tandem reseller program was designed from the beginning to maximize that control and flexibility—and thus, maximize profits.”

Dan added, “We’re also open to working with clients in translating Tandem to additional languages as needed. Here at SingleHop, and especially with the Tandem program, we believe that we are your partners and allies in growing and effectively managing your business, finding the right tools for your webhosting needs, and achieving your sales goals. If there is something more that we can do to help make that happen, we want to know about it.”

For more information about Tandem, or to sign up for free as a Tandem reseller, please visit http://www.singlehop.com/resellers.

About Tandem by SingleHop
Tandem by SingleHop is a revolution in the dedicated server reseller industry.  Designed to give reseller businesses data center grade controls, enterprise size partnerships, and exceptional margins, Tandem leverages the SingleHop’s experience, R&D budget, relationships, and buying power for the benefit of its reseller clients.  Tandem centers around three principles:  have more control, through a fully-customizable control panel and the industry-leading LEAP server management system; sell more servers, using SingleHop’s sign-on incentives and free marketing assistance; and make better margins, taking advantage of SingleHop’s industry relationships and customized, Tandem-only deals.  Don’t jump alone—go Tandem with SingleHop.

About SingleHop, Inc.
SingleHop, Inc., is a full-service managed dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective, dedicated servers. The company was founded by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites from around the world. SingleHop competitors include: SoftLayer, ThePlanet, FastServers, and RackSpace. The cornerstone of SingleHop’s managed hosting is the à la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full-array of transparent management services designed and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise.

Chicago, IL: March 19, 2010:  SingleHop, a leading Chicago-based dedicated and managed web hosting provider, today announced that their unique server resellers system’s Tandem Panel, an end-user control panel which can be entirely white labeled by the reseller is now available in over 15 languages, including:

•    Portuguese (Brazil)
•    Portuguese (Europe)
•    French (Canada)
•    French (Europe)
•    Arabic (Jordan)
•    Bulgarian
•    Chinese
•    German
•    Hindi
•    Italian
•    Japanese
•    Korean
•    Russian
•    Ukranian
•    Spanish

SingleHop’s Tandem system was launched on February 10th and has revolutionized the way that servers are resold by solving some of the reseller business’ toughest issues: Lack of control, limited economies of scale, and marketing and R&D budget constraints. As part of the webhosts focus on providing dedicated server resellers with more control they released the end-user control panel in over 15 languages. All the current functionality and access features of the Tandem Panel will be retained in each of these different language options.

The Tandem Panel is fully customizable with resellers’ logo, brand, colors and image, includes a fully-featured help desk with advanced ticketing functions, enables remote reboot and support, supplies server and bandwidth usage information, and is available as a mobile and webtop application. SingleHop is not offering support in these fifteen languages, only the end-user control panel.

“We’re offering the Tandem control panel in these 15 languages because we’re truly committed to fulfilling the Tandem principle of helping our clients’ have more control and sell more servers,’” says SingleHop VP of Sales and Marketing Dan Ushman. “This will enable our reseller clients to better serve and access both new and existing markets. We understand that having this type of control and flexibility has a direct impact on sales and profit, and the Tandem reseller program was designed from the beginning to maximize that control and flexibility—and thus, maximize profits.”

Dan added, “We’re also open to working with clients in translating Tandem to additional languages as needed. Here at SingleHop, and especially with the Tandem program, we believe that we are your partners and allies in growing and effectively managing your business, finding the right tools for your webhosting needs, and achieving your sales goals. If there is something more that we can do to help make that happen, we want to know about it.”

For more information about Tandem, or to sign up for free as a Tandem reseller, please visit http://www.singlehop.com/resellers.

About Tandem by SingleHop
Tandem by SingleHop is a revolution in the dedicated server reseller industry.  Designed to give reseller businesses data center grade controls, enterprise size partnerships, and exceptional margins, Tandem leverages the SingleHop’s experience, R&D budget, relationships, and buying power for the benefit of its reseller clients.  Tandem centers around three principles:  have more control, through a fully-customizable control panel and the industry-leading LEAP server management system; sell more servers, using SingleHop’s sign-on incentives and free marketing assistance; and make better margins, taking advantage of SingleHop’s industry relationships and customized, Tandem-only deals.  Don’t jump alone—go Tandem with SingleHop.

About SingleHop, Inc.
SingleHop, Inc., is a full-service managed dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective, dedicated servers. The company was founded by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites from around the world. SingleHop competitors include: SoftLayer, ThePlanet, FastServers, and RackSpace. The cornerstone of SingleHop’s managed hosting is the à la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full-array of transparent management services designed and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise.