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(The Hosting News) – Are you looking to move your website from its current shared hosting environment and exploring other hosting options? If so, you may wish to consider VPS Hosting. VPS Hosting, or Virtual Private Server Hosting, provides some significant benefits over other options, including Dedicated Server Hosting. In today’s business world, a constantly changing economy and the need to lower company expenses while maintaining high profits are major considerations for companies as they look toward moving away from shared hosting environments. Oftentimes, companies turn to dedicated server hosting as the preferred option to shared hosting. One major disadvantage of making such a decision is the fact that in a cost-conscious business environment, Dedicated Server Hosting can be significantly more expensive then the shared hosting environment they wish to leave. Significantly more expensive, in many cases, can translate into paying up to four times the cost of their current shared hosting.
Fortunately, a much more viable and cost-effective solution to the expense of Dedicated Server Hosting can be found in Virtual Private Server Hosting, or VPS Hosting. Some of the benefits of VPS Hosting include:
- The ability to host a number of websites simultaneously and dedicate a virtual server to each and thus avoiding the need to share resources with other websites.
- The ability to configure virtual servers according to your own unique specifications.
- The ability to have total control and management over all of the servers you have purchased on a single server.
- The ability to dedicate virtual servers to specific applications such as emails, FTP, and back ups.
- The ease and speed with which virtual servers can be set up and put on line. This is unlike dedicated server set up, which oftentimes takes days.
- The ease with which VPS can be modified or upgraded.
- The power savings cost when compared to dedicated servers. Virtual server environments operate off of a centralized power unit, as compared to a dedicated server which must power up many servers to meet the individual needs of clients.
In closing, in a cost-conscious business environment, considering the use of a VPS Hosting system over other hosting systems and environments is a cost-effective, practical, and wise business choice for today’s ever-changing economy and business world.
Source: The Benefits of Virtual Private Server Hosting (VPS)
(The Hosting News) – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced the launch of a free, online technical support library designed to help individuals and businesses quickly and easily find solutions for their environments. The Planet Knowledgebase (http://support.theplanet.com) contains more than 1,300 “how-to” articles, with tutorials on various topics ranging from how to install SSLs in cPanel or Windows, configuring iptables for firewalls, creating and editing DNS zones, and error-handing in PHP, to name just a few.
“As the hosting industry grows and matures, we’ve seen increased interest from customers and prospects who want to enhance their technical knowledge,” said Jim Picone, vice president of customer care. “Our team of technical support experts developed The Planet Knowledgebase over time, compiling solutions to our customers’ most common questions. We’re launching the site publicly so that anyone around the globe, regardless of hosting provider, can find the information they need quickly and easily, at any time of day. It’s a one-stop site that will save businesses and users valuable time by having hundreds of how-to’s at their fingertips.”
The Planet Knowledgebase is open to the public, and more than 90 percent of the topics are provider-agnostic. The site also contains articles specific to customers of The Planet. Users can browse the extensive article library by topic, or search from the home page using keywords. Fresh content is added daily, and these new articles are featured in a special section on the home page.
To encourage dynamic content, each article can be rated by the community on a scale of “poor” to “awesome.” The best-rated articles are then featured on the home page, while lesser-rated articles are flagged for The Planet staff to refine. The site also contains a direct link to The Planet Forums (http://forums.theplanet.com), a long-established customer message board, where users can additionally go to seek community feedback on various hosting issues.
To learn more, visit The Planet Knowledgebase at http://support.theplanet.com.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small– and medium–size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Essential Managed Services, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7×365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world–class service, backed by state–of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.
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Source: The Planet Launches Free Online Technical Support Library
(The Hosting News) – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced the launch of a free, online technical support library designed to help individuals and businesses quickly and easily find solutions for their environments. The Planet Knowledgebase (http://support.theplanet.com) contains more than 1,300 “how-to” articles, with tutorials on various topics ranging from how to install SSLs in cPanel or Windows, configuring iptables for firewalls, creating and editing DNS zones, and error-handing in PHP, to name just a few.
“As the hosting industry grows and matures, we’ve seen increased interest from customers and prospects who want to enhance their technical knowledge,” said Jim Picone, vice president of customer care. “Our team of technical support experts developed The Planet Knowledgebase over time, compiling solutions to our customers’ most common questions. We’re launching the site publicly so that anyone around the globe, regardless of hosting provider, can find the information they need quickly and easily, at any time of day. It’s a one-stop site that will save businesses and users valuable time by having hundreds of how-to’s at their fingertips.”
The Planet Knowledgebase is open to the public, and more than 90 percent of the topics are provider-agnostic. The site also contains articles specific to customers of The Planet. Users can browse the extensive article library by topic, or search from the home page using keywords. Fresh content is added daily, and these new articles are featured in a special section on the home page.
To encourage dynamic content, each article can be rated by the community on a scale of “poor” to “awesome.” The best-rated articles are then featured on the home page, while lesser-rated articles are flagged for The Planet staff to refine. The site also contains a direct link to The Planet Forums (http://forums.theplanet.com), a long-established customer message board, where users can additionally go to seek community feedback on various hosting issues.
To learn more, visit The Planet Knowledgebase at http://support.theplanet.com.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small– and medium–size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Essential Managed Services, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7×365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world–class service, backed by state–of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.
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(The Hosting News) – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces that in the last 90 days, it has been selected by 16 dedicated and virtual server providers and data centers covering a broad geographical spectrum of markets including Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Russia, Norway, Romania, Portugal, Belgium, Latvia, Ireland, U.K. as well as the U.S. and Canada. As a result, Cloud Linux is now available in the top global hosting markets. These new service provider partners recognize the value of CloudLinux technology, bundling it with their server offering alongside with popular control panels, driven by the growth in popularity of CloudLinux among shared hosting providers.
The newest CloudLinux customers include Hosting Ireland Limited, VeriPortal (Turkey), Usonyx (Singapore), TopHostingCenter (Canada), CH-Center Hosting (Romania) and UK2Group, which operates a family of brands across the U.K. and Europe including VPS.net brand. CloudLinux is gaining traction among a wide range of customers because CloudLinux is uniquely able to address complex shared hosting server issues because now they can reclaim control of their environments, improving stability and performance and making their servers virtually “crash proof.”
“We are grateful to our community of users who have shown tremendous support and interest in our solution,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. “The LVE technology was specifically developed for this market and we are honored that these leading edge technology companies trust us to introduce CloudLinux to their infrastructure.”
A key problem that CloudLinux addresses is that while hosting providers often host hundreds or thousands of customers on one server, even with vigilant monitoring, a single customer can affect performance of the entire server adversely. CloudLinux technology allows service providers to control CPU resources at an individual tenant level, significantly improving stability and reliability of the server. Its cutting-edge technology offers service providers the ability to double the density on its servers and control server resources via its new Lightweight Virtual Environment™ (LVE). Priced at a fraction of the cost of other options, CloudLinux LVE helps extract more performance per server, provides flexibility in management and better, faster updates. In addition, CloudLinux recently introduced a series of tools to help hosting providers gain more control over their server environments including:
Secure LVE (beta) extends LVE isolation to users with a virtualized file system. The file system will separate each user into its own environment, preventing one user from seeing any other users on the server. This creates a new level of security, making it much harder for hackers to attack, deface, or steal data from the shared web server.
MySQL Governor (beta) monitors MySQL users and restricts connectivity if they start using too many resources. The tool comes with a utility to see current usage giving unprecedented control and visibility over MySQL usage, significantly diminishing the number of support issues caused by MySQL abuse.
LVE wrappers are the set of tools that allow system administrators to run various users, programs & daemons within a Lightweight Virtual Environment. It provides control over system resources at the application level and prevents misbehaving programs running within the LVE from draining resources and slowing down or taking down the whole system.
Cloud Linux is becoming a popular choice among the wider community of hosting services providers since it is proving to be efficient, profitable and effective at reducing operational downtime. For more information on LVE technology, please visit www.cloudlinux.com or join our community at Twitter and LinkedIn.
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
CONTACT:
Judy Shapiro
CloudLinux
Chief Brand Strategist
(917) 617-3917
judy.shapiro@cloudlinux.com
Source: Cloud Linux Goes Global as 16 New Partners Come Online
(The Hosting News) – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces that in the last 90 days, it has been selected by 16 dedicated and virtual server providers and data centers covering a broad geographical spectrum of markets including Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Russia, Norway, Romania, Portugal, Belgium, Latvia, Ireland, U.K. as well as the U.S. and Canada. As a result, Cloud Linux is now available in the top global hosting markets. These new service provider partners recognize the value of CloudLinux technology, bundling it with their server offering alongside with popular control panels, driven by the growth in popularity of CloudLinux among shared hosting providers.
The newest CloudLinux customers include Hosting Ireland Limited, VeriPortal (Turkey), Usonyx (Singapore), TopHostingCenter (Canada), CH-Center Hosting (Romania) and UK2Group, which operates a family of brands across the U.K. and Europe including VPS.net brand. CloudLinux is gaining traction among a wide range of customers because CloudLinux is uniquely able to address complex shared hosting server issues because now they can reclaim control of their environments, improving stability and performance and making their servers virtually “crash proof.”
“We are grateful to our community of users who have shown tremendous support and interest in our solution,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. “The LVE technology was specifically developed for this market and we are honored that these leading edge technology companies trust us to introduce CloudLinux to their infrastructure.”
A key problem that CloudLinux addresses is that while hosting providers often host hundreds or thousands of customers on one server, even with vigilant monitoring, a single customer can affect performance of the entire server adversely. CloudLinux technology allows service providers to control CPU resources at an individual tenant level, significantly improving stability and reliability of the server. Its cutting-edge technology offers service providers the ability to double the density on its servers and control server resources via its new Lightweight Virtual Environment™ (LVE). Priced at a fraction of the cost of other options, CloudLinux LVE helps extract more performance per server, provides flexibility in management and better, faster updates. In addition, CloudLinux recently introduced a series of tools to help hosting providers gain more control over their server environments including:
Secure LVE (beta) extends LVE isolation to users with a virtualized file system. The file system will separate each user into its own environment, preventing one user from seeing any other users on the server. This creates a new level of security, making it much harder for hackers to attack, deface, or steal data from the shared web server.
MySQL Governor (beta) monitors MySQL users and restricts connectivity if they start using too many resources. The tool comes with a utility to see current usage giving unprecedented control and visibility over MySQL usage, significantly diminishing the number of support issues caused by MySQL abuse.
LVE wrappers are the set of tools that allow system administrators to run various users, programs & daemons within a Lightweight Virtual Environment. It provides control over system resources at the application level and prevents misbehaving programs running within the LVE from draining resources and slowing down or taking down the whole system.
Cloud Linux is becoming a popular choice among the wider community of hosting services providers since it is proving to be efficient, profitable and effective at reducing operational downtime. For more information on LVE technology, please visit www.cloudlinux.com or join our community at Twitter and LinkedIn.
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
CONTACT:
Judy Shapiro
CloudLinux
Chief Brand Strategist
(917) 617-3917
judy.shapiro@cloudlinux.com
(The Hosting News) – As the economy improves, IT managers are turning to cloud computing to help rein in increasingly complex virtual and physical infrastructure, a market research firm says.
Server revenue for private cloud computing will grow to $11.8 billion in 2014 from $7.3 billion in 2009, IDC predicted in a report released Monday. The much smaller public cloud market is also expected to grow significantly, rising to $718 million from $582 million during the same timeframe.
With many IT vendors heading to serve the growing cloud-computing market, IDC analyst Katherine Broderick said it’s a “great time for many IT organizations to begin seriously considering this technology and employing public and private clouds in order to simplify sprawling IT environments.
IDC defines a public cloud as being open to a largely unrestricted number of potential users within a market, as opposed to a single enterprise. On the other hand, access to private clouds is restricted to a single enterprise and is an internal shared resource, not a commercial offering.
Other findings in the IDC report are that public clouds are less likely to be broadly adopted than private clouds and the public variety will be less enterprise focused than the private models. In addition, 44% of the IT managers surveyed for the IDC report said they are considering private clouds in delivering Internet-based services.
One of the reasons public clouds are growing slower than private clouds is distrust on the part of consumers. A March survey of online adults found that from 55% to 69% of the respondents would be only somewhat or not at all interested in using cloud computing for pictures, music, office documents, videos, or financial services, such as tax files or bank records, Harris Interactive said.
Security was one of the main reasons for distrusting public clouds. Four in five of the respondents agreed that security was a concern. Only a quarter said they would trust a cloud-computing service for files with personal information, while three in five said they would not.
Cloud Computing to Increase to $11.8 billion by 2014
(The Hosting News) – As the economy improves, IT managers are turning to cloud computing to help rein in increasingly complex virtual and physical infrastructure, a market research firm says.
Server revenue for private cloud computing will grow to $11.8 billion in 2014 from $7.3 billion in 2009, IDC predicted in a report released Monday. The much smaller public cloud market is also expected to grow significantly, rising to $718 million from $582 million during the same timeframe.
With many IT vendors heading to serve the growing cloud-computing market, IDC analyst Katherine Broderick said it’s a “great time for many IT organizations to begin seriously considering this technology and employing public and private clouds in order to simplify sprawling IT environments.
IDC defines a public cloud as being open to a largely unrestricted number of potential users within a market, as opposed to a single enterprise. On the other hand, access to private clouds is restricted to a single enterprise and is an internal shared resource, not a commercial offering.
Other findings in the IDC report are that public clouds are less likely to be broadly adopted than private clouds and the public variety will be less enterprise focused than the private models. In addition, 44% of the IT managers surveyed for the IDC report said they are considering private clouds in delivering Internet-based services.
One of the reasons public clouds are growing slower than private clouds is distrust on the part of consumers. A March survey of online adults found that from 55% to 69% of the respondents would be only somewhat or not at all interested in using cloud computing for pictures, music, office documents, videos, or financial services, such as tax files or bank records, Harris Interactive said.
Security was one of the main reasons for distrusting public clouds. Four in five of the respondents agreed that security was a concern. Only a quarter said they would trust a cloud-computing service for files with personal information, while three in five said they would not.
Join Laurent Gharda, Founder and CEO of LinMin, as he presents “Automating Server Provisioning on a Budget”.
Learn more about Windows and Linux server deployment, repurposing and recovery using automatation tools. This Webinar includes a live demonstration of LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning and Imaging deploying Red Hat, Debian and Windows Server 2008.
In this webinar, you’ll:
- Learn how to easily migrate from a manual deployment environment to an automated one
- Understand how to use sandbox/staging environments to develop/tune provisioning templates before deploying customer systems
- Understand the differences between provisioning (remote OS installation) and imaging
- Learn how to provision systems with multiple VLANs
- Understand how to integrate provisioning functions into your control panel
- Customer examples and successes
Date & Time:
- Wednesday, May 12 from 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker:
- Laurent Gharda, Founder & CEO, LinMin
Moderator:
- Rob Farrell, Product Manager, iNET Interactive
This is an exclusive HostingCon Webinar Series event.
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HP, a global technology solutions provider, has joined HostingCon 2010 as a Gold Sponsor and exhibitor. While at the show, they will address questions, such as, “How can you leverage Software as a Service (SaaS) and what value does it bring?” and, “How will cloud computing and SaaS impact your IT organization?”
According to their Events Team, “HP has introduced the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio, designed to deliver a new magnitude of cost and resources savings for businesses involved in hosting and cloud computing, typically a large numbers of servers. At HostingCon we will illustrate how HP products and other solutions can be deployed to meet the very challenging demands of these environments.”
HostingCon is just three months away! If you are interested in becoming a Sponsor for HostingCon, please contact us now to learn more about the benefits to your business. You can also check out the exhibiting at HostingCon 2010 page to learn about all of the current exhibitor opportunities.
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(The Hosting News) – MySQL Conference and Expo, April 12, 2010 – Zmanda™, the leader in open source backup software, today announced a Disaster Recovery Option for Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL (ZRM). Additionally, Zmanda optimized Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) for the online protection of large-scale dynamic MySQL implementations. The simplicity of ZCB and robustness of ZRM can now be applied to environments of any size, ranging from a single MySQL database to those with hundreds of databases.
The Disaster Recovery Option for ZRM provides an economical cloud-based disaster recovery solution for MySQL environments. Instead of replicating every instance of MySQL, this option allows users to replicate only the ZRM server. The solution requires only the mirrored ZRM server to be running in the cloud and allows standby servers to stay dormant until recovery is required. This architecture avoids the accumulation of cloud fees until or unless a system recovery is initiated. This saves thousands of dollars compared to the cost of traditional disaster recovery environments and the savings multiply as the environment grows.
Zmanda also announced a new release of ZCB which is optimized to allow the cloud backup of hundreds of MySQL databases. ZCB runs on a Windows-based server and provides logical full backups of all MySQL databases in the datacenter to the cloud.
“The cost and complexity of implementing an effective disaster recovery solution can create formidable barriers for a business with limited IT resources,” said Chander Kant, chief executive officer of Zmanda. “Zmanda has removed those barriers with the ZRM Disaster Recovery Option by offering a simple, cost effective, cloud-based solution that provides comprehensive protection of MySQL environments.”
ZRM is a sophisticated backup and recovery solution designed specfically for MySQL databases. ZRM includes unique, enterprise-grade features such as MySQL storage engine and snapshot intelligence, replication support, integration of backup operations with MySQL binary logs, and the Zmanda Management Console — a powerful Web-based graphical user interface that lets DBAs control backup and recovery across thousands of MySQL servers from any browser enabled device.
ZCB is a simple GUI-based backup solution that allows Windows users to easily automate their backup and recovery process. Once ZCB is installed and the backup process is set using its simple scheduler, ZCB automatically backs up files, applications, databases, and networked devices to a storage cloud. The management console allows system administrators to schedule the extraction of backup data from live applications and the upload of backup archives to the storage cloud as independently scheduled operations, reducing the burden of backup operations on production applications and WAN bandwidth.
The ZRM Disaster Recovery Option is available immediately at a starting price of $750. ZCB is available immediately at a flexible pay-as-you-go price of $0.20/GB/month ($0.25/GB/month for EU) for data transfer and storage on the cloud, with an additional monthly charge of $4.95 per account for the protection of an unlimited number of MySQL databases.
The MySQL Conference and Expo will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California from April 12-15, 2010. The conference is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users and DBAs in the world. Zmanda representatives will demonstrate ZRM in booth number 312 of the exhibit hall. Additionally, Mr. Kant and Paddy Sreenivasan of Zmanda will deliver a presentation entitled, Backup up Distributed MySQL Applications – Taking a Snapshot of a Thousand Dancing Dolphins, on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 from 11:55 a.m. local time in Ballroom H.
For more information about Zmanda, please visit http://www.zmanda.com.
About Zmanda
Zmanda, based in Sunnyvale, California, is the global leader in open source enterprise backup and recovery. The company’s products — Amanda Enterprise, Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, and Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) — make it simple and affordable to backup and recover data in an increasingly complex and heterogeneous IT environment. Amanda Enterprise is an enterprise-grade, network backup solution based on Amanda, the world’s most popular open source backup and recovery software with more than half a million active installations worldwide. ZRM for MySQL is the first mission-critical backup solution designed specifically for MySQL databases. ZCB is the first Windows backup solution to backup both files and live applications to the Amazon S3 storage cloud. Businesses in more than 55 countries trust Zmanda to protect their corporate data. For more information about Zmanda, please contact zsales@zmanda.com or go to http://www.zmanda.com/.
Zmanda Provides Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery for Large-Scale MySQL Installations
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