(The Hosting News) – HOUSTON —R1Soft, developer of Linux Hot Copy (HCP), a free command line utility that takes instant point-in-time snapshots of online Linux file systems, today announced the availability of HCP Beta Version 3.3.1. This latest release furthers Hot Copy’s maturity with updates and performance improvements.

For Windows Server administrators the ability to perform online disk snapshots is easy and has been included by default since Windows Server 2003, called Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service. R1Soft Hot Copy adds volume shadow copy to Linux servers.

“In an interview with IDG in 2008 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed Linux runs on 60 percent of the servers. It has always been amazing to me that the operating system running on 60 percent of the World’s servers had no universal volume snapshot tool. Volume snapshots are a very important tool for server administration, yet for Linux administrators taking an online disk snapshot has historically been a complicated challenge. With R1Soft Hot Copy Linux, volume snapshots are easy and available to all Linux servers,” said David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies, Inc.

The latest release of Hot Copy Beta adds the ability to take multiple point-in-time snapshots of online disk volumes. These readable and writable snapshots are useful for everything from backups, upgrades, testing system changes, and security audits. Hot Copy can even be used to detect corrupt file systems while the server is online, something that typically requires server down time and maintenance.

“Sure there has always historically been Linux Volume Manager Snapshots (LVM), however LVM does not directly support many of the popular storage configurations like basic partitions, virtual disks for Xen, and replicated block devices. Further, Linux LVM Snapshots require an administrator to create dedicated snapshot storage ahead of time, typically when the server is first installed, and this is often forgotten until someone needs a volume snapshot. All these challenges are a thing of the past for Linux now that Hot Copy is available” said Wartell.

Today’s release also integrates the free Linux utility with R1Soft’s newest version of its Continuous Data Protection ® (CDP) software, CDP 3 Standard Edition, allowing Hot Copies to be created while CDP 3 is performing replicas of the same device.

To download Linux Hot Copy for free and to learn more about how it works, please visit http://www.r1soft.com/tools/linux-hot-copy/

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( The Hosting News ) – H4Y Technologies LLC, an established leader in web hosting and internet services, today announced its acquisition of iWebFusion Technologies LLC of Oregon (iWebFusion.net).  iWebFusion will continue to operate as a separate brand under H4Y Technologies LLC.  iWebFusion brings an entirely new customer base to H4Y Technologies LLC.  Host4Yourself.com, the primary brand of H4Y Technologies, focuses on development, enterprise class and mission critical managed hosting, dedicated servers, and colocation, while iWebFusion.net has made a successful name for itself based on its economical shared, reseller, and VPS product lines. 

Evan Kamlet, LLC Member of H4Y Technologies, said, “As if Host4Yourself.com didn’t already offer a huge range of options to our clients, the purchase of iWebFusion.net should make us attractive to just about every conceivable consumer and business.  With the resources and capital on tap at H4Y, we foresee a very rosy picture for iWebFusion.net in the coming months and years.  It is very exciting for all of us”. 

iWebFusion.net’s staff, billing, and structure will not change.  Existing customers will encounter no ill effects as no equipment will be moved.  A portion of iWebFusion.net’s equipment was already under the ownership of H4Y Technologies LLC before the acquisition.  It is still up for debate whether the pricing model will remain unchanged, but clients have been guaranteed that existing accounts will never increase in price, nor will future sign-ups for clients with existing accounts. 

H4Y also worked out a partnership arrangement with USSHC (United States Secure Hosting Center) in Monticello, IA.  The underground bomb and EMP resistant datacenter boasts its status as “the most secure datacenter in the United States”.  iWebFusion VPS nodes and dedicated servers currently occupy a small portion of datacenter space at this facility.  The existing infrastructure will not change, but H4Y Technologies will add to it and offer Host4Yourself.com customers a new line of mission-critical hosting products based on this new partnership.

Host4Yourself.com already offered a linear upgrade path for its clientele.  With this acquisition, the entry level for prospective clients is lower than ever before and the scalability options are nearly unlimited with products and plans at nearly every imaginable price point.

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( The Hosting News ) – DNS Made Easy announces the release of ShowMyHost.com. ShowMyHost is a free tool that administrators can use to help do their daily tasks and is available for free for all administrators around the world.  This new tool is offered by Tiggee LLC, the creators of DNS Made Easy. 

ShowMyHost (www.showmyhost.com) is a tool for network and DNS administrators to find the web hosting provider, DNS provider, and mail hosting provider of a specific website on the internet. This new tool offered by DNS Made Easy is only one of many others now available online including ReverseDNSTrace (reversednstrace.com) and IPv6Verify (ipv6verify.com).

DNS Made Easy has stated that some of the most common support related questions asked by clients involve requests for hosting company information for their website.

“Hosting services on the internet can be bought and resold several times over. There is a real need for tools like this one.“ states Bryan Hughes, Vice President of System Operations at Tiggee. “Often, web hosting services are set up once and then no one accesses the account for extended periods of time until there is a need to reconfigure something. Suddenly, no one remembers who hosts their website!”

DNS Made Easy first deployed the tool DNS Made Easy support representatives who would then provide clients with the correct hosting information for their domain. The whois listing for a domain displays authoritative name server information about a domain and this caused clients to mistake DNS Made Easy as a web hosting company when they viewed this information. In order to alleviate some of the confusion, DNS Made Easy decided to go public with this tool and provide it to the Internet community free of charge. Now, whether your organization has switched hosting companies, hired a new administrator, or simply needs to update your web site for the first time in years: showmyhost.com can point you in the right direction.

More information about the showmyhost.com service is available at www.showmyhost.com.

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(The Hosting News) – CLEVELAND, OH – Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), announced that they have entered into a partnership with the Cavaliers Operating Company, LLC., whereby the Cavaliers will use Hosted Solutions’ Stratus Trusted Cloud(TM) to power the team’s official arena website, theQarena.com.

Because the arena’s website is anticipated to draw much heavier web traffic this year, the Cavaliers selected Hosted Solutions in an effort to increase the availability and robustness of theQarena.com. Reasons for increased traffic include:

– The team and arena recently launched their own single-game primary and
secondary market ticket sales service with Veritix – the industry’s
most cutting edge digital ticketing, event marketing and relationship
management platform. The public is directed to theQarena.com to
purchase tickets to all Quicken Loans Arena events including the
Cavaliers and AHL Lake Erie Monsters.
– The Cavaliers begin their 40th season with a powerful team of proven
players and high expectations and projected record attendance (The
Cavs set two franchise records during the 2008-09 season with an
average attendance of 20,512 and the number of sellouts – 38 total.)

– The Q now heads into an entertainment season with a jam-packed
schedule of special events expected to generate record website traffic
levels.

Stratus Trusted Cloud provides the availability needed to handle spikes in traffic at any time. “The upcoming year is sized up to be ‘XL’ in every way, including our fans’ interest in tickets to see the Cavaliers, Lake Erie Monsters, concerts, special events, and family shows,” said Jeff Lillibridge, Web Services Director. “We feel the scalability and dependability of Hosted Solutions’ Stratus Trusted Cloud is a perfect match to support our needs, which in turn allows us to provide our fans the level of service they deserve.”

Introduced earlier this year, Stratus Trusted Cloud dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications for small and mid-sized enterprises. Stratus offers a massively scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure that enables customers to access a secure, enterprise-class cloud environment with built-in high availability and automated resource balancing. As a result, businesses can move faster without compromising availability or security and significantly reduce both their capital and operating expenditures, whether Stratus is deployed on an enterprise, private or hybrid cloud basis. Moreover, Stratus is designed to provide an added level of assurance to companies that their data and entire infrastructure is being administered in a trusted manner, acting in accordance with a full range of governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) regulations.

“The demand for an ‘always on’ IT environment is not unique to the Cleveland Cavaliers,” said Rich Lee, Hosted Solutions’ founder and Chief Executive Officer. “Any company doing business online requires the highest degree of reliability; even a short amount of downtime in this competitive economy can hurt significantly. The Cavaliers’ decision to deploy the Stratus Trusted Cloud for their arena website confirms its value for firms seeking a reliable, consistent and secure approach to ensuring that their website is up and running when they, and their customers, need it most.”

Lee added that several other companies have chosen the Stratus Trusted Cloud in the last several months. He noted that 80 percent of Hosted Solutions’ clients run their production environments through his firm, a further testament to the superior level of performance delivered by the Hosted Solutions team.

About Hosted Solutions

Hosted Solutions’ high quality Data Center and Managed Hosting services maintain and protect customers’ mission-critical IT systems and applications, enabling them to reduce operating costs, lower the risk of downtime, focus on core competencies, and achieve their top business objectives. The company operates SAS 70 Type II Certified facilities in Boston MA, Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, and Cary NC, providing best-of-breed data center operations with hardened physical infrastructure, the highest level of security, and a complete managed services portfolio. Hosted Solutions is backed by Boston-based private equity firm ABRY Partners. For more information, please visit www.hostedsolutions.com.

Source: Hosted Solutions

CONTACT: Noreen Allen, Hosted Solutions, +1-919-882-3048,
nallen@hostedsolutions.com; or Steve Friedberg, MMI Communications,
+1-610-518-7474, steve@mmicommunications.net

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(The Hosting News) Santa Monica, CA.  – GreenGeeks LLC (http://www.greengeeks.com) announced today that they are sponsoring the American Lung Association’s Fight For Air Climb at the Aon Center in downtown Los Angeles.

The Fight For Air Climb will be held on Saturday April 24, 2010 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day.

“We are all very excited to be part of the American Lung Association’s event and we’re proud to be working with our community toward the goal of being able to have cleaner air for our families,” says Trey Gardner CEO of GreenGeeks.

“I know first hand how harmful the air quality in Los Angeles can be as I have suffered from allergies all my life and I am looking forward to fighting back with the American Lung Association to decreasing the number of days where the city’s air quality is harmful to all of us in the area.” added Trey.

If you would like to attend the event and climb the stairs to the top of the Aon Center, registration starts at 8am PST at the event site which is located at 707 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90017 and the climbers start up the stairs at 9am PST.

Visit the Fight For Air Climb web site at: www.Fightforairclimb.org.
Visit GreenGeeks web site at: www.GreenGeeks.com.

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( The Hosting News ) – Network Solutions® announced today that Kurt Gastrock has been named Senior Vice President. Kurt responsibilities will span three key areas: Product, Sales and Wholesale. Gastrock will be a catalyst for product innovation and customer growth. He is charged with extending the company’s suite of products and services through online and new sales channels and developing new private label offerings to a growing portfolio of partners.

“Kurt brings a wealth of experience in product development and channel strategy to the company,” said Tim Kelly, President of Network Solutions. “He is a great complement to the existing team members.”

Network Solutions is focused on providing businesses with quality products and services that make it easy for them to establish and grow their companies using the Internet. The product portfolio spans a wide range of services – from web hosting to online marketing services – that are supported with free, 24/7 customer service support, certified by JD Power & Associates year after year.

“I am happy to be part of the Network Solutions team,” said Kurt Gastrock. “The company continues to develop, refine and expand its product portfolio and open new sales channels to deliver products and services that deliver results small businesses expect.”

Prior to joining Network Solutions, Gastrock served as the Senior Vice President for Sales and Business Development at NextG Networks. His past experience includes leading the day-to-day operations of Convera Corporation where he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Gastrock also spent a number of years at Sprint Nextel Corporation where he held senior level posts in their wireless site development, hosting, and E|Solutions business units.

Gastrock earned a Master of Business Administration from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University.

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( The Hosting News ) – PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc today announced a collaboration with InMon to provide precise bandwidth measurement and analysis capability.

PEER 1 will deploy the industry standard sFlow® network monitoring technology and InMon’s Traffic Sentinel, in all of its data centers to provide an industry leading bandwidth billing solution for its Managed Hosting customers.

Bandwidth usage is measured on a per-IP address basis, so PEER 1 is able to ignore traffic occurring inside the data center, and provide precise traffic charges to its customers in a way that is not possible through per-port or physical-layer network traffic monitoring.

For PEER 1 customers, the InMon-powered network traffic monitoring and analysis is accessible in real time through the online customer portal with customizable graphs and downloadable data.

Ted Smith, SVP of Operations at PEER 1 said: “We believe our customers should only pay for the services they use and our collaboration with InMon maximizes our network analysis and measurement capability allowing us to accurately pass on lowest cost bandwidth charges to customers. Our IP-based or layer three approach not only increases transparency and billing accuracy, it also enables our customers to accurately re-charge bandwidth usage to their own customers.”

”The unique scalability of InMon’s sFlow solution makes it the ideal choice for monitoring the fastest of data center networks,” said Peter Phaal, president of InMon Corp. “In the expert hands of the PEER 1 engineers, the detailed traffic database in the Sentinel product can be applied to a wide range of applications, from accounting and capacity planning to troubleshooting and security.”

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(The Hosting News) – DALLAS, TX – Texas based managed web hosting provider, PerformanceHosting (www.performancehosting.net) has announced release of their new “Server Command” center. This allows their clients who take advantage of their dedicated web hosting services to provide them with easy access 24/7 to be able to instantly manage their dedicated servers from anywhere in the world. Such features include: Instant Reboot, monitor services such as CPU temperature and CPU Fan statistics, Network statistics and also current bandwidth in and out of the server.

PerformanceHosting CEO, Robert Abbate explains, “providing our clients with better access to these services improves their ability to ensure high availability of their server as well as making them feel more in control.” Further he adds, “we are constantly looking for ways to improve customer satisfaction in this ever-evolving world of web hosting”

About PerformanceHosting
PerformanceHosting has been an active player in the web hosting industry since 2000. The company has focused on delivering a high
quality and knowledgeable technical support team 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They serve customers in over 80 countries around the world. Performancehosting has grown substantially during these years with a very high customer retention rate of over 90% and a large portion of business from current client referrals .

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(The Hosting News) – OVERLAND PARK, KS – Codero unveils new server networks improving security, performance, backup and ongoing management for any dedicated hosting scenario. Custom network configurations offer complete redundancy and control for high-volume email, websites, databases, application hosting and more. Three custom network configurations are designed to support complex business applications requiring multiple servers. Load-Balanced is fully redundant maintaining network traffic on high-capacity mail and web servers. High Availability is designed for marketing campaigns, high-traffic stores and data-demanding applications. The Cluster network configuration supports social media hosting, large databases and mission-critical infrastructure with optimum privacy.

“These custom configurations are perfect for the medium-to-large enterprise,” says Taylor Giddens, Director, Dedicated Services for Codero. “Whether to secure core data, handle spikes in traffic or support thousands of users at once, each server network delivers a flexible solution with an emphasis on uptime.”

Codero’s network configurations feature high-quality components including dedicated load balancing, Cisco firewall, EVault managed backup, 100MB switch, Gigabit Private VLAN and database (dynamic, replication or cluster). All server setups are available as Linux or Windows and may be further customized to meet any business need.

For more information on Codero Network Configurations, go to www.codero.com/custom-network-configurations/ or contact a Codero Solutions Advisor at 877.999.2750.

About Codero

Specializing in dedicated and managed hosting services for small- to medium-sized businesses, Codero offers advanced email, eCommerce, security and networking solutions. This includes a full line of high–performance Windows® and Linux servers as well as EVault Backup, Pinnacle Shopping Cart and more. All Codero products are backed by secure data centers, live 24/7/365 U.S.-based support and a seasoned staff with international experience in the hosting business for over 15 years. For more information about Codero, please visit www.codero.com.

Contact

Shelby Garlock, Director, Marketing
shelbyg@codero.com
877.999.2750

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(The Hosting News) – HOUSTON, TX – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today expanded its portfolio of products and services with the addition of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.  Windows Server 2008 R2 helps organizations reduce operating costs, and increase efficiencies.  The new operating system is available to all dedicated hosting customers across the company’s eight SAS 70 Type II-audited data centers.

Windows Server 2008 R2 enables dynamic provisioning and management of virtual workloads with the much-anticipated update to Microsoft’s Hyper-V™. With its Live Migration-enabling technology, moves between physical hosts now happen in milliseconds. As the first Windows Server operating system with a true 64-bit architecture, R2 also offers powerful hardware and scaling features.
“Our customers around the world are always looking for ways to do more with less, and Windows Server 2008 R2 is optimized to meet those demands,” said Todd Mitchell, general manager for dedicated hosting and global services at The Planet. “As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we stay in lockstep with new technologies from Microsoft to give our customers more ways to reduce operating costs and increase efficiencies.”

About Windows Server 2008 R2
The latest operating system from Microsoft includes a number of updates that enhance server performance and management control:

• Powerful hardware and scaling features; R2 is the first Windows Server operating system to move solely to a 64-bit architecture, and CPU-specific enhancements enable customers to run up to 256 logical processors.
• Updated Hyper-V augments virtual workload management; Hyper-V enables Live Migration, a new feature for R2 that moves virtual machines in a matter of milliseconds.
• Ubiquitous remote access; DirectAccess allows remote users to seamlessly access corporate resources without a VPN connection or client software.
• Strongest Windows application platform to date; R2 includes the new Internet Information Services 7 (IIS 7.0), which helps applications run faster while using fewer system resources.

For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.theplanet.com/server-software/.

About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 18.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting™ and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7×365 support.  For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.

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