News: Web Hosting Provider, Bodhost.com, Debuts Fail-Over VPS Hosting
San Jose, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 7, 2008 - VPS and dedicated server web host, BODHost.com, has launched its new VPS Hosting offering of a guaranteed 100% Uptime Fail-Over offering.
The Fail-over VPS plan is a fully managed solution which combines the flexibility of Virtual Hosting with the luxury of 100% uptime guarantee at the most economical price.
The 100% Uptime guarantee VPS hosting is primarily aimed at corporate customers who need high uptime solution of a dedicated server mirroring setup but without the high costs usually associated with these setups. The fully managed VPS features 2 GB RAM, 60 GB disk space and 800 GB data transfer per month.
The company says it'ss technical team has carried out in-depth research and development work to come up with a viable solution thereby making sure that their customers receive the most reliable VPS hosting service.
Each Fail-over VPS is created on two servers, a primary server and a secondary server which is setup on a separate part of the network. Data is continuously synchronized between the primary VPS and the secondary VPS to ensure that the secondary VPS is constantly updated with the latest files/configuration as the primary VPS. The secondary VPS is basically an identical copy of the server the primary VPS is setup on. If for some reason the primary server goes down, IPs would automatically be assigned to the secondary server which would allow a VPS to carry on functioning, without exposing it to any downtime.
Mark Philips, Chief Marketing Officer, Bodhost says Over the years our clients have frequently asked for a VPS Hosting solution with some form of redundancy.
He states further, We were very conscious about creating a solution which is completely redundant but cost effective at the same time. With these views in mind, we set about creating a redundant Virtual Private Server solution. After many attempts, our technicians finally came up with a viable solution.
BODHost.com is a managed dedicated servers solutions specialist, providing top-class dedicated servers at cheap prices. Dedicated server hosting is the preferred choice when more output than conventional servers can offer is needed. Servers will always have a minimum uptime of 99.96%, due to quick responses from server and network administrators. State-of-the-art technologies and the ultra-modern support systems are highly responsive, following a set pattern of algorithm which is complimentary along with low cost best dedicated hosting servers. The 24/7 dedicated technical support team is always available to maintain the quality standards. Dual Core Configurations to Quad Core Configurations all have been setup on Branded Dell Hardware Chassis.
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News: Search Engine Public Beta of Live Event Tickets Developed
Palo Alto, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 7, 2008 - A search engine for live event tickets, has been launched by FanSnap, in public beta format, to facilitate sports, concert, and theatre fans find tickets faster and easier.
The public beta of its site will display the latest ticket-level detail results from more than 50 of the leading ticket providers.Jeff Lapin, President of RazorGator noted, ''We are excited to be a launch partner with the FanSnap team. RazorGator actively markets to fans both offline and online, and we look forward to utilizing this new channel to reach even more fans.''
Mike Janes, CEO of FanSnap remarked, ''We are on a quest to make it fast and easy for fans find sports, concert and theater tickets. The number of ticket providers has exploded, particularly with the growth of the resale market, and fans have an overwhelming number of choices. FanSnap is helping fans find their 'perfect' tickets by offering comprehensive, accurate ticket search results and new fan-focused search features.''
The public beta provides an opportunity for fans to use the new features and give immediate feedback, which FanSnap will use to continuously improve the search engine. In private testing, the most popular element of the site has been the patent-pending FanSnap Maps, produced for top venues in New York, Chicago, Boston, LA, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. FanSnap is incorporating fan suggestions to fine-tune the dynamic map's features, and plans to produce the improved maps for all major venues across the U.S.
On FanSnap, a ticket search query such as red sox, ac/dc, or wicked returns actual ticket-level details that fans can compare across providers, unlike the general search engines, whose results are web site addresses. Once fans have made their ticket selection they are directly deep-linked into the ticket provider's shopping cart to complete the purchase.
FanSnap's industry-first features give fans the ability to: -- choose from a list of events using any or all of a number of criteria, including number of tickets and price range desired. -- view tickets for a series of multiple events (e.g., a baseball homestand, a multi-night concert performance, or a week of Broadway shows) all at once. -- determine at-a-glance the price distribution of available tickets for any event. -- determine at-a-glance the ticket price range by section using the colored heat map markers on our dynamic FanSnap Maps. -- zoom into the FanSnap Maps and see the ticket offers from numerous providers placed in clearly labeled rows. -- view at-a-glance comparable ticket offers from multiple providers in a simple comparison format. -- place ticket offers in a short list for easy comparison of ticket details and total prices (ticket prices plus fees or commissions) across ticket providers.
FanSnap's ultimate objective is to work with every ticket provider to provide fans the broadest possible choice. Ticket providers will benefit from a dedicated customer acquisition channel to help them sell more tickets.
James Holzman, President of Ace Ticket, offered, ''New England fans are some of the most passionate in America. Working with FanSnap allows us to efficiently market to those fans who are searching online for Red Sox tickets, Patriots tickets, Celtics tickets, Bruins tickets, or event tickets anywhere in the U.S.''
Steve Hafner, CEO of Kayak, travel search engine added, ''As a fan, it is really exciting to see the first truly robust consumer search application for the live event ticket space.'' Mr. Hafner is a member of FanSnap's Board of Advisors.
FanSnap is the live event ticket search engine for fans. Our mission is to provide the most comprehensive, accurate, fast and easy-to-use resource for fans to find the tickets they desire to sports, concerts, and theatre events. FanSnap provides free ticket search results for dozens of the leading ticket providers, including Ace Ticket, AllShows.com, Barry's Tickets, Gold Coast Tickets, Las Vegas Tickets, RazorGator, and StubHub. Our detailed ticket-level search results are made possible by the combination of strategic industry partnerships and systems integration, as well as our FanSnap TicketData systems and patent-pending dynamic FanSnap Maps. FanSnap was founded in 2007, funded by General Catalyst Partners of Cambridge, MA, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
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News: Dedicated Server Web Hosting Firm, The Planet, Reports for Third Quarter
Houston, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 6, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has reported its financial results for the third quarter, ending Sept. 30, 2008. The Planet provides quarterly updates to its customers, business partners and prospects with information relative to new initiatives and its progress.
With a new corporate moniker, The Planet plans to issue quarterly updates to provide its customers, business partners and prospects with information to validate its progress.
Douglas J. Erwin , Chairman and CEO of The Planet noted, ''We had another successful quarter of year-over-year growth rates, which are roughly twice that of the dedicated hosting industry, despite a difficult economic environment around the world. This was a quarter that set a new strategic course for our business, with our entry into managed hosting under the Planet Northstar brand. Coupled with our new Planet Alpha dedicated hosting moniker and an enhanced a la carte services portfolio, we now offer customers the broadest range of technical infrastructure solutions and service options in the business.''
Third Quarter Highlights include:
New Customers, Record Transaction: More than 1,500 new customers bringing the total to more than 25,000. The greatest growth during the quarter came from the company's current customers, who continued to upgrade and expand their server portfolios. In addition, the company hosts more than 13.3 million web sites.
New Web Site: The company introduced a new Web site designed for easy navigation and transparency that demonstrates its rich breadth of products and services. Customers are easily able to move between the corporate, Planet Alpha Dedicated Hosting and Planet Northstar Managed Hosting sites to identify the best services for their business.
New Product: The company added enterprise-class security and performance for private rack customers with Cisco ASA 5500 Series firewalls and Foundry ServerIronXL load balancers. The server portfolio expanded to include Dell's Clovertown quad-core PowerEdge servers that provide 1.2 Terabytes of storage.
trong Customer Activity: In the third quarter, the company added 1,600 customers, bringing the total to more than 25,000. The greatest growth during the quarter came from the company's current customers, who continued to upgrade and expand their server portfolios. In addition, the company hosts more than 13.3 million web sites.
Planet Northstar Managed Hosting: Under a new brand, the company announced its entry into the managed hosting business using its rigorous and proactive Anticipation Advantage planning methodology. Small- and medium-sized businesses gain access to enterprise-class IT managed hosting services starting with as few as two servers backed by a dedicated team of seasoned IT professionals who are personally accountable for their success.
Planet Alpha Dedicated Hosting: The company rebranded its core dedicated hosting business under the Planet Alpha moniker. Customers have the power to choose from a broad range of products from single servers to complex infrastructure solutions based on the precise fit for their businesses.
Planet Alpha Advanced Services: Based on its May 2008 acquisition of TouchSupport, the company added new advanced services to its dedicated servers hosting portfolio, including monitoring, security and server administration. The new Alpha Advanced Services supplement the administration and maintenance of customers self-managed dedicated servers to create the optimal management plan for their business. With these new choices, customers can lower their operational costs, and add to or improve the security and availability of their hosted environment.
Yankee Group White Paper: The company issued a new white paper from Yankee Group that details managed hosting services as a tangible consideration for organizations looking to reduce IT costs. Titled Leveraging Capex-Free Managed Hosting, it provides an insightful examination into the formidable IT barriers faced by SMBs in today's competitive business environment. It also emphasizes the choice of managed hosting services as a strategic and effective alternative that offers enterprise-class capabilities previously not affordable for most companies.
Customer Videos: Demonstrating the success of its new managed hosting services, four companies were featured in videos underscoring their decision to choose the company's managed hosting solutions: Houston-based NutshellMail.com
Computan Brazil's Atitude Digital Media and The Sant Corporation located in Cincinnati. Also featured this quarter is Planet Alpha customer Stone Bond Technologies.
Lights-Out Green Initiative: In a company-wide program, The Planet will reduce its yearly energy consumption through more efficient use of lighting, which is expected to deliver an annual savings of almost $140,000.
Mr. Erwin added, ''We continue to reap the benefits of previous investments in both our call center and our data center operations. Customer satisfaction is at an all-time high, and we continue our relentless focus on making The Planet the best choice for SMBs looking for enterprise-class IT infrastructure management.''
Kevin Klausmeyer, Chief Financial Officer remarked, ''The Planet again produced a record quarter, with our highest year-over-year revenue growth. Cash flows remain healthy, and our balance sheet remains strong. We are also pleased about having achieved new levels of efficiency in utilizing our assets.''
Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:
High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business
The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 25,000 small and medium size businesses and 13.3 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.
Adding to its broad array of awards, The Planet ranked #81 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list for North America. The annual survey recognizes the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the nation based on consolidated results from its regional Fast 50 events. The win capped a series of awards during the year, including ranking #12 on the Fast 50 list for Texas; the Computer Reseller News Fast Growth list; and the Inc. 5000 roster.
For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.
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News: Web Hosting Firms, GoDaddy, Aplus.net, Included in topseos.com Monthly List
Plymouth, Indiana - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 6, 2008 - Internet marketing services firm, topseos, has revealed the Best Web Hosting Companies for its monthly listing, and the month of November 2008.
Hosting is the business of lodging, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. Companies provide space on a server they own to be used by their clients. Besides providing space hosting firms also provide internet connectivity.
A web hosting service is a type of service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web, i.e, content accessible on the internet. The company providing the space on the internet is called a Web Host or Web Hosting company.
Here's a list of the best 10 hosting firms that have been selected for November 2008:
1. FastServers.Net - Illinois
2. AT and T Web Hosting - New York
3. PEER 1 - California
4. Hosting.com - Kentucky
5. DataPipe - New Jersey
6. GoDaddy.com Inc - Arizona
7. Aplus.net - Kansas
8. Hostway Corporation - Illinois
9. Rackspace Ltd. - Texas
10. Pow Web - Massachusetts
The popularity of the rankings completed by topseos comes from the fact that the list is the result of an in-depth evaluation process. It is in fact, the most reliable source for finding quality internet marketing service providers.
During the selection of the top 10 companies, the hosting customers are asked questions such as:
If you incur a problem with your host, how quickly do you receive a response or are they available live on phone 24 hrs/day?
How much development support does the host offer for your site outside of what they have to per the agreement?
How knowledgeable are the technicians that assist you on a scale of 1-10?
Does the host offer any special features that would be considered on the forefront of keeping SEO in mind when offering hosting services (Class C IPs, etc.)?
How many times has your website gone down because of the host?
Hosting firms that would like to be considered for the topseos rankings can apply at: www.topseos.com/rankings/search-engine-marketing-agencies/apply-for-ranking.
topseos.com was started in 2002 with the purpose of being an all-inclusive platform for the latest news and resources for Internet marketing vendors. With this intent topseos.com has been compiling and releasing a list of the top ranking Internet marketing firms of the month. The January 2007 list is published and ready for release. "This is the place for the best to showcase their work. The list is up to date, accurate, and most importantly this is what the search engine marketing industry is looking for," Bill Peden said. topseos.com ranks internet marketing firms in eleven different categories. These categories are: Organic Optimization, Link Popularity Services, Content Creation, SEM Hosting, SEM Training Programs, SEM Email Marketing, Press Release Distribution, Pay Per Click Management, Search Engine Friendly Web Design, Search Engine Friend Web Development, and Website Traffic Analysis. Each fresh list tracks the ups and downs that these internet marketing firms see. At times, a firm maintains its position over a few weeks, whereas at other times, firms slip a few notches down or gain a few steps up. Of course, there are also entirely new firms that join the ranking, from time to time.
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News: Web Hosting Tutorials for H-Sphere, CubeCart and ZenCart, Debut at DemoWolf
Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 5, 2008 - Web hosting industry flash tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has launched its new tutorial series: H-Sphere 3.x end-user series, H-Sphere 3.x reseller series, CubeCart series and ZenCart.
Rob Moore, President of DemoWolf noted, ''When web hosts purchase tutorials from DemoWolf, we customize them for the host by placing their company logo in the first and last frame of every tutorial. By making support tutorials available to customers, hosting companies are saving upwards of 80% on their support tickets because instead of calling your support department, customers will watch the tutorials, and get the instruction they need themselves.''
H-Sphere is a popular control panel for web hosts. The end-user series retails for $89.95 for 31 tutorials, and the reseller series for $69.95 for 18 tutorials. CubeCart and ZenCart are popular open-source ecommerce scripts that can be used on a PHP/MySQL server, and is often offered free of charge by hosting companies. Both the CubeCart and ZenCart tutorial series retail for $59.95. With DemoWolf's existing Halloween sale however, customers can save up to 60% off these prices depending on how many tutorial series are ordered. The Halloween sale ends on October 31, 2008.
Recently, DemoWolf launched it's 70% re-branding service for existing customers and competitor customers, as well as a new telephone ordering service with 1 hour fulfillment.
DemoWolf continues to add new tutorials to the inventory, and will be releasing voice versions of Horde, SquirrelMail, and Plesk 8 for Windows shortly. DemoWolf now has over 1800 ready-made custom branded tutorials for the web hosting industry, including tutorials for cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, RVSiteBuilder, and many more. DemoWolf is the fastest growing tutorial provider in the industry. Tutorials currently in production include WordPress, phpBB2, WHMCS, CubeCart, Plesk 8.2, Drupal, and Gallery.
For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.
Posted by editor on Wednesday, November 05 @ 11:38:41 EST (583 reads)
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