Dec19

Web hosting – PR

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Dec19

Host Color Adds Free CDN Service To Web Hosting Plans

by admin on December 19th, 2011 at 12:04 am
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CDN Hosting 20111

(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 18, 2011 ) New York, NY — HostColor.com, a provider of web hosting services from data centers in United States and Europe has announced that it started adding CDN capabilities to its Shared plans. The company is planning to offer its customers a choice between three different CDN’s. Two of them will be activated in Q1 and Q2 of 2012. The first CDN which has been already activated for company’s customers is CloudFlare. They can now use this content delivery network solution for free.

CloudFlare’s CDN operates from 14 data centers worldwide. It makes possible for visitors of websites hosted in HostColor.com servers to open web pages from the nearest point, which makes the website loading very fast. The technology used by the CDN provider compresses the data on the websites and stops illegitimate requests, so the servers concentrate on legitimate traffic.

The benefits of using the CloudFlare’s CDN service on HostColor.com Shared Hosting account feature: faster website load on web browsers, lower CPU usage, bot and threat protection, spam comments protection, alerting visitors of infected computers, and improved total website performance.

Host Color ‘s customers can activate the new CDN service very easy from the “Software/Services” section in their cPanel’s “Domain Owner Panel”. A test with the fist accounts which have activated CloudFlare on Host Color’s servers showed that websites load very fast on a web browser. The also have a lower ping time from 60 major IT regions including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and more.

The hosting provider has recently released promotional code DEC11. It gives 35% discount to all site owners who want to open a new hosting account or to transfer their websites to Host Color servers. The code is valid for all Shared Hosting plans and expires at the end of the 2011.

All Shared accounts hosted on Host Color’s servers are protected by RAID 10 redundant array of Western Digital RE 3 or RE 4 enterprise edition hard drives. They feature: PHP 5.2.xx, Perl 5.8.x and Python 2.4.x scripts, Ruby on Rails; MySQL 5.0.xx, PostgreSQL 81.xx databases and Apache 2.2.xx. The hosting account owners can install more than 200 different Open Source applications – WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, MODx, Zikula, Typo3, Magento, ZenPhoto, MediaWiki, Dolphin, Elg, phpBB, Pligg, OpenX, Piwik Analytics, phpCollab, etc. – by 1 click from their cPanel “Domain Owner Panel” control panel through an easy to use interface of Softaculous auto-installer software library.

Host Color operates a fully-redundant, 100% uptime SLA guarantee network in a high-class data center located 90 miles from Chicago in South Bend, Indiana. The strategic location and the fully-redundant network operated by Host Color ensure lowest possible latency to any point in North America and Europe.

About [HostColor.com]
HostColor.com is a web hosting provider, owned by Host Color LLC, a Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. incorporated company. It maintains a fully-redundant network with 100% SLA uptime guarantee and hosts thousands of small-business and personal websites in a state-of-the-art data center based out of South Bend, Indiana. The company provides website hosting services in Europe through its subsidiary Host Color Europe (hostcoloreurope.com).

Press Release Courtesy of Online PR Media: http://bit.ly/s4fQYu

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Dec17

Go Daddy nets deal to grow globally

by admin on December 17th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
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Scottsdale-based Internet domain registrar and Web-hosting service Go Daddy Group Inc. on Friday closed on an investment partnership that will allow it to tap more deeply into international markets, company officials said.

Under the deal, Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons has stepped down from his role as CEO but will stay on as executive chairman of the company’s board of directors.

Warren Adelman, who has been serving as president and chief operating officer, was named Go Daddy’s new chief executive.

Company officials did not disclose the specific amount of the investment but have indicated previously that it would boost the company’s valuation to $2 billion. Reports by tech-industry analysts and journals have quoted investment figures ranging from $2.25 billion to $2.5 billion.

The investment capital comes through a partnership with three private-equity firms: New York-basedKohlberg Kravis Roberts Co. L.P., Menlo Park, Calif.-based Silver Lake and Palo Alto, Calif.-based Technology Crossover Ventures.

Parsons said Friday that he was given the option to continue on as the company’s top executive but decided that Adelman was better-suited for the job.

“I want to do whatever is going to help the company succeed,” Parsons said.

He praised Adelman, who has been with Go Daddy for more than eight years, for his tireless work ethic, brains and attention to detail. “At the end of the day, he’s better than I am,” Parsons said. “Most of the stuff I get credit for is stuff that he did.”

Parsons said he remains the company’s single largest shareholder, a condition he said he insisted on when negotiating the investment deal, and still has a strong incentive to see the company do well. No single investment partner owns a controlling interest in the company, Parsons said, adding that all of Go Daddy’s top shareholders want the same things and that he doesn’t expect any disagreements among them.

“I’m very excited,” he said about the investment deal. “I’m happy about it.”

Since the investment partnership was announced in June, Go Daddy officials have talked about how the infusion of capital would allow the company to expand into new geographic areas internationally, including Latin American and Asian markets.

In August, Adelman told The Republic that KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover would be valuable partners because of their experience managing fast-growing technology firms.

“We’ve gotten to this level, and we’ve brought in these folks who have seen it all, and we can tap into their knowledge, tap into their contacts,” he said. “They bring a lot of intelligence and smarts to the table that could be really helpful for us going forward as we look to going from $1 billion (revenue) to $5 billion.”

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Dec17

Cirrus Tech Enhances Its Virtual Private Server Hosting Offering

by admin on December 17th, 2011 at 10:28 am
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Toronto, Canada, December 17, 2011 –(PR.com)– Cirrus Tech Ltd., a Toronto web hosting company specializing in virtual private server and virtual machine hosting, announces the improvement of its VPS hosting services. The enhancements include a private cloud environment for all VPS hosting packages, increased SaaS options and an expansion of support options for businesses needing assistance with specific technology solutions. This is in addition to Cirrus’ VPS hosting already offering customers instant provisioning, hardware independence, better management options, and pay for what you use scalability.

With VPS hosting based on a private cloud, Cirrus customers now enjoy a wider range of OS options and Virtual Private Servers that offer the reliability that businesses need, paired with the flexibility that allows them to keep up with the fast paced nature of technology developments. SaaS and mobile application providers know that Cirrus can keep up with their robust and often changing needs. Cirrus cloud storage is based on RAID 6 and 10, and is synced onto failover storage units, providing HA cloud storage to hypervisors as well as Vituozzo cores.

“At Cirrus, we’re always on a mission to bring the best of technology to Canadian web hosting,” shares Cirrus CEO Ehsan Mirdamadi. “We knew that our customers wanted and needed a redundant, scalable, high performance cloud storage environment. So that’s exactly what we designed.”

In addition to the Virtual Private Server hosting cloud environment, Cirrus has also supplemented its SaaS offerings, adding debian 6, UbuThisntu 11.04 and centos6 along with the latest version of Parallels Plesk (10.4) to their wealth of applications, including WordPress, Joomla and osCommerce among others. Cirrus has also added support for Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6 and Vituozzo 4.7 with vSwap feature, in addition to their already robust 24/7/365 technical support for any of their VPS and web hosting offerings.

To find out more about Cirrus’ VPS, VM and other web hosting services, visit them at www.cirrushosting.com or call 1.877.624.7787 Opt. 3

About Cirrus Hosting

Cirrus Tech Ltd. has been a leader in providing affordable, dependable VHS and VPS hosting services in Canada since 1999. They have hosted and supported hundreds of thousands of websites and applications for Canadian businesses and clients around the world. As a BBB member with an A+ rating, Cirrus Hosting is a top-notch Canadian web hosting company with professional support, rigorous reliability and easily upgradable VPS solutions that grow right alongside your business.

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Dec17

Web Host Latisys Secures $155 Million Credit Facility

by admin on December 17th, 2011 at 4:02 am
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An artist rendering of Latisys’ existing Denver data center

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Latisys announced on Friday it has secured a new $155 million credit facility, which was oversubscribed with commitments from several sector lenders.

The credit facility reflects Latisys’ continued strong support for its operational execution, growth prospects and platform of high density data centers and cloud services.

The company will use the new capital in part to expand its current data center colocation footprint, construct its second Tier III data center campus in the Denver market, and drive expansion of managed and cloud services nationally.

In 2011, Latisys added a new 93,000 square foot facility in Irvine, California and opened a 48,000 square foot data center in Chicago — both designed to support high density customer deployments.

“We continue to execute our strategic growth plan by investing in new and expanded facilities, leading cloud services platforms and highly skilled people,” said Doug Butler, chief financial officer for Latisys. “Along with the capital support of our investors, the new credit facility supports our ability to aggressively pursue the tremendous business opportunities we see across all key markets today, and secures our foundation as we expand our suite of IaaS services to support evolving customer needs.”

The oversubscribed $155,000,000 credit facility is funded by a group of eight financial institutions, including RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Bank of America, CapitalSource, GE Capital, CoBank and Caterpillar Financial Services.

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