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(The Hosting News) – The UK2 Group has announced the live deployment of a sophisticated Cloud-driven Intranet system designed to connect hundreds of employees across the United States and Europe.

The Intranet will service their employees in the U.S and existing operations in the United Kingdom and other areas on the European continent, including the Ukraine.

The enterprise employee portal was engineered from the ground-up, and includes a number of unique features pioneered by their internal IT development team.

“It allows our various business units to tightly coordinate global departmental news, calendar events, multimedia and policy information under one central location,” said Jeff Hunsaker, President of US Operations.

“It will also allow us to develop sophisticated usage patterns offering insights into operational bottlenecks in our accounting, marketing, sales and IT divisions.”

A recent Intranet 2.0 Global Survey confirms that only 15% of large organizations have deployed a full employee portal. This confirms the growing status of UK2 group as a technology leader in the arena of web hosting and general IT operations.
Recent findings at the Intranet Insider World Tour In New York City suggest an enterprise may save up to $100,000 in paper costs per year by implementing an Intranet.

The UK2 Group expects significant cost savings along with further gains in employee productivity. The customized Intranet is also another example of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model driving the cloud computing revolution.

“Besides offering cloud-based web hosting services through a number of its brands, the UK2 Group used the latest open-source technologies to build, test and deploy the SaaS employee portal,” said Mr. Hunsaker.

The UK2 Group intends adding a range of new social networking features to the cloud intranet throughout the course of 2012, aimed at keeping employees fully engaged on the Intranet.

ABOUT UK2 GROUP

The UK2 Group is ICANN accredited and has experience retailing web hosting and domain names since 1998. The group provides a wide range of advanced hosting and cloud services to more than a million customers from several state of the art, multi-million dollar data centers in the UK and the US through a number of brands including UK2.net, midPhase.com, WestHost.com, 100TB.com, AN Hosting.com, Resell.biz, VI.net, Hostpuro.com and VPS.net. UK2 Group’s products include Linux and Windows shared, dedicated, bespoke and cloud hosting services; as well as a range of web design and ecommerce solutions and the associated domain registration and management services. With more than 200 staff located on both sides of the Atlantic, UK2 Group specializes in providing leading edge hosting products to small, medium and large enterprise customers that need secure and reliable products and services underpinned with excellent support.

For more information, please visit: http://www.uk2group.com/

UK2 Group Unites Under Global Intranet

(The Hosting News) – Nexcess, a Michigan-based managed hosting company with specialized solutions in Magento and WordPress hosting, has announced a new enterprise line of managed server clusters that are uniquely optimized for WordPress-based web sites.

This brand new set of hosting solutions for WordPress cluster hosting has been built from the ground up, and rooted in the same technologies that power the company’s more basic WordPress-Optimized Blog Platform (WP-OBP) hosting environment. The Nexcess WordPress cluster is expected to offer site owners the same level of performance optimization that Nexcess’ entry-level WordPress hosting clients enjoy, with added benefits in scalability, reliability through increased redundancy, and potential for higher system resource availability to combat unpredictable patterns in blog traffic.

“Popular blogs need some big server muscle behind them to keep performance at a maximum. That fact made this the logical next step for our special WordPress product line,” commented Chris Wells, President & CEO of Nexcess, “For the ever-growing number of epic blogging success stories out there, we’ve crafted solutions that have virtually limitless traffic growth potential.”

WordPress site owners should realize that design of the Nexcess managed WordPress cluster differs significantly from traditional managed cluster hosting. Bloggers utilizing these services will benefit from server configurations that are highly tuned towards WordPress’ needs. They will also receive a system that utilizes APC caching and the Nexcess CDN, which will dramatically improve site speeds over more traditional web hosting. This comes in addition to more traditional server cluster features, including such security perks as hardware firewall appliances and the removal of database services from the public Internet.

For more information on the Nexcess managed WordPress cluster, visit: http://www.nexcess.net/wordpress-enterprise-hosting

About Nexcess:

Nexcess is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based managed hosting company founded in 2000, with wholly-owned data centers located in Dearborn, and Southfield, Michigan (opening sometime this quarter). Nexcess offers a variety of hosting services ranging from entry-level packages to specially-catered clustered/complex configurations, with an emphasis on mission-critical hosting for high-profile eCommerce web sites. For more information, visithttp://www.nexcess.net or call +1.866.639.2377.

Nexcess Announces WordPress Cluster Hosting

(The Hosting News) - SpamExperts, the leading provider of email security, and Hostnet, the largest provider of hosting and domain name services in the Netherlands, will start the fight against spam together.  Today, this partnership has been officially announced and the inbound and outbound email filtering from SpamExperts has been implemented in the network of Hostnet. Therefore Hosnet’s customers have a good start into the new year with spamfree e-mail.

Fighting spam with Local Cloud
Hostnet manages over 500,000 domain names and hosts more than 100,000 subscriptions. SpamExperts is the only provider who offers customized e-mail security products for web hosting companies. Hostnet specializes in managing high-quality infrastructure and therefore chose for the Local Cloud product of SpamExperts. With this product the filter will be installed on the own hardware within the infrastructure of the webhost. SpamExperts manages and monitors the platform and provides updates to the e-mail security software.

Reliable solution for Hostnet

The services of SpamExperts offer a good solution to Hostnet: “Prior to SpamExperts we were using an inhouse developed solution, which cost too much time to maintain and could not deliver the high level of email filtering quality our customers expect,” stated Merijn de Brabander Business Manager of Hostnet. “We are really happy with the Services of SpamExperts. As they now fully handle all our filtering needs and our engineers can now focus on maintaining our infrastructure, rather than trying to keep up with the latest trends in spam.” ”Thanks to this cooperation with SpamExperts, we can offer a good product to our customers, who are very demanding in terms of filtering quality . This will further improve our competitive advantage,” Mr. de Brabander added.

Opportunities for SpamExperts
SpamExperts is also really happy about the partnership: “We already have a lot of customers in the Netherlands, but that the number 1 webhost from Amsterdam has signed with us now is something we are extremely happy about. The agreement with Hostnet presents a great opportunity and reference for SpamExperts,” said Sam Renkema CEO of SpamExperts. “As spam and viruses continue to threaten the stability of organizations like Hostnet, we have been eager to provide a secure and reliable solution to them. In this way the broad customer base of Hostnet has access to a trusted solution in the fight against spam and viruses and can in this way regain control of their email.”

About Hostnet

Hosting and domain name service provider Hostnet bv is established in 1999 and has since then became one of the largest and most reliable providers in the Netherlands. Services such as domain registrations, email packages, web hosting, virtual private servers (V PS) and dedicated servers are offered to both business and private market. In over the 12 years that Hostnet exists, it has more than 500,000 domains registered for over 150,000 clients. This growth is mainly due to the following three points: service, reliability and accessibility. Hostnet is a profitable, healthy and independent company based in Amsterdam and has over 50 employees. More information about Hostnet and its services can be found at: www.hostnet.nl

About SpamExperts B.V.

SpamExperts is the leading provider of email security solutions from Amsterdam. Since 2004, SpamExperts has been growing its customer-base in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australia and meanwhile has become market leader in a number of countries. All solutions are inhouse developed and are either offered via the cloud, or are directly installed as a managed software in the infrastructure of the customer. Prices for the incoming filtering start at USD 0.30/ Domain/Year, without user – or inbox limitations. The latest additions to the product portfolio are an outgoing email filter server as well as an email archiving product. More information under http://www.spamexperts.com

SpamExperts and Hostnet Partner

(The Hosting News) – Lenexa, Kansas is set to get a new data center from colocation provider CoSentry.

On Thursday, the company announced that it would be investing $31.6 million towards the construction of a data center on property in the area encompassing more than 57 thousand square feet.

Among its services, CoSentry provides for cloud, disaster recovery and more.

“CoSentry performed an extensive market analysis prior to selecting the Kansas City area for our newest data center,” stated CoSentry VP and GM of the company’s south region Doug West when recently discussing the matter in a press release.

West continued, “We considered factors including business climate, incentives, and power costs.”

The company currently operates other data centers in U.S. locations including Nebraska, South Dakota and Missouri. Meanwhile, construction on the latest facility is set to begin next month.

West stated that his company considered 21 additional markets before finally selecting Lenexa. Cited in the company’s press release was energy provider KCP&L which Cosentry described as “a critical asset for data centers.”

Not far outside Kansas City, Missouri, the Lenexa area hosts some top technology companies including a 55 thousand square feet data center by hosting provider 1&1 Internet. Also forming a presence in the area are mobile providers Sprint and AT&T.

In June of last year, CoSentry announced that it was partnering with communication company Pinpoint Network Solutions to expand its services via a connectivity build crossing the Atlantic. For more information regarding CoSentry, visit the company’s website: http://www.cosentry.com/

Lenexa, KS Set to be the Site of New CoSentry Data Center

(The Hosting News) – Zyrion Inc., a leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions for Managed Service Providers, today announced that CEO Vikas Aggarwal has been selected as a panelist during IT Expo to be held in Miami, Florida on Feb 1, 2012.

Aggarwal will be a panelist along with other industry experts including NetScout CMO Steven Shalita and Jim Jenkins, CEO of IQ Services. The panel will be moderated by Chris DiMarco, Managing Editor of TMCnet.

The panel will focus on industry critical issues such as ensuring the Cloud Provider is delivering on their SLAs, measuring application and infrastructure performance within the Cloud and using ITIL BSM methods to measure performance of IT services.

MSPWorld is one of the largest and most influential cloud and managed services conference. For over a decade, MSPWorld has allowed executives from the managed services industry to network, collaborate, share ideas, and identify ground breaking new technologies, all in an environment specific to the managed services industry.

About Zyrion, Inc.

Zyrion is the leading provider of integrated Cloud and Network Monitoring software solution using ITIL Business Service Management (BSM) technology for Managed Service Providers and large enterprises. Zyrion’s flagship Traverse software provides seamless, correlated, end-to-end, service-oriented views of the entire IT infrastructure performance – physical, virtual and cloud. Zyrion’s Network and Server monitoring software is used by mid to large enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) worldwide. Zyrion has its corporate offices in Sunnyvale, California and Government Solutions Center in Washington, DC. For more information, visit http://www.zyrion.comor call +1-877-7-ZYRION.

Zyrion CEO Selected for Cloud Panel At MSPworld

(The Hosting News) – Customers of myhosting.com are now invited to participate in the new myhosting.com Hosting Affiliate Rewards program. The in-house referrals system is designed to make it easy for myhosting.com customers to benefit financially from referring friends, family, business colleagues and other users to myhosting.com web hosting, business email and VPS services.

The myhosting.com Affiliate Rewards program has been designed from the ground up to make referrals quick, easy and most importantly, financially well worth the endeavor. Users can quickly generate links they can provide to referrals as well as banners or other web media to engage their web audience looking for their own hosting services. To start, all qualified referrals provide a minimum $75 USD return!

“Our customers are already referring their friends, family and colleagues, it only makes sense to reward them for that,” sings Jeremy Lee Adams, Product Manager at myhosting.com. “We appreciate our customers business and the fact that they’re willing to recommend us means they appreciate ours. More than simply rewarding these customers, we want to promote them as one of the team!”

The web hosting business can be a mystery to many consumers lost in world of designers, programmers and computer techies. Word of mouth is any web hosts strongest asset since it helps to “part the cloud of confusion” and provide an inside understand of what makes a good web host.

Web hosting technology may be veiled in mystery, but with myhosting.com, the company doesn’t have to be.

myhosting.com already has well-established Affiliate Programs through ShareASale and Commission Junction, and this latest program is specifically designed for the average hosting customer over professional affiliates.

For more information, please visit http://affiliates.myhosting.com/.

About myhosting.com

myhosting.com is owned and managed by SoftCom Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1997, SoftCom provides reliable and cost effective Email and Web Hosting services to more than 10 million customers with support of 26 languages in 140 countries worldwide. The myhosting.com name and the logo are registered trademarks of SoftCom Inc.

myhosting.com Launches Affiliate Program

(The Hosting News) – Top website domain name TechStartups.com has been listed for sale.

Technology and Startups go hand in hand. Over the past few years alone, the fascination with the latest tech startups, mobile devices, gaming systems and entertainment systems has increased exponentially. As new technologies emerge that seek to bridge the real world with the digital, the quest to keep up with the latest in tech is a day to day obsession.

There has been a slew of successful websites and blogs feeding this frenzy and they have turned into top destinations on the web. These sites include:

• TechCrunch.com (acquired by AOL)
• Mashable.com
• VentureBeat.com
• TheNextWeb.com
• Engadget.com
• TheVerge.com
• Gizmodo.com
• Wired.com

Such websites have been reporting about tech startups for years. Through their reportage, companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Sprint, Zynga, Rovio, Nokia get covered on a daily basis. Standard topics include apps, mobile, startups, changes in technology, and virtually every aspect of tech and the innovation provided by startups.

We have also seen the increased popularity of tech news aggregates such as Alltop.com.

TechStartups.com provides a rare (and soon to be extinct) opportunity to own a domain name that describes exactly what all of these highly visited tech startup websites and blogs are covering. There can be no clearer name and web destination than TechStartups.com to deliver news and information within the dynamic space of tech and startups. Coherent, easily understood (and available) web domains are going the way of the dinosaur, TechStartups.com is the last and best of a dying breed.

For more information and serious inquiries only contact:

TechStartups.com
Info (at) TechStartups.com

Top Domain Name TechStartups.com for Sale

(The Hosting News) – Vazata, a leading provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), announced today that FC Dallas has chosen Vazata for a hybrid cloud solution that includes a custom-built private cloud deployment fully integrated with Vazata’s multi-tenant IaaS platform for disaster recovery capability.

FC Dallas, a professional American soccer club competing in Major League Soccer, has been a Vazata customer for several years. A recent cost evaluation of a necessary hardware refresh alongside the organization’s requirement for business continuity supporting critical applications including CRM, ticketing, finance and communications, built a case for a hybrid cloud solution. Vazata deployed a private cloud solution for FC Dallas, which was augmented with disaster recovery services provided through Vazata’s vStucture™ platform that includes network services, managed services and three Tier-III data centers that have each completed SSAE-16 Type II audits.

“Vazata designed an optimal solution for FC Dallas, and we are delighted to partner with them,” FC Dallas Chairman Clark Hunt said. “Our IT needs have evolved considerably over the last several years, and we trust Vazata to provide our team with the flexibility and security required by an increasingly mobile workforce.”

Lance Black, CEO of Vazata, added, “this is an excellent example of our ‘Colo to the Cloud’ mission. We were able to flex with the customer’s unique needs and build something that gives the customer what they need, when they need it, and with all of the benefits of virtualization. People get confused about the benefits or drawbacks of a public cloud or private cloud. Our stance is that the right solution is entirely defined by the specific needs of the business and the right provider can build virtually anything. In this case, we architected a hybrid solution because that’s what best served our customer. Cost considerations and, more importantly, business stability were top priorities and we responded to both.”

For more information on Vazata, visit http://www.vazata.com.

About Vazata

Vazata is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider serving Global 1000 businesses, U.S. Federal Government Agencies and Mid-Market Enterprises. The company provides highly secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions that meet the challenges of its global customers using a proprietary cloud architecture called vStructure™. The vStructure™ IaaS platform allows for enhanced computing capabilities, accessibility, and fiscal viability in solutions designed to grow with organizations of all sizes. Vazata’s IaaS architecture supports customers in their hosting needs and also provides solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity for mission critical applications. In 2011, Vazata was the first company to receive an Authority to Operate as a cloud services technology provider to federal agencies. The backbone of support is its purpose built IaaS supported by three world class data centers, which have all achieved FISMA and SSAE 16 Type II compliance. Data centers are located in Texas and Northern Virginia.

About FC Dallas

A member of Major League Soccer since its inception in 1996, FC Dallas is owned and operated by Hunt Sports Group. Led by 2010 MLS MVP David Ferreira and budding U.S. National Team star Brek Shea, FC Dallas claimed the 2010 Western Conference Championship and was among the league’s best in 2011, tying a franchise record for points in a season while competing in a record 48 games across three competitions. Renowned for its youth and academy systems, FC Dallas has a league-high six Homegrown players signed with its professional team, including 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup winner Richard Sanchez (started in goal for Mexico). There are currently more than 2,000 youth players in the FC Dallas development system, which operates year-round. The professional team plays from March to November at FC Dallas Stadium in Frisco, Texas. One of the first soccer-specific stadiums built in the United States, the venue plays host to Major League Soccer matches, concerts, international soccer matches and high school football. The 145-acre facility includes 17 regulation-sized, tournament-grade soccer fields.

For more information, please visit: http://www.fcdallas.com/

FC Dallas Chooses Vazata for a Hybrid Cloud

Hotlink protection gives you the ability to protect certain files on your server from being directly linked by another site. For example, if you have images that are published on your site and are very popular, you can prevent other sites from using those images with an <img> tag pointing to your domain.

This will not prevent people from downloading your files. It is merely a measure to stop remote linking, which can unnecessarily eat up your bandwidth, especially for very popular content.

To configure hotlink protection in cPanel, follow these simple steps:

1. Login to cPanel, and in the “Security” section, click “HotLink Protection”
2. If it is currently disabled, click the “Enable” button to activate it
3. In the “URLs to Allow Access” box, enter any URLs that you want to give special permission to hotlink to your site. NOTE: If you own multiple domains on your server, you may want to keep all of them listed in the box.
4. Enter any specific file types you want blocked from hotlinking, even for sites that have hotlinking allowed. NOTE: Certain streaming audio and video files, such as Quicktime, may require hotlinking to be allowed.
5. Check “allow direct requests” if you still want users to be able to enter the direct URL of  a file, such as an image.
6. In the “Redirect requests to this URL” box, enter a custom page that you want users to be redirected to when they attempt to access a file that has been invalidly hotlinked.
7. Click “Submit” to finalize the settings.

If you later decide to disable hotlink protection, simply return to the settings and click “Disable” at the top. For more information about hotlink protection or cPanel in general, consult the online documentation.

How to Setup Hotlink Protection in cPanel

(The Hosting News) –Selecting cloud computing options may have just been simplified thanks to a new platform recently unveiled by virtualization and cloud provider VMware. On Wednesday, the company launched the VMware Solution Exchange, a marketplace site.

Provided for through the VMware Solution Exchange are listings of products belonging to the company’s various partners in areas including cloud, virtualization, applications, appliances, and the datacenter.

Descriptive product information is contained along with photos. The site also gives users the ability to review and rate the products based upon a five star system.

Introducing the platform, VMware cited “the proliferation of social media,” and the important role that it plays. With the new site, VMware said it wanted to create a “familiar experience” for its customers.

Discussing VMware partners’ products, company VP of Global Strategic Alliances Parag Patel stated, “With the VMware Solution Exchange, we are offering our robust partner network a new and centralized marketplace to promote their solutions and directly connect with customers to help expedite the sales process.”

“For customers, our goal is to empower them to quickly and easily find the resources they need to make purchasing decisions to accelerate their journey to the cloud, while also helping our technology partners deliver and manage joint solutions in a single, self-service location,” Patel continued.

Another ability of the VMware Solution Exchange allows the sites’ visitors to directly submit inquiries concerning the listed product. VMware partners can also embed YouTube videos concerning their solutions.

Currently featured products as listed on the site include the VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management on NetApp Solution, the Dell Compellent Storage Center, and Mitel Virtual Solutions. To view the VMware Solution Exchange, visit: https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store

VMware Unveils Marketplace Allowing Users to Rate Partner Products