cloudwebhosts: July 2012

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

FortaTrust Announces Free VPS Cloud Servers for Technology Professionals

Web Hosting News – Doral, FL – FortaTrust, a leading provider of dedicated and cloud computing services, has announced its Free VPS Program. “This program is designed to provide Technology Professionals with the opportunity to become familiar with our VPS Cloud Servers in a production environment, and have the ability to use them at their discretion for their internal operations,” said Octavio Diaz, FortaTrust’s Director of Industry Relations….

This program is currently available in both USA and Panama Data Centers, and includes all other standard terms of service, including a 100% uptime guarantee…..

Equinix and Carpathia Hosting Extend Alliance in Hong Kong

Joint Solution Enables Customers to Efficiently Expand Business into APAC and Increase Return on Investment

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and Carpathia Hosting, a provider of complex, compliant managed hosting services for government agencies and enterprises, today announced that Carpathia is now leveraging Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Hong Kong to deliver colocation, managed hosting services and cloud solutions in a secure and compliant environment. This is the first deployment for Carpathia in the Asia Pacific region and is a part of a broader strategic alliance between both organizations.

About Carpathia Hosting, Inc.

Carpathia Hosting is a leading provider of managed hosting services, providing secure, reliable and compliant IT infrastructure and management for some of the world’s most demanding enterprises and federal agencies. Founded in 2003, Carpathia Hosting is a growing, profitable business run by a seasoned management team with deep experience in delivering enterprise hosting solutions including colocation, managed services and cloud computing.

About Equinix

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks.

notonthehighstreet.com Grows With Help From Rackspace Web Hosting Services

Notonthehighstreet.com is now considering a hybrid cloud model as it continues to grow

LONDON, Jul 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Rackspace Hosting [NYSE:RAX], the service leader in cloud computing, today announced that it is now hosting the IT business backbone of ground-breaking online retailer, notonthehighstreet.com — an online marketplace that offers curated collections of unique products and gifts. With over 3,000 small business partners, this home-grown UK tech success story company recently secured GBP 10 million in funding…

……Notonthehighstreet.com, the multi award-winning online marketplace, is one of the most high profile e-commerce businesses in the UK and has experienced explosive growth since the company was founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker and Sophie Cornish. Notonthehighstreet.com brings together over 3,000 independent small UK businesses that combined sell over 50,000 products through a single checkout. Each small business has been carefully chosen by notonthehighstreet.com for its innovative, well-made products to inspire shoppers looking for style, originality and quality. Now over 40 small businesses apply each day to become part of notonthehighstreet.com.

Cloud Provider Datapipe, Makes Solution Provider 500 List

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UBM Channel Ranks North America’s Top 500 Technology Integrators

Jersey City, NJ – Cloud provider Datapipe, a global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, today announced it has been recognized by UBM Channel as a part of CRN’s 2012 Solution Provider 500 list. The company was selected for its cloud computing and virtualization, disaster recovery, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions. Formerly known as the “VAR 500,” the Solution Provider 500 ranks the highest producing solution provider organizations in the IT channel from hardware sales, software sales, and managed IT services. 2012 marks Datapipe’s fourth appearance on CRN’s list. This year, Datapipe placed #172 — up 49 positions from the previous year’s ranking. A sample of the SP500 list is published online at CRN.com.

A Different Look At Cloud Computing

Take what you know and have fun with it

Business has locked down the idea of cloud computing. Cloud computing has taken the business world by storm, for sure. Think about it: endless open-ended space, applications, data storage and just about anything else a company could want. But now something a bit more user friendly has come into play – cloud gaming. This now gives a new meaning to how a gamer can game and how information and saved data can be moved and used – cloud computing just got a little brother.

What is it?

Cloud gaming is similar to videos on demand, except with games. This means you no longer have to suffer from restrictions, and that you no longer have to worry if you can afford the next big game on the market. Many of the providers who offer this technology charge a monthly fee, but that fee does not come close to what one of these games would cost you if you bought it new. So, there are no worries about whether your gaming system can handle playing a game, no disks, and no wasted time with downloads. Cloud computing and the technology it uses has opened a whole new generation of ideas and gaming for non-business types.

How a storm in the cloud brought Room 77 and other websites back down to earth

Last week, hotel booking service Room 77 was knocked offline in a mammoth cloud-computing outage that also crashed the websites of dozens of companies.

Some very big players, too, such as InterContinental Hotels Group and Yelp, due to a lightning storm downing the off-site data centers run by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

At 11:10 pm EST on Friday 29 June, Room 77′s engineering team received an automated notification from its alert system that its website was down, which signaled the start of a 19-hour outage that also affected Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram.

Like many start-ups, Room 77 relies on web hosting and data services that are hosted in the cloud by rented computing capacity via huge data centers run by Amazon.

Read more: http://goo.gl/sGWV6

Amazon EC2 Outage Reveals Challenges of Cloud Computing

Data center and cloud hosting services, Amazon cloud infrastructure suffered a power outage last week, creating problems for their clients which lasted more than 24 hours.

The blackout was lasted several hours affecting tens of notable sites including Foursquare, Quran, Moby and Reddit. Many large EC2 users ended up losing valuable business data. Chartbeat reports losing 11 hours of historical data to its customers saying it’s “unrecoverable.”

Amazon said the problems were due to a power failure, but did not provide further details on the origin of the problem that caused the blackout...

...This puts a big question mark over the reliability of the cloud, and objects of the popular perception of infallibility cloud. A system, as redundant as it is, is not immune to failure, human error, software bugs, etc.

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

CWCS Managed Hosting Named as the Most Reliable Hosting Company

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CWCS Managed Hosting (www.cwcs.co.uk) was named as the most reliable web hosting company for May 2012 by Netcraft (www.netcraft.com), an Internet services company which provides data mining, defense against fraud and phishing, and security testing…..

….CWCS offers a variety of web hosting packages and specializes in offering managed dedicated servers and cloud hosting solutions. The Nottingham based company works with a number of national and international clients and has appeared in the top ten of the Netcraft table for the most reliable hosting companies on a number of occasions.

Read more: http://goo.gl/FD2eM

Net4 Unveils New Website Builder Easysite

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Net4 India Ltd, a leading Data Centre, Cloud Hosting and Network Services Provider, today announced the launch of its new website builder package, “Easysite”. The app has been especially designed to make the process of creating a basic website, a quick and easy job….Easysite is primarily aimed at small and ecommerce businesses who seek to have their own professional websites without any knowledge of web design or programming….

About Net4

Net4 is India’s leading Data Centre, Cloud Hosting and Network Services Provider, with revenues of Rs.465 cr (85mnUSD). Net4 focuses on providing services to businesses (small, medium and large) and its offerings include Data Centre & Cloud Hosting Solutions, Enterprise Internet Services, VoIP Solutions, Messaging & Hosting Solutions and Domain name registration…..

Read more: http://goo.gl/OwMBu

Cloud Host Cbeyond Appoints Former Internap Executive Chief Marketing Officer

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Cloud hosting provider Cbeyond announced on Tuesday it has named industry veteran Paul Carmody to the role of chief marketing officer.

Carmody is the latest addition to Cbeyond’s leadership team, with vice president of cloud engineering and development Tim Myers, vice president of cloud services Chris Ortbals and vice president of professional services Matt Stevens joining Cbeyond in recent months.

Carmody is a high-tech and cloud veteran who will drive Cbeyond’s strategy to offer businesses a personalized path to the latest technology using its network and the cloud as the framework, said Cbeyond…..

Last month, Cbeyond launched its first cloud-ready server featuring Microsoft’s SQL technology to enable a more seamless transition from a single server to the cloud.

CWCS Managed Hosting Named as the Most Reliable Hosting Company

Read more: http://goo.gl/FD2eM

Net4 Unveils New Website Builder Easysite

About Net4

Read more: http://goo.gl/OwMBu

Cloud Host Cbeyond Appoints Former Internap Executive Chief Marketing Officer

Cloud hosting provider Cbeyond announced on Tuesday it has named industry veteran Paul Carmody to the role of chief marketing officer.

Last month, Cbeyond launched its first cloud-ready server featuring Microsoft’s SQL technology to enable a more seamless transition from a single server to the cloud.

Vexxhost Celebrates 7 Years of Success by Offering 1 Month Free Subscription on Cloud Hosting Service

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GreatResponder.Com on July 03, 2012 : Vexxhost web hosting service provider is celebrating its 7^th anniversary of it successful business in the domain of cloud hosting solutions. They have announced few amazing incentives, features, and offers on this auspicious moment of celebrations. They are offering one month free subscription on its best quality cloud hosting services. It was announced on Vexxhost website that now new subscription of cloud hosting services will get one month service free of any charges….

Amazon Cloud Outage Caused by Storms, Worsened by Software Glitches

Power supply issues and software bugs only made a bad situation worse for AWS, which is facing growing competition in the IaaS space.

Amazon Web Services’ lengthy outage over the weekend after powerful storms through the Mid-Atlantic region knocked out power has put renewed focus on the risks of cloud computing and how users can minimize those risks going forward.

The storms also cut off power to one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) 10 data centers on the East Coast, a situation that was exacerbated by problems with backup power at the Virginia facility as well as unexpected software issues that arose during the recovery efforts… However, according to a July 2 analysis from Amazon, the situation created by the power outage was made worse due to problems with power supplies and software bugs….