A map from AboveNet’s website shows its connectivity in the New Jersey area (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Connectivity solutions provider AboveNet ( www.above.net ) announced on Wednesday that it has provided fiber connectivity into DuPont Fabros Technology ( www.dft.com ) wholesale data center in New Jersey. AboveNet is already connected to its facilities in Northern Virgnia and Chicago, and is currently in the process of building out to its latest development in Santa Clara, California. According to the press release, AboveNet used DFT’s “underground and secure 3-level conduit bank system” to deploy equipment at DFT’s NJ1 data center, establishing an IP and Metro Ethernet POP.

MESH sales director Holger Bellinghausen de Coster (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- In his rather brief presentation (just under 15 minutes), “Freedom of choice”, MESH ( www.mesh.eu ) sales director Holger Bellinghausen de Coster discussed the flexibility and security requirements of cloud services. As a diamond sponsor of WorldHostingDays 2011, MESH is a cloud infrastructure enabler, says Bellinghausen. After providing a short introduction about MESH and its products, Bellinghausen invited a representative from InfraQ, who discussed the company’s recent partnership with MESH.

MESH sales director Holger Bellinghausen de Coster (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- In his rather brief presentation (just under 15 minutes), “Freedom of choice”, MESH ( www.mesh.eu ) sales director Holger Bellinghausen de Coster discussed the flexibility and security requirements of cloud services. As a diamond sponsor of WorldHostingDays 2011, MESH is a cloud infrastructure enabler, says Bellinghausen

Highlights of the Two Love promotion include: New Surpass Hosting customers can receive 25% off Reseller, shared and Virtual Private Server accounts for the life of the account. Meanwhile, existing Surpass customers who choose to upgrade their hosting plan within the promotional period will also receive 25% off their new monthly charges for the life of the account. In addition, Surpass Hosting will give away a $350 gift card to any existing customer who participates in the Two Love promotion, along with a $250 gift card to one new customer who signs up during the period

New companies urged to embrace professional web hosting Thursday 10th February 2011 Small businesses can run websites from their own home, but in the majority of cases it is not worth the effort, according to one commentator. Writing for his Guardian blog, technology expert Jack Schofield said that operating a website can be both expensive and time consuming for small enterprises.

Morning Folks!! Morgan Linton did an interesting article yesterday on developing.

A screenshot of Microsoft’s WebMatrix tool (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Hostway ( www.hostway.com ) announced on Thursday that its FlexCloud servers now provide support for Microsoft WebMatrix, the new Web development suite for simple website development using open source applications. Hostway launched its FlexCloud servers in November 2010.  The Web-based management console lets users create and self-manage multiple clouds.  According to the press release, FlexCloud servers come with the WebMatrix server image in its image library.