Domain & Hosting News
September 2, 2011 — As we head into fall, and the long weekend, web hosts are offering all sorts of discounts. DiscountASP.NET is offering 20 percent off SQL Source Control, Infrenion Networks is offering discounted Joomla hosting, Yahoo! Hosting is offering 25 percent off hosting, and Network Solutions is offering 25 percent off hosting as well.
July 22, 2011 — Level 3 Communications announced on Friday it has signed an agreement with Critical Data Network to provide high-speed internet protocol services in support of its operations in Southern California and Mexico. The move comes a month after Level 3 announced it expanded its network services into Telx’s New Jersey data center.
July 22, 2011 — Connectivity provider Hibernia Atlantic announced on Friday that it is now connected to colocation firm UK Grid’s Manchester One data center. According to the press release, the network expansion supports the high growth in this region. UK Grid added 6,000 square feet of colocation space to Manchester One at the end of June.
A map of Voxel’s CDN span of geographic nodes (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloud and managed hosting provider Voxel ( www.voxel.net ) announced last week that its VoxCAST On-Demand CDN platform ( www.voxel.net/voxcast-cdn ) is now available for free for all Perigee Global’s ( www.perigeeglobal.com ) hosting customers. The partnership announcement comes a month after Voxel completed a Series A $5.5 million capital raise led by Seaport Capital, providing the company with capital to support increased sales activities and accelerate the deployment of its solutions. Each hosting plan’s bandwidth allowance can be used flexibly and as-needed for both standard website traffic and CDN traffic.
Web Hosting – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovation leader in Cloud and Dedicated hosting, today announced the launch of SoftLayer Managed Hosting . The new offering provides enterprise-class computing environments with expert, 24×7 management and support of those environments’ core services, including database, security, monitoring, backup, and storage management.
An illustration, from the Rackspace website, of Cloud Load Balancers in operation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed and cloud hosting provider Rackspace ( www.rackspace.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has introduced its Cloud Load Balancers offering, a software-based, utility-priced load balancing product designed for use with its cloud hosting products, as well as its dedicated and managed server offerings. In private beta since Novmeber of 2010, and public beta since February of this year, Cloud Load Balancers, says Rackspace, is designed to alleviate the barriers to entry and architectural complexity associated with using third-party open source software load balancers. Based on that lengthy beta period, says Jerry Schwartz, enterprise services product manager at Rackspace, in an interview with the WHIR, the company incorporated a great deal of customer feedback into the development of its Cloud Load Balancers
