A screen shot of FlexCloud Servers’ management console (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Hostway ( www.hostway.com ) announced on Thursday it has released FlexCloud Servers , a scalable, on-demand cloud solution that combines the flexibility of a public cloud with the reliability and performance of an enterprise grade virtual environment. The pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure can be self-provisioned and administered 24 hours a day, giving the customer full administrator access and complete control to scale individual computing resources. FlexCloud Servers says its “intuitive Web-based management console” lets users create and self manage multiple clouds, allowing them to automate the administration of resources including server instances, CPU/RAM/Disk, IP addresses, security, and load balancing.  Public and private image libraries let users save and copy images, where user initiated snapshots are saved in multiple states, and backups are automatically scheduled and performed.  Provisioning can be performed within minutes with FlexCloud, enabling near real time availability of resources to meet growth and variability requirements

When you initially start a website, the low traffic of users lets the website load fast. But as the popularity of the site increases and number of visitors increase, the access speed slows down

Bandwidth is one of the most confusing concepts in the web hosting industry. It plays a major role in the formation of a website. Bandwidth affects the accessing speed of a website, the reliability and the uptime as well as the professionalism of the website

If you are running your website with the help of a web host it is imperative that you keep a regular check on the reliability of the web host. Your website will be an integral fraction of your business if not the central one so it is absolutely necessary that you do all you can to ensure your safety and security and to make certain that your best interests are being taken care of. When selecting a web host service there are a number of factors you need to take into consideration in order to ensure that you are getting the best deal and not being cheated as a part of some elaborate scam

A screen shot of CloudSleuth’s Global Provider View application. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud performance application provider Compuware ( www.compuware.com ) announced on Monday it has launched CloudSleuth ( www.cloudsleuth.net ), a partner-driven cloud community that tracks the performance of the cloud’s “federated infrastructure.” The free community is designed for both cloud service providers and consumers who are considering, building or managing cloud applications.

An Internet services diagram, taken from the Cogeco Data Services site (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Toronto data communications company Cogeco Data Services ( www.cogecodata.ca ) announced improvements this week to the repair side of its service level agreement, changing its four-hour mean time to restore to a three-hour time to restore. Beginning September 1, the company’s new SLAs have applied to all new and existing Enterprise Metro LAN and Managed Wavelength customers with no strings attached, according to the company’s press release. The company says it was motivated to make the offering based on the results of a study

Facebook to pull IE6 plug for Chat Facebook on Wednesday said that it will drop chat support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 in three weeks, the latest effort to stamp out the nine-year-old browser.

GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwire – Aug. 26, 2010) – Easyspace one of the UK’s leading domain and web hosting companies is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted for Best Web Host at this year’s PC Pro Awards.

LONDON – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Leading UK web hosting company, LCN.com, today announced the start of a 50 per cent off hosting promotion, which gives customers savings of up to £60/$90 on its top end hosting packages. Both the LCN.com Premium and Unlimited hosting packages are included within the promotion which runs until 31 September 2010