A screen shot of KnownHost’s VPS plans (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider KnownHost ( www.knownhost.com ) announced on Monday it has reached a significant milestone in building its 11,111th virtual private server. The announcement closely follows a major upgrade to all of its VPS and hybrid servers, including increased memory, more disk space and higher bandwidth.  All of KnownHost’s VPS and hybrid servers are powered by Parallels and include full root access, managed cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin, are housed out of KnownHost’s Texas or California data centers, and feature RAID-10 failover systems.

Web Hosting News – Leland, NC – KnownHost LLC announced today that it has built its 11,111th VPS (virtual private server), marking the company’s commitment to service, technology and value since its founding in 2005.

Laurel Burton, vice president of marketing at ViaWest (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and colocation provider ViaWest ( www.viawest.com ) announced on Tuesday it has named Laurel Burton vice president of marketing.  The appointment comes a month after ViaWest named Daren Castain the company’s regional vice president and general manager for the Utah market. In this role, Burton will spearhead marketing, lead generation, and branding for the company’s five state footprint, including major markets such as Denver, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Portland, Austin, and Las Vegas.  ViaWest says it is “aggressively growing both organically and through strategic acquisitions.” Since 2008, the company has added 12 data center facilities.  The hiring of Burton to lead ViaWest’s marketing efforts signals the company’s focus on continued market share expansion.

Laurel Burton, vice president of marketing at ViaWest (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and colocation provider ViaWest ( www.viawest.com ) announced on Tuesday it has named Laurel Burton vice president of marketing.  The appointment comes a month after ViaWest named Daren Castain the company’s regional vice president and general manager for the Utah market. In this role, Burton will spearhead marketing, lead generation, and branding for the company’s five state footprint, including major markets such as Denver, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Portland, Austin, and Las Vegas.  ViaWest says it is “aggressively growing both organically and through strategic acquisitions.” Since 2008, the company has added 12 data center facilities.  The hiring of Burton to lead ViaWest’s marketing efforts signals the company’s focus on continued market share expansion. “We are very excited to welcome Laurel to the team,” says Paul Gerrard, ViaWest’s EVP of sales and marketing.

AUSTIN — Critics hope to slow down a fast-tracked bill that supporters say will strengthen the rights of property owners facing eminent domain proceedings that sailed through the Senate this week by a 31-0 vote. Opponents insist the bill, designated as emergency legislation by Gov.

Web-hosting provider Rackspace has acquired software developer Anso Labs to help build up the OpenStack cloud computing project, a company official said. Rackspace, headquartered in Texas, co-founded OpenStack with NASA as an open-source cloud project with more than 50 participants including Dell and Citrix Systems. It went after Anso Labs because the San Francisco-based provider of software for private cloud computing infrastructure has also contributed to OpenStack.

An image from FIBERTOWN’s website, showing a power room in its existing Houston facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Houston-based colocation provider FIBERTOWN ( www.fibertown.com ) announced this week that it is breaking ground on a 50,000 square foot data center in North Houston, in collaboration with wholesale data center operator Digital Realty Trust ( www.digitalrealtytrust.com ).

An image from FIBERTOWN’s website, showing a power room in its existing Houston facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Houston-based colocation provider FIBERTOWN ( www.fibertown.com ) announced this week that it is breaking ground on a 50,000 square foot data center in North Houston, in collaboration with wholesale data center operator Digital Realty Trust ( www.digitalrealtytrust.com ). The new facility is located at the intersection of 145 and Beltway 8 North, says FIBERTOWN, which has two existing data centers, in the Houston area and in central Texas, and has attracted Houston companies looking to secure IT systems and disaster recovery operations outside of hurricane zones. “Demand for quality data center space in Houston is growing as more companies look to colocation to ensure high availability of resources and reduce IT costs,” says John Clanton, CEO of FIBERTOWN, quoted in the company’s press release

Today, the Texas Senate passed Governor Rick Perry’s fast-tracked ‘emergency’ eminent domain bill, SB 18.

Hosting News – DINWIDDIE, VIRGINIA – REACT International, Inc. announced today that an agreement has been reached with SoftLayer Technologies of Dallas, Texas to provide dedicated hosting for the organizations web infrastructure.  In the agreement, SoftLayer will provide hosting services to REACT International at no charge as part of their Community Partnerships initiative.  This very generous donation of services will allow REACT International to further enhance and grow its web presence to better serve its membership and to further serve the communities where its members reside, no matter where they are in the world. “REACT International performs an important safety function and SoftLayer is pleased that we can assist them in their safety efforts,” said Softlayer’s Chief Strategy Officer George Karidis.