As a result of this initiative, LeaseWeb will gain visibility into the sources of potentially harmful online activity and can quickly remove the offending sites from its hosting network, protecting users from malicious threats.

The hosting provider has already confirmed two organizations, Website Zeus Tracker and Quarantainenet, as sponsorship recipients, which will share network security traffic information with LeaseWeb.

Website ZeuS Tracker monitors Zeus botnets, a malicious malware toolkit which infects computers and takes them offline.

Quarantainenet is a network management and security organization which provides products that allow companies to access and manage their networks more securely.

“Hosting a large infrastructure means we have a responsibility to deter spam and cybercrime. We cannot control everything on the network, but by working with other security organizations we can be proactive in taking sites down sooner,” says Alex De Joode, head of security at LeaseWeb. “Organizations such as Quarantainenet and Zeus Tracker provide an invaluable service in monitoring fraudulent activities on the Web, but many internet providers do not have the resources necessary to carry out this vital work. It is an important partnership and LeaseWeb hopes to increase the number of organisations we sponsor in the coming months ensuring we are doing all that we can to combat nuisance and fraudulent activity on the Web.”

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The company states that both its Premium and Unlimited hosting packages are included within the promotion which runs until 30 September 2010. Customers that purchase either package for a one year period will automatically receive the 50 per cent discount, reducing the monthly cost to as little as GBP 3.33/USD 5.18. The Unlimited hosting package provides customers with unlimited web space, bandwidth, mailboxes, and spam protection. The Premium hosting package offers 5GB of web space and bandwidth, PHP & PERL support, plus phpMyadmin to help customers manage their databases. It adds that both hosting packages on offer come with GBP 80 free online advertising vouchers, GBP 60 worth of free web software from Serif, free Fotolia stock photos, and 500 free Mailing Manager email marketing credits.

Mark Boost, LCN.COM Managing Director, said, “Within the current economic climate customers are always looking for ways to cut costs; this can lead to cheaper and less reliable hosting solutions being chosen on price. When customers sacrifice the quality of their hosting plan it can often result in significant downtime where potential sales and leads are lost due to their site being offline. This LCN.COM offer will give customers the peace-of-mind that comes from the reliability of a top quality, high-spec hosting package, and a very low cost.”

Source : web-hosting-news.org

VPS Hosting provider Host Color announced the release of coupon code AUGUST2010. It offers 15% instant rebate on all Virtual Private Server Hosting plans based on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.

Site owners who need to host their websites in an isolated, custom IT hosting environment can use the discount code AUGUST2010 on the second sign-up page at HostColor.com. The promo code expires on September 1, 2010.

Alongside with the 15% instant rebate Host Color also gives freesingle-security domain SSL certificate to new customers of VPS Advance, VPS Power and VPS Customer, its best-selling VPS service plans. VPS Advance (http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-advance) features 1,280 MB RAM, 40 GB disc space and 1,500 GB monthly bandwidth. This virtual server costs $43.95/month. VPS Power (http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-power) is a feature-rich virtual machine which comes with 1,792 Mb RAM, 60 GB disc space and 2,500 GB monthly bandwidth.

Another virtual servers of Host Color “VPS Custom” (http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps custom) is even more powerful than a dedicated server with its 3,072 MB RAM, 100 Gb disc space and 5,000 GB monthly data transfer quota. The customers of this virtual private server get complimentary cPanel/WHM VPS license and save $144/year.

The SSL certificate that Host Color adds to the above mentioned Virtual Private Servers is a 2048-bit ready single root install SSL certificate produced by Comodo. It is a future-proof HTTPS SSL certificate that can be used to secure a single domain such as www.hostcolor.com and hostcolor.com. Essential SSL protects the sensitive information of any websites’ visitors with 128/256 bit encryption.

Host Color customers are eligible to get Free SSL certificate when sign-up for 1 year subscription for the selected VPS Hosting plans. When the SSL certificates expire and the customers want to keep them, they have to renew their hosting service plan for another year. If they want to continue using the SSL without signing up another annual web hosting contract, a standard price of $39/year applies for the renewal of the SSL certificate. The promotional campaign is valid for annual subscriptions.

Host Color has recently launched of Cloud Hosting (http://www.hostcolor.com/cloud) services. Company’s customers can now choose to host websites onHigh Availability, load-balanced IP based cPanel accounts. The Host Color Cloud(hostcolor.com/cloud) is build on a fully redundant, scalable infrastructure based on Supermicro Datacenter Blade hardware and powered by Fuscan Linux Cloud enterprise hosting automation
platform.

About Host Color

Host Color LLC is a U.S. web hosting provider incorporated in Delaware. It powers thousands of business and personal websites hosted in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, U.S. and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides Fully Managed Dedicated Hosting services and Europe based website hosting through its EU subsidiary HC Europe(http://www.hostcoloreurope.com ). It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. Host Color’s corporate message is “Web hosting about people, not about gigabytes.

Source : hosting-news.org

According to a Tuesday report from eWeek Europe, TalkTalk customers discovered that IP addresses from TalkTalk subsidiary Opal Telecom were following all the websites they visited — in what was identified as a stalking tactic.

TalkTalk has admitted to the monitoring allegation, explaining that it was a necessary procedure in the testing of an upcoming anti-malware system, being provided by Chinese vendor Huawei.

“We are developing some really exciting new security and parental control services, which will be based deep within our network infrastructure, to provide our customers with greater protection for all the devices they connect to their broadband line with,” reads TalkTalk’s statement on the subject. “We’ve had considerable feedback from customers that PC-based software only deals with part of the wider security problem facing today’s Internet users, so we’ve developed these new services to help improve our customers online experience with us.”

Further, a company representative told tech news site The Register that personal activity was not gathered, but the purpose was rather to make basic lists of all Web pages passing through TalkTalk’s network.

It is not unusual for ISPs to monitor customers’ Internet use — especially for the purpose of prioritizing Web traffic in what is known as “traffic shaping” or “packet shaping.” Many customers, however, are either unaware of this practice or find it startling. Last month, for instance, the European Commission launched a consultation regarding net neutrality — essentially the concept that neither ISPs nor governments should be allowed to influence what content Internet users view or what applications. The European Union, according to sources, has made clear its desire for an open and neutral Internet.

According to The Register, political leaders have called on ISPs to take a more active role in protecting users from online threats. In this sense, TalkTalk’s effort to develop such a solution is commendable in an industry that has been known to avoid regulation. Still, its lack of transparency has some critics worried about what other processes are secretly running.

“We’ve a sneaking suspicion that customers will now also have sneaking suspicions,” writes TechEye.net’s Dean Wilson. “What other things could it be doing behind customers’ backs?”

Source : web-hosting-news.org

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise is also the go-to tool for enterprises ready to move beyond virtualized infrastructure management towards a hosted or private cloud model.  With an extensive cloud management feature set, which includes multi-tenant security, delegated control, scheduled provisioning, resource limiting, and many more, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables IT organizations to offer infrastructure-as-a-service, while ensuring full isolation and compliance with corporate policies.

“We’ve implemented a variety of virtualization platforms over the years and managing them all – especially the open source hypervisors – has always been the single biggest pain point,” said Steven Scoleri, Principal Architect at GSI Commerce, a leading provider of e-commerce and interactive marketing services. “Our beta test of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise has gone very well and we think it just may be the game-changer we’ve been looking for. We no longer need experts on hand at all times to complete simple virtualization tasks. We look forward to further exploring ConVirt’s capabilities and using it to manage our entire open source-based virtual data center.”

“Until now, any organization that wanted a complete solution for managing and automating a virtual data center was locked into expensive and proprietary solutions like VMware vCenter,”,” said Arsalan Farooq, CEO of Convirture. “That changes today as ConVirt 2.0’s advanced automation, private cloud management, enterprise scalability and datacenter integration features now meet or exceed what’s available from proprietary platform vendors. With ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise, organizations considering Xen or KVM as open source alternatives to commercial virtualization platforms are no longer forced to compromise on manageability. ”

About ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise
ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise supports all of the features available with the ConVirt 2.0 Open Source product including:

- Server pool-based management
- Templates-based provisioning
- Monitoring and configuration management
- Comprehensive virtual machine administration
- Highly scalable, 3-tier, standards-based architecture

In addition, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise delivers scalability, automation, and private cloud management features that were previously available only for proprietary virtualization platforms, including:

-  High availability: ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise ensures that mission-critical applications are always up and running by delivering a comprehensive high availability feature set, including virtual and physical machine failover;
- Backup and recovery: A full backup and recovery feature set ensures successful recovery from planned and unplanned outages. Scheduled and on-demand backups are supported. Restore modes can be for the most recent state or any earlier backup. Both virtual machine state and storage are captured, so virtual machines are brought up in a consistent state.
- Private Cloud Management: A data center that has been virtualized can be turned into a private, infrastructure-as-a-service cloud in a scalable and secure way, with support for full multi-tenant security, delegated control, scheduled provisioning, resource limiting and the ability to create virtual appliances that comply with corporate standards and publish them effortlessly to cloud users.
- Storage and network automation with ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise significantly streamlines the error-prone and time-consuming tasks of configuring network and storage in a virtualized environment. Storage configuration standardizes storage across a server pool by automating configuration of all storage types, including NFS, iSCSi, AOE, Fiber Channel and LVM. Network integration provides a centralized interface for managing virtual networks.
- Enterprise Integration: ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise provides a full suite of integration capabilities, including an open repository, command line interface, and programmatic APIs.

About Convirture
Convirture was founded in 2006 to help organizations effectively manage open source virtualization platforms. More information is available at www.convirture.com.

Source : web-hosting-news.org

SiteGround is a leading provider of web hosting services, with more than 250,000 domains worldwide. The company offers shared hosting, reseller hosting, managed dedicated hosting solutions and now cloud hosting.

“We were early beta participants in The Planet’s Server Cloud testing, which provided us with opportunities to offer feedback on the platform,” said Tenko Nikolov, CEO of SiteGround. “Our customers rely on us to provide them with the best options to support their businesses, so we’ve thoroughly evaluated cloud options on the market. We were looking for pricing predictability and ample bandwidth allocations, in a no-surprises package for our customers. The Planet Server Cloud behaves like a dedicated server by guaranteeing our fair share of space, traffic and CPU, at a cheaper cost. It’s great for small and big sites that want to cut costs while at the same time get a reliable service.”

“Server Cloud was expressly designed for our existing customers, with a platform that’s purpose-built for web-based businesses,” said Carl Meadows, senior product manager for Cloud Services with The Planet. “For resellers like SiteGround, their customers operate websites that depend on platform stability. They’ve got to be up and running around the clock, providing the performance guarantees that keep their customers coming back.”

About The Planet Server Cloud

The Planet Server Cloud provides a broad range of features for customers looking to expand their hosting profile:

Dedicated Resources: All resources for The Planet Server Cloud are 100% guaranteed. Customers receive completely dedicated CPU, RAM, storage and network capacity, which ensures performance isn’t negatively affected by another customer’s usage.

Sun SAN Backend: The Planet Server Cloud is powered by a high-performance, high-availability Sun Storage Area Network (SAN). Many cloud solutions operate on local disks from the host server, leaving customers vulnerable to hardware failures that can result in down time and even data loss. Server Cloud is always available, since computing and storage resources are separate and independent. In the event of a complete host server failure, data is always protected.

Seamless, Rapid CPU, RAM Upgrades: Customers buy only what they require to get started and grow their performance seamlessly as demand expands. A single system reboot from the server host recognizes any added resources.

Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure: The Planet Server Cloud is powered by the latest technologies. From the Sun Microsystems SAN, to network gear supplied by Juniper and Cisco, and Dell servers equipped with Intel’s fast Nehalem processors, the company has developed this robust platform to be resilient under the most difficult loads.

Operating System Support: Customers can select operating system support from both Linux and Windows platforms, including Windows Server 2008 R2.

Managed Services: The Planet offers a full array of service upgrades, including managed server monitoring and remediation, server security management and managed backup.

Next-Generation Virtualization: The Planet built its Server Cloud on the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) Hypervisor, the primary platform supported by both The Linux Foundation and the top Linux distributions, including Canonical’s Ubuntu and Red Hat. KVM supports the latest virtualization technologies, including live migration, RAM de-duplication, para-virtualized storage and network capabilities, which combine stellar performance and efficiency. While other offerings require operating system (OS) modifications, KVM does not. Customers run unaltered/native versions of their chosen OS without any requirement for development modifications. As a result, they benefit from better security since new patches and updates are immediately available without the requirement for load development intervention.

To learn more about The Planet’s Server Cloud, visit the Web site at http://www.theplanet.com/cloud-hosting/.

About SiteGround

SiteGround.com is a leading provider of web hosting services that hosts more than 250,000 domains worldwide. The company offers shared hosting, business hosting, reseller hosting, managed dedicated hosting solutions and cloud hosting. SiteGround offers a powerful system infrastructure and superior 24/7 technical support that guarantee reliability, uptime and quality of service. For more information about SiteGround, visit the company’s website at http://ww.siteground.com.

About The Planet

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7×365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.

Source : hosting-news.org

BlackSun Inc is a leader in web hosting, domain registration, ecommerce systems, and spam and virus free email solutions. Call BlackSun for all of your webhosting needs, large or small.

Source : web-hosting-news.org

The announcement introduced new key features in Parallels Automation 5.0, including support for delivering Microsoft Exchange 2010, unified communications with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 services, improved cloud syndication capabilities, customer on-premise directory integration, as well as over 100 other features.

“With the competition to attract small businesses to the Cloud heating up, Service Providers need to deliver profitable Cloud services to market at an ever-increasing pace,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO and Chairman at Parallels. “Adding Microsoft Exchange 2010, Office Communications Server and customer directory integration to Parallels Automation 5.0 allows Service Providers to increase average revenue per user, reduce operational costs and attract new customers.”

Beloussov added, “Service Providers can now be amongst the first to offer their customers Hosted Exchange 2010 email. It also enables them to increase ARPU and decrease churn by cross-selling the latest Microsoft unified communications services.”

This release of Parallels Automation 5.0 also significantly improves Open-Xchange-based services capabilities for business class email providing an additional source of revenue for Service Providers.

“One of the advantages of the Parallels platform is that it has allowed us to dramatically expand our product portfolio and ultimately be a single vendor of choice for our customers’ business communication and collaboration needs,” said Chris Damvakaris, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Apptix. “On top of being able to offer Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint, and VoIP, Parallels Automation allows us to roll out Web conferencing, secure IM, online backup, DNS hosting and Web site hosting.”

The release of PA5.0 also includes Parallels Business Automation 5.0 (PBA) which boasts PCI Payment Application DSS certification. This simplifies PCI audits for Service Providers that require PCI DSS compliance.

“Parallels Automation provides a carrier-class tool with robust features and the ability to integrate new services such as BlackBerry and GoodLink – but its interface is simple enough so that mobile customers can manage their own accounts through a Web-based control panel,” said David Grantz, Chief Technology Officer at ExchangeMyMail.

About Parallels

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and Cloud Services Providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Source : hosting-news.org

DediPower is committed to delivering Public Cloud that uses only best of breed hardware and dedicated support normally associated with bespoke Private enterprise solutions. To support this, it offers a solid Service Level Agreement which ensures 100% uptime and high availability; utilises high speed fully redundant SAS SAN for storage; and includes ISO 27002 compliant security separation, firewalling and enterprise calibre back-ups as standard.

Craig Martin, CEO of DediPower, states, “Hosting companies have fallen into the trap of developing cloud platforms to be ahead of the curve. This is not their key strength. Consequently, they have tried to solve the problem from every angle, leading to unsupportable architectures and inconsistent pricing. We aim to challenge them and provide a new benchmark for the industry by using premier, proven hardware; architecture developed on our top-end servers; and solutions built using VMWare Hypervisor, the industry leading virtualisation platform.”

He continues, “We believe organisations looking to migrate to Public Cloud don’t want low costs if it means an unreliable platform that cannot service their needs. They want a risk-free solution that accommodates their growth and is robust enough to respond to market demands and future growth strategies. At DediPower, we believe 100% availability and solid support is still a prerequisite for hosting – no matter how small the client, its web traffic or its investment. Value is what counts – and we aim to deliver that throughout.”

DediPower Public Cloud incorporates VMWare Hypervisor which runs on the latest Intel Nehalem Hardware. There is no over-allocation of RAM, CPU and storage is provided using high-performance SAS SAN hardware with suitable QoS levels on disk I/O. Costing models are based on Virtual Cloud Data Centres which are sold as blocks of RAM with storage split into virtual machines.

About DediPower Managed Hosting

A leading UK provider of managed hosting and data centre solutions, DediPower makes internet and eBusiness innovation a reality and delivers outstanding ROI for organisations of all sizes. Current clients include Sony, Virgin, ITV, NHS and The BRIT Awards. Focused on delivering service excellence through its Support with Passion® philosophy, DediPower’s enterprise class data centres offer 100% availability and accredited data security to support business critical, data-rich, ecommerce, interactive and web-based applications. It provides bespoke managed hosting, managed private cloud, virtualisation, multi-server clusters, and co-location services. DediPower is a winner of numerous hosting awards and is a Microsoft Gold certified partner and RedHat Ready hosting partner. DediPower’s headquarters is located in Reading Berkshire, UK.

Source : hosting-news.org