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Archive for March, 2009

How To Advertise in B10WH.com?

Posted by The Daw On March - 7 - 2009

web-hosting-ad-spaceWe don’t want our advertising section be look too much formal. When we decided to redesign B10Wh we wanted to make our media touchable and more social. That’s why we opened it for user registration. Unlike many other web hosting media, B10WH does not clain to be “Best”, “Top” or extraordinary.

You will not see us to praise your web hosting company as the “best one”. If you want this, B10WH is not the right palce to advertise. However we aim to show the consumers the way you do web hosting. If you believe that your web hosting business has a certain advantages which make you outstanding from competitors, we are ready to speak to you and to prmote your company. See waht kind of advertising opportunities B10Wh offers!

Banner Advertising

468×60 (All pages): This banner appears on the top right side of the web hosting media. We rotate up to 3 banners on this position. The price to feature your banner there is $85/month.

468×60 (Article pages): You can feature your ad below each article in B10WH. We display 2 banners on this position. The price is $55/month.

650×120 (Home page): This is our featured position. It give you 100% visibility and attracts the attention of any of our website visitors. It costs $350/month to get featured there (3 banners on rotation).

125×125 (All pages): This a square banner that displays on the right side of each page at B10WH. Its is priced at $110/month.

Text Links (All pages): Some people still buy link for SEO purposes. If you are one of them you can get a link on the bottom of our hosting media for only $45/month.

PR Articles: Sure we publish Press releases and promotional articles, BUT we mark them as promotional and say this very clear to our readers. You can place a 300x 300 pixels image in your PR article, that will cost $155 one time fee!

The Planet Goes To Europe

Posted by hosttycoon On March - 6 - 2009

the-planet-logoOne of the well-recognized U.S. dedicated hosting providers The Planet announced that it plans to go overseas and to open its first data center in Europe. This would be the first data center operation of the company outside North America. the company claims to face an increasing demands for an international, globally redundant hosted infrastructure. The Planet says its new facility will be build in London area.

”For the past 18 months, we’ve evaluated international markets that are of strategic importance to our planned global expansion, and Europe has been at the forefront of those discussions. We’ve had serious customer interest, which underscored that the time was right to move forward”, said Douglas J. Erwin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at The Planet.

The dedicated hosting provider plans to start offering its proprietary virtual racks solution on UK and EU market in April. The Planet will offer 20kW of power per rack, backed by N+1 redundancy on generators, transformers and UPS systems. According to hosting provider, its new customers will have access to a 10GB private fiber interconnect to The Planet’s core network, as well as local connectivity to Tier-1 providers and the major EU peering exchanges.

The company has begun building its London based data center two years ago. Recently it added some peering points on the East and West Coasts of the United States. The Planet says that their storage cloud and CDN (Content Delivery Network) products also provide global access points. 42% of the provider’s customers are coming from outside U.S.

The Planet has signed a colocation agreement with TelecityGroup, a company that maintains 20 data centers in 7 EU countries. The web host announced that the procedures in its new facility comply with ISO 9001:2000, a standard that defines requirements for the quality management systems for data center operations.

At the need of the 2009 The Planet said it planed to open its 7th data center in Dallas, a 86,000 square foot collocation facility in Dallas. It is expected to be opened in May 2009.

windows-server-hyper-vMicrosoft presented Windows Server 2008 with its Hyper-V hypervisor and Microsoft System Center. The world’s leading producer of PC software has outlined its initiatives for the hosting industry on its Microsoft Hosting Summit. The company claims to help web hosting providers to leverage virtualization and to lower their business costs.

One of the key products in Microsoft’s strategy to persuade web hosting providers to use its virtualization technology and its new Windows server is “Dynamic Data Center Toolkit”, which allows for the building and launching of managed services powered by Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center.

The Microsoft Toolkit holds guidance, sample code, best practices and collateral, that according to Microsoft  help web hosting companies to deploy managed hosting services. The Toolkit also offers step-by-step instructions for building a virtualized, scalable infrastructure.

Microsoft also offers a marketing guidance, that should help  web hosting providers to sell managed hosting services.

NYI Againg Ranked As Most Reliable Web Host

Posted by hosttycoon On March - 4 - 2009

nyi-netNew Your Internet (NYI.net) has been ranked as the most reliable web hosting provider in Netcraft’s February survey. The company has failed to respond to only one of the requests made by Netcraft’s performance collectors throughout the month.

NYI.net is followed by UK2, Server Intellect, WebFusion and Pair Networks, each of which failed to respond to 2 requests in February.

By winning in February New York Internet has stayed on top of the world’s list of the most reliable web hosts for the third consequent month. The company was also ranked top in December 2008 and in January.

The NYI.net is established in 1996. The company’s data centers are located in 100 William St., 21st Floor and 25 Broadway, in the hart of Manhattan. The company offers dedicated hosting, collocation and virtual web hosting. The NYI.net’s main website is based on Apache/FreeBSD.

The web host’s services are among the expensive ones on the hosting market. A dedicated hosting service based on Intel Pentium E Dual Core 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM, 80 GB SATA HDD, 5 IPs, FreeBSD 7.x OS is priced by New York Internet at $193/month with $567 set-up fee.