Thursday 29 July 2010
Hosting.com, the leading provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and a strategic VMware vCloud(TM) partner, today announced multiple enhancements to the Cloud Enterprise environment driven by significant market demand. Access to high performance SAN (EMC) storage, increased computer resources (8GB of RAM now 32 and 4vCPU now 
and support for seven additional operating systems (including RedHat and Windows Datacenter 2008 R2) highlight the enhancements.
Cloud Enterprise customers can now increase their virtual machine resources to 32 GB of RAM and 8 virtual CPUs via the Hosting.com portal. Companies deploying demanding applications can use Hosting.com’s secure cloud solutions for their test, development and production needs.
In addition, Cloud Enterprise customers pushing upper disk i/o rates have the ability to move data to high performance storage on Hosting.com’s EMC SAN. SAN storage is ideal for customers seeking security, functionality and enterprise-class reliability from the latest storage technologies at mid-market prices.
“Our cloud solutions are frequently used to host robust applications, databases and web servers that require additional resources and storage,” noted Hosting.com Cloud Product Manager Fred Strelzoff. “Increasingly, Hosting.com clients want to migrate their dedicated hosting or colocation solutions into a cloud hosting environment. The support of nine total operating systems eliminates the need to migrate operating systems and makes the migration process less costly and painful.”
Last week, Hosting.com announced VMware Virtual Machine upload availability for customers to migrate their own virtual machines or VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk Format) files to Hosting.com’s Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated solutions. Customers now have the flexibility and portability to move their virtual machines, either from their own environment or another host, into one of Hosting.com’s Cloud Super Sites.
Hosting.com’s portfolio of Cloud Hosting Solutions include Cloud Enterprise, Cloud Dedicated, Cloud VPS, and vCloud Express - solutions that reduce costs, improve efficiency and provide extreme flexibility to businesses of all sizes. Hosting.com has made significant investments in enterprise-class technologies such as VMware, EMC, Dell, Juniper, F5, and Intel to deliver a robust, standards-based cloud infrastructure to clients demanding unparalleled performance and security.
Operating Systems now supported include Windows 2003 Enterprise 32-Bit and 64-Bit, Windows 2008 Data Center R1 32-Bit, Windows 2008 Data Center R2 64-Bit, Windows 2008 Data Center 64-Bit, Cent OS 32-Bit and 64-Bit, Redhat Enterprise 32-Bit and Redhat Enterprise 64-Bit.
About Hosting.com
Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the Web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers, content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.
Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; San Francisco, CA; and Denver, CO.
All Hosting.com products and services are supported by 24×7x365 live expert technical support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat.
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Cloud VPS,
Hosting.com, the first name in global managed hosting and colocation solutions, today announced that it is launching Cloud VPS, an enhanced version of its prior virtual private server (VPS) solutions. The new solution will provide customers with unprecedented elasticity and control of their VPS environments. Cloud VPS will be hypervisor-based, making the virtual machines independent from one another — a feature unavailable in most container-based VPS solutions.
Cloud VPS will provide customers with high availability, scalability and flexibility inherent to cloud infrastructures. Customers will have the ability to grow and easily migrate their Cloud VPS solutions to the more robust Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated solutions offered by Hosting.com. The company selected the VMware vSphere software to build this new cloud infrastructure. Hosting.com is in the process of moving all existing VPS clients to the Cloud VPS infrastructure.
“Hosting.com made the decision to move away from a container-based VPS platform to provide more flexibility and control from our customers,” noted Matt Ferrari, Hosting.com Director of Infrastructure Services. “Customer feedback and requests for a more dynamic offering that could easily scale or be migrated directly lead to the development of Cloud VPS.”
The transition to a cloud infrastructure allows Hosting.com to provide Cloud VPS at a reduced cost than traditional VPS solutions and provide clients with additional resources. The base package for the prior .Net VPS solution ($89.00/month) from Hosting.com provided 512 MB RAM, 10 GB of Virtual Disk Space, and 400 GB of monthly transfer. For $80.00/month, Cloud VPS will provide the same amount of RAM, 30 GB of Virtual Disk Space and 500 GB of monthly transfer.
Cloud VPS hosting plans are available for both Microsoft Windows and Linux at a fixed, monthly cost and can be customized based on a customer’s unique needs for space, bandwidth, and data management tools. Each plan includes preinstalled software, including ASP.NET, Adobe ColdFusion, and SQL Server on Windows and PHP, Perl, and MySQL on Linux. Additionally, Cloud VPS plans feature daily backups, 24×7x365 expert technical support, and a 100% network uptime guarantee.
“Cloud VPS will introduce many companies to cloud hosting due to its performance, functionality and pricing,” commented Fred Strelzoff, Hosting.com Cloud Product Manager. “Cloud hosting has become a viable alternative to managed and dedicated hosting — similarly, we believe Cloud VPS will change the expectations of VPS consumers.”
Hosting.com has also changed the name of its Cloud Private solution to Cloud Dedicated to more accurately describe the solution provided to customers — a single-tenant, clustered hardware environment. Private solutions are available on both Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated.
About Hosting.com
Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the Web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers, content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.
Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; San Francisco, CA; and is opening a datacenter in Denver, CO in September 2009.
All Hosting.com products and services are supported by 24×7x365 live expert technical support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat.
