Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today introduced Virtual Private Server (VPS) management capability to its Future Hosting Management Portal (FHMP), which previously focused only on dedicated servers.

By adding VPS management capability, clients will have complete control of all of their Virtual Private Servers under a single username. VPS clients will also be able to access the complete lineup of Future Hosting client support and billing services through the same interface.

“By adding the ability for our VPS clients to manage and control their servers in this environment, our FHMP is finally becoming the ‘one stop shop’ we envisioned when we designed this solution. Our clients will be able to manage their entire array of products and services from Future Hosting in a fast, easy to use interface,” said Future Hosting Chief Technology Officer Nick Zyren.

Virtual Private Servers from Future Hosting are available in a wide variety of configurations, including on both managed and unmanaged plans. Clients are also able to locate their server in any of Future Hosting’s six international data centers, in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, Seattle, or Washington, D.C.

Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.

For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.

About Future Hosting, LLC

Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.

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With Stratavia, HP clients can improve their time to market and increase agility for application deployment with a solution that ties the application development process to application deployment. HP clients will now have a comprehensive application automation solution that bridges the gap between application development and operational teams. The solution will support all aspects of the application life cycle, from modeling an application and releasing it into production, to ongoing management and the underlying infrastructure.

“As applications and IT environments become increasingly complex, organizations need to automate changes that range from large-scale application updates to simple one-line configuration updates with consistency and control,” said Bill Veghte, executive vice president, Software and Solutions, HP. “Stratavia’s database and application automation solutions, combined with HP’s leading Business Service Automation portfolio, give organizations a one-stop shop for infrastructure and application deployment management.”

Stratavia offerings also enhance the HP Cloud Service Automation solution by simplifying and automating the deployment of databases, middleware and packaged applications in cloud computing environments. Clients can now accelerate the delivery of applications and business services by building up from the infrastructure to include databases, middleware and web applications in a cloud environment.

“For eight years, Stratavia has been focused on developing application deployment automation solutions supporting tasks including provisioning, code deployment, configuration management, compliance, patching, as well as common user requests including migrations, refresh and back-ups,” said Thor Culverhouse, chief executive officer, Stratavia. “Combining Stratavia’s offerings with HP Server Automation will give clients a way to simplify and automate application deployment operations, minimizing downtime and mistakes.”

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.

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“Teaming with PEER 1 Hosting enables Capgemini and its affiliates to effectively deliver our high value services to our expanding client base,” said Kim Lesley, Vice President of Capgemini Canada Inc. “The relationship between Capgemini Canada and PEER 1 Hosting is a powerful one in the Canadian marketplace and is designed to support a robust, secure, predictable service delivery for clients in a number of different industries.”

PEER 1 Hosting’s new US$40 million, 40,000 square foot state-of-the art Toronto data centre offers a complete range of services with managed hosting, dedicated hosting through the ServerBeach brand, and colocation services all available in the same facility for the first time. This is the most efficient data centre PEER 1 Hosting has built to date, with increased power densities, high reliability, and robust security. Building it in four sections, with each section built as a separate POD, enables customers to scale their data centre capacity to rapidly meet their evolving needs, while allowing PEER 1 Hosting to efficiently manage growth. Each of the four PODs has the capacity for approximately 270 cabinets, equivalent to roughly 7,500 servers.

About PEER 1 Hosting

PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting providers. The company is built on two obsessions: Ping & People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-of-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10GB SuperNetworkTM connected by 17 state-of-the-art data centres, 21 points-of-presence and 10 colocation facilities throughout North America and Europe. People, represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24×7×365 FirstCall Support™. PEER 1 Hosting’s portfolio includes Managed Hosting, Dedicated Servers under the ServerBeach brand, Colocation and Cloud Services. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered in Southampton, UK. PEER 1 Hosting shares are traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX.

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Hosting Zoom Web Hosting Begins the “Summer of Support”

Web hosting services provider Hosting Zoom (www.hostingzoom.com) has announced the rollout of a variety of service and support initiatives including server health status, new ticketing procedures, API improvements, and order automation to simplify management. Hosting Zoom has also enhanced its support center, rounding it out with tutorials, guides, a knowledge base, FAQs, useful downloads, and community forums.

Host Color Announces VPS Hosting Promotion

Web host Host Color (www.hostcolor.com) is offering customers a 15-percent instant rebate on any of its virtual server plans with the use of coupon code “AUGUST2010”. Based on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Host Color’s VPS offerings are available in three plans: VPS Advance, VPS Power and VPS Customer.

Dream9Media.com Announces Three Affordable Web Design Specials for Small Businesses

Online presence and design services provider Dream 9 Media (www.dream9media.com) has announced three new Web design packages for small businesses. With this announcement, Dream 9 Media is offering one year of free hosting with any new website, a free one-year SSL certificate with a new e-commerce website, or a free month of Web maintenance with the purchase of a one-year maintenance package.

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While that may be true for your basic 10 page niche affiliate site, what of the webmaster that has a few hundred of them? That makes it an entirely different story! Let’s take a look at some of the more important ways that having a dedicated server web hosting plan can take your business to the next level.

Room to Grow! - If your site is outgrowing any of the shared plans or servers you may have been on previously, the amount of web space and bandwidth, as well as overall server efficiency you will experience with a dedicated server is beyond your comprehension. Whereas before a single space hog on the same server as yours could’ve brought things to a standstill, this is no longer the case! You will have all the elbow room you need, whether for large sites, or a herd of minisites!Control – A small word for such a large concept, especially when it comes to your web hosting account. The freedom to install and run practically any script or software on your sites is a luxury many who opt for shared hosting will never know. Control also means being able to fashion the server loads, and keep your sites loading fast!

Would You Like Managed or Unmanaged? – If you haven’t the technical skill or staff, or even the time or desire, you can opt for fully managed dedicated server web hosting. Most clients take this option. However, if you really like to control and get your hands dirty, you can run the show completely from your end.

Hey Fella Wanna Buy Some Hosting? - You are also free to resell your web space to other, paying customers. This can help control costs, and allow you to get the most from your investment. You can take on as many or as few hosting customers as your space and desire dictate; just remember to protect your own sites.

An Enhanced Level Of Service – Becoming a dedicated server client affords you a whole new level of service. You will likely have an account manager of your own, and they will ensure that things are running as smoothly as possible. Your support calls will not go unanswered for days!

Security – Having your own dedicated server plan enhances your site security in several ways. First and foremost is the fact that you’ll no longer be sharing an IP address with hundreds of other cowboys, who can bring havoc to your ranch with surprisingly little effort! Also, there is a far smaller chance that any server exploits can come along when you are in control of who and what is running on your server space.

All in all having a dedicated server web hosting plan can take your business places it’s never been before, and is at the end of the day, a surprisingly cost-effective way to host your sites!

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With the new site launch, AssistanZ now offers Unlimited Linux Plesk Server Management & Monitoring for just $49 per month, and Unlimited DirectAdmin Server Management & Monitoring for $35 per month. Earlier this year, AssistanZ released its unlimited cPanel management service. All unlimited plans include unlimited server administration requests via ticket support, 24×7 availability, 24×7×365 Non-Stop Server Monitoring with email alerts, reboot requests to datacenters, and monitoring at AssistanZ’s global monitoring locations. Customers can choose up to two ports for monitoring, and enjoy a 30-day money back guarantee if they are not satisfied with the service.

“The server management sector of the hosting industry remains one of the fastest growing areas in hosting, as providers look for ways to improve quality and uptime of their servers. We are able to reduce cost and improve efficiency in a way that has created a real competitive advantage for our firm. The old negative conceptions about outsourced management and support are simply not true anymore,” said Amal Ranjith, managing director of AssistanZ.

AssistanZ is also providing a free license of Softaculous, an auto-installer for the cPanel control panel, for customers who utilize the company’s cPanel management service. AssistanZ is a NOC partner of Softaculous.

AssistanZ also provides a variety of specialty services, including optimizing for server upload/download speed increases, website performance increases, and security hardening. The company hopes to add additional notification features, including SMS alerts, in the coming months.

To learn more about AssistanZ, please visit www.assistanz.com.

About AssistanZ
Based in Coimbatore, India, AssistanZ is a leading provider of outsourced server management services. AssistanZ manages both Windows and Linux servers and offers a wide variety of ancillary services, including outsourced Web Hosting support, professional multimedia & Web design, customer management, software management, and much more. Learn more about AssistanZ by visiting www.assistanz.com or calling 1-888-500-1070.

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“With this new facility and services, we will continue to provide our customers with the exceptional service that they have come to expect, and also give our customers access to features and tools that were previously unavailable at our price point. Our customers will now have the flexibility and reliability they need to build their businesses, all while delivering cost savings on both the front- and back-end services they need to be online,” said Matt McKinney, Hosting Metro’s Director of Marketing.

PEER 1 Hosting’s Seattle data center offers Hosting Metro redundant bandwidth, connectivity, speed and minimal latency for its customers. It is located in downtown Seattle on Sixth Avenue and is ideally located to deliver content to end-users in the Pacific Northwest, especially for end users in Seattle and surrounding areas like Bellevue, Tacoma and Redmond. “The level of data center reliability and security was key factor in our decision,” said Tony Chu, CEO of Hosting Metro. “PEER 1’s reliability is one of the highest in the world, and by giving our customers access to their SuperNetwork, we can help safeguard their business by keeping them online and secure.” The data center features redundant UPS and diesel generator power systems making it able to sustain any possible power outages, as well as military-grade pass card access are used to ensure total security in the facility. In addition, a Network Operating Center (NOC) team monitors and manages the network 24 x7×365 to ensure 100% uptime. Redundant HVAC Systems, climate control with particle filters and humidity control create optimal conditions on site for severs and system operation and eliminating any hardware failures caused by the environment conditions.

About Hosting Metro
Hosting Metro is dedicated to developing innovative services and providing exceptional technical support to meet the Web hosting needs of its customers. As an independent company, they have 13 years of experience in the web hosting industry, and work to integrate emerging technologies and provide comprehensive, integrated solutions to their hosting clients. With their innovative Campfire Support system, Hosting Metro moves beyond standard domain hosting to provide leading technical support and a range of hosting solutions that are focused on improving productivity, increasing profitability, and empowering their clients’ to achieve their goals. For more information go to: www.hostingmetro.com or visit their forum for the latest news.

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