Host Color Doubles Resources Of VPS Hosting Plans

Host Color, a global quality web hosting provider announced the launch of a new promotional campaign on Virtuozzo Containers powered Virtual Private Servers. The provider doubles the memory, disc space and data transfer quota of its VPS Advance virtual server customers. Now site owners get 1024 MB RAM, 50 GB disc space and 500 GB monthly bandwidth for only $49.95/month. The company also provides Plesk panel licenses to VPS Advance customers for a only $5/month.

(OPENPRESS) August 22, 2009 -- The VPS Hosting provider Host Color reported to web hosting media that it has opened a new promotional campaign on Virtuozzo Containers powered virtual servers. The company enables the owners of well-established dot-com businesses to double their VPS resources when sign up for VPS Advance, a virtual private server that features 512 MB RAM, 25 GB disc space and 250 GB data transfer quota per month.

As a part of the promotional campaign, from August 21st until September 30, 2009, Host Color doubles the resources of VPS Advance for all new customers. This means that anyone who signs up for the VPS Advance will be upgraded at no cost to the next virtual server VPS Power and will get 1024 MB RAM, 50 GB disc space and 500 GB bandwidth while paying only $49.95/month. The promotional campaign is valid for 12 consequtive months. After that the owner of the VPS Advance would downgrade its VPS or to keep using VPS Power by paying $65.95/month.

To take advantage of the opportunity, and to double the resources of its VPS Advance virtual servers the company's new customers should use coupon code VPSUPGRADE0809.

Host Color has added that various discounts and rebates apply to VPS owners who has more than 1 year history as customers of the company. According to Host Color's Managing Director Alexander Avramov, those customers pay between 15% and 25% lower prices on the service and products they use with the web hosting provider.

"We will keep supporting our clients by offering them quality services and by lowering their web hosting bills. I would say that we were doing in order to ease the financial pressure on our customers in tough economic times, and to lower their costs for web hosting, and it would be true. However anyone who takes 15 minutes of their time in browsing the web to learn more about Host Color's business history will see that we have never increased the prices of web hosting services within the last 8 years. When we changed our business model in 2008 we gave our loyal customers discounts, and they renewed their plans without facing higher web hosting costs", added Mr. Avramov.

The current customers of VPS Advance virtual private server can also upgrade their virtual server to VPS Power if they need to use more resources.

Host Color has recently launched another type of promotional campaign - on Shared Hosting. The hosting provider released coupon code BEACH2009. It gives 30% instant rebate on any of the Host Color's website hosting plans. It lowers the price of all Host Color's Shared Hosting plans. Now the company's WordPress Blog Hosting customers pay only $2.09/month for a quality blog hosting service. Alongside with the quality and inexpensive IT hosting plans, Host Color also offers COM, NET, ORG, EU, and US domain name registration and transfers for only $9.95/year.

About Host Color

Host Color LLC is a U.S. web hosting provider incorporated in Delaware. It powers thousands of business and personal websites in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, U.S. and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides fully Managed dedicated hosting through HC Servers and European hosting services through HC Europe. It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. The Host Color's corporate message is "Web hosting about people, not about gigabytes."

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Domain Name Registration Service, pairNIC, Offers New Privacy Feature

PITTSBURGH, PA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/18/09 -- Domain name registration service pairNIC, which is powered by the global Web hosting company pair Networks, Inc., now offers an e-mail, postal address, and telephone Whois privacy feature at no additional cost to its customers. This new feature keeps a customer's Whois contact information private and helps decrease junk mail while still allowing e-mail correspondence to reach the customer.

While other registrars charge a significant fee for similar services, pairNIC does not charge for the privacy feature when customers register domain names with pairNIC.com. The other unique aspect of this privacy feature is that pairNIC gives its customers the flexibility to turn the feature on or off independently for e-mail addresses, postal addresses, and telephone numbers.

"Since its inception, pairNIC has focused on offering value-added features along with its domain name registration services at no additional cost to its customers," said Kevin Martin, CEO of pair Networks. "The new e-mail, postal mail, and telephone Whois privacy feature reinforces the value of our pairNIC domain name registration services."

The postal address and telephone number privacy feature is only available for COM and NET domain names. However, the e-mail address privacy feature is currently available for all pairNIC.com registered domain names.

WebHostingBuzz Redesigns Site, Restructures Management

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider WebHostingBuzz (www.webhostingbuzz.com) announced on Tuesday it has launched a new, user focus website, and has named Wayne Reavill to chief information officer.

The new website redesign incorporates a visually appealing aesthetic and user-friendly navigation to improve the overall experience for visitors.

The new site includes a new section entitled "Featured Client of the Month", where the company will select an existing customer each month to showcase their website, as well as information about them and their business.

"This design brings our site to the forefront of the hosting industry," says WebHostingBuzz CEO Matt Russell. "It will provide our clients with the most user-friendly, clean, and interactive hosting sites available on the web."

Other new site features will include closer integration with WebHostingBuzz's Twitter page and blog posts.

WebHostingBuzz also recently released its 'real testimonial' pledge by using Facebook, which lets customers post their reviews and thoughts on WebHostingBuzz services. Currently, the Facebook page has over 450 positive testimonials posted by customers.

In addition to the new website redesign, WebHostingBuzz has also restructured its executive staff after naming Wayne Reavill to chief information officer. Safvan Malik is now global president and Matt Russell is chief executive officer.

"We are pleased to welcome Wayne to the Executive Team," says Russell. "He has always done great work for us, and we expect him to be a valuable asset in his new position."

Started in 2002, WebHostingBuzz provides 500,000 websites with single domain hosting, business class hosting, VPS hosting, managed dedicated servers, and high availability clustered solutions.

Is It Time for You to Get Dedicated Web Hosting?

Dedicated web hosting is one of three primary web hosting methods. Other types of hosting include virtual hosting, sometimes called shared hosting, which is the most common web hosting method; and clustered web hosting which uses a group of servers that are integrated in order to increase performance and redundancy for a web hosting customer who has unique needs. There are definite advantages and disadvantages to the various web hosting methods. Dedicated web hosting is a hosting method that many internet-based businesses find to be extremely advantageous.

With virtual or shared web hosting, you don't have a lot of flexibility or control over your web server that your hosting provider owns. The company providing shared web hosting services partitions a server to be shared between a number of customers for their websites and email. Because it is a shared server, the customers with virtual web hosting on the server share the hard drive, the processor, and the bandwidth as well as applications. The web host that provides the virtual hosting services has control over the server configurations.

Dedicated web hosting is a step up from virtual web hosting because, even if the server is provided by a web hosting company, with dedicated web hosting you are the only customer that uses the server and you generally have complete control of the server for administrative purposes. Because you administer and control the web server yourself with dedicated web hosting, you have greater flexibility. The hosting company that provides dedicated web hosting services generally owns the server and leases it to you as a dedicated web hosting client so they are responsible for hardware management. Depending upon the dedicated web hosting services provided, you may be able to handle your own upgrades and install your own software, or you can outsource such tasks to the dedicated web hosting provider.

Aside from flexibility and control, there are other advantages of having dedicated web hosting. Because you are the only customer using the server, you don't share resources such as hard drive space, processing speed, bandwidth and applications, so dedicated web hosting can be a lot more efficient and can provide a lot more space and speed of processing for your website, database and email applications. The disadvantage of dedicated web hosting as compared to virtual web hosting is that the cost of dedicated web hosting is higher than that of shared hosting.

For most internet-based businesses, dedicated web hosting is sufficient; however, for businesses with advanced needs custom engineering and server design using clustered hosting may be necessary. However, clustered hosting is really pretty rare. For businesses that need custom applications and more space than what is available in a shared environment, dedicated web hosting is usually the answer.

Upgrading from virtual web hosting to dedicated web hosting is recommended if your business has multiple websites, uses custom applications, needs specialized support or increased web hosting space and speed. If your website or websites provide download capabilities for customers, then dedicated web hosting is a good web hosting option for you because there will be fewer bandwidth restrictions than there are with virtual or shared web hosting.

When you first start out in internet business, you may find that virtual web hosting is sufficient and cost-effective; however, as your business grows and you add features and capabilities to your website, or launch multiple websites, dedicated web hosting may be a better option. When making long-term plans for your internet business, be sure to consider the possibility of upgrading to dedicated web hosting in the future and the relative costs involved. It is beneficial to choose a virtual web hosting provider that offers the ability to quickly and easily upgrade to dedicated web hosting when it becomes a necessity for your business.

Types of Web Site Hosting

First of all we must determine the meaning of the word “hosting”.

So, what is hosting?

Hosting origins from the word “host” which has different meanings that are familiar to you. Hosting means providing place for your website on the web hosting company’s servers and makes it viewable in the Internet and floating it.

Why can you once need hosting?

Imagine that you have created a website and now you are wondering how your friends and acquaintances can see it. You place it in your personal computer, but then you come to know that it’s dangerous for your computer’s safety and needs permanent Internet connection. So it causes a lot of inconveniences for you. To avoid them there is web site hosting.

There are different kinds of web site hosting. Let’s have a good look at them:

1. Shared or virtual hosting
2. Dedicated hosting/ server, Co-location
3. VDS/VPS –Virtual Dedicated Server/Virtual Private Server

Before choosing some type of web hosting it’s necessary to consider the way you are going to use it.

Free Shared hosting

If you want to host some non-profit-making or your personal web site it’d be more profitable to use basic shared hosting for no fee. This type of web site hosting is a rather logical choice if you are a junior in web site building or if you want to try some new idea and don’t want to pay. But of course you don’t have to suppose it to grant your site the best conditions, such as proper bandwidth and disk space.

Some other features can also be limited, I mean MySQL, PHP support. It often also provides poor web statistics.

Paid Shared hosting

Almost all small businesses, intermediate and large professional sites use shared hosting, ‘cause they don’t need the whole server’s space and besides the whole server costs much. With shared/virtual hosting such necessary features, as multiply e-mail, MySQl, PHP, are supported. The main disadvantage is decrease of your site’s security.

Dedicated hosting /Server

This type of hosting is the best choice for those, who need much storage and bandwidth, and are good in server administration. You’ll be able to use all necessary software, but if you don’t have enough knowledge to administrate your server it will be a little bit difficult for you.

Co-location

It’s a sub type of dedicated hosting and can be compared with your own house which was built specially for you, with your favorite furniture and all. It’s built on your hoster’s (ISP) ground. This service is implied to fulfill only your tasks and is designed for your needs alone. And it’s cost is correspondingly high.

VDS/ VPS

Virtual private server is a type of web site hosting that is based on dividing a physical server into several virtual ones. It costs less though gives same possibilities as Dedicated server. Now, when we’ve examined different types of hosting services, you can decide which type of hosting is the most suitable for you.

How to Benefit From a Dedicated Server

Dedicated servers are something that abounding website owners actuality discussed generally in babble apartment and on website abutment forums. While abounding new website owners will assurance up for a aggregate hosting plan business owners that are affordable and maintained by a web hosting aggregation added owners accept invested in committed servers. A committed server is a server that is acclimated by alone one aggregation for their website or websites. In the accomplished owning a committed server was acutely big-ticket and appropriate a lot of aliment and technology knowledge.

These canicule accepting a committed server is abundant easier and a bit added affordable than it was a few years ago. Web hosting companies that ahead offered alone aggregate servers accept now fabricated committed servers accessible to their customers. This allows users to assurance up for a hosting annual the aforementioned way that they consistently accept alone now they will not be administration a server with added annual holders. The bulk for this annual is added big-ticket than a aggregate hosting plan but still abundant added affordable than purchasing and managing clandestine equipment. In accession to getting added affordable advance in a committed server that is maintained by a third affair is abundant added convenient. Neither you nor your agents has to anguish about consistently ecology your new server for blow or errors. The web hosting aggregation will accomplish the exact aforementioned abutment and troubleshooting casework as they consistently have.

There are abounding allowances to accepting a committed server but the primary annual in a lot of website owners’ eyes is that they no best accept to abhorrence blow getting acquired by addition website owner's site. Abounding website owners do not apprehend that if administration a server their website is in the easily of abounding added website owners who may not be actual abreast or responsible. Poorly advised sites with bad coding and added problems accept led to absolute servers crashing. Even if a sites coding does not agitate the server, the sites cartage can sometimes advance to problems.

Many aggregate hosting affairs absolute the bandwidth getting acclimated by anniversary annual that is application the server in question. The web hosting aggregation will either allegation abundant fees for overuse or briefly absolute admission to a website if it has exceeded a assertive bandwidth amount. Unfortunately there are consistently times if a web hosting aggregation does not apprehension an overage until it has already acquired a server failure. This sometimes happens if a website uploads new agreeable or starts a new cartage attack that leads to a abrupt access of traffic. If a server is down your aggregation will be penalized as cartage and abeyant barter are absent if they ability a website that is not active.

To abstain blow and errors that are acquired by aggregate hosting it is best to advance in a committed server. Committed servers are absolute for website owners that artlessly cannot allow to be down generally and for website owners that apprehend a lot of cartage daily. Accepting a committed server will not alone cut down on downtime, it will aswell accomplish your website amount faster and plan added calmly for your visitors.

Define Managed Dedicated Server

Anyone who has shopped about the managed committed server bazaar and the committed server bazaar accept to accept accomplished the lose use of the agreement on the Internet. I was absolutely abiding aboriginal on what a managed server was. Conversely there was no catechism what a committed server was. It seemed simple abundant aback then. Those were the acceptable old days.

Back again my authentic simplistic eyes was able-bodied authentic and clear. A committed server was one active by one site. It was cared for by the aggregation that endemic that site. It was hosted by a committed server hosting company. A managed committed server was active by one site. It was cared for by the aforementioned aggregation that hosted it, a managed committed server hosting company. Oh the simple life!

Then I had the adverse acquaintance afresh of delving into the absolute web sites alms managed hosting casework and committed hosting services. To be abiding what I begin could be alleged annihilation abbreviate of “a melting pot” afflicted and alloyed in every bouncing aggregate feasible.

Some alleged managed “dedicated” and some alleged committed “managed” and again there were the array and array in amid with every aggregate you can anticipate of. I’ll additional you the abashing of the abounding examples; answer it to say things aren’t as simple as they acclimated to be. One can’t go on acceptance if allegory a host. It takes analysis into anniversary host’s website to acquisition what is in fact getting offered and what you’ll pay added for admitting the appellation accustomed to the product.

What’s the point? Please let us appear to the table of acumen together! There needs to be a universally accede aloft analogue of what is a managed committed server and what casework does it include. What is a committed server and what casework does it include. Users adult or not I’m abiding consistently appreciates clarity.

Above all let me abide in the bright bright apple of afore if a managed committed server was just that.