Future Protect to provide backup of data in an event of a disaster or hardware failure.

Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider, announced today it will now offer Future Protect, an innovative data protection service offered free of charge to all virtual private server customers. Dedicated server customers can choose to add Future Protect for an additional monthly fee, based on their individualized data size requirements and backup frequency.

The company explained that with Future Protect, their customer data is backed up every six hours and stored on a remote server. In the event of a disaster or hardware failure, they can quickly and seamlessly restore backed up data, minimizing any potential downtime and providing an extra layer of security. It also added that Future Protect utilizes R1Soft’s continuous data protection technology to offer such frequent backups.

The company states that currently, Future Protect backups are only available for disaster recovery. It further states that it is also encouraging their customers to keep their own backups to be used in the event of an accidental deletion or other case of human error.

“For businesses operating on the Internet, we recognize that data security and service uptime are absolutely mission-critical,” said Charles Kowalski, Future Hosting COO. “Hardware failures and other disasters are often unforeseen and unpreventable. Even so, businesses need assurances that their data will survive unexpected situations, and that recovery will be quick. Future Protect meets that need and offers an important level of security.

The new connection, the company hopes to increase its network capacity between 8-10 giga-bits within a year.

ServerPoint web hosting provider, a shared, reseller, co-located, VPS and dedicated hosting solutions provider, announced that it has added the new giga-bit up-link from XO communications to providing additional network redundancy and capacity for Las Vegas, Nev. data-center.

The company states, it’s optimistic that the addition of this new connection will provide a new routes for data entering and leaving its network, allowing many visitors to connect to hosted sites at much lower latency. With the added redundancy company also expects to minimize the chance of any possible network downtime.

“XO has a very large network that peers with every other major provider, in addition to having the largest IP capacity in Las Vegas,” said ServerPoint CTO Erik Johnson. “Having worked with XO communications previously, we are confident our customers will benefit from the high quality network access they provide.”

“ServerPoint is housed in a neutral-carrier facility, fully redundant in everything,” said Johnson. We provide our customers with our own network, including two new routers, in which we recently invested more than $100,000. We focus on providing a reliable, very fast, high-quality network, so that our customers can focus on their businesses.”

The Planet, a dedicated web hosting company, announced that it is expanding its partner offerings with the addition of a new affiliate program. The company is providing incentives for those interested in hosting to earn commissions simply by making referrals to them.

The company construed that their affiliate program provides competitive commission rates, which enables their affiliate partners to earn money without having to bear the costs of owning and managing the customer relationship. The participants will have access to a dedicated affiliate team focused on making them effective with promotions, marketing materials and a specialized website optimized for affiliate referred traffic. An administrative portal designed exclusively for affiliate partners tracks statistics, including traffic, conversion rates and payouts that are available at any hour of the day.

In conjunction with the new program, company also announced a celebratory kick-off promotion for the new program. For the month of February, it will pay an additional $1,000 to the affiliate member who generates the largest volume of referrals. And $250 has been designated as a bonus to the member who refers the month’s largest single transaction.

“For all the same reasons that have lead to The Planet’s installed base of 22,000 customers and our hosting more than 3.1 million Web sites, we are confident our customers and affiliate partners will make money by referring prospects to us,” said James P. Treuting, vice president of sales and operations with The Planet. “Word-of-mouth is one of our strongest avenues for acquiring new business, so our affiliate program is another way we’d like to thank our customers for the favor.”

This facility added an additional 7,600 sq. feet of raised floor space also provide solutions to clients in Charlotte, South Carolina, and nationwide.

Hosted Solutions, a data center and managed services provider, announced the addition of a second Data Center in Charlotte to support the company’s continued growth. The new data center will add an additional 7,600 square feet of raised floor space, increasing the Hosted Solutions’ data center capabilities to serve clients.

The new uptown data center will provide a complete range of secure co-location, managed hosting, performance monitoring and management, data backup and storage, security, and disaster recovery solutions to clients located in Charlotte, South Carolina, and nationwide.

“We are very excited to announce the opening of our second Charlotte data center,” said Rich Lee, founder and CEO of Hosted Solutions. “The Charlotte team has worked tirelessly to position Hosted Solutions as a leader in this marketplace, and we are proud of our continued success. The opening of Charlotte’s second data center is a testament of Hosted Solutions commitment to grow strategically in our current markets while giving our customers the personal relationship of a small company and the resources of an enterprise organization. Hosted Solutions is dedicated to delivering the highest standard of infrastructure, security, and performance to small, medium, and large businesses throughout the United States.”

Company emphasises brand’s focus on delivering hosted IT services.

Rackspace, an IT hosting provider, today announced its new corporate identity reflecting its shift into IT hosting. As more organisations transition from purchasing in-house computing assets to leveraging service providers, company now offers a suite of hosted IT services that are more reliable and provide better value, including virtualisation, hosted mail, custom application support, back-end IT and storage.

The company states with its newly-launched name, it may drop the “Managed Hosting” terminology, signifying company’s new breadth of hosted IT services  supporting companies of all sizes. it further states that the new logo incorporates their popular ‘FANATIGUY’ icon, which better reflects its people-centric culture and award-winning Fanatical Support, and highlights the their transition from servers to services.

“Fanatical Support, our business philosophy, has been central to our managed hosting success for the past nine years and will continue to propel us as we expand our offering. Our new services will complement our existing portfolio allowing customers to easily offload more and more IT functions, and our new identity reflects this approach,” said Doug Loewe, Managing Director, Rackspace EMEA.

Company enhances the non-English speaking Internet by allowing individuals to register web site names with native Spanish characters.

Afilias, a registry services provider, announced that web hosting users can now register .INFO domain names that include the Spanish characters á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, and ü. The introduction of these new domains, termed Internationalized Domain Names, now enables Spanish-speakers to establish Web sites using words commonly used in Spanish such as película.info, teléfono-móvil.info, Ídolo.info, Piñata.info, and others.

The registry states that this set of Spanish characters adds to their broad support of IDNs, bringing the total number of languages supported to ten. IT also states that these include scripts for Spanish, German, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Korean.

The company also explained that IDN registrations are based on a technical standard called Punycode that was approved in 2003. .INFO was the first generic domain to automatically accept standards-compliant registrations in 2004 and IDN adoption has slowly grown since all common Web browsers including Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 7 now allow users to natively type in IDN addresses and access these web sites. It also declared that those interested in registering .INFO IDN names should contact an ICANN-accredited and Afilias-authorized registrar of their choice.

“With over 100 million Spanish-speaking Internet users today, 13 million of which are in the United States alone, we believe that the introduction of Spanish IDNs represents an important addition for .INFO and for the growing base of Spanish-speaking users on the Internet,” said Roland LaPlante, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Afilias. “As the only truly global Internet extension, .INFO Web sites are a natural way for individuals, organizations, and institutions to convey information in their local, native Spanish language.”

1&1 web hosting, announced today that it has completed a comprehensive extension of its wide area network. An overall bandwidth of more than 120 gigabit/second is now available for its’s top-of-the-line data centers in Europe and the United States. For the first time, it is connected directly to a large Internet Exchange point outside of Europe at Equinix in Chicago. The development means that the external connectivity of the web host has tripled over the past twelve months.

The company states that in November, U.S. research company, Nemertes, warned in a well known study that Internet infrastructure might no longer supply the growing demands of private and business users over the next 3 to 5 years. Company further states that with its latest network upgrades and further measures planned for 2008, It feels well prepared for continuously growing demand.

1&1 web hosting also explained that besides the upgrade of its wide area network, it has also made changes to its underlying technology. Instead of Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, now Ethernet technology – well-known from corporate and home networks – is being utilized. “Ethernet can be handled more easily, and by switching to powerful routers from U.S. based manufacturer Foundry Networks, we can even save money,” comments Andreas Gauger. It further states that it benefits from an additional cost saving potential through the network extension, as data streams can be distributed optimally through new peerings and routing alternatives.

Andreas Gauger, chairman of the board of 1&1 Internet Inc., said, “With the upgrade of our Internet bandwidth, our millions of web hosting customers in Europe and the U.S. can be sure that their content will reach Internet users worldwide even faster and more reliably. As a result of multimedia applications like video streaming, the demand for bandwidth has grown enormously over the last few years.” The data volume transmitted from 1&1′s data centers has in fact nearly doubled over the past year from 3,500 Terabytes (3.5 million Gigabytes) in January 2007, to 6,500 Terabytes in December 2007.

“The continuous upgrade of 1&1′s data network shows that despite pessimistic forecasts from some, the boundaries of Internet growth have not yet been reached,” adds Gauger.

Lunarpages Web Hosting announced a big upgrade to its Basic and Business Web Hosting Plans.

The Basic Web Hosting Plan now has 1500 GB of web storage space and 15,000 GB of bandwidth. The Business Plan is upgraded to 15,000 GB of bandwidth with unlimited storage space.

These web hosting plans come with free setup fees and free domain for life, also there is free $700 CoffeeCup Software and 30 money back guarantee.

The price for the basic web hosting plan is $6.95 per month which includes also 10 add-on domains, unlimited sub and parked domains, unlimited MYSQL and ftp accounts and unlimited emails/forwarding/autoresponder accounts.

Amy Armitage, Lunarpages’ Business Development and Marketing director, said in a press release issued by the company. “We know it’s hard to find the perfect Web host for your website, so we’re making it one step easier to sign up with us and get the service and support you need.”

Lunarpages Web Hosting established in 2000, the company managed by Ron Riddle and has never been traded or compromised. The company started with simple shared hosting then include Windows, Dedicated, Reseller, and most recently, VPS Hosting Plans.

The three datacenters (Riverside CA, Los Angeles CA and Las Vegas, Nevada) with an optimized call center in La Habra, California, Lunarpages web hosting becomes one of the premier web host in the world by hosting over 150,000 web sites.

VEXXHOST web hosting extended their holiday offer till 15 January 2008. This was decided after the huge success of the holiday offer because of high demand from clients to extend this offer so they have time to switch from their existing hosting to VEXXHOST. The holiday plan is priced at $60 per year with generous features such as 750 GB of disk space, 7500 GB of bandwidth and 75 domains in one account.  This comes with a free domain for life and no setup fees. The plan gives also unlimited sub-domains, unlimited emails and comes with the new cPanel V11 with Fantastico. The plan comes complete with all other add-ons like unlimited MYSQL databases, CGI, PHP4 and PHP5, FrontPage and all FFMPEG modules.

All these features with this price makes VEXXHOST holiday plan one of the best deals on market right now.  Also this offer does not interrupt other VEXXHOST offers for reseller plans and virtual private server plans.

VEXXHOST web hosting is a private debit free company based in Montreal, Canada. Their reasonable prices, reliability and good customer support make them grew rapidly in the last two years.