VMware, Inc., a virtualization solutions provider, announced that it started an agreement to acquire B-hive Networks, Inc.

B-hive Networks, Inc. is a private application performance management software company, its headquarters in San Mateo, California with its main R&D facilities in Herzliya, Israel. VMware states that by this acquisition, they will leverage the B-hive technology and staff to offer new technology for applications running in the virtual machines the new service will be a service level reporting and proactive performance management – this will apply on both servers and desktops platforms. Also they added that B-hive’s R&D staff and facility will be the core of their newly development center in Israel.

“With this acquisition, VMware gains a unique solution that solves real-world problems, and adds a highly talented engineering team who shares our passion for innovation,” said Stephen Herrod, Ph.D., chief technology officer, VMware. “We expect the B-hive R&D team to be an integral part of our new development center in Israel.”

“VMware has been a trailblazer in the industry and has given organizations a much better way to plan and execute their IT operations through virtualization, and we are excited to join this winning team,” said Yoav Dembak, CEO and co-founder of B-hive. “As customers move from the physical to virtual, our combined solutions will provide even greater visibility into the performance of applications and make it possible to resolve a problem before it occurs. Our shared goal is to improve the end user experience and maximize the value of investments in VMware virtualization.”

David Lindahl General Manager of Touch Support, LLC announced yesterday that Touch Support is now part of The Planet, the world’s largest privately held dedicated web hosting company.

He also assured his customers that business will continue as usual.  The same team who is handling support and server administration today will continue to do so.  And for customers who are not currently with The Planet, they will continue to provide them with the same support services they received from Touch Support, and there will be no pressure for any customer to move their servers to The Planet.

David Lindahl also said to his clients “You may wonder why Touch Support was interested in being acquired by The Planet, and as well why The Planet was interested in Touch Support; so we want to provide you with the rationale.  Touch Support is recognized for the high-quality services it provides its customers.  Whether it s server administration, technical support, security audits and server hardening, virtualization, migration, monitoring or managed backups, Touch Support has earned a solid reputation for its excellent services.  At the same time, The Planet has also built its reputation on the high quality of its enterprise-class network and world-class data centers, the two most prominent factors for why our 22,000 customers use our services.” He also added “Perhaps the most critical business driver is our shared commitment:  both companies are equally committed to operating a customer-driven and customer-centric company.  We live that commitment every day in our two companies.”

About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 6.7 million Web sites worldwide. By offering the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and unmatched network connectivity, The Planet helps turn information technology into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to successfully grow their businesses.

Domain registrar and web hosting provider Domain.com, a subsidiary of Dotster web hosting, announced, it offering today a special “Free Domain Day Giveaway” promotion.

Throughout the day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. PST, visitors to the Domain.com web site will have the opportunity to win one of the 25 free .com, .net, and .org domains every hour. Visitors click the “Free Domain Day Giveaway” banner will be directed to a webpage where they will have the chance to win one of the coupons for a free domain.

“Domain.com’s “Free Domain Day Giveaway” gives visitors the ideal opportunity to take advantage of our comprehensive services, at little to no cost, to start creating an exceptional online presence,” says David Steinberg, marketing director of Domain.com.

The domain registrar is promoting its full range of value added services during this Domain.com giveaway, including web site hosting that have a free website builder, email accounts, URL and email forwarding and also private domain registration.

This offer will also have multiple promotions and discounts where visitors can receive other service savings, including a new free domain by purchasing of any one year or more web hosting plans.

They are also offering a 20 % discount on all its year and more web hosting plans, this will make the cost to as low as $4.20 per month, they also offer two domains for the price of one domain.

Earlier this month, Dotster web hosting ran a deal like this through mydomain.com earlier this month.

Lunarpages web hosting announced a new offer “Spring Special”, with this offer the price of basic hosting is reduced from $6.95 per month to $4.95 per month for the clients who pay two years in advance.  This offer has free set up fee and free domain name for life. The plan has 1,500 GB of storage and 15,000 GB of bandwidth per month. Unlimited MSQL, Unlimited postgre SQL and unlimited emails also included in this plan. This affordable shared web hosting plan comes with 30 days money back for customer satisfaction. Lunerpages plans come with 24/7/365 technical support, 99.9% uptime, tape backup, power generator, Ddos protection and 24/7/365 server monitoring.

Lunarpages Web Hosting was born from Add2Net in 2000, and the company continues to be managed by Ron Riddle and has never been traded or compromised since its humble beginnings. Several years ago, Ron and the company branched out from simple shared hosting to include Windows, Dedicated, Reseller, and most recently, VPS Hosting Plans.

Ipowerweb web hosting provider, the home of over 700,000 websites announced the spring sale.
Pro shared web hosting plan is priced now $4.95 per month instead of 7.95 per month. With the pro plan Ipowerweb clients get free domain name, 1,500 GB of Space, 15,000 GB of Transfer, 2,500 E-mail Accounts, over $200 in Advertising Credits and Instant activation.

Clients can host unlimited domains on this pro plan with 25 MYSQL database, 2500 POP3 email accounts with forwarding and spam filtering.

IPOWER, Inc., The Power Behind eBusiness™, is one of the world’s leading eBusiness Web site hosting providers. Their Internet based end-to-end solutions enable small and medium sized enterprises to build, promote, manage and profit from their online presence.

1&1 web hosting, the world’s largest providers of Internet and web hosting services, the Germany-based Internet and web hosting provider has now big changes. 1&1 announced on Thursday, that Andreas Gauger is no more in his position as CEO and chairman of the board. And the new CEO will be Oliver Mauss.

Oliver Mauss was CEO of 1&1 Internet, also the company’s subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Spain and France; Mauss will be also in responsible to lead 1&1′s global web hosting operations.

Oliver Mauss worked for Vodafone Group for over a decade and recently as the global director of business product marketing. He also held positions in business development and product management at telecommunication companies such as o.tel.o and RWE Telliance.

In 1999, Oliver Gauger became chairman of the board after 1&1 Internet acquired Schlund + Partner, his German web hosting company,.

1&1 said in the company announcement.”Within a short time, Andreas Gauger has led 1&1 to become one of the world’s leading web hosts, by defining a standard for user-friendly and cost-effective web hosting solutions and by developing and directing 1&1′s successful international expansion strategy”.

VEXXHOST web hosting announced last week that they finished upgrading their virtual private server (VPS) structure. The upgrade include a new multi homed network that has four major Internet providers which makes the availability of the sites hosted on their VPS server goes to 100%.  Along with top of the line data-center in downtown Montreal with redundant power supply using three giant electric generators and un-interrupted power supply units which guarantee a non interrupted electric power supply. The data-center also equipped with advance fire alarm/fighting system, redundant air conditioning system and advance security system using cameras and electronic card door entry.

The upgrades include also the servers’ hardware also; all the VPS servers now have a RAID 10 for data security, redundancy and performance. Dual power supply unit for power redundancy and to eliminate any chance of downtime. All the servers are Intel multi Xeon processors of up to 8 processors and have ECC RAM of up to 32 GB.

All Virtual private servers use Xen virtualization method, which totally separate RAM, space and even kernel of each VPS server and prevent any interfering between VPS’s.

With all these specifications and redundancies and by giving a generous dedicated RAM of up to 1 GB to each VPS server, makes VEXXHOST VPS plans better than using a dedicated server with a much affordable prices.

Easy CGI web hosting is offering now five Linux VPS plans. These virtual private server hosting plans offer a range of disk space, bandwidth and memory, also offer higher access to CPU time by reducing the number of VPS clients on the servers.

Easy CGI web hosting, a well-known hosting company which was offering Windows Server hosting only is now has a full range of five VPS (virtual private server) plans for clients who need Linux system. These plans are nearly the same of those offered to its Windows system. Easy CGI range of Linux virtual private server plans can satisfy nearly any VPS hosting need – starting from  small businesses ending to big corporations.

“Although we are a Windows Web hosting provider,” Dan Richfield President of Easy CGI said “we pride ourselves on flexibility and our ability to deliver what customers want. There’s a definite market out there for Linux-based hosting and we are one of the few hosting companies offering dedicated VPS on both Windows and Linux platforms.”

All five these plans guarantee a small number of VPS for each server, which gives each customer a bigger share of CPU time, disk space and RAM.

Easy CGI web hosting is a leading Windows Web hosting company since 2001, they provide value web hosting and customer support. The VPS plans that they offer are flexible, easy-to-use, and have step-by-step instructions with huge knowledge base.

PowWeb web hosting provider announced the “STRETCH You TAX Rebate Check” a 50% off the one plan that they offer. The price of the plan goes to $3.88 per month if paid yearly. The plan features are 1,500 GB Disk Space, 15000 GB of Data Transfer, FREE Domain, Host Unlimited Domains, MySQL, PHP, CGI, SSL, FTP, Stats, Point & Click Site Builder, $80 in Yahoo & Google Ads Credits, E-Commerce Included,  FrontPage/Dreamweaver ready and 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee.

The plan also has nice webmaster utilities like unlimited domains, .htaccess editor, Site backups and restores, Scheduled jobs tool.

PowWeb web hosting is one of the few Web hosting providers who stand on their own two feet. They develop their own Web hosting software and automation build directly to customers’ needs. The entire infrastructure was built and developed in-house by their developers and programmers for customers’ satisfaction. They also manage, operate and own their entire network and all other equipments and servers

Hostpapa web hosting announced that due to recent industry changes, they are now proud to offer unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space. Their plan comes with a free domain name for life, site builder software, $25 Yahoo! credit, $50 Microsoft adCenter credit, free shopping carts and blogs, PHP, CGI, emails and all other essentials.

The plan is priced for $5.95 if prepaid for three years, $6.95 if prepaid for two years and $7.95 if paid monthly. They also mention 30 days money back for customer satisfaction.

HostPapa is a web hosting is a privately owned company which has offices in Canada and the United States; they are in business since 2005. They offer web hosting, domain registration and web design.