VEXXHOST has announced in an email that was sent to its clients that it has started offering near CDP protection to all of its shared & reseller web hosting accounts.  They are using a backup system powered by R1soft’s near CDP technology which allowed them to have backups of all of the shared/reseller web hosting accounts.  This new feature comes in with no increased fees and a promise from vexxhost to never raise its prices.

At the moment, their clients data is protected and backed up every 3 hours, which means everyday at 12AM, 3AM, 6AM, 9AM, 12PM, 3PM, 6PM, 9PM.  Also, they can restore a backup up to 24 hours ago which means that if they need to restore a backup at 12AM, they have 8 backups taken at a span of 3 hours for the whole day, so instead of losing a whole day’s work, they would only can lose 3 hours maximum.  VEXXHOST has also mentioned that they take daily backups for all accounts.

This backup service is the best and only in class, no other shared & reseller web hosting provider is yet able to provide a backup service every 3 hours. They also backup the MySQL databases in a way where they are temporarily locked and there is no possibility of the database becoming corrupt or the backup itself, this maximizes security and decreases any possibility of a corrupted backup.

VEXXHOST, a web hosting provider that has been constantly advancing and evolving with technology still continues to have one of the best web hosting offers.  With their shared web hosting plans starting at $2.55 per month, they continue to be one of the best budget providers with a premium offering because of their redundant systems, networks and services.

A2 Hosting, a web hosting company launched their brand new website. The new website was designed with a new features and fresh content and it covers all the aspects of web hosting, they also launch a new promotion by offering customers Site Launch Celebration coupon. New customers can use the code “a2launch”before August 31 to get 15% discount.

A2 Hosting, Inc. is a web hosting company with is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan focused on satisfying customers’ needs. They offer a full range of web hosting services starting from shared, resellers, VPs, semi-dedicated and dedicated hosting. They also offer domain names registration and merchant accounts. They also use server backup technology “Server Rewind”, “Guru Crew Hosting Support” and also they offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee and 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee.

The Planet Web hosting provider announced that they are offering new promotions which give enhanced security and data protection for dedicated server customers.

The Planet is offering for a limited time a free ninety day trial on new orders of EVault Backup and Network Backup.

These solutions are part of The Planet’s managed storage infrastructure and they are available starting 10GB till 80GB.

This promotion comes after The Planet launched its new “Planet Alpha” Dedicated Servers and “Planet Northstar” Managed Hosting divisions. The Planet also brings the Xeon 3210-SAS servers, to the line of Planet Alpha’s Ready To Go Servers.

“Planet Alpha” Data Protection Servers have continuous data backup software from R1Soft which they are discounted up to 29%, that make a savings of $140/m. These storage servers have a capacities of up to 6TB with bare-metal recovery and block-level backup capabilities.

“With The Planet’s backup and data protection solutions, SMBs can gain the simplest form of business continuity insurance at an affordable monthly rate,” says Rob Walters, GM of storage and data protection at The Planet. “Coupled with firewalls, customers gain peace of mind knowing that critical information is both protected and recoverable.”

VMware, Inc. (Public, NYSE:VMW) “a virtualization software provider” shares are still in the shock and still struggling due to the announcement of the third quarter sales forecast. The share opened today $36.70 and closed even lower at about $35.00.

On last Tuesday, VMware announced its second-quarter profit and showed that it’s jumped 53 % which matching Wall Street’s expectations. But the forecast of the third-quarter sales which is between $462 million and $468 million was way below the $497.3 million that was projected.

VMware became public last August and raised more than one billion dollars in its initial offering; its shares were about $57.71 at that time, then it reached its peak on October 31, 2007 to reach $124.83 to see them now at a price of about $35.00.

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2008 which include revenues for the second quarter were $456 million, an increase of 54% from the second quarter of 2007.  GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $61 million, compared to $47 million for the same period last year.  Non-GAAP operating income was $112 million, an increase of 52% from the second quarter of 2007. GAAP net income for the quarter was $52 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared to $34 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2007.  Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $92 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to $52 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2007.  Cash exceeded $1.5 billion and deferred revenue was $721 million as of June 30, 2008.

Second quarter U.S. revenues grew 43% to $240 million from the second quarter of 2007.  International revenues grew 68% to $216 million from the second quarter of 2007 driven by strength in Europe and Australia.

Software license revenue grew 39% to $284 million from second quarter of 2007.  Service revenues, which include support, subscription and professional services, were $172 million, an increase of 85% from the second quarter of 2007.

“VMware had another solid quarter, proving that the quality of our products and the immediate return on investment that they yield is delivering high value to customers,” said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer of VMware.  “I am personally excited to become part of a company that has the potential to become one of the truly important and enduring companies in the software industry.”

“Our mission is to help customers run datacenters that use powerful, cost-effective, modern hardware to deliver dramatically higher levels of flexibility, manageability and efficiency.  Today, much of our growth comes from customers expanding from basic server consolidation, yet increasingly more customers are seeking to virtualize their entire datacenter and desktop environments with VMware Infrastructure. We are also on the threshold of a major new opportunity – as customers begin to leverage VMware as both the on-ramp to the Cloud and for key elements of the Cloud itself.  We are well-positioned to become a truly strategic platform for businesses of all sizes.”

VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that VMware Infrastructure 3, the industry-leading virtualization and management suite, was named the winner of the Best of Tech Ed 2008 IT Professional Award in the virtualization category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. The winners were announced at the Tech Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Florida last month. More information is available at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards.

The Best of Tech Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards recognize companies who offer the most innovative products in the industry and who are leading the charge in their category. Entrants were judged based on strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage, and value to customers. The judges reviewed more than 220 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists, from which one winner was selected for each of the 10 categories.

“Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge every year, and the quality of this year’s entries was particularly high,” said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. “The winners clearly reflect our judging criteria:  innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customers.”

VMware Infrastructure 3 provides the capability for automatic load balancing, business continuity and power management and the ability to move a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption. With more than 200 industry and technology awards, VMware is the only vendor delivering the full spectrum of virtualization products — from a base hypervisor platform to a bundle of application and infrastructure management solutions to full suites of desktop and datacenter virtualization solutions.

“We are thrilled to be honored by the Windows IT Pro Best of Tech Ed Awards,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president, product and solutions, VMware. “This award underscores our industry leadership in providing virtualization solutions that drive customer benefits. It also validates why thousands of companies rely on VMware Infrastructure to optimize their datacenters, streamline management, improve application performance, and maximize ROI. We look forward to raising the bar even further to bring our customers game-changing IT solutions.”

More information about Windows IT Pro Best of Tech Ed Awards is available at http://windowsitpro.com/awards/.

More information about VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 is available at http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/overview.html.

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About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter.  Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 100,000 customers and nearly 14,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. Based in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and on the web at www.vmware.com.

The Planet dedicated servers web hosting provider a privately held dedicated hosting company, now offering a new addition to its line of ‘Ready To Go Servers”, the new server has Xeon 3210-SAS, equipped with a 146GB hard drive and 2GB RAM.

These servers are available in one hour as one of Planet Alpha’s Ready To Go Servers, it is also including the new version of CentOS-5 operating system on all Ready To Go Servers with no additional charges. Also, customers now can have the option to operate the servers with or without the cPanel-brand control panel.

”Our rapid server-provisioning time is one of the chief reasons people choose The Planet for their hosting solutions. The combination of our vast inventory and automated provisioning system allows us to make servers available in just one hour. By expanding our line of popular Ready To Go Servers, our customers have even more options when they require a high-performance box that must be up-and-running quickly.” said Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management.

The Planet endeavors to provide high level of network and speed for peak performance, instant scalability to handle large spikes of traffic, redundant, parallel, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture for maximum stability and reliability also multiple layer network security protecting from (DDOS) attacks that harm.

The Planet dedicated server provider are the leaders of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, they are hosting more than 22,000 businesses and 6.7 million web site, they are using the best hardware, software tools and technical support with state-of-the-art data centers and networks.

Online web hosting service provider VEXXHOST introduced a new free site builder for all their current and future clients. Their new site builder features over 470 templates and over 20 flash templates for any type of website, with a promise to deliver 15 extra web site templates per month and it also includes a collection of around 3000 images that can be used on the website or the choice of uploading your own pictures. The site builder also has extras component features like photo album, Form-Mail, online counter, page effect, guest book and much more. This site builder also fully integrated to cPanel which makes it very easy to manage by customers. It also supports PHP, JavaScript and Applet.

VEXXHOST has set up a demo of their site builder at http://sitebuilder.vexxhost.net/, anyone can create an account and try out the free site builder and buy a web hosting plan directly with the website they built.

VEXXHOST web hosting is a company that provides web hosting and domain registration services based in Montreal, Canada. They are located in their own privately managed datacenter in downtown Montreal and operate their own private multi-homed network which makes it one of the best locations for web site hosting in North America. VEXXHOST offers a wide array of services from shared to reseller to virtual & dedicated hosting, they also register domain names. To visit VEXXHOST website go to http://vexxhost.com

The Planet dedicated web hosting provider which is one of the largest privately held dedicated & managed web hosting providers have introduced their new website alongside with 2 new brands which are “Planet Alpha” & “Planet Northstar”, their corporate “The Planet” name remains used for the main corporate brand.  Their “Planet Alpha” brand holds their dedicated servers line and “Planet Northstar” holds their managed hosting which were both previously held by the main “The Planet” brand.

“Planet Alpha”, a brand of “The Planet” is now holding all their dedicated services; they still have the same old configurations which are either single CPU, single or dual core & dual CPU, dual or quad cores.  Their prices have remained the same and still remain to be the best price value for their premium datacenter and bandwidth.  They are currently offering big discounts on their current dedicated server line with the launch of their new website which makes them one of the very reasonable options for premium hosting.  For the more complex applications requiring clusters or managed web hosting, The Planet has introduced the “Planet Northstar” brand.

The Planet remains one of the top privately held premium internet service providers, operating their own private 155,000 square feet datacenter at the moment with another 12,000 square feet ready for expansion. They are considered one of the top-end premium providers with N+1 power generators, N+2 redundant HVAC systems and connecting to tier-1 network providers such as AT&T (NYSE:T), AboveNet, NTT (NYSE:NTT), Savvis (NASDAQ:SVVS), Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC), Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT), Time Warner Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC).

Yahoo major shift: BOSS “Build Your Own Search Service”. Yahoo positions its search engine for others to innovate or roll into their own products.

Yahoo is making this major shift in its battle to beat Google and Microsoft by giving its search to others.

“We want to disrupt the market,” Bill Michels, Yahoo’s senior director told InternetNews.com. “We see a lack of innovation in search experiences on the Web and BOSS is our method of breaking that down and opening up the market to innovation.”

“The thinking is it’s no longer our product and not necessarily indicative of how we do search,” Michels said. He added that Yahoo plans to continue to invest in its own search infrastructure and technology with its standard branding.

“Anyone can come in and build products off this,” Michels said. “There are no restrictions in how you present results or blend the rankings with your own custom content. Usually, search companies don’t let you mess with their rankings. This is unprecedented.”