Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-02 – The Planet, the global web hosting leader, announced that SiteGround web hosting, one of its largest reseller partners has selected the company’s Server Cloud as the new standard for its cloud offering. According to SiteGround web hosting provider, The Planet Server Cloud uses the best virtualization technology on the market to deliver a service with outstanding reliability, redundancy and flexibility, which is suitable for business websites of all sizes.

“Server Cloud was expressly designed for our existing customers, with a platform that’s purpose-built for web-based businesses,” said Carl Meadows, senior product manager for Cloud Services with The Planet. “For resellers like SiteGround, their customers operate websites that depend on platform stability. They’ve got to be up and running around the clock, providing the performance guarantees that keep their customers coming back.”

“We were early beta participants in The Planet’s Server Cloud testing, which provided us with opportunities to offer feedback on the platform,” said Tenko Nikolov, CEO of SiteGround.  “Our customers rely on us to provide them with the best options to support their businesses, so we’ve thoroughly evaluated cloud options on the market. We were looking for pricing predictability and ample bandwidth allocations, in a no-surprises package for our customers. The Planet Server Cloud behaves like a dedicated server by guaranteeing our fair share of space, traffic and CPU, at a cheaper cost.  It’s great for small and big sites that want to cut costs while at the same time get a reliable service.”

About The Planet Server Cloud

The Planet Server Cloud provides a broad range of features for customers looking to expand their hosting profile:

Sun SAN Backend: The Planet Server Cloud is powered by a high-performance, high-availability Sun Storage Area Network (SAN). Many cloud solutions operate on local disks from the host server, leaving customers vulnerable to hardware failures that can result in down time and even data loss. Server Cloud is always available, since computing and storage resources are separate and independent. In the event of a complete host server failure, data is always protected.

Operating System Support: Customers can select operating system support from both Linux and Windows platforms, including Windows Server 2008 R2.

Next-Generation Virtualization: The Planet built its Server Cloud on the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) Hypervisor, the primary platform supported by both The Linux Foundation and the top Linux distributions, including Canonical’s Ubuntu and Red Hat. KVM supports the latest virtualization technologies, including live migration, RAM de-duplication, para-virtualized storage and network capabilities, which combine stellar performance and efficiency. While other offerings require operating system (OS) modifications, KVM does not. Customers run unaltered/native versions of their chosen OS without any requirement for development modifications. As a result, they benefit from better security since new patches and updates are immediately available without the requirement for load development intervention.

Dedicated Resources: All resources for The Planet Server Cloud are 100% guaranteed. Customers receive completely dedicated CPU, RAM, storage and network capacity, which ensures performance isn’t negatively affected by another customer’s usage.

Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure: The Planet Server Cloud is powered by the latest technologies. From the Sun Microsystems SAN, to network gear supplied by Juniper and Cisco, and Dell servers equipped with Intel’s fast Nehalem processors, the company has developed this robust platform to be resilient under the most difficult loads.

Seamless, Rapid CPU, RAM Upgrades: Customers buy only what they require to get started and grow their performance seamlessly as demand expands. A single system reboot from the server host recognizes any added resources.

Managed Services: The Planet offers a full array of service upgrades, including managed server monitoring and remediation, server security management and managed backup.

About The Planet

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

About SiteGround Web Hosting

SiteGround.com is a leading provider of web hosting services that hosts more than 250,000 domains worldwide. The company offers shared hosting, business hosting, reseller hosting, managed dedicated hosting solutions and cloud hosting. SiteGround offers a powerful system infrastructure and superior 24/7 technical support that guarantee reliability, uptime and quality of service. For more information about SiteGround

GreatResponder.com – 2010-07-22 – SiteGround, known as one of the top web hosting providers for Joomla users, now adds free extensions to its Joomla services portfolio. For the last few years along with its hosting services, the company has been providing free Joomla templates and tutorials. Now, it goes one step further by developing its own Joomla modules and plugins. The six recently added extensions, as well as all other additional Joomla services offered by SiteGround, are freely available to all visitors of the company website.

The Joomla extensions, released by the company, are designed to improve different important aspects of the performance of a Joomla website. “We have researched the most common Joomla-related questions and issues our customers have and designed a set of extensions we believe will be most useful.” says Val Markov, SiteGround Senior Technical Support Executive and one of the major creators of the Joomla extensions, “Our aim is to give Joomla users everything they need in one place – hosting, installation, templates, tutorials and now extensions.”

The unquestionable bestseller is jHackGuard plugin, which the company claims to have been using successfully for years to protect its hosting customers’ Joomlas from hacking attacks. Another useful module is jShareEasy, which adds good-looking sharing icons that allow the visitors of a Joomla website to share content they found interesting on the social media. The full list of modules with detailed description of their functionality is available on the SiteGround.com website: http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting/joomla-extensions/siteground-extensions.htm.

Exclusively for the new Joomla extensions, SiteGround has opened a special section in its forum to answer extensions-related questions and receive users’ feedback. The forum thread can be found at this link: http://forum.siteground.com/forumdisplay.php?f=55

About SiteGround:

SiteGround has been founded in 2004 and currently provides web hosting services to over 250,000 domains worldwide. SiteGround is constantly improving its service to offer abundant resources, comprehensive 24/7 customer care and latest server technology to provide highest reliability to its customers. The company offers shared hosting, reseller hosting and managed dedicated hosting solutions. You can learn more about SiteGround at the company’s website: www.siteground.com.

SiteGround web hosting provider, a leading web hosting provider with over 150,000 domains hosted, has chosen the AlphaSSL SSL certificates Partner Program to offer low cost SSL Certificates to its worldwide Clients base. This partnership will help SiteGround web hosting clients to activate the “yellow padlock” and secure the websites that they own, secure transactions, secure web mail and all other online services using highly trusted SSL security technology from AlphaSSL.com, the low cost provider of SSL Certificates.

SiteGround web hosting chooses AlphaSSL.com SSL certificates for a maximum competitiveness and to  increase its potential benefit and revenue from the good technical support accessible by AlphaSSL.com SSL certificates staff. SiteGround web hosting selected AlphaSSL SSL Certificates because these certificates are well trusted by nearly most browsers and also the mobile devices. These certificates come with a trust enhancing clickable site seal which is free.

Silvia Nikolova, Marketing specialist at SiteGround said “AlphaSSL Certificates are the ideal SSL solution for SiteGround to offer as part of their hosting services” she also added “We can now offer customers highly trusted SSL with the confidence that they are being provided by a knowledgeable SSL provider, and our customers will benefit from our one stop shop service without needing to get SSL from elsewhere.”

AlphaSSL SSL Certificates can be added very easy and will secure either a single domains or multiple domains with multiple sub-domains using the wildcard option. AlphaSSL SSL Certificates are recognized by more than 99% of all well known browsers and it is able to provide 128 bit to 256 bit strong encryption levels which means AlphaSSL SSL Certificates are pretty attractive to businesses who want to make sure all mobile devices and browsers are fully supported. SiteGround web hosting is now capable to recommend for existing and new customers a nice featured SSL Certificate with a reasonable price of $82.

SiteGround web hosting provider announced the new launch of the environmentally friendly dedicated servers “Intel Atom 330”. SiteGround is the first shared web hosting company to provide such an environmentally friendly, resource-efficient, powerful, and still a low cost server solution to their customers.

“Intel Atom 330” server is an energy-saving product that was gladly chosen by the company team. The server is designed to be both very powerful and nature-friendly yet still keeping a very competitive price. “Intel Atom 330” sharply reduces the energy consumption about 75% when compared to other dedicated servers with the similar profile. The servers also use the dual core technology, which guarantees a better response time and speed of the server when compared to its low-cost competitors.

SiteGround web hosting provider customers compare the “Intel Atom 330” with the Pentium 4 that has been by now the company’s best-selling, low-cost dedicated server and also an industry standard. The “Intel Atom 330” has excelled as compared to the Pentium 4 in both features and price, and has already become the most preferred dedicated hosting solution at SiteGround.

“When we first heard about this server at SiteGround, we all loved it. The Intel Atom 330 gives us the chance to act in an environmentally responsible way without losing power or having to raise costs. It has a low voltage processor that saves so much energy and is yet so powerful”, says Tina Kesova, the Marketing Expert that was responsible for the launch of the new machine. “Our system administrators had run lots of tests to check its speed, durability, and the energy consumption levels. The results are impressive – the Intel Atom 330 has beaten any other server in its class we have ever used.”

SiteGround web hosting has adopted this technology so quickly and proves once again they are the kind of web hosting company that actively update its servers to offer the best and the latest technologies to its clients.