(The Hosting News) –  The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced a limited-time offer that includes 10TB of bandwidth at no additional cost on new dedicated server orders. The promotion, which ends April 30, 2010, applies to servers hosted in the company’s enterprise-class Houston and Dallas data centers, and includes premium bandwidth from Tier 1 providers.

“We consistently hear from our customers that they want the latest technology at the best prices,” said Todd Mitchell, general manager for dedicated hosting and global services at The Planet. “We recently announced the addition of the latest server technology from Intel and Dell to our portfolio, and with a bonus 10TB of bandwidth, customers can easily scale their capacity needs without worrying about overage charges.”

As with all The Planet solutions, customers receive more than 250 Gbps of capacity on The Planet network and a 100 percent SLA on uptime. For more information, visit http:// www.theplanet.com/10tb-april.

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 18.5 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 24×7×365 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. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.

(The Hosting News) – Are you a major player in the colocation or cloud computing industry? Do you need to know the latest in data center construction methods? Or do you have something to share? Are you wondering how the internet can contribute to the fight against climate change? Does your firm have clients that demand the most secure hosting facilities? If you fit any of these profiles or are on the periphery of this area, you’ll want to consider attending any of four conferences slated to take place between now and June 15.

Green: Net 2010, April 29, 2010

This is cutting it a little close, but Green: Net 2010 is right around the corner. It’s a day for professionals, academics, NGOs and other interested parties to come together and examine how the internet and related technologies can help in the fight against climate change. The Climate Group has predicted that information and communications technologies could enable emissions reductions of 15 to 20% below current amounts by 2020. Whether you’re an entrepreneur with ideas to help this process succeed or a forward-thinking corporation looking to do your part, you’ll find a wealth of information and resources at this popular conference. This is the second annual such conference, and the first sold out. However, tickets still appear to be available this year.

Some topics to be discussed include:

• The Smart Grid and Its Impact
• The Networked Car
• Software and the Carbon Policy
• Home Energy Management
• The Web and Dematerialization
• Dot-Com Investors Migrating to Cleantech
• Energy-Efficient Data Centers

More information is available at: http://events.earth2tech.com/greennet/10/

Philadelphia SecureWorld Expo, May 12-13, 2010

This event brings security experts of all stripes together to discuss the latest trends, best practices and future developments in the ever-changing world of security. Sessions range from tracking extremist activity to analyzing security threats and trends in 2010. They vary in technical level from overviews to much more focused sessions such as: Fingerprinting Post Compromise Behavior Using a Low Interaction SSH Honeypot.

Other sessions include:

• Social Networking and the Consumer Cloud – Are You Ready?
• The Current State of Cybersecurity
• Resolving the Conflict over Workplace Privacy and Employee Monitoring
• Learning from the Mistakes of Others – Analysis of Data Breaches in the US
• Molecular Security
• Implementing a Security and Compliance Risk Management Framework for Health Care
• Securing the Present and Future of Cloud Computing

And much more.

If your job involves electronic or data security in some form, the SecureWorld events are not to be missed.

Learn more at: http://www.secureworldexpo.com/events/index.php?id=282

Datacenter Transformation Summit: East, June 2, 2010

The Datacenter Transformation Summit brings together datacenter architects, industry visionaries, senior IT architects, financial professionals and datacenter operators to discuss the present and future of datacenters and collaborate on strategies for success. According to the site, it’s “long on actionable advice and short on unsupportable predictions.” As the supply of datacenters twindles and demand increases, the summit provides a place for industry players to analyze current trends and plot a way forward.

The event takes place at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia.

The agenda includes:

• State of the Datacenter Industry: The Rebound
• Datacenter Operations
• The Capital Crunch and its Impact on Datacenters
• The Cloud and its Implications for the Datacenter
• Datacenter Design and Architectures

And more.

The summit is held by Tier1 Research, a company focused on wholesale and colocation datacenters. Learn more at: http://dtsummit.com/na/east/2010

Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit Europe 2010, June 15

This event, also put on by Tier1 Research, has changed its name and its scope for 2010, with added emphasis on cloud computing in addition to the standard hosting and colocation segments. This summit packs a lot into one day, including segments on hosting and datacenter infrastructure, enabling technology, customer expectations, partnering, and mergers and acquisitions. It is broadly attended by industry professionals and is generally regarded as an authoritative source for current and future hosting and datacenter trends. With cloud computing added to the mix this year, it will be more valuable than ever.

Attendees run the gamut from infrastructure and service providers to practitioners and financiers. The event provides a forum for leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to come together with their peers to map out the future of this increasingly vital industry and, of course, utilize the variety of unmatched networking opportunities.

The agenda includes:

• Enterprise Cloud Adoption
• Colocation Market Trends: NA and Europe
• Financial Strategies
• Building and Managing Clouds
• Which Way Forward: IaaS, PaaS, Public or Private?

Along with other sessions focused on cloud computing impact on the industry and the way forward.

For more information, visit: http://www.hostingtransformation.com/eu/2010

(The Hosting News) – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced its silver sponsorship of the 2010 Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, scheduled for May 4-5 at the Moscone West Convention Center. The company’s Web Hosting Evangelist Kevin Hazard will present at the expo’s solutions showcase theater on May 4 at 10:45 a.m. His session, titled “You care about hosting, even if you don’t know it: The Siren Song of The Planet Server,” gives a brief overview on why a solid IT infrastructure provider is critical to Web 2.0 businesses.
The Planet will exhibit in booth 708, a planned stop on the Web 2.0 Booth Crawl, which takes place May 5 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The company will also feature its popular Server Challenge, which tasks conference attendees to post the fastest time in correctly rebuilding a server. The winner of The Planet Server Challenge will receive an Asus Eee PC netbook. Additionally, the company will give away a Flip digital video recorder to one conference attendee. Participants must submit their business card to win.
For more information on The Planet at the Web 2.0 Expo, visit http://www.theplanet.com/events.

About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 18.5 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, Northstar Managed Hosting™ and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7×365 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. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.

(Gawkwire.com) – CloudLinux recently announced that Parallels has included CloudLinux in its newly released version of Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 control panel. Parallels, a cloud enablement leader, has included CloudLinux as one of the Linux OS options in its newly released Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5, and is available for all 9.X versions of the product. Parallels chose to include CloudLinux because of its Lightweight Virtual Environment™ or LVE technology that is designed specifically for hosting service providers to provide greater density and stability in shared hosting and multi-tenant environments. Parallels is also impressed with the impact CloudLinux has made on the hosting market since its launch in February 2010.

“It makes sense for us to include CloudLinux as one of the native operating systems in our Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 product because it gives our customers the significant advantages of improved performance and stability so they can deliver better services to their small business customers,” said Jack Zubarev, President at Parallels. “Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 is the most feature-rich control panel for shared hosting and, with the addition of CloudLinux, supports the fast industry adoption we are seeing for this product.”

According to Parallels, the Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 is the number one control panel in the world with thousands of applications that deliver the easiest, most profitable and most complete service for virtual, dedicated, and shared hosting providers.

“LVE is a great addition to the Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 features,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of CloudLinux.   “CloudLinux can help Parallels deliver the fully integrated and professional experience their customers have come to expect from a major virtualization and cloud computing leader.”

What makes CloudLinux so attractive to hosting providers is its core technology Lightweight Virtual Environment™ which is a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. With LVE, administrators have the tools to control the CPU and IO demands of individual tenants, so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server. While similar in approach to container virtualization, LVE is lightweight and transparent.  The LVE level fair-share CPU scheduler makes sure that each account gets enough CPU resources to run efficiently. This innovative CloudLinux OS technology offers service providers increased control as never realized before with traditional OS.

CloudLinux OS provides additional benefits to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 users including:

• Innovative lightweight and transparent LVE technology that increases server stability and performance
• Decreased downtime
• Ability to allocate resources to individual server tenants efficiently
• Increased control over traditional OS
• Complete, 24/7 support
• Compatibility with the major control panel for easy management and deployment

(The Hosting News) – Selling and purchasing quality Domain Name are a round the clock activity, what internet industry is rightly doing. A seller, whatever the valuation of his domain name in the market, quotes the higher price bid for the same and in contrary a buyer desires to pay less for the domain he wants to have. It’s becoming the foremost issue for both buyer and seller is to fix a deal upon the agreed price.

The problem arises due to absence of a standard process to evaluate the cost of a particular domain. To rationalize the process of domain costing and making both seller and buyer agree on a fair or negotiated price, domain name appraisal mechanism has introduced in the internet market. Needless to say that business of appraising domains and evaluating their selling or reselling value is getting bigger day by day.

Key facts about the Domain Name Appraisal:

With a well analyzed domain appraisal, owner simply gets an idea about the real worth of the domain. The process of appraising a domain name is entirely speculative and based on several factors including the brand recognition it enjoys, marketability it has and traffic it pulls. Process of appraisal puts the core focus on actual selling points that a domain carries along the name. Various factors and considerations like domain name, business segment and domain name extension are being addressed during the appraisal process.

How it evaluates the domain name

Like other evaluation systems, it also primarily spotlights on the core characteristics of the object being valued. In this case, a domain is the entity being evaluated. In a nutshell, a number of factors are measured to obtain the final worth of the domain you have registered. These factors analyzes whether the domain name:

• Has marketability among competitors
• Has brand value that sells
• Is easily memorable by the users
• Is short and easy to spell

If you have a domain name to buy or sell, it’s worthy to get domain name appraisal done for the same. Since the entire process of appraisal is tentative in nature, two consecutive evaluations for the domain name may differ in final costing. Finally it’s very necessary to understand that a domain name appraisal is completely different from the site appraisal therefore the visitor traffic and revenue generation from the site couldn’t be the decisive factors for the domain name appraisal.

Company Profile : Managed Web hosting Company offering Domain Name Registration Services to help you expand your online business without compromising on your expectations.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — There were a number of interesting web hosting sales and promotions during the last week of April, including free cloud hosting deals from Server Intellect and Bulgarian web host Cloud.bg, as well as an interesting event sponsorship announced by The Planet, as well as a promotion that will make skilled IT pros compete over an Asus Eee PC netbook. Carrying over from last week is a Hosted Exchange discount from Webfusion and a 25-percent discount across-the-board for LCN.com’s services.

cPanel Cloud Hosting Provider Cloud.bg Adds Six Free Months To sCloud Plan

The European cloud hosting provider, Cloud.bg (www.cloud.bg/en) is offering six months of free services to all customers that sign-up for its “sCloud” hosting plan. Worth €92 (about $124) per year, the six months of sCloud hosting features 100 GB of premium SAN storage, 1,000 GB monthly bandwidth, free cloud analytics and 100-percent network uptime, as well as the use of popular web hosting automation control panel, cPanel, for managing hosting accounts.

Server Intellect Wins Hosting Title, Awards Customers with Free Month of Hosting

In celebration of winning the title of Best Dedicated Server Provider of 2009 at the HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards, web host Server Intellect (www.serverintellect.com) is offering one month of free service to all customers who sign up for a dedicated server during the first two weeks of May 2010. Server Intellect offers a wide variety of managed dedicated servers and Windows cloud hosting Solutions, coupled with the top customer support that helped it win the HostReview Award.

The Planet Signs on as Silver Sponsor of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, Announces Server Challenge

Web host The Planet (www.theplanet.com) has become a silver sponsor of the 2010 Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, scheduled for May 4 and 5 at the Moscone West Convention Center. The Planet will also feature its popular Server Challenge, which has conference attendees post their fastest time in correctly rebuilding a server, with the winner getting an Asus Eee PC netbook. For those not quite up to that challenge, the company will also be giving away a Flip digital video recorder randomly to an attendee that submits their business card.

Webfusion Continues Offering Three Months of Hosted Exchange For Half Price

UK web hosting provider Webfusion (www.webfusion.co.uk) is offering its Hosted Exchange solution at half price for three months. Webfusion’s Hosted Exchange packages, available starting at £5.50 (roughly $8.50) per month, providing businesses with improved email functionality and eliminating administration hassles. In addition to the offer, anyone signing up to the program before the end of June will also be automatically entered into a prize draw for a Dell netbook.

LCN.com Offers 25-Percent Hosting Discount

In celebration of the start of summer, UK-based host LCN.com (www.lcn.com) is offering 25 percent off any of its one-year hosting packages. The discount on new purchases of web hosting, email hosting, website builder, or blog hosting packages is available with the use of promotion code “hosting25off” upon checkout. This offer ends May 3.