Hosting Industry News Briefing for 05/25/2006

Here’s your hosting industry briefing for 05/25/2006

CyberHive Adds Support for Ruby

CyberHive, a provider of hosting solutions, announced today that they are now supporting Ruby on Rails, a popular new open-source framework. This host is based in South Carolina and features 24/7 technical support as well as a 100% uptime guarantee.

Ruby on Rails is becoming increasingly popular with many large hosting companies, such as GoDaddy.com adding support for the framework. Ruby on Rails allows developers to quickly set up complex applications and sites.

“Ruby Rails is undoubtedly one of the most important open-source projects on the Web hosting scene today,” says CyberHive in its press release. “The software is a great addition to our already extensive suite of Web building tools.”

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Spry Expands VPS Hosting Options

Spry Hosting, a provider of shared and VPS hosting solutions, announced today that they have expanded their offering of VPS plans. One of the new plans is called VPSLink and is referred to as the “no-frills” VPS package. The cost is low and the benefits of a fully managed solution appeal to many consumers.

Mike Plummer, Director of Marketing for Spry.com, states, “VPSLink allows advanced users access to high-performance and fully customizable VPS plans at rock-bottom prices. Customers will only be able to get support for VPSLink through email at this time, in order to offer the lowest possible pricing to our experienced customers.

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HostingOption Launches New Promotion

HostingOption, a hosting company located in India, announced that they are running a new promotion for customers interested in setting up their own hosting business. According to the company, the promotion allows new customers to purchase a plan that contains 1 gig of disk space, 10 gigs of monthly data transfer, WHM and CPanel and a private name server for $1 for the first month.

Please check their website for the coupon code that you will need to qualify for this special price.

“HO’s web hosting plans are carefully designed according to the common needs of the customers, $1 signup offer is a very good starting for new customers, who have multiple domains, web designer and web developers, they start own web hosting company with very little expense.”

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IQuest Internet Offers “Web Hosting Taken to the Next Level”

IQuest, a provider of hosting solutions, announced that they now have “Web hosting taken to the next level,” thanks a new system of protection for their customers data and voice systems.

Jason Ross, Account Manager for IQuest Internet explained, “We have clients that have a high-speed connection to our F5-rated data center. Their applications and data are housed here and protected by redundant power, fire suppression and the latest security systems ’ insuring that the servers are accessible from their corporate sites or through a secure Internet connection.” According to the company this means a company’s staff can work from the office, from home or from an Internet cafe if required in the event of disaster.

“Designing data continuity systems require that you know the value of your data; you then plan appropriately to protect it,” concluded Mark Graham, President of Network Storage, Inc. “The cost of your downtime will determine if you go with a simple backup and restore strategy, or scale up to an advanced multi-site replication schema.”

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