Web Hosting Reviews and Tutorials

From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Press Release: The Planet Offers 72-Hour Free Setup on All Servers

May 23, 2007

The Planet, now the world’s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced a free setup promotion on all servers for just 72 hours. Starting at noon CDT on Tuesday, May 22, through noon CDT on Friday, May 25, 2007, setup fees on all new-server orders will be waived.

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Press Release: The Planet Adds Enterprise-Class Storage to Private Rack Portfolio

May 21, 2007

Press Release: The Planet, the world’s largest dedicated hosting provider, today expanded its private rack portfolio with the addition of storage area network (SAN) capabilities. The new storage solution from Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) provides The Planet’s customers with maximum data availability and protection, particularly for those whose businesses require critical online data repositories, including databases, media libraries, backup archives and e-mail.

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How to Upgrade the Vi Agent Software on an VMWare ESX Host

May 16, 2007

This article is written for VMWare Infrastructure Version 3.0.1 and higher. With every update to the Virtualcenter Software (Vi Client) an administrator should also upgrade the Agent software on each ESX host to make sure all functionality in an HA cluster is still available and to avoid problems with different versions between the management server (VirtualCenter) and the cluster node. This article explains the procedure in detail.

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Web Hosting Strategies for Virtualization

May 13, 2007

In our series of articles about using VMWare in a web hosting business we are going to discuss strategic related issues today. Why should web hosting businesses look at virtualization instead of building larger data centers? It almost seems like that the web hosting industry is running behind the trend of consolidation in the IT industry. It is kinda a thing of the past to build more and more data centers.

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Web Hosting from Your Web Server at Home

May 13, 2007

With the growing popularity and use of the Linux and BSD Operating Systems, and the free availability of web server software like Apache; coupled with high speed DSL and Cable Internet connections, more people than ever before are exploring the possibilities of setting up and maintaining their own web server from home. Microsoft has even offered a personal web server application for home use.

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