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Due to the strong financial performance of cPanel in North America, they have decided to expand to South America. This will be accomplished through their Fast Update service in conjunction with HostDime’s data center located in Brazil. This area has grown significantly over the past few years so cPanel has decided to take action toward these new and emerging markets.

HostDime’s Success

According to HostDime representatives, they have seen tremendous growth in South American regions over the past four years. They have worked with cPanel in the past but not on a project of this magnitude.

HostDime is an industry-leading web hosting provider with many services available. Founded in 2001, they have pioneered the industry by providing many features at an affordable cost. HostDime has continually expanded since conception due to their highly popular products. They are currently a global company with six offices worldwide.

The Fast Update Service

cPanel’s Fast Update Service is a feature offered by many partners of the company. They also consider this to be of the most important building blocks in assisting data centers in South America because it increases the speed of installations and updates.        The old method is finding connections to mirror servers. The new technology involves connecting to locally-housed servers that provides updates to cPanel servers.

The Fast Update service utilizes cPanel proprietary technology to find the closest mirror along with an algorithm that chooses the most efficient mirror for quick and reliable information transmission.

Advantages of the Expansion

This growth is expected to increase speeds of installation by 400 percent which lowers transit costs for cPanel and its customers. Also, these improvements translate to a decrease in the number of service interruptions, a reduction in bandwidth costs for data centers and the option for customers to relocate their resources to other web hosting areas of the world.

Once the expansion is complete, cPanel plans to add Spanish-speaking technical support, website efforts and product translations for these countries. Although most of the world speaks English, this will be a nice addition for those countries whose first language is Spanish.

This expansion is excellent progress for both companies and South American regions. Since they are considered an emerging market, it is important to lay the groundwork early for the explosion of commerce that will inevitably follow. There are many advantages for all parties as a result of cPanel’s product and HostDime’s service growth.

CloudLinux is a business service that providers web hosting companies with commercially supported Linux operating systems. They recently announced the deployment of this service on over 1,000 servers across the globe. This milestone is significant because it was implemented to these servers in such a short time frame. This is primarily due to the quick adoption from shared hosting providers and data centers.

Since the launch of CloudLinux in February 2010, a total of 44 datacenters have joined the partner program, 17 datacenters joined in August alone. Some of the most important clients that have adopted this technology include:

• HostDime
• UK2

CloudLinux is innovative because it provides a crash proof system of servers to providers as part of a bundle within the service plans. There are significant financial and operational advantages for shared web hosting providers and data centers which has helped drive the implementation of the technology. This in turn reduces downtime and increases profitability.

One of the primary issues of hosting multiple customers on a single server is one customer can affect performance for the entire server in a negative manner, even with monitoring. CloudLinux addresses this issue by allowing service providers to control the CPU resource at the individual customer level which greatly improves reliability and stability.

One of the programs that make CloudLinux possible is the Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) which provides double density on its servers. This results in improved performance with quicker updates and higher flexibility.

Additionally, CloudLinux has released a set of tools to assist web hosting providers with more control over server environments. These tools include:

• MySQL Governor
• LVE wrappers
• Secure LVE

MySQL Governor manages MySQL users and limits connections if they begin eating up a large portion of resources. LVE wrappers permit administrators to run programs and daemons within the LVE environment. Finally, Secure LVE creates a virtualized file system and adds layers of security to make it more difficult to hack.

The CloudLinux package received the Best Startup Reward of 2010 by The Cloud Computing World Forum in the “World Series” innovation competition. The main attraction for this technology was the crash proof servers within the LVE environment.

CloudLinux is another step toward reaching fully robust, secure servers. Also, it significantly assists shared servers with distributing shared resources evenly among those users on the server. These creations are a significant step for the web hosting community.

Green web hosting is a new concept for many people, and most people are clueless as to how ti can benefits their business, or even what it is. Green web hosting is a type of hosting in which the web hosting provider powers their web servers and the entire business through nothing but natural forms of energy such as wind energy and solar electricity. Surprisingly, this method of powering a web hosting plan is beneficial not only to the planet, but also to the web hosting company and the end customer. If you’re questioning the benefits of green web hosting then you may want to consider the following information.

Lowered Costs

When web hosting companies use green energy to power their web servers and data centers, the save money because they do not have to pay recurring energy costs each month. Instead of pulling power from a local power source that charges an exuberant bill each month, the hosting company can benefit from the natural power of the sun and the wind. Since the web hosting company saves money on their energy bill, they are bale to pass these savings on to you, the end customer. These savings come in the form of hosting plans that are generally cheaper than those provided by other, less environmentally friendly companies.

Finding a Green Hosting Plan

While it may seem as if only a select few hosting companies are utilizing these powerful natural energy sources, the truth is most major hosting providers are making the switch at this very moment. If you’re unsure whether or not your hosting provider is using green energy to power your web hosting plan, then you may want to browse their web site and have a look at their “About Us” section. If there is no mention of green energy on their main web site then there is a good chance they are not using green energy. Most green hosting providers advertise this fact on their home page, quite obviously. If you’re not currently using a green hosting provider, it is strongly recommended that you make the switch today.

Better Sleep

Of course, financial benefits aren’t the only advantages of green web hosting. Even though new medicines are being routinely developed, studies have shown that the rate of human disease is rising, and there is  strong evidence that indicates this rise in illness is being caused by our increasingly toxic environment. As an online business and/or web site owner, you may or may not be too concerned with the health of the planet, but your own health and your family’s is at risk due to unnecessary energy production methods that are routinely polluting our environment. By using green web hosting you’re significantly impacting the health of our planet and our families, which in turn will give you the ability to sleep better at night and wake up in the morning with a clean conscious to work more efficiently on your web sites.

Colocation web hosting is very different from every other hosting service, primarily because it is not a service in which web servers are leased. Instead, colocation hosting is a web server storage service in which adequate server storage space is provided in a state-of-the-art data center that is equipped with highly trained staff and maximum security 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

In essence, you are simply paying for storage space so that you can store your dedicated server without problems such as hardware damage and theft occurring. While this may seem as if it is a great service that everyone should use, only a small percentage of webmasters will ever need colocation hosting. If you are not sure whether or not your business needs access to a colocation hosting service then you may want to consider the following information.

Do You Own a Web Server?

If you do not own a web server then you should know that you will need to purchase one before a colocation hosting service will be of any use to you. Web servers can cost anywhere from $1500-$10,000, depending upon the model and its capabilities. If you can afford to invest that much money in to a web server, and you are ready to pay for the monthly cost of colocation hosting, then it may be within your budget ton purchase a colocation hosting plan. However, if you are like the majority of webmasters, then you will not be able to afford or justify such a purchase.

What Kind of Sites Do You Own?

If you own a single medium sized web site then you may not have a need for a dedicated server at all. Dedicated web servers are ideal for people that have dozens of web sites or a single corporate web site that needs to be maintained professionally and kept at peak performance. With the availability of cheap and powerful web hosting you should be able to find a plan that will accommodate your needs with ease. Dedicated servers and colocation hosting is only recommended for corporations and enterprises, or people that own hundreds of sites.

How Technically Skilled Are You?

As mentioned, a colocation hosting service is simply a web server storage service, which means that most colocation hosting plans do not come with technical support. As such, you will need to provide your own technical support for server maintenance and administration. Most administrative duties can be done remotely, however this requires an advanced level of knowledge in the way web servers work. If you do not have a decent amount of experience in dealing with web servers then you may want to consider a colocation hosting solution that includes technical support.

Unfortunately, in order to have full technical support included with your colocation hosting plan you will need to pay an extra fee each month. When you add this fee to the mountain of other expenses associated with colocation hosting, it becomes clear that this type of hosting solution should only be utilize by highly successful online businesses.

CoreLink Data Centers, an industry-leader in providing colocation hosting and management services, recently announced a major move of their headquarters from Phoenix, Arizona to Mount Prospect, an area outside of Chicago. In addition, the operations of their newest data center, also located in the Chicagoland area, are fully functional.

The data center is 80,000 square feet and linked to the companies four other colocation data centers in Seattle, Las Vegas and Phoenix. The new data center is located on 5.4 acres of land and provides all of CoreLink’s solutions under one secure roof in control environments.

The center features the latest security and management technology. Some of these features include; diverse connections to the internet, redundant emergency power equipment, the best fire detection and suppression systems as well as biometric security scanners. Also, neutral connectivity, uninterruptible power supplies N+1 cooling and critical redundancy on all equipment.

The center will provide customers with extra expansion capacity, reliable and redundant access to the internet and high-density installation. This is the perfect addition to the area.

CoreLink has selected Chicago because it has become a booming business and technology epicenter. This will have a considerable impact on the local economy through investment in the community as well as job creation.

The biggest focus of the new data center is the scalability. Due to the size and server technology, it can accommodate all business needs as they continue to evolve and consume resources.

The primary highlights of the new data center include:

• Scale systems up
• Decrease labor expenses
• Lower capital costs
• Add redundant systems

The ability to scale information technology systems up or down is major draw to many large corporations as the needs of their business constantly change. Also, the new center will provide efficient facility management thus decreasing labor expenses. By outsourcing internal infrastructure, the company will save on overall capital costs.

Finally, the new data center provides redundant systems that do not contain a failure point and have a maintainable infrastructure that is capable of handling critical applications. These include; e-commerce, email systems and website connectivity.

Opening a new data center and relocating the headquarters is a major move for CoreLink. They will benefit from the numerous technology companies in the Chicago area while creating jobs and providing a boost to the local economy. In the end, all parties will benefit from this move.