Latest News and Hosting Review Limestone Networks


Limestone Networks is a popular leading company founded in 2007, best known for their dedicated servers and capability to develop, manage great gaming servers and provides great hosting packages. Many pre-configured dedicated server options user can choose from to build custom machine. New facility called Databank has introduced by Limestonen 2008, which allowed LSN to market enterprise-level dedicated hosting to small to medium sized businesses. Upgrading quite simple with LSN, as it is dedicated to help and keep user happy. It has advanced data center that includes multi-layered security, N+1 and 2N redundancy.
LSN is an industry-leading reseller program, with comprehensive features, great customer support and reliability. It robust client management portal, global content delivery network with 24/7 support. Many high-end features included in company’s’ services. Its packages are well designed to meet user’s requirement whether they are looking to have own gaming server or want an e-commerce site. To improve reliability and speed LSN data center is equipped with two border routers and redundant links to all switches. Company also have VPN services and unlimited traffic options. It is a excellent option for those who wants benefits of dedicated hosting without high prices.

Portal Do Host Chosen LSN as its Dedicated Servers

LSN has declared that Portal Do Host selected LSN to host active and substantial high volume website with around 9000 members and daily visitors. LSN offers links to Brazil, redundancy to ensure high availability and solid support and service. LSN is not only trusted name in hosting industry, it also provide exceptional support and connectivity to Brazil. Company is excited to be a part of this leading hosting community by providing dedicated hosting services and strengthen its reach into Brazilian reseller hosting market.

LSN Pricing

Company offers excellent price options for dedicated hosting packages. Majority of dedicated server packages will come out with normal industry standard rates. It has powerful clearance servers at significantly discounted rate. Despite this, other services in line with industry standard. It offers four dedicated core packages from 95 to 415 dollars per month. Hosting packages includes general configurations Dual Core, Quad core, Dual quad core and Dual hex core. Overall, user is getting fair price for excellent services.

Uptime and Reliability

LSN offers 100% uptime and exceptional support system. Its support team provides services 24/7 through email, live chat and phone. They clearly had reliability in mind before set up their data center. Company has redundant power system in place to avoid any issues and diesel generators can run indefinitely without problem. Multiple internet backbone connections and fiber lines coming into the data center. User will get bandwidth up to 5000 GB and hard disk space around 500 GB with free backup storage.

Pros of Limestone

LSN are geared towards more experienced customers, still have easy to use control panel. It makes administration part of hosting services very easily instead of stuck with crappy control panels. Company’s packages are fairly priced, not too much expensive, with amount of storage they are providing cheap plans. It built a name on balanced performance, reliable network and speed of network is very steady. More positive point with LSN is that their performance is consistent on a yearly basis, not on a day-to-day basis only. After its commencement, company’s motto is to deliver quality services to their users.

Latest News and Hosting Review Wiredtree


About Company

Wiredtree, a leading company is offering excellent managed hosting services including Hybrid, Virtual and Dedicated services to their clients from last 9 years. The company was founded on 6 June, 2006 and since they are offering great and satisfactory managed hosting services to their clients. With the combination of creative and innovative network design and cutting-edge infrastructure, provider has committed that they always keep their services and hardware update in consideration of the changing technology.

Company Services

Wiredtree offers various types of services and solutions to their clients. They are listed below:
1. Managed VPS Hosting : It offers two options as follow:

  • SSD Accelerated VPS- VPS 1500 plan starts at $49 per month includes 1536 MB of RAM, 100GB of Storage SSD -Accelerated RAID-10, 4 TB of Bandwidth.
  • Pure SSD VPS- SSD 2000 Plan begins at the price of $55 per month offers 2048 MB of RAM, Storage of 40GB Pure SSD RAID-10 and 4 TB of Bandwidth.

2. Managed Hybrid Servers : It offers two options as follow:

  • SSD Accelerated Hybrid-It begins at the price of $99 per month offers 4096 MB of RAM, CentOS Linux 64-bit + cPanel/WHM, 2 IP Address,10 TB Bandwidth, 1 XEON CPU Core.
  • Pure SSD Hybrid- It begins at the price of $109per month offers 5 GB of RAM, CentOS Linux 64-bit + cPanel/WHM, 2 IP Address,10 TB Bandwidth, 1 AMD Opteron CPU Core.

3. Managed Dedicated Servers : It offers two options as follow:

  • Single CPU Intel Xeon E3/E5-It begins at the price of $189 per month offers Intel Xeon E3-1230, 8GB DDR3 1600 ECC MEMORY, Standard SuperMicro Rackmount- Chassis, 100Mbps Network Uplink, 2 IP Address,20 TB Bandwidth, CentOS Linux 6 64-bit + cPanel/WHM and Web server- Apache 2.4.
  • Dual CPU Intel Xeon E5- It begins at the price of $269 per month offers Dual Xeon E5-2603v3, 8GB DDR4 2133 ECC memory, 100Mbps Network Uplink, 2 IP Address,20 TB Bandwidth, CentOS Linux 6 64-bit + cPanel/WHM and Web server- Apache 2.4.

All of the server hosting plans of the company offers excellent management services of the company such as proactive security updates, ServerShield security hardening, proactive service restoration and monitoring with excellent customer service offered from in-house hosting experts of the company.

Customer Support

Wiredtree provides good customer support to their clients. Their main goal is to deliver great customer satisfaction so as to retain existing customers and appreciate new customers. Their service to serve customers is offered throughout the year for 24*7*365 to resolve technical and other site or hosting related issues. They may help you via phone or help desk and they revert you with a satisfactory response of your query or issue in just average of 15 min.

Performance & Reliability

WiredTree offers great managed hosting services based on custom-develop enterprise server hardware located at the data center of the company in Chicago. To offer high performance and optimum reliability, worlds four leading Tier 1 bandwidth providers offers the connectivity. With this, it is using highest performing technologies such as memcached, LiteSpeed web server, SSD-driven hardware, MariaDB and Grove, a company’s management system.

What’s New

Company has recently celebrated their ninth anniversary. The company was founded on 6 June, 2006 and this June,2015 they have completed their 9 years of service successfully. They have offered good managed hosting services to their clients since they have started. And in the entrance of their tenth year, they are having something new for their Hybrid Server and VPS clients.

Contact Details

If you have any questions, concerns or comments for the company, you can reach them through following ways:

  • Office Address:
    WiredTree 53 W. Jackson Blvd.
    Suite 1734, Chicago
    IL 60604
  • Website: http://www.wiredtree.com
  • Toll Free No.: 1-866-523-8733
  • E-Mail Address: For Seeking Support: support@wiredtree.com
  • Sales: sales@wiredtree.com
  • Billing: billing@wiredtree.com
  • Phone: 1-312-447-0510
  • Fax Number: 1-312-447-0514

Latest News and Hosting Review Cloudflare


About Company

Cloudflare, one of the U.S. based provider offers the services of distributed domain name server and content delivery network to their clients across the world. It acts as a mediator between company’s hosting provider and their visitors, for your websites, it acts as a reverse proxy. Cloudflare offers high level of protection to your websites and accelerate them online. It generate high traffic for your site by routing its web traffic through their great global network.
Key Selling Points

  • Huge network to absorb attacks
  • Flat pricing

Key Features Offered

  • CDN : CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. As its name suggest, using network, it deliver or distribute your content across the world so that it comes closer to the people who are visiting your website thereby permits them to access the site easily.
  • DNS : Prompt, safe and secure authoritative DNS Networks is run by Cloudflare in the world. Provider has created prompt, powerful and highly secure DNS.
  • Optimization : On your personal computers and mobiles, snappy is loaded by web pages having advertisement servers and third party widgets.
  • SSL : SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is used as an important tool for enhancing security to your websites. An encrypted link is established between web browser and web server by SSL. It ensures the privacy of data at the time of transfer.
  • Security : It offers safety and security to a great extent. Your website is highly protected from various kinds of online threats such as viruses, Trojan horses, spammers, SQL injection, DDOS.
  • Analytic : Company offers all the info related to your website traffic with crawlers of search engine, threats and everything else.
  • Apps : With the help of CloudFlare apps, web apps can be easily installed on your website in a user friendly, safe and secure and in a fast manner and in just one simple click.

Company Services

Cloudflare offers their excellent services by means of the various plans to their clients. They are listed below:

  • Free : First plan is offered for free of cost to the clients by provider. It includes numerous features and offers you high performance, high protection in terms of security, Secure Sockets Layer, generate statistics of the visitors and many more.
  • Pro : This plan starts from $ 20 per month. It offers their clients prompt site performance, Mobile optimization, Web application firewall, real-time statistics generated on virtual basis and everything related to your site.
  • Business : Business plan starts at $ 200 per month. It offers all the above features of Pro plan with complete customization, Railgun™ web optimization, advanced denial of service attack mitigation and 100% uptime guarantee.
  • Enterprise : This plan is quite expensive. It offers all Business plan features with setup consultation, dedicated solutions engineer, 24 hrs phone support, Multi-User Access system and so many other features. And all this starts from $ 5000 per month.

Performance & Reliability

Company offers you high performance and reliability. The delivery of web pages of your site is optimized automatically by the provider which results in fast loading of web pages and thus high performance. It also saves your server resources and bandwidth by limiting crawlers and abusive bots and by blocking threats. It leads to powerful websites leading to enhanced performance and reduced spam and other attacks.
No. of Customers: 4,000,000+ sites protected
Support: 24.7.365 technical experts resolve hosting related issues

What’s New

Pirate websites are very common and frequently created and hosted with some abuse goal. As to trace their true location is quite easy and in this direction Cloudflare has also entered. They perform this task very effectively, reveals the exact location of the pirate websites and also allow anti piracy providers to directly reach to the correct location of these sites.

Contact Details

If you have any questions, concerns or comments for the company, you can reach them through following ways:

  • Phone: 1 (888) 993 5273
  • For UK callers: +44 (0)20 3514 6970
  • For International callers: +1 (650) 319 8930
  • Website: http://www.Cloudflare.com

Latest News and Hosting Review Clickhost


Clickhost Company Introduction

The ClickHOST.com web hosting company began operations in 2000 and has been offering exemplary web hosting services since then. The headquarters of this web host is located in Stratford, Canada. They offer a variety of web hosting services to their clients, from web hosting to cloud hosting among many others.

Clickhost Reputation

After being in the hosting industry for over 10 years now, this web hosting company is highly reputed as a reliable provider of a variety of quality web and cloud hosting services in the industry.

Clickhost Features

They offer 3 hosting plans that clients can choose from: the basic hosting plan, the better hosting plan and the best hosting plan, all of which have a lot of free hosting feature. Their hosting starts from as low as $5 per month. The basic hosting plan goes for only $5 per month and comes with feature such as:
1 domain, free cloud flare WAF, free hacker monitoring, free premium Spam filter, very fast SSD drives, 50 e-mail and FTP accounts, full cloud hosting, 10 GB of bandwidth, 500MB of disk space, 1 SQL database and malware cleanup for $3.50 per month.
The better hosting plan on the other hand costs $10 per month. It comes with features ranging from unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited SQL databases, unlimited FTP accounts and unlimited e-mails, unlimited domains and a free domain for a year. This hosting plan also come with a static IP address for $3.50 a month, malware cleanup for $3.50 per month and a dedicated IP address for just $119 per year. The best hosting plan on the other hand costs only $25 per month.
The features of this hosting plan include a static IP, a dedicated SSL, malware clean up, unlimited domains, unlimited e-mail and FTP accounts, unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, free cloud flare WAF, free hacker monitoring, free premium Spam filter, very fast SSD drives along with many others. Some of the common features that come with every hosting plan include an initial free set up, Word Press, security, premium Spam control, 1-click installer, 24/7 customer support among many others.

Clickhost Performance

ClickHOST.com web hosting company operates from state of the art data centers and use the latest technologies in the industry, which ensures that their hosting is top notch. They use very fast SSD drives in their data centers making their hosting very fast. This web host also offers their clients free cloud flare WAF and heightened security in their data centers. This ensures that their clients‘servers and data is safe and secure.

Clickhost Reliability

ClickHOST.com Company offers very reliable hosting their clients due to the good performance they offer. On top of that, the support team from the company is assessable throughout the day to help sort out clients’ hosting issues. ClickHOST.com offers clients guaranteed network up time of 99.9%, which, keeps their clients’ websites online 24/7.

Clickhost Customer Support

The support team at ClickHOST.com is readily available to help clients sort out their hosting issues. Moreover, the customer care desk is available 24/7/365 via phone, e-mail and live chat. Clients at the company also get real time updates from the company via twitter, Facebook and the company blog.

Latest News and Hosting Review Nexcess


Hosting Review Nexcess

Company Introduction – Hosting Review Nexcess

Key Selling Points

  • A leading hosting company
  • SSAE 16 certified and fully PCI DSS

Headquarters: Michigan
Establishment: 2000
Data Centers: Throughout Europe, Australia and the United States
Equipped with redundant power, connectivity and cooling, facility
Nexcess provides variety of hosting services with best technology and highly qualified experts. Hosting services ranging from entry level packages to custom clustered or hosting configurations for WordPress, Magento, ExpressionEngine and bBulletin with aim on achieving maximum performance for high-profile web sites. Company’s hosting solutions are created for specific applications so that users can outperform competition by more than 13X. It facilitates undergo annual SSAE 16 examinations and e-commerce web hosting plans fully PCI DSS complaint.
Infrastructure, business processes and facilities created and developed to maximize security and privacy of customer data. It keeps comprehensive records of who are accessing the data and which company is protecting. Networks and servers are carefully logged and access can be done by security trained system administrators.

Services Offered – Hosting Review Nexcess

  • Enterprise hosting services with dedicated servers and custom clustered /hosting configurations

Nexcess Successful Completion of Type 2 SSAE 16 SOC 1 Examination

Nexcess has successfully completed type 2 SSAE 16 examinations for review period of 1 February 2014 to January 31, 2015 within scope of web hosting services and data center. Company’s processes, procedures and controls follow industry best practices. Type 2 SOC 1 examination is a vital indication of quality control which Nexcess implements over aspects of business operations impact financial well-being of users and partners with handling of financial and private data. Third party controls over verification and scrutiny demonstrates Company’s ongoing commitment to excellence in offering standards of reliability and control.

Nexcess Shared Hosting

Neccess offer shared hosting plans on monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis. Company backup reseller, Shared Magento hosting, Expression Engine and WordPress Hosting with thirty days money back guarantee. Highly trained staff can move user’s website regardless of former host’s account access and control panel. There are lot of features which Nexcess offers when it comes to shared hosting such as virus and spam filtering and web mail support, secure and safe SSL and FTP, Real media streaming, mp3 streaming, and host of developer for creating changes to website.
In addition, all plans can support multiple domain names per account,, each domains on the account must share resources made available b chosen plan with amount of disk space , mail boxes and more.

Nexcess Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated hosting plans are flexible, powerful options for complex web applications with standardized hosting plans to use only Dell hardware for ease of use and reliability. These plans are fully customizable for user’s business whether they choose managed or unmanaged services along with their dedicated plans. Prices start at $175.90 without any add-ons such as managed care. Users can pick their servers and customizing hardware to be optimal for website need. Dedicated servers includes Dell Remote Access Controllers for Dell servers, Juniper Firewall Protection, Juniper Intrusion Device, On demand OS reloads, VPN tunnel and many other add-ons.

Nexcess Launched Backup Plans

NExcess has introduced new tier of extended backup plans which gives guarantee of user’s data is kept secure and safe over long term. New backup plans provide dedicated server and enterprise server cluster clients’ backup solution. Now enterprise clients can opt ninety day plans includes daily backups of server data. In one year data retention plans user will get daily backups, monthly snapshots, allow customers to restore and access data for longer time.
Long-term data retention is necessary aspects of security and business continuity management. These back up plans maintain reliable and manage backups, helps to avoid unnecessary integration with external services. Backups are necessary for security of client’s confidential data and applications. Now a days advanced persistent security threat are common, therefore its essential that online businesses have clean backups for at minimum three months and for longer period. Company’s new launch is most recent addition to great performance hosting plans, used by largest ecommerce retailers and publishers.

Nexcess SSL- CDN Plans

Company offers low cost SSL encryption to its CDN for global performance and security. It offers SSL- protected content with minimal latency to e-commerce hosting clients. This SSL- CDN can be added to any Nexcess CDN plan for $20. Company’s CDN is an extensive network of edge nodes located at key points around the world. Content is pushed from Nexcess’ data centers to edge nodes so that users get same fast and reliable service no matter where they are. Comapny’s SSL CDN services offer clients to locate their sites in geographic area without sacrificing fast and secure access to rest of the world.

Customers – Hosting Review Nexcess

Target Customers: Small and medium-sized businesses
What for Customers?

  • High-performance:

Support: 24.7.365 via email, phone, and live chat. Resolves issues instantly
Uptime: 99.9%

Latest News and Hosting Review Atlantic


Company Introduction

Atlantic.net is a cloud hosting company based in Orlando in the U.S. This hosting company has its data centers in multiple locations: San Francisco, Toronto, Dallas, and Orlando along with two more coming soon: one in London and another in Singapore. Atlantic.net hosting company has been operating in the cloud hosting industry for more than 20 years now. They offer cloud hosting services and HIPAA compliant hosting for their clients.

Reputation

Atlantic.net hosting company has been in the cloud hosting industry for over 20 years which makes them highly reputed in the industry. On top of that, this web host is known to be among the best providers of HIPPA compliant hosting and cloud hosting in the industry.

Features

Atlantic.net deploys Windows, Linux and FreeBSD servers in their data centers, which give their clients more variety. They also offer their clients Word Press hosting which uses Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Apache, My SQL and PHP. Some of the features of their cloud hosting are, RESTful API, scalability, daily backups for a nominal fee, RAID redundant storage, no contract required, guaranteed CPU cycles, add optional cPanel & WHM, an additional IP Address along with many other features. Key HIPPA compliant hosting features that Atlantic.net hosting offers their clients include: 24/7/365 customer support via live chat, phone and e-mail, business associate agreement, fully protected firewall, anti-virus protection, two-key authentication, intrusion detection system, IP reputation, blended bandwidth, encrypted back up storage and VPN, log management among many others.

Performance

The performance of the hosting that Atlantic.net offers clients is very good. They offer clients fast and high quality hosting. They use RAID Redundant Storage architecture ensures that clients’ servers and apps are up and running when components let you down. They operate their servers from state of the art data centers, which ensures that the performance that clients receive is of high quality.

Reliability

The hosting services that the Atlantic.net Company offers is very good and stable and their support team is very supportive and comprises of highly skilled personnel. The performance of their hosting furthermore is very good thanks to the servers that they use in their data centers. Atlantic.net offers 99.9% guaranteed network uptime, which keeps clients’ servers online throughout.

Customer service

Support team at Atlantic.net hosting company is available to sort out their clients hosting issues 24/7/365, this ensures that clients’ hosting issues are looked into very fast. On top of that, the support team comprises of the best experts in the industry and are accessible throughout via phone, e-mail or live chat.

Latest News and Hosting Review FutureHosting


Hosting Review FutureHosting

Hosting Review FutureHosting – Company Introduction

Establishment: 2001
Future hosting was started in the year 2001 with objective of providing high quality customer care with cost effective and reliable hosting services around the globe. Its servers located in various parts of the world including London, Miami, Australia, Chicago and Los Angeles. User will get not only ultimate hardware but satisfying and reliable services. Company provides number of various services ranging from VPS, CDN, Dedicated servers, Management services and web hosting among others. Since its institution has paid attention on user satisfaction, to create their company over years.
Futurehosting offers lot of features that customer can choose from and technical support team is very responsive. it has been steadily growing over the years, thereby, continuing to provide secure hosting. In addition to web hosting, company offers additional services for the clients and developed permanent business arrangement which server as a single point of service for IT needs of the user.

FutureHosting Warned WooCommerce Users to Update eCommerce Plugin

Future Hosting has warned leading eCommerce WordPress plugin Woocommerce’s users to immediately upgrade to version 2.3.11 as object injection vulnerability in plugin which has been newly identified. Company has cleared that there are still number of vulnerability sites which was discovered by security researchers at Sucuri. WordPress.com Automatic has taken WooThemes, the developer of WooCommerce which is having more than 7.5 million downloads and 660000 online shops.

FutureHosting Features

Company offers feature rich hosting services for its users. Features include: Variety of hosting services offered by company from VPS hosting, dedicated server hosting or web hosting services, user can choose between using a Plesk or cPanel control panel. Some other features including great bandwidth, unlimited disk space with support of various programming languages like Python, Perl, CGI, etc. User can also choose control panel to use management of their hosting services. Depending on CPU that client uses, user entitled to 10000 GB bandwidth and RAM varies from 1GB, 8GB and 16GB depending on CPU.

FutureHosting Dedicated Servers

The company provides both managed and unmanaged dedicated servers with server plans as well as control panel. Dedicated servers available from Quad core to Hex core processors and 32GB RAM with SSD drives and RAID. Custom clustered servers available with 256GB+ RAM and 16+ cores. With managed servers users get control panel of their choice. Excellent support team available anytime for server side issue. It also includes RAM updates and bandwidth with discounts for new users and highly upgrade package for existing customers.

What More Included in Dedicated Servers?

  • Full Root Access & Future Protect Backups
  • Choice of Multiple Geographic Locations
  • Redundant FutureHosting DNS servers or Private DNS Servers
  • Easy Upgrade Process and Proactive Managed Service.
  • Free Migration from cPanel to cPanel, Plesk to Plesk or cPanel to Interworx with managed servers

Future Hosting Reliability and Support

Future Hosting has been ranked as reliable hosting company due to speed hosting services with guaranteed 99.9% network up-time. Company’s technical support team is reliable and deals with customer’s various needs. In addition to, technical team has fast response rate when dealing with technical issues which user may have. Future hosting has customer portal through which clients can reach customer care desk and ask for solution 24/7 anytime.
Future Hosting has a great customer support team that can be reached throughout the day and night to deal with any queries that their customers may have. On top of that, the technical team more so has a very fast response rate when dealing with the technical difficulties that clients may have. Future Hosting has a client portal where their clients can reach the customer care desk to check and even ask for assistance.

Services Offered  – Hosting Review FutureHosting

Future Hosting is now offering its performance-managed Hybrid Server hosting plans of Pure SSD storage. All hosting facilities of company’s US and international are applied some upgrades. At price of the virtual server, performance of dedicated server provided by Hybrid Servers. Same virtualization technology of Virtual Private Servers is used by Hybrid Servers, providing considerable performance hike as depending on most reliable enterprise hardware. Some virtual servers running on every physical server by more guaranteed resources.
Company hybrid servers were made to provide the best performance, optimum flexibility, and greatest scalability at minimal price than equal to dedicated servers. No-compromise server hosting platform is created by shifting all Hybrid Servers to Pure SSD storage. Best and fastest technology is used to built.
The hybrid server is also known as Internet hosting and an aggregation of a physically-hosted server by virtualization technology. This server is a new type of dedicated server providing both cloud-computing flexibility and classic dedicated server. A user is allocated 100% hardware on hybrid dedicated servers. For dedicated servers, a price is lower.
Multi-level cell flash memory used by Pure Storage has more capacity of single-level cell memory for the same price. Data deduplication is a data compression software used by Pure Storage for marketing of FlashArray in complete with disk arrays of traditional rotating.
Pure Storage uses multi-level cell flash memory which has a higher capacity for the same price of single-level cell memory. Using software such as data compression known as data de-duplication, Pure Storage markets the FlashArray to compete with traditional rotating disk arrays. The company estimated FlashArray requires about 20% of the power and space required for traditional arrays. Pure Storage flash memory is packaged in shelves of solid state memory devices (SSDs), from two known suppliers, sTec, Inc., and Samsung
Storage of SSD which is pure increase responsiveness and performance in relation to SSD- accelerated and storage of hard drive. On SSD data is cached by acceleration and for a more storage traditional drive is used. Lightening-fast solid state technology for all data is used by pure SSD systems makes feasible for applications of I/O.

Hybrid server line of Future Hosting covers many tiers has features range from HYB 1 with 8 GB of RAM, 10,000 GB of bandwidth and 120 GB of Pure SSD storage to HYB 3 with 12 GB of RAM, 15,000 GB of bandwidth and pure SSD storage of 200 GB.

A performance of Future Hosting modified Hybrid Servers which are available from places across the US include Florida, Miami, California, Santa Clara and Michigan, Southfield with additional facilities in Australia, London, Brisbane and UK.

Customers – Hosting Review FutureHosting

What for Customers?

  • Reliability: Speedy Hosting services

Support: 24.7.365 customer and technical support by experts
Uptime: 99.99%

Latest News and Hosting Review Windstream


About Windstream

Windstream finds itself in the list of Fortune 500 companies. It is into providing network communications of fairly advanced levels. Businesses worldwide are being provided with world-class cloud computing and managed services by Windstream. Based in Little Rock, Arkansas this company boasts or serving more than three million customers. They provide business as well as residential solutions and Carrier services.

Reputation

Windstream claims that it is the preferred company for most of the Fortune 500 companies to take network solution. It has been expanding since it started in the year 2007. It has been conferred a number of awards for its services in the network and cloud.

Products and Services

In the first category of business products and services, Windstream provides following services:
Enterprise Network Services : Data, voice, network and cloud solutions are provided by Windstream. Whatever be your requirement, you are sure to find a fitting solution here as they provide a spectrum of services ranging from dedicated internet services to unified communications to multi- location networking.
Enterprise Cloud & Managed Services : Windstream provides professionally designed loud solutions to fit requirements of a client and also provides very comprehensive managed services too. Their data centers are world class and very secure as they have tier III facilities. A detailed map of the data centers can be seen on their website. Services are optimized to make client satisfied.
Equipment : Windstream also deals in IT equipments which are duly customized as per any requirements of a client. They have partnered with a number of biggies of the telecommunication world to ensure that they have the right know how for designing equipment.

In second category of residential solution the Windstream offers:

Customer Support

Windstream can be contacted via an email or a telephone call. They also have live chat option available. Windstream does not charge anything for the basic support. They have active accounts on social media too where one can easily find news related to Windstream.

Various Products

Windstream provides a number of services and a number of plans to pick from. Their residential services include high speed internet services. These have two plans namely, High speed internet at 6MBPS and High speed internet at max speed. It you are looking for simple email, browsing and mundane activities pick the first one but if you are into watching HD videos and all pick the plan that offers full speed. They also provide online security packages.

Other services by Windstream

Windstream also provides DISH TV and home phone services. These services can be bundled with the internet services to create packages that are economical. Windstream is also into electronic gadgets like tablets, computers, cameras, mp3 players etc. In the business sector also Windstream offers a number of services. Besides the cloud services, they also provide equipments and help small businesses.
Windstream enjoys the reputation of being a sizeable company in the eastern parts of the USA. It has proved its mettle in the DSL field and is also a front runner in all the other fields that it provides services and goods. With a wide existing customer base, Windstream is expanding and is sure to give its competitors a run for their money in near future!

Latest News and Hosting Review Rackspace


Hosting Review Rackspace

About Company – Hosting Review Rackspace

Key Selling Points

  • Managed cloud hosting company
  • A leader in hybrid cloud and founder of OpenStack which is an operating system for the cloud

Establishment: 1998
Headquarters: Windcrest, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Data Center: San Antonio, Texas, the United Kingdom, Illinois, Virginia, Australia and Hong Kong

Awards/Achievements – Hosting Review Rackspace

  • American Business Award’s Best Customer Service Organization-2005 and 2007
  • Industry-leading Service Level Agreements
  • Red Hat Premier Hosting Partner
  • Microsoft Hosting Partner Of The year- 2003,2005,2007
  • Leader in Gartner North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant since 2004
  • Microsoft Gold Certified Hosting Partner: Rackspace has achieved 2015 Microsoft Hosting Partner of the year award for manifested tremendous excellence administration and innovation of customer solution based on Microsoft technology products and platforms. This partnership will continue to work on:-
    • Business Transformation for Users
    • Technology Innovation
    • Boost Experts as cloud market grows continuously

    Winners were chosen from more than 2,300 applicants from 108 countries globally. The company continuously offering outstanding services and solutions in hosting partner of the year category

Services Offered – Hosting Review Rackspace

Rackspace offers various types of services and solutions to their clients. They are listed below:
1. Business Solutions
MANAGED OFFERINGS

  • E-commerce: It allows you to create your online presence and enrich your clients with delightful services.
  • Web Content Management: WCM platform is hosted and supported by the company for big businesses with a focus on uptime and performance.
  • Email: It hosted your e-mail on the right platform which is appropriate for your business.
  • Collaboration & Productivity: For increasing collaboration and productivity, co. laid emphasis on some of the tools such as Google Apps, Skype, Office 365, Microsoft Sharepoint.
  • Website Hosting: It offers great web hosting services by providing you great servers up all the time and with great tools and resources lead your website in a right direction.
  • Web Apps: A strong hybrid or scalable cloud solution is customized as per your specific needs and then run the same to allow their clients to focus on innovation and creation.
  • Data Services: Good data services are offered, as creation and maintaining databases is not easy. Thus, a platform is offered for this.
  • Private Cloud: Company looks after everything for you such as security, control, and maintenance.

Reliable, Fast and Scalable hosting for WordPress Sites

Serving one visitor on WordPress site is easy, nut serving thousands at a time need technical expertise and remarkable resources. Through Rackspace, a user has two different WordPress Hosting Process.

  • Cloud Sites: Just One click installation and get an optimized WordPress environment
  • Cloud Servers: Deploy Cloud servers using WordPress Blueprint

ADVISORY SERVICES

  • Application Migration
  • DevOps
  • Security & Compliance
  • Strategy & Transformation

2. Infrastructure and Services: In terms of Infrastructure and Services, it offers the following:

  • Compute
  • Network
  • Cloud Networks
  • Cloud Load Balancers
  • Cloud DNS
  • Rack Connect
  • Custom Networking
  • Storage
  • Infrastructure & Developer Tools
  • Database & Data Analytics
  • Private Cloud
  • Collaboration & Productivity
  • Email
  • Simple Websites

Provide Managed Server For Typical Application

RackSpace Managed servers help users to architect right platform for business and get benefits such as:-

  • Incorporate private and public cloud technologies for flexibility to grow
  • Managing and Deploying configuration for all kinds of companies

RackSpace Cloud Servers Features

  • Reliable: Cloud Servers filled with fully redundant networking and ECC memory. Virtual servers are supported by hardware RAID 10 storage.
  • High Networking: Hosts for virtual machine flavor classes with bare-metal servers, redundant, bonded 10GBPS network connections to fuel high-bandwidth applications.
  • All virtual servers have 10 GBPS connectivity to Cloud Block Storage.
  • A power of Bare Metal- Using control penal or OpenStack API which brings uniformity to application performance.

Rackspace has announced recently dedicated option of ObjectRocket for MongoDB databases. It is a solution used to combine scalability and speed of ObjectRocket purpose-built interface with networking and fully dedicated hardware for cases of compliance-dependent. Customers get help by this solution with security, performance and conformation requirements of high-risk industries like financial services, healthcare and insurance.
MongoDB is built on custom, dedicated architecture can strengthen workloads of database providing full resources utilization for host machines, and a isolation level that demanded by enterprise customers. Customers get advantage of Rackspace experts and Fanatical support, allowing customers to concentrate on their in-house resources on making mission-critical, application which are highly secured rather than managing environments of database.
Applications scale to many MongoDB operations per second provided by Dedicated ObjectRocket during offering higher levels of security as it gives customers a fully dedicated, manged rack of MongoDB. All the features are provided by these offerings on which customers are expected from ObjectRocket like a fully isolated environment, dedicated networking components and encryption at rest. They have team of MongoDB experts staffed 24x7x365 so that customers will be focusing to build their businesses. Fully managed ObjectRocket for MongoDB solution is adopted by thousands of customers due to its enhanced security, automatic scalability, high performance, intelligent automation and high availability. Features of ObjectRocket are included:-
Next-generation applications are developed by enterprises that provide advantage in mobile, social and analytics technologies, to options of open-source database use case must be matched by IT departments. To retain database experts is able to navigate complexities regarding database technologies such as MongoDB, MySQL and Hadoop and fulfill demands of database scalability, availability, security and compliance across many databases. Rackspace help organizations to scale, deploy and secure new applications which are data-driven and analytics platforms.

Customer – Hosting Review Rackspace

No. of Customers: More than 300,000 business customers
What for Customer?

  • provides each customer best fit for special needs whether it is on single or multi-tenant servers or combination of those platforms.
  • Customized redundant infrastructure as per needs
  • excellent, fast and reliable business solutions

Rackspace provides good customer support to their clients. Their main goal is to deliver great customer satisfaction so as to retain existing customers and appreciate new customers.
Support: 24.7.365 technical support to resolve hosting-related issues
Uptime: 100% and redundancy shared responsibilities. One-Hour Hardware Substitution

What’s New

Carl Thompson, employed in Rackspace, on position of principal architect, has been awarded with name of the 2015 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year in Red Hat Summit 2015 took place recently between 23 June- 26 June, 15 at Boston. Award has been awarded by Red Hat, Inc. , worlds top notching company of open source solutions. Red Hat, Inc. has announced that Rackspace has been named as the 2015 Red Hat Certified Professional of Year.
Award has been given by a Red Hat to those professional who are very hard working and experts in their area of working, who are known or recognized for their problem solving, decision making skills, thought leadership. Thompson posses all above qualities and traits and using this a unique Red Hat Satellite infrastructure was developed by him at Rackspace. Purpose behind this is to develop such platform where systems can be easily managed which permits Rackspace to run their Red Hat systems safely and efficiently.

Contact Details

If you have any questions, concerns or comments for company, you can reach them through following ways:

  • Headquarters Address:
    1 Fanatical Place,
    City of Windcrest,
    San Antonio,
    TX 78218
  • Phone: For Sales 1-855-835-6215
  • For Seeking Support- 1-800-961-4454

As company is having various branches spread all over the world, so for various aspects such as for sales, seeking support, billing, legal, media inquiries, careers etc., every branch is having their unique contact details like their phone, e-mail, physical address. So, it is advisable, to go through its website http://www.rackspace[dot]com to know your branch details so that you may reach them conveniently.

Latest News and Hosting Review Hostwinds


Company Overview

Hostwinds provides services that comprises SMB-focused hosting’s affordability with enterprise-level power. Founded in 2010 by founder/CEO Peter Holden. It is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Day by day, company is introducing a new set of standards in hosting industry. Company maintains great standard of customer service and client support which is based on “Provide and Truly Serve.” Company is offering virtual private server (VPS), shared hosting and dedicated server which has designed for SMBs to big companies. Company offers 60-days money back guarantee.

Shared Web Hosting Packages

Hostwinds provides reasonable and attractive shared hosting plans which come in three versions: Basic, Advanced and Ultimate.

  • Basic plan starts at $4.50 per month and includes , unlimited storage, unlimited monthly data transfers, a free dedicated IP address and has capability to host single domain.
  • Advanced plan’s initial price is $5.50 per month. This plan allows clients to host up to six domains.
  • Ultimate plan starts from $6.50 per month. It brings the ability to host unlimited number of domains.

Here you need not worry about cash. Ultimate plan proves to be a better fit for your wallet.Company also gives discount if customer signs up for multiple months. Company’s shared hosting plans offer great hosting space.

Dedicated Web Hosting Packages

At Hostwinds, customers can get customizable or ready-made dedicated servers. Ready-made server ranges between $100 per month to $200. Customizable server’s price range is between $100 and $250 per month. But their cost will be greater, depending on how clients configure them. This server includes up to 3TB of storage,100TB of monthly data transfers and 64GB of RAM. If customers subscribe everything, they would be spending approximately $1,000 per month. Company’s dedicated servers have more standards than other web hosts like they mark business-centric Editors’ Choice Liquid Web in a few key areas.

VPS Web Hosting Packages

Hostwinds’s VPS offers Windows, SSD Windows, SSD Linux VPS Web hosting, Wallet- Budget, and Premium hosting. Company’s websites gives a handy slider that allows users to navigate configurations within a particular tier.
Budget tier starts from $7.50 per month which includes 1GB of RAM, 25GB of disk space, unlimited monthly data transfers, unlimited email, and half a CPU core. But it can scale up to $172 per month which includes 28.5GB of RAM, 600GB of disk space, unlimited monthly data transfers, unlimited email, and 8 CPU cores.
High-end SSD Windows plan starts from $13.50 per month which includes 1GB of RAM, 25GB of disk space, unlimited monthly data transfers, unlimited email, and one CPU core and can cost up to at $209 per month. Company has flexible VPS plans that can be scaled up at any level.
Company has Minecraft in video game server hosting which offers clients to select a pre-configured server. Entry-level tier stars from $8/month and can be created for maximum 10 people. The high-end tier starts from $160/month and is able to host maximum 350 people.

Building a Website

Company has Trendy tools for building a website which comes with company’s hosting packages. This tool offers clients to add their own code which opens the door to a more custom look. Company also allows clients to install WordPress as a content management system

E-Commerce Features

Company’s Softaculous library comprises the Magento e-commerce app, by which users can create an attractive store using its drag-and-drop store builder.

Security Features

Company provides Advanced Website Monitoring with additional $1.50/ month. This addition, keeps monitoring client’s website around the clock and automatically submit a help ticket on clients’ behalf during downtime.

Customer Service

Hostwinds provides 24/7 phone, Web chat, and ticket-based customer support.