Sunday, December 27, 2009

Site for dedicated servers launched in India

New Delhi: HostRigtnow technologies, one of the oldest premium web hosting and Internet service providers, has announced the extension of its existing dedicated servers and collocation services in Indian datacenters. This development means that premium hardware and bandwidth will be locally available in India.

The existing (provided since 1997) dedicated server and collocation services, until now only offered in the rack on a monthly fee of 99$ per month (Rs. 4500). Additionally, a free 24X7 Remote Hands will be offered to all its India server clients. This will allow businesses, that run their own website, e-mail and a database, to get the benefit from this service, while having complete control.


One will not have to use one's own bandwidth when switching from on-site servers to server collocation, a major cost saving benefit. The server collocation service allows to place the server in high quality hosting facilities with good network connectivity.

On a replay of 'Why Server Collocation.in started dedicated servers hosting and server in India,' India Operation Head Kiran Sharma said, "India is the seventh largest country in the world and the second most populated. India's IT industry is fastest growing IT industry in the world."

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Web Hosting Services

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Before including the company into Top 10 we analyzed the host's advantages. We understand that each customer is interested in reasonable prices, innovative technologies, free extra services, security, uptime guarantee, fine technical support and high level of usability.

Considering all these points we made out a list of 10 web hosting providers, which give the most beneficial services. Information represented at our site is based on the feedback from the users of hosting services. The top hosting providers of our ranking have displayed stability and substantial leadership.

To run a successful on-line business you need safe reliable web site hosting. For example, if you want your ecommerce to show a profit you need your site always on-line and available to everyone. It will allow you to conduct transactions with no barriers of time or distance. You'll be a successful entrepreneur, if consumers go on-line and buy your products any time of the day or night. If the web hosting provider doesn't guarantee at least 99% uptime, than your business may suffer considerable losses. Another point is - if you ecommerce is growing rapidly, soon you'll have to think of widening your web site. In such case you should be aware of affordable free space you can get from your host provider. We can't but mention such an essential item as a security that is needed to protect your business from hackers. In our reviews we have included all key factors that influence the well being of your web affairs.

Wide range of web hosting services are accessible nowadays, such as image hosting, photo website hosting, email hosting, Unix hosting, Windows hosting, Linux web hosting etc. We hope you will find a good web page hosting solution, whether it's image hosting or any other type of web hosting services. We do our best to help you make your right choice for image hosting company. So, think twice before making a final decision. As you see, your welfare may depend on different circumstances. As a web site owner you should mind your actual needs and wants. First, you'd better study intently all data in our Top 10 and afterwards pick up the most rational variant. With well-managed host you'll always keep abreast. Use the given reviews below sagely. Evaluate different web hosting providers and what they have to offer.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Types of hosting

Hosting services limited to the Web:

Many large companies who are not internet service providers also need a computer permanently connected to the web so they can send email, files, etc. to other sites. They may also use the computer as a website host so they can provide details of their goods and services to anyone interested. Additionally these people may decide to place online orders.

Free web hosting service: offered by different companies with limited services, sometimes supported by advertisements, and often limited when compared to paid hosting.

Shared web hosting service: one's website is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU. The features available with this type of service can be quite extensive. A shared website may be hosted with a reseller.

Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a provider. Resellers' accounts may vary tremendously in size: they may have their own virtual dedicated server to a collocated server. Many resellers provide a nearly identical service to their provider's shared hosting plan and provide the technical support themselves.

Virtual Dedicated Server: also known as a Virtual Private Server (VPS), divides server resources into virtual servers, where resources can be allocated in a way that does not directly reflect the underlying hardware. VPS will often be allocated resources based on a one server to many VPSs relationship, however virtualisation may be done for a number of reasons, including the ability to move a VPS container between servers. The users may have root access to their own virtual space. Customers are sometimes responsible for patching and maintaining the server.
Dedicated hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server. Another type of Dedicated hosting is Self-Managed or Unmanaged. This is usually the least expensive for Dedicated plans. The user has full administrative access to the box, which means the client is responsible for the security and maintenance of his own dedicated box.

Managed hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server but is not allowed full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, they are allowed to manage their data via FTP or other remote management tools. The user is disallowed full control so that the provider can guarantee quality of service by not allowing the user to modify the server or potentially create configuration problems. The user typically does not own the server. The server is leased to the client.

Colocation web hosting service: similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the colo server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. This is the most powerful and expensive type of the web hosting service. In most cases, the colocation provider may provide little to no support directly for their client's machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server. In most cases for colo, the client would have his own administrator visit the data center on site to do any hardware upgrades or changes.

Cloud Hosting: is a new type of hosting platform that allows customers powerful, scalable and reliable hosting based on clustered load-balanced servers and utility billing. Removing single-point of failures and allowing customers to pay for only what they use versus what they could use.
Clustered hosting: having multiple servers hosting the same content for better resource utilization. Clustered Servers are a perfect solution for high-availability dedicated hosting, or creating a scalable web hosting solution. A cluster may separate web serving from database hosting capability.

Grid hosting: this form of distributed hosting is when a server cluster acts like a grid and is composed of multiple nodes.

Home server: usually a single machine placed in a private residence can be used to host one or more web sites from a usually consumer-grade broadband connection. These can be purpose-built machines or more commonly old PCs. Some ISPs actively attempt to block home servers by disallowing incoming requests to TCP port 80 of the user's connection and by refusing to provide static IP addresses. A common way to attain a reliable DNS hostname is by creating an account with a dynamic DNS service. A dynamic DNS service will automatically change the IP address that a URL points to when the IP address changes.

Some specific types of hosting provided by web host service providers:

File hosting service: hosts files, not web pages
Image hosting service
Video hosting service
Blog hosting service
One-click hosting
Pastebin Hosts text snippets
Shopping cart software

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Web Hosting Service

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Large-Scale Strategist

January 2009 As senior vice president overseeing Microsoft's multibillion dollar Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia figures to play a central role in establishing the company as a meaningful player in the cloud-computing arena. It will be Muglia's job to ensure that Windows Azure and its attendant Azure Services Platform work and play well with Microsoft's core infrastructure products.

Muglia joined Microsoft in the late '80s to work in the SQL Server group. He sat down with Senior Editor Kathleen Richards and Redmond magazine Editor Ed Scannell to discuss why he thinks the Azure Services Platform is the next-generation platform for developers.

The general perception is that Microsoft is lagging behind some competitors in delivering a cloud strategy. What can you do to fast-track the adoption of Windows Azure among developers?
First, the idea we're behind is an amazing concept given how early everything is -- the market has clearly not moved to these cloud-based services. The market is still very much an on-premises market, but we'll move very quickly with Windows Azure. Because it's a services platform, it enables us to bring things out on a more regular release cycle than when we have to work with our customers to get them to install and deploy something.

Developers using Azure are optimistic about it, but they have questions about the target audience. Who do you see adopting it first?
The reality is, a Web services platform like Azure is as broad in its target as Windows or Windows Server is -- it ultimately targets everybody. But we'll focus on a couple of audiences initially. We're definitely going after Web start-ups and hobbyist sorts of developers -- those people that think they can put something together quickly, get it running and see what the product can do. We're also going after some people who need to solve very substantive problems that major businesses have today, particularly those working with a wide variety of different suppliers or customers, and that need to connect across to multiple organizations.

Is there any overlap with the Azure Services Platform and your existing SOA initiative?
Well, there's a lot of consistency between the two, is the way I would put it. At the PDC [Professional Developers Conference 2008] I talked about the services platform being the fifth generation application platform. The first was the monolithic application platform, then client-server, Web, Web services or SOA, and then [cloud] services. What we see is a lot of evolution between the SOA platform and services platform. So Azure, in the context of the SOA applications people have built, as they modify them to take advantage of the scale-out characteristics of Azure, they can reuse a great deal of the work they've done.

How will IT change with cloud computing?
The biggest characteristic that the services platform movement will have [on IT departments] is the reduction in people and time spent to maintain IT applications. The vast majority of IT dollars get spent running the operation. The reason services platforms are different is they're architected to not need that sort of human intervention to keep them running. You can outsource those costs to India for now and save a few bucks, but you won't save that much in the long run because costs worldwide are equalizing to some extent.

Will it be mandatory for IT shops to house Azure in Microsoft data centers?
We're hosting them in Microsoft's data centers, but we've also said we will take these same concepts we're building in Windows Azure and build them back into Windows Server and our packaged products. So the same benefits begin to accrue to IT as they run their businesses inside their own data centers or our partners' data centers. The same concepts that Azure will bring to the way applications are built and the services orientation to writing applications will exist in Windows Server, SQL Server, System Center and all of our products over time.

Another criticism of Windows Azure is that Microsoft's approach is too closed, too Windows-centric.
First, remember Windows is the most broadly used platform on the planet and we can run a wide variety of different applications and application-programming models. We've talked about support for PHP and a whole set of different environments in the Azure platform. So I think we'll be very open. But not surprisingly, our focus is running Windows and Windows applications regardless of what platform they're built on.

VMware claims its technology can accommodate many different workloads and environments. Some analysts say the company has a more flexible approach than Microsoft.
Clearly I don't agree. The products we ship today -- whether it's Hyper-V or System Center-support Linux and a wide variety of different environments. We have a great deal of heterogeneous support in our existing products. In fact, we manage VMware; they don't manage Hyper-V. Our approach to heterogeneity has been quite open and broad in ways that VMware has not been willing to embrace.

The other point that's important to emphasize is you can't solve the problems related to reducing the cost of ownership and the labor that goes into an IT operation with just the virtualization layer. VMware has a hammer and so everything looks like a nail. Those technologies are implemented at the application layer, and VMware has no assets in that space.

Is the challenge for developers going to be how to build services, or is it more about what services to build?
Everything will have to mature from a software and services perspective, and from the perspective of a developer understanding how to build these applications and the time it will take. There are only several instantiations of scale-out services applications on the planet. I'm pretty confident Google built one when they built their search engine. We built one when we built our search engine. I suspect Amazon has something in the way they built their entire shopping experience and probably Yahoo! has one. So we're talking about a handful of major applications that have been built using this scale-out model I've talked about to reduce the cost of operations in these massive applications.

The problem is the talent to build this is very limited. A typical IT manager doesn't have the capability, and a typical development staff doesn't have the capability to do it ... Our goal with Azure and Visual Studio together is to take and infuse an application model with something that the average developer can use to build exploitive applications.

The prescriptive architecture -- which is based on Web roles, worker roles and data storage -- may present a challenge for some developers. Granted, it's an existing architecture, but it's not widely used, so it's a new way of thinking about things.
The thing that you'll see us doing over time is beginning to build that into the toolset so that it becomes sort of an automatic thing for developers as they're building applications to run in this sort of environment. So it becomes second nature for people to build these apps, just like it's now second nature for them to build Windows apps or Web apps. I mean, this is the architecture that must be used. You talk about what VMware and some other companies are doing -- you can't solve this problem unless you're operating at the application level. This is a strength Microsoft can bring to the industry -- to make that class of application development available to everyone.

How can developers use Windows Azure to extend the online versions of products such as SharePoint, CRM and Exchange?
The question is, how will Microsoft extend our existing applications by building them into the Azure framework and enable them to be used? We can open up the developer experience and make it easier for them to write Web parts to extend the hosted version of SharePoint, for instance, and connect it back to their online business systems they have on-premises. A perfect example is where companies can sign up for SharePoint-based portals in the cloud and our ability to provide the full development environment. Although without Azure our ability to do so is somewhat limited.

Will the SharePoint Services and Dynamic CRM Services that were announced at PDC be part of the Azure Services Platform?
Think of those as extensions of the platform. SharePoint is a great example of this: It's both an end-user-based application and it's part of the underlying application platform. Likewise for CRM. As you work on customer relationship management and you want to expose your business processes associated with that, that application does that. You can think of the Azure platform as providing a set of services that customers can use as they use hosted versions of CRM and SharePoint, and potentially for on-premises versions of those products, even integrating them together.

Has the community technology preview (CTP) been opened to a broader audience since the PDC?
It has, and we'll keep opening it up more broadly. Different services, by the way, will be opening up at different speeds. For example, we're opening up our identity services, the database services and the workflow services a bit faster than we're opening up our compute-based services, although those, too, are opening up quickly.

You have a range of different competitors for Azure, not all of them coming from the computer industry -- most notably Amazon. Some observers are impressed with what that company has done.
We have to give Amazon credit. [Amazon founder, Chairman and CEO] Jeff Bezos' team has done a very good job of pioneering many aspects of these services. They have some assets that they've built for their commerce-based applications they use internally. I view Amazon as a company we compete with, but who we very much treat as a customer. We also see opportunities to partner with them. Their model is different than many others, but my view is there are many hosting partners that we enable with Windows, and Amazon is a great partner in that context.

So you can see a relationship developing with Amazon down the line?
Oh yeah. In fact, we have a relationship with Amazon. They now offer Windows at a competitive price. A data point I love is that they offer Windows-based hosting for Amazon Web services at less cost than they offer Red Hat [Linux].

In North America and other places around the world they have fantastic logistics and distribution systems. We don't do that and you won't see Microsoft doing that any time soon. You can see areas where there are just natural complements to Microsoft.

Which competitors keep you up at night?
Ultimately, [those] who have some of the same resources ... in the services space. We clearly think of our primary competitor long-term as Google in this. VMware is a broad competitor for us. I think we're much more head-to-head competing on-premises with them right now than we are in the cloud. The cloud is nascent for both VMware and us. VMware has been the dominant supplier in virtualization but we're coming on real fast.

Developers who have downloaded the CTP are pleased with what they see so far, but Microsoft needs to finish telling the story.
You bet ... there's a lot more coming, baby! This is just the beginning. I remember the 1992 PDC where we first introduced Windows NT and it had a lot of promise and it was really early. Now you look at everything it's built on in the industry.

Do you have a time frame for when more information about Azure will become available?
At PDC next year, you'll probably hear something there.

What pricing model will Microsoft use?
You'll see three pricing models. Some services will be free [and] advertising-funded. You'll see a utility-based or subscription-oriented pricing model attached to per-usage fees for some services. ... You'll also see per-user charges for some services that are more user-focused, like you see with SharePoint and CRM. Those have a monthly user fee attached to them. The ones you'll see us filling in over time are the detailed usage-based or utility-based services. Chances are that's the way we'll do Windows Azure and our database services. The specifics will be announced [this] year.
Kathleen Richards is senior editor of Redmond's sister publication Redmond Developer News. Ed Scannell is editor of Redmond magazine.

Source: http://reddevnews.com/qandas/article.aspx?editorialsid=136

Yugma Introduces New Packaging and Pricing for Web Conferencing Services

Yugma introduces new packaging and pricing for Web conferencing services. Yugma Free, Yugma Pro 20 and Pro 50 services make it easier and more affordable to host and join online meetings and webinars. Yugma Free Web conferencing service is now enhanced to support up to 20 attendees per meeting. Yugma Pro 20 service price reduced by 25% to only $14.95 per month.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) January 7, 2009 -- Yugma, the leading Web conferencing service that lets people connect and collaborate instantly using the Internet, announced the immediate availability of new services packages and pricing.

The key features of the new services packaging and pricing include:
- Yugma Free service is now enhanced to support up to 20 attendees per meeting
- Yugma Pro 20 service price reduced by 25% to only $14.95 per month
- New Yugma Pro 50 service introduced at $44.95 per month
- Yugma Pro 100 and Pro 500 prices increased to $89.95 and $179.95 per month
- Yugma Pro 10 and Pro 30 have been discontinued
- New Yugma Webinar option introduced at $19.95 per month for all Yugma Pro subscribers
- Annual subscriptions are available at a discount of 20% off the monthly price
- Current Yugma Free subscribers will be automatically upgraded to the new service
- Existing Yugma Pro subscribers may continue with their subscriptions indefinitely
- Existing Yugma Free and Yugma Pro subscribers may upgrade to the new service packages at attractive terms before February 15, 2009

Visit the website to learn more about the new Yugma services packaging and pricing.

The new Yugma Free service is built on Version 4.0 of Yugma and maximum capacity has been doubled to allow subscribers to host meetings with up to 20 attendees. Coupled with the ease of use features of V4.0, the new Yugma Free is expected to make free Web conferencing accessible to a wider audience.

The popular Yugma Pro 20 service is reduced in price by 25% from $19.95 to $14.95 per month. Annual subscribers pay only $149.50, a further price reduction of 20% (compared to monthly). This significant price reduction, together with the full-featured Version 4.0, means that professional users will be able to use the best Web conferencing and collaboration service at the most affordable prices.

The Yugma Webinar option is now available to all Yugma Pro subscribers at just $19.95 per month or $199.50 annually. This new feature is a cost effective way for businesses to reach potential and existing customers. The Yugma Webinar feature gives subscribers the ability to schedule a webinar in advance, pre-register attendees using the Yugma website, and obtain a registrant and attendee report after the webinar.

"With the recent introduction of Version 4.0 we have the most comprehensive and easy to use web conferencing platform," said Vas Bhandarkar CEO of Yugma Inc. "Our new services packaging and pricing have made our Web conferencing solutions more accessible and affordable. Small businesses can now run cost-effective and professional webinars for small as well as large audiences. Our popular Pro 20 service is now 25% cheaper and we doubled the capacity of our Yugma Free service. Instant Web conferencing is now easier and more affordable."

Yugma is the leader in affordable instant Web conferencing solutions. The new Yugma Free and Pro 20, Pro 50, Pro 100 and Pro 500 services together with the new Yugma Webinar option are available immediately on the website. Existing Free, Professional and Enterprise subscribers can continue to renew their current subscriptions indefinitely, or alternatively, they can avail of a limited time offer to upgrade to the new packages at attractive terms before February 15, 2009.

"We want to thank and reward our large base of existing subscribers for their loyalty and commitment to Yugma by immediately offering them the benefits of the new packages or by indefinitely extending their current subscriptions", said Vas Bhandarkar, CEO of Yugma Inc.

About Yugma, Inc.:
Yugma is the leader in affordable instant Web conferencing solutions. Yugma provides Free, Professional, and Enterprise Web conferencing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises across a diverse range of industries. The core Yugma product technology is a secure, easy-to-use, feature-rich, Web conferencing and collaboration software service that allows users to host or attend online meetings using Windows, Mac, or Linux computers at a fraction of the cost of comparable technologies. Yugma technology is scalable from 1-1 desktop sharing to conferences for 500+ attendees.

Popular uses of Yugma include hosting webinars, developing and presenting proposals, product demonstrations, sales presentations, enhancing online sales calls, conducting training programs, delivering customer service, holding team meetings and reviews, improving remote support and troubleshooting, facilitating study groups or personal tutoring sessions, hosting virtual clubs or social events, and providing spontaneous collaboration by artists, writers, and designers.

'Yugma' is a Sanskrit word meaning 'confluence, meeting or state of togetherness.' Yugma, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in Silicon Valley and New Delhi, India.

Contact:
Shanker Trivedi, Chief Marketing Officer
Yugma Inc.
Email: shanker (at) yugma (dot) com
Tel: +1-650-283-8563
http://www.yugma.com

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/yugma/newpricing/prweb1833954.htm

ZNet India Offers Monthly Leases of Smartertools

Hosting providers can now use Smartertools products with affordable monthly price.
ZNet India, a web hosting provider, today announced that it is offering monthly leased licenses for all SmarterTools products. The company states that SmarterMail 5.x is the cost-effective Microsoft Exchange alternative, bringing enterprise-level functionality to businesses, ISPs, and web hosting environments. It also states that scalable and easy to manage, SmarterMail features a rich Webmail interface, collaboration, reporting, throttling, synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows mobile devices; and an event-driven architecture that provides automated actions and notifications.

The company articulates that SmarterTrack 3.x brings all the functionality of a help desk, a ticket system, live chat, whoson, cost analysis, data mining, reporting, and a knowledge base in one software application, all delivered through an elegant web interface. It explains that SmarterStats 4.x is a web log analytics tool that cost-effectively delivers accurate and detailed web site statistics for sites across a distributed network. The company claims that SmarterStats supports log file types, such as Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache on Windows and Linux web servers. It adds that the methodology in which SmarterStats interprets and converts log files reduces disk space utilization while creating an required platform for reporting statistics and data mining.

"We are very excited by offering monthly lease licenses for all Smartertools products, as hosting providers can use Smartertools unique and world class products with very affordable monthly price starting from only USD15/Mo." says Munesh Singh, Founder & CEO of ZNet India. All lease licenses are with no setup fee and anytime upgrades.

Source: http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/znet-india-offers-monthly-leases-of-smartertools_0112096378.htm