Go Daddy Announced Mac OS X Web Hosting

Go Daddy officially introduced its Mac Hosting solution, Cloud Server powered by Mac OS X. The new virtual dedicated servers provide the power of a dedicated Mac OS X server for a fraction of the cost.

Go Daddy’s technical staff supplies the support to keep the server up and running, so customers can manage a number of native Mac OS X Server applications. Some of the apps include Mail Services, Hosting, iChat Server, Wiki Server and iCal Server. Users and applications are managed via a Mac interface, and its open architecture allows companies with Mac and Windows users to connect to the server.

Based on Apple’s enterprise-class Xserve and Parallels technology, the service provides the usability Apple is known for with the reliability of Go Daddy hosting. All Go Daddy Web hosting plans are backed by 24/7 customer care.

The plans range depending on the size of the company or project. Customers can also choose how much RAM, storage and bandwidth they want depending on their server needs. If a customer needs to upgrade at a later date, the plans are elastic, giving customers flexibility to upgrade when they need.

Cloud.bg, A New European Cloud Hosting Provider Launched

Cloud.bg, a fully featured Cloud Hosting service has been launched this month. The Cloud.bg is a standards based cloud, delivered from a fully redundant and scalable clustered architecture built on Red Hat Cluster Suite and Fuscan Linix Cloud hosting automation platform of the U.S. software producer SingleOS.

The new European Cloud hosts its infrastructure in the local facility of Interoute (Interoute.com), a UK data center solutions provider, which operates 59 data centers and fiber optic network of twelve rings connecting 93 cities in 26 countries.

Fully redundant, scalable Cloud hosting that runs cPanel/WHM

Cloud.bg operates its own fully redundant network which uses Internet connectivity providers such as Interoute, Cogent and Spnet.net plus few other international and local providers of premium bandwidth. The cloud hosting service of the company features 100 GB of space in a storage area network, 1,000 GB data transfer per month and allows site owners to host up to 100 personal and small-business websites. However the main advantage of the Cloud.bg is that it is a cPanel Cloud Hosting service and brings cPanel / WHM the most popular web hosting control panel and web hosting manager on the cloud.

Cloud Hosting that works good for all European users

Although the hosting service of Cloud.bg is aimed to serve mostly the local Bulgarian market, the company has tested the connectivity of its infrastructure from different point in Europe and shared the results.

The average round-trip delay (RTT) time for European home users who ping Cloud.bg ranges from 10 ms to 60 ms. Pinged from London Cloud.bg is reachable for 47 ms, from Ljubljana, Slovenia - 35 ms, from Paris - 71 ms, from Madrid - 77, from Berlin - 47 ms, from Sofia, Bulgaria - 1.5 ms, etc. The average RTT for Israel is 97 ms.

The Cloud.bg hosting service has passed 45 days test period which began in December 2009. During the test period the cloud platform has operated in beta version and was tested by 200 owners of high traffic websites including e-commerce websites, publisher of video content and public utility service providers with hundred thousands of customers. The front end of the Cloud.bg hosting service platform is build on MODx CMS and framework.

Popular Web Hosting Announced VPS Hosting Coupons

When it comes to web hosting coupons, we use to think about one of those cheap web hosting providers, most of them oversellers. However with the growing demand of low cost and reliable VPS, the hosting coupon business came to this niche as well. Host Color, one of the well-known VPS hosting services, announced the launch of RELIABLEVPS, a coupon code that allows seekers of budget VPS to get 15% instant rebate on company's virtual serve plans.

The web host uses Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to power its VPS. The web host provides low cost cPanel and Plesk panel licenses to its customers.

The coupon code downgrades the price of Host Color's best sold VPS - VPS Power (1,280 MB RAM, 50 GB disc space and 1,000 GB data transfer per month) to only $59.45/month, and provides $10/month instant savings on this plan.

"We have grown a lot as a provider of quality VPS, powered by the OS virtualization solution of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, and now are quite excited about the perspectives of the new 2010. We have established Host Color ( http://www.hostcolor.com ) as one of the leaders in a very competitive market such VPS Hosting. That's why we decided to show our appreciation to all present and prospective customers by releasing a coupon that saves them 15% on their monthly bill", explains the company's chief of Customer care and Technical support operations Martin Andreev.

His company uses a highly available clustered server architecture to create and maintain virtual environments and to provide it's customers with scalable VPS. It also provides Plesk and cPanel licenses to VPS customers. Plesk panel licenses are priced at $10 month. cPanel licenses costs only 12$. Discounts for those and many other website products of Host Color can be obtained from anyone at the company's Web Hosting Coupons section.

More About Host Color

Host Color LLC is a U.S. web hosting provider incorporated in Delaware. It powers thousands of business and personal websites hosted in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, U.S. and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides Fully Managed Dedicated Hosting services and Europe based website hosting through its EU based subsidiary HC Europe. It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. The Host Color's corporate message is "Web hosting about people, not about gigabytes".