Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – December 16, 2008 – Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet.com Internet Services, will feature a Green Chilled Water Energy System, with 11MW Power 08, included in plans for a new environmentally friendly 86,000 square foot data center.

Located in the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, the facility, which will use the latest modular cooling technology from Turbine Air Systems, will accommodate expansion of the company’s highly regarded colocation services, along with its popular private racks and Planet Northstar Managed Hosting services. The new operation – the company’s seventh data center -; will bring its total data center raised floor footprint to 214,500 square feet.

Quebec, Canada – (The Hosting News) – December 15, 2008 – Web hosting services company, iWeb Group Inc., has been chosen to power and support The Montreal Canadien centennial celebrations, including extended official online highlights of the history of the legendary Hockey Club.

The website, located at ourhistory.canadiens.com, was a significant project that developers trusted with iWeb’s infrastructure, to ensure the performance and availability of the site during the anticipated high-traffic periods, notably because of iWeb’s experience with projects whose performance and availability are key success factors.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – December 12, 2008 – Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, is offering new Virtual Rack Solution Bundles, as pre-configured solutions for environments with two or more servers.

Bryce Edwards, General Manager for complex infrastructure at The Planet remarked, ”Many SMBs require the ability to grow their hosted environments quickly and easily, yet aren’t sure where to start. With our new Virtual Rack Solution Bundles, we’;ve prepackaged three of our most popular virtual rack configurations, making it an easy choice to meet particular business requirements. All of our bundles feature drive-level redundancy, 1Gbps connection speed and bandwidth pooling, and customers receive additional value by taking advantage of low introductory pricing.”

Amherst, New York – (The Hosting News) – December 12, 2008 – Storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, ATTO, has released its new ExpressSAS H608 and ExpressSAS H680, the industry’s only 6Gb/s SAS host adapters.

Leveraging PCI Express 2.0 and 6Gb/s SAS performance, the H608 and H680 deliver the fastest available connection to SAS/SATA storage (up to 8Gb/sec. full-duplex), powering data-intensive IT and digital media applications such as email compliance, tape backup, data warehousing, high-definition video post-production and digital film production.

Oxford, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – December 12, 2008 – Web application security firm, Sophos, has released a new security report, examining the threat landscape over the last twelve months, including predictions about emerging cybercrime trends for 2009.

The Sophos Security Threat Report 2009 reveals that more malware is hosted on U.S. websites and more spam is relayed from American computers, than any other country. As evidence of this, when an American Internet company, accused of collaborating with spammers and hackers, was disconnected from the Net in November, there was a staggering 75 percent drop in spam.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – December 11, 2008 – Web hosting and Internet solutions company, SSA Host, will now offer R1Soft Continuous Data Protection technology as standard for users of its a la carte hosting plans, in order to allow customers to build ideal hosting solutions.

Accessible through cPanel, R1Soft’s data protection technology provides the most secure and easy to use system for protecting important information against data loss. SSA Host customers are able to individually manage and schedule data backups and restore files from previous restore points.

Miami, Florida – (The Hosting News) – December 10, 2008 – Website software development company, NEMediaSoft, has appointed (Curtis) R. Curtis as its new Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, where he will assist the RankSense SEO Software Suite provider, to secure the highest positioning, among SEO software firms.

(Curtis) R. Curtis is a recognized hosting and online marketing industry luminary, regularly speaking on the topics of hosting infrastructure, online marketing and the evolution of the Internet. In addition to leading NEMediaSoft’s sales and marketing efforts, Mr. Curtis will build strategic partnerships with leaders in the hosting industry.

Hebden Bridge, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – December 9, 2008 – The UK based hosting company, nativespace, has launched its newly redesigned and enhanced website, reflecting structure and product range updates over the last two years.

In addition, more information about products, such as the new fully managed dedicated server range, launched earlier this year, is featured with extensive information about the company and its network infrastructure.

Belfast, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – December 8, 2008 – International web hosting company, Aventure Host, based in the United Kingdom, has released it’s new web hosting affiliate and partner program, offering 10-20% commission per sale.

Hosting approximately 15,000 websites, Aventure’s new partner program is aimed at web hosting customers and marketing professionals who want to advertise and sell web hosting solutions in return for a per-sale commission rate ranging from 10 to 20 percent.