Best Web Hosting 2007

Some news from this day.

The Planet came out with a private rack program for those companies large enough to be able to need an entire rack for their servers. The enhancements also include for their customers the availability of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance 5500 Series firewalls and Foundry ServerIronXL load balancer.

Our friends at DemoWolf came out with the release of nearly 50 (it was 49) new video tutorials today. Many of DemoWolf products support the web hosting industry and are geared toward walking novices through some of the cpanel and other control panel features.

Most web hosting companies don’t own their own data centers, in fact most web hosting companies (there are over 25,000 companies which have been started as a web hosting service provider, don’t even own their own servers… they are resellers. More about that later but most web hosting companies co-locate their servers in a building like One Wilshire in downtown Los Angeles. One Wilshire is a data center, it used to be full of Lawyers but they kicked them out & put in servers instead and the building is equiped as a large scale data facility with the capabilities of dividing the resources for various companies who need space, power, bandwidth and securities  for their servers.

Man y tims you will see several competitor companies sharing the same building or even the same floor within a co-location facility. What you want to look for in terms of a data center and what they offer to their web hosting clients, to make sure that if you have a dedicated server or a shared web hosting account is that the building has adequate power, that they have partnered with their tier 1 bandwidth providers, that they have security and backup power procedures on site.

Today in the news the Planet, one of the web hosting industry’s largest Dedicated Server Companies announced that they had appointed James P Treuting as the Vice President of Global Sales and Managed services. This position has only just been created.

More news, typical of Godaddy news is that Godaddy has chosen a new GoDaddyGirl Marissa Peck, a former Hawaiian Tropic Model.

Free Rider Web Hosting announced  a minor special deal, for a mere wee, that anyone transferring their web site to them would receive $2/mo off of their subscription. Why this made the press releases is beyond our staff here, oh & let’s also have that go for the press release about a new GoDaddy girl as well.

UK web hosting company NetBenefit was selected to host the social sports network iSporty.