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ServerBeach Partners with ElasticHosts

July 23rd, 2010 admin

ServerBeach, a dedicated hosting provider, today announced that it has partnered with ElasticHosts, a cloud service provider, to offer customers the power to scale their server capacity up or down on a pay-as-you-go model.

The company mentions that cloud servers allow customers to take control, creating new servers instantly and resizing existing capacity immediately via a user-friendly web control panel. Customers save money by buying exactly the capacity they need today, knowing that they can immediately scale up when required.

It avers that cloud servers run any server operating system, are fully configurable and designed for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing. The company adds that the cloud hosting package is available from its UK as well as US data centers, and is built on the high performance 10 Gbps SuperNetwork infrastructure and offers a 100% SLA with 100x credits for any downtime.

Dominic Monkhouse, UK MD of ServerBeach commented on the launch, “Self-service cloud servers are perfect for our ServerBeach customers. We work with many fast growth companies and developers whose hosting needs change on a day-to-day basis, so to support this we have built in flexible and scalable cloud servers on a pay as you go model. ServerBeach is built ‘By Geeks, For Geeks’ and we know that our customers will love this extra flexibility and control.”

Richard Davies, CEO at ElasticHosts, said, “We are delighted to offer our award-winning cloud servers to ServerBeach’s customers. We’re confident that they’ll be as excited by the scalability and flexibility as our own customers have been.”

Source : web-hosting-news.org

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Web Hosting Services Company in need of Renewable Energy Sources for Data Center

July 22nd, 2010 admin

Web hosting services and data centers maintained by them serve various purposes. They provide web hosting services, domain registration, back up services, storage services, etc. Web hosting companies have revolutionized the world! However, major inefficiencies exist when it comes to data center management. Data center management is becoming an expensive affair. Data center costs have increased significantly in the last five years. Researches show that data center cost is growing twice as rapidly as revenue. Besides cost, data center emissions are a serious drawback of web hosting services.

Data centers consume large amount of energy. Studies indicate that data centers alone consume 0.2% of the total electricity production in the world. A single data center consumes as much energy as consumed by nearly thirty thousand houses. As it consumes, so it emits! Data centers emit large amount of carbon into the atmosphere. Carbon emissions by web hosting services and its data center is a major topic of discussion amongst environmentalists. Leaving carbon footprints in air may lead to enhanced risk of global warming.
Majority of the web hosting services rely on conventional sources of energy to generate power. Facebook, a popular social networking site, was in news recently because of its new data center in Oregon utilizing coal to generate power. Environmentalists protest against this as it may lead to huge carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Coal, oil, gas etc. have the largest carbon footprints as they burn these fuels during operation. It is advisable to use renewable energy sources for data centers’ operation in web hosting services. Main renewable sources of energy for power generation are as below:
* Hydropower can reduce CO2 emissions considerably in web hosting services data centers. In this process, energy from flowing water is converted to electricity through turbines and generators. The flowing water can be derived from two sources – Storage and Run-of-river. Storage use dams. Run-of-river use turbines placed according to the natural flow of water in rivers. Hydropower emit very little CO2 as compared to the conventional sources of energy.
* Wind can also be used as a source to generate low-carbon emitting energy. Wind mills can be seen at many places. As the blades of a windmill turn, the central shaft spins a generator. Electricity is thus produced. Datacenters of web hosting services may use wind energy to generate electricity. Wind energy is the world’s fastest growing energy technology.
* Geothermal energy source can also be used to generate electricity. It emits less CO2 as compared to the conventional sources of energy. Geothermal power uses natural source of heat inside the earth. Steam or hot water from beneath the earth’s surface is utilized to generate electricity. This source of power generation is environment friendly and efficient.
Apart from these, data centers may also make use of biomass, solar power, and nuclear sources of energy to produce electricity. Web hosting services are facing criticism from around the world for increasing pollutants emission. Web hosting services are under pressure from environmental groups to reduce carbon footprints from data centers. Global warming is a direct consequence to high carbon emissions from data centers. It has become extremely important to reduce energy inefficiency. This, in turn, may also reduce the overall expenditure in data center management.

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July 18th, 2010 admin

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Is media coverage of Danica Patrick hurting the small NASCAR Nationwide teams and their sponsors?

July 18th, 2010 admin

One would think with all the added exposure that Danica Patrick, driver of the JR Motorsports No. 7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet Impala brings to the NASCAR Nationwide Series, a potential sponsor on the fence about supporting a low budget team for a bargain, would jump at the chance to get involved. Many of the smaller Nationwide team owners and their sponsors would disagree.

“I am sure it is a bargain for GoDaddy,” says Darrell Blanton of Blanton Motorsports, Inc. “The exposure they have received from this has been nothing short of amazing. Overall, I think it is a double edged sword, not only for the sport, but also for Danica. On one hand, because of the additional media attention focused on Danica, fan awareness of the Nationwide series has increased. On the other hand, the media frenzy over Danica has created a bit of overkill for fans and I am sure to some degree for Danica. While the increased media attention has increased fan awareness of the NASCAR Nationwide brand, other sponsors are feeling a bit left out. At the end of the day, there is only so much time in the broadcast and it is very difficult to get your story line picked up especially with that much focus on one team/driver.”

“We chose specifically to sponsor the New Hampshire race with Morgan Shepherd because that was Danica’s first race back,” said Kevin Strawbridge, President of DealTaker.com. “In that sense it was a bigger bargain. Of course we did get more than we bargained for when our car tangled with Danica in the early laps.”

HostGator.com took advantage of the extra publicity by running a promotion for a year of free shared web hosting, for any GoDaddy.com customer that switched to HostGator.com immediately following Nationwide race at Chicagoland. For fans to claim the free year, Joe Nemechek had to have a better finish than Danica Patrick in that race. Nemechek was 15th and Patrick finished 24th. This was not mentioned once by the television coverage.

Dana Tomes, co-owner of Herd Racing said, “I think her involvement has not changed the sponsorship hunt. But her being in races results in the smaller teams being ignored by the media, which makes it harder to convince sponsors to come on board.”

“For teams without sponsors or only limited sponsorship, consistent mentions of the team during a broadcast certainly helps,” Blanton says. “When a sponsor signs on with a team, they naturally expect to get media attention, TV exposure and mentions during the event. If this does not happen, it becomes difficult to justify the expenditure. It certainly makes it more difficult to keep the sponsor or increase the level of commitment from that sponsor. That’s why we really need the announcers to focus on all teams. Believe me there is a good story behind each one these teams and the companies that are putting out money to support them. These guys are struggling to make it out there each week and for some guys the only time their sponsor may get a chance to be mentioned is in qualifying. So again, it is really important that the announcers focus on this group as well.”

“I think that drivers mid-pack and back have been hurt by the Danica race coverage,” said Steve Burke, CEO of Zimmzang.com. “The TV coverage spends so much time focused on the leaders of the race and on Danica that drivers who would normally get at least a minimal mention by the commentators are being completely left out. More eyeballs on the sport is always a good thing, but the obsessive coverage of only a handful of cars per race leaves every other car, and sponsor, out.”

“We would like to do another sponsorship deal with Kenny Wallace, but the complete lack of coverage of Kenny (along with many other drivers who are 12-25th in points) on ESPN2, makes it impossible for us to get any kind of TV return for our investment.”

“I think it is disappointing that other drivers/teams/sponsors are overlooked just to try and get a reaction from Danica regarding her back of the pack performance,” says Strawbridge in reference to the post race interviews. “But in the end, news is news and Danica’s presence is an influence and perhaps that exposure increases overall exposure over time.”

Source : examiner.com

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