Hosting.com Moves VPS Products to the Cloud - Introduces Cloud VPS and Cloud Dedicated

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Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:55pm EDT

Hosting.com Moves VPS Products to the Cloud - Introduces Cloud VPS and Cloud
Dedicated
VPS solutions now receive cloud hosting benefits such as high availability and
scalability



DENVER, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Hosting.com, the first name in global managed
hosting and colocation solutions, today announced that it is launching Cloud
VPS, an enhanced version of its prior virtual private server (VPS) solutions. 
The new solution will provide customers with unprecedented elasticity and
control of their VPS environments. Cloud VPS will be hypervisor-based, making
the virtual machines independent from one another -- a feature unavailable in
most container-based VPS solutions.  

Cloud VPS will provide customers with high availability, scalability and
flexibility inherent to cloud infrastructures.  Customers will have the
ability to grow and easily migrate their Cloud VPS solutions to the more
robust Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated solutions offered by Hosting.com. 
The company selected the VMware vSphere software to build this new cloud
infrastructure.  Hosting.com is in the process of moving all existing VPS
clients to the Cloud VPS infrastructure.

"Hosting.com made the decision to move away from a container-based VPS
platform to provide more flexibility and control from our customers," noted
Matt Ferrari, Hosting.com Director of Infrastructure Services.  "Customer
feedback and requests for a more dynamic offering that could easily scale or
be migrated directly lead to the development of Cloud VPS."

The transition to a cloud infrastructure allows Hosting.com to provide Cloud
VPS at a reduced cost than traditional VPS solutions and provide clients with
additional resources.  The base package for the prior .Net VPS solution
($89.00/month) from Hosting.com provided 512 MB RAM, 10 GB of Virtual Disk
Space, and 400 GB of monthly transfer.  For $80.00/month, Cloud VPS will
provide the same amount of RAM, 30 GB of Virtual Disk Space and 500 GB of
monthly transfer.  

Cloud VPS hosting plans are available for both Microsoft Windows and Linux at
a fixed, monthly cost and can be customized based on a customer's unique needs
for space, bandwidth, and data management tools. Each plan includes
preinstalled software, including ASP.NET, Adobe ColdFusion, and SQL Server on
Windows and PHP, Perl, and MySQL on Linux. Additionally, Cloud VPS plans
feature daily backups, 24x7x365 expert technical support, and a 100% network
uptime guarantee.

"Cloud VPS will introduce many companies to cloud hosting due to its
performance, functionality and pricing," commented Fred Strelzoff, Hosting.com
Cloud Product Manager.  "Cloud hosting has become a viable alternative to
managed and dedicated hosting -- similarly, we believe Cloud VPS will change
the expectations of VPS consumers."

Hosting.com has also changed the name of its Cloud Private solution to Cloud
Dedicated to more accurately describe the solution provided to customers -- a
single-tenant, clustered hardware environment.  Private solutions are
available on both Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated. 

About Hosting.com 
Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated
hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services
to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and
responsiveness.  Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the Web-based
platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers,
content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web
presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.

Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine,
CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; San Francisco, CA; and is opening a datacenter
in Denver, CO in September 2009.

All Hosting.com products and services are supported by 24x7x365 live expert
technical support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat. 


SOURCE  Hosting.com

Media Relations, Aaron D. Hollobaugh, Director of Communications of
Hosting.com, +1-502-432-2502, AHollobaugh@Hosting.com
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