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Web hosting provider InMotion Hosting SmartWall Threat Defense System chooses Corero Network Security -

InMotion hosting, a web hosting service provider worldwide, has chosen SmartWall network security threat Corero Defense System (TDS) to protect its data centers against DDoS attacks. With the Corero solution in place, InMotion Hosting is the protection of its networks of these attacks and the extension of this protection to its customers as part of its web hosting services.

InMotion Hosting needed a solution that allowed him to fight DDoS attacks against its networks with no impact on its customers. Previously, the company technical advantage as "Black Holing" targeted servers to fight against DDoS attacks - asking the upstream supplier temporarily abandon all traffic going to the affected server until that a DNS update could take place and redirect client traffic.

InMotion hosting the team realized that this approach substantially completed the mission of the DDoS attack and negatively impacted its customers, leading to seek a better solution.

Web hosting provider with data centers available on the East Coast and West of the United States, has selected Corero SmartWall TDS as its dedicated DDoS mitigation solution based on the level of protection it provides, as well as flexibility, scalability of the product, easy to understand user interface

DDoS monitoring

Corero "easily" integrated into networks InMotion Hosting, TDS SmartWall installation after the second layer of switches heart -. a critical requirement for InMotion Hosting. In addition, the web hosting provider uses a set of APIs to route traffic to a secondary 10Gbps switch automatically to avoid saturating the first switch. However, the original switch and SmartWall TDS would offset almost all of the traffic and attacks kept InMotion Hosting healthy networks.

"The ability and overall performance of our networks has improved considerably since the installation of SmartWall TDS Corero, which means ultimately a better web hosting experience for our customers" said Erik Soroka, Director, InMotion Hosting . "We really also liked that we can add another module to a 10Gbps additional protection -. It was something that was very interesting for us"

In addition to the protection capabilities SmartWall TDS, InMotion Hosting network administrators to take advantage of the information provided by SecureWatch Analytics to identify trends and mitigate potential threats before they become a problem. support team Corero is also in constant contact with InMotion Hosting network administrators when major events occur, control the attack and provide updates and detailed graphics for help them understand the threats and malicious traffic targeting its networks.

"In the days of installation, the Corero SmartWall TDS has demonstrated its mitigation capabilities and value as InMotion Hosting has been hit with the largest volume attack had never seen "said Dave Larson, Chief Operating Officer, Corero . "The target server remained online throughout the attack, and customers were not affected This unique attack proved that DDoS attacks are not just a nuisance -. They can have a lasting impact on reputation of a company. - and validated the investment of InMotion Hosting in a dedicated anti-DDoS solution "

GoDaddy web hosting provider announces strong third quarter 2015 results Revenue up 15.2% -

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), one of the largest suppliers of web hosting in the world dedicated to small businesses, reported revenue of Q3 of $ 411.1 million, up 15.2% year on year. GoDaddy was specially done well selling its business application services for small businesses. The company recorded revenues of $ 45.3 million related to business applications, up 47.1% year on year.

"Our third quarter results demonstrate that the consistent execution of our strategy yields positive results for our shareholders," said Blake Irving, CEO of GoDaddy (CEO) . "We are growing revenues in all our business segments by providing products and services that meet the needs of our customers worldwide. with a 15% growth in sales of business and adjusted EBITDA up more than 22% during the quarter, our product mix, technology and health care continue to differentiate ourselves and produce solid financial results. "

third quarter financial Highlights GoDaddy

• Revenue of $ 411.1 million, up 15.2% year on year.
• total reservations of $ 475.6 million, up 14.1% year on year.
• Adjusted EBITDA of $ 87.7 million, up 22.5% year on year.
• Unlevered free cash flow of $ 79.7 million, an increase of 40.6% year on year.
• Customers were 13.6 million at the end of the quarter, up 8.8% year over year
• Annual ARPU of $ 119, up 6 8% year over year

Thrird Highlights quarter operating GoDaddy: ..

• fields turnover $ 215.0 million, up 10.5% year on year.
• Accommodation and revenue of $ 150.8 million Presence, up 14.7% year on year.
• Business Applications revenue of $ 45.3 million, up 47.1% year on year.
• International revenue of $ 105.3 million, up 17.4% year on year.
• GoDaddy exceeded 4 million international customers in the quarter, more than double its total international customer base over the past four years.
• GoDaddy now has over 61 million domains under management.
• GoDaddy Pro continues to grow, with more than 50,000 professionals now signed web.
• GoDaddy has expanded its online store with more than a dozen new features, including integration of GoDaddy email marketing; Shippo, a custom shipping solution; and McAfee SECURE certification.
• GoDaddy has expanded its Search Engine Visibility (SEV) service that allows a Web site using Domain Name System GoDaddy (DNS) to rank better in search results without the need for updates manual code. SEV has already been offered with Website Builder GoDaddy and WordPress Managed products, and is now available for use with a website, regardless of how it was built or how it is hosted.

For the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2015, GoDaddy expects revenues of about $ 421 - $ 424 million and Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $ 70 -. $ 73 million

For the year ending December 31, 2015, the company expects revenues to range from $ 1,603 - $ 1,606 million and adjusted EBITDA of approximately $ 334 -. $ 337 million

WordPress web hosting provider, WP Engine, launches two authentication factors -

WP Engine, a WordPress web hosting company founded in 2010 and is currently powering 42,000 customers, announced the introduction of two factor authentication for their user portal, adding an extra level of security for all managed web hosting clients.

Recognizing that businesses need more sophisticated solutions for protecting their digital identities, WP Engine frees the two-factor authentication to promote the many security features of its WordPress hosting Web platform services. two-factor authentication help prevent unauthorized third parties to access customer sites and potentially harm their business. In addition, this feature ensures that even if a user's password is compromised, their account remains safe as long as the second factor remains out of reach to the attacker.

"Because businesses of our customers live on the Web, security has always been a major concern for WP Engine," said Eric Murphy, director of security at WP Engine . "Today, we are taking additional measures to ensure customer sites and customer data is secure without impacting the high quality service and functionality. We are delighted to deploy this new functionality to our customers, because the two-factor authentication provides peace of mind to the website administrators, allowing privileged users to access while keeping unauthorized intruder. "

Two-factor authentication requires a second factor (beyond a password) to access the account. With this application, a user attempts to connect to their engine WP managed account not only need to enter their password and also enter a generated code that changes every 30 seconds to access the WP Engine user portal displays. WP Engine is using Authenticator implementation for authentication to two factors on hosted sites.

Founded in 2010, WP Engine grew alongside WordPress, one of the content management systems the most popular on the Internet. WordPress, introduced 12 years ago, would now supply nearly a quarter (23 percent) of the band. WP Engine currently supports more 300,000 WordPress sites and applications in 128 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, WP Engine has offices in San Francisco, California, San Antonio, Texas and London, England.

Dutch hosting provider SpamExperts Cyso chosen to secure its network and Save Resources -

web hosting provider based in the Netherlands, Cyso, set up inbound filtering services via a 'local deployment SpamExperts Cloud' for an unlimited number of domains. "Since we found SpamExperts, we need less manpower and expertise to maintain our anti-spam solution," said Sven Visser, Chief Marketing Officer, Cyso Hosting.

Due to large amounts of spam and phishing attacks on a daily basis, Cyso sought a professional solution to take care of their problems. Their house tool that combines open source software and a competitor's technology did not effectively support the developed spam. After the SpamExperts email security solution was implemented, the company noted that nearly 100% of spam was filtered, resulting in more value added services to their customers and Cyso.

"This is great, because it gives us more time and resources to focus on other aspects of our business," said Sven Visser . "In addition, SpamExperts team helped us during implementation and was available for any questions and support we needed."

Founded in 1997, Cyso is based in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. The company provides managed Internet services and the hosting infrastructure for the enterprise market. Cyso also provides customized solutions and complex management, business critical platforms and applications.

"Dutch Cyso of web hosting provider is a valuable partner for us in the Netherlands and we welcome them with open arms to our hosting partner program," said Sam Renkema, CEO SpamExperts . "I am pleased that the filtering inbound service to SpamExperts was chosen for the anti-spam protection as it not only provides high accuracy but also the complete management of the solution. in addition, because of our aggressive pricing strategy, Cyso has the opportunity to gain a valuable competitive advantage. "

Future Hosting warns his WordPress Web Hosting Customers dangers of Nulled Plugins -

Managed VPS hosting provider Future hosting, warned its WordPress hosting web customers beware of plugins and themes downloaded from unverified sources. Many of these plugins and themes are infected with malware which was also reported by WordPress security researchers at Sucuri. By installing plugins and themes compromise, WordPress website owners expose their users to serious security risks.

malware is a particular problem for the so-called premium nulled themes. Criminals take legitimate premium themes that developers charge, insert the code malware in them, and release them free versions. Tempted by the lower cost, WordPress Web hosting customers often would install these themes, opening their WordPress website to the attacker and any software, he or she may want to install.

"We provide accommodation for thousands of WordPress sites," said Maulesh Patel, vice president of operations of Future Hosting . " The application WordPress itself is quite safe, especially when it is hosted on a secure platform. Most WordPress security issues we see are caused by poor management of the CMS, including actions such as installing themes from untrusted sources. We strongly recommend that users download themes from official repositories or reputable developers. "

Inject malicious code in a website is the goal of most attacks against WordPress. Usually this is difficult to do because the attacker must find a way to break server security management system or content (CMS). If users install nulled themes, they do the work of the attacker for them.

plugins and themes should be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Repository official or Repository theme . premium themes are available from many sources, but WordPress users should ensure download from a reputable market, or from the theme or plugin developer sites.

Founded in 01 and headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, Future hosting is a private Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including dedicated servers, virtual private servers (VPS) and hybrid virtual private servers.

WordPress.com users are now able to register domain names .CO -

The addition of .CO as a new top-level domain on WordPress. com, WordPress.com allows users to choose and register a .CO domain name among existing options: .ME, .COM, .NET and .ORG. For the domain .CO must pay $ 25 per year.

As WordPress.com is a very popular option among web hosting companies for SMEs, adding .CO as choosing top- TLD will add to the popularity of platform.

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The top level domain .CO is initially assigned to Columbia, but in 2010 TLD has been opened so that any hosting user Web could register a .CO domain name. Its brevity and memorable aspects were the extremely popular domain name extension, even among the largest companies in the world. Some well-known examples include Twitter (t.co) Google (g.co) Amazon (a.co) WordAds.co and many, many others.

Since its launch in 2010, over 1.5 million .CO domain names have been registered by individuals and businesses in more than 0 countries worldwide.

Upgrading shared Web hosting platform Media Temple Would Sites Up to 6x faster -

(mt) Media Temple, Inc., a global provider of web hosting and cloud services with headquarters in Los Angeles, has updated its platform shared web hosting, GRID, to provide customers a up to 6x faster environment accommodation. to reach the loading speed, FastCGI PHP and Apache module were deployed mod_pagespeed, allowing websites load faster.

The GRID was originally launched in 06 to manage both expected and unexpected spikes in traffic without service interruption or degradation noisy neighbors. Since then shared web hosting platform (mt) Media Temple has provided automatic and flexible scale for its customers and their applications.

In a continuous effort to increase the value, Media Temple announced the deployment of PHP FastCGI and " mod_pagespeed ", the latter being an Apache module that attaches inefficiencies in the code of a website in the fly. with this technology, the code is optimized to improve the speed of a website based on best practices in the web. Especially development, FastCGI make a difference in page loading time, according to Media Temple

Other new features of shared web hosting platform enhanced GRID include :.

• the implementation of PageSpeed ​​, one of the latest innovations to boost Google page load speed.
• upgrade PHP to version 5.5
• Availability of managed backup and restoration via CloudTech
• full integration with CloudFlare -. .. including its latest product, Railgun , making it easy for customers to manage security settings on their website
• Increased capacity and speed of the shared database server of the company, SmartPool with Solid State Drives (SSD) maintaining performance whatever the resources used by other clients.

Media Temple was founded in 1998 with over 125,000 customers in 100 countries with now on Media Temple's solutions for domain registration, shared web hosting, one click WordPress installations business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. employees based US The hosting provider has dedicated 220 serving customers from small businesses to large companies like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung and Toyota.

Cloud Monitoring Company Cloudyn Announces Support New Amazon EC2 price model -

Cloudyn, a company providing solutions for monitoring clouds and optimization based in 2011, announced that its full range of tools cloud monitoring have been recalibrated to provide now full support of Amazon services (AWS) cloud Web pricing models -. new and old

movement Cloudyn comes on the heels of the recent restructuring of its Amazon AWS cloud prices, especially around the EC2 Reserved Instance option (RI) . The biggest difference between the old and new pricing models is the old price structure was tied around the use while the new price is a function of the amount of RI is paid beforehand. The implication of this switch would redirect from a conduit for use by DevOps to a financially driven decision made pure by the CFO of decision making.

"Within 24 hours of the new pricing Reserved Instance Amazon changes, we already provided our customers with RI buying recommendations about new options," said Sharon Wagner, co-founder and CEO of Cloudyn . "by supporting prices RI models, the Cloudyn customers have a small window of opportunity to receive the most accurate and cost-effective recommendations to optimize their deployment AWS cloud."

AWS cloud customer

Interestingly, in many cases, older types RI deliver much better return on investment and profitability compared to new financial model based, according Cloudyn. However, customers in this scenario have only until February 1, 2015 to buy cloud instances based on the use to continue to maximize their level of savings before Amazon withdraws these options fully .

Another notable finding was by Cloudyn costs AWS "Upfront partial" once has no financial sense. Based on calculations, including the cost of money (interest rates), the new partial Upfront option shows that it is never the best choice. With some levels of interest used the "No Upfront" gave the best results, while other times the "All Upfront" came out on top.

"Based on our results, we grow AWS cloud customers to enjoy the closing window of opportunities that have both old and new pricing models available, so they can compare and take maximum savings, "added Sharon Wagner . "Cloudyn is committed to providing advanced tools so that our customers can make the best decisions about their choice of cloud platform, use and savings. We will continue to be at the front -garde and look for new ways we can equip our customers with new and enhanced cloud optimization tools in this highly dynamic market. "

SingleHop Chicago Data Center Opens After $ 30 million of investment -

SingleHop, a request the provider on host private cloud and managed hosting, launched its newest facility and the largest data center in Franklin Park Illinois, Chicago. SingleHop custom built a network from the ground and a data center to meet the growing demand for the most popular infrastructure products category SingleHop :. private cloud hosted solutions of

The private cloud application offers SingleHop has grown since last year, making it the fastest growing segment of the company's products. Enterprises deploy hosted private clouds as an alternative to private clouds on site , roommates and even large-scale deployments in public mega-clouds because they offer a more market Quick, a higher mix of features and a better economy than traditional infrastructure options.

hosted private clouds are particularly preferable for a wide range of enterprise workloads from large-scale ERP systems HIPAA and PCI compliant environments as SingleHop. The company acknowledged that more data center and network design, more sophisticated was needed to meet the specific needs of the hosted private cloud deployments.

A $ 30 million investment 10 years, the new Chicago area data center SingleHop is located in a new, digital Reality Trust neutral carrier campus. The data center is the largest and most sophisticated society. Some of the basic features of the new data center include:

• (N2) electrical and environmental systems highly redundant base
• Approximately 13,000 square feet of space with space adjacent to expanding
• capacity to 20,000 servers
[1945017center] onsite network operations staff 24 × 7

SingleHop new data center features defined networking software designed to both capacity and security, facilitating faster time to market for private cloud solutions . The new facility includes advanced security features that provide 24 hours a day, seven days a week monitoring on site, two checkpoints, and many layers of biometric security including fingerprint and iris scanners.

"companies adopt our private cloud service hosted at a rapid pace because it offers the same level of agility and control as public cloud services are, but with the economy and fixed service white glove that businesses have come to expect from SingleHop, "said Zak Boca, CEO of SingleHop ." We are committed to meet this demand at all levels, which is why we have invested tens of millions of dollars and planning in this new facility. "

SingleHop currently has data centers strategically located in Chicago, Phoenix and Amsterdam.