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Email Marketing Manager Enhancements

Posted in Company News

Our recent Email Marketing Manager (EMM) upgrade includes a host of new features including social networking and mobile device support, improvements in reporting, calendar functionality, performance and more. Highlights include:

Social Networking: your recipients can post your email directly to their Twitter or Facebook accounts with a one click.
Mobile Marketing: you can create and edit content for mobile devices
Calendar: the new interface makes it easier to schedule campaign deployment, reports and subscriber exports.

Learn more about these and other upgrades at EMM 2010 Enhancements.

posted by Amy R 11:42 am August 30, 2010
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PCI Compliant Ecommerce Solution

Posted in Company News, Web development

Adhost has partnered with FrontStream Payments to provide PCI compliant credit card processing as a service to our e-commerce development and hosting clients. FrontStream offers a secure e-commerce gateway allowing an online transaction to occur on the FrontStream PCI compliant servers rather than on an Adhost or client server.

Our Web development team can assist with integrating the secure gateway to your Web shopping cart. In addition FrontStream offers competitive processing rates, and several Adhost clients have already saved money by switching to FrontStream from their current credit card processor.

Learn more about how the solution works and view pricing on our PCI Compliant Ecommerce page or contact Adhost Sales at 1-888-234-6781 or sales@adhost.com.

posted by Rex 3:02 pm July 20, 2010
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Adhost Approved for BizSpark Hosting

Posted in Company News, Industry

Adhost is pleased to have been selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark Program as a Network Hosting Partner. The BizSpark Program is a global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage Startups by connecting them to Network Partners: active members of the global software ecosystem who can provide mentorship, guidance and resources to BizSpark Startups. BizSpark creates an ongoing, mutually beneficial ecosystem between Microsoft, Startups and Network Partners.

As a Network Hosting Partner, Adhost provides Windows Web Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 hosting on our Cloud Servers and/or Dedicated Servers. All services are provided in our secure data centers located in Seattle and include:

No extra charges for Windows Web Server® 2008 and SQL Server® 2008 Web for three years, compliments of Microsoft
Secure data center with SAS 70 Type II certification
Multiple Tier-1 bandwidth providers
24×7x365 expert technical support
24×7x365 client access and monitoring

Microsoft is committed to helping entrepreneurs to transform their ambitions into sustainable, dynamic businesses and to foster innovation and entrepreneurialism. To this end, the BizSpark Program provides Startups with software, support and visibility at a time when they are most valuable and least affordable—during their first three years, with no upfront costs and minimal requirements.

Startups receive fast and easy access to Microsoft’s current full-featured development tools, platform technologies as well as production licenses to bring to market innovative and interoperable solutions for the next generation of user experiences. To be eligible for the Microsoft BizSpark Program, a Startup must be actively engaged in development of a software-based product or service that is a core piece of their business model, have been in business less than three years at the time of enrollment, and have less than USD$1M in annual revenue.

For more information about the program and our application form, visit adhost.com/bizspark.

posted by Amy R 4:26 pm July 19, 2010
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Free Hosting for WebMatrix Beta

Posted in Company News, Technology

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Today Microsoft launched WebMatrix Beta – a tool for developers to to build, test and deploy web applications. We’ve been working closely with the Microsoft IIS team on testing this new tool and making it easy to deploy a site at Adhost to try out the features. Here’s how Microsoft describes WebMatrix:

WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. It includes IIS Developer Express (a development Web server), ASP.NET (a Web framework), and SQL Server Compact (an embedded database). It streamlines Web site development and makes it easy to start Web sites from popular open-source apps. The skills and code you develop with WebMatrix transition seamlessly to Visual Studio and SQL Server.

You can learn more about the features and then sign up for free beta hosting at Adhost. The beta hosting offer includes 1 GB of space and 100 GB of monthly data transfer.

posted by Ernie Marquez 3:45 pm July 6, 2010
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SQL Server 2008 Packages

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We’ve launched our shared SQL Server 2008 offering. If your business needs high-availability for your SQL database, this is a great solution. Located in two separate data centers, these fully redundant SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition servers include hot failover and a 100% SLA.

In addition, the SQL 2008 resource governor allows us to isolate resource consumption between the SQL databases so you don’t have to worry about another client’s database consuming the entire server resources.

Our 3 GB SQL Server 2008 package is $30/month and can be added to a web hosting or cloud server package. We also offer dedicated SQL Server 2008 solutions. Monthly licenses are available for SQL Server 2008 Web, Standard and Enterprise editions. Learn more about our dedicated servers or contact Adhost Sales at sales@adhost.com or 1-888-234-6781.

posted by Mike Graves 11:15 am June 28, 2010
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Network Upgrade to 10Gbps Ethernet

Posted in Company News, Technology

Due to our continued growth and client demand, Adhost is in the process of converting our network to 10 Gigabit Ethernet on the backbone. We have selected Cisco Systems Resilient Ethernet Protocol to provide the highest level of protection for our infrastructure, resulting in increased uptime and reliability for our clients.

We will be moving our customer connections over to the new network in the coming months and, in most cases, this upgrade will be transparent to you. For those clients requiring extra configuration and assistance, we will be contacting you to make the changes necessary to enjoy the benefits of the new network.

For Seattle colocation clients who would like to learn more about our 10G Ethernet network upgrade, contact Adhost Sales at 1-888-234-6781 or email sales@adhost.com.

posted by Michael K. Smith 6:54 pm June 8, 2010
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Cloud Servers Now Available

Posted in Company News, Technology

cloud-promo The Adhost Cloud Server platform is ready for sign-ups! Also known as virtual dedicated servers, our cloud servers offer the power and accessibility of a dedicated server with scalability of cloud hosting.

Built using Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology, all servers come installed with Windows Server 2008 R2, ASP.NET 4.0, IIS7 and Web Platform Installer.

Features include:

100% uptime SLA
Free download of MS SQL 2008 Express or mySQL
Scalability of storage space, processing power and memory
Managed patching
Firewalling with dedicated IPs
Abundant SAN storage
Administrative root-level access
Anti-virus protection
Security scanning and reporting
Advanced monitoring
Reporting of hard drive capacity and utilization of RAM, processor, and application pool
Nightly back-ups of all data

We built our cloud server platform using the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit from Microsoft and manage it with the System Center Suite. Using your Access.Adhost control panel, you will have self-serve access to your server environment and can make changes, add services and monitor performance as needed.

MS SQL 2008 Web, Standard and shared Enterprise database options are also available. For more information contact us at 1-888-234-6781 or visit www.adhost.com/cloud.

posted by Amy R 3:01 pm June 4, 2010
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Adhost Virtualization Case Study on Microsoft.com

Posted in Company News, Industry

Today Microsoft posted a case study on how Adhost chose to build our cloud solution using Microsoft virtualization and cloud technologies, with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager as the foundation. You can read the entire case study at: Cloud Service Saves Hosting Provider 65% on Hardware Costs and Increases Revenue.

posted by Amy R 3:39 pm June 3, 2010
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ASP.NET 4.0 Hosting is Live

Posted in Company News, Technology

We are excited to announce that Adhost now offers Microsoft’s newly released ASP .NET 4.0 on all of our shared Windows hosting plans. ASP.NET 4.0 is the newest version of Microsoft’s web application framework and allows programmers to build dynamic web sites and web applications. You can learn more about ASP.NET 4.0 on this ASP.NET blog.

Existing sites for Adhost clients will remain set to 2.0. All new sites will be set to 4.0 (there is no 3.0 or 3.5 selection, that functionality is included in 2.0 and 4.0). We do not plan to install 4.0 on our Windows 2003 servers, and clients on our Windows 2003 servers desiring 4.0 will need to be migrated to our Windows 2008 servers. Contact support@adhost.com with any questions.

posted by Ernie Marquez 3:33 pm April 26, 2010
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Adhost Virtual Private Server Solution

Posted in Company News

Our Windows Server team is hard at work building a virtual private server environment using Microsoft’s HyperV virtualization technology. All packages will come with Windows Server 2008 R2, IIS7, PHP, ASP.NET and MS SQL Web. Powerful features of our solution will include:

Scalability of storage space, processing power and memory
High availability with failover clustering
Administrative root-level access
Advanced monitoring
Daily back-ups

We are looking for existing Adhost clients who would like test this new environment in early April and receive one month of free service. To be added to our wait list, contact Adhost Sales at 1-888-234-6781 or email sales@adhost.com.

posted by Amy R 10:30 am March 22, 2010
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