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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
- 24x7x365 expert technical support
- 24x7x365 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, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Free Hosting for WebMatrix Beta
Posted in Company News,Technology
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, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
SQL Server 2008 Packages
Posted in Company News
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, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Network Upgrade to 10Gbps Ethernet
Posted in Company News,TechnologyDue 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, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Cloud Servers Now Available
Posted in Company News,Technology
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, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Adhost Virtualization Case Study on Microsoft.com
Posted in Company News,IndustryToday 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, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
ASP.NET 4.0 Hosting is Live
Posted in Company News,TechnologyWe 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, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Adhost Virtual Private Server Solution
Posted in Company NewsOur 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, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Cell Systems Client Case Study
Posted in Company News,Web development
So you say you need some live cell lines for your research? Well, we have designed and built the site for you. Actually, we built it for Cell Systems Corporation – developers and manufacturers of standard research tools for the science of cell biology.
The site is built on Adhost Content Management System and loosely coupled to a CFWebstore Shopping Cart. On the CMS side, we helped define and then built a custom content ‘configurator’ to handle the creation of custom ‘Cell Certificates’. On the cart side, we did the same for a complex system of domestic and international shipping and handling options intended to ensure that regardless of what you ordered or where you were, the fresh or frozen cell lines would arrive in good condition and correctly packed.
If you’ve ever wanted to see the specs of Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells – now is your chance: www.cell-systems.com
posted by Rex 11:16 am March 19, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Fisher Plaza East and Adhost East Data Center Update
Posted in Company NewsWe are pleased to announce that Adhost and Fisher Plaza have completed the major steps required to safeguard our services following the event and subsequent outage experienced by the Adhost East Data Center (EDC) in early July of 2009. During this process we identified and have implemented a number of improvements which we feel greatly enhance our ability to continue to operate even during significant events. The highlights of these improvements include:
• Fisher Plaza has made improvements in their electrical infrastructure and has completely isolated the electrical paths from the utility service into the two switchgears.
• Fisher Plaza completely replaced all of the affected gear and re-built the switch gear room.
• Adhost has added additional UPS redundancy.
• Adhost has achieved switchgear redundancy for all critical electrical loads in the EDC.
• Adhost has achieved switchgear redundancy for all HVAC operations in the EDC.
• Adhost has updated its emergency communications plan to include off-site emergency notification facilities as well as taking advantages of services such as Twitter for more constant communication in case of significant outages.
Of course, there have been many smaller upgrades and improvements as well. Taken as a whole, these changes will enhance not only our footing going into a significant event, but also improve the response and lessen or eliminate the impact that surround such events. In short, if the same event – or a similar one – were to happen today, Adhost would be able to maintain continuous operations throughout.
Adhost and Fisher Plaza continue to analyze the physical plant infrastructure. There are additional milestones that have been identified for future upgrades and improvements. All of the identified future projects are dependent on, and will be triggered by, growth of electrical and mechanical loads in the building. We will be sure to share these with you as they arise.
We are committed to providing an unparalleled hosting experience. We thank you for your continued business and your trust in us.
Warmest Regards,
Will Riffle
President and CEO
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