Jan 27, 2006 : The webhost industry: week review

📅 January 27, 2006 - Some of this week's biggest Web hosting news came from developers of Web hosting software, who announced specific new involvement with Web hosting providers, both big and small.

On Thursday, Web hosting software developer SWsoft announced that Go Daddy, one of the world's largest and fastest growing providers of Web hosting, would deploy SWsoft's Virtuozzo and Plesk products to power its new line of Windows virtual dedicated servers. Go Daddy will use Virtuozzo for Windows 3.0 for server virtualization and Plesk for Windows 7.5 as its control panel software. The two solutions are tightly integrated.

Earlier in the week, SWsoft announced that it had achieved growth of more than 160 percent during 2005. The company says it opened new offices in Japan, China and the UK last year, doubling its staff to more than 600. SWsoft plans to double that number again in 2006, focusing on adding to its UK-based staff. The company said its customer count passed 10,000 in 2005, with SWsoft solutions now powering more than 120,000 servers and 10,000 more being added each month.

Competing Web hosting software developer Ensim announced on Wednesday that Singaporean Web host ReadySpace had chosen to support its dedicated hosting offerings by deploying the Ensim Pro platform. ReadySpace says it needed a fully automated system to meet the growing demands of its customer base. Ensim Pro provides provisioning, configuration and management for shared, dedicated and reseller hosting on both Windows and Linux.

Along with the announcements from software providers, there were several reports this week of Web hosting firms opening, or planning, new data center facilities.

On Monday, colocation provider ColoSpace announced that it had its fifth data center in the state of Massachusetts. The facility, located in Rockland, will serve customers south of Boston, along with Boston-based disaster recovery customers and managed hosting customers from around the country. The company says it has upgraded the facility to meet current industry requirements and future demand for cooling and power.

Also on Monday, reports said technology giant Hewlett-Packard was considering Austin, Texas as the location for two new data center facilities. Austin is reportedly one of four central Texas locations being considered by the company. HP representatives are said to have met with the City of Austin, Travis County, the Austin and Round Rock school districts and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce. Each of the two proposed facilities would be approximately 200,000 square feet.

At the INFOMART facility in Dallas, Texas, AT&T will conduct a network disaster recovery exercise from February 8 to 15, the company announced on Wednesday. The exercise is one of several conducted each year, says AT&T, but the February project will be the largest to date. The company will use 43 self-contained trucks to test its ability to support enterprise customers in the event of a disaster. The company says it has invested more than $300 million in its disaster recovery program, which includes a team of managers, engineers and technicians, as well as a fleet of more than 150 self-contained equipment trailers and support vehicles.

This week's biggest Web hosting news was undoubtedly SWsoft's deal with Go Daddy - a big deal that followed a big year for SWsoft. And the company has plans to continue its successes with significant growth in 2006.

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