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SoftLayer Launches the Maiden Intel Xeon E7-4800 Series Servers

Thursday May 12, 2011
SoftLayer became the first hosting provider to offer Intel Xeon E7-4800 Series servers to its customers.

These high performance servers deliver increased memory & I/O capacity, greater scalability, and can even sustain high workloads such as large-scale virtualization, and host mission critical applications.

E7-4800 servers make use of Intel's 32nm process technology, offering up to 10 cores/processor, and they can run 2 threads/core simultaneously.

The other advantages include Partial Memory Mirroring and Double Device Data Correction (DDDC) that enhances memory reliability, not to mention reduced memory buffer active as well as idle power consumption.

These servers will be targeted at those customers who want to run mission-critical web apps, and extensive computing applications.

LeaseWeb Rolls Out 100TB Dedicated Web Servers

Sunday May 8, 2011
With web storage and dedicated hosting services on high demand, LeaseWeb, one of the well known web hosts, released the mammoth 100TB dedicated servers, intended to lower the costs for users.

The good news for customers is that they aren't really required to sign long term contracts, and LeaseWeb isn't charging any setup fees either.

With this addition, LeaseWeb's network now exceeds 1.5Tbps in terms of capacity, and it currently has 8 data-centers across the United States, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

This upgrade for extreme bandwidth users will be a value addition, and these dedicated web servers can be provisioned with Windows, Linux, or BSD, depending upon customer's requirements.

Lincoln Rackhouse Acquires a New 150000 Sqft Data Center

Sunday May 1, 2011
Lincoln Rackhouse recently acquired a Plano, a mammoth 150,000 sqft Texas data center, though the terms have not been disclosed yet.

Located at 6653 Pinecrest Drive, Legacy business park, this robust data center has been designed to withstand 175-acre winds.

It was built on a 20-acre site by Stream Realty Partners during the year 2006, and is currently valued for taxes in excess of $40 million.

Lincoln Rackhouse mainly focuses on managed data centers, and currently plans on leasing it out! This would most certainly be one hell of an offering in the market.

What is SEO and How It Can Help Hosting Providers

Friday April 29, 2011
Most of the web hosting vendors have started providing add-on SEO services like free directory submissions, and other freebies to attract the customers. Those who have the basic question in mind as to "what is SEO", might actually fall for such offers, and pick such a hosting provider over those who don't really offer any such promotional offers along with their hosting package(s).

Some hosting vendors have in-house SEO teams and they provide the promotional SEO services as a part of their hosting package to grab more customers, by making use of the services of their in-house team, while others outsource their work to affordable SEO service providers.

Most importantly, if you've an in-house SEO team, it can help you in getting top rankings for certain keywords you wish to target, to be able to grab more business.

So, even if you're a web hosting vendor, you must give utmost importance to search engine optimization, as well as social media optimization.

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