(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider KDDI America (www.kddia.com) announced on Monday that it has invested approximately 85.5 percent of common shares in CDNetworks (www.cdnetworks.com), a global content delivery network service provider headquartered in Seoul, Korea for about $167 million.
KDDI America has a fiber network backbone that covers 170 countries as well as 91 offices located in Asia, North America, South America, Europe and Australia. In addition to telecommunications services, KDDI America offers infrastructure as a service, colocation and managed services.
According to the press release, CDN services are essential for Internet providers to offer their users. KDDI America says CDN services accelerate Internet communication by temporary cache and delivery of contents in servers located closer to end users.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the week ending October 28, many web hosting providers offered their share of treats in the days leading up to Halloween. Hostmonster has a 50 percent discount on shared hosting, DreamHost is offering up to 92 percent off its shared hosting, Storm On Demand is offering bandwidth pricing on its cloud hosting plans, and QuadraNet is providing the first month of colocation service for free.
Hostmonster Offers 50 Percent Off Shared Hosting
Web hosting provider Hostmonster (www.hostmonster.com) is just one of a few companies offering Halloween-themed discounts this week. From now until October 31, the company is offering 50 percent off its shared hosting plans. Customers can sign up for shared hosting for $3.95 per month, which is regularly $7.95 per month. The plan includes one free year of domain regisration, unlimited web space, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited email accounts.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the same week that Facebook’s Open Compute Project (www.opencompute.org) formalized some of its organizational structure at its summit in New York City, the company announced plans for a data center in Lulea, Sweden that will showcase some of the design principles that helped found that project.
The Lulea data center will be the company’s first outside the US, in part an effort for Facebook to provide faster service to users in Europe and beyond.
The company says the location offers a climate that will enable the data center to use outside air for cooling 8-10 months out of the year, significantly reducing energy consumption. It also provides a strong power infrastructure, enabling Facebook to use redundant substations, fed by two independent sources, and reduce the number of generators installed by approximately 70 percent.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Mass-market web hosting provider Web.com (www.web.com) announced this week that it has been named a Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner, one of the first company’s in North America to take part in the new program.
According to the announcement, Web.com has been a Google Authorized Reseller for several years. The new program matches “trusted AdWords partners” with small businesses seeking expert help in creating and managing online advertising campaigns (presumably specifically using Google tools and services).
As a PSP partner, Web.com will be expected to provide those SMBs with campaign management, reporting, one-on-one support and more general marketing guidance.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center monitoring solutions provider ONPATH Technologies (www.onpathtech.com) announced on Friday it has named Gene Litt its vice president of marketing.
In this newly created role, Litt will drive the marketing strategy and results for ONPATH’s high-performance scalable connectivity and monitoring solutions as the business expands its solution value in the network monitoring, test automation, cyber security, and cloud networking application segments.
Litt has over two decades of experience in the IT industry building and marketing communications solutions to enterprise, government, network equipment manufacturer, and service provider customers.