Hosting 365

Dublin, 13th March – Register365, a division of Hosting365, is launching a website application built specifically for use on the new iPhone, which goes on sale tomorrow, Friday 14th March. The application allows users to look up and register internet domain names, all within the iPhone interface.

From your phone, surf to http://iphone.register365.com

Commenting on the launch, Ed Byrne, General Manager, Hosting365 said, “Our application will allow our customers to register an Internet domain name right from the palm of their hand. Obviously the launch of the iPhone is one of the most anticipated events of 2008 in Ireland and as our customers are often early adopters when it comes to technology, we developed this application to tap into the enthusiasm around its release,”

“With proliferation of the Internet soaring, and the huge growth of mobile Internet devices, we wanted to offer our customers an easy way to register domain names while away from their desktop. This is just the tip of the iceberg for us in terms of mobile applications, we intend to make all our systems available to mobile users,” Byrne added.

iPhone applications are functions that have been developed specifically for use on the mobile phone. Other applications developed for the iPhone for US audiences include a YouTube player, which enables users to watch clips from the video sharing website; 101 Cookbooks, an archive of food recipes for consumers looking for culinary ideas while on foot; and Gas, which allows users to check petrol prices in their vicinity.

6th March – hosting365, an Outsourced IT Services and Internet Hosting provider, has announced a €2 million investment in new infrastructure, which has led to the creation of 20 jobs.

The investment has seen the company incorporate blade server and virtualisation technology into its existing facilities in order to offer a range of new services. hosting365 signed deals with HP to provide the blade server technology and with VMware for the virtualisation software.

It has enabled the company to offer its customers on-demand IT services, such as Hardware as a Service and Software as a Service, allowing clients to pay for IT as and when they use it. The new technology positions hosting365 to match the shifting needs of companies looking to reduce future investments in IT infrastructure and power consumption costs.

The company milestone has led to the creation of twenty jobs, all of which have been filled. The new recruits include Senior UNIX, Networking and Microsoft engineers, as well as technical infrastructure staff. hosting365 also plans to hire an additional 14 staff in its Dublin and Polish offices by the end of the year as it continues to expand.

Commenting on the announcement, Stephen McCarron, Managing Director, hosting365, said “This is a strategic investment which has enabled us to offer on-demand IT services. We are now in a position to offer organisations computing assets as and when they need them. IT is not a core competency for most organisations, so it makes little sense from them to make huge investments when they can take advantage of our staff’s technical expertise and cut down on capital expenditure,”

“Companies are starting to realise that they are overspending on IT and their existing investments are often underutilised. The outsourced managed services model is a cost effective solution as they can take advantage of our economies of scale. hosting365 combines the best of both worlds by offering world class data centre facilities and the IT expertise of our diverse engineering, technician and support teams,” McCarron added.

“By combining the VMware layer with the high availability, high performance components of the HP infrastructure, Irish companies can, for the first time, avail of the benefits of a multi million euro infrastructure for a cost less then a traditional dedicated server,” added Sales Director, Paul Lynch. “This approach to how managed hosting is delivered will change not only how it is viewed in Ireland, but also globally”.
hosting365’s existing clients include the Irish Stock Exchange, the Irish Government Department for Social & Family Affairs, Certified Public Accountants of Ireland, O2, daft.ie and entertainment.ie.

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For further information please contact:

Piaras Kelly / Joe Carmody
Edelman
01 6789333
086 8131691 / 086 8058764
piaras.kelly@edelman.com /joe.carmody@edelman.com

As National Geographic tells us:

Friday, February 29, marks leap day, a day that’s added to the month of February almost every four years—that is, every leap year—to keep the modern calendar in line with the celestial cycles that frame it.

At Hosting365, we specialise in delivering highly available solutions, backed by excellent support and service, 365 days a year. Every 4 years, we get to do one extra day!!

To honour this auspicious occasion, we’ve updated our site logo (temporarily) and are offering free set-up and first month free to any Cloud Appliances bought today - the 29th February 2008.

Simply talk to sales for more details!

Launched today at the Irish Web Technology Conference (IWTC), our new www.hosting365.com completes the seperation of our business into two distinct divisions.

www.hosting365.com - offers enterprise managed services, data centre services and dedicated / complex hosting platforms to business and;

www.register365.com - offers ICANN Accredited domain registration, standard shared hosting and related services for Small to medium businesses and individuals.

With a sleek black look, we tried to project a simple, clear message based on our Blade/SAN cloud platform (the future of hosting, and more on which we’ll blog later) and data centre centric managed services provision.

We’re delighted to receive your feedback, either as a comment here, or directly by email or livechat.

As part of our ongoing programme to improve the service we provide, we will be upgrading all three of our name servers ns1.hosting365.ie, ns2.hosting365.ie, and ns3.hosting365.ie. Two of the servers will be moving out of country to independent networks in London (ns2) and Amsterdam (ns3), both at the heart of European internet infrastructure. ns1 is being replaced with a new machine dedicated to authoritative DNS service. As a result of this move, the IP addresses associated with these machines will be changing:

NS1 currently 82.195.128.132 will change to 82.195.143.132
NS2 currently 82.195.128.192 will change to 89.167.218.2
NS3 currently 82.195.146.192 will change to 89.167.137.193

The legacy servers will be remaining online and available as caching servers.

Hosting365.com have increased their INEX capacity with a new 1Gbps link in Data Electronics.

Increasing our capacity on our INEX links provides a number of business benefits - first off, it’s a huge increase in our bandwidth (we would be one the fastest members now, and certainly the best connected hosting company) which means we can handle traffic spikes (like Christmas or Budget day).

Second of all INEX routes Irish traffic to Irish sites all within it’s network - which means latency is really really low - therefore giving the fastest possible download of your site, higher quality VOIP calls and better for on-line gaming too - so increasing capacity is a good thing. Finally, it means in the event of a disaster, our multiple links being this fast allows us fail-over all traffic without any service degradation to the customer.

30th January – register365 has announced a price drop on .ie domains in response to the IE Domain Registry’s announcement to reduce its charges by 5.8%. register365 has dropped its price on .ie domains from €25.95 to €21.95.

Commenting on the price drop, Stephen McCarron, Managing Director, register365, said “We welcome the IEDR price drop as they have been investing in their own system automation, and releasing this to resellers through an API. We have been using this API since day one and it saves us a huge amount of manual labour. Previously every domain registration needed to be handled and submitted manually. We have a policy of passing savings on to our customers, and we are the price leader in Ireland for domains and hosting.”

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For further information please contact:

Piaras Kelly
Edelman
01 6789333
086 8131691
piaras.kelly@edelman.com

About register365

register365 (a division of hosting365) is Ireland’s largest and leading hosting services provider. register365 owns and operates its own 25,000 square feet, state of the art data centre in Park West, Dublin, Ireland. The company holds 35% of the Irish market and has over 75,000 customers.

We have upgraded our Premium Support application for all Dedicated Server and Managed Services customers of Hosting365.- Service Desk is now running the latest build of Version 6.
- The URL is support.hosting365.com, of course the connect365.ie URL still functions.- Shared Hosting and Domain Name customers should use http://care.register365.com.

This is part of our continuing program to improve customer experience, by focussing systems and staff exclusively on our Hosting365 and Register365 brands.

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hosting365 was positioned in seventh place at the annual Technology Forum hosted by Deloitte.  The Fast 50 Programme, as it is known, is now in its eight year and ranks the fastest-growing technology companies in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.  (more…)