The open source infrastructure management tool Chef has now been downloaded more than 1 million times, Chef’s parent company Opscode said today. Opscode will release a number of new features today at its first ChefCon user conference.

Intel (INTC) announced an expansion of its Xeon processor portfolio with new products designed to address a broad and emerging set of server requirements and provide IT managers with additional choice and flexibility. 28 processors announced Intel introduced 28 processors across three product...

Insurance provider Unum will lease wholesale data center space from T5 Data Centers at its T5@Atlanta wholesale data center located in Alpharetta, Ga.

While western Oregon has been a hotbed of data center activity, developer Mission West Properties has decided to look east with a data center development in Ontario, Oregon, close to the border of Idaho.

Today Emerson Network Power released its Trellis software, the company’s big bet on data center infrastructure management (DCIM). The global availability of the first four software applications for Trellis culminates a two-year development period.

This video provides an overview of a new cloud computing facility that SAIC put into operation a new cloud computing data center in a colocation facility in December 2011..

Despite increased efficiency seen in today’s computing model, added load in blade servers combined with increased demands on storage and networking has created an environment where high heat densities are forcing facilities to review their cooling topologies.  Airflow impedance is a factor that is...

With increasing size and complexity there is an increased need to drive intelligence to the domain of IT devices, writes Greg More of Raritan. Aptly named, "smart racks" bring intelligence to the data center that is helpful for planning and managing equipment, power and more.

Global roundup: Fujitsu invests $60 million for Australia upgrade, Level 3 expands in Latin America, Tata to become anchor tenant on US-Brazil cable, Interxion selected by VPS.net.

How to Find Best Server Colocation Hosting

Article by Kshitiz Mahajan

Today there are many companies who are in the business of building and running data centers only to provide hosting services to individuals and businesses. Colocation hosting means that you have a server in someone else’s facility. There are several flavors. In the simplest version, you rent space in a server rack but you actually own the server. In this model, the owner of the hosting center doesn’t really touch your computer. They provide you bandwidth, power, and an appropriate environment other versions include actually renting the server from the colocation company. And it gets even more complicated than that. With the introduction of virtualization several years ago, hosting companies are able to actually sell you a portion of a server. Using this method, they charge you based on the size and processing capabilities of the virtual machine.

Windows server is one of the most famous among users in online business. There are various facts to make them popular. Windows is a product of Microsoft and most of the applications today are being developed by Microsoft. There is no application that a windows server does not support whereas linux has limitations when used on ASP or ASP.net. With the windows web hosting plans becoming famous these days the web host companies have also started providing additional facilities to go for called unlimited domain hosting.

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To understand about Linux web hosting, you need to understand what is Linux? In simple words, Linux is an operating system just like Windows 98, Windows XP or Windows Vista. You can do your daily computer task by installing Linux on your system. Now you know what Linux is. You need to understand what you will get with Linux hosting and how Linux hosting works. LAMP software bundle is used in any company providing Linux web hosting. LAMP stands for Linux-Apache-MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python. Linux, you know, is an operating system. Apache is a web server. Like Linux, Apache is also an open source project. Apache is widely used web server. It’s not that Apache only runs on Linux. For Windows also, Apache is available. For serving HTML pages, web server is needed. Most Linux shared hosting uses Apache to server pages.

There are many advantages of server collocation hosting such as your colocation provider is usually well equipped to deal with any problems that might arise. Providers likely have a more secure location for your servers than you might have in your office. Server colocation eliminates the need for payment of expensive circuits to your location while simultaneously allowing you a greater level of uptime reliability.

The dedicated server host services would also include the likes of web analytics, reporting and reseller programs. Companies provide highly powered website statistics where the client gets customized web reports, drill downs on important information and extensive web data. All this helps the client in improving online usability. The reseller program enables the company to provide its client availing dedicated windows server hosting services with enhanced applications to be used on Windows related software.

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