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We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve been working as a launch partner with CodeGuard, a revolutionary website backup service that acts as a time machine for your website.
CodeGuard allows you to backup important website data, including applications, and roll back to previous versions in the event of a malicious hacking attack or similar.
CodeGuard uses a secure cloud on which to store your data and allows you to restore at any time.
WebHostingBuzz clients get an enhanced version of CodeGuard free of charge. For more information and to give CodeGuard a test drive, click the CodeGuard icon in your cPanel.
For those of you who know WebHostingBuzz well, you know we like to lead the industry when it comes to price, service and features. Our whole ethos is to provide a reliable, fast and friendly service while bringing new technology to to our clients and potential clients. So when Intel released it’s SandyBridge range of processors last year, we reviewed these CPUs (mostly their power draw and performance) with considerable interest.
The results were very, very positive. The Intel SandyBridge E3 is the fastest most energy efficient processor at it’s price point. It out-performs many more expensive models. For reference, we recommend you review the graphs at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html.
As a hosting company that strives to provide amazing performance while considering the environment and our green credentials, as well as delivering this at a low price, we’ve worked hard to put together a dedicated server package featuring this processor. So we’re very happy to launch our E3 SandyBridge range at industry-leading prices. Our revised dedicated server range starts from just $139 per month for an Intel SandyBridge E3-1230 with 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive.
The full specifications of our packages can be seen at http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/dedicated-servers.php.
To give you an idea of what great value our packages are, we’ve compared our prices against some of our major competitors.
WebHostingBuzz
- Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1230
- 8GB RAM
- 1TB Hard Drive
- $139 per month
SingleHop
- Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1230
- 8GB RAM
- 1TB Hard Drive
- $210 per month
SoftLayer
- Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1230
- 8GB RAM
- 1TB Hard Drive
- $399 per month
LiquidWeb
- Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1240
- 8GB RAM
- 1TB Hard Drive
- $314 per month
These prices are accurate as of January 14th 2012 and taken from our competitors website.
WebHostingBuzz dedicated servers are housed in the Dallas Informart. This is a Tier III facility with fully redundant power, network, environmental and security systems. Each server comes with a 99.99% network uptime guarantee, 10,000 bandwidth, full management options. cPanel is just $25 per month.
2012 promises to be an exciting year across the globe. From Verisign’s new domain extensions (where you can apply to manage your own extensions), to elections in the US and the Olympics in London, there’s plenty to keep us busy both in and outside of work.
We started our year off by a goal setting session where each of our departments (sales/marketing, customer service, billing, technical and executive) each set 3 major goals they’d like to achieve in 2012. We’re strong believers in goal setting as it gives you both guidance and a benchmark to work towards.
So what will you see from us?
- Expanded product range. This will include a cloud platform that we’ve spent a long time perfecting and building (and learning from others’ mistakes), new dedicated servers and a revamped VPS platform
- Continued investment into our technical infrastructure. We continue to expand network and server capacity and have an aggressive upgrade program for our older servers (we completed the upgrade of our oldest servers in Q3 2012)
- New hosting locations. We’re looking at the Far East / Asia as well as bringing online additional locations within the continental United States
- Feature additions to new and existing hosting accounts. Last year we added Google Adwords credits, CloudFlare and free 2Checkout credit card processing at no extra cost to hosting services. This year we’ll continue to add important value added features.
We wish you the very best in 2012.
Back in October 2011, well before Reddit users launched a campaign against GoDaddy’s support of SOPA, WebHostingBuzz quietly signed up to the SaveHosting.org coalition.
SaveHosting is a coalition of web hosts who oppose both the proposed SOPA and the PIPA bills in their current form.
We feel that both would be hugely damaging to our industry. They would hurt both service providers and consumers. These bills are pushed by the likes of the RIAA who have put little thought into the innocent webmaster and hosting companies who will inevitably get caught in the cross fire. As a hosting company, we could be forced to take websites down with no proof or due diligence. If we didn’t, we’d be the target of countless lawsuits that could put us and other hosting providers out of business.
We already have DMCA which generally works well. If someone infringes on your copyrighted material or patents, a correctly served DMCA notice gets dealt with at WebHostingBuzz within 8 hours. Other hosting companies are similarly quick in dealing with DMCA, although some have been sued for not acting quick enough. This in itself is disappointing. Can you imagine the RIAA responding/reacting to the all of the complaints it gets within 8 hours? You are lucky to receive a response in weeks, if at all, with some of these organizations that are currently lobbying the government.
For those interested, here are the current internal policies that we have for any type of abuse complaint:
- Phishing/Hacking – Investigation within 30 minutes, response to complainant within 60 minutes
- Spamming – Investigation within 60 minutes, response to complainant within 4 hours
- DMCA and similar – Investigation within 4 hours, response to complainant within 8 hours
- Any other abuse – Investigation and response within 12 hours
We have to allocate a significant amount of human resources to deal with the above. And at any time, we have multiple complaints of different nature that are open. Some are valid, some are not valid, but we investigate each one with the right level of due diligence.
In addition to PIPA and SOPA damaging privacy rights and hurting webmasters, they will also place a large additional burden on the abuse and technical teams of web hosting companies like us. This will probably result in price increases by all of the major companies as we are forced to allocate even more human resources to dealing with these complaints. And that only hurts the industry.
Hello all,
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve joined CJ, or Commission Junction, as part of our plans for growing our affiliate program. CJ is the largest affiliate network in the world and serves the US, UK, most of Europe and more.
CJ is free to join. If you do not have an account, you can sign up here. If you already have an account, working with WebHostingBuzz is as easy as going to the Get Links section and finding us under the Web Hosting/Servers category.
We still maintain our in-house affiliate program for both WebHostingBuzz.com and WebHostingBuzz.co.uk (two separate programs). You can find these at:
http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/affiliates.php
http://www.webhostingbuzz.co.uk/affiliates.php
Regards,
Matt
Hello all,
We’ve added a lot of new cool banners to our WebHostingBuzz.co.uk affiliate program. If you haven’t joined the program yet, you can at http://www.webhostingbuzz.co.uk/affiliates.php. We’re offering a healthy commission / affiliate payment for each customer you refer to us.
Here’s a sneak preview of some of our banners:
Oh, mobile browsing – one of the hottest topics these days isn’t it? Now that all the cool kids and their grandmas have Internet access on their mobile gadgets (90% of the population has mobile network coverage!), we can take a look at how they’re using it, where, and what should we expect from the future. Click the infographic below to learn more.
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We’ve recently rolled out CloudFlare on all of our shared, business and reseller servers. CloudFlare is a unique plugin designed to enhance performance and security. It acts as both a CDN (content delivery network) and an application level firewall, filtering out frequent bots, hacking attempts and attackers while delivering good visitors to your website.
CloudFlare’s basic service is completely free for all WebHostingBuzz customers and our integration with CloudFlare means you can instantly deploy it through cPanel.
To find out more about CloudFlare, you can visit their website at here. Be sure to check out the cPanel plug-in!
Here are our July 2011 uptime figures as recorded by our external monitoring service.
rs1.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs10.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs11.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs12.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs14.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs15.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs16.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs17.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs2.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs21.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs22.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs23.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs3.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs32.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs4.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs5.abstractdns.com 99.425%
rs6.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs7.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs8.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs9.abstractdns.com 100.000%
asteroid2.whbdns.com 100.000%
business2.whbdns.com 99.215%
buzz1.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzz2.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzz4.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzzsg1.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzzsg2.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzzsg4.whbdns.com 100.000%
galaxy2.whbdns.com 100.000%
intense1.whbdns.com 100.000%
panda.whbdns.com 100.000%
sd1.whbdns.com 100.000%
server01.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server02.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server03.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server04.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server05.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server21.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server22.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server23.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server24.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server25.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server26.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
shared6.whbdns.com 100.000%
shared7.whbdns.com 99.964%
shared8.whbdns.com 100.000%
shared9.whbdns.com 100.000%
ss1.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
ss2.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
ss3.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
ss4.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
zeus.whbdns.com_new 99.686%
Here are our uptime figures for May and June, 2 months at once now because of monitoring systems rearrangements (and thus data source changes) that took place in late May and early June. the numbers are pretty much usual, 99+ %
asteroid2.whbdns.com 100.000%
business2.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzz1.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzz2.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzz4.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzzsg1.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzzsg2.whbdns.com 100.000%
buzzsg4.whbdns.com 100.000%
galaxy2.whbdns.com 99.633%
intense1.intensewhb.com 100.000%
panda.whbdns.com 100.000%
sd1.whbdns.com 100.000%
server01.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server02.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server03.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server04.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server05.webhostingbuzz.com 98.155%
server21.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server22.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server23.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server24.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server25.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
server26.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
shared6.whbdns.com 100.000%
shared7.whbdns.com 100.000%
shared8.whbdns.com 100.000%
shared9.whbdns.com 100.000%
ss1.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
ss2.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
ss3.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
ss4.webhostingbuzz.com 100.000%
zeus.whbdns.com 100.000%
zeus.whbdns.com_new 49.123% (100.000%)
rs1.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs10.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs11.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs12.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs14.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs15.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs16.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs17.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs2.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs21.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs22.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs23.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs3.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs32.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs4.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs5.abstractdns.com 99.949%
rs6.abstractdns.com 99.790%
rs7.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs8.abstractdns.com 100.000%
rs9.abstractdns.com 100.000%