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Colocation Customers Gain Remote Reboot Capabilities |
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 On January 16, 2009, Springs Hosting added un-assisted remote reboot capabilities for colocation customers giving admins the ability to remotely reboot unresponsive servers directly via the power distribution units. Jeremy Keefe states, "Our customers have total control over their colocated equipment; facility wide. This is just the next step in providing our customers with the tools they need to succeed within their online business. At Springs Hosting, we go more than just the extra mile to make sure our clients are successful and have all the necessary tools available at their finger tips. While many Data Centers will only provide you with a couple of plugs and some cat6, we provide the complete package for our customers' power requirements. We go a step further and if our customers have any problems with their machines, we will assist them where many data centers won't. This is because we are also an IT centric company with the skillset in house to manage Windows, Linux, and BSD based operating systems. Think of us as that silent partner that's always willing to lend a hand."
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R1Soft Partnership Announced |
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 Springs Hosting, a provider of web site and email hosting, dedicated servers, colocation and data center services, today announced that it has added R1Soft Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to its set of managed services, enabling local businesses to back up systems offsite for quick restoration in the event of a disaster.
The company states that it will implement CDP for MySQL, Windows and Linux with available archiving and control panel integration with hsphere and cpanel. It further states that CDP backups will be included with all web hosting and email services and offered as an add-on to colocation clients. The company claims that new service will empower clients to maintain control of their backups and forgo the upfront software and hardware costs of data protection and disaster recovery.
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R1Soft(http://www.r1soft.com), developer of Continuous Data Protection, today congratulated Springs Hosting, of Colorado Springs, Colo., for winning R1Soft's end-of-year promotional drawing for a 42 Plasma High-Definition television.
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Better Business Bureaus launches new rating system |
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 "Your BBB launched a new method of rating companies, including BBB Accredited Businesses. All companies in the BBB's national and local databases are now assigned a letter grade. Every business is rated anywhere from A+ to F."
We are proud to announce that the BBB has issued an A+ Rating for Springs Hosting.
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| Springs Hosting completes another very successful year and starts of 2009 with a brand new Data Center, several millions in upgrades and drive to make 2009 just as enjoyable as 2008. In 2008, we more than doubled in size for our staff and the total number of customers we service. We have added several new technologies to our list of services including VOIP Phone Systems, Offsite Backups & Disaster Recovery and a brand new Colocation facility just to name a few. But we aren't done yet as we have new plans in 2009 and elevated goals with a bold schedule laid out. "Cheers" to 2009! |
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R1Soft Technology for Backups Adopted |
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| On November 14, 2008, Springs Hosting adopted R1Soft to replace the existing backup systems for hosting servers, colocation, and dedicated server clients. R1Soft's Continuous Data Protection enables disk-based data protection and disaster recovery for Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by reading your hard disk volumes at the sector level and bypasses the file system for the ultimate in performance and recovery. Bare Metal Backups allow Springs Hosting to restore any machine from complete failure of the system to a completely new hardware server. Using end to end strong encryption allows Springs Hosting to leverage the use of R1Soft to remotely backup systems for clients off site in our safe and secure data center. |
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Digium VOIP Systems Adopted |
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 On November 11, 2008, Springs Hosting adopts Digium VOIP sytems. Digium is the creator and driving force behind Asterisk, the open source voice communications software deployed by more than 3.5 million servers worldwide to manage VoIP calls for businesses and individuals. More resellers, telecom professionals and software developers choose Digium's products than those of any other open source telephony company because only Digium delivers the technical superiority, security, and flexibility associated with Asterisk. Asterisk powers Digium's family of software and hardware appliances including AsteriskNOW™, Asterisk Business Edition™ and Switchvox™
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Servers Upgraded to Hsphere 3.2 |
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 On November 8, 2008, Springs Hosting upgraded the Hosting Servers to Hsphere 3.2 which includes several enhancements and improvements to our stable hosting platforms. The new improvements set the groundwork for several future additions to the software that include integration with other software already offered by Parallels, a leader in Hosting Company Software solutions. |
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Hosting Servers move to new Data Center |
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On November 2, 2008, the Springs Hosting Web and Email Hosting servers move to our new Data Center at 1205 Shasta Dr. The end result is a massive increase in bandwidth as our new Data Center proudly operates two completely redundant OC-48 lines to the internet backbone as well as plenty of space for growth within the facility. Companies that require Colocation and Rack Space can take advantage of this move as it makes Springs Hosting one of the largest Data Center providers in Southern Colorado with plenty of raised floor space to expand!
What is an OC-48? "OC-48 is a network line with transmission speeds of up to 2488.32 Mbit/s (payload: 2405.376 Mbit/s; overhead: 82.944 Mbit/s). With usually cheap interface prices and being faster than OC-3, OC-12 connections, and even surpassing gigabit Ethernet, OC-48 connections are used as the backbones of many regional ISPs. Interconnections between large ISPs for purposes of peering or transit are quite common. As of 2005, the only connections in widespread use that surpass OC-48 speeds are OC-192 and 10 gigabit Ethernet. OC-48 is also used as transmission speed for tributaries from OC-192 nodes in order to optimize card slot utilization where lower speed deployments are used. Dropping at OC-12, OC-3 or STS-1 speeds are more commonly found on OC-48 terminals, where use of these cards on an OC-192 would not allow for full use of the available bandwidth."
"Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OC-3#OC-48_.2F_STM-16x_.2F_2.5G_Sonet" |
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Official Support for PHP4 ends, PHP5 takes over the reins "officially" |
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On August 8, 2008, "marked the (EOL) end of life for PHP4, which has been in stable release since May of 2000. With the release of PHP 4.4.9, official support has ended and the final security patch for the platform issued. Web hosts and web developers across the net have now lost another reason not to upgrade their development and support environments to current generation tools. With PHP 5 offering a viable upgrade path for the last few years, the recommendation is for administrators and developers is to move to the PHP 5 platform (if they haven't already done so), which is currently at 5.2.6."
**Fortunately, if your PHP website is hosted through Springs Hosting, then you have been on PHP5 since at least the middle of 2007 and are currently running the latest PHP 5.2.6 so this news won't affect your website!
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