500 Gbps, another milestone

December 7th, 2009 by G. Janoszka (Network Design Engineer)

On our previous post (Biggest @ AMS-IX), we mentioned our upgrade at the AMS-IX to 120 Gbps and being the biggest AMS-IX traffic provider. We are proud to mention another threshold beaten: for the last week our traffic has been exceeding 500 Gbps, which is almost double of our traffic a year ago. This means we still double our traffic each year, and we currently expect this happening next year as well.

There are different estimations of the whole Internet traffic, but we may generate 0.5 up to 1% of the world Internet. In 2010 we will keep growing!

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[2009-12-08 update: correction in percentage traffic]

Biggest @ AMS-IX

November 23rd, 2009 by R. Haspers (Operations Director)

In my previous posts (Traffic Quadrupled) I mentioned the speed our total traffic is increasing. At this moment, our total traffic is almost hitting 500 Gbps (in April we did 300Gbps)!!

Last week, we connected another AMS-IX connection, which gives us a total of 120Gbps connection. At the very moment it was connected, we were already doing over 100Gbps at the AMS-IX. This makes us the largest traffic sending/receiving party on the largest internet exchange of the world! According to the AMS-IX there is no other company connected to the AMS-IX transmitting more traffic via the exchange as we do.

AMS-IX traffic @ LeaseWeb

AMS-IX traffic @ LeaseWeb

Innovation is key to our hosting services

October 12th, 2009 by L. Rosenthal (Innovation Director)

As a serious and market leading hosting provider (top-5 in Europe, top-20 worldwide) LeaseWeb wants to keep the company as innovative as possible. Why? Because the hosting market, hosting client needs, and accordingly its hosting services are evolving quickly. To name a few developments. Energy needs for CPU power and cooling in the datacenter environment are growing fast. More and more clients currently are asking for virtualization solutions because of its scalability, flexibility and cost efficient features. Read the rest of this entry »

Customer satisfaction

July 20th, 2009 by L. Rosenthal (Innovation Director)

In October 2008, when the financial world collapsed and started a deep economic recession, LeaseWeb experienced one of its biggest growths measured in turnover per month. This was partly caused by a hosting provider in the United States which went belly up and losing some of its biggest customers to LeaseWeb. Our Support department was already under some stress at that time by the growth we had experienced during the months before but the sudden increase in new customers and growing support requests really put a strain on our support engineers.

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Enterprise Hosting: Heineken.nl

July 17th, 2009 by R. Mous (Sales Director)

We’re proud of it, Heineken.nl is live. A brand new portal about music, sports and entertainment of Heineken The Netherlands, hosted by…LeaseWeb. What’s more, I see a trend in our customer portfolio towards more and more Enterprises choosing to host their websites in LeaseWeb’s professional hosting network environment. To name just a few Enterprise hosting clients: Heineken, Starbucks, Royal Joh. Enschedé…

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Data center energy savings: be realistic

June 17th, 2009 by R. Haspers (Operations Director)

Data center energy saving is a hot news-item. Google announced experimenting with floating data centers in the sea, Sun is building a data center in an old coal mine below the surface which saves 50% on energy. Although energy reduction is a must, it is important to be realistic in the options available.

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Reseller Hosting

April 22nd, 2009 by C. Zwinkels (Managing Director)

A former client of LeaseWeb recently did a posting on one of the hosting blogs, I think it was Web Hosting Talk, in which he fulminated against the fact that one of h�s clients had choosen to do business with LeaseWeb directly.� Several of the reactions on this posting were luckily positive ones on the side of LeaseWeb, but I think it can do no harm to give a bit more of an explanation to our policy regarding resellers and doing business directly.

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Traffic quadrupled!

April 21st, 2009 by R. Haspers (Operations Director)

This week we have broken the 300 Gbps (!!) traffic barrier we were facing several months. After the big increase we had since september 2007 where we went though the 200Gbps barrier� in October, only 6 months later we already exceeded the 300Gbps.

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European WinPHP Challenge

April 20th, 2009 by R. Haspers (Operations Director)

The WinPHP Competition registration will close end of business on Friday April 17th want to go to Vegas register NOW!

On the March 23 we announced the WinPHP Challenge the competition for PHP programmer to create the app they always wanted to write and have the opportunity to win a trip to the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas. This competition is run by the Dutch PHP Conference, Microsoft and LeaseWeb.

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