Dedicated hosting provider LeaseWeb, among the global top 20 hosting providers, expands its Network & Support Department and appoints four new network engineers. Their responsibilities cover operational services, including monitoring the hosting network, providing customers with hosting services and support, and providing sales support.
Platform will enable LeaseWeb hosting customers to consolidate their storage
Hosting provider LeaseWeb has decided to use a FAS 3040HA mid-range platform by NetApp so that it will be able to offer its customers a complete storage-on-demand (SOD) solution. The platform will enable LeaseWeb to offer managed back-up and disaster recovery services.
Dr. Paans: “Is LeaseWeb’s worldwide growth being managed properly?”
LeaseWeb, the biggest corporate hosting provider in the Netherlands, has been granted ISO 27001 certification for information security by Dr. Ronald Paans of Noordbeek IT Audit. This gives LeaseWeb’s customers a firm guarantee that their websites are hosted in a secure and well-managed environment.
Twenga currently has 100 dedicated servers at the data center, more than 500 in two years!
Twenga, a global online shopping comparison site, is letting LeaseWeb host its ‘heavy’ website. The company initially needs over 100 dedicated servers, primarily to obtain all of the product data from e-commerce websites indexed by Twenga. LeaseWeb has installed the dedicated servers at EvoSwitch, the CO2-neutral data center.
Festivals, concerts, parties and sports reports ‘live’ via LeaseWeb streaming hosting
zaplive.tv, a new multilingual internet platform for live broadcasting, has selected Dutch hosting provider LeaseWeb because of the size of LeaseWeb’s international hosting network. zaplive.tv went live in April 2008. Everyone can easily make his own programme or even his own web-tv via the portal, all for free.
Migration of hosting customers: from 50 Physical Servers to 10
Seneca, a leading Dutch web developer with 125 employees, is virtualising its hosting environment at hosting provider LeaseWeb with VMware. Seneca hopes to complete the full hosting migration of all its customers within a year. ‘By that time, the current 50 physical servers will have made way for a maximum of 10 physical servers.’
Philosophy: Twice as much bandwidth available as used by hosting clients
LeaseWeb, the largest business hosting provider in the Netherlands, has expanded its already sizeable hosting network from 160 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to 210 Gbps. The extension is necessary to continue realising the LeaseWeb philosophy: always have twice as much capacity available as the bandwidth used by clients with their internet sites.
Number 1 position according to American Magazine HostReview
LeaseWeb has been occupying the number 1 position on the list of the world’s fastest growing hosting companies for 6 months now. The ‘Fastest Growing Companies ’ list is published monthly by the American magazine HostReview.
Ambitious Plans New Support Manager: 16 additional support agents
Hosting provider LeaseWeb has appointed a new Support Manager, someone with a lot of experience in the hosting industry who will be restructuring the Support Division. This department has 33 employees for now but will be expanded significantly due to LeaseWeb’s fast expansion.
Investment in Cisco CRS-1s nearly 2.4 million US Dollars
LeaseWeb, international business hosting provider that counts Starbucks among its customers, is set to restructure its large global hosting network. The acquisition of two Cisco CRS-1s makes the network infrastructure more hierarchical and scaleable and enables a bandwidth capacity increase to 1900 Gigabits per second (1.9 Terabits).
