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Filtering the Internet

During the last year there have been several discussions about filtering content on the internet. Should this be dealt with by the government (creating better legislation) or should ISPs come with a solution? Last week the WODC (Research and Documentation Centre) published an interesting report (Dutch with English summary) about the technical and legal possibilities […]

Dedicated Hosting Provider Leaseweb Expands Network & Support Department

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.

Honeypot Project

Recently we have started a small honeypot project within our network to monitor and analyze malicious requests. With this information we can make our network more secure.

NetApp and Leaseweb to Launch Virtual Storage Platform

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.

Leaseweb Earns ISO 27001 Certification: Guarantee For Safe Hosting

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.

New: VMware VPS!

Since two days we are offering new virtual servers on our VMware platform. In the recent months we have deployed our new VMware platform to start hosting VPS. After some testing by our engineers and some customers, we are now ready for production. Starting from EUR 99,-/month you will get a full VMware VPS with […]

Twenga Outsources Dedicated Hosting Heavy Website to Leaseweb

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 […]

Live Streaming Portal Zaplive.tv Picks Hosting Provider Leaseweb

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 […]

Web Developer Seneca Virtualises Hosting via Leaseweb

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 […]