As a result of this initiative, LeaseWeb will gain visibility into the sources of potentially harmful online activity and can quickly remove the offending sites from its hosting network, protecting users from malicious threats.

The hosting provider has already confirmed two organizations, Website Zeus Tracker and Quarantainenet, as sponsorship recipients, which will share network security traffic information with LeaseWeb.

Website ZeuS Tracker monitors Zeus botnets, a malicious malware toolkit which infects computers and takes them offline.

Quarantainenet is a network management and security organization which provides products that allow companies to access and manage their networks more securely.

“Hosting a large infrastructure means we have a responsibility to deter spam and cybercrime. We cannot control everything on the network, but by working with other security organizations we can be proactive in taking sites down sooner,” says Alex De Joode, head of security at LeaseWeb. “Organizations such as Quarantainenet and Zeus Tracker provide an invaluable service in monitoring fraudulent activities on the Web, but many internet providers do not have the resources necessary to carry out this vital work. It is an important partnership and LeaseWeb hopes to increase the number of organisations we sponsor in the coming months ensuring we are doing all that we can to combat nuisance and fraudulent activity on the Web.”

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Karl Robinson, Director of StratoGen, said: “We already have an enviable reputation for network quality and we continue to invest in our infrastructure to make sure we stay ahead. All our clients have a 100% uptime guarantee so it was vitally important that these significant upgrades were planned in such a way so as to avoid any service disruption. Naturally I’m very proud of the performance of our technical team as this will serve to highlight the strength of our service level agreement and the calibre of the engineers that look after our infrastructure.”

The deployment of all new high-end Cisco routers and switches has resulted in a significant speed increase and makes StratoGen one of the most resilient managed hosting providers in Europe. In addition, the platform allows for complex private network infrastructures and can cope with huge volumes of event driven Internet traffic.

“UK businesses have become increasingly aware of the importance of their online presence and this has led to a rapid growth in managed hosting. With these upgrades in place we can look forward to servicing many more customers and deploying complex hosting infrastructures with ease,” Robinson said.

About StratoGen

StratoGen is a managed hosting company providing enterprise VMware hosting, managed server hosting, colocation and connectivity products all backed by a 100% uptime SLA.

StratoGen have invested significant capital into building out a true enterprise class infrastructure that offers clients real business benefits whilst reducing their costs. High uptime, high throughput websites and online applications require resilient & scalable hosting solutions and this is where StratoGen is a market leader.

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The Pirate Party entered the ISP space in May when a German court imposed an injunction on a data center to prevent bit torrent tracker The Pirate Bay (www.thepiratebay.org) from accessing the Internet. The Pirate Bay was offline for about 24 hours before the Pirate Party stepped in, providing it bandwidth for its homepage and search engine. Prior to that point, the political party had never had an official affiliation with the tracker.

According to the New York Times, WikiLeaks gave only a handful of news agencies access to some 92,000 individual reports prior to making the data widely available online on July 25.

WikiLeaks describes the leaked materials as follows: “The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details.”

The leaking of these reports has, unsurprisingly, drawn a lot of negative response from officials including White House National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones, who was reportedly one of many US officials calling the release of the documents irresponsible. He stated, “The United States strongly condemns the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organizations which could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk and threaten our national security.”

Given the backlash from officials, the WikiLeaks site could become a target of action similar to what was taken against The Pirate Bay. According to torrent news site TorrentFreak, the Pirate Party has positioned itself as a backup option should its current provider become vulnerable.

It is still unknown, however, if WikiLeaks will accept this offer, since aligning itself with a political party could damage its reputation as a free and unbiased source of information.

A Mashable piece by Samuel Axon notes that WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay have been customers of Swedish ISP PRQ, what he calls “the Swiss bank of Internet providers, and a bastion of 21st century hacker values and individualism.” He also posits that WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay are the products of a long-established culture, and share a similar philosophy.

“Computer hackers with this Internet-born, fundamentalist philosophy of information and individual entrepreneurship are not just dictating the terms of technology and digital entertainment, but of journalism, political discourse and military engagement,” Axon writes.

In a press conference held in London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said anger and outrage were the expected reaction to its activities from the groups being exposed.

“We’re familiar with groups whose abuse we expose attempting to criticise the messenger,” Assange said. “We don’t see any difference in the White House response to this case.”

Founded in December 2006, Wikileaks has provided a venue for whistleblowers to anonymously distribute sensitive materials, such as the US military’s operating manual for its Guantánamo Bay prison. It was the subject of wide media attention earlier this year for releasing a video of a US helicopter attack in Iraq, in which a journalist was killed.

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With the new site launch, AssistanZ now offers Unlimited Linux Plesk Server Management & Monitoring for just $49 per month, and Unlimited DirectAdmin Server Management & Monitoring for $35 per month. Earlier this year, AssistanZ released its unlimited cPanel management service. All unlimited plans include unlimited server administration requests via ticket support, 24×7 availability, 24×7×365 Non-Stop Server Monitoring with email alerts, reboot requests to datacenters, and monitoring at AssistanZ’s global monitoring locations. Customers can choose up to two ports for monitoring, and enjoy a 30-day money back guarantee if they are not satisfied with the service.

“The server management sector of the hosting industry remains one of the fastest growing areas in hosting, as providers look for ways to improve quality and uptime of their servers. We are able to reduce cost and improve efficiency in a way that has created a real competitive advantage for our firm. The old negative conceptions about outsourced management and support are simply not true anymore,” said Amal Ranjith, managing director of AssistanZ.

AssistanZ is also providing a free license of Softaculous, an auto-installer for the cPanel control panel, for customers who utilize the company’s cPanel management service. AssistanZ is a NOC partner of Softaculous.

AssistanZ also provides a variety of specialty services, including optimizing for server upload/download speed increases, website performance increases, and security hardening. The company hopes to add additional notification features, including SMS alerts, in the coming months.

To learn more about AssistanZ, please visit www.assistanz.com.

About AssistanZ
Based in Coimbatore, India, AssistanZ is a leading provider of outsourced server management services. AssistanZ manages both Windows and Linux servers and offers a wide variety of ancillary services, including outsourced Web Hosting support, professional multimedia & Web design, customer management, software management, and much more. Learn more about AssistanZ by visiting www.assistanz.com or calling 1-888-500-1070.

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“We are committed to continuously improving our infrastructure, ensuring that we continue to meet our 100% SLA. After carefully considering all of the products in this space, it became clear that the Juniper SRX was the best fit for our demanding environment,” explained Adam Stern, President and CEO of Infinitely Virtual and Altay Corporation.

The addition of the Juniper SRX Series takes Infinitely Virtual further in its mission to seek out and deliver reliable and energy efficient virtual technology services to clients at the industry’s lowest prices.

About Infinitely Virtual
Infinitely Virtual is a leading provider of high quality and affordable virtual server technology, capable of delivering services to any type of business, including file servers, e-mail servers or web servers. As a virtual company, Infinitely Virtual is managed using Software as a Service or SaaS tools–an affordable way for businesses to use software as it’s needed, rather than licensing all devices with all applications. The company was established as a subsidiary of Altay Corporation, and through this partnership Infinitely Virtual provides customers with expert 24×7 Technical Support. With an innovative approach to virtualization, Infinitely Virtual provides aggressively priced options that competitors simply cannot meet. More information about Infinitely Virtual can be found at: www.infinitelyvirtual.com or call 866-257-8455.

About Altay Corporation
Altay is an IT professional services company that designs, implements, and supports single- and multi-vendor data solutions. Altay’s pledge is to provide products and services that meet the highest standards of quality, designed for a client’s specific needs, and delivered economically—with the ultimate goal of helping customers reach their potential. Altay’s team is specialized in voice, video and data solutions, and it has a proven track record of providing excellent service to its customers. More information about Altay Corporation can be found at www.altayusa.com or call 866-54-Altay.

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The company mentions that cloud servers allow customers to take control, creating new servers instantly and resizing existing capacity immediately via a user-friendly web control panel. Customers save money by buying exactly the capacity they need today, knowing that they can immediately scale up when required.

It avers that cloud servers run any server operating system, are fully configurable and designed for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing. The company adds that the cloud hosting package is available from its UK as well as US data centers, and is built on the high performance 10 Gbps SuperNetwork infrastructure and offers a 100% SLA with 100x credits for any downtime.

Dominic Monkhouse, UK MD of ServerBeach commented on the launch, “Self-service cloud servers are perfect for our ServerBeach customers. We work with many fast growth companies and developers whose hosting needs change on a day-to-day basis, so to support this we have built in flexible and scalable cloud servers on a pay as you go model. ServerBeach is built ‘By Geeks, For Geeks’ and we know that our customers will love this extra flexibility and control.”

Richard Davies, CEO at ElasticHosts, said, “We are delighted to offer our award-winning cloud servers to ServerBeach’s customers. We’re confident that they’ll be as excited by the scalability and flexibility as our own customers have been.”

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