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040Hosting is a ‘Most Popular Hosting Provider’

patrick — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:04:44 +0000

040Hosting has been named one of the ‘Most Popular Managed Hosting Providers’ for this month by Serchen Interactive .

This means that our profile has been viewed so many times that we have become one of the Managed Hosting Directory’s Top 25 Most Popular Managed Hosting providers! previous awards where received in October 2011 and September 2011.

Check it out here http://www.managedhostingdir.com/search/profile.aspx?spid=18403

Update: And we made it to: December 2011 Most Popular Managed Hosting Provider, for the 4th month in a row 040hosting shows up at the Most Popular Managed Hosting Provider list of the managed hosting list. Lets continue this in 2012 and beyond.

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040Hosting is a ‘Most Popular Hosting Provider’

3 October 2011: Asian (Singapore) Hosting

patrick — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:14:51 +0000

It is finally becoming the truth 040hosting will extend to the Asia region soon, the plans are there, the datacenter is almost ready, POPs in Tokyo and Hong Kong will become active, and the Servers installed in Singapore. Currently the plan is to add this all in October/November 2011. I will keep you all updated. I hope you all are just as excited about this as we are ! We are still working on pricing and packages, but we will try to keep everything in line with our current offerings, no promisses yet, but as soon as we know we will update you here.

update 21-9-2011 : We expect to start delivering services from Singapore as from 3 October 2011; shared hosting will follow as soon our own servers are configured and tested.

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3 October 2011: Asian (Singapore) Hosting

040Hosting is in no way affiliated with Webreus (update)

patrick — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:48:12 +0000

As some clients did wonder after the problems at Webreus, we like to clarify that 040Hosting is in no way affiliated with Webreus even though we both operate from Eindhoven, The Netherlands that is where the comparison stops.

040hosting provides quality high performance hosting services at affordable prices to individuals and businesses all over the world. Our hosting plans are designed according to different clients needs and comes with full technical support and 100% customer satisfaction guarantee.

Are you a refuge ?

For those Webreus customers who want to switch we will offer a 20% discount on our shared-hosting (monthly) packages; by using the coupon: wreus20maand

For those who rather want a year contract (or need our Starter Package) you may use the coupon: wreus20jaar

Simple rules; coupons are valid till 31-08-2011 and only for new clients moving from webreus. (we may ask proof in form of the latest invoice if in doubt). Both coupons offer 1 year of 20% discount (either on the full year payment or each month with monthly payments for 12 months). We offer a 30 days money back guarantee on our shared-hosting packages. Discounts are valid for our European or USA based servers. Free transfer of site is not available from your previous host, but feel free to contact us to discus your personal situation and we can see what can be done for you.

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040Hosting is in no way affiliated with Webreus (update)

Rate us at WOT (Web of Trust)

patrick — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:20:31 +0000

We added our 040hosting.eu website to WOT (Web of Trust) now you can help others by finding how we do, by giving us the rating you believe we deserve. If you are an existing customer and want to make the web better, then WOT is a great way to browser the internet more secure and help others to find the sites they really need to avoid or to visit.

We are just added to WOT so we really need the input from our visitors; if you want; please feel free to give your rating at: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/040hosting.eu

Not using WOT yet, but interested, please visit the WOT page to sign up: http://www.mywot.com/

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Rate us at WOT (Web of Trust)

ICF Names Eindhoven Region of the Netherlands as its Intelligent Community of the Year 2011

patrick — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:30:57 +0000

(New York City, 3 June 2011) – The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named the Eindhoven Region of the Netherlands as the world’s Intelligent Community of the Year 2011 during its annual awards ceremony at Steiner Film Studios in Brooklyn, New York (USA). Eindhoven, which made ICF’s list of the Top Seven finalists for three consecutive years, was represented by a delegation led by Mayor Rob van Gijzel of the City of Eindhoven and Deputy Mayor Yvonne van Mierlo of the City of Helmond. ICF Co-founder Louis A. Zacharilla presented the award to Eindhoven, which succeeded Suwon, South Korea, the 2010 recipient. Representatives from Suwon were on hand to see the succession, as were officials from former recipients, including Stockholm, Sweden (2009), Gangnam, the high-tech district in Seoul (2008), Waterloo, Canada (2007), Taipei (2006), and Glasgow (2004).

VPS at 040Hosting in Europe

patrick — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:39:28 +0000

A VPS with 040Hosting, nobody would ever think that would happen, why ? because we believe that real hardware is far superior to a virtualized one as long there are sharing issues with disk IO. But in the years we found that clients are wanting a sandbox or cheap solution which is fully customizable but not having the budget for a big dedicated server yet.

This is where 040Hosting markets its new VPS servers, first we start of with our fully managed 040hosting VPS servers in europe; these servers are configured like our managed dedicated servers and include a cPanel/WHM license as well as a Softaculous license.

The VPS servers in the offering are high end VPS systems, we do not offer just 512mb nodes we start with at least 1GB of memory and 25GB of diskspace with 1TB of premium bandwidth monthly. Which makes the VPS powerful enough to run larger sites without having to order your own dedicated server yet.

As this is still a beta project we have some additional rules to protect you as client, we of course offer our 30days money back guarantee (see TOS for details) but also a 50% money back if the hardware node has a outage of more as 30minutes over a month time.

As additional bonus you can now get the first month 50% off with coupon : betavps50
You are the brave one and entrust your vps with us for the long time, we offer you 10% off for a year with betavps10

Still interested ? come and order your VPS and let us know what you think.

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VPS at 040Hosting in Europe

AFD IO Minimizer and AFD Cloud IO buster ; speed up your IO up to 150%

patrick — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:54:18 +0000

Eindhoven, NB. – April 1, 2011 – 040Hosting and Asymmetric-synthesis Filing Department (AFD™), the consortium dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of Asymmetric-synthesis File Deployment (AFD™) technology, today announced they are developing a plugin for all known hosting control-panels. This new low-profile plugin will enable more effective AFD integration in small form factor applications like your webserver.

AFD™ IO minimizer leverages the speed and reliability of the popular SATA, SATAII and SCSI interfaces to get rid of the IO overhead on your disks, this makes cost-effective storage solutions possible for everyone without needing big storage implementations, the AFD IO minimizer could gain you up to 60% lower IO rates, even a 150% is not unusual. At a very low cost.

The specification maps AFD™ signals onto an existing small form factor plugin, enabling more compact integration in a wide variety of applications like your webserver for both hard disk (HDD) and solidstate drives (SSDs). The AFD™ plugin allows companies to increase the IO without expensive upgrades.

~~The AFD™ plugin’s come in two versions,~~

…….

Obviously this AFD (April Fools Day) plugin was our April Fools Day joke; hope you enjoyed it as well as we did. IO will always stay, and if there is anything which improves it; it will likely never be 150%, let alone it being done by a simple software adjustment.

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AFD IO Minimizer and AFD Cloud IO buster ; speed up your IO up to 150%

SSL Certificates as from EUR 11.95 per year

patrick — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:59:27 +0000

No need to use self signed certificates anymore now you can get your own certificates at really low prices from 040Hosting; our prices start at EUR 11,95 per year or even as low as EUR 23,80 for a 3 year certificate. (all prices are inclusive of 19% VAT where applicable). Go grab your certificate at our website.

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SSL Certificates as from EUR 11.95 per year

Fully Managed European cPanel Server (Quadcore) x-mas promotion

patrick — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:01:58 +0000

cPanel/WHM Managed Quadcore Server EUR 105,00 excl. 19% VAT

Note that this server is limited available. We try to get more of the above server so stock may vary in the coming days. Click on the banner to order the server.

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Fully Managed European cPanel Server (Quadcore) x-mas promotion

SORBS DUHL DNS Block List Causing Widespread mail Deliverability Issues.

patrick — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:12:21 +0000

The SORBS DUHL (Dynamic User and Host List) seems to be incorrectly listing some of the ip ranges we have servers located in, causing email delivery problems for a wide range of IP addresses.

This service, which is supposed to list blocks of IP addresses that are assigned dynamically, is currently misclassifying at least one network range and rejecting mail from any IP address in that space. Some of 040Hosting’s servers are using addresses in this particulair range.

This misclassification has caused email deliverability problems for some users of 040Hosting’s email solutions, and many other valid mail senders as well. We’re seeing quite a few tweets about issues with SORBS today and message threads regarding SORBS DUHL incorrect listings.

040Hosting’s support department is aware of this issue and has been working to resolve the problem with SORBS technical support (which has thus far been unresponsive to repeated inquiries). Up to now we haven’t seen any public response from SORBS about what might be going on with their service.

We all know that false positives can happen with any blocklist service and 040Hosting advises email administrators which are relying on just a single RBL service for reviewing thier setup, note that the DUHL list is not even a SPAM black list. In the case of SORBS, this is (at least) the second major misclassification issue we’ve observed in the last 90 days. Email administrators who currently rely on SORBS should be aware of these issues and take action as necessary.

040Hosting does NOT rely on the SORBS DUHL for analyzing inbound email – we have our own reputation systems. Our comments here are about deliverability problems our customers are experiencing with their outbound (sent) email being blocked by recipients that *do* use the SORBS DUHL listing.

Once again we at 040Hosting want to stress out we have a zero tolerance policy for spam, but the DUHL list has nothing to do with spam in the first place; this list only TRIES to make a difference between dynamic IP’s and static IP’s and does in no way state if a IP is sending spam. Unfortunatly the tools to delist are not working at SORBS and keep giving time outs. We keep on trying.

Update: As many asked us why we are against SORBS i have to rectify this; we are not against a list like SORBS but we are against the usage in a poor manner as many seems to do; you should not use such a list as only measure to stop spam, you can use it to calculate the weight of the spam and move from there, further more if SORBS would be taking action or the de-listing of our IP’s would have worked (we are not able to because the site keeps timing out) we would probably not even have bothered to write this article.

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SORBS DUHL DNS Block List Causing Widespread mail Deliverability Issues.