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February 16th, 2010 by INetU
INetU Managed Hosting was ranked in the top 3 managed hosting services by hosting review service HostReview in their annual web hosting awards.
Since 1996, INetU has been a prominent hosting provider focused on business web hosting for mission-critical sites. INetU provides a tailored managed hosting solution designed for each of their clients’ needs and establishing long-term relationships that have earned them over 96% client satisfaction. INetU also attributes earning this award to the personalized expertise delivered 24×7x356 by certified personnel and true 100% uptime they provide.
“We are very honored to receive this recognition from HostReview,” commented Dev Chanchani, President of INetU, “Our clients already know that INetU is willing to go the extra mile for them, and awards like these are evidence of that.”
Read the full story on INetU’s top ranking by HostReview.
Tags: awards, managed hosting, news
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February 9th, 2010 by INetU
EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network (CDN), and INetU, a managed hosting provider, today announced the availability of global content delivery services to all INetU customers.
This agreement opens EdgeCast’s worldwide content delivery network to INetU clients, enabling any INetU customers to instantly deploy web applications, site content, and media streams via any of EdgeCast’s sixteen points of presence around the world. This will mean dramatic increases in performance and the worldwide availability of customer sites.
“EdgeCast and INetU have something very important in common, and that is a culture of commitment to going above and beyond for every customer,” said James Segil, president of EdgeCast Networks. “This partnership is an example of that commitment in action - INetU’s customers sought a way to overcome the bottlenecks of long distance site performance, and INetU delivered. Now their customers have a true one-stop-shop for quickly delivering their content and applications to any computer around the world.”
INetU’s managed hosting customers previously served all content - media streams, web applications, and hosted files - from their servers in Allentown, PA. While the servers were connected to top tier Internet providers via fiber optics, latency for time sensitive applications to remote parts of the globe was challenging for some customers.
Read the full story about our CDN partnership.
Tags: cdn, managed hosting, news
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February 3rd, 2010 by Jeff P.
In a perfect world your website would be available all day, every day, completely without fail. In reality, downtime happens. Hosting providers like to guarantee uptime, but what does that really mean? Here are three things your hosting provider isn’t telling you about 100% uptime:
#1 - Uptime is your responsibility, too.
When you talk about uptime, you mean that your site is available to your audience. When a hosting provider talks about uptime, they mean network uptime, and possibly hardware availability if you are using shared resources instead of dedicated servers.
In a dedicated hosting environment, device availability and fault tolerance are your responsibility. If a hard drive fails, did you purchase a RAID configuration to protect yourself? Did you elect to build out a database cluster? Redundant firewalls?
Application availability is also affected by your developers. In many cases, changing a single file can drop your site off the radar, even though the pipes are live and the hardware is functional. Do you have a separate development area to prevent this kind of thing from happening? What controls do you have in place to make sure that only stable edits are pushed live?
#2 - Downtime happens. There is no preventing it.
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Tags: application availability, downtime, high availability, managed hosting, uptime
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November 18th, 2009 by Jason B.
The PCI Council introduced the PCI version 1.2.1 specification earlier this year, and there has been a lot of clarification done so the specification makes more sense; however,, there is still a lot of help needed in deciphering exact needs and next steps. Face it: it all comes down to what you have to do to be compliant. Well, a Managed Host can offload some of that confusion. At INetU, we can work with you and provide guidance to the 12 section PCI specification. Here is a nice little overview about how INetU can help you on your way to PCI compliance.
Requirement 1 – Requirement 1 deals with the network topology’s overall security, including items like Routers, switches, and firewalls. The overall security policy and implementation of those devices are key. INetU can work with you to build a strong rule set for your managed firewall, and we can secure network topology with segmentation to encompass your servers here. The rest of INetU’s network Infrastructure outside your environment is covered via INetU’s PCI Level 1 Service Provider compliance.
Requirement 2 – This requirement deals with securing the devices/systems. Items like removing default vendor supplied passwords, strong configuration standards, and encrypting administrative access are key here. INetU provides a strong configuration standard, based on NIST and SANS requirements, that includes changing default passwords. INetU can also provide VPN capable firewalls so that administrative access to your servers is encrypted.
Requirement 3 – PCI Requirement 3 deals with protection of the cardholder data that can be stored on your servers. INetU can help provides good guidelines on how to handle such information, as well as provide tools to check for this type of data on your servers, and whether it meets the correct requirements. A lot of these requirements are best practices in terms of secure data. INetU can not only work with you on best practices and options for key management, but help decipher some of the specifics in this requirement.
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Tags: managed hosting, pci, security
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September 2nd, 2009 by Andy B.
Recently INetU Labs put Dell’s low cost workgroup SAN through its paces to see how it compares to the more robust (and costly) Equallogic and EMC offerings. The results are in, and it seems that correctly configured, the MD3000i is great product with plenty of bang for your buck.
Configuration
For testing we used an MD3000i populated with a mix of 146GB SAS and 500GB SATA drives. The SAN shipped with a single controller but a second was added to test failover. A word of warning here – Dell configures the duplex mode based on how the SAN is ordered; if you add a second controller later you’ll need to use the command line tool to enable it, a process that’s not stated as a clear requirement and takes a little digging on the Internet to find documentation for. That being said, once you find the docs you’ll have it set in no time. Our test unit was a major firmware revision behind, and bringing it up to date took a good twenty minutes. Minor revision updates probably won’t take as long, but this is something to keep in mind if you’re striving for multiple nines of availability.
Once the hardware was configured and updated, the software install was a snap. The management software is somewhat cumbersome but gets the job done, and configuring the LUNs is a simple process. We were testing multipath (MPIO), and Dell requires a specific version of the iSCSI initiator on Windows servers, so be careful here, too. Fortunately, the supplied driver CD made sure the right version was installed.
Benchmarking
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Tags: benchmark, dell, high availability, labs, managed hosting, md3000i, san, server hardware
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