Often, we’re asked: why Open Hosting over Amazon’s AWS? And our answer begins with the two design principles that define our service:
 

1. Cloud servers that behave like real server: Our platform can be understood using familiar terms: server, drive, IP address, public network, and private network. This familiar vocabulary promotes easy adoption and easy migration.

 

2. An open source foundation and an open outlook: Built on Linux-LVM, our platform will run your software without modification. Upload an existing server, upload an ISO, or start from scratch with a pre-installed system: however you start, we provide an execution environment designed to accommodate software without modification. And, as easy as it is to deploy infrastructure with Open Hosting, it’s just as easy to download your servers and go elsewhere.

 

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** Successfully Completed** – Just in time for spring cleaning, Open Hosting is upgrading several network switches and power units at our facility in Miami. This upgrade will result in disruptions to both public and private network infrastructure: your servers will have their connections to the Internet and to their VLANs disrupted. In addition, the host servers will be rebooted, which will in turn reboot your servers.

The scheduled network downtime is from April 20th at 10PM EST to April 20th at 11PM EST, during which period your servers will be unavailable and rebooted once. We don’t expect to need the entire hour, and will make every effort to ensure a quick upgrade.

This is our first planned downtime at East1 for 2012 and we hope it is the last. Yet, with the new gear comes some immediate benefits:
 

• an additional level of network redundancy
• faster public network interface
• faster private network interface for VLANs
• additional network protections from things like DOS attacks
• lays the foundation for some exciting new features and possibilities…

We’re proud to sponsor PGDay NYC 2012.

PGDay NYC 2012 will be held on April 2, 2012 at the Lighthouse International in New York City. PGDay NYC is an intensive one-day PostgreSQL symposium with technical sessions focusing on the core topics you need to succeed with PostgreSQL. It will cover topics for users, developers and contributors to PostgreSQL.
 
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We’d like to introduce our new referral program. Send us new business, and for each dollar your referral deposits in their first 30 days, we’ll credit your Open Hosting account dollar-for-dollar up to $100.

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Open Hosting opposes the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA).

This is a case where our principles are aligned with the best interests of our clients and the best interests of Open Hosting. SOPA threatens to infect the Internet with a virus worse than anything that could be written in code.

Join us and take action to stop this harmful legislation.

Where do your elected representatives stand?

There’s a lot of confusion surrounding this elegant approach to marshaling computer resources. And, hoping to dispel some of the bewilderment, we offer a definition of cloud hosting that is easy to understand, accurate, and without hype. There are two parts to our definition of cloud hosting:

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