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iomart accelerates managed hosting growth with acquisition of RapidSwitch

iomart group has acquired the entire issued share capital of RapidSwitch Limited, a managed hosting provider and currently ranked by Deloittes as the 10th fastest growing technology company in the UK, for £4.3 million cash on completion with a further £0.95 million payable on 31st March 2010.

The company is focussed on delivering highly reliable managed hosting solutions for its clients. RapidSwitch currently manages over 4,000 dedicated servers on behalf of 1,600 clients ranging from SMEs through to large corporate. For the year to March 2008 revenues grew from £1.4 to £2.6 million and EBITDA was £760k. Similar rates of revenue growth have been maintained through to March 09.

Source: iomart

HowTo Forge have published a tutorial detailing how you can install ISPConfig3 onto a Centos 5.2 Server

The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.2 [ISPConfig 3]

The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.2 [ISPConfig 3]. This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.2 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to …

ISPConfig 3 is a web based control panel designed for web hosting outfits, allowing you configure certain services such as, Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV

The Planet has announced plans for its first international data centre, located in London. Based on significant customer demand for both international and globally redundant hosted infrastructure, the company initially will offer its virtual racks solution when its centre opens in April. Preleasing begins immediately. The data centre features up to 20kW of power per rack, backed by N+1 redundancy on generators, transformers and UPS systems. Customers gain access to a 10GB private fiber interconnect to The Planet’s core network through its Ashburn, Va., data centre, as well as local connectivity to Tier-1 providers and the major European peering exchanges.

The Planet has forged a colocation agreement with TelecityGroup, which operates 20 network-independent data centres across seven European countries. Procedures in the new facility comply with ISO 9001:2000, which benchmarks quality processes for data centre operations and management. TelecityGroup is highly regarded for both its premium data centres and operational expertise. It is also taking the lead in driving energy efficiency in the data centre in Europe as the first data centre operator to sign up to the new “EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres.” It is also a member of the Green Grid.

Source: Market Watch

Web hosting organization UK2 Group have announced the successful acquisition of Virtual Internet (UK). The acquisition of VI.net is a strategic fit for growing UK2’s footprint in the UK market, but will offer the opportunity to build the VI.net service in both the UK and the US.

The VI team have created a company with an unparalleled level of service in their market. Peter Rees, outgoing Managing Director of VI.net remarked, “Our business has been built on delivering outstanding customer service through a highly motivated team of exceptional people. I am confident that the acquisition by UK2 will allow the customer to feel confident about VI’s future going forward and will offer the team the opportunity to build the business into a market dominating brand.”

Source: My Host News
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