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Below are the Server Uptime Figures for Web Hosting Buzz for the month of October 2008. They have been directly copied from our backend server monitoring system called Nagios.

Shared Hosting Servers

alpha.whbdns.com    100.000%
asteroid.whbdns.com    98.990%
athena.whbdns.com    100.000%
bear.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
business2.whbdns.com    100.000%
cat.whbdns.com    100.000%
cheetah.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
comet.fastwhb.com    100.000%
fish.whbdns.com    100.000%
fox.whbdns.com    100.000%
galaxy.whbdns.com    100.000%
gold.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr1.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr2.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr3.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr4.whbdns.com    100.000%
intense1.intensewhb.com    100.000%
manatee.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
milkyway.whbdns.com    100.000%
moon.whbdns.com    100.000%
panda.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
planet.whbdns.com    100.000%
sd1.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared1.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared2.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared3.ultrawhb.com    99.978%
shared4.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared5.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared6.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared7.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared8.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared9.whbdns.com    100.000%
shark.whbdns.com    100.000%
sky.whbdns.com    100.000%
solaris.whbdns.com    100.000%
ss1.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss2.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss3.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss4.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss5.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
star.whbdns.com    100.000%
sun.whbdns.com    100.000%
usa.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
venus.whbdns.com    100.000%
zeus.whbdns.com    100.000%

Reseller Hosting Servers

rs1.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs2.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs3.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs4.whbdns.com    99.977%
rs5.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs6.whbdns.com    99.998%
rs7.whbdns.com    99.975%
rs9.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs10.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs11.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs12.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs14.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs15.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs16.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs17.whbdns.com    100.000%

Please note that these figures do not include our dedicated server clients. As you can see we had another great month and hope to continue this trend…

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You probably don’t geek out about server technology the way we do, but we’d like to let you know a bit about our hosting environment so you can feel a bit more secure at night knowing your site(s) are being hosting in a good place with good equipment.

We’ve recently migrated much of our business to a colocation facility at Atlanta NAP.  The caged facility in Atlanta, Georgia will house over 1,000 servers.  There are motion detecting IP cameras throughout for maximum security as well as a ten foot razor fence.  HSRP drops throughout provide redundant internet connections should one fail and a redundant paralleled power system ensures the facility will not suffer outages.  Like other servers already used by WebHostingBuzz, the servers at the AtlantaNAP location will have 8 CPU Intel Xeon processors and 8 GB of RAM for  increased performance, and are cooled by Atlanta NAP’s N+1 cooling towers and redundant N+1 pumps.  To  further improve performance, this facility also sits directly on one of Atlanta’s main fiber backbones and is part of a metro ethernet ring based on Extreme Networks 10 gig technology.

Here are the specs of the servers:
Supermicro dual xeon 5410, with a total of 8 CPUS at 2.33ghz
8gb ECC RAM
RAID5 1 terabyte hard drives

If you aren’t a hardware geek, no worries, these are very capable servers and we look forward to the performance boost we can offer our customers.

We are very proud of our Partner Program because it gives money back to our customers to promote us rather than to Google or some less-than-honest review site.  The key for it to work is 1.) our ultimate integrity in payouts and 2.) your ability to sell our hosting.  What sort of ways can you use this Partner Program to earn 20% of each sale?

1.) If you are a web professional, refer your clients to the button where you are selling hosting.  Have them buy from that link, and you will earn 20%.  We don’t really care if you publicly display our link (although we’d appreciate it), you just have to have the link hosted on our servers.  What’s nice about this model?  Unlike reseller hosting, you are giving your customers the freedom to maintain their own account.

2.) Design a WHB button geared towards donating to your favorite charity.  Any time someone buys from it, donate your 20%.

3.) Foster support for your open source project by selling hosting on your site.

4.) Set up a button geared towards donating your 20% to a beer fund.  Have a party once you earn a certain amount.

We don’t care what you do with the money or how you get it as long as you aren’t making claims about us that aren’t true.  Promote WebHostingBuzz any way you can and keep your 20%.  We’ll focus on keeping your sites up and giving you the best customer service possible so you won’t have to worry about promoting us.

We give our regards to everyone undergoing rough economic times, and hope this is an added bonus of hosting with WebHostingBuzz.

Yes, that is true. We have recently found out that Google has upgraded Web Hosting Buzz from PR 6 to PR 7. PR (page rank) is a technology google uses to find out how many quality links point to a web site. We would like to thank all our clients and affiliates that have helped us gain this status.

Thank you very much.

WebHostingDirectory, a source for hosting information and news since 1997, gave WebHostingBuzz an award for Best Unix Web Hosting.  We are honored to receive this award and want to thank all of our dedicated staff who made this possible.  Well, enough accolades.  Back to work ;).

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Below are the Server Uptime Figures for Web Hosting Buzz for the month of September 2008. They have been directly copied from our backend server monitoring system called Nagios.

Shared Hosting Servers

alpha.whbdns.com    100.000%
asteroid.whbdns.com    99.982%
athena.whbdns.com    99.948%
bear.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
business2.whbdns.com    99.916%
cat.whbdns.com    99.896%
cheetah.ultrawhb.com    99.694%
comet.fastwhb.com    100.000%
fish.whbdns.com    99.864%
fox.whbdns.com    99.776%
galaxy.whbdns.com    100.000%
gold.whbdns.com    99.930%
hr1.whbdns.com    99.809%
hr2.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr3.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr4.whbdns.com    100.000%
intense1.intensewhb.com    100.000%
manatee.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
milkyway.whbdns.com    100.000%
moon.whbdns.com    100.000%
panda.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
planet.whbdns.com    100.000%
sd1.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared1.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared2.ultrawhb.com    99.234%
shared3.ultrawhb.com    99.759%
shared4.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared5.ultrawhb.com    99.932%
shared6.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared7.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared8.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared9.whbdns.com    100.000%
shark.whbdns.com    99.792%
sky.whbdns.com    100.000%
solaris.whbdns.com    99.913%
ss1.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss2.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss3.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss4.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss5.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
star.whbdns.com    100.000%
sun.whbdns.com    98.700%
usa.ultrawhb.com    99.897%
venus.whbdns.com    100.000%
zeus.whbdns.com    99.894%

Average    99.910%

Reseller Hosting Servers

rs1.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs2.whbdns.com    99.741%
rs3.whbdns.com    99.879%
rs4.whbdns.com    99.844%
rs5.whbdns.com    99.977%
rs6.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs7.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs9.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs10.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs11.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs12.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs14.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs15.whbdns.com    99.780%
rs16.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs17.whbdns.com    100.000%

Average    99.948%

Please note that these figures do not include our dedicated server clients. As you can see we had another great month and hope to continue this trend…

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Yesterday, the stock markets tumbled as a result of the rejection of the bank bailout bill.  Although we certainly aren’t happy about this situation, we want you to know that we are an owner operative, cash flow positive company.  We have diversified financial headquarters in both the U.S. and Dubai, so we should have no issues through this financial turmoil.  We will continue to focus on offering you the fastest, most stable, and economical hosting company on the market.

To see our offerings, please check out our website.

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Below are the Server Uptime Figures for Web Hosting Buzz for the month of August 2008. They have been directly copied from our backend server monitoring system called Nagios. As you can see we have seen yet another great month and would continue to work harder for your success.

Shared Hosting Servers

alpha.whbdns.com    100.000%
asteroid.whbdns.com    100.000%
athena.whbdns.com    100.000%
bear.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
business2.whbdns.com    100.000%
cat.whbdns.com    100.000%
cheetah.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
comet.fastwhb.com    100.000%
fish.whbdns.com    99.889%
fox.whbdns.com    100.000%
galaxy.whbdns.com    100.000%
gold.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr1.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr2.whbdns.com    99.998%
hr3.whbdns.com    100.000%
hr4.whbdns.com    100.000%
intense1.intensewhb.com    100.000%
manatee.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
milkyway.whbdns.com    100.000%
moon.whbdns.com    100.000%
panda.ultrawhb.com    99.640%
planet.whbdns.com    100.000%
sd1.whbdns.com    100.000%
vps1.whbdns.com    99.938%
vps2.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared1.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared2.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared3.ultrawhb.com    99.869%
shared4.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared5.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
shared6.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared7.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared8.whbdns.com    100.000%
shared9.whbdns.com    99.916%
shark.whbdns.com    100.000%
sky.whbdns.com    100.000%
solaris.whbdns.com    100.000%
ss1.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss2.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss3.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss4.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss5.webhostingbuzz.com    100.000%
ss6.webhostingbuzz.com    97.278%
star.whbdns.com    100.000%
sun.whbdns.com    100.000%
usa.ultrawhb.com    100.000%
venus.whbdns.com    99.972%
win2k3.whbdns.com    100.000%
zeus.whbdns.com    100.000%

Reseller Hosting Servers

rs1.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs2.whbdns.com    99.969%
rs3.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs4.whbdns.com    99.949%
rs5.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs6.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs7.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs9.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs10.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs11.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs12.whbdns.com    99.812%
rs14.whbdns.com    100.000%
rs15.whbdns.com    99.865%
rs16.whbdns.com    100.000%

Please note that these figures do not include our dedicated server clients. As you can see we had another great month and hope to continue this trend…

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In order to better know our customers, what they were using our services for, and how we are doing as a company, we decided to survey our current WHB customers.  Most of the feedback was good, some of it was rather amusing, but it did give us some direction as to how we can make WebHostingBuzz even better.

What were some of our favorite comments?

“WHB is simply THE best hosting provider I have been using. I have been involved on the internet since 1997, By no comparison, WHB are the BEST on planet earth when it comes to server uptime, prices and packages and an outstanding customer service and support. these are my 2cents and I am sticking to my statement.”

“I have nothing but praises for my host WHB. Simply the best.”

“Web Hosting Buzz totally rocks!”

“I would recommend it to all my friends… if I had any.”

Here are the results.  We have already started to comb over the feedback so as to improve our offerings in the future:

1. I would rate the sales/billing process at WebHostingBuzz as:
Exceptionally quick and straightforward. Good. My problems were solved. Average. Some minor issues here and there. Poor. I dread contacting you. Not noticeable enough to comment. Sales Support 26.7 % 41.7 % 12.6 % 1.7 % 17.0 % Billing Support 26.9 % 37.4 % 16.4 % 3.8 % 15.2 %
2. I would rate the technical support at WebHostingBuzz to be
Unnecessary. My site is always up. Quick and very helpful. Capable of solving my problem. A little on the bad side. Pure pain. HelpDesk support 12.9 % 47.3 % 29.1 % 6.4 % 4.1 % LiveChat support 27.4 % 34.4 % 27.8 % 5.1 % 5.1 %
3. My preferred method for contacting WebHostingBuzz is:
79.3% HelpDesk (269) 20.6% LiveChat (70)
4. I would rate the speed of my WebHostingBuzz site to be
55.2% Good. I have no complaints. (189) 28.9% It has its moments, but it’s usually pretty good. (99) 8.4% Stellar. (29) 7.3% Slow. A little help, please. (25)
5. I use WebHostingBuzz to host:
42.7% a site composed of custom pages I or someone else built (249) 17.0% a blog (99) 16.1% a site built using a content management system (94) 7.0% View “Other” Answers “Other” Answers 6.5% an application (38) 5.8% a store (34) 4.6% other people’s sites. I’m a reseller. (27)
6. What plan(s) are you currently on?
83.8% Budget (296) 7.6% Reseller (0-20 sites) (27) 3.6% Business Lite ($35 a month) (13) 2.2% Reseller (20+ sites) (8) 1.1% Business Buzz ($55 a month) (4) 1.1% Dedicated Server (4) 0.2% Business Enterprise ($75 a month) (1)

Optional Questions

7. The best CMS on the market today is:

31.5% What is a CMS? (93) 25.0% WordPress (74) 16.9% “Other” Answers 16.2% Joomla (48) 8.1% Drupal (24) 2.0% Mambo (6)

8. FOR DEVELOPERS: I program in:

32.4% PHP (97) 27.0% I’m no programmer! (81) 21.7% HTML and CSS (65) 12.7% “Other” Answers 2.3% Java (7) 2.0% Python (6) 1.0% Ruby on Rails (3) 0.6% ASP.NET (2)

We’ve just completed a deal that secures us 400sq foot of private datacenter space in our own caged suite in AtlantaNAP, Atlanta. This gives us space for approximately 1,000 servers and adds much more scope to the services that we can provide. We will also be running our own network (previously, we bought bandwidth from the facility itself) and this will allow us to tune everything for customers needs. We also have our own dedicated power feed/UPS along with a custom cooling configuration for our private space. Pretty cool huh?

We will have to physically migrate servers about 200ft from there current location (we have 9 racks in the general colocation area) to our new private area and we expect around 15 minutes of downtime per server as we do this, but this will be scheduled and maintenance windows will be posted.

Once the migration is completed, we’ll also be publically launching our eagerly anticipated VPS plans. Stay tuned.