Welcome to the High Availability Hosting Blog

Last week we (quietly) launched our Flexible Virtual Servers hosted on Hyper-V.

Since we had a number of back-orders from existing clients to fulfill, we’ve been working hard to provision these new servers first – as well as creating documentation, support access, procedures etc (I know, bit boring but has to be done…)

Demand has sure outstripped supply, at least on the first cluster nodes we’ve built.  So much so that this weekend we’re upgrading the memory in the first 2 cluster nodes, before looking at buying more physical servers as we move forward.

Flexible Virtual Servers will be available to new customers in May.  Pricing will be formally announced shortly, as well as updating the websites, but I can give an example server here:

• 1 x Opteron 2.0Ghz CPU
• 1GB memory
• 25GB SAN Disk Space
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• 2 x IP Addresses
• Linux OS

£38.50 per month!

Windows server OS + £5 per month

You’ll be able to configure your server as you want it, with anything from 128MB to 3GB memory, a variety of Operating System options, 25GB to 1TB disk space, inclusive bandwidth.  The “smallest” server, will start at just £7 per month.

If you can’t wait, or want to know more, contact sales(at)hahosting.com or call us on 0114 228 0022.

We’ve today updated the HA Hosting website:

• Removal of Solaris server hosting
• First mentions of Hyper-V hosting (coming soon)
• Graphics updates

Hyper-V Virtual Dedicated Servers will be available soon, new lower pricing and specific details will be posted soon.  In the meantime if you’d like to know more about our Hyper-V Virtual Dedicated Servers, contact us!

Hello!  Firstly, hope you like the new look blog.  We’ve moved the blog from the old home on the Sheffield Data Centre website  to a dedicated site here at www.hahosting.info – the new blog will have news, info, updates and media from HA Hosting,  TheVirtualCloud and the Sheffield Data Centre.  All the content from the original blog is here too.

This new look and feel for the blog is a sneak preview of what our websites will look like when they’re updated next week.  All  our websites will have a shared theme and flow into each other with common menus and headers.

We’ve got a lot going on right now, and we’ll be posting detailed updates later, but here’s what we’re up to in November:

HA Hosting

• Trials are being planned of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with failover clustering for Virtual Dedicated Servers.
• Upgrade of the Client Control Panel due before christmas.

TheVirtualCloud

• New web hosting infrastructure on Windows Server 2008 is starting to be rolled out.
• Outlook Anywhere Hosted Exchange price reduced to just £6.50 per month for a 1GB mailbox.
• First trial customers for our upcoming Hosted SharePoint service are now live.
• Replacement DNS Name Servers are now live, customer migrations due soon.

Sheffield Data Centre

• Energy Saving Evaporative Cooling technology delivered to site, awaiting installation.
• Ground works for the site generator have started.
• Low Latency Network for gamers has been successfully trailed.
• Free Bandwidth Forever is being offered in the shared colo racks.
• 5Mbit for £50 per month package coming soon.

In the short term we’re working on the new cooling system in the Data Centre, preparing the network for the Unlimited Bandwidth Forever deals, and completing the rollout of the new web hosting infrastructure.  Detailed updates for everything will be posted soon, so watch this space!