Liquid Web News

Liquid Web Data Center Groundbreaking a Great Success!

July 11, 2008 -

On June 24th, 2008 Liquid Web celebrated the groundbreaking of Data Center 3, our new 90,000 square foot facility that will be home to 25,000 new customer servers and 600 new Heroic Support® engineers.

For more information, visit the DC3 Event Page to view a complete recording of the event which includes a data center tour video, a presentation by Liquid Web CEO Matthew Hill and a few words from Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.

The DC3 Event Page also includes pictures and press coverage of the event. Construction of Data Center 3 has already begun and is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2009. At the groundbreaking of Data Center 3, Liquid Web was joined by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, State Representatives Rick Jones and Joan Bauer, former Lansing Mayor David Hollister, Delta Township Supervisor Joe Drolett, and several of our valued clients.

View details from the DC3 Groundbreaking Event

Liquid Web Begins Data Center 3 - Ground Breaking June 24 @ 1pm

June 12, 2008 -

On June 24th, 2008 at 1pm, Liquid Web will hold a ground breaking ceremony to announce the details for our new $80 million dollar data center facility.

Construction of the new 90,000 square foot facility has already begun and is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2009. When complete, Data Center 3 will support 25,000 new customer servers in 50,000 square feet of premium data center space and 600 additional Heroic Support® engineers in 40,000 square feet of new office space. As one of our valued clients, we would like to invite you to join us for our ground breaking celebration.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP to newsletter@liquidweb.com.

Details:
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 1:00 p.m.
Liquid Web Data Center 3
Lansing, MI 48917
Delta Township

Liquid Web Zero Latency® Solid State Servers - A New Era In Storage Technology!

June 12, 2008 -

Liquid Web Zero Latency® uses the latest in random access Solid State Storage technology to deliver I/O rates and access times that are impossible to achieve with a traditional disk-based system.

Liquid Web Zero Latency is ideal for high-availability web applications because I/O wait times and bottlenecks will be virtually eliminated and your server's processing power and bandwidth will be fully utilized. This means that our clients can realize faster server performance and database access, increasing the performance of your entire application. Liquid Web Zero Latency total input/output operations per second tested 80 times faster than SATA and SAS drives.

Sign up for Zero Latency now and experience increased performance, reduced I/O read time and increased reliability.

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Liquid Web launches Windows VPS

June 12, 2008 -

Liquid Web's new Windows VPS product utilizes Virtuozzo to deliver high performance Microsoft Windows server environments at an affordable price. Our Windows VPS product was designed using the same state-of-the-art technology that is employed for our Linux VPS's. This ensures that we are able to deliver the same premier hosting experience that you have come to expect from our Linux VPS products. Liquid Web Windows VPS uses Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the Plesk control panel. Windows VPS customers are provided fully managed Heroic Support, Administrator Access (RDP), nightly off-server backups, and support for ASP and .NET.

Windows VPS Features

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Liquid Web Guardian - Managed Continuous Backup and Restore Service

June 12, 2008 -

Liquid Web Guardian is a fully-managed robust backup solution that provides continuous data protection and off-site disaster recovery for Linux and Windows Dedicated Servers.

Liquid Web Guardian uses replication and synchronization, with point-in-time snapshots, to provide up-to-the-minute data protection of your complete server configuration. In the case of a catastrophic event, our Sonar Monitoring Team recovers your exact server configuration to minutes before the event occurred.

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Liquid Web Completes Dark Fiber Build - Doubled Bandwidth Allocations For All Current Clients!

February 14, 2007 - Lansing, MI: Liquid Web is proud to announce a series of significant capacity upgrades to it's network infrastructure. First and foremost Liquid Web has completed a massive dark fiber build reaching each of it's data centers. This build is coupled with the completion of an on site high capacity state wide DWDM network which brings tens of gigabits of capacity to it's Michigan based data centers.

With the completion of this dark fiber build Liquid Web has brought additional capacity online from Tier1 provider AT&T, as well as a full OC48 (2.48Gbps) with Tier1 provider Level3 Communications. This capacity expansion is live and has effectively extended the Liquid Web network by greater than 3 gigabits, bringing it's total IP capacity to nearly 5 gigabits between it's four Tier1 providers. This is only the first of a series of major upgrades and will allow Liquid Web to cater aggressively to high bandwidth clients and the ever expanding network requirements of server operations in general.

In it's continued commitment to supporting the success of it's clients Liquid Web has as of today, doubled the bandwidth allocations for all current clients including Managed Dedicated Server, VPS, and Shared Hosting clients with no additional charges. "The success of our clients is our success as well, and we are committed to supporting them in every regard. This is merely the first in a series of enhancements which we will be offering to our users in the coming months." said Liquid Web CEO, Matthew Hill.

Liquid Web has also doubled bandwidth allocations on all new product offerings including Shared, VPS, and Managed Dedicated Server products. Visit www.liquidweb.com for further information and pricing.

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Liquid Web Inc. Announces New Data Center

July 25, 2006 - Last week Liquid Web Inc proudly announced the opening of its newest 32,000 square foot data center facility at HostingCon2006. Liquid Web's newest data center, DC2, is located in Lansing, Michigan and provided with Tier1 bandwidth from AT&T, MCI and Savvis Communication. DC2 has been designed with complete redundancy enabling maximum reliability and up-time. DC2 will be home to nearly 8,000 web servers and will make Liquid Web one of the largest consumers of bandwidth in the greater Lansing area.

Liquid Web chose HostingCon2006 to announce the opening of DC2 due to its targeted global audience of demanding Hosting professionals. "HostingCon was the perfect place to announce our newest Data Center because it attracts a very specialized group of companies that demand complete reliability from a Data Center provider." said Matthew Hill, CEO of Liquid Web Inc. "We designed DC2 with complete redundancy and reliability to cater to customers with an uncompromising need for maximum uptime and support."

With the opening of DC2 Liquid Web will continue to focus on quality Managed Hosting services for their Shared, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server (VPS) products. Liquid Web's Heroic Support team is staffed on site at both DC1 and DC2 24x7x365 facilitating response to any and all issues directly, mitigating the impact of issues at any layer; from software, to server hardware, to network layer.

Liquid Web is planning an open house event in August that will give interested individuals a personal tour of the newly opened DC2. For more information please email: openhouse@liquidweb.com.

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Liquid Web Announces Client Forums

March 1, 2006 - Liquid Web is proud to announce the formation of the Liquid Web Client Forums. The client forums are a public community for our clients to exchange technical knowledge as well as business strategy and other information relevant to the operation of your business and web site.

While the forums are not an official channel of technical support, they can be of great assistance when dealing with issues which would not normally be supported by our technical staff. They are also a great venue for the discussion of product offering suggestions and needs you may have which we do not currently meet.

To register in our forums, please visit:

http://forums.liquidweb.com/register.php

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PIMS has a new look!

February 5, 2005 - Liquid Web Inc.'s account management interface (PIMS) now has a new look and feel to it. The updates include a support area where you can manage your help desk tickets. Current customer can log in at the same URL as before, https://www.liquidweb.com/PIMS/ to view the updated system.

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Network Changes

December 20, 2004 - Liquid Web Inc, is transitioning some of its internal IP addresses. You'll notice that our web server and name servers IP will be changing. Customers sites will not be affected. See Here for more details.

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Liquid Web Completes Comprehensive Network Upgrades

December 1, 2004 - Web hosting and managed services provider Liquid Web Inc. announced on Thursday that it has activated OC-12 internet service with MCI/UUnet to it's Lansing datacenter. This announcement coincides with the official activation of an SBC OC-48 redundant diverse path SONET ring and a series of major network equipment upgrades within Liquid Web.

The Liquid Web network upgrade project which was carried out over a series of months includes a sizable acquisition of top of the line Cisco networking gear. Included in this upgrade are the addition of multiple redundant Cisco GSR 12000 border routers and a fully redundant network core featuring Cisco 6509's with Sup720 processors. The Liquid Web core network is able to handle up to 400 million packets per second and a transfer rate of 720 gigabits per second. This advanced configuration establishes a high performance self healing network that is able to survive equipment failures without performance implications or interruptions to client connectivity.

"We are proud to have obtained connectivity from what is without argument the most connected provider on the internet, MCI/UUnet. The decision to continue to select only the highest quality Tier 1 bandwidth providers represents what we consider a company wide commitment to creating the highest performance network possible." said Matthew Hill, CEO of Liquid Web Inc.

More information on the specifics of the upgrades can be found on the Liquid Web datacenter page located at:

http://www.liquidweb.com/about/datacenter.htm

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Liquid Web Inc Secures Diverse Path OC-48

July 28, 2004 - Web hosting and managed services provider Liquid Web Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has secured a deal with SBC to provide redundant OC-48 diverse path connectivity directly to it's Lansing, MI datacenter.

"This powerful addition to our network will further enhance our already established ability to consistently supply high performance, ultra high availability solutions to clients within our premium datacenter and network." said Matthew Hill, CEO of Liquid Web. "We spent a great deal of time engineering this solution for our network expansion and are confident our efforts will allow us to continue raising standards within the industry."

The new OC-48 SONET ring to the Liquid Web datacenter will feature redundant fiber with level 6 diverse paths connecting to multiple central offices, allowing for uninterrupted network integrity and operation even in the catastrophic failure of an entire supporting primary CO.

The company remains confident that these expansions, along with their continued additions of tier-1 bandwidth providers, will allow it to continue its dominance as the largest private datacenter in the central Michigan area.

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Network Upgrades Complete

June 10, 2004 - Liquid Web Inc. is now multi-homed with multiple fiber-optic connections to the internet. This increases the reliability as well as the performance of our network tremendously. Performance is enhanced through the increased network reach of our connections allowing the shortest and optimal routes to be selected. It also allows our datacenter to continue service without interuption if there is a failure in either one of our lines. The second connection is already installed and your account is already enjoying the benefits.

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New Dedicated Hosting Plans Unveiled

February 18, 2004 - New Dedicated Hosting plans with Hyperthreaded Dual Xeon processors and two gigabytes of RAM have been added. The unmatched quality of our Dedicated services in our new Datacenter has facilitated a threefold increase in our Dedicated customer base in the last five months. Click here to learn more.

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Fantastico Auto-Installer now Available

February 7, 2004 - The Fantastico auto-installer has been added to all shared hosting accounts. Fantastico offers instant installation of over forty popular web-based applications. Shared hosting customers now have immediate access to install blogs, customer support systems, discussion boards, e-commerce solutions, project management applications, and many other types of software with the click of a few buttons. Click here to learn more.

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Dedicated Hosting Plans Upgraded

November 20, 2003 - All Dedicated Hosting plans have been upgraded to include enormous amounts of bandwidth. Our premium Dedicated Plan 2 now comes with a massive 1 Terabyte (1,000 GB's) of transfer for both upsteam and downstream traffic (2,000 GB's Total).

In other Dedicated Hosting news, Liquid Web is now offering free Remote Reboot functionality with all Dedicated Hosting plans. This service allows you to reboot your machine from any web browser, and is available upon request to any current or new Dedicated Hosting client.

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New Control Panel Look, Features

November 5, 2003 - The Liquid Web Control Panel has been completely redesigned for a new streamlined look and feel. New features include a disk usage analyzer and the phpBB forum software. All shared hosting accounts will be upgraded to the new Liquid Web Control Panel by November 6th, 2003.

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Move to Lansing Datacenter Complete

November 1, 2003 - Liquid Web is happy to announce that all customers have successfully been moved to our brand new datacenter in Lansing, Michigan. With our servers on site, we will have immediate access to our network, diminishing server downtimes and decreasing resolution times of your service requests.

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