Hosting Ireland Selects CA Technologies for the Design and Rapid Deployment of Private Cloud Services

The Managed Service Provider Will Offer Businesses a Range of Cloud Services and Solutions Powered by the CA AppLogic® Platform

Core News Facts
1. Hosting Ireland launches a new Web site that will offer private cloud services, including SaaS applications and a Virtual Data Centre solution.
2. The CA AppLogic® turnkey cloud computing platform will enable Hosting Ireland’s customers to quickly and easily deploy applications in hours instead of days or months.

ISLANDIA, N.Y. and DITTON PARK, UK, June 13, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that Hosting Ireland, one of Ireland’s leading domain name and web hosting companies, has chosen the CA AppLogic® turnkey cloud computing platform as the basis for delivering cloud services to new and existing customers.

The managed service provider (MSP) plans to launch a range of cloud services, including SaaS applications and a Virtual Data Centre solution in the coming year. The first, to be launched in June 2012, is it’s Cloud Server, a solution that will offer high availability, scalability and rapid deployment. In support of the offering, Hosting Ireland will launch a new Web site that will enable existing and potential customers to access cloud services quickly and easily.

“We chose the CA AppLogic platform because it can streamline customers’ movement to the cloud, accelerating their time to market and lowering their cost for deploying new applications,” said Jonathan Bate, managing director, Hosting Ireland. “The secure, highly available and cost effective solution will enable customers to compose and deploy complex applications on demand, in a matter of hours instead of days or months. Our new online configuration tool means customers can configure a cloud server quickly and easily by selecting central processing units, random access memory and disk space simultaneously.”

“Hosting Ireland has developed a reputation for delivering robust, cost effective hosting solutions for the Irish business community along with industry-leading customer technical support,” said Justine Harris, director, Cloud Solutions, CA Technologies. “Our innovative CA AppLogic platform will help ensure the delivery of hosted cloud solutions in less time than it typically takes to build from scratch. We look forward to Hosting Ireland’s continued success in consistently delivering value-added services and solutions to its customers.”

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• CA Cloud Solutions
• The CA Cloud Storm Chasers Blog
• @CA_Cloud on Twitter
• CA Cloud YouTube Channel
• Cloud Commons Community

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies’ innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organisations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

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About Hosting

Hosting Ireland is one of Ireland’s leading domain name registrars and web hosting companies, supplying domain names and website hosting services to businesses across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Hosting Ireland specialises in Shared Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Servers and Cloud Solutions. For more information visit: Hosting Ireland

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As part of the ‘Keep it in Waterford’ initiative Hosting Ireland would like to offer all Waterford Chamber members a fantastic opportunity to save on the annual website hosting fees.

Simply email Keepitinwaterford@hostingireland.ie with details of your website hosting costs and we’ll do our best to beat it! This offer applies to domain names and website hosting services and all information will be treated in the strictest confidence. If you would rather speak to one of our team, call 1890 987000.

Whether you’re a small business with a single page site, or a large ecommerce business you have nothing to lose and there’s no obligation. Your business could be one of many Waterford based companies who have already saved up to 50% on the website hosting fees by moving to Hosting Ireland.

In addition, we’re offering a one month FREE trial of Cloud Online Backup http://www.hostingireland.ie/cloud-backup-info.php – Simply you can back up you valuable files, photos and music to the Cloud.

We thought it was time to update our website and logo. For those of you that were familiar with the old logo you will see that the new logo is a digitised evolution of the old one. The new website design really says what Hosting Ireland is all about – ‘Hosting Ireland’. The site is easy for customers to use with a new menu structure and lots of new products now clearly presented.

Some of the new Hosting products we’d like to mention:

All our shared hosting is now Cloud, using the latest technology to deliver real customer benefits of improved uptime and business continuity. Our Cloud Lite+ hosting offers databases and more bandwidth over our old Lite Hosting package and you still get 25% of your domain price offering outstanding value. The Cloud Business+ offers more bandwidth, databases, email accounts and 50% off your domain price. Cloud Ultima still offers bags of space, bandwidth and databases including FREE Domain and SSL Cert.

Why not try our New Cloud Servers, offering real flexibility, high availability and future proof scalability. Our Cloud Servers offer a real alternative for a dedicated server or VPS and you only pay for what you need when it comes to Cores, Space and Bandwidth. You can adjust your resources as your business demands and pay as you grow, so you’re not tied into a fixed high price upfront.

Of course all our other great hosting products are still available from the new site.

Let us know what you think about our new site

Job Title – Systems Technician

Company
Hosting Ireland is one of Ireland’s leading domain name registrars and provider of hosting services and solutions. Over the last 10 years Hosting Ireland has built a reputation for outstanding customer support and prides itself with delivering leading edge hosting platforms to the web community. Hosting Ireland is now embarking on its next phase of expansion and is looking for talented individuals who can continue to build the company’s reputation and go that extra mile in delivering world class support.

Job Description
The key responsibility of this role is to deliver exceptional technical support to our customers, which includes the following:
– Deploy, maintain and manage the hosting infrastructure and resources including cloud platforms.
– Handle escalated tickets from the front line support team to resolution and interface with customers where required
– Work with a continual improvement methodology to improve user experience and automation of management systems through scripting, coding and innovation
– Respond to alerts and issues out of hours on an on-call basis
– Proactively anticipate any potential down time/traffic issues and resolve before they arise
– Troubleshoot Dell servers, Cisco switches, Linux & Windows virtual machines
– Responsible for the real time monitoring of all hardware and software applications on a variety of operating systems across multiple datacenters, diagnosing and repairing faults.

Desired Skills & Experience
– Minimum of 3 years experience in an IT environment
– Proven track record of dealing with customer enquiries
– Expert knowledge of either Linux or Windows operating systems
– Basic understanding of Microsoft technologies, such as IIS, SQL, ASP & AD
– Ability to work under pressure and excellent problem solving skills
– Excellent organisation skills and the ability to work in a team environment
– Previous experience in physical server deployments (cabling, OS installation etc)
– Previous customer facing ticket based helpdesk experience
– General understanding of networking and TCP/IP
– Experience in Cloud hosting platforms would be an advantage

Please send us your CV and a brief covering letter to careers@hostingireland.ie

The Softaculous Team has released Softaculous 3.7

If you are interested in using Softaculous and currently are not an existing customer, or don’t have the option available through your cPanel, please contact our support desk for assistance.

This version of Softaculous adds some cool new features and fixes some bugs. This version has many User Interface improvements.

A complete list of changes:

1) Added the Progress Bar to show the current status of the install and upgrade process of scripts. This has been done for all script types – PHP, JavaScript and PERL.

2) A new Category Slider has been added in Softaculous. Its more stylized now 🙂

3) Added stylized tables to show the list of Installations in Softaculous.

4) We have fastened our JavaScript Libraries to give you a better experience while using Softaculous.

5) The Softaculous Apps Category in cPanel has now been improved and is more stylish and user friendly then ever. Also this is now available in Direct Admin as well.

6) Added a feature for the ADMIN to choose the scripts that should appear in the Softaculous Apps Category in the Control Panel.

7) Added a new “Button” to highlight the Install Tab while installing a script.

8 ) Improved the Softaculous Core Update process. You now have an option to select a “Release Candidate” or a “Stable” branch of the Softaculous Core. The default will be the “Stable” branch.

9) Added Hooks in the Softaculous Installation and Upgradation Process. A server admin can execute code to customize the installation or upgrade process. e.g. if the server admin wants to customize all WordPress installations, he can add a hook. Guide to use the Hooks is here : http://www.softaculous.com/docs/Hooks

10) Correct Settings of suPHP will be auto detected in cPanel during installation of Softaculous.

11) Improved the backup process and removed some bugs related to the backup and restore feature.

12) Bug Fix : Whenever an email is sent to the Server Admin about a Softaculous Core update, HTML code was visible in the email. This is now fixed.

13) Bug Fix : The Softaculous Scripts Menu on the left was not remembering the collapsed or expanded state properly in IE6. This is now fixed.

14) Bug Fix : Fixed the “rn” bug in the emails being sent via Softaculous. QMail had issues with “rn” which caused the header to be displayed in the body.

15) Bug Fix : The “Buy Premium License” in the Softaculous Admin panel used to open in the same Frame itself. It will now open in a new Tab.

16) Bug Fix : The Search was not working for PERL Scripts. This is now working.

We are proud to announce that we now have an iphone app available for download! It will give existing and new customers the ability to access various domain and hosting services while on the go. Taking account management to a whole new level.

What can you use it for?

This release of our hosting app includes these features :

• Allow customers to search for available domain names.
• Purchase new domains.
• View current products and services.
• Pay current invoices.
• View historical invoice and payment details.
• Update or add new contact details.
• Submit support tickets directly to our support team.
• Call our support desk via a direct dial button on the app.
• View whois details on registered domains.

Why did we make an app?

The Hosting Ireland iPhone app is a further demonstration of our commitment to our valued customers. We are constantly looking at ways of making life easier for our clients and also of encouraging potential new customers to try out our market leading products and services, life is getting busier and we feel that the app will be a welcome tool for the online community.

We have developed this app in house to suit our clients requirements. The app was designed for web developers, programmers, resellers and clients with a portfolio of sites to manage and monitor their services remotely.

Softaculous announced today that version 3.5 is now available.

If you haven’t used Softaculous as of yet, Softaculous is an extremely useful tool available to our shared hosting customers who have a Pro_Business or Pro_Ultima account.

It provides you with easy 1 click installations of the top Freeware and Shareware programs like for instance :

Softaculous is also available for all of our VPS Hosting and Dedicated Server Hosting customers to offer their clients.

The main feature updates in Softaculous 3.5 are :

• We have added PERL scripts for the endusers. A user can now install PERL scripts without going through complex installation procedures.
• Added the ACL for control panel plans. Now you can define Softaculous Plans / ACL and link them to the control panel plan. All users who have that particular control panel plan will automatically get only the scripts listed in the Softaculous Plan.
• We have added a new SUPER COOL feature – A Softaculous Category in the cPanel User Interface showing the TOP 14 scripts that the user can access directly from cPanel. You can also rename the Category to anything you like to suite the name of your Hosting Company.



• We have added a new Softaculous favicon. There are new Favicons for Webuzo and AMPPS as well.
• Added API to get the list of Installed Scripts of a user.
• Added API to uninstall an installation of a user.
• Added API to get the Demos and Screenshots of a script.
• Categorized the scripts in the Add and Edit ACL / Plan pages for easy selection of scripts.
• Added option to disable PERL scripts if a host doesnt want to offer it.
• Added option to add a Remote MySQL Host in Direct Admin.
• Improved API to import scripts with Data Directory.
• Improvements for the next version of AMPPS and Webuzo which will be launched soon after. AMPPS is a WAMP and MAMP stack for Desktops and servers while Webuzo is Standalone Softaculous for VPS and Clouds.
• Bug Fix : MySQL DB Name suggestion has been improved for long usernames.
• Bug Fix : While backing up an installation if a file was not readable, the backup used to fail. More error reporting has been added and the backup procedure has been improved.
• Bug Fix : In Plesk 10+ subscription domains was not supported by Softaculous. This is now supported.
• Bug Fix : Added UTF-8 email support in Softaculous.
• Bug Fix : Added seperate php.ini in Direct Admin for Softaculous to avoid bugs related to suhosin enabled servers.
• Added feature to install Popular scripts like WordPress, PrestaShop, MyBB, phpBB, DokuWiki, Piwik and few more in Multiple Languages.