iWeb Communities: Blog

The basketball season has taken off and what a superb way to launch this season. The 2009 iWeb team won 31-30 against the AND1 team, which was the winner last year in a very tight match. The iWeb team didn’t have yet the opportunity to train together once, and there wasn’t yet perfect coordination between team members, but nevertheless, the team managed to find path to victory.

The next match will be held next tuesday and iWeb hopes to continue its good work

Here is the team from left to right: Cyrille Mertes (VP IT Global Infrastructure), Elias Sabbagh (Account Manager), Roberto Montesi (Team manager – Applications), Emanuel Delanoix (Infrastructure – Provisioner), Patrick O-Reilly (Account manager), Alexander ”The cat” Williams (Sys-Admin – advanced solutions), Bernard Dahl (Director, communications and public relations), Peter Calixte (Data center operator), Stevens Célamy (Account manager), the man behind the camera; Sylvain Delisle (Marketing)

We are launching the idea of a match iWeb VS customers so all of our customers with a competitive spirit are welcomed for a friendly basketball match, so leave a comment here.

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 29th, here are the highlights:

• Edushi is a Google maps mashup with 3D visuals. It’s impressive and lets us see what can be done with the Google Maps API.
• The new ground zero in Internet Warfare
• Tokutek’s TokuDB claims to speed up MySQL by a factor of 10

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 27th, here are the highlights:

• How to leverage product development for your web company
• How much ads cost is an article revealing rates if you want to advertise on different media (TV, cable, magazine, Internet, radio). This is especially useful if you want to put ads on your website and negotiate with advertisers
• Compass is a CSS framework (video tutorial on how to use it)

As introduced here, we’re drawing 2 winners at the end of each week, with each winner getting $1000 in hosting credits. Patrick Hanley and Monica Huacon drew the winners today, with Monica picking Philip Harris (from bigbossmaher.org) and Patrick picking Manoj Pillai (from netiapps software) as the winners for this first week.

For those who haven’t decided yet, see our promotion now, and get a chance to win one of the $1000 drawing next week.

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 23rd, here are the highlights:

• I ? wireframes is a blog/slideshow referencing interesting wireframes patterns
• How to optimize your website with mod_deflate
• Massive botnet, 2 million infected. The new network is operated out of Ukraine
• Microsoft Windows 7 is a gift to Google, writes Silicon Alley Insider

Canal Argent, a cable channel covering finance and business, today interviewed Mr. Bernard Dahl, Director of Communications at iWeb, about the 10.000th server milestone reached at iWeb.

Click on the image or here to view the interview (in French). Bernard Dahl presents the company, the advantages of managed hosting, and also future outlooks for the company (hint: they are bright)

Canal Argent, a cable channel covering finance and business, featured today Mr. Bernard Dahl, Director of Communications at iWeb, about the 10.000th server milestone reached at iWeb.

Click on the image or here to view the interview (in French). Bernard Dahl presents the company, the advantages of managed hosting, and also future outlooks for the company (hint: they are bright)

Today is Earth Day, an opportunity to think globally on climate change, a sustainable future, and to think how our current uses & lifestyles impact the planet.

How important is being green in web hosting? After all, we are just moving electronic bits around, and it doesn’t look like the automobile or the steel industry. Still, a recent study shows that 78 percent of shoppers value green websites, which means that if you are doing business online (or even if you only have a simple blog), it’s important to enquire how your web hosting company view the environment and energy efficiency.

First, we do site-wide recycling in iWeb’s 3 data centers. iWeb also uses RoHS motherboards since 2006, which do not contain harmful substances like lead, cadmium, or mercury, as opposed to normal motherboards.

Of course, a web hosting company’s environmental impact is linked essentially to power consumption required to power the servers and utilities 24/7, all year round. To this effect, all of iWeb’s data centers are powered with renewable, clean energy, from Hydro-Québec, which produces electricity with from hydro-electric dams.

Since iWeb is also located in Quebec, Canada, we also need much less air conditioning to cool the hot air produced by the servers, as opposed to data centers that would be located in cities like Dallas or San Francisco.

Recycling, toxin-free materials, renewable energy, efficient power consumption, those are all the areas where iWeb does make a difference. Next time you consider purchasing a web hosting solution, do think about the green efforts of this company

As announced in yesterday’s blog post, iWeb has reached the magic number of the 10.000th dedicated server deployed.

We have an official press release

It’s a significant milestone, and all the numbers we have indicate that iWeb will be growing faster as ever.

To celebrate the event with you and anyone else interested in joining iWeb, we’ve just launched a special promotion.

Congratulations to all the iWeb staff, and thanks to all iWeb customers!

The company has more than tripled its server count over three years

Montreal, Quebec, April 21 – iWeb announced today that it has reached the mark of over 10,000 dedicated servers hosted for its customers. The rise of media-rich applications available online, combined with the demand for increased IT capacity has grown the Internet hosting provider’s footprint from 3000 servers in 2006 to over 10,000 dedicated servers today.

“ The fact is that many companies today are using IP-based technologies to keep IT spending under control, or to reduce spending. IT budget restrictions mean that the companies we work with are outsourcing their infrastructure to iWeb instead of financing their servers, maintaining them and building their own data centers.” says Eric Chouinard, iWeb’s President and CEO. He adds that “because they have trusted iWeb with the management of their servers, iWeb’s customers can focus on their core business.”

iWeb, who provides hosted dedicated servers as a monthly service, has seen its revenues increase at least 60% every year since 2003.

“When iWeb started providing dedicated server hosting in 2002, it was as an experiment, 10,000 servers later it has become iWeb’s core business” says iWeb’s President of Products and Technology, Martin Leclair. “iWeb is now in a position to start creating a server product that has even more value for the customer” confirms the enthusiastic co-founder of iWeb.

The Montreal-based company, who recently announced a 92% increase in first quarter revenues, will be rolling out theme-based marketing campaigns, revolving around the number 10,000, to promote its dedicated server hosting services.