ServerOrigin Launches CloudCDN Service Based on 3Crowd’s 4th Generation CDN Technology

3Crowd Provides Technology Stack Behind ServerOrigin’s CloudCDN

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–3Crowd Technologies, the technology company defining the future of content delivery, and ServerOrigin Communications jointly announce the release of CloudCDN, a Content Delivery Networking (CDN) service offered by ServerOrigin to its customers based on 3Crowd’s CrowdDirector™ and CrowdCache™ technology stack. ServerOrigin is now leveraging its global and robust network presence to offer its customers a worldwide, scalable and cost effective CDN solution in addition to their already successful DDoS protection services.

“ServerOrigin’s bandwidth capacity is comparable to many small countries”
This new Content Delivery service launched by ServerOrigin constitutes a double value proposition: leveraging a global footprint of datacenters, immense bandwidth capacity and excess computing power from their existing DDoS product lines, while at the same time answering the increasing demand of their existing customer base for CDN services.

This announcement illustrates 3Crowd’s ability to enable today’s hosting companies to maximize and better monetize their existing infrastructure, provide new turnkey solutions to their customers, while reducing both time to deploy and time to market.

3Crowd’s tool set provides hosting providers with the instant benefits and all the necessary features of a global, highly distributed content caching network through CrowdCache™, as well as the flexibility of operating it with great simplicity and control with CrowdDirector™.

3Crowd’s CEO Barrett Lyon says, “We are very excited to support ServerOrigin’s product launch as their need for a new Content Delivery Service product and their existing global infrastructure are a perfect match for our CrowdCache™ and CrowdDirector™ toolset. By repeating this working model with our current Hosting Provider customers, 3Crowd will achieve its goal of shifting the paradigm of Content Delivery over the Internet.”

“ServerOrigin’s bandwidth capacity is comparable to many small countries,” Kevin Hatfield, of ServerOrigin, says. “Our infrastructure runs at less than 10% utilization at any given time. This solution allows us to monetize the excess bandwidth while seamlessly integrating a complete content delivery solution. Imagine uploading your web content and serving the website direct through the CDN solution. No longer do you require additional servers or transit, we will cache your data and provide you all the bandwidth you need without the need to add a single piece of equipment. A few providers attempt this now but the costs associated are out of reach for the majority of the small business market. ServerOrigin intends to get pricing down under $.10/GB with at least 30GB of free storage space. In our opinion, we are considering this as much a carrier-grade solution as an end-user service.”

This is the first time companies can look at a ‘CDN’ solution and compare it directly to purchasing additional infrastructure or transit. This is the exact definition of what cloud hosting should be, the ability to push a button and increase overall website or application capacity for pennies on the dollar.

3Crowd’s goal is to lead the effort in putting untapped infrastructure and bandwidth resources to better use, allowing their customers to make the Internet more scalable, more resilient, better performing while introducing new revenue streams.

About 3Crowd Technologies

3Crowd Technologies is a San Mateo, CA-based software services company developing the future of content delivery. The company’s products and services are changing the economics of content delivery by giving greater control over how content is shared and internal IT assets optimized. Today, 3Crowd’s services include CrowdCache and CrowdDirector. Both are easily deployed and configurable and provide a cost model for maximum efficiency. 3Crowd’s investors include Storm Ventures, Canaan Partners, and angel investors, Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, founders of DIGG and Revision3.

Contacts

3Crowd Technologies
Christine M. Shannon, 415-445-4503
cmbs@3crowd.com

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SoftLayer Emergency Maintenance – GLOBAL [12/30/2010]
Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010 (12/30/2010)
Start Time: 05:00 PM CST
End Time: 07:00 PM CST
Services affected: Public / Private Network
Location: Global
Duration: 2 hours

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SoftLayer Engineers will be performing emergency maintenance on BBR01.EQ01.WDC02, BBR02.EQ01.WDC02, and BBR01.WB01.SEA01 in an effort to correct routing issues customers are currently experiencing to various destinations including AT&T residential services. In conjunction with Cisco, Engineers have identified a bug that has resulted in the router entering a degraded performance state. To correct this degraded state, the router must be reloaded.

Customers can expect to see latency / packetloss as routes reconverge across redundant routers on both the public and private networks. While the maintenance window is set for 2 hours, we expect the maintenance to take no longer than 20 minutes during each router reload.

Customers in the Seattle datacenter will lose backend connectivity to all other datacenters (local Seattle private network traffic will not be impacted).
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If you have any problems after this time frame with regard to connectivity, or if you have any questions regarding the maintenance at any point, please open a ticket in the customer portal or contact our support via phone.

We appreciate your patience during this work and welcome any feedback.

Thank you,
Network Engineering
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This is likely to interrupt a small percentage of ServerOrigin’s Washington, DC / Seattle traffic. We hope this change will be as quick and uninterrupted as possible.

Thanks,
Kyle A.
ServerOrigin Communications

START:  05 DEC 2010
END:  11 DEC 2010
Total Service Impact: Varies depending on maintenance sub-window, see below. (Expected No more than 30 Minutes per customer for the entire week of maintenance)

ethProxy Subscribers: ethProxy customers are provided fully automated DNS failover and redundancy to one of our other facilities. *IF* you allow ServerOrigin to manage your DNS via our AnyCast DNS service then you will be automatically re-routed to an alternate facility. We will also move customers proactively prior to the changes. If you are not currently taking advantage of this free service,  please notify us or make the appropriate changes so we can handle the DNS failover.

Abstract:  ServerOrigin currently maintains critical infrastructure in two suites at 600 W. 7th St, Los Angeles, CA: Suite 420 (Peer1) and Suite 130 (TelX). Over the course of one week critical infrastructure and some equipment leased to customers will be consolidated into Suite 130. There will be downtime associated with this maintenance; the exact amount will vary from customer to customer with a total impact of 5 – 30 minutes per customer for the entire week.

This is a preliminary notice and there may be changes to the following timeline as we move closer to the maintenance window:

Chronology:

05 DEC 2010, 3PM – 10PM, U.S. Pacific: Many cloud hosted services such as DDoS protection proxies and all Cloud VM instances will be offline during a physical equipment move within this window not expected to exceed 30 minutes. Any such instances should not experience further substantial issues outside of this window.

06 DEC 2010, 12PM – 4PM, U.S. Pacific: There will be edge router maintenance during this period not expected to result in service impact.

07 DEC 2010, 8AM – 10PM U.S. Pacific: There will be a substantial amount of routing changes and physical relocation of edge routers and DDoS mitigation appliances. Service impact is not expected, however, this change is considered high risk and unexpected outages could occur. Our Telia transit will be offline during currently undetermined periods due to local loop maintenance.

08 DEC 2010, 7AM – 5PM: Many customer leased servers will be relocated, resulting in a service impact not expected to exceed 30 minutes per server.

09 DEC 2010, 7AM – 5PM: Many customer leased servers will be relocated, resulting in a service impact not expected to exceed 30 minutes per server.

10 DEC 2010, 8AM – 10PM U.S. Pacific: This window is reserved for final routing changes, network testing, and quality assurance. Service impact is not expected at this time.

11 DEC 2010, 8AM – 10PM U.S. Pacific: This window is reserved for quality assurance and last minute changes. Service impact is not expected at this time.

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█ [Enterprise-Class DDoS Protection • Automated Datacenter Failover • Serving more than 1 million domains!]

ServerOrigin Communications (http://www.serverorigin.com) is excited to announce our newest partnership and complimentary value-add to your ethProxy service. As many of our subscribers know first hand, we work very hard to increase your redundancy, overall availability, and website speeds. We believe we do an excellent job at increasing speeds for our users and delivering the superior uptime they desire. Unlike most companies, we do not hide our ‘hiccups’ or downtime. As rare as it may be, we are always looking for ways to identify problems before they occur.

Our DDoS mitigation service is a little different than most competitors, we don’t alert you with every little rush of data that may hit your site. Our ethProxy service is meant to be a fully managed services that is in the background. We are here to handle the attacks and intrusion-based attempts on your site so you don’t have to. We don’t want you to worry about whether your site is online and you should never have to worry whether we are meeting your expectations.

Now you say, “Why am I reading this? Why is this dragging on?”. We have a very simple answer, “Check this out!”.

If you have never heard of Panopta, they are one of the fastest growing availability and benchmarking companies on the market. Their service offering is above and beyond what we have found while working with other possible vendors. We have chosen their service and will be providing every ethProxy subscriber with their own login and password to the Panopta control panel. This panel will provide you limitless amounts of information on your website’s response time, uptime, etc.

We understand many of you may be wondering why we chose Panopta over other companies like Gomez and WebMetrics. It was a difficult decision! They all offer a ton of options and lots of useful information but only one met the needs for us to provide you a solution which we feel best represents ServerOrigin and our services.

Below I will list a few features and advantages with Panopta’s monitoring solution:

• The most accurate monitoring service available. High-frequency checks mean your outages are confirmed faster and you are notified sooner in order to minimize downtime. Plus our advanced outage verification algorithms eliminate false alerts that can undermine the usefulness of any monitoring system.
• Intelligent notification system ensures the right people are notified at the right time. Don’t be limited to sending a single email when there is an outage. Our notification system supports automatic escalation of outages to any number of people, and most packages offer unlimited SMS messages to ensure that your team never misses an alert.
• Do more than just track downtime — give your team tools to more efficiently manage outages. Our outage management tools make it easy for everyone involved to work together, including system administrators, call center staff and management, to resolve problems faster without getting in each other’s way. Plus, all communication related to the outage is archived for future review and reference.

ServerOrigin will be creating your accounts over the next couple of days. Ensure your email address is correct, we will be sending your account information to your email address. If you wish to disable alerts at any time, simply let our support staff know. This will offer alerting to your mobile phone, pager, and voice calling. We are providing unlimited SMS notifications for all customers as well as the ability to track outages and respond directly to the staff.

With monitoring comes schedules!

If you have a regular maintenance schedule, please notify ServerOrigin so we can place your maintenance schedule into the system. This will ensure you will not receive nagging alerts when you’re doing planned maintenance.

This service is optional. If you wish to opt-out, please send us an email at: support@serverorigin.com – Simply let us know you wish to opt-out of the monitoring solution.

We hope this email was informative and that you are just as excited as we are to bring you this solution! If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback then do not hesitate to send us a message.

From the ServerOrigin team, we wish to say thank you for your commitment to our services and we are grateful to have such a wonderful client base!

Your ethProxy Support Team!

ServerOrigin Communications would like to announce our newest offering ‘in the cloud’. Not only are we the world’s leader in denial of service protection but we are coupling our knowledge of cloud computing for the shared hosting users of the world. Our cloud hosting technology allows for multiple clusters of systems to power your site faster than ever before. Since Google has announced that speed of your site is now a factor in how well you’re ranked, we figure this is the best time to offer you the fastest hosting on the planet!

ServerOrigin’s cloud technology is hosted in a Tier1 Facility in partnership with RackSpace hosting.  This offer will include our ethProxyLite ddos mitigation product as well as our state-of-the-art intrusion detection mechanisms.

Join the most advanced infrastructure available for cloud hosting. Fully redundant, full 1000Mbps, full 100% SLA.

As our cloud services page is being built, please check out our offers listing available at: WebHostingTalk

ServerOrigin proudly serves the elite of the online marketplace. Just a few of our customers include: Hair Club for Men , Lillian Vernon , PayMate , and Oracle’s Sun Division.

Our main site: www.serverorigin.com may have some intermittent connectivity for a couple hours this morning as we perform some maintenance.

No customers are impacted, our billing system and ticket systems will remain online. This is a temporary loss of service as we do some memory upgrades. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at: https://billing.serverorigin.com or support@serverorigin.com

Thanks!

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Many of you have been Santrex customers for years and dealt with the poor service and response. The final blow has been dealt and Santrex announced all customer data has been lost. ServerOrigin is stunned at how a company with a reputation and the experience in this industry could make such a major mistake. ServerOrigin Communications would like to extend our hand to all customers of Santrex who are looking for a provider they can trust and depend on.  Please feel free to email us or stop by our site at http://www.serverorigin.com | we are not as cheap in some areas but we have the capability, with our pricing, to provide the data redundancy you require.

We are offering FULLY unmetered services on all of our web hosting/VPS hosting plans for all Santrex refugees.

We wish you all the best and hope you find new hosting companies who appreciate you as a customer and treat you better than you have been treated thus far.

ServerOrigin is now offering free setup on our base business ddos protection plan at http://www.serverorigin.com/ddos.php

This offer will run through the middle of April! Get signed up today and protect your site with the best!