My Visit To Hosting365

As some of you may remember I was getting rather frustrated with Hosting365 a while ago. However, Hosting365 responded very positively to the frustrations I expressed and, at their invitation, I paid them a visit today. Firstly, it was nice to put faces to the names. The guys all seem dead sound and the big-wigs are all Mac users so they must be alright

Anyhow, I didn’t trek over to Park West at rush hour just to attach faces to names and engage in some Mac nostalgia. I went down there to see for myself what kind of infra-structure I’m entrusting with the task of hosting my sites and my customer’s sites, and to see how Hosting365 are going to resolve their problems with domain registrations. Bottom-line, I’m happy with what I saw.

[tags]Hosting365, Hosting, Domain Registration[/tags]

My visit started with a tour of the data center so I’ll start there. They have good kit which is well set up and seems to be very well run. The place was immaculate, it was basically like every server room should be but like far too few actually are. They advertise it as a world class data center and having seen it I’d have to agree.

Secondly, I got to see a demo of the new control panel they will be releasing soon. I had though this new panel would just be for managing domain registrations, and I would have been delighted with that, but it’s much much more. It will become a single control panel from which all your Hosting365 products can be managed. And I do mean all, domains, email, shared hosting, dedicated hosting, the lot. When it’s first rolled out it will be just for domains but the rest will be added one by one over the next while. The demo impressed me. I can see how the new system would cut down support tickets a lot. I’ve been told to expect the new system in a matter of weeks, so hopefully we’ll all get our hands on it soon!

Finally, I was very happy to hear that cheap dedicated servers will be making a return to Hosting365 in the near future. I was always a big fan of the cheap, no-frills, dedicated servers they used to sell under the Rack365 brand (this site is actually hosted on one of those servers). Hence, I was very sorry to see this product line come to an end. However, thanks to the magic of VMWare and blade computing we should soon see the return of sub-one-hundred-Euro (per month) dedicated hosting at Hosting365. I can’t wait!