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Cloud Hosting: What's it all about?

For years, webmasters have been chained to their desks. If you wanted a web application, you could rent some space on a server, somewhere, or keep one under your desk - either way, a lot of hassle. The advent of cloud hosting - combining cloud computing, cloud servers and cloud storage - has changed all that.

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PEER 1 Hosting Claims ‘Challenger’ Status in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting, North America

PEER 1 Hosting has been positioned as a ‘Challenger’ in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant, focused on Managed Hosting, no doubt due to the outstanding work achieved by our teams across North America and beyond...

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PEER 1 Hosting gets bigger in EMEA

Today we celebrated the official opening of our brand new EMEA headquarters in Southampton, as well as new offices across London, Nice (France) and the anniversary of our Portsmouth data center.

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PEER 1 Hosting Launches Mission Critical Cloud at Cloud Connect

Our primary objective here at PEER 1 Hosting is to provide our customers with choices. That mentality has always applied to services, locations, billing, etc., so it was a natural progression for us to take that same idea and apply it to cloud computing.

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PEER 1 Hosting Attends GPU Tech Conference This Week in San Jose

For companies that produce and analyze vast quantities of data to power their business, high-performance computing (HPC) is no longer a “nice to have” – it’s a necessity. However, not only is it expensive to purchase and maintain resources...

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Levementum Partner Event – and the Value of Multiple Online Presences in eCommerce

Last week, my colleague Travis Eiland and I had the pleasure of attending Levementum’s partner event for Magento’s eCommerce platform users. The event brought together Magento customers...

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Green IT Awards Honor PEER 1
Rajan Sodhi
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 07:15
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We are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for not one, but two Green IT awards … Environmental Project of the Year in the Private sector AND IT Operator of the Year. The latter is decided by public vote.

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Green Data Centers and Clean Cloud Power Infrographic
Rajan Sodhi
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 18:17
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In our latest infographic, find out how global IT brands like IBM, Facebook, and Apple rank on Greenpeace's Clean Cloud Power Report Card–you'll be very surprised who received a "D".

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Energy Efficient Datacenter Announced in Portsmouth
Maria Jose Serres
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 09:10
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PEER 1’s latest Portsmouth development, which is set to become Britain’s most energy efficient data centre, will offer a predicted PUE (Power Usuage Effectiveness) rating of 1.1 after collaborating with Excool, a UK-based, innovative cooling technology specialist.

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Dominic Monkhouse talks to The New York Times about PEER 1 Hosting and Datacentre Cooling
Maria Jose Serres
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 14:20
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Dominic Monkhouse, Managing Director, EMEA of PEER 1, speaks with James Kanter from The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune about PEER 1 and their conceptual efforts for a greener datacentre.

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New Energy Efficiency Tech Used in Power Hungry Datacenters
Rajan Sodhi
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 12:14
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PEER 1 Hosting has adopted green cooling techniques and technology in our newest datacenters. These techniques utilize local environmental factors to help provide greater efficiency, less emissions and overall higher reliability data centers for our clients.

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Black smoke or green cloud?
Rajan Sodhi
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 09:21
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At PEER 1, we know the responsibility we hold when it comes to addressing environmental issues. As a member of The Green Grid, a global consortium of leading IT organisations focused on data centre efficiency, we are committed to minimising power consumption and improving energy efficiency.

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