This is a guest blog entry from Kerstin Demko, part of the CloudLinux Managment Team.

Mindraven is committed to providing shared hosting servers that have a limited number of clients per server. That’s to make sure you are not stuck sharing resources with hundreds of other clients on the same server. Now they go even further with a shared hosting solution that assures that your site is going to be running fine and won’t be impacted by other customers on the server. Sign up for the new CloudLinux shared hosting offer!

On a shared hosting server there are many other customers hosting their websites on the same server and you are sharing resources with your neighbors. Sometimes, unpredictable issues can slow server performance or worse – cause a complete outage of the server.

It is becoming more common for a typical web server to see more complex and diverse websites with many different configurations, web applications (like blogs, shopping carts, forums) and software loaded onto it. This ever-increasing complexity sets the stage for one single, poorly configured site or a site that suddenly gets popular, to bring down the whole server. That means your neighbor on the server can potentially impact your website performance.

That’s why Mindraven now offers CloudLinux shared hosting server. CloudLinux prevents one website on a shared server from being able to slow down or take down the entire server, and ensures your website keeps running smoothly.

The heart of CloudLinux is innovative technology called Lightweight Virtual Environment™ technology. It isolates and limits resources to a specific process or customer and creates separation between websites on a shared server to prevents one website from affecting its neighbors.

Essentially CloudLinux “crash proofs” the shared hosting account by creating separation and delivers:

• Increased server capability without increasing risk
• More efficient and stable server
• Reduced impact of unpredictable events like load spikes that can take down or slow down a server
• A greener solutions by better utilizing existing infrastructure

To learn more about CloudLinux visit www.cloudlinux.com

Since we’ve been offering hosting, we’ve been picking up customers at a pretty rapid pace. It seems people are tired of the unlimited everything hosts where they offer you the world for a low price only then you realize your stuck on a server that’s completely overloaded, your website is down more than it’s up, and when it is up, it’s slow as heck.

As we pick up more customers, we can buy more things in bulk and pass that benefit along to you. For example, we’ve just attained an excellent deal on increased bandwidth and servers based in Chicago. So, we’re doubling the bandwidth allowed on all of our plans, and increasing the number of addon domains as well in some of them. A quick rundown of the change is below:

Bronze Plan
Now comes with 25GB of bandwidth instead of 10GB

Silver Plan
Now comes with 100GB of bandwidth instead of 50GB
Allows for 2 addon domains

Gold Plan
Now comes with 150GB of bandwidth instead of 75GB
Allows for 4 addon domains

Platinum Plan
Now comes with 200GB of bandwidth instead of 100GB
Allows for unlimited addon domains

Some pretty exciting changes. As we continue to get better deals, we’ll continue to pass those benefits along to you. Thanks to those who have flocked to Mindraven Hosting so far. And we look forward to doing business with many more of you in the future.

Since this site has a blog as well, I’ve decided to shelve my old personal domain and blog. It didn’t make too much sense having 2 complete separate blogs when my personal blog contained mainly work/tech stuff anyways. So, I’ll be moving all of my old blog posts over here.