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CWCS Managed Hosting are pleased to announce that we have installed and implemented the latest high-end Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall in our data centre for our web hosting platform. This new powerful setup will manage outgoing mail for our web hosting services, dramatically reducing spam from our servers which will prevent IP blacklisting and provide you with smooth email delivery.

The Barracuda works more effectively and is more intelligent that our previous system, which will improve performance and ultimately provide a better service to you.

We are proud to announce we have become a Gold partner with R1 Soft as we aim to deliver maximum data protection with offsite backups. R1 Soft have released this statement to cement the ongoing relationship between themselves and CWCS Managed Hosting.

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During the month of July, we performed a successful upgrade of our core infrastructure at DCN1.

The successful upgrade will ensure that our core infrastructure remains up-to-date with the latest technology to keep us ahead of our nearest competitors. We have also heavily invested in the backup hardware infrastructure with RAID10 SANs. As part of the upgrade we have increased our bandwidth and connection speed, which means our customers will see a massive difference to our overall core infrastructure which will further improve the speed of our network and provide a noticeable performance increase to our services.

CWCS Managed Hosting are delighted to announce the launch of their sister brand Supreme Servers based in Miami, Florida. Supreme Servers has been established to offer enterprise class scalable virtual hosting in the US for websites and applications in the Supreme Servers Cloud.

Supreme Servers offer a resilient and fully redundant solution hosted in a world-class, hurricane proof SAS 70 certified data centre in downtown Miami. Millions of dollars have been invested to ensure that the data centre has the highest availability with multiple high speed internet connections and full BGP4, guaranteeing 0% downtime through our self healing network.

CWCS Managed Hosting are an award winning managed hosting company based in the UK with over 10 years experience in the market place and with the launch of Supreme Servers, they are taking their knowledge and experience overseas to offer a lightning fast virtual hosting solution to the US market.

For more information about the leaders in speed and performance in the US virtual hosting market, please visit www.supremeservers.com

CWCS Managed Hosting are proud to announce the launch of our Cloud Hosting services which include Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Hosting. CWCS Managed Hosting has invested heavily, in the region of £100,000 in the setup of our cloud environment and will continue to invest in the future to ensure that we can deliver the best possible cloud solution to our customers. The lightening fast CWCS Cloud, hosted on VMware vSphere HA with HP hardware is available on both Windows and Linux platforms and offers high availability, 100% uptime guarantee and no single point of failure.

Using the best virtualisation platform on the market – VMware, our highly intelligent cloud solution is self-healing with automatic failover, offering a resilient and redundant cloud solution for mission critical websites and applications.

For more complex hosting solutions, we can cater a private cloud environment to suit your business requirements. We can also configure a hybrid cloud solution if you require the best of both private/public platforms or if you want to use the power of a dedicated server and the flexibility of the cloud, combined to produce a highly optimised hybrid solution.

For more information on the CWCS Cloud or to request a Cloud Hosting quote, please contact our sales team on 0800 1 777 000 or visit www.cwcs.co.uk/cloud-hosting.

In response to increased demands for our services and our ongoing commitment to all our customers, we are delighted to welcome a new Head of Operations and Technical Manager to CWCS Managed Hosting.

Our new Head of Operations is Nick Clarke, who has an extensive knowledge in data centres, planning and procedures and has a career that spans over 20 years in telecommunications with companies like Pipex and Cable & Wireless. Nick will ensure that we continue to deliver our exceptionally high standards by overseeing our customer relations, customer service, marketing and sales team.

Paul Elton has been recruited as Technical Manager and has a wealth of experience in managing multiple data centres, managed hosting and cloud hosting. Paul will oversee our Technical Support department and the running of our private UK data centres. With over 10 years experience in the hosting industry, Paul will ensure that our technical team performs to the best of their ability and we are able to continue to offer the supreme technical support that we pride ourselves on.

With these latest additions to our team, we want to ensure all our customers that we are dedicated to maintaining our high standards of service and support as we continue to grow and move forward as a major force in the managed hosting market.

CWCS Managed Hosting are now delighted to announce that we have achieved two Silver Competencies for Hosting and Midmarket Solution Provider from Microsoft®. To earn Silver Certification, CWCS had to meet rigorous standards set forth by Microsoft which enable partners to better serve customer requirements.

“Microsoft Silver competencies help our business partners demonstrate expertise by aligning to our customers’ needs and making certifications more recognisable to prospective customers. Earning a Silver competency enables partners to differentiate their business and capitalise on benefits tailored to their specific business needs. We are committed to supporting our Silver level competency partners by enabling them with the right set of tools, training and information that will help them delight our customers through leading-edge Microsoft based solutions and services offerings that address the customer’s technology requirements”, said Clare Barclay, Director of Partner Strategy and Programmes, Microsoft UK. “With Silver level status in Hosting and Midmarket Solutions, CWCS has made an investment in developing their capability to differentiate and deliver best in class Microsoft solutions to customers.”

“As CWCS Managed Hosting continues to develop and invest in our future growth, whilst continuing to serve our existing customers, we are committed to offering all of our customers the solutions they require regardless of platform. We are delighted to add further Microsoft Competencies which focus on our customers’ needs”, said Karl Mendez, CEO of CWCS Managed Hosting.

The Microsoft Partner Network is committed to serving the needs of Microsoft partners and helping over 160 million mutual customers worldwide realise their potential. By acquiring the Silver level Hosting and Midmarket Solution Provider competency, CWCS has demonstrated its commitment to meet technology set forth by Microsoft in order to provide the best possible Microsoft based solutions to our customers.

CWCS Managed Hosting delivers high quality, secure managed hosting and colocation services in two privately-operated Data Centres in Nottingham. Privately-owned and profitable, CWCS Managed Hosting has been in operation since 1997.

CWCS Managed Hosting have been awarded the best dedicated host award from TopHosts UK for December. The award is chosen on a monthly basis and goes through rigorous production testing by the TopHosts review panel. User feedback from hundreds of webmaster that use TopHosts UK is also taken into consideration when granting the award.

We are delighted to be recognised as the best dedicated host for our outstanding value and level of service and it caps off a fantastic year for CWCS Managed Hosting.

CWCS Managed Hosting are proud to announce the launch of their Microsoft Hosted Exchange Service. This professional email and collaboration solution, designed to help small and medium businesses, comes in the form of 3 core packages, with the option to include a licensed copy of Microsoft Outlook 2007. We also cater for mobile devices, as we have a Hosted Exchange solution for all the leading phone platforms including BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile.

For more information on Microsoft Hosted Exchange, please contact the CWCS sales team on 0800 1 777 000.

Following recent network, power and performance upgrades, CWCS Managed Hosting are delighted to announce that we have achieved Microsoft Certified Status, with an initial competency as a Mid-Market Solution Provider; we expect to add the Hosting competency very shortly as well. This accreditation was achieved from a standing start in under three months, further emphasising the company’s commitment to being the leading performer in its field.

Speaking from our Nottingham data centre and head office, Chief Executive Officer, Karl Mendez commented that he was "utterly thrilled that we are now able to achieve industry standard recognitions in super fast time". He further commented "we remain committed to being the best we can be, with no favouring of one platform over another, which is why we are pursuing a dual strategy with both Microsoft and RedHat. We simply want to offer a supreme quality of service to our customers, regardless of which platform they choose".

From the same location, Nick Sellors, Chief Operating Officer remarked that "our next aim is get Microsoft Gold Competencies in all relevant fields, as we want to send a clear message to the market and to our customers that we intend to offer them truly awesome support".

For more information, contact Pete Scully ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) at CWCS Managed Hosting on 0845-203-1000

CWCS is proud to announce that our Entry Windows and Linux Dedicated Servers have been upgraded with immediate effect, please visit our dedicated servers section of our web site for details.

CWCS has teamed up with Fotolia, they stock over 5 million quality photos and images, to offer you 3 free photos and 15% discount on any further purchases. This offer is available to new and existing customers. For new new customers, access details are included when signing up. For existing customers an email has been sent with details. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further information.

Our already feature rich packages have just got better, we have upgraded many features on our web hosting plans at no extra cost to you.

CWCS has completed its major core network upgrade, there is a massive performance improvement making our network second to none.

Helping the environment is something CWCS consider an important step in which everyone should contribute towards to help save our planet.