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JohnCompanies Inc (JCI) announced that it has completed the transfer of over 1000 customer accounts from NetHere Inc. including many of NetHere's SimplyInternet and Znet customers.

Services transferred included web hosting, email and domain registration. Internet access accounts for dial-up and DSL were NOT part of the transfer agreement and remained with NetHere.

Web sites and email hosting services (including webmail) were transferred over night and did not affect IP addresses, log-in credentials or other aspects of customer access.

Transferred customers will be integrated with the shared hosting services provided by JCI's LAMP Host division (see www.lamphost.com) and will be supported by JCI's professional and knowledgeable technical and customer-care support staff. In addition JCI will honor NetHere billing dates and service charges for all transferred customers.

JCI is a San Diego based hosting company that provides dedicated servers, cloud servers, domain registration, web hosting, managed cloud servers and other IT services to thousands of customers. With two state-of-the art datacenters in San Diego and a third in Las Vegas, JCI provides secure, reliable and economical cloud services ranging from simple web site hosting to multi-server clusters for large e-commerce sites.

JCI now offers FreeBSD 10.3 for both virtual and dedicated servers. FreeBSD 10.3 provides significant enhancements over FreeBSD 9.x and is available for all Dedicated Server plans and virtual servers. Under FreeBSD 10.3 you will be running a true virtual server and not the more limited "jail" VPS as in previous FreeBSD implementations.

JohnCompanies Inc. (JCI) announced that it has completed the acquisition of LAMP Host, a San Diego based hosting company that provides domain registration, web hosting and managed cloud hosting services to over 200 customers.

The LAMP Host service offerings complement JCI's dedicated server and open-source VPS hosting products and allows the combined business to offer an expanded line of services and a broader array of hosting capabilitites to customers. This merger will allow JCI to offer managed hosting in addition to our current unmanaged VPS and dedicated servers.

The acquisition and merger will not affect host servers, IP addresses or any of the services that customers of both companies have come to expect. No support positions were eliminated as a result of the transaction and customers can continue to work with the same dedicated technical support team with added depth from combining support capabilities.

This opportunity will allow JCI to maintain is culture and service model. You can learn more about LAMP Host at www.lamphost.com. This business merger assures JCI's long term growth and continued leadership within the industry.

JCI now offers FreeBSD 10.0 for both virtual and dedicated servers. FreeBSD 10.0 provides significant enhancements over previous versions and is available for all Dedicated Server plans and is in beta test mode for virtual servers. Under FreeBSD 10.0 you will be running a true virtual server and not the more limited .jail. VPS as in previous FreeBSD implementations. If you are interested in participating in the FreeBSD 10.0 beta test for cloud servers, please email us at our support address.

JCI announces a new line of dedicated servers with improved performance and lower power consumption. Our Plan 3 and Plan 4 (Super Server) servers are now based on Xeon™ Ivy Bridge V2 processors which are faster and more efficient than previous versions.

Across the board all JCI standard dedicated server plans now have double the memory from previous plans. Our most popular Plan 4 Super Server includes 16GB of memory standard.

Plan 3, 4 and 5 servers also come standard with a secure Remote Management Module (RMM) with a separate IP address. The RMM allows remote KVM access and reboot via browser and ID/password login. The RMM is a dedicated out-of-band management interface card. It runs regardless and independent of the state of your server and does not depend on the installed OS.

JCI now offers FreeBSD 9.1 for both VPS and dedicated servers. FreeBSD 9.1 provides significant enhancements over previous versions of FreeBSD. Also as an introductory offer for FreeBSD 9.1 VPS servers, JCI is offering a 10% discount for new or current customers who order a new FreeBSD VPS server. This discount is valid for as long as you have the server. This is a limited time offer to encourage customers to try FreeBSD 9.1.

JCI is now offering 64-bit OS options for all popular Linux distributions including Suse 11.3, CentOS 6.2, Debian 6.0, Fedora 16, and Ubuntu 11.04. These new 64-bit options provide a wide range of Linux OS choices for users of both our VPS and dedicated server offerings. Please see Linux for more information.

JohnCompanies announces the addition of a new upgraded “Super Server” to our line up of dedicated servers. Our latest version of the Super Server is based on Intel's newest generation Xeon ™ Sandy Bridge processor that provides a 25% performance boost (depending on application) over the previous generation of Xeon processors. The Xeon E3-1220 processor running at a clock speed of 3.1GHz has 4 cores (8 threads) with 8 mb of cache and utilizes Intel's Turbo-Boost Technology that automatically boosts processor speed when your server needs a little more power.

The Super Server comes with 8-GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM, hardware RAID controller card and two 1000GB mirrored hard drives. The Super Server plan also provides 50GB of local backup space and 1000GB/month of bandwidth use.

The Super Server comes standard with a secure Remote Management Module (RMM) with a separate IP address that allows remote KVM access and reboot via browser and ID/password login. The RMM is a dedicated out-of-band management network interface card. It runs regardless and independent of the state of your server and does not depend on the installed OS.

JohnCompanies now offers FreeBSD 8.2 for both VPS and dedicated servers. FreeBSD 8.2 provides significant enhancements over pervious versions of FreeBSD including the ability to bind more than one IP address to a VPS instance. New versions of FreeBSD will become available as they are released.

JohnCompanies announces the opening of a second data center in southern California. This new datacenter will greatly expand our dedicated server hosting capability and will include all the security features, multi-homed bandwidth, redundant backup power, 24/7 staffing and Cisco network infrastructure used at our primary datacenter. Both our primary datacenter and the new data center have passed SAS 70 type II audits.

This new data center will allow for growth and expansion of our hosting business and at the same time will permit customers to split resources and locate backup servers at geographically separate facilities operating on different power feeds and using separate backbone service connections.

JohnCompanies has upgrade network connectivity to 1000 Mbps (GigE) to selected racks. This upgrade will provide an option for customers with high peak demands to elect to connect directly to our GigE network. GigE connectivity from racks to our trunk routers will also improve the upstream performance of our standard 100 Mpbs network switches.