(Source: Datamonitor)IIJ America, a subsidiary of Internet Initiative Japan, has launched the newly developed Point Red hosting service.

According to the company, the Point Red hosting service provides servers that reside on the IIJ group's wide-area backbone. Customers can use this service for a variety of applications, such as for building websites, without any of their own equipment.

Point Red service menu features: shared server service; virtual private server service; and dedicated server service.

The shared server service is a low-cost solution for website hosting only. The subscribers of this service will get disk space of 1Gb and, server and disk-space administration will be performed by IIJ America. The customer will be able to monitor server conditions in real time through the Plesk Control Panel integrated server administration tool by Parallels.

The virtual private server service will allow the customer to manage their own server domain. According to the company, virtualization technology Xen is used to build a stable server environment even within a virtual environment; and disk volume can be expanded from 20Gb to 40Gb, and memory from 512Mb to 2048Mb, to meet customer needs.

The dedicated server service features a self-managed service that will allow the customer to manage their own server domain; a range of software and applications can be installed in addition to the web server; redundant hard drives reduce the risk of system failure; additional memory and hard disks, RAID configuration changes and other system customization is available to meet customer requirements; and the customer can opt to select dedicated internet bandwidth, from 1Mbps to 1Gbps.

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