It’s easy to like today’s news from Austin’s Codero Hosting.  With all new NAS and SAN storage options, they are taking on their competitors and beating the competitor’s prices by a significant margin. The promotional pricing for the services gets customers storage at 4¢ per gigabyte.  You know we sit here, we pick the news, then report on those that are significant, that are driving the way on a number of technology fronts.  Codero as a company is one that is constantly emerging with new options and products in the ultra-competitive high-value hosting game.  This storage announcement is further confirmation that the company and the customers in this case are working together, constantly sharing experiences and delivering products that cover the spectrum of cloud, dedicated hosting, hybrid technologies, and many more.

Codero’s new solutions serve Linux and Windows customers that need on-demand storage at unparalleled prices. For some months now they have also unleashed a full on backup and snapshot capability set on their Smart Servers product that delivers free backups for life.  Codero’s solutions all benefit from not only the latest in technology, but a system that is heavily designed for great support.  They use a fully automated self-service portal for a number of their products and US-based help is just a phone call or chat away 24/7.  Codero is a market leader, they operate in the practical world, delivering what customers are looking for, and that’s a big task.  That’s why given the chance, when there is something to say about Codero, I’m going to say it – coming from a long hosting background myself, I hope it reverberates throughout the community (at least through the customers I have come to know over the years).  Yes, there’s a lot of great services out there, most are looking for or really need a business partner they can count on, that brings value and values that relationship.  Codero -Again – Free Backups, Disruptive Storage pricing, and I’ll mention the price match guarantee.  Below is the release that was sent out today.

Codero Hosting Offers Disruptive Pricing with Affordable On-Demand NAS, SAN Storage and Free Back-Ups for Life

AUSTIN, TEXAS, APRIL 30, 2013 — Codero Hosting (www.codero.com), a leading provider of dedicated, managed, and cloud hosting services, unveiled its on-demand Network Attached Storage (NAS) and IP-based Storage Area Network (SAN) offerings. The new services and their affordable price points better serve customers’ needs and provide more scalable and high performance storage options. Promotional pricing of the new NAS and SAN services starts at 4¢/gigabyte. Separately, Codero is also offering free back-ups for life on all of its Smart Servers line.

“We continuously listen to our customers to help gauge where we need to expand our products and services, and our customers asked for more cost effective, scalable storage and recovery options,” said Chandler Vaughn, SVP of Development at Codero Hosting. “Any organization that needs a server needs a storage and backup solution; it’s precarious to have one without the others. Our new offerings unequivocally meet customer demands with affordable price points that disrupt the industry – comparable competitive offerings are 10 times more expensive than our new offerings.”

NAS is specifically designed to be a filer and is great for backups, file archiving, and storage of webhead content. SAN was built for block storage so that there are volumes to partition and mount. The new on-demand storage solutions include the following features:

• Optimized for storage – The dedicated solutions are optimized specifically for storage needs.
• Fully managed – Codero handles all management of the “no touch” storage.
• Easy set-up – Simply map a drive (on Windows) or mount a directory over NFS (on Linux) for heterogeneous access to files.
• Easy to use – Simultaneously share files with multiple servers including virtual servers.
• Local appearance – Block storage appears as local drives, allowing applications such as databases to take advantage of larger, faster storage; no complicated network sharing or application configuration required.

Codero developed the new solutions to more efficiently and effectively serve Windows and Linux customers in need of scale-out storage. Ideal candidates for Codero’s NAS and SAN storage are organizations that are comfortable with network-bound performance and do not need Host Bus Adapters. The solutions are best for those customers needing storage for media, back-ups, files or additional storage for virtualization.

For more information on Codero Hosting on-demand storage, visit www.codero.com/storage.