“Phoenix is a key strategic location for us. It not only provides an opportunity for us to increase peering as the 6th largest network operator according to adjacent peers, but it also helps us bring our customers’ anycast edge services even closer to their U.S. user base”, stated Brandon Tedder, Host Virtual’s Director of Business Development.

Host Virtual’s location at Phoenix NAP will extend the anycast network into the Southwest of the US between Dallas and Los Angeles, enabling less than 10ms latency between most end users in the region. The move to expand into Phoenix was driven by an increase in customer demand for more US coverage and the option for lower colocation costs. Phoenix NAP also provides increased opportunity for Host Virtual to leverage peering relationships with Level 3, Cogent, Verizon, and other Tier 1 carriers.

When asked about the expansion, PhoenixNAP’s VP of Products William Bell noted, “Host Virtual continues to demonstrate an admirable understanding of market demands for cloud technologies. Combined with their technical expertise, this understanding has helped the company position itself as an industry leader and further their vision for providing cutting-edge solutions to modern businesses. PhoenixNAP is excited to be a part of these efforts and empower our provider ecosystem with solutions they need to achieve their goals.”

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About Host Virtual, Inc:

With data centers spanning North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, Host Virtual is a leading global cloud platform provider, one of the 10 most connected ISP’s on the planet, and a leader in BGP Anycast services.

Host Virtuals platform allows globally-minded companies to go beyond pure CDN, by moving their applications and intelligence to the edge with BGP Anycast acceleration — delivering services quickly and enhancing the end user experience.

About PhoenixNAP
PhoenixNAP is a Global IT services organization offering cloud services, dedicated server hosting, colocation, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technology solutions. Working with multinational corporations for almost a decade, phoenixNAP has maintained a reputation of reliable provider through a highly-personalized approach that ensures all customer requirements are met. Whether it’s flexible storage, disaster recovery, or enterprise-grade facilities, certified personnel supply IT solutions to fit every need. PhoenixNAP is a VMware Premier Service Provider and Veeam Platinum Partner. For more information, visit http://www.phoenixnap.com and for the latest news follow phoenixNAP on Twitter and Facebook.

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Mark Price, Host Virtual’s President, said “Establishing a second PoP in Telehouse’s Docklands campus provides our customers with direct access to important cloud service providers in the UK and EU. It also connects our London datacentre to one of the world’s largest internet exchanges and connectivity hubs, and is therefore a win-win for our customers.”

Telehouse’s London Docklands campus is the home of the London Internet Exchange (LINX). Its carrier-neutral colocation facilities were the first in Europe and it continues to be one of the most connected data centres in the world. It now serves more than 3,000 businesses, including carriers, mobile and content providers, enterprises and financial services companies worldwide.

Michelle Reid, Sales Director, Telehouse Europe, said “We very much welcome this expansion of Host Virtual into Telehouse North. Today, Telehouse customers can connect via dark fibre to Host Virtual and over 530 partners flowing into the Docklands campus, from any of our London data centres.”
Host Virtual is your trusted partner for global cluster deployments with Docker, Anycast, load balancing, network and worldwide content delivery network services, available with its cloud hosting infrastructure as a service, or IaaS. Host Virtual supports over 500 operating system templates deployed to its 25 locations around the world, and utilizes native dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 connections.
About Host Virtual:

Host Virtual offers a portfolio of enterprise products and services ranging from IaaS/cloud to dedicated servers, (or MaaS – Metal as a Service) to fully managed colocation and network services.

With 25-plus locations globally providing IaaS in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania, Host Virtual is a leading BGP Anycast and cloud platform provider. Host Virtual is one of the most connected internet service providers worldwide, with direct access to over 2000 peers over IPv4 and next generation IPv6.

The Host Virtual platform allows globally-minded companies to go beyond pure CDN using BGP Anycast acceleration, to deliver and enhance applications at the edge. This translates to customers being able to scale globally with the best possible performance and access, while partnering with a local team of experts.

About Telehouse

Telehouse is the pioneering data centre colocation provider established in 1989. It is an owner operator of Tier III data centres, connectivity and managed ICT solutions to over 3000 corporations around the world. Telehouse is the data centre subsidiary of Japanese corporation KDDI, a leading Japanese mobile and fixed-line telecommunications and ICT solution provider with 106 offices in 28 countries around the world and a Global Fortune company.

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The upgrades include robust power improvements for equipment as well as diverse network options to enhance Host Virtual’s global connectivity. The company’s lineup of 25 datacenters are located in financial and business centers Asia and Australia, North America, South America and Europe.

“We are very excited about the upgrades that have been completed,” Mark Price, Host Virtual’s President, said. “South America, and Brazil in particular, are exploding markets for internet use and like China and India, it’s one of the global centers of innovation. We’re very happy that we can offer our customers increased and improved network capacity to this growing and important region through our improved Florida datacenter.”

Host Virtual is your trusted partner for global cluster deployments with Docker, Anycast, load balancing, network and worldwide content delivery network services, available with its cloud hosting infrastructure as a service, or IaaS. Host Virtual supports over 500 operating system templates deployed to its 25 locations around the world, and utilizes native dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 connections.

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About Host Virtual:

Host Virtual offers a portfolio of enterprise products and services ranging from IaaS/cloud to dedicated servers, (or MaaS – Metal as a Service) to fully managed colocation and network services.

With 25-plus locations globally providing IaaS in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania, Host Virtual is a leading BGP Anycast and cloud platform provider. Host Virtual is one of the most connected internet service providers worldwide, with direct access to over 2000 peers over IPv4 and next generation IPv6.

The Host Virtual platform allows globally-minded companies to go beyond pure CDN using BGP Anycast acceleration, to deliver and enhance applications at the edge. This translates to customers being able to scale globally with the best possible performance and access, while partnering with a local team of experts.

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Enhancing worldwide connectivity and increasing network capacity at its existing US, European and Australian data centers, Host Virtual POPs now number 25.
 

Host Virtual, a leader in global cluster, cloud computing and Anycast solutions, increases its global footprint with additional POPs and availability zones, which now total 25 in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania regions.The expanded POP and data centers availability can be found in San Jose, Dallas, Ashburn, Raleigh, in the US, and Karlsruhe in Germany. This follows capacity improvements in Host Virtual’s data centers located in Miami, Frankfurt, Bucharest, and Sydney.
 

“Organizations and developers looking for multi-regional and multi-content deployments at a global scale, will find that we offer the best services at competitive prices,” said Sandy Bhargavi, Host Virtuala’s Senior Vice President. “Our products range from cloud to colocation and metal as a service, as well as meet transport/connectivity needs and high performance expectations.”
 

Host Virtual is your trusted partner for global cluster deployments with Docker, Anycast, load balancing, network and worldwide content delivery network services, available with its cloud hosting infrastructure as a service, or IaaS. Host Virtual supports over 500 operating system templates deployed to its 25 locations around the world, and utilizes native dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6
connections.
 

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Host Virtual offers a portfolio of enterprise products and services ranging from IaaS/cloud to dedicated servers, (or MaaS – Metal as a Service) to fully managed colocation and network services.
 

With 25-plus locations globally providing IaaS in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania, Host Virtual is a leading BGP Anycast and cloud platform provider. Host Virtual is one of the most connected internet service providers worldwide, with direct access to over 2000 peers over IPv4 and next generation IPv6.
 

The Host Virtual platform allows globally-minded companies to go beyond pure CDN using BGP Anycast acceleration, to deliver and enhance applications at the edge. This translates to customers being able to scale globally with the best possible performance and access, while partnering with a local team of experts.

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Brazil’s booming economy means that more companies and people need to connect into the country. Host Virtual keeps ahead of that demand with the IX.br internet exchange, adding connectivy to hundreds of peers and ISPs in the surrounding area.

IX.br connects to the country’s major metropolitan centers, including Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, as well into the countries surrounding Brazil in South America. The exchange handles a peak of about 986Gbps, with an average of 653.07Gbps.

The added network peering augments Host Virtual’s present Tier III datacenter presence in Brazil, located at Equinix SP2 in Sao Paulo.

“We recently opened our Brazilian datacenter and we received a tremendous response from our customers,” said Sandy Bhargavi, Host Virtual’s Senior Vice President. “Joining IX.br ensures that customers continue to have fast, reliable connections within Brazil and in South America, with the capacity for their future growth and needs.”

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About Host Virtual Inc:

With data centers spanning North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, Host Virtual is a leading global cloud platform provider, one of the 10 most connected ISP’s on the planet, and a leader in BGP Anycast services.

Host Virtual’s platform allows globally-minded companies to go beyond pure CDN, by moving their applications and intelligence to the edge with BGP Anycast acceleration – delivering services quickly and enhancing the end user experience.

To learn more about Host Virtual and its BGP Anycast platform, visit http://www.hostvirtual.com.

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With the added peering options of the Seattle Internet Exchange, Host Virtual expands the connectivity of its Seattle datacenter for its customers.

In Seattle, home turf of Amazon, Microsoft and Cheezburger, connections are everything — and Host Virtual’s datacenter in the city is now connected to the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX).

SIX was originally established in April 1997 as a private interconnection of traffic between Seattle and Texas between two ISPs in the same facility. In the 18 years since it was founded, SIX crossed an aggregate peak traffic milestone of 400 Gbps this month and has 196 members.

Host Virtual’s location in Seattle is located at the Sabey Technology Campus Facility, the largest private internet wholesale data center provider in North America. Microsoft, Oracle, Chase Manhattan, and University of Washington are also at the same campus.

“Joining the Seattle Internet Exchange means we can provide our customers with greater peering options in one of the most connected tech centers in the world,” said Sandy Bhargavi, Host Virtual’s Senior Vice President. “This peering offers better connectivity to not just the Seattle area, but also the U.S. Northwest and the surrounding area. We’re very pleased to be able to be able to provide this network expansion to our customers. Host Virtual aggressively upgrades its connectivity and hardware to ensure our customers have the best service, no matter what their needs are.”
Connection with SIX is available immediately for Host Virtual’s customers.

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About Host Virtual Inc:

With data centers spanning North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, Host Virtual is a leading global cloud platform provider, one of the 10 most connected ISP’s on the planet, and a leader in BGP Anycast services.

Host Virtual’s platform allows globally-minded companies to go beyond pure CDN, by moving their applications and intelligence to the edge with BGP Anycast acceleration – delivering services quickly and enhancing the end user experience.

To learn more about Host Virtual and its BGP Anycast platform, visit http://www.hostvirtual.com.

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One of the core routing mechanisms of the internet, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has been brought to the forefront of news again, after it’s been uncovered an Italian based company assisted in hijacking a range of 256 addresses to assist police in an investigation.

Over the last few years, BGP and it’s lack of security has been in the spotlight, a prime example in late 2014 being traffic destined for Russia curiously routed through China before it’s final destination. A trust based peering arrangement between China Telecom and Russia’s Vimpelcom allowed the abnormality to take place. The peering arrangement in place between China Telecom and Vimpelcom allowed the ISPs to exchange traffic directly over an internet exchange, instead of through normal transit, which ISPs pay for, based on traffic volume. Numerous times since the peering agreement had been initiated, traffic that was originated and destined for Russia flowed through China Telecom’s routers instead of taking the normal ‘best route’.

While this case could have simply been the result of human error, the complexity of BGP and trust based peering creates a lack of security that has been taken advantage of numerous times in the previous decade.

Example of BGP Hijacking

Most recently, it’s come to light that an Italian company that called itself ‘Hacking Team’ helped to orchestrate the BGP hijack of IPs (a /24 subnet) from the now defunct provider Santrex to assist Italian police regain control of several workstations and computers that were being remotely monitored.

From leaked emails, Hacking Team and the Italian police were relying on Santrex when they went out of business in October 2013. Once Santrex stopped announcing the IPs, Hacking Team and Italy’s Special Operations Group were unable to communicate with numerous computers infected with Hacking Team’s proprietary malware. Another Italian ISP, Aruba helped Hacking Team to announce the block (46.166.163.0/24) and bring up a virtual machine that would act & collect data act in the same manner the previous virtual machine at Santrex did. “If everything was done correctly, we should get back the VPS online hoping then that the backdoor is still alive and [the systems] may contact the VPS,” a Hacking Team worker wrote in a machine translated August 2013 e-mail.

BGPlay Screenshot – BGP Graph of 46.166.163.0/24

The above graph shows the BGP network graph during the hijacking, with Aruba announcing the rogue route over the Milan Internet Exchange with at least 5 ISPs accepting the announcement including FastWeb (AS12874), Hurricane Electric (AS6939), Reteivo (AS49605), EasyNet (AS4589) and MC-Link SpA (AS5396).

This resulted in the IP addresses becoming reachable, with the Italian police confirming with Hacking Team they’d recovered contact with 3 of the 4 remote access trojan (RAT) clients. The hijacked route was withdrawn on August 22, indicating the operation was successful, likely reconfiguring the RAT clients to contact a different IP.

This brazen hijack and increasing BGP hijacking instances shows the ease of manipulating the BGP system, and need for policies put into place by ISPs to either penalize, or de-peer ISPs who consistently participate in such. Since peering is based on trust, connections do not require prefix lists, easily allowing a largely peered ISP to arbitrarily announce large amounts of IP space, taking over legitimate traffic, such as the case with Hacking Team and Aruba. Technologies such as RPKI and ROA route signing are not widely deployed and immature at this point in time, making BGP route monitoring more relevant than ever.

Earlier this year OpenDNS acquired BGPmon, a popular BGP monitoring service. On June 30 of this year, Cisco announced its intent to acquire OpenDNS. In addition, at Blackhat this year, OpenDNS announced plans for BGP Stream, a collection of announcements regarding BGP attacks that will be broadcast in real-time for network administrators.

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IPv4 based addresses are based on a 32-bit system, providing around 4.3 billion possible internet addresses. The new standard, IPv6, employs a 128-bit identifier, allowing for 340 trillion trillion trillion (3.4 x 10³⁸ addresses). Where IPv4 was under qualified, IPv6 seems almost overqualified, as ARIN explains the new addressing system has enough IPs to allocate a trillion IP addresses for every known star in the universe. In other words, network operators should have no worry of having to update routers and equipment again once IPv6 ready hardware is deployed.

“Since its introduction, IPv4 has served as the foundation for the global Internet as we know it today. With the coming depletion of IPv4 address space, it is time for Internet service providers to move to IPv6 to enable the Internet’s continued growth”, said John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN. Numerous providers such as Host Virtual have already adopted IPv6 in a dual-stack (parallel) form, as some ISPs have just begun trials as IPv4 exhaustion is now imminent. Numerous providers are already awaiting addresses and pending allocations with no estimate in site when they’ll be fulfilled, simply due to lack of available IPv4 addresses left.

Host Virtual has been fully dual stack since 2008, offering both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in parallel on servers. All customers can request additional IPv6 addresses as well, as more and more users connect natively over IPv6. Try us now and see why Host Virtual is trusted by numerous Fortune 500 companies to host their infrastructure.

About the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

ARIN is the nonprofit corporation that manages the distribution of Internet number resources – IPv4, IPv6, and Autonomous System numbers – in its service region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. More information on IPv6 adoption is available at http://www.getipv6.info/and http://www.arin.net

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A vulnerability has been discovered and patched for OpenSSL versions 1.0.1n, and 1.0.2b, and later versions. This vulnerability could allow a malicious attacker into tricking the software into trusting a certificate that shouldn’t be trusted by a CA. It’s been assigned CVE-2015-1783 in the CVE database.

This vulnerability and any associated exploits affect client applications (such as email clients and web browsers) and services that validate Certificate Authority (CA) certificate chains, such as commercial VPN applications, encryption systems, and websites that utilize a key to sign clients in – most common server configurations are not affected.

NOT AFFECTED : CentOS 5, CentOS 6, CentOS 7, Debian Squeeze (6) , Wheezy and Jessie, as well as all RHEL versions, as they do not provide a version of OpenSSL that includes the affected feature. Windows and IIS do not include OpenSSL software.

AFFECTED : LiteSpeed Web Server 4.2.23,LiteSpeed 5.0,LiteSpeed 5.0.1

If you have any of the affected LiteSpeed versions, they could be vulnerable and open your system up to attack, it’s advised you update the software as soon as possible. If you’re using a LiteSpeed 4.x branch, it’s recommended to update to LiteSpeed 4.2.24 by using:

/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/lsup.sh -v 4.2.24

If you’re using LiteSpeed 5.x, it’s suggested to update to 5.0.2 immediately by using:

/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/lsup.sh -v 5.0.2

Sources :

http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20150709.txt
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1793
https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/release-log

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Trans-Pacific Route of the FASTER Cable

Last week the trans-pacific fiber cable system dubbed “FASTER” landed in Chikura and Shima, Japan. This massive fiber-optic system is the collaboration of six companies including: Google, KDDI, Global Transit, China Mobile, China Telecom, and SingTel to improve latency to the region from the United States.

The 60 Tb/s system will offer lower latency, and more stable connectivity to Asia locations. In addition the United States side will extend to numerous major internet hubs on the United States west coast, covering Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The cable was named ‘FASTER’ to represent the system’s purpose of serving rapidly surging traffic demands.

While the new cable is one of a few hundred submarine telecommunications cables that connects various parts of the world, it’s by far the largest design capacity ever built on the trans-pacific route, which is one of the longest routes in the World. FASTER is comprised of six fiber pairs, each capable of a transmission rate of 100 wavelengths at 100 gigabits per second, giving the cable an astonishing 60 terabit-per-second ratings.

Submarine cables are crucial to the structure of how the internet works, and multiple or redundant links are crucial for a proper infrastructure.

In 2008, when submarine cables of SEA-ME-WE-4 were severed near the Alexandria cable landing station in Egypt, the country saw a 60% drop in connectivity, while over half of all internet connectivity to India was lost due to the fiber cut. For numerous days following the incident, speed & data capacity was reduced by 75% in the region, as only one cable was handling the bulk of traffic, being re-routed through the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

A Look at the landing of the “FASTER” Cable :

The FASTER fiber being pulled ashore in Japan

The FASTER cable being led into the landing station from underground

Two backup gas turbine power generators with a 30 second startup time

Battery backup UPS system to carry the location’s power load until the generators start in case of power failure

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