Rochen’s new UK hosting offering. Pricing released. Choose to host on a US or UK server.

Currently Rochen has all of our servers located in Dallas, Texas in the United States at a truly fantastic facility called Colo4Dallas. As many of you may be aware from discussions with our team at events like Joomla Day UK, a couple of months ago, and in threads at our own customer forums, we will be launching UK hosting services as well very soon. This means you will be able to choose to host on either a US or UK server with Rochen. Yesterday we executed a contract to take data centre floor space, connectivity and power…

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Joomla Days in the USA, UK and Australia and Rochen’s Las Vegas Party! Joomla hosting and security on the agenda.

Some members of the Rochen team have had the pleasure of attending and being the lead sponsor of three Joomla community driven events over the past few months. In addition to providing all of the joomla hosting services for the official Joomla websites, Rochen also sponsors many community organized events  around the world called Joomla Days. Sponsoring Joomla Days  gives Rochen another way to help support the Joomla project and wider open source community as well as affording us a great networking opportunity to link up with both current and potential clients in the Joomla community. Meeting…

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Are backups important to you? Learn how Rochen can help you avoid the fate of companies like Journalspace.

There has been a lot of discussion in the hosting community lately about backups and the protection of customer data. This follows a large budget host losing entire servers worth of customer data after a failure and the very public collapse of the popular blog hosting provider Journalspace. Neither of these hosts had a proper backup strategy in place. Rochen originally launched our Rochen Vault enterprise managed backup platform in May 2007 and it is included as a free of charge service with all of our shared and reseller hosting plans. It can also be added to…

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Rochen’s take on Green Hosting. Is it a scam? Does it really help the environment? Learn about our new “Green Initiatives”.

You may have noticed a lot of web hosting providers promoting so called “green hosting” recently. This is a trend which has taken off in the hosting world within the past year and in no small way. While pushing to be greener is certainly commendable virtually every hosting provider I have seen promoting such things either isn’t telling the whole truth or is flat out misleading the consumer. This does nothing but damage the reputation of the industry as a whole. The Problem So here's an example for you. One of the largest budget hosting providers advertises:…

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Rochen, now proudly hosting JoomlaPack. Make migrating your site to Rochen even easier.

Rochen is proud to announce our sponsorship of the JoomlaPack project. JoomlaPack is an invaluable tool for helping migrate your Joomla sites and we're proud to be providing the joomla hosting for this great project. If you have ever tried it out before, I am sure you would agree that it is one of the most professional and polished tools available for Joomla. As well as that, it makes moving a Joomla website a breeze. It is also an Editors Pick on the Joomla! Extensions Directory with many rave reviews. So join us in welcoming the JoomlaPack…

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