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March 21, 2012 -- European web hosting company LeaseWeb announced on Wednesday that open source web server developer NGINX has named LeaseWeb its preferred infrastructure partner.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider LeaseWeb announced on Monday that it has partnered with CloudLinux to offer its customers increased control over resources with the CloudLinux OS.

This news comes less than a week after CloudLinux integrated its OS with managed online backup software StoreGrid.

LeaseWeb says its resellers will be able to manage resources available to their shared hosting customers, and control CPU, memory and connections available to each tenant. CloudLinux prevents one site from slowing down or taking down an entire server, allowing web hosts to increase server density. This capability is available through CloudLinux’s “lightweight virtual environment,” an isolation technology that limits and controls resources available to a specific process or user.

“The integration of the CloudLinux OS into LeaseWeb’s hosting environment gives shared hosters ready access to deliver an enhanced, secure and stable experience to their customers,” Igor Seletskiy, CloudLinux CEO said in a statement. “We are excited to be able to offer this service to LeaseWeb and look forward to working with the company in rolling this out to their global customer base.”

The CloudLinux partner program offers automated ordering through its API, marketing and content support, participation in joint press releases, unlimited 24/7 support and access to its partner portal. CloudLinux launched its preferred partner program in November 2011.

LeaseWeb says CloudLinux OS licenses can be purchased directly from its website and that existing customers can license existing infrastructure through the customer portal.

“Our resellers expect that they get access to all building blocks to deploy a robust platform to offer services to their end-customers,” Rolph Haspers, operations director at LeaseWeb said in a statement. “With this partnership, LeaseWeb is extending its industry leadership in providing the broadest choice of x86-based operating systems to their resellers.”

LeaseWeb offers dedicated servers, virtualization and cloud, and colocation from eight data centers in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Brussels and Washington, DC.

Other LeaseWeb partners include Microsoft, VMware, IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper, cPanel and Parallels.