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Crucial Paradigm Expands Web Hosting for Virtual Private Servers

2008-11-27T06:00:00-05:00

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) Web hosting solutions firm, Crucial Paradigm, is expanding its Virtual Private Server hosting platform portfolio of offerings.

The new Virtual Private Server hosting plans introduce a variety of new high-end and entry-level VPS hosting plans designed to increase options for existing and prospective customers. With the changes, customers can now take advantage of two new entry-level Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting plan that offer generous storage space and resource allotments.

Aaron Weller, Director of Crucial Paradigm remarked, ''After more than five years in the hosting business, we’ve learned the importance of offering fluid array of hosting solutions that offer clients the utmost in flexibility, usability, and scalability. Today's VPS plan changes will broaden the spectrum of solutions we are able to offer, and ultimately, the spectrum of clients we are able to serve.''

The new entry-level Linux VPS-128 plan starts at $10/monthly and includes access to 128MB of RAM, 15GB of data storage, and 75GB of data transfer. For the Windows platform, the new entry-level Win VPS-256 plan starts at $25/monthly and includes access to 256MB of RAM, 25GB of data storage, and 150GB of data transfer. Windows VPS plans are powered by Windows Server 2008. Dotnetpanel is available free upon request.

Crucial Paradigm has also introduced two new high-end VPS plans, creating one of the most robust and powerful VPS platform in the entire industry. Linux VPS users can now scale to the VPS-16384 plan, which starts at $1200/monthly and includes access to 16GB of RAM, 1600GB of data storage, and 6000GB of data transfer. The comparable new high-end Windows VPS plan starts at $320/monthly and includes access to 4GB of RAM, 400GB of data storage, and 2400GB of data transfer.

In addition to new VPS plans from Crucial Paradigm for customers in the United States, the company has also introduced a variety of changes on VPS plans in its Australian division, Crucial Paradigm Australia. Linux VPS plans now start at AU $15/monthly and Windows VPS plans start at AU $35/monthly.

Existing customers will not be automatically affected by the new changes. All customers will have the option to upscale or downscale their hosting plan as needed to meet the changing requirements of their web sites.

Founded in 2003, Crucial Paradigm operates in multiple locations around the world. The privately-owned, debt-free company offers a wide range of hosting solutions from Basic Web Hosting to Reseller Hosting, Virtual Dedicated Servers, Dedicated Servers and High Traffic Clusters, custom designed, based on each client's individual requirements.

To learn more details, please visit: www.crucial.com.au/virtual-dedicated-servers-vds-vps.

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1&1 Internet Doubles Green VPS RAM

2008-11-27T06:00:00-05:00

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Subsidiary of United Internet, 1 and 1 Internet, has launched an upgrade consisting of doubled RAM on Green Virtual Private Servers.

According to the comany, the already generous quotas of RAM will be quadrupled within the range of Windows Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and doubled on all Linux VPS. 1 and 1's Windows and Linux VPS's start at only $29 per month. Windows VPS packages now start with at least 512 MB of guaranteed RAM and Linux VPS's now include at least 256 MB of RAM and have up to 4 GB of burstable RAM. Burstable RAM allows customers to have a spike in their server memory usage, allowing more flexibility.

In September, 1 and 1 debuted a new premium range of dedicated servers that combine the very latest energy saving quad-core AMD processors with unrivaled quotas of RAM and hard disk space, together with RAID1 or RAID5 technology, at extremely low prices. The success of the new range has boosted interest in 1 and 1 server products by 35 percent.

For even more demanding server customers, 1 and 1 also added Windows Server 2008 as an option in the dedicated server products. Windows Server 2008 is both versatile and reliable with technological advancements, such as server and presentation virtualization capabilities, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, Server Core, PowerShell, Network Access Protection and Server Manager. Enhanced networking and clustering technologies provide a security-improved, easy-to-manage platform. All 1 and 1 servers are run on 100 percent renewable energy in a green state-of-the-art data center.

Recently, 1 and 1 announced that the 55,000 square foot data center is fully green-certified by Green-e, in cooperation with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. The Lenexa, Kansas based facility now boasts 100 percent of the energy offset by renewable energy certificates. Server customers can be confident that their servers are housed in this state-of-the-art facility.

1 and 1 is the one-stop-shop for web solutions, providing a high quality service with the security of our state-of-the-art green data centers and 24/7 technical support. 1 and 1 currently holds over 7.8 million customer contracts worldwide and manages over 10 million domain names.

1 and 1 Internet's global community includes over 10 million domain names. 1 and 1 features an array of services, from instant domain packages to all-inclusive shared hosting plans, dedicated servers and ready-to-run eShops. Combining over 55,000 fully-tuned servers in five data centers. With the performance of Juniper and Cisco routers, 1 and 1 endeavors to utilize the most superior products from the leading technology manufacturers and service providers. 1 and 1 is a Microsoft Joint Development Partner, and works with other paramount companies such as Google, Plesk, Symantec, and HP/Compaq.

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The Planet, Upgrades Dallas Data Center

2008-11-24T02:01:00-05:00

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) Privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, has made enhancements to feature energy-ffficient design, and accommodate up to 10,000 servers, in its newly upgraded Dallas D6 data center.

The new phase adds 12,000 square feet to the company's operations, bringing The Planet’s total data center footprint to 167,000 square feet. With an enhanced design that completely separates hold and cold air, the company estimates the data center's coefficient of efficiency will be approximately 1.5, which is below the 1.6 ideal ranking. The coefficient of efficiency is an EPA- and Uptime Institute-recognized measurement of the total power necessary to operate a data center divided by its critical power, which is the energy required to operate its servers.

Jeff Lowenberg, Vice President of Facilities at The Planet noted, ''We continue to experience solid customer demand, so this new space enables us to accommodate our growth. Additionally, operating our data centers at peak performance is important to both our company and our customers, especially as we prepare for our future.''

To further extend its energy efficiency, the new data center floor extends the plenums of the computer-room air conditioning (CRAC) units through the ceiling, using that space as a return air path. The Planet is using CPI (Chatsworth Products Inc.)-ducted exhaust cabinets in the new phase, taking steps beyond traditional ''hot aisle-cold aisle'' setups to completely isolate the hot and cold air in the data center.

The company operates six world-class data centers, with four in Dallas and two in Houston.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance

Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic

Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability

Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses

Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 25,000 small and medium size businesses and 13.3 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

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Mountain Media Offers Free Web Hosting Packages

2008-11-24T01:49:00-05:00

New York, New York - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Trade association for small and medium sized online merchants, eCommerce Merchants, has entered into a partnership with the Mountain Media company.

James Curley, Co-founder and CEO of Mountain Media remarked, ''Our mission is to help businesses succeed on the Web by providing them with search engine friendly solutions and services. So we're elated about the opportunity to provide our customers with access to the resources and tools that eCommerce Merchants provides to educate them further and help them improve their businesses and their online sales.''

Mountain Media's proprietary ecommerce platform, Mountain Commerce was named to Practical eCommerce magazine's list of notable shopping cart solutions in late 2007. The Mountain Commerce suite enables online merchants to receive top search-engine visibility while providing powerful up-selling and cross-selling features, effective order management and fulfillment, pricing and promotions handling, payment processing and catalog management, all on a secure and reliable platform. Additionally, the company offers a full compliment of commercial Web services such as Search Engine Marketing, Graphic Design and Web Hosting and has been granted CISP certification by VISA as a level 1 PCI DSS compliant provider.

The reciprocally beneficial partnership arrangement will allow eCommerce Merchants members to take advantage of free small-business web hosting for an entire year when they implement a Mountain Media ecommerce website while Mountain Media's merchants will receive free membership to the growing ECOMMERCE MERCHANTS organization which provides ecommerce education, best practices guidance, technology and infrastructure advice and sourcing and supplies solutions to merchants around the world who use the internet to sell or promote products and services.
Cresta Pillsbury, Managing Partner of eCommerce Merchants added, ''This partnership is a definite value to our members; our members that are using Mountain Media's suite of services have been extremely pleased with the results they have received as well as the terrific hands on support they get. I couldn't be happier to have Mountain Media as a partner and to be able to offer their services to our members at a discount.''
Mountain Media was founded in 1998 to heed the growing commercial demand for effective website design and development allowing small to mid-tier businesses to proliferate their message and expand into new market segments. Since then, the company has set focus on, and become a premium provider of customizable, search-engine friendly eCommerce products and services. The company offers a full compliment of commercial Web services such as Search Engine Marketing, Graphic Design, Custom Application Development, Payment Gateway Services and Web Hosting.

eCommerce Merchants is a trade association of small and medium sized ecommerce businesses. The organization provides best practices guidance, technology and infrastructure advice and sourcing and supplies solutions to online merchants around the world who use the internet to sell or promote products and services.

To learn more about eCommerce Merchants, please visit: www.eCommerce Merchants.org.

For more information about Mountain Media products and services, please visit: www.mountainmedia.com.

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Google Unveils Top Ranking Steps

2008-11-21T02:13:00-05:00

Mountain View, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Search engine firm, Google, has released information on how to rank at the top of the search engine destination, in just one simply step, on its official website.

According to the Official Google Blog entry on the subject, ''Today we're launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users.''

Who among us has not dreamed of ranking in the very top spot at Google for the most lucrative and competitive search terms in our industry? And who also among us has worked tirelessly day after day, grooming our websites, creating rich, unique and compelling content, using every white hat SEO technique in the book - only to fail in our quest for the number one spot? Our dreams dashed by the mighty Google algorithm.

If you have ever sought to see your website in the number one spot at Google - your quest is over. Google has introduced SearchWiki. What exactly is SearchWiki and what does it do?

The SearchWiki does have a few caveats. First - any changes that you make to the search results are seen by you and you alone. Also, you must be logged into your Google account to see your Google SearchWiki results. Another interesting feature - it is absolutely impossible to remove the AdWords paid advertising results. A great addition to the ability to move results around is also the ability to add completely new results that are not even represented on the page. Not listed for a key search term? Just go to the entry window at the bottom of the page and type in your URL. One feature that is sure to be interesting over time - the ability to add comments to particular search entry. I was able to add the very first comments under the search term 'web hosting' for website hosting company 34sp.com. If you log into your Google account and search 'web hosting' then navigate to the bottom of the page and you will see a link entitled, 'See all notes for this SearchWiki'. According to what I have read at Google - you should be able to read my notes about the company there.

According to the Official Google Blog, this new feature may be the first step towards actually incorporating user feedback into broader search results. Quoting the blog, ''This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives. We have been testing bits and pieces of SearchWiki for some time through live experiments, and we incorporated much of our learnings into this release. We are constantly striving to improve our users' search experience, and this is yet another step along the way.''

So live it up and put your site right up to the number one spot. Even if it's just in your own browser, it still feels really good.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, California, Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

To learn more about the Google video on SearchWiki on the Official Google Channel at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Pl1H0dIXE.

For further information on new developments at Google please visit, http://labs.google.com.

For more information about Google, please visit: www.google.com.

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HostMySite Expands Managed Services

2008-11-21T02:32:00-05:00

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) HostMySite, Inc. has launched a new managed services section in its main website, highlighting the suite of managed services available to dedicated server and colocation customers.

In addition to the array of technical and managed services detailed, interested customers may fill out a short contact form to receive additional information about HostMySite.com's managed solutions.

Stacy Griggs, Vice President of Sales at HostMySite.com noted, ''Now more than ever, IT departments are stretched thin and technical resources are being asked to take on more responsibilities without any added assistance. HostMySite.com's premium managed services offer the added help these strained departments need to keep their business running smoothly.''

HostMySite.com's managed services suite includes services under a range of categories:

Managed Servers

Infrastructure Monitoring

Storage and Backup

Network Security

Hosted Exchange

Virtualized Servers

For customers who need more than just leased hardware, these services offer major business benefits including marked cost savings and better internal resource allocation.

Robert Cassidy, Vice President Marketing and Product Management at HostMySite.com remarked, ''Customers trust us as a committed partner managing their technology infrastructure. We are actively engaging them to learn how we can expand and continuously improve our technology platforms and services portfolio.''

HostMySite.com's managed dedicated servers are customizable solutions that are fully supported by 24x7x365 customer service. Each dedicated customer has their own dedicated support team to assist with any need.

Founded on the principle of Service Defined, HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with dedicated servers, VPS hosting, and ASP.NET hosting. These hosting services are supported by 24x7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat. HostMySite.com has been building and growing their hosting expertise in Newark, Delaware since 1997.

To learn more about the new content at the website, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/managedservices.

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SSA Host Adds Web Hosting Semi-Dedicated Servers

2008-11-20T03:26:00-05:00

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) Hosting company, providing shared and Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions, SSA Host, is offering a bridge hosting solution between traditional virtual hosting and dedicated servers, with its new Semi-Dedicated server product line.

Kristopher Jordy, owner of SSA Host parent company Sirkels and Squares Alternative noted, ''Semi-Dedicated hosting introduces an attractive alternative for clients who might normally seek a low-end dedicated server or high-end VPS. With our Semi-Dedicated plans, we’re targeting clients who don't need to modify their Linux kernel but do want the relative security of a private hosting environment. Beyond the cost-savings of a Semi-Dedicated server, the technology also reduces our carbon footprint by further maximizing the resource utilization of each piece of hardware. It's 'green' technology, and it's good business.''

By minimizing the number of clients hosted on each node and maximizing system resource allotments per user, Semi-Dedicated servers use virtualization technology to offer a high-end virtual private server hosting solution that can be likened to a powerful dedicated server, without the increased costs. The hardware base of each Semi-Dedicated server node is comprised of enterprise-class technology, with dual core, dual processors, RAID 10 data storage configurations, and the Virtuozzo virtualization technology.

The Semi-Dedicated hosting plan, which offers two configurations, starts at $109.99 monthly for 50GB of disk space, 500GB of monthly data transfer, and hardware with guaranteed 768MB of RAM (burstable to 2560MB of RAM). Clients can choose between datacenters in Los Angeles, Calif., and Dallas, Texas.

In addition to Semi-dedicated servers, SSA Host provides Domain Registration, SSL Certificates, Virtual Private Servers, Dedicated Servers, Hosted Exchange, Server Monitoring, Linux-based Shared hosting and Reseller hosting.

Launched in 2006 by parent company Sirkels and Squares Alternative, SSA Host is a provider of Internet solutions for small and medium sized businesses. It offers a range of hosting and management services, including Shared hosting, Reseller hosting, Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Servers.

To learn more information about Semi-Dedicated Web hosting from SSA Host, please visit: www.ssahost.com/details/semided.

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DemoWolf Discounts Web Hosting Tutorials

2008-11-20T03:09:00-05:00

Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) DemoWolf has launched four new tutorial series, including Magento Commerce series (19 tutorials), Joomla Installation series (9 tutorials), Joomla Administration series (14 tutorials), and Joomla Content Management series (10 tutorials), just added to its offerings.

DemoWolf is also currently offering all tutorials at 50% off, as well as "bundles" of tutorial series for even greater savings. Sale prices end on November 30, 2008.

Rob Moore, President of DemoWolf noted, ''The production of these new tutorials marks the first time DemoWolf has used its new home-page polling script to find out what tutorials their consumers wanted DemoWolf to produce the most. Joomla was the most voted-for application, while Magento Commerce was voted for second most often. Since these tutorials have now been produced, they've been removed from the poll. DemoWolf will shortly be releasing tutorials for WordPress 2.7, the next most voted for application.''

Magento Commerce is a popular open-source ecommerce solution that provides merchants unprecedented control over store operations. DemoWolf has created a series of 19 tutorials for Magento Commerce that help users in everything from installation and setup, as well as management of your store. This series of tutorials can be branded for any hosting company for $34.97 for all 19 tutorials.

Joomla is an award winning Content Management System (CMS) offered to end-users by many hosting companies. It enables users to easily build web sites and powerful online applications. DemoWolf has created three (3) separate tutorial series for Joomla, addressing installation, administration and content management issues. These tutorials can be branded with any hosting company's logo for $24.97 (9 installation tutorials), $29.97 (14 administration tutorials), and $24.97 (10 content management tutorials).

DemoWolf offers over 2200 flash tutorials for hosting companies, including over 700 voice tutorials (flash tutorials that include voice audio narration). Available tutorials include cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, SmarterMail, RVSiteBuilder, Fantastico, Drupal, Gallery, WordPress and many more. There are several hundred more tutorials at various stages of development. New series to be released shortly include PayPal VOICE, H-Sphere 3.1 (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), DotNetPanel (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), and Plesk 8.3 for Windows (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice).

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Hivelocity Offers Spam and Virus Filtering

2008-11-19T02:08:00-05:00

Tampa, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) Hosting provider, Hivelocity.net, has introduced spam and virus filtering services to the server portfolio of offerings.

Steve Eschweiler, General Manager of Hivelocity noted, ''Built from the ground up, Hivelocity's spam and virus filtering system is the newest and most capable solution on the market. Our system produces kill rates of 99.5% or better while maintaining unparalleled false-positive performance.''

According to the Hivelocity customer newsletter sent Thursday, this new service is available to enable within the existing customer portal (my.hivelocity). The Hivelocity system updates itself every 5 minutes to the latest spam threats and trends from around the world. The system analyzes and tags the sending mail server, network data, header data, message content and other attributes of over 500,000 new spam messages every hour. These messages are then blocked from user inboxes and available to review through a sophisticated quarantine management interface.

Mr. Eschweiler added, ''Our customers needed a simple and reliable way to deal with the ever increasing influx of spam and viruses. We are so happy to offer a solution that works so well and give our customers new product to offer their email users.''

In September, the company was included in the Inc Magazine's annual list of the 5000 fastest growing companies in America.With a 3 year revenue growth rate of 146% Hivelocity.net has landed itself in the top 300 of fastest growing IT companies. This is the 2nd year in a row Hivelocity.net has been recognized by Inc Magazine.

Since 2001, Hivelocity has offered 99.9 percent network uptime, specializing in dedicated web hosting and colocation, providing services to thousands of customers from all over the world. Hivelocity has over 100 hardware and bandwidth combinations available, with flexible options in hardware, software and bandwidth. Hivelocity's servers can be used for online gaming, credit card processing, video and audio streaming, web hosting, software development, email, and data storage, among other businesses. The company offers 24/7 tech support with live reps on site at all times, to service its thousands of customers. Hivelocity currently maintains an 8 Gbps connection to the internet with multiple tier 1 carriers. Hivelocity is privately held and carries zero debt.

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Rackspace Mosso Cloud Hosting Division, Names General Manager

2008-11-19T06:00:00-05:00

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) Rackspace Hosting's cloud division, Mosso, has expanded its leadership team, naming Emil Sayegh as general manager, previously the vice president of the product group at Rackspace.

Mr. Sayegh's responsibilities at Rackspace included the development, marketing and management of new products and services for the company's managed hosting product line.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Mr. Sayegh spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various product development and marketing roles. Most recently, Mr. Sayegh was the services marketing and development director at Dell Inc. where he oversaw the global services roadmap. Additionally, Mr. Sayegh served in leadership positions at several notable IT companies including RLX Technologies, Compaq Computers and W.L. Gore and Associates. He holds nine patents in the fields of electronics and telecommunication.

Lanham Napier, CEO, Rackspace Hosting remarked, ''As the VP of our product group, Emil directed the launches of multiple, successful products including the company's Hosted Microsoft Exchange and our virtualization product set. Our cloud hosting initiatives are extremely important to the company's future, which is why we've selected someone with a winning track record to run that business.''

Rackspace's cloud hosting division is currently hosting more than 80,000 websites and applications on Cloud Sites, reflecting a 175 percent increase over this time last year. Last month the company unveiled its cloud hosting strategy, including the announcement of two acquisitions and a suite of cloud solutions at the Rackspace Cloud Event. The two newest additions to the product suite, Cloud Files and Cloud Servers, will leverage technology acquired through the acquisitions of Jungle Disk.

Mr. Sayegh remarked, ''I am honored to be joining the cloud division. This is a great opportunity to lead what could be one of the biggest technology evolutions the market has seen - cloud computing. Cloud technologies delivered by Rackspace will provide the cost and scalability advantages of the cloud with Rackspace's world-leading service approach, making the cloud both affordable and easy to use.''

Mr. Sayegh holds a bachelor of science in Engineering and a master of science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.

A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company's award-winning Fanatical Support. Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers' IT departments, by handling infrastructure maintenance and management. Rackspace's portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust, a provider of business-class hosted email solutions. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting.

Mosso, LLC is the home of The Hosting Cloud, providing enterprise-grade hosting through an easily managed interface so that developers, designers and IT managers can deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily. Founded by two former Rackspace employees, The Hosting Cloud is built upon a cross platform, clustered-computing architecture.

To learn more about Rackspace, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

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PAETEC Web Hosting Webinars Offered

2008-11-19T06:00:00-05:00

Fairport, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) PAETEC Holding Corp., data, voice and Internet solutions for business-class customers nationwide, is hosting free educational webinars, to assist enterprises in gaining knowledge about creating effective online presences, with minimal demands on internal resources.

''Shared Web Hosting: Driving Your Business' Growth Through a Dynamic Web Presence'' concerns hosting services that allow an enterprise to build informational, educational, and e-commerce Web sites without having to develop and support their own web server. The service includes disk space, data transfer, an exclusive domain name, e-mail capabilities, and more, all for a low monthly rate. Users retain complete administrative and design control of their site.

Christopher Lodge, a PAETEC Division Vice President with responsibility for Web and data-colocation services noted, ''Having your business on the Web can improve company communications, reduce operating costs, and enhance customer relations. The service also allows you to create an electronic 'store-front' that can expand your marketing and sales outreach locally and globally.''

The service is an excellent option for business-class customers that prefer not to develop and support their own Web server, or do not have the required internal information technology resources.

Mr. Lodge added, ''Best of all, you can outsource the hassle of secure Web maintenance and gain the benefit of live support from a team of dedicated professionals. In addition, the service sets a strong business foundation to layer on additional network services as business needs evolve and expand.''

The live, one-hour webinar will be repeated over three days at the following times:

-- Tuesday, Nov. 18, at noon ET

-- Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 3:00 p.m. ET

-- Thursday, Nov. 20, at noon ET

During the webinar, you will learn how:

-- To customize a Shared Web Hosting solution to suit your unique requirements

-- Easy it is to use a Website control panel

-- Simple it is to expand your Website as your operations grow

-- Easy tools can help you set up your own secured e-commerce site

To register, please visit PAETEC's online educational webinar page here, or visit www.paetec.com.

PAETEC is personalizing communications for business-class customers across the United States. We offer a comprehensive suite of data, voice, and IP services, as well as enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE, and managed services.

For more information, please visit: www.paetec.com.

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The Ethics of Web Hosting

2008-11-17T23:38:00-05:00

To sum it all up in a single word: ethics. Web hosts need to act ethically. As long as they are ethical towards their business and customers, they thrive. When they become unethical, they will fail.

What are web hosting company ethics? This is a code which all hosting companies need to follow if they want to stay in business for the long term.

The most important goal is up-time - Almost anything can be forgiven as long as sites are up and running, as close to 100% of the time as possible. Every feature provided by a hosting company needs to be working and working properly. A small amount of downtime (an hour or two in a month long period) is acceptable, but more than that is not.

Every time I've had to change web hosts, this was the base reason. Unexplained and unexpected downtime. Oh, there were many excuses and many reasons which I'm sure were perfectly valid. But the basic reason why I create and maintain a web site is so people can see it - and they cannot see it if the site is down.

To make it even worse, sites which are down for a significant length of time have side effects. Webrings owners often check for broken rings using automated code - down sites will trigger suspensions and even deletions. Search engines tend to drop sites which are down too often or for too long a period of time. And, of course, visitors may remove your site from their bookmarks, thinking you have closed it or moved on.

The second most important goal is performance - I understand that you want to jam as many sites on a single server as you can. This is how you maximize your profits. Please understand that all of the web sites which you host must perform well. So don't overload your servers.

Stay in communication - We all know that things happen. Sometimes servers do crash and once in a while they require maintenance. Let your customers know about important events. If you are concerned that they might consider it spam, give your customers the option to receive updates if they desire.

I had one host (Hostrocket) which performed, in my opinion, one of the most hostile acts that I have ever seen against a paying customer. I had a CGI script on my site which logged each 404 error in a text file. Normally this script was harmless and used little CPU. Unfortunately, with the new breed of worms striking the internet, 404 errors went way up and the script began using large amounts of processor.

One day I tried to reach my site and didn't get my friendly front page. I got a "forbidden" error. I freaked out and sent off a quick email to the web host support group. I didn't receive a response. Not a word (and it was only early afternoon). I sent another, then another. Nothing. Finally, 18 frantic hours later, I received a note that my site was closed down because of the script.

The number of four letter words that spewed from my mouth that day would have turned a street girl's face red. I was so angry - not because they closed my site, but because these idiots (again, Hostrocket) didn't tell me what they had done. Because of that, I wasted almost an entire day trying to figure out what was wrong

What I would have done had I been the technical person in their company is simple. Just disable the script and send off an email to the web site owner explaining why and telling him not to do it again. If the owner ran the script again, then shut down the site (and, of course, send another email).

Needless to say, I regained access to my site, copied my databases to my hard drive, then switched web hosts. Within two days I had moved my site to another, much better hosting service (and, of course, I deleted the offending script).

Don't test on your production servers - I know you want to upgrade your Apache to the newest version or install the new control panel right away, but please don't immediately install anything on your production servers. Believe me, your customers don't care about any of this - they want working sites. Saying "everything is going slow because we upgraded" is not acceptable - the host should know ALL side effects of any upgrades from actual testing long before any change, however, small, is made to a production system.

Do what you say you are going to do - I was with a hosting company called Bizland for over a year. They were good most of the time except for (a) excessive downtime, and (b) they didn't deliver on their promises. They kept saying CGI will be released in April, then May, then June. Finally, I decided I could not wait anymore (and also concluded the host was down too much) so I moved my site.

Free hosting companies seem to have a bad habit of using production systems as test beds. This is one of the strong downsides to using free hosts - they really don't care if your site is up or not, as long as the advertisements are displayed.

Acknowledge your trouble tickets - One web hosting company that I was with for quite a long time was Addr.com. These guys had easily the best support so far. What stands out in my mind is every single message that I sent got acknowledged by a human being.

The sequence was as follows: I would send a trouble ticket and get an automated response. A short time later, I got a note that the ticket was handled. I always respond with a "thank you", because I've been a support person before and I understand the power of getting thanked. Addr.com even responded to the thank you with a "you are welcome" message!

To contrast, another hosting company (hostrocket again), had a nasty habit of just closing tickets. I'd send in a question and get an answer, then ask another question as follow-up. I would never get a response, then check to see that the ticket was marked "closed". This is not the way to keep a customer happy.

Actually read your trouble tickets - I write very clearly in trouble tickets, precisely because I've been a support person and I know exactly what is needed. I'm constantly surprised at how many times web host support people simply don't read the ticket and thus do the wrong thing.

One particularly glaring example was a ticket which I sent in which said to set up a certain domain with bigmailbox. The support person (from Hostrocket) changed the MX record for an entirely different domain, in spite of my message clearly stating "change it for domain xyz". This caused my site to lose email capability for two days until they eventually figured out what they messed up.

Most importantly, remember where you get your money from - This message is for all web hosting companies everywhere. Your money comes from those people called webmasters. Free hosting companies get their money indirectly via the content provided by webmasters. With paid hosts the relationship is direct and to the point - money is paid by webmasters.

If you annoy your customers or don't provide service, then you will find yourselves out of business. And in these days of a looming recession, good customers are gold. Keep them happy and your company will prosper.

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Newtek's CrystalTech, at Adobe MAX 08 Event

2008-11-17T01:54:00-05:00

Phoenix, Arizona - (The Hosting News) Newtek Business Services' provider of Windows-based web hosting, CrystalTech Web Hosting, will be attending the Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco, California, being held through November 19th.

CrystalTech, a long time Adobe partner and ColdFusion hosting provider's representatives are attending many of the conference’s hands-on labs and sessions, covering design and development topics relating to Adobe products such as Creative Suite and ColdFusion.

Robert Cichon, President and Chief Operating Officer of Newtek Technology Services noted, ''As a web hosting company that specifically caters to designers and developers, it was important that we attended this year’s Adobe MAX conference. With a large segment of our customers using products such as Photoshop, Flash, or ColdFusion to deploy websites and applications in our hosting environment, the knowledge and techniques our staff acquires through the conference’s hands-on labs and sessions gives us the opportunity to better support the ever-evolving needs of our customers.''

As a renowned ColdFusion hosting provider, CrystalTech has acquired a portfolio of customers over the years that includes one of the largest ColdFusion developer communities in the industry. The company has also taken steps over the past year to further expand on its ColdFusion offering by introducing one of the most affordable leasing options for ColdFusion 8 Enterprise licenses on dedicated servers.

Mr. Cichon added, ''We’ve been providing reliable ColdFusion hosting for nearly a decade, even before it was a product of Adobe or Macromedia. Adobe MAX is a wonderful opportunity for us to put some faces to names, and to meet many of the developers who have stuck with us over the years, as well as reach out to ColdFusion enthusiast not familiar with the great service we provide.''

Newtek's Technology service lines include:

· CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.: An industry leading provider of Microsoft Windows web hosting since 1997, CrystalTech offers shared, dedicated, and VPS hosting plans, along with domain registrations, SSL certificates, and online shopping cart tools.

· Web Services: Customized web design and development services.

· Data Backup, Storage, and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval solutions designed to meet the specific regulatory and compliance needs of any business.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEWT), Newtek Technology Services is a premier provider of web technology solutions to the small- to medium-sized business market, providing services to customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations.

Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a direct distributor to the small to medium-sized business market under the Newtek brand. According to the SBA, there are over 25.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7% of all employer firms, generate 60 to 80% of all new jobs annually and create more than 50% of non-farm private GDP. Since 1999, Newtek has helped these business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools needed to manage and grow their businesses. Newtek focuses on providing its 75,000 customers with access to financial, management and technological resources that enable them to better grow and compete in the marketplace.

Newtek's Technology service lines include:

CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.: An industry leading provider of Microsoft Windows web hosting since 1997, CrystalTech offers shared, dedicated, and VPS hosting plans, along with domain registrations, SSL certificates, and online shopping cart tools.

Web Services: Customized web design and development services.

Data Backup, Storage, and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval solutions designed to meet the specific regulatory and compliance needs of any business.

Founded in 1992, CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. is one of the largest Windows-based web hosting companies in the world, hosting customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. CrystalTech uses a data center that includes redundancy throughout core systems such as, power, air conditioning, network connectivity, network transportation, as well as a secured environment for their network operations center. CrystalTech is a subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc., a provider of business services and financial products to small and medium-sized businesses. For more information about CrystalTech, please contact 877-323-4678.

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PlanMySite Debuts Inclusive Hosting

2008-11-17T01:42:00-05:00

Brick, New Jersey - (Website Hosting Directory) The new PlanMySite.com focuses on delivering the highest quality custom made web designs together with safe and secure hosting services.

The recently launched website offers all-inclusive web solutions for small businesses. No more switching from one management panel to another, no more searching for web design and hosting companies. PlanMySite.com offers all features necessary to run even the most complex website with just one password to remember.

Tomasz Banas, owner of PlanMySite.com remarked, ''We are a company that provides everything on the plate to our clients starting with advice on selecting the right domain name, finishing with hosting services and free support center. The cost of creating a website of comparable quality is several times lower than in the average web development company which opens the doors for many small companies just starting up.''

Created with client requirements in mind, PlanMySite.com combines unique and fully customized features that enable its customers to project and create websites that will suit all of their online needs with ease and in professional manner.

The entire website development process is grouped into logical stages with easy to understand online wizards and quick fill out forms which guide clients through the painless procedure of creating their dream website. The company offers a wide range of web designs and hosting packages accompanied with many add-on features that will make each website even more customized. In an event of a special request, PlanMySite.com will create a custom, tailor-made package just for the client exclusively, to suit his or her needs.

Mr. Banas added, ''Our goal is to create business identities and promote them on the Internet. We design professional, unique and search-engine friendly websites. We wish to provide full web development services, in order to save our clients from dealing with various organizations managing their company's website. We'll take care of it all while in continuous contact with our clients.''

Comprehensive services by PlanMySite .com range from single-page business cards to complex, multipage corporate websites. To begin work with PlanMySite, there is no need for large amounts of money. Small monthly payments through the contract length make it possible for all-sized companies to start their online presence easy and affordable.

PlanMySite is for organizations, which are looking to launch their virtual presence by being placed on the Internet with professional and eye-catching web design, to reflect their business needs and personality, to meet their consumer expectations and to launch the growth of their company.

PlanMySite.com provides all-inclusive web design and hosting services with many add-on features for small businesses to help them develop a business style and maintain professionalism.

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C I Host Expands Datacenter Operations

2008-11-15T06:00:00-05:00

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) Hosting and solutions company, C I Host, has unveiled plans to open a new datacenter facility which is scheduled to open in 2009 in Dallas, Texas. The new facility is being developed to maximize best practices from the company's 11 years in business.

Erin Bullock, Executive Director of Business Development for C I Host remarked, ''C I Host is a pioneer in the Web hosting industry and we have the opportunity to use more than a decade of experiences to build a customer's ideal datacenter from the ground up - and then deliver it to them.''

The company continues to offer services for the same low prices. The new datacenter facilities expand the company's capabilities while consolidating operations to more efficiently serve customers worldwide. The new datacenter facilities represent a transformation for the company, as the datacenter is built out for maximum performance, efficiency and availability for the customer - all before customers are ever moved in.

The new facilities, which will open in February 2009, boast 60,000 square feet of space with diverse electrical feeds and fiber entrances, while a 1.5-megawatt power transformer and 750-kilowatt transformer will ably handle electrical loads. On-site fuel storage and a generator with Automatic Transfer Switches will help ensure consistent power availability.

Nicholas Giancola, Chief Network Architect at C I Host added, ''We're using the new facilities as a blank slate opportunity to provide the kind of technology and service our customers demand.''

The new buildings are located in the Dallas Love Field Corridor, 6 miles from downtown Dallas, 2.5 miles from Love Field Airport, and 10 miles from DFW International Airport. New customers will be added to the new facility in early 2009, while current CI Host customers will be migrated during the following six to twelve months.

C I Host, based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is a web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) hosting hundreds of thousands of domains around the world. C I Host creates business-class web hosting solutions for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market, with the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by ICANN to register domain names. C I Host operates three data centers across the United States, with its main facility and Network Operations Center in Bedford, Texas. C I Host also has offices in Los Angeles and Chicago.

C I Host has been ranked among the 5,000 fastest growing companies in the United States by Inc. magazine, with over 250,000 clients and a growth rate of 85 percent, placing it at #3488 in the list. C I Host has also been ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web Hosting Guide. C I Host has been consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by cnet's Ultimate Web Host List, HostPulse, WebHostsOnline.com and HostChart.com. C I Host was named among the Top 25 Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com.

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Aplus.Net Ranks on Topseos Provider List

2008-11-15T06:00:00-05:00

Overland Park, Kansas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Aplus.Net, web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has ranked on Topseos.com's Top 10 List of Web Hosting Companies, in the number one spot on TopHosts' list of Top 25 Hosting Providers for November 2008.

In addition, the company was ranked once more among the top 10 web hosting providers on Topseos.com's monthly list.

Phillip Spencer, CEO of Aplus.net remarked, ''We're extremely proud to once again reach the coveted number one spot on the esteemed TopHosts list. Especially given that this honor comes hot on the heels of our brand new website launch, we're especially excited that TopHosts has chosen this moment to single us out of the crowded web hosting category and call us the very best.''

As one of the Internet industry's longest-running hosting providers, this award marks the fourth time since March 2007 that Aplus.net has landed in the number one spot on the TopHosts list. The company has enjoyed a continuous presence among that list's Top 5 hosting providers for more than four years running.

According to its website, TopHosts ranks its monthly lists of top web hosting providers by sorting through 'numerous applications from hosting companies,' and applying 'rigorous production testing' to each applicant. TopHosts then combines this research with feedback from 'hundreds of thousands of webmasters' every month to decide what hosting companies offer the industry's best service, quality, and value.

Aplus.net was also listed among Topseos.com's Top 10 Web Hosting Companies for November, 2008. According to TopSeos.com, the listings are based on quality of services, pricing, innovation, customer and technical support, and overall efficiency and performance.

Mr. Spencer added, ''At Aplus.net, we make it a point to provide each and every one of our customers with the best possible hosting services at a great value. It's the prime reason why we've been able to maintain our reputation as a leader in this competitive industry for almost two decades. Customers have come to expect premium service from Aplus.net, and we're gratified to see the rest of the hosting industry taking note of that, as well.''

Aplus.Net has provided web services since the Internet's commercial start in 1995. Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers award-winning services that include web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, domain name registration, and much more. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors' Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and PC Magazine.

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Gearworx Debuts Adobe ColdFusion Virtual Private Servers

2008-11-13T02:48:00-05:00

Fremont, California - (The Hosting News) Hosting solutions provider, Gearworx, building on its six-year support and hosting of intensive ColdFusion applications, has launched its new line of Adobe ColdFusion 8 enabled Virtual Private Servers.

William Gregorian, CEO of Gearworx remarked, ''With more than eight years experience in Web hosting and six years specializing in ColdFusion, we are experts in creating world-class, affordable, and reliable web hosting solutions. We built our ColdFusion VPS plans to compete aggressively on price and features and meet the requirements of businesses and individual developers.''

ColdFusion Virtual Private Servers, hosted on robust Dell PowerEdge 2900 series powered by Intel Quad Core Xeon hardware, are designed to offer developers with the tools and resources they need to run powerful and scalable applications for their clients. VPS plans start at just $60 per month for 50GB of storage space and 500GB of short-path data transfer.

All ColdFusion VPS plans from Gearworx provide full privileges to the ColdFusion 8 administration interface so developers can make configuration changes as needed. Plans are hosted on the Windows 2003 Enterprise operating system, powered by Parallels Virtuozzo.

Gearworx's network features a gigabit ethernet backbone, built on redundant routing architecture with hardware failover and the Cisco HSRP (Hot Spare Router Protocol). All server hardware is owned and operated by Gearworx, and not outsourced or leased from a third party.
Since 2000, Gearworx has provided managed and unmanaged hosting services for individuals and small businesses. Gearworx offers a variety of shared, private label, and VPS hosting solutions. It also offers merchant accounts, hosted mailing lists, and SSL certificates.

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Web Hosting Subscription Fees Dropped, at 2ip

2008-11-13T02:22:00-05:00

Fremont, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Hosting firm serving more than 310,000 Web sites since 1999, today announced the launch of its 'Pay to Own' sales model, allowing customers to pay a one-time fee, without any recurring subscription costs.

The new payment model is ideal for small businesses or individuals seeking a simple, ad-free, and reliable Web presence without a continual cost. Customers can even use a free 2ip sub-domain to eliminate domain name registry fees and use 2ip's free Web site builder tools to avoid costs associated with creating the site.

Jimmy Tanzil, managing director of Ichthys Media LLC, 2ip's parent company remarked, '''Web sites hosted in our Pay to Own program are designed for web newcomers who are looking to get online without the recurring expense. With 2ip, it's like having an electronic business card with a professional feel.''

2ip will use high-end servers to host 'Pay to Own' customers. Each system is powered by Dual Quad Core processors and between 4 and 8 GB RAM. To keep hosting costs low and maximize quality, 2ip intensively uses automation and virtualization procedures to manage existing hosting accounts and provision new sign ups.

The 'Pay to Own' web hosting plan is priced at $25, which allows users to host an unlimited number of domains on the account. It includes 100 MB of disk space, unlimited data transfer, and unlimited email accounts. Additional disk space is priced at one-time fees of $10 per additional 100 MB or $75 for additional 1,000 MB.

In addition to the 'Pay to Own' model, 2ip also offers traditional subscription-based plans, which offer more features, power, and storage allotments. Subscription-based shared hosting plans start at $3.75 monthly.

Founded in 1999 as a free Web hosting provider, 2ip today serves more than 310,000 Web sites with affordable shard Web hosting. It offers premium subscription-based and 'Pay to Own' web hosting services, starting at less than $4 per month. 2ip is a subsidiary of Ichthys Media LLC.

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Reseller Hosting Plans Upgraded, by 34SP.com

2008-11-12T03:31:00-05:00

Manchester, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) UK website hosting brand, 34SP.com, has announced significant upgrades to its reseller hosting account service in order to provide professional hosting resellers with additional tools and profit margins.

The product upgrades are designed to allow any web professional to host multiple domain names and websites with maximum ease and with dramatically increased profitability.

The 34SP.com reseller hosting plan permits the simultaneous hosting of 50 websites as standard. The plan also comes with support for 500 mailboxes, 50 MySQL databases, a full 1.5 GB of disk space, and a generous 15 GB of monthly transfer. Every reseller account also includes support for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, full log file access, cron and .htaccess. 34sp.com also includes a number of industry-leading tools with each account including free blog, CMS and forums installation. Details on the account offering can be viewed at: www.34sp.com/reseller-hosting.

Stuart Melling, 34SP.com's business director described the new services and upgrades, ''Our clients had been telling us they needed more resources and more power. They wanted to grow and we wanted them to grow too. Our reseller customers are crucial to our business, so we had to do what was best for them. We doubled storage, we more than tripled domain capacity and bundled in a whole load of other upgrades too. All of this without increasing our plan prices gives our clients the ability to generate even greater profits.''

34sp.com has also recently achieved an important milestone reaching the eighth anniversary of the company - as of October 2008. In the early days of the company, the owners met personally with each and every new customer. That attention to detail and service continues to this day as the company has grown significantly in the past eight years, becoming one of the U.K.'s leading web hosting companies and a top hosting reseller firm.
Mr. Melling added, ''Our reseller accounts are perfect for professional developers, web designers, and small businesses looking to resell hosting services. The plan takes all the hassle out of multiple domain hosting. Everything within each account is controllable through a straightforward and easy to use online control panel. Clients can add, delete or modify their domain hosting as they want, and whenever they want. Each reseller account is backed by our renowned customer service team, which consists of experienced webmasters and developers. They know exactly what our customers need and how to best help them.''

34sp.com offers professional website hosting services which are a great value for cost conscious web developers. The 34sp.com team of technical experts offers award winning support and service coupled with a money back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. Website hosting services offered include: discount domain name registration and business web hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

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Valcato Hosting Enhances Management

2008-11-12T02:54:00-05:00

London, United Kingdom - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Valcato Hosting has reorganized as a Limited Company in the United Kingdom, and appointed its new joint managing director, Jay Everall, to work alongside Adam McMaster.

Mr. Everall, original founder of Valcato in 2002, left the company in 2005 to work in the hospitality industry. As Valcato's new managing director, Mr. Everall is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic marketing goals and infrastructure upgrades. He will also streamline customer support and lead research into new services and emerging technologies.

As an organized Limited Company in the United Kingdom, Valcato is required to meet a greater number of government regulations. The restructuring assures customers that Valcato is a legitimate business entity and is recognized by the government. It has operated previously as a sole proprietorship, since 2002.

Mr. Everall noted, ''By incorporating we aim to reassure our clients and send out the message that Valcato is a brand to trust. As the original founder of Valcato, this is almost like coming home for me. My piece in the puzzle is to promote our service and build on our brand to attract new business, which will allow us to push Valcato to the next level.''

Although Valcato's clientele comprises primarily of SMEs, the company is adding new features to appeal to the individual users. New features include one-click installations of blogging or photo album software. Valcato Hosting now also offers a WYSIWYG SiteBuilder add-on, allowing novice designers to create fully-featured Web sites without any HTML knowledge.

The company also plans to roll-out a UK-specific hosting division in the coming months. It currently serves clients on six continents through its flagship brand, Valcato Hosting.

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HostMySite.com Enters Into Alert Logic Partnership

2008-11-10T03:45:00-05:00

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) HostMySite, Inc. has enrtered into a partnership agreement with Alert Logic, to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for IT compliance and security.

The partnership will provide HostMySite.com's customers with Alert Logic's Log Manager and Threat Manager solutions to help facilitate compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard.

Art Zeile, CEO at HostMySite.com remarked, ''We are excited to partner with Alert Logic because of their extensive experience delivering innovative intrusion detection, vulnerability management and log management solutions to the hosting industry. Our partnership with Alert Logic, allows us to expand the portfolio of services that we offer our customers - helping them to address the security and compliance challenges that they face.''

Manager gives organizations the ability to secure their networks and comply with regulations that mandate log data be collected, regularly reviewed, and securely archived. Threat Manager combines intrusion detection and vulnerability management technology to offer protection from viruses, worms, and other threats that easily bypass perimeter and endpoint defenses.

Both Log Manager and Threat Manager are delivered via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, which will enable HostMySite.com to quickly deploy the IT compliance and security solutions on behalf of its clients. This delivery model provides HostMySite.com's clients with the ability to access Log Manager and Threat Manager through a web browser with no software installation or maintenance required.

Michael Turner, President and CEO of Alert Logic noted, ''HostMySite.com is often called upon to help their customers comply with regulations such as the PCI DSS and we are excited that our products will help them to meet that need. By utilizing Alert Logic's security and compliance solutions, HostMySite.com's customers will have a much easier time complying with PCI DSS and enhancing their overall security posture.''

As part of the new partnership agreement, HostMySite.com will become a member of Alert Logic's Vanguard Program. Vanguard Program members benefit from unique, on-demand security and log management solutions that are competitively priced; accelerated sales cycles and incremental and recurring subscription revenues; minimal management and support effort; and comprehensive sales, marketing and technical support.

Alert Logic is a leading provider of on-demand compliance and security solutions. By enabling its customers to detect threats, eliminate vulnerabilities, and manage log data, Alert Logic provides the easiest way to secure networks and comply with policies and regulations. Alert Logic's on-demand platform utilizes Software-as-a-Service to deliver the benefits of rapid deployment, zero maintenance, and no upfront capital costs. As a result, Alert Logic customers benefit from easy and affordable compliance and security. Based in Houston, Texas and founded in 2002.

HostMySite.com was founded by partners Lou Honick and Neil Heuer in 1997. The foundation of the culture at HostMySite.com is a top-down commitment to complete customer satisfaction. HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, and ColdFusion hosting, supported by 24x7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and live online chat.

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GoDaddy Supports Juvenile Diabetes Research

2008-11-10T03:29:00-05:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Go Daddy has donated over $135K, to enable and foster juvenile Diabetes research, through ''Walk to Cure Diabetes'' event, from the web hosting and domain registrar.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) Desert Southwest Chapter, is receiving the second consecutive year Go Daddy was the title sponsor for the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes event held at Tempe Town Lake in Tempe, Arizona. The event is the largest family-friendly walk in Arizona and the largest JDRF walk in the world.

Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons donated $125,000 to help with continued juvenile diabetes research. The Go Daddy corporate team raised an additional $10,000 in donations for the cause. Go Daddy did more than donate money too, breaking the chapter's all-time record for participants representing any one corporate team, with employees, families, friends and pets walking in the JDRF Tempe event.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder, Go Daddy noted, ''Our Go Daddy employees are passionate, enthusiastic, energetic people who want to make a difference. Helping in the fight to cure Type 1 Diabetes is important to us, especially when you consider how many people are affected by this devastating disease. This walk was a way we could raise money and awareness, plus have a good time doing it.''

Diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide. In the U.S., a new case of diabetes is diagnosed every 30 seconds and more than 1.5 million people are diagnosed each year.

Einar Seadler, Board of Directors President, JDRF Desert Southwest Chapter remarked, ''Go Daddy is committed to supporting the community they serve and also their employees. Bringing together more than 750 walkers Saturday shows their passion and partnership in finding a cure for diabetes. JDRF depends on Bob Parsons and his entire team to make a difference.''

In 2008, Go Daddy has helped organizations dedicated to a variety of causes, including, child abuse, domestic violence victims, Parkinson's research, flood victims, injured veterans, animal shelters and homeless teenagers. Go Daddy donated nearly $1.5 million to various charities last year and has already surpassed that amount in contributions this year.

Go Daddy is the world's largest domain registrar and a world leader in web hosting. Go Daddy is also the second largest provider of SSL Certificates. Go Daddy serves six million customers worldwide providing an array of products for customers to create and maintain an online presence, all backed with 24/7 industry best customer service.

Go Daddy is a provider of services that are designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 31 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi. GoDaddy.com has also been honored by various industry organizations and publications as Best Registrar and Best Hosting Company already this year. In 2007, Go Daddy was named Arizona's Most Innovative Company and Business Leader of the Year.

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Layered Technologies Deploys Grid 3Tera Windows AppLogic

2008-11-08T02:00:00-05:00

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) Layered Technologies, is the first hosting company to give enterprise customers the option of transferring their Microsoft Windows operating system (Windows OS) environment to an AppLogic-based cloud computing solution.

Jack Finlayson, CEO of Layered Tech remarked, ''In the current economic conditions where everyone is looking to spend less but still achieve their business objectives and profitability, Layered Tech is presenting customers with a particularly compelling opportunity to significantly cut costs by consolidating their Windows OS server operations onto our virtualization platform. By bringing Windows OS onto The Grid Layer, we are literally creating a market that didn't have a place before. To achieve virtualization's high-availability, scalability and replication in a physical server environment would cost customers millions, yet with Layered Tech their cost is a tiny fraction of that.''

Layered Tech will use 3Tera's AppLogic 2.4 to enable customers to run their Windows OS platform in a virtual computing environment, which means customers will have the same high-availability as their dedicated physical servers but with far more scalability, all for a fraction of the cost.

Virtualization creates profound cost savings for the Windows OS environment for several reasons, including that customers:

No longer have to buy and maintain hardware including servers, load balancers and SANs;

Save money because virtualization enables them to reduce the complexity of their operating environment by consolidating multiple physical servers onto a handful of virtual machines;

Save time when setting up new servers because virtualization software's templating and snapshot capabilities can replicate entire OS and application set-ups in 10 percent of the time it takes with physical dedicated servers;

Eliminate the cost and complexity of maintaining and installing their OS because The Grid Layer's solution from Layered Tech means that management of virtual machines is handled by Layered Tech data center employees.

In conjunction with its new Windows OS/virtualization offering, Layered Tech has launched an Early Adopter Program so that existing customers can transfer some of their Windows OS servers to Layered Tech's grid to evaluate cost saving opportunities, as well as operational and performance improvements that come with Layered Tech's virtualization solutions.

John Pozadzides, Chief Marketing Officer at Layered Tech noted, ''We're very excited to bring this offering to the market because our customers have been asking for Windows OS virtualization support, and now we're making that possible by being the first to provide AppLogic 2.4. Even in this tough economy we still have many customers who need to rapidly scale their computing capabilities because they're experiencing explosive growth, are bringing on new customers or even that they're expanding R and D. Having their Windows OS servers on a virtualization platform means they can consolidate servers with Layered Tech and have the scalability and redundancy they need, all while still operating within a fairly lean IT budget.''

In addition to the Windows OS environment, Layered Tech continues to offer The Grid Layer to enterprises and companies that use other operating systems, such as Linux and Unix. Customers of Layered Tech's Grid Layer, including those operating on Windows OS, are now available to take advantage of its DEFCON managed services, enabling enterprises to scale the level of data center and server management that best fits their individual needs.

Layered Technologies is a global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/grid computing and Web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech's scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world's largest consultancy and integration firms.

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Fail-Over VPS Hosting, at BODHost.com

2008-11-08T12:00:00-05:00

San Jose, California - (Website Hosting Directory) BODHost.com has launched its new VPS Hosting offering Guaranteed 100% Uptime Fail-Over VPS Hosting.

The Fail-over VPS plan is a fully managed solution which combines the flexibility of Virtual Hosting with the luxury of 100% uptime guarantee at the most economical price.

The 100% Uptime guarantee VPS hosting is primarily aimed at corporate customers who need high uptime solution of a dedicated server mirroring setup but without the high costs usually associated with these setups. The fully managed VPS features 2 GB RAM, 60 GB disk space and 800 GB data transfer per month.

The company says it'ss technical team has carried out in-depth research and development work to come up with a viable solution thereby making sure that their customers receive the most reliable VPS hosting service.

Each Fail-over VPS is created on two servers, a primary server and a secondary server which is setup on a separate part of the network. Data is continuously synchronized between the primary VPS and the secondary VPS to ensure that the secondary VPS is constantly updated with the latest files/configuration as the primary VPS. The secondary VPS is basically an identical copy of the server the primary VPS is setup on. If for some reason the primary server goes down, IPs would automatically be assigned to the secondary server which would allow a VPS to carry on functioning, without exposing it to any downtime.

Mark Philips, Chief Marketing Officer, Bodhost says Over the years our clients have frequently asked for a VPS Hosting solution with some form of redundancy.

He states further, We were very conscious about creating a solution which is completely redundant but cost effective at the same time. With these views in mind, we set about creating a redundant Virtual Private Server solution. After many attempts, our technicians finally came up with a viable solution.

BODHost.com is a managed dedicated servers solutions specialist, providing top-class dedicated servers at cheap prices. Dedicated server hosting is the preferred choice when more output than conventional servers can offer is needed. Servers will always have a minimum uptime of 99.96%, due to quick responses from server and network administrators. State-of-the-art technologies and the ultra-modern support systems are highly responsive, following a set pattern of algorithm which is complimentary along with low cost best dedicated hosting servers. The 24/7 dedicated technical support team is always available to maintain the quality standards. Dual Core Configurations to Quad Core Configurations all have been setup on Branded Dell Hardware Chassis.

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Superb Hosting, Lunarpages, Sponsor UptimeSpy Geographic Monitoring

2008-11-06T02:42:00-05:00

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - (The Hosting News) A free comprehensive geographic website monitoring service, offering fully featured, no limits website monitoring from node locations around the world, free of charge, has launched at UptimeSpy.

Chris Henning, Developer of the site noted, ''We've developed a monitoring service that offers world-class features and no usage limits for our users. By integrating UptimeSpy’s monitoring network with a real-time Host Metrics portal, we are able to serve both our users and the hosting community as a whole, all free of charge.''

The new service allows webmasters to monitor the performance of their sites and receive instant text message or email alerts if downtime is detected. UptimeSpy's network of international monitoring nodes helps eliminate false alarms and allows the system to determine which geographical regions are affected by downtime or slow performance. This sensitivity allows webmasters to isolate problems more easily.

To get started with UptimeSpy, users simply create a free account and add as many domains or IP addresses as they would like to be monitored. Within their personalized control panel, users can configure individual node ping time sensitivity, alert methods, service types, monitoring intervals, and more.

In addition to personalized monitoring services, UptimeSpy offers a unique metrics portal that publicly displays the performance of leading Web hosting providers. The Host Metrics portal displays speeds for ping response, HTTP response, and average uptime as a percentage. The statistics allow users to verify or dispute the published guarantees of their Web host, and request SLA compensation.

UptimeSpy also provides HTML code for a real-time button displaying the average uptime statistic. Founding Sponsors, which allow UptimeSpy to operate as a free service, include Future Hosting (www.futurehosting.biz), Lunarpages (www.lunarpages.com), Webintellects (www.webintellects.com), and Superb Hosting (www.superbhosting.net).

Launched in 2008, UptimeSpy provides the industry's first free, comprehensive worldwide geographic monitoring service, enabling webmasters to see real-time uptime and performance results from nodes located around the world. With no usage limits and an intuitive user interface, UptimeSpy provides a vital service to webmasters and Web hosting providers.

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GoDaddy, Aplus.net, Earn topseos.com Report Placement

2008-11-06T02:20:00-05:00

Plymouth, Indiana - (Website Hosting Directory) The topseos Best Web Hosting Companies for its monthly listing, and the month of November 2008, has been released.

Hosting is the business of lodging, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. Companies provide space on a server they own to be used by their clients. Besides providing space hosting firms also provide internet connectivity.

A web hosting service is a type of service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web, i.e, content accessible on the internet. The company providing the space on the internet is called a Web Host or Web Hosting company.

Here's a list of the best 10 hosting firms that have been selected for November 2008:
1. FastServers.Net - Illinois
2. AT and T Web Hosting - New York
3. PEER 1 - California
4. Hosting.com - Kentucky
5. DataPipe - New Jersey
6. GoDaddy.com Inc - Arizona
7. Aplus.net - Kansas
8. Hostway Corporation - Illinois
9. Rackspace Ltd. - Texas
10. Pow Web - Massachusetts

The popularity of the rankings completed by topseos comes from the fact that the list is the result of an in-depth evaluation process. It is in fact, the most reliable source for finding quality internet marketing service providers.

During the selection of the top 10 companies, the hosting customers are asked questions such as:

If you incur a problem with your host, how quickly do you receive a response or are they available live on phone 24 hrs/day?

How much development support does the host offer for your site outside of what they have to per the agreement?

How knowledgeable are the technicians that assist you on a scale of 1-10?

Does the host offer any special features that would be considered on the forefront of keeping SEO in mind when offering hosting services (Class C IPs, etc.)?

How many times has your website gone down because of the host?

Hosting firms that would like to be considered for the topseos rankings can apply at: www.topseos.com/rankings/search-engine-marketing-agencies/apply-for-ranking.

topseos.com was started in 2002 with the purpose of being an all-inclusive platform for the latest news and resources for Internet marketing vendors. With this intent topseos.com has been compiling and releasing a list of the top ranking Internet marketing firms of the month. The January 2007 list is published and ready for release. "This is the place for the best to showcase their work. The list is up to date, accurate, and most importantly this is what the search engine marketing industry is looking for," Bill Peden said. topseos.com ranks internet marketing firms in eleven different categories. These categories are: Organic Optimization, Link Popularity Services, Content Creation, SEM Hosting, SEM Training Programs, SEM Email Marketing, Press Release Distribution, Pay Per Click Management, Search Engine Friendly Web Design, Search Engine Friend Web Development, and Website Traffic Analysis. Each fresh list tracks the ups and downs that these internet marketing firms see. At times, a firm maintains its position over a few weeks, whereas at other times, firms slip a few notches down or gain a few steps up. Of course, there are also entirely new firms that join the ranking, from time to time.

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Hosted Open Source Ad Server Debuts

2008-11-05T03:13:00-05:00

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) Independent ad server for web publishers, announced the official launch of OpenX Hosted, the company's open source ad server, which can, without an invitation, be deployed.

Tim Cadogan, Chief Executive Officer, OpenX noted, ''By launching OpenX Hosted we are making the full power of OpenX available to all web publishers, even those who don't have the time or technical knowledge to manage ad serving on their own systems.''

OpenX Ad Server, the company's market-leading, open source ad serving product, remains available for free download. The solution went into beta testing in January 2008, contains the same popular software found in the original OpenX Ad Server, which allows publishers to completely control their ad space. The new product allows publishers to use the software to operate all aspects of ad serving while OpenX provides all the hardware and back-end infrastructure, leaving publishers free to focus on maximizing their advertising revenues.

OpenX Hosted's rich feature-set is designed to enable publishers to manage their advertising campaigns across multiple direct advertisers and ad networks, prioritize and optimize their campaigns, and use sophisticated targeting tools. Importantly, OpenX Hosted also enables publishers to maintain tight control over which advertisers are permitted to see their data and advertise to their users.

OpenX Hosted is completely free to publishers who serve less than 25 million ad impressions a month. This represents more than 95% of the large and growing OpenX publisher community of more than 100,000 websites. For publishers serving more than 25 million ad impressions a month, the company will charge a low fee so that the company can provide the service. Publishers can upgrade their accounts at any time to premium hosted packages that include additional ad impressions, support resources, service level agreements and customized solutions.

Shawn Collins, co-founder, Affiliate Summit remarked, ''As such, this is an important step in furthering our mission to help create and grow businesses worldwide. Besides the many exciting OpenX Hosted features all publishers can use, the premium hosted packages we're now offering will give publishers even greater flexibility in managing their ad serving. OpenX Hosted is a really cool product. I've used OpenX Ad Server for years and, now that I've switched to OpenX Hosted, I've found that it uses the same interface and it's also nice and easy to set up. The biggest advantage is that OpenX simply helps me make more money online.''

Dusty Davidson, owner, BrightMix remarked, ''OpenX Hosted will allow us to focus on what we do best, which is creating great content and selling ads for that content. No longer will we have to worry about upgrades, hosting, ad server performance. OpenX Hosted takes all of that out of the equation, and now we can devote more resources back into making our sites great.''

Building on the strength of our open source heritage, we offer our vast community of publishers comprehensive, customizable and free to use ad serving technology. The OpenX ad server empowers our community of more than 100,000 websites across the Internet with the ability to take control of their ads and maximize their ad revenue and relevance. The OpenX ad server products are translated into 25 languages, used in more than 100 countries around the world, and serve more than 250 billion ads each month. OpenX Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of OpenX Limited, is based in Pasadena, California, with offices in London and Poznan, Poland. OpenX is backed by leading investors including Accel Partners, Index Ventures and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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HostDime Debuts International Launch

2008-11-05T02:33:00-05:00

Orlando, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) HostDime has launched HostDime United Kingdom, a new wholly owned subsidiary offering Shard hosting, Reseller hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and Dedicated Servers for customers.

Emmanuel Vivar, CEO of HostDime remarked, ''As we explored the market in the United Kingdom, we realized that prices are substantially higher than in similar markets in other parts of the world. The inflated prices are a result of substantially greater labor, electric, and operating costs for businesses within the Untied Kingdom. As a United States-based company, we are able to leverage a favorable business climate and our existing infrastructure of more than 100 employees to robustly compete in the United Kingdom hosting marketplace. Our existing operations effectively scale to serve this new subsidiary.''

The launch is the company's fifth international division. The new United Kingdom division allows HostDime to better serve clients in the United Kingdom and Western Europe through country-specialized customer relations procedures and servers in geographically strategic locations.

Namely, by locating servers and network equipment in the Untied Kingdom, HostDime reduces average network latency, as compared to the United States, by more than 100ms - a huge improvement in speed for high-demand Web applications. The servers for HostDime UK will be colocated in the Blue Square Data Centre in Berkshire, England.

As with all previous international expansions, HostDime will offer customer relations services specialized for the local country. Payments will be accepted in British Pounds and customer service will be offered in English. Telephone support will also be available within the +44 county code.

Shared hosting plans from HostDime UK start at 9.20 pounds per month, and Reseller hosting plans start at 20.00 pounds per month. Virtual Private Servers (VPS) start at 30.00 pounds per month and dedicated servers start at 60 pounds per month. All services are fully managed. As a launch promotion, all new customers receive 99% off their first month of invoice - making HostDime UK a risk-free alternative.

HostDime UK marks the company's latest international expansion, with existing international offices in Guadalajara, Mexico (HostDime Mexico), Haifa, Isreal (HostDime Israel), Joao Pessoa, Brazil (HostDime Brazil), and Ibague, Colombia (HostDime Colombia). Its headquarters are in Orlando, Fla., United States of America.

HostDime is a privately owned, leading website hosting provider offering managed hosting services that range of reliable, secure, entry-level to enterprise-level web hosting operations. Presently ranked among the top 50 hosts in the world with more than 3,000 servers, and hosting over 500,000 domains, HostDime maintains its private data facility in Orlando, Florida.

To learn more about HostDime, please visit: www.hostdime.com.

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ReliableSite Unveils Daily Incremental Data Backups

2008-11-04T02:20:00-05:00

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) ReliableSite.Net LLC, has added daily incremental data backups, available on all Shared, Reseller, and Cluster-based Web hosting plans, at no cost.

Radic Davydov, Owner of ReliableSite remarked, ''Although we have always stressed the importance for our customers to maintain their own backups, we previously provided weekly backups at no additional charge. With today's addition of daily incremental backups, we are able to implement a robust extra layer of protection against data loss or accidental deletion. The new backup process puts almost no load on our servers and creates a real value-add for our services.''

With the new backups, data is automatically backed up daily and stored on disk in a physically separate server within the data center facility. The incremental backups allow ReliableSite to keep up to 30 revisions of every file within the backup - allowing users to tap into a month's worth of file revisions in the event of a disaster, accidental data loss, or security incident.

ReliableSite recently introduced Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting, which distributes services across a variety of dedicated servers, and repackages them into a virtual platform. Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting is available from $63.20/monthly on a Windows platform with 20GB of disk space and 100GB of monthly data transfer.

ReliableSite offers a power uptime guarantee in its New York datacenter, outfitted with UPS and diesel generator backups, cooling backup with multiple redundant temperature and humidity controls, and round-the-clock network uptime with a series of premium top-tier bandwidth providers.

Since 2006, ReliableSite has been serving individuals and businesses internationally with its line of award-winning shared and dedicated Web hosting solutions. Offering 24/365 technical support, all technicians are Microsoft Certified Professionals and fully qualified in their field.

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LetsHost Premieres Special Hosting Plans

2008-11-04T02:01:00-05:00

Dublin, Ireland - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) LetsHost is offering its new Special Irish Hosting Package, including 12GB of storage space, multiple daily back-ups with free telephone and 24x7 e-mail support, as well as an extensive list of additional web hosting features and options for customers.

Graeme Conkie, ''Director'' of LetsHost, explained, ''We have tailored our Irish Hosting package to be effective for businesses of all sizes. With prices starting as low as 3.95 pounds per month, we feel that we can provide the highest levels of customer service and site stability to both large and small companies.''

The new hosting package from LetsHost is designed to provide cost-effective web hosting solutions for businesses that are currently establishing or growing their online presence.

The Irish Hosting package has been tailored to be effective for businesses of all sizes. With prices starting as low as 3.95 pounds per month, the company feels that it can provide the highest levels of customer service and site stability to both large and small companies. As a fully accredited .ie domain reseller, LetsHost is positioned to help Irish companies establish a true Irish identity with their customer base.

In an increasingly competitive and sometimes unstable global marketplace, it is important that an Irish business website is supported by a reliable web host that is bringing the very best in technology and support to the relationship.

In addition to offering some of the most affordable web hosting solutions in Ireland, LetsHost can also provide Irish domain name registration services for its customers.

Mr. Mac Loughlin added, ''As a fully accredited .ie domain reseller, LetsHost is positioned to help Irish companies establish a true Irish identity with their customer base. Coupled with our affordable Irish hosting services, our domain name registration services can help our customers establish a truly Irish web presence at a fraction of the cost of our competitors.''

Growing an online business that focuses on Irish customers requires a genuinely Irish approach, which is the primary area where LetsHost excels. Unlike many Irish web hosting companies, LetsHost is dedicated entirely to its customers and goes to great lengths to ensure that its services are affordable and accessible to every type of online business or website.

Mr. Mac Loughlin concluded, ''In an increasingly competitive and sometimes unstable global marketplace, it is important that an Irish business website is supported by a reliable web host that is bringing the very best in technology and support to the relationship.''

In addition to its complete Irish web hosting packages, LetsHost also offers a variety of website building tools, varying in scope from introductory-level business card websites through fully-supported eCommerce website solutions. The LetsHost web site builder package is available for as little as 5.99 per year and is capable of building a professional web presence for an array of online business models.

Since its launch in 2003, LetsHost has been a leading Irish provider of mission critical web hosting solutions to businesses and professionals in both the public and private sectors. With an unwavering dedication to customer satisfaction, LetsHost has moved to the forefront of Irish hosting and Irish domain name registration and the company continues to grow its customer base with outstanding service and product innovations.

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ServerPoint Enlists Time Warner Backbone

2008-11-04T06:25:00-05:00

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) The addition of Time Warner as a network backbone provider, adding multiple gigabytes of additional bandwidth capacity, has been deployed at shared, reseller, colocated, Dedicated and VPS hosting solutions firm, ServerPoint.

Erik Johnson, CTO at ServerPoint remarked, ''Redundancy and reliability remain a top priority as our company grows, and we see it as strategically important to ensure our datacenter is widely connected and capable of hosting the next generation of Web applications. Time Warner is an important addition that we have been planning for a number of months, and is among a series of new backbones we are adding.''

The addition of Time Warner ultimately provides additional redundancy and ensures greater reliability of ServerPoint's network. Redundancy is important for enterprise datacenters to help guarantee robust performance in the event of an outage of a single or multiple backbone providers. ServerPoint now has four major backbone providers in its private datacenter facility, and the company will continue to add more providers in the coming weeks and months.

As a national Internet Service Provider (ISP) for residential and business customers, Time Warner also guarantees greater reachability across the Untied States. Time Warner’s peering agreements with other ISPs will also reduce latency for subscribers North America and abroad.

ServerPoint offers a variety of unmanaged and managed hosting services. Virtual Private Servers start at $27.99/monthly and hosted on servers utilizing 8 Intel Xeon cores, 32GBs of RAM, 8-drive RAID 10 arrays and redundant power supplies. Windows plans include 2-hour backups, Silverlight, Windows Media Server, IIS, Active Server Pages, and SQL Server Express. Dedicated servers and shared hosting are also available.

Founded in 1998, ServerPoint is a recognized Web hosting industry provider, with an array of Shared, Reseller, Colocated, Dedicated and VPS hosting solutions to thousands of customers in over 100 countries. ServerPoint was formerly known as APlusHosting.com.

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Apps4Rent Premieres Value Price Plans

2008-11-03T12:00:00-05:00

New York, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) Hosting application provider of premium business messaging and collaboration solutions, Apps4Rent LLC, has developed flexible price plans for Microsoft's Hosted Exchange 2007.

The hosted exchange business e-mail plans offer the Web hosting industry's best value to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) and resellers. Pricing starts at $6.95/month for a single 1 GB hosted exchange mailbox account, and mailboxes can be selected in 1, 2, 4 and 8 GB sizes.

Microsoft Exchange is a leading messaging product with features for management of e-mail, contacts, calendaring, tasks, unified messaging, and mobile and web-based access to information.

Apps4Rent's Hosted Exchange 2007 plans provide customers with industry standard features at value prices with 24/7 phone, e-mail, and chat support. The Hosted Exchange plans include free Outlook 2007 or Entourage 2008, Outlook Web Access, anti-spam and anti-virus protection, SharePoint space of 500 MB, and Microsoft's activesync software that enables synchronization with phones and PDAs such as iPhone, Treo, and Windows Mobile based smart phones. Blackberry synchronization feature is available for an additional fee.

Plans are available for resellers (http://apps4rent.com/reseller.html) who can private label the offerings in multiple languages and currencies with access to a user friendly Web based control panel based on Microsoft's Hosting and Messaging Collaboration (HMC) solution. With the HMC based control panel, Apps4Rent plans to offer additional hosted products from Microsoft that integrate with Hosted Exchange and SharePoint and will be sold through resellers.

With Apps4Rent's turnkey solution, resellers can design their own plans and start offering commercial service within hours. Customers can get automatically provisioned and can self-administer their accounts with multi-tiered access control. Additional features include billing automation and a web site template.

Apps4Rent LLC is a leading provider of hosted enterprise software applications including those for messaging and collaboration, such as, hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Apps4Rent's systems and processes are designed to provide 99.99% uptime with clustered infrastructure located in highly reliable top-tier data centers, and monitored 24x7x365 by experienced system administrators from a Network Operating Center.

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Aspiration Hosting Debuts Magento One-Click-Installer

2008-11-02T18:20:00-05:00

Malaysia & Los Angeles, (The Hosting News) Aspiration Hosting, a premium web hosting provider announced the introduction of a Magento One-Click-Installer for their Aspire™ Shared and Desire™ Reseller hosting plans. The company provides web hosting services which are optimized for Magento Commerce shopping cart. Aspiration Hosting also claimed to be fully compatible with Magento Commerce. "We have been offering Magento optimized hosting plans for quite some time now and the introduction of a One-Click-Installer for Magento Commerce is timely as most of clients faces some issues while installing it.", said James Lee, the CEO of Aspiration Hosting. "Before the introduction of this One-Click-Installer for Magento, we have been providing free Magento installation service for all of our clients.", he further elaborates. The company also claims to provide one of the fastest speed for Magento Commerce hosting. "Magento normally runs slowly under normal shared hosting because it is quite resource intensive. However, this does not happen at Aspiration Hosting as our servers are optimized and we put lesser amount of accounts per server. This makes the loading speed of Magento much faster when compared to the other hosting providers.", explains James. The Magento Commerce platform combines the flexibility of open-source technology with industry-leading features to provide merchants unprecedented control over store operations. It is currently the fastest growing eCommerce platform on the market with 500,000+ downloads and 44,000+ community members to date. It has also won several prestigious awards like the 'Best New Open Source Project' in the 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards and the ‘Best of Open Source Enterprise Applications (E-Commerce)’ in Infoworld’s annual BOSSIE Awards. For more information about Aspiration Hosting's Magento optimized hosting plan, please visit: http://www.aspirationhosting.com/magento.htm About Aspiration Hosting (http://www.aspirationhosting.com) Aspiration Hosting is a privately owned 100% debt free based hosting company founded in April 2008 and has no intentions of selling any time soon. Aspiration Hosting is specialized in Premium Web Hosting services, such as Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Virtual Hosting and Dedicated Hosting services as well as reselling SSL Certificates and Domain Name registrations. About Magento Commerce (http://www.magentocommerce.com) Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source eCommerce solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Magento’s powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools give merchants the power to create ecommerce sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/aspiration_hosting_debuts_magento_one-click-installer.html

The Planet Direct Attached Storage Unveils

2008-11-01T06:00:00-04:00

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) The Planet has debuted, for dedicated and managed hosting customers requiring enhanced database performance and increased file storage, its direct attached storage (DAS) offering.

Rob Walters, General Manager of storage and data protection remarked, ''Web sites are the lifeblood of every company that operates an online business, so having a high-speed, highly available site is critical, especially during the upcoming holiday season. Our new DAS product provides online retailers -- and SMBs of any kind -- enhanced redundancy with clustering and failover capabilities. DAS is an affordable way to keep critical data protected, so companies can experience peace of mind any time of the year.''

The versatile DAS product, based on Dell's MD series, is available in three configurations that can be used as primary storage or for backup and archiving. Users will experience improved performance and increased security, since each DAS unit is directly attached to the customer's server. Its scalable design allows for daisy-chaining, so customers can add one or two additional DAS units to support up to 45TB of storage. Customers are also able to manage and monitor both their Dell servers and DAS devices through the Dell OpenManage management console.

The Planet DAS features a serial attached SCSI (SAS) architecture, which provides higher availability than traditional SCSI technology. It also outperforms SCSI devices, operating at 3Gbps.

The company offers DAS in three configurations to suit a wide range of business requirements. The Dell MD1000, priced at $300 per month and equipped with up to 15 drives, can be used for server expansion. The more robust MD3000 provides low-cost clustering and dual storage controllers for redundancy and failover. The MD3000 is available in a dual-controller/single-port option, priced at $500; and a dual-controller/dual-port configuration for maximum availability, priced at $650.

Recently, The Planet secured a new $45 million credit facility, as Wachovia Bank NA leads the transaction with $30 million, followed by Bank of America with $15 million.

Ultimately, The Planet's goal is to provide:

High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance

Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic

Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability

Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses

Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24x7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution, with the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network.

To learn more about the new solution, please visit: www.planetalpha.com/hosting-products/storage-data-protection/direct-attached-storage/.

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GoDaddy Reports SSL Certificate Surge

2008-11-01T06:00:00-04:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 31, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, has recorded a huge surge in SSL Certificates for 65.8 percent of the market share for new certificates, according to the October Netcraft Ltd. report.

Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons noted, ''Why wouldn't people come to Go Daddy. We offer customers the very same SSL Cert as our higher priced competitors do, but at a fraction of the cost. Nowadays people are looking for ways to save money. This is an easy way to do it.''

As more and more people focus on the Web, SSL Certificates are becoming even more popular, especially at Go Daddy where they are available for as much as 75 percent less than the competition. An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificate enables encryption of online transactions and communications. They are essential for ecommerce Web sites.

In addition to providing the same security level other SSL providers' offer, all Go Daddy certificates include an unlimited server license, potentially saving companies thousands of dollars.

Mr. Parsons added, ''Our competitors require their customers to purchase a certificate for every server they have. Go Daddy allows customers to use their certificate on as many servers as they choose. It doesn't matter if you have ten, fifty or one-thousand servers.

The customer-centric strategy appears to be successful for everyone. Netcraft reports Go Daddy added close to twenty thousand certificates during the last three months. While both the SSL industry and Go Daddy gained market share overall, two other major Certificate Authorities actually lost share. Netcraft, a leading industry analyst, also ranks Go Daddy as the second largest SSL provider overall.

An SSL Certificate enables encryption of online transactions and communications. GoDaddy.com SSL Certificates are offered in three assurance validation levels: Standard, Deluxe and Premium SSL. All GoDaddy.com certificates offer up to 256-bit encryption.

In addition to owning the majority of the net new SSL market, Go Daddy is the world leader for Web sites hosted with SSL Certificates, according to Netcraft. Not bad when you consider Go Daddy started providing Secure Certificates in May 2004.

Go Daddy has recently introduced Code Signing Certificates. These enable anyone distributing software via the Internet to show their customers the software can be trusted. The certificate confirms publisher details and protects customers from inadvertently installing unauthorized software.

Recently, GoDaddy enhanced its customer feedback system, to include valuable upgrades, translating its user suggestions into benefits for clients. The new program is part of Go Daddy's continued efforts to improve products and services,based on input from many of its six million customers who call Go Daddy for help, or to suggest product improvements.

Go Daddy is a provider of services that are designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 31 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi. GoDaddy.com has also been honored by various industry organizations and publications as Best Registrar and Best Hosting Company already this year. In 2007, Go Daddy was named Arizona's Most Innovative Company and Business Leader of the Year.

For more information about Go Daddy SSL Certificates, please visit: www.GoDaddy.com/SSL.

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