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Discounted Hosted Exchange 2007, Offered at ThinkGrid

2008-12-26T06:00:00-05:00

London, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) ThinkGrid is offering Hosted Exchange at a fraction of the cost, to benefit small and medium-sized businesses specifically, for IT services, with its new ThinkExchange service.

Designed to give SMBs access to the latest version of Microsoft's market leading messaging solution, ThinkExchange provides all the features of Exchange 2007 but removes the pain of set-up, configuration and, most significantly, the need for upfront, capital expenditure.

Hosting companies looking to offer a messaging solution for their customers can also use ThinkExchange as a white-labelled, value-added service. ThinkExchange comes at half the cost of similar services offered by rival companies, giving start-ups and SMBs the opportunity to stay competitive by enjoying the benefits that larger businesses gain in keeping up-to-date with the latest technology.

ThinkExchange does not require SMBs to dedicate time and resources to maintaining, deploying and supporting an in-house solution. With ThinkExchange, businesses not only get the latest features of Microsoft Exchange 2007, such as shared calendars and contacts, but also Microsoft Outlook 2007, 1GB Mailboxes, anti-spam, anti-virus and back-up protection, mobile email and Outlook web access. Businesses can increase or decrease the number of users required, and the service is purchased with one simple monthly contract, giving greater control and flexibility in managing the cost of email.

ThinkExchange comes with ThinkGrid's expert 24x7 support, giving customers their own personalised UK-based support teams, ensuring continuity and ultra-fast resolution of issues. As well as offering a service to small and medium-sized businesses, ThinkGrid has also allowed for white-labelling; allowing channel partners, hosting companies and services businesses to deliver a fully branded hosted Exchange 2007 offering to add to their existing revenue streams. Partners have the full capacity to build their own plans, provision and bill their customers.

David Pratt, COO of ThinkGrid noted, ''Faced with bank freezes on lending, tightening of purse strings and the need to maintain quality, in the current economic climate every penny really does count. ThinkExchange removes the cost and management burden of one of the most critical applications supporting UK businesses today. We're offering a market leading email solution not only at a fraction of the cost, but with an approach that ensures other critical parts of the business need not suffer.''

ThinkGrid provides business IT on demand. We take away the management and cost burden of owning your own IT by offering it to you as an on demand service. No longer do you need to make huge capital investments in PCs, servers, software and telephony systems. Instead, with ThinkGrid each employee is given their own personalised virtual desktop that can be accessed from anywhere in the world through an Internet connection. Applications can be added and removed at the touch of a button and there are also hosted telephony systems available. You only pay for what you use so based on the needs of your business you can scale up and down at the click of a mouse.

To learn more, please visit: www.thinkgrid.co.uk.

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SoftLayer Verifies Data Center Security

2008-12-22T03:37:00-05:00

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) Hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer Technologies, has completed a SAS 70 review.

Including the assessment of all processes and systems necessary to complete an accompanying Type II report, the audit and evaluation were part of its ongoing commitment to provide customers with industry-best standards and practices. A SAS 70 Type II review is an in-depth survey of a service organization's control objectives and activities, with an evaluation of the organizations' effectiveness in meeting those control objectives.

Steve Kinman, Customer Service Manager at SoftLayer noted, ''We are very excited to have completed this process. It gives us an objective standard for assuring all of our customers, of all sizes, that we provide reliable, tested, and secure hosting services based upon industry-recognized standards.''

It is an important step for any service organization supporting outsourced, mission-critical, and information technology services. The survey includes a full assessment of: Oversight by executive management Operations and customer service Development and information technology organization Human resources policies and procedures Risk assessment monitoring SAS 70 data centers must maintain prescribed levels of data security and redundancy, as well as personnel controls. The data center's staff cannot access servers or data without a specific procedure. All systems access and activity must be logged, and all physical access is highly controlled.

SoftLayer's review was conducted by an independent auditing agency and included extensive testing performed over a six-month period. It involved all existing SoftLayer data center facilities in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA and Washington DC. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry's first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

For more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

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GoDaddy Ranks on Best Places to Work List

2008-12-22T03:25:00-05:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Website Hosting Directory) Go Daddy has been selected by The Phoenix Business Journal, for its list of 'Best Places to Work' - for the fifth consecutive year.

Bob Parsons, Founder and CEO of GoDaddy explained, ''It's important for us to make Go Daddy a fun and rewarding place to work. I learned a long time ago that happy employees, who are excited about what they're doing, they perform at a higher level, which in turn allows us to deliver the best customer service in the industry.''

The world's largest domain name provider ranked 19 in the category for large Valley companies. 'The Best Places to Work' ranking is based on employee surveys which measure retention rate,manager effectiveness, team effectiveness, employee alignment with company goals, trust in senior leadership and trust in fellow coworkers, among other performance categories.

The data is compiled by Quantum Market Research and finalists are put into categories based on company size. The Scottsdale-based company employs more than 18-hundred people in Arizona. Go Daddy prides itself on its competitive salaries, exceptional benefits and creative perks, including the company's legendary holiday parties where CEO and Founder Bob Parsons has a reputation for giving away thousands of dollars and other prizes, such as cars, motorcycles and trips for which the company also foots the tax bill.

Lane Jarvis, Human Resources Vice-President at Go Daddy remarked, ''Our employees are the heart and soul of our operation and it's nice to be recognized. We strive to create a positive, healthy environment for our employees, where successes and contributions are celebrated.''

Go Daddy has received many honors as a top employer, including five consecutive years on the Best Places list and recognition from the CNN Money list of Best Perks. GoDaddy.com was also named the 2007 Arizona Business Leader of the Year and was awarded a 2008 honorable mention for the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility. Go Daddy is also generous to local and national charities. In 2007, Go Daddy's philanthropic works totaled $1.4 million in donations and this year the company is on track to donate more than $1.65 million to charities, many of which help with women, children, education and health-related causes. Go Daddy is on track for its best revenue year in the company's history.

To celebrate, Mr. Parsons is hosting a spectacular holiday party for all the employees at Chase Field Saturday. Go Daddy is even flying in its out-of-state employees and their guests for the night and putting them up in a nearby hotel. Live entertainment at the big bash includes two legendary rock bands, an internationally renowned comedian, a laser show, random cash drawings, plus gifts for every one of the near 4,000 guests. Go Daddy is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and also has offices in Phoenix, Mesa, Gilbert, and Tempe, as well as Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Denver, Colorado and Washington, D.C. Go Daddy is always looking for highly talented, motivated professionals to join its dynamic team and now has more than 70 open positions.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that 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 32 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. To view Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons' blog, visit www.BobParsons.tv.

To learn more about the wide variety of job opportunities with GoDaddy.com, please visit: www.godaddy.com/jobs.

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FastNext Debuts Holiday Specials

2008-12-19T03:41:00-05:00

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) FastNext is offering holiday specials that include clustered hosting plans at the price of shared plans. In addition, six month contracts will receive one month of free service, while a year or more includes 3 months of free service.

FastNext has also instituted new upgraded Linux VPS. The standard usually includes two ways of upgrade: reducing the prices or improving the offer. FastNext decided not to choose, so customers may buy improved VPS for the smaller price. New VPS-Classic, VPS-Midi, VPS-Maxi and VPS-Mega provide with 15 Gb - 40 Gb of diskspace, 200-600 Gb of traffic, 256 - 1024 Mb of the guaranteed RAM for the prices started from $24.95/mo. En equal share CPU is enabled and each customer obtains a guaranteed amount of RAM. All plans (except the VPS-Classic) allow creating unlimited domains.

Also included in the holiday specials, is a free GeoTrust SSL Certificate, for 12 month hosting service orders. The free GeoTrust SSL Certificate on 12 month orders include a single certificate install, no chained installation, free self-service reissues for the lifetime of the certificate, and strong 128 / 256 bit SSL encryption, compatible with 99%+ of all browsers and webservers. GeoTrust SSL Certificate has assured the security of commercial transactions and customer data.

FastNext offers new platform configurations designed to faciliate more failproof and efficient services. The company has upgraded all servers to AMD Opterons that use the 64-bit Linux operating system. Customer data is stored on the RAID-10 array, that survives up to 2 HDDs failures without service interruption. The company invests in development of new software such as MultiManager and Double backup.

To learn more, please visit: http://fastnext.com.

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CrystalTech Premieres VPS Hosting Discounts

2008-12-19T03:26:00-05:00

Phoenix, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) CrystalTech Web Hosting, has launched new economically priced Hyper-V powered Virtual Private Server (VPS) plans.

Starting at $59.95 per month, the price is available through January 31, 2009. Earlier this year, CrystalTech became one of the premier hosting providers to offer Microsoft Hyper-V as the underlying technology behind a VPS solution, offering true hardware virtualization and heavy isolation between virtual instances on the physical server.

The new plans, which provide users with a dedicated-like environment for less than half the price of most dedicated servers, include Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, a value of over $50.00 per month, a guaranteed 512 MB of memory, 30 GB of disk space, and full administrative access to the operating system.

Bob Cichon, President and Chief Operating Officer of Newtek Technology Services remarked, ''As more businesses and developers turn to VPS as an affordable alternative to dedicated hosting, it was important that we were able to expand our offering to include a solution that was comparable in price to higher-end shared hosting plans yet more powerful than most other VPS solutions at a similar price point. Now customers can leverage the power of a robust Windows server environment at half the price.''

CrystalTech today also released details of the server hardware it utilizes on all VPS host servers. The hardware configuration includes dual Intel 5410 Quad Core 2.33 GHz processors, mirrored OS drives, and a Raid 6 configuration for the data array that ensures redundancies and fail-safes in the event one or more disk drives experience hardware failure.

Mr. Cichon noted, ''By using only our most robust, custom built server hardware, we have been able to assure customers that our VPS environment is not only an affordable solution, but also a highly reliable one.''

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'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.

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.

Newtek's other business service lines include:

Electronic Payment Processing: Electronic solutions to accept non-cash payments, including credit and debit cards, check conversion, remote deposit capture, ACH processing, and electronic gift and loyalty card programs.

Business Lending: Broad array of lending products including SBA 7(a), conventional commercial real estate and SBA 504 loans, business lines of credit, and business credit cards.

Insurance Services: Commercial and personal lines of insurance, including health and employee benefits in all 50 states, working with over 40 insurance carriers.

Accounts Receivable Financing: Receivable purchasing and financing services.

Payroll: Complete payroll management and processing services.

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.

Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a direct distributor of a wide range of business services and financial products to the small- to medium-sized business market under the Newtek brand. Since 1999, Newtek has helped small- and medium-sized business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools needed to manage and grow their businesses, and to compete effectively in today's marketplace. Newtek provides one or more of its services to over 91,000 business accounts, and has positioned the Newtek brand as a one-stop-shop provider of business services to the small- and medium-sized business market. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, there are over 26.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.

To learn more about CrystalTech's Hyper-V powered VPS hosting solution, please visit: www.crystaltech.com/vps.aspx

For more about Newtek, please visit: www.newtekbusinessservices.com.

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Rackspace to Power SupportSoft

2008-12-18T02:33:00-05:00

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) Rackspace has been chosen by provider of technology software and services facilitator, SupportSoft Inc., to provide a Windows-based web environment that runs on a heterogeneous hosting model.

Anthony Rodio, Chief Operating Officer, SupportSoft remarked, ''Rackspace is able to offer us the highest level of uptime, which is critical to our and our customers' success. Thousands of global customers depend on SupportSoft and support.com to provide always-on service. With their Fanatical Support, we have found that Rackspace values customers as much as we do.''

Consisting of a Platform and Managed Hosting combination, the solution was created as a unique alternative to colocation. Platform Hosting gives users the control to manage all aspects of their hosting environment, with the added benefit of managed hardware and network infrastructure. Managed Hosting provides users with a fully managed offering, which includes 24x7x365 technology and service support.

The company's consumer arm, support.com, takes this enterprise grade technology and uses it to provide Instant Technology Relief® directly to consumers and small businesses through their technology engineers at 1-800-PC-Support and a number of major retail, DSP and ISP partners.

SupportSoft moved to Rackspace based on value, IT resources and the ability to provide data center redundancy. SupportSoft sought out a hosting company that could meet their unique hosting needs, allowing them the flexibility to manage aspects of their hosting environment for parts of their business while also offering a fully managed hosting service for others. They also sought technical expertise, world-class data centers and world-class customer support, all of which could help enable them to provide superior service.

Jim Lewandowski, Senior Vice President, worldwide sales, Rackspace Hosting remarked, ''SupportSoft wanted a configuration that would allow them to take advantage of their technology knowledge while helping manage costs. Rackspace has been able to step in and provide a tailored offering to SupportSoft saving them time and money that they now put towards business critical operations.''

SupportSoft develops software that automates the resolution of IT problems through proactive, self-healing and assisted service technology. For more than 10 years, they've helped ensure that technology critical to businesses - and their customers - works as planned. Their best-in-class, scalable solutions are designed to enable both end users and analysts to detect, diagnose and correct problems at home, in the office or anywhere in between. With these solutions, SupportSoft endeavors to reduce the costs associated with support delivery.

Rackspace Hosting delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable andaffordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support, furthering the company's mission to be one of the world's greatest service companies. 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 (www.rackspace.com), email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting ( www.mosso.com).

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

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GoDaddy to Host Annual Holiday Celebration

2008-12-18T02:21:00-05:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Hosting and domain registrar provider, Go Daddy, will host an annual holiday party estimated to cost $2M, at the Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, the same location of last year's celebration.

The company plans to fly in all of its out-of-state employees and their guests, and chauffeur them from the airport, as well as putting them up in a brand new hotel. In all, nearly 4,000 people are expected, attending from Arizona, Iowa, Colorado and Washington, D.C.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ''Someone asked me, why spend all the money on such a spectacular, expensive party ... I say, why not? We've had our best year ever as a company and this achievement is because of our employees. I learned a long time ago, if you treat your people right, the rest takes care of itself.''

Go Daddy, like its CEO, has always been aggressive, even in the face of criticism. Just last week, as some long-time Super Bowl advertisers dropped out, Go Daddy announced it would advertise for a fifth consecutive year. Likewise, as many companies downgrade their charitable contributions, Go Daddy is beefing up its donations. Go Daddy expects to top its philanthropic works total from last year, with 2008 contributions exceeding $1.65M.

Mr. Parsons has been setting high standards, since launching the domain name registrar and web site hosting company eight years ago. Go Daddy has earned a rich reputation in the Human Relations arena for paying top performers' mortgages for a year and giving away other attractive incentives such as cars, cash and exotic vacations.

The company also foots the bill on taxes associated with the prizes. And as many companies focus on slashing jobs, Go Daddy is hiring and later this week expects to be honored on the annual Best Places to Work list for a fifth consecutive year. In those years, Go Daddy rose to dominance and, in fact, turned profitable during the dotCOM bust, as other Web companies crashed. The Internet is considered by some to be a saving grace for the struggling economy; others see the web as 'the place to be' in a competitive climate.

Recent statistics from Cyber Monday reported a 15 percent increase in retail revenue this year over last.1 Go Daddy owns and offers more than 40 Web related products, including a wide variety of Web site hosting options. Its primary mission though is to provide registration for Web site addresses. Go Daddy has grown to be more than three times the size of its closest competitor2 and is on track for a 40 percent increase in overall revenue, year to year.

Mr. Parsons added, ''So why shouldn't we celebrate a little this year?. We have a 45 percent market share of new domain names worldwide and are growing in every area of our company. Our people deserve a party.''

More than 2,000 employees and their guests will be treated to food, drinks and gifts. Everyone, even employee guests, will be given a gift. Mr. Parsons is expected to roll into the stadium on a motorcycle and dole out random cash prizes as he did last year. As for entertainment, two legendary rock bands are booked to perform, along with an internationally acclaimed comedian, plus there will be a laser show to put the exclamation point on what promises to be an evening to remember.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that 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 32 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.

To view Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons' blog, please visit: www.bobparsons.tv.

For more information about GoDaddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

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iland Internet Solutions Expands

2008-12-17T05:54:00-05:00

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) Hosted Cloud Services, High Availability VMware VI Enterprise Solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Bandwidth, iland Internet Solutions, has entered into a license agreement for space in CRG West's Wilshire Annex data center in the Los Angeles area.

Iland's Phase 1 CRG West expansion encompasses approximately 1,500 sq ft with future plans to expand within the facility. This new agreement augments iland's colocation footprint in the California market, complimenting existing data center space in nearby Tustin, California, as well as San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland. CRG West's Wilshire Annex data center is ideal for bandwidth-intensive and latency-sensitive networks such as iland and its clients.

Scott Sparvero, CEO of iland Internet Solutions added, ''We are proud to announce our latest High Availability Hub in the L.A. area. The Wilshire Annex location joins a growing list of other iland Hubs located in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Dallas, Houston, and London. We strategically select the cities that have a growing demand for bandwidth-intensive services and applications, and we select key, state-of-the-art buildings within these cities, such as CRG West's Wilshire Annex, to house our Hubs according to the highest industry standards. This guarantees iland customers the most secure and robust network and cost-saving opportunities.''

CRG West also offers redundant dark fiber and DWDM access directly to the company's internationally-renowned One Wilshire location, one of the most connected data centers in the world with over 300 international carriers and enterprise networks. iland customers can also easily access iland's 10 Gb Ethernet IP network for cost-effective connections to Tier 1 backbones. iland is transforming its 1,500 square feet of space to become the company's latest High Availability Hub.

The Hub will include access to iland's hosted VMware VI Enterprise Solutions, where businesses can host multiple operating systems and multiple applications locally and in remote locations, allowing maximum performance, high availability, data protection and improved disaster recovery processes. This hosted VMware solution also allows organizations to reduce space, power and equipment costs.

Additionally, the iland High Availability Hub will offer mission critical dedicated servers, managed SAN storage, managed network and security services, access to iland's cost-effective, Tier-1, high-speed IP network and carrier-neutral connectivity across a variety of networks. iland's new data center space is now available.

David Dunn, CRG West Senior Vice President commented, ''We are proud to welcome iland’s innovative cloud computing and virtualized hosting services to our Los Angeles data centers. CRG West looks forward to providing world-class data center space for iland’s continued expansion across the United States, and to building a meaningful relationship over the years to come.''

To further grow iland’s West Coast expansion, iland recently hired Anthony Palmeri as the Western Regional Sales Director. With over ten years industry experience throughout the California area, Mr. Palmeri will be responsible for growing iland’s West Coast operations and developing and fostering new and existing client relationships.

“I am excited to be part of the iland team and to be offering value-added, infrastructure solutions to companies who require cost-effective, secure hosting, managed colocation and access to IP bandwidth,” states Mr. Palmeri. “Our iland Hub in CRG West’s Wilshire Annex data center provides a variety of options including shared or full cabinets, cages, custom or pre-built configurations, high density computing, and a range of iland hosted cloud services, managed IT, networking services, and consulting. Our Hubs are also redundant across all levels, with N+1 power and environmental systems. In short, iland’s Internet solutions are an answer to today’s network, budget and environmental needs.”

CRG West is a leading developer, manager and operator of world-class data centers. Established in 2001, CRG West provides wholesale data center and retail colocation space, connectivity services, remote hands support, and one of the fastest growing Internet peering exchanges in the United States: the Any2 Exchange. Now with eleven data center locations, the company manages carrier-neutral data centers in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Northern Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington D.C. CRG West provides data center and peering opportunities to Fortune 500 companies and over 500 of the world's leading networks, enterprises and universities.

iland Internet Solutions Corporation is a global provider of Hosted Cloud Services, High Availability VMware Solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Network and Data services. iland provides fully redundant, geographically distributed solutions, including cost-effective disaster recovery options to a full range of Web Centric clients including Application Development and Service providers, SaaS, Content Providers as well as Fortune 1000 companies and technology start-ups. iland has been building robust IT solutions for clients since it was founded in 1995. iland’s expertise is helping organizations transform their expensive, traditional IT environments into cost-effective, fully optimized environments. iland is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

To learn more about CRG West, please visit: www.crgwest.com.

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MochaHost Holiday Discounts Debut

2008-12-17T05:39:00-05:00

San Jose, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Hosting company, MochaHost.com, has developed for its new and current customers, new holiday season specials, including 6 months of freehosting and 2 free domain names, in addition to a free sitebuilder withBusiness or Mocha plans.

Other season specials include: a free domain for any annual (1 year) purchase and, special discounts for non-profit organizations OR military personnel, along with a special 10% discount for any of its' reseller plans.

The offer will be valid through December 31, 2008.

In addition, MochaHost is pleased to announce the availability of Hosting Gift E-cards - a unique and valuable gift idea available for immediate purchase for BOTH new and existing customers! All of the cards are with 10% off the regular package price, and not only provide hosting with a domain name, but also a state-of-the-art, efficient, and easy to use sitebuilder, so that the gift recipient has the COMPLETE hosting package in order to get started.

MochaHost is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California, specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, e-commerce, and Internet promotion services. MochaHost's plans are designed to tailor to specific needs, from personal use/small businesses, to sophisticated e-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth and disk space.

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iWeb Group Supports Montreal Canadien Historical Site

2008-12-14T17:37:00-05:00

Quebec, Canada - (The Hosting News) Hostng services company, iWeb Group Inc., has been chosen to power and support The Montreal Canadien centennial celebrations, including extended official online highlights of the history of the legendary Hockey Club.

The website, located at ourhistory.canadiens.com, was a significant project that developers trusted with iWeb's infrastructure, to ensure the performance and availability of the site during the anticipated high-traffic periods, notably because of iWeb's experience with projects whose performance and availability are key success factors.

A site of this magnitude and depth is a historic first in the world of professional sports. 'Our History' is an easy to use site where virtually all aspects of the history of the organization can be viewed. Visitors of the groundbreaking site have access to hundreds of player's biographies, thousands of videos, photos and statistics as well as the detailed results of every game played by the Habs in the last 100 years.

Eric Chouinard, President and CEO of iWeb noted, ''We are delighted to be helping fans enjoy this historic element of the Montreal Canadiens' centennial celebrations. The creative teams at Bluesponge and Turbulent Media completed the development portion of the site, after which iWeb designed, configured and provisioned a dedicated server 'cluster' (an advanced setup which will ensure top performance at all times) [as] a vital element to the success of any large-scale project.''

Marc Beaudet, President of Turbulent Media, who worked on the site in partnership with Montreal firm Bluesponge; interactive partner of the Montreal Canadiens added, ''It's important to have a reliable infrastructure, but it must also be flexible, scalable and should be able to adjust very quickly when traffic increases.''

In August, iWeb entered into a partnership for a $22M financing agreement, with Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., covering long term growth of the company's data centers, dedicated server leasing and web hosting operations.

iWeb initially received $ 10M USD in senior debt, 5 years, 16% and $ 1M in common shares will be issued to Goldman Sachs at $ 1.30 per share, these common shares will be subject to a four-month hold period. A subsequent $ 1M in shares will follow at $ 1.30, subject to certain market conditions. Under the second part of the agreement, Goldman Sachs can provide an additional $ 8M in senior debt with $ 2M in shares to be issued at market price, all subject to certain conditions and performance indicators.

Founded in 1996, iWeb offers a full line of advanced IP hosting services either through shared hosting, dedicated servers or co-location in three data centers, featuring over 52,000 square feet of floor space and the latest technological equipment. iWeb provides services in English, French and Spanish to clients in more than 130 countries.

For more information about iWeb, please visit: http://iweb.com.

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Amazon Unveils Public Data Sets

2008-12-15T03:21:00-05:00

Seattle, Washington - (Website Hosting Directory) Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), has launched a new solution to provide access to a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications.

AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all of AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they consume with their own applications. Data sets already available include various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census Bureau, 3-D chemical structures provided by Indiana University, and an annotated form of the Human Genome from Ensembl. More data sets will be available soon, including a wide range of economic statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and additional scientific data sets.

Previously, large data sets such as the Human Genome and U.S. Census data required many hours to locate, download and customize. Now, anyone can access these large data sets from their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and start computing on the data within minutes. By growing the number of people with access to important and useful data, and making it easy to compute on that data with cost-efficient services such as Amazon EC2, AWS hopes to fuel innovation and further accelerate the pace of new discoveries.

Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Product Management and Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services remarked, ''For over five years AWS has been working to lower the barriers to entry, level the playing field, and make it possible for our customers to be successful based on their ideas, not on their resources. Public Data Sets on AWS is the latest of these efforts, and we can't wait to see the discoveries and innovations that could stem from this ecosystem.''

Select public data sets are hosted on Amazon EC2 for free as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots. Amazon EC2 customers can access this data by creating their own personal Amazon EBS volumes, using the public data set snapshots as a starting point. They can then access, modify and perform computation on these volumes directly using their Amazon EC2 instances and just pay for the compute and storage resources that they use. If available, researchers can also use pre-configured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with tools like Inquiry by BioTeam to perform their analysis.

Dr. Peter Tonellato from the Harvard Medical School noted, ''Public Data Sets on AWS will enable me and many of my colleagues to collaborate with each other by sharing our commonly used data sets, research environments and tools. We can set up a controlled environment in minutes, run our computational analysis for a couple of hours, and shut down the environment. Our results are completely repeatable. I only pay for the compute time I use, and more importantly I can spend more time focusing on research, not downloading and setting up computational infrastructure.''

Dr. Glenn Proctor, Ensembl Software Coordinator at the EBI commented, ''Bioinformatics is a hugely exciting area which is providing much insight into our understanding of biology and, particularly, the genetic basis of many human diseases like cancer and diabetes. The genome is a complex thing, however; it presents us with a potential source of invaluable information but also with great challenges in how to store, analyze and annotate it, and how to make both the raw genomic information and our annotations available to as many people as possible. Ensembl's approach has always been to try and lower the barriers to entry so that a researcher using a desktop PC in a lab or a laptop in an airport departure lounge has access to high-quality, up to the minute genetic information that they can use in their work. Amazon EC2 allows us to go even further and make all our data available in a robust, scalable and flexible form that anyone with an AWS account can use.''

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

For more information about the Public Data Sets on AWS, please visit: www.aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets.

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Virtual Rack Bundles, at The Planet

2008-12-12T17:00:00-05:00

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) Web hosting firm, The Planet, is offering new Virtual Rack Solution Bundles, as pre-configured solutions for environments with two or more servers.

Bryce Edwards, General Manager for complex infrastructure at The Planet remarked, ''Many SMBs require the ability to grow their hosted environments quickly and easily, yet aren't sure where to start. With our new Virtual Rack Solution Bundles, we';ve prepackaged three of our most popular virtual rack configurations, making it an easy choice to meet particular business requirements. All of our bundles feature drive-level redundancy, 1Gbps connection speed and bandwidth pooling, and customers receive additional value by taking advantage of low introductory pricing.''

Available in three package types, the bundles feature tiered components designed to meet various business requirements, from basic to advanced. The solution is ideal for customers who require a scalable, flexible infrastructure to accommodate rapid growth.

Virtual Rack Solution Bundles are available in three configurations that simplify the purchasing process:

• The Essential Bundle includes two powerful Intel quad-core servers and business-class load balancing, which are ideal for mission-critical applications.

• The Advanced Bundle features all the benefits of the Essential package, plus a RAID 1 database server with 15,000RPM SAS drives for fast database access. It includes advanced load balancing, which operates at three times the speed and capacity as the Essential Bundle.

• The Performance Bundle is The Planet's most robust solution. In addition to the benefits of the Advanced Bundle, this solution includes an additional quad-core Web server for a total of three servers, a fully managed and dedicated Cisco ASA 5510SP firewall, as well as a wide array of managed services, including server monitoring, security and backup.

Through Dec. 31, The Planet is offering promotional pricing on its Virtual Rack Solution Bundles. The Essential Bundle is priced at $801.55 per month, regularly $943. The Advanced Bundle is available for $1,329.60 per month, a 20 percent savings. The Performance Bundle is $2,048.85 per month, discounted more than 25 percent.

Virtual racks enhance security, particularly for companies running advanced, high-performance applications that require flexibility in multi-server environments:

• Unlimited server-to-server transfer: Multiple servers within the same virtual rack have unlimited connectivity so customers don't pay for bandwidth between servers.

• Reduced risk of bandwidth overages: Virtual racks allow customers to pool bandwidth across all servers in the environment. The Planet eliminates the guessing game of which server will accumulate overages, only to find others below their limit.

• Access to advanced security and hosting technologies: A complete hosting solution for complex environments requires advanced firewalls and load balancers. Virtual racks allow customers to take advantage of these solutions across their multi-server applications.

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.

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FatCow Updates Services Mandate

2008-12-12T16:00:00-05:00

Burlington, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Hosting company, FatCow, following on the heels of expanding its hosting offerings to include unlimited disk space, unlimited monthly bandwidth, has pledged to provide customers with a positive support experience.

The ''HeiferCratic Oath'' outlines various criteria that must be met during customer contacts, such as answering calls in under two minutes, resolving issues right away or setting firm deadlines for follow-up, providing phone support based exclusively in North America, as well as assurances that the support staff, referred to as the ''Moo Crew,'' will be friendly, courteous and knowledgeable.

Paul Bukhovko, Marketing Manager at FatCow noted, ''We like puns here at FatCow, and in this case, we're playing on the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians. We're certainly not in the business of saving lives, but we do recognize that our customers depend on us to provide them with quality service and support. For many customers, their businesses - their livelihoods - are tied to their Web sites, and we take that responsibility very seriously.''

The oath goes on to state that, if customers are not satisfied with their support experience, a Moo Crew investigator will review potential violations of the oath and award an account credit equal to one month of hosting to each customer that has experienced a negative support contact. The full oath is available online at www.fatcow.com/fatcow/heifercratic.bml.

Mr. Bukhovko added, ''We love our customers, but everyone says that. We want to put our money where our mouths are, so to speak. It’s no accident that FatCow has been in business for ten years. We take great pride in our support staff, and our HeiferCratic Oath simply reflects the commitment we make to our customers each and every day.''

The new FatCow QuickStart Wizard is designed to assist customers who are new to web hosting, the QuickStart Wizard is a mini-suite of control panel tools that can easily walk FatCow customers through the basic steps of starting a hosting account. Within a matter of minutes, new customers can add a domain, create e-mail boxes, and set up their web site.

To further help its customers in achieving online success, FatCow presents a volume of knowledgebase articles and easy-to-follow tutorials, and also delivers friendly, customer-focused support.

Furthermore, The FatCow Plan, FatCow's flagship web site hosting solution since 1998, has expanded to include unlimited disk space, unlimited monthly bandwidth, and for a limited time, a free domain name. The all-in-one signature plan also offers unlimited e-mail accounts, point-and-click site-creation tools, easy-to-install blogs and forums, e-commerce capabilities, and search engine advertising credits.

FatCow provides shared web hosting solutions for individuals and small to medium sized businesses looking for an affordable, reliable web hosting option. FatCow pioneered the ''one plan one price'' philosophy when it began offering its signature all-in-one web site hosting solution, The FatCow, back in 1998.

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A La Carte R1Soft CDP, at SSA Host

2008-12-11T03:42:00-05:00

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) Hosting and Internet solutions company, SSA Host, will now offer R1Soft Continuous Data Protection technology as standard for users of its a la carte hosting plans, in order to allow customers to build ideal hosting solutions.

Accessible through cPanel, R1Soft's data protection technology provides the most secure and easy to use system for protecting important information against data loss. SSA Host customers are able to individually manage and schedule data backups and restore files from previous restore points.

Kristopher Jordy, owner of SSA Host parent company Sirkels and Squares Alternative noted, ''It's impossible to overstate the importance of a sound data protection process, and R1Soft delivers the most cost effective, scalable, and reliable technology in the marketplace. We are able to effectively deploy this technology to our shared hosting users, and do so at no additional charge to them.''

A la carte hosting plans start at a base price of $1 per month, and increase in cost as features, such as disk space and monthly data transfer, are added. Continuous Data Protection is included as standard at no additional charge.

Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a provider of disk-based backup solutions. The company's customer list includes some of the world's largest hosting providers. R1soft products provide Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for over 85,000 mission-critical Linux and Windows servers worldwide. In November, 2007 R1Soft was acquired by BBS Technologies, Inc.

SSA Host provides Domain Registration, Virtual Private Servers, Hosted Exchange, Server Monitoring, Linux-based Shared hosting and Reseller hosting, and Dedicated Servers. 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.

For more about R1Soft and Continuous Data Protection, please visit: www.r1soft.com.

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Iron Mountain Hosts .tel Domain Name Registration

2008-12-11T03:33:00-05:00

London, United Kingdom - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Iron Mountain Digital is among the first service providers to offer the new .tel domain name, is the technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM).

The .tel domain is similar to an interactive business card on the web, and has been called ''the Google of online address books.'' As a recognised expert in intellectual property management, Iron Mountain Digital recommends that companies protect and strengthen their established brands by registering for a .tel domain during the sunrise period which started on December 3rd.

The .tel domain allows businesses and individuals to store and manage all of their contact information and keywords directly in the Domain Name System, or DNS, thereby displaying the contact information much more quickly. For large businesses with established domain name portfolios, .tel is a way to consolidate contact information and make their company or brand easier to contact. For individuals or small businesses, .tel enables an online contact directory without the need to build, host, or manage a website. Iron Mountain will begin offering registration and management services for the .tel domain name extension beginning on December 3, the first day of the domain's sunrise period.

The sunrise period is reserved for trademark owners and extends through February 2, 2009. During this time, owners of existing trademarks can obtain a .tel domain for their brand; the selection method is first-come, first-served. This is followed by the 'land rush' phase of the launch, from February 2 to March 23, 2009, in which .tel registrations are open to all. Lower priced, general availability registrations open on March 24, 2009 for .tel domain names that remain. Iron Mountain's guidance is that companies with established brand trademarks should take advantage of the sunrise period if they want to strengthen and protect their brand with a .tel domain for their brand. If companies do not register a .tel domain for their establish brand trademarks during the sunrise period, that brand will no longer be protected, and will be available to anyone during the land rush period.

Frank Bruno, Director for Iron Mountain Digital's Intellectual Property Management services remarked, ''Many large companies work with Iron Mountain Digital on a domain name strategy that protects their company name, product names and other brands with the appropriate domain name extensions. Adding a .tel domain for your brand is a logical next step, and we encourage companies owning trademarks to register their .tel domains during the sunrise period, starting December 3.''

Telnic Limited is the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organisation for .tel. This new sponsored Top Level Domain (TLD) was awarded in 2006 by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

Khashayar Mahdavi, of Telnic stated,''This will fundamentally change the way in which people communicate and interact.''

The .tel domain is about connecting people and businesses and lets businesses use their company brand as a communications hub. From any Internet device, you can enter a .tel domain, and the DNS immediately returns the appropriate contact information allowing you to immediately initiate contact.

A .tel domain provides organisations of all sizes a named listing with unlimited contact information in a global directory, accessible from any device connected to the Internet. This integrates all communication solutions - such as email, phone, fax, premium numbers, call centers, IVR systems, vanity numbers, and VoIP solutions - under a single, brand-oriented solution. Customers can then search for and find up-to-date contact information quickly at little or no cost to them, connecting with .tel owners how they want to. Additionally, the .tel domain is search engine optimized through its ability to store index keywords, providing additional content for branded discoverability on the web.

Iron Mountain Digital's comprehensive, proven effective domain name management and enforcement services help companies reduce the time, risk, and cost associated with managing domain name portfolios.

Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of software- and storage-as-a-service solutions for backup and archiving. The technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive suite of data protection, archiving and intellectual property management solutions to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a world-wide network of channel partners. Iron Mountain Digital is based in Southborough, Mass. with European headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. For more information on Iron Mountain Digital's Intellectual Property Management services, visit www.ironmountain.com/ipm.

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations around the world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection and storage. The company offers comprehensive records management and data protection solutions, along with the expertise and experience to address complex information challenges such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 120,000 corporate clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

To learn more about the .tel domain name, please visit: www.telnic.org/faq.html.

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RankSense Appoints (Curtis) R. Curtis

2008-12-10T03:36:00-05:00

Miami, Florida - (The Hosting News) Software development company, NEMediaSoft, has appointed (Curtis) R. Curtis as its new Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, where he will assist the RankSense SEO Software Suite provider, to secure the highest positioning, among SEO software firms.

(Curtis) R. Curtis is a recognized hosting and online marketing industry luminary, regularly speaking on the topics of hosting infrastructure, online marketing and the evolution of the Internet. In addition to leading NEMediaSoft's sales and marketing efforts, Mr. Curtis will build strategic partnerships with leaders in the hosting industry.

Hamlet Batista, CEO and Founder of RankSense remarked, ''We are extremely excited to welcome Curtis to the RankSense team. We are confident that with his extensive experience, background and knowledge onboard we will quickly reach our goal of making RankSense the leading SEO software suite in the marketplace.''

A 16-year veteran of the industry, Curtis began his career working as a technology consultant with the US and Canadian governments. In 1993 he launched and managed one of the first internet service providers (ISP). Most recently, Mr. Curtis served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at web hosting and Internet services firm, Superb Internet Corporation.

Mr. Batista added, ''We recognize that partnering with the hosting industry and vendors such as cPanel and Parallels is vital in our goal to get RankSense in front of every website owner seeking to pinpoint the most profitable, sought after keywords necessary to drastically improve search engine rankings and increase the quantity and quality of their natural search traffic.''

RankSense was developed by NEMediaSoft, Inc., a provider of software and services designed for small businesses, SEO consultants and bloggers. The company's team of highly talented developers has invested over 20,000 hours designing, programming and refining the RankSense SEO management software, a revolutionary SEO software suite designed to simplify and improve the search engine optimization process. RankSense incorporates easy-to-use, powerful SEO technologies and solutions that facilitate the design, execution and management of successful organic search optimization campaigns, To better serve its rapidly growing worldwide customer base, NemediaSoft now has offices in the USA, Canada and the Dominican Republic.

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GoDaddy Develops New Super Bowl Ad

2008-12-10T03:22:00-05:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Go Daddy will advertise in the Super Bowl, if NBC approves an edgy commercial, for the fifth consecutive year in a row.

Go Daddy shot two completely different ad concepts this week near Los Angeles. Both concepts feature auto racing superstar and Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick, who ranked as 2008's Most Searched Athlete on the Internet, according to America Online 2008.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy explained, ''We have two options and they're both absolutely GoDaddy-esque. They are fun, edgy and slightly inappropriate; surely network censors will have a sense of humor, people could use a good laugh these days.''

The term 'GoDaddy-esque' was coined after Go Daddy's 2005 Super Bowl ad was censored. Pulled before it aired a second time, the commercial was a parody of the infamous 'wardrobe malfunction.' It featured the original Go Daddy Girl testifying before a mock congressional hearing. As for its decision to yank the 2005 ad, Fox network officials simply said it was out of step with the tenor set by other ads. The censorship sparked a media firestorm, generating unprecedented publicity for the domain name registrar.

Prior to the legendary controversy, Go Daddy’s market share was 16 percent. It jumped to 25 percent immediately following the censorship hullabaloo. The next year’s campaign boosted market share up to 32 percent and the company's market share right now is an overwhelming 45 percent, putting Go Daddy at a level more than three times the size of its closest competitor.

Go Daddy has parlayed its reputation for pushing the advertising envelope by driving viewers to its Web site. Last year, during one of the most dramatic, down-to-the-wire Super Bowl games ever, more than a million visitors clicked on GoDaddy.com - before the game ended.

Mr. Parsons added, ''We can't afford not to do it.''

With the economy hitting historic lows and the network setting record high broadcast ad rates, several long-time advertisers have faded away.

Given Go Daddy's market-share growth, and success with driving visitors to its web site, their own campaigns are tough acts to follow. As for what will make Go Daddy's next Super Bowl special, Mr. Parsons noted, ''We'll do what you've come to expect. We'll polarize people and we'll have fun doing it.''

Mr. Parsons is planning to have fun with his employees even before the Super Bowl. Go Daddy is hosting its annual holiday bash at Chase Field. The company is flying its out-of-state employees and their guests in for the night. Live entertainment is on the party agenda and includes two legendary rock bands, an internationally renowned comedian, pyrotechnics, random cash drawings, plus gifts for every one of the near 4,000 guests.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that 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 32 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.

To view Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons' blog, please visit: www.bobparsons.tv.

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Ensim Expands Reseller Network

2008-12-08T03:34:00-05:00

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) Ensim collaborative infrastructure and web hosting application firm, in a variety of vertical markets throughout Europe and Asia, has added three new channel partners to better serve the needs of corporations.

Under the terms of their agreements, each of Ensim's new reseller partners will provide comprehensive sales, marketing and technical support for the complete suite of Ensim Unify Enterprise Service Managers - including Active Directory Manager - both directly and through their own network of resellers throughout their respective regions.

New partners include Qast Singapore Pte Ltd (Singapore), LEX Computer Systems (Greece) and Antares NetlogiX (Austria). The expanded network extends Ensim's reach into international markets and offers customers more options for deploying Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to decrease their IT operating costs, improve employee productivity, and meet their security and compliance goals.

· Qast Singapore Pte Ltd is one of the largest software distribution companies in Singapore and provides sales, marketing, technical support, IT consulting, software localizations, OEM, and training to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, research and development centers, and educational institutions throughout South-East Asia both directly and through its broadly established reseller partners.

· LEX Computer Systems is a solution-focused company headquartered in Athens, Greece. The company offers multi-platform software and appliance-based technology designed to empower the delivery of key applications within the distributed Wide Area Network or Internet/Intranet powered organization. LEX's customer base comprises hundreds of firms who depend on the company's valued expertise to solve mission-critical digital challenges.

· Austria-based Antares NetlogiX specializes in providing IT consulting services and management software, including security and infrastructure products, to enterprises throughout Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.

Ensim Unify delivers immediate savings by improving IT and employee productivity - streamlining Active Directory management challenges that include user provisioning, password management, reporting, and role management in a secure web-based framework.

Jergen Kolb, Director of Marketing for Antares-NetlogiX remarked, '''Ensim Unify is a perfect complement to our competencies in managing AD and Microsoft-centric infrastructure. Unify's unique combination of features and functions enables us to provide our customers with absolute confidence in the integrity and security of their systems and change management processes. And because Unify does not require any proprietary schema changes to AD, it installs easily both in greenfield environments and as an upgrade over a previous product.''

The Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition Suite is comprised of the following modules, each of which is available for purchase individually:

Microsoft Active Directory Manager
Provides complete control over Active Directory and facilitates change management by delegating administration of complex tasks that include provisioning and de-provisioning, while reducing the number of privileged accounts and preventing unauthorized changes.

Microsoft Exchange Manager
Prevents mis-configuration of MS Exchange increases uptime and automates key tasks associated with managing users and their accounts.

Mobility Manager
A complete mobility solution for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and Windows Mobile that enables easy configuration and wipe of smart phones Over The Air.

Password Manager
Provides delegated administration and employee self-service by allowing employees to reset their own passwords via a web-based portal.

Scott Young, Vice President of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation added, ''With much of the NetPro product line discontinued, many former NetPro resellers are turning to Ensim for comparable replacement products at competitive industry standard prices. Our Unify AD Manager incorporates virtually all of the functionality of NetPro's product line in a single solution. It installs and configures in about an hour and does not require the adoption of proprietary schema changes in Active Directory.''

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access control software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft.

To learn more about Ensim's Partner Program, please visit: www.ensim.com/partners/index.html.

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Future Hosting Rebrands Domain Name

2008-12-08T03:22:00-05:00

Livonia, Michigan - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - December 8, 2008 - Hosting company, Future Hosting, an Internet Solutions provider serving small to medium sized businesses internationally, has acquired the FutureHosting.com domain, and will begin immediately rebrand its online presence there.

Vik Patel, President and CEO at Future Hosting noted, ''The acquisition of the FutureHosting.com domain name is an important step forward to sustaining the long-term growth of our company. Although we have generated tremendous growth under the .biz top level domain, we recognize there are a variety of key advantages associated with a .com online presence. It is our belief that .com will allow us to attract even more support from small businesses looking to get online for the first time.''

The company previously operated as FutureHosting.biz. Future Hosting will remain accessible from FutureHosting.biz indefinitely. In acquiring the new domain name, the Future Hosting has settled a dispute with the previous domain holder. Further details of the settlement are unavailable due to a Non Disclosure Agreement signed by both parties.
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In its effort to rebrand, the company will update links and graphics on its internal and external marketing operations. It has also notified vendors to update advertisements and promotional literature to send traffic to the new domain name.

Developed by Future Hosting, Server Doctor is a revolutionary system that provides a proactive approach to maintaining Virtual Private Servers - automating everything from account provisioning to weekly security scans.

Future Hosting is an IT company focused primarily on web hosting and other high-tech internet solutions. Founded in 2000, the company has built a reputation for high-quality customer service including instant server reboots, on-demand OS reloads and 3-hour Service Level Agreements.

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Rackspace Expands Board of Directors

2008-12-06T06:00:00-05:00

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) Rackspace has appointed Bain and Company Fellow and Founder of Bain's Loyalty practice, Fred Reichheld, to its Board of Directors.

Lanham Napier, President and CEO, Rackspace Hosting commented, ''Rackspace has grown to be the leader in the IT hosting space through its focus on providing Fanatical Support to our customers. We are honored to have one of the world's most respected loyalty experts as a member of our Board of Directors. Fred will guide us on deepening our customers' loyalty to us by continually improving the service experience that Rackspace provides.''

Reichheld joined Bain in 1977 and was elected to the partnership in 1982. In January 1999, he was elected by the firm to become the first Bain Fellow. Reichheld's pioneering work has quantified the linkage between loyalty, profits, and growth. He is the author of three best selling business books including The Loyalty Effect, Loyalty Rules and The Ultimate Question and eight Harvard Business Review articles on the subject. Reichheld is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Last month, Rackspace awarded this year's winner of The Fanati honors, the company's outstanding customer service award, honoring the one customer that has best demonstrated excellent customer centricity.

Rackspace reviewed the applications and a short-list of seven finalists was announced. Finalists moved on to the second round of judging which involved two scoring categories. First, their application was critiqued and graded by a panel of four service industry experts including Earl Sasser, a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School; Douglas Hanna, founder and Principal of customer service consulting company Service Untitled Group ( www.serviceuntitled.com); Lane Becker, blogger for getsatisfaction.com; and David Mitzenmacher, director of customer care programs for Rackspace. Second, in order to validate the finalists' applications, a customer satisfaction survey was sent to the seven finalists' customers.

Based on the survey results and the judge's scores, Pangea Foundation proved their customer service excellence and came out on top in both categories. In comments left on the survey about Pangea Foundation, Chris Juett, 2-1-1 Program Manager for the United Way said, ''Pangea Foundation was very responsive to our needs during the recent flooding in Iowa. When we contacted them telling them we wanted a web based flood related database put together for our 2-1-1 Center, they had the site up and running in less than 24 hours. After setting up the site they have worked with us to ensure that it was meeting our needs and are now helping us with the development of reports.''

Rackspace will begin accepting customer applications for the 2009 THE FANATI in July. About Pangea Foundation A 501(c)(3) nonprofit Software-as-a-Service provider founded in 1996, Pangea Foundation is the leader in delivering Impact Visualization On Demand to nonprofits of all sizes. Backed by world-class teams of IT experts, security specialists, and technology partners, Pangea Foundation equips more than 1,200 impact-driven nonprofits across America with Web-based Software-as-a-Service that lets organizations clearly visualize and effortlessly communicate the impact of their programs.

Rackspace Hosting delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable andaffordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support, furthering the company's mission to be one of the world's greatest service companies. 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 (www.rackspace.com), email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting ( www.mosso.com).

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EarthLink Subject of New Report

2008-12-06T06:00:00-05:00

Dublin, Ireland - (Website Hosting Directory) Hosting solutions and ISP company, EarthLink, is the focus of a new report, detailing its new strategy, intending to stabilize its core businesses and focus on growing business of voice over internet protocol and municipal network systems.

''EarthLink: Strategic Corporate Assessment - Strategy, SWOT Analysis and 5-year Financial Insights with In-depth Company Profile'' company profile includes the following information:

Scope

- Contains corporate strategy, value chain presence and SWOT Analysis

- Provides detailed business description, segment analysis, 5-year financial trends, key products and key competitors

- Includes information on suppliers/ partners, shareholding structure and key employees with biographies

Highlights:

EarthLink is a provider of total communications services in the US. Its service offerings include narrowband and broadband access services to customers and business organizations, web hosting and advertising and related value added services.

EarthLink manages its revenue though a single operating segment of IP-based access and communication services. Communication services account for 98% of the company's total revenues and the rest of the revenues are generated from the sale of equipment. EarthLink operates entirely in the US.

EarthLink's broadband revenues have grown by 27% over the previous year. Increasing competition and diversification of large media and telecommunication companies into internet services are increasing the subscriber acquisition cost, affecting the margins and market share of the company.

EarthLink offers its web hosting business customers value-added tools for designing web sites, monitoring site visitor traffic, and encrypting sensitive information EarthLink Business Solutions is the business services unit of Atlanta- based EarthLink Inc. Together with New Edge Networks, EarthLink Business Solutions is a total business communications solutions provider. It is a single source provider for businesses, offering high-speed Internet access, web hosting, ecommerce, remote access to VPNs, and fully managed private wide area networks. Customers include single-location businesses as well as midsize and large enterprises with complex network requirements throughout the United States. EarthLink Business Solutions has offices in Atlanta, Vancouver, Wash., and Pasadena, California.

To learn more about the report, please visit: www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8a1717/earthlink_strateg.

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Colocation Holiday Specials, at Dedicated Server Store

2008-12-04T03:26:00-05:00

Miami, Florida - (The Hosting News) DedicatedServerStore is offering a new Holiday Special that includes 1 Month of free colocation service with a 6 month contract, or 2 months of free colocation with a 12 months colocation agreement.

The special offers applies for colocation services with shared as well as dedicated connections. The different offers will be valid through 12/31/2008.

The most popular colocation special offering customers with other colocation providers the opportunity to switch to Dedicated Server and Colocation Store for 10% less off their current invoice. All new colocation customer will receive free setup of their servers.

In addition, non-profit, educational organizations student or military personnel discounts will be available within the promotion period. Military support organizations, military commands and veteran families are eligible for free webhosting with is provided by Stealth - ISS Inc. the parent company of DedicatedServerStore.com at www.stealth-iss.org.

Dedicated Server and Colocation Store is a Stealth - ISS Inc. company located in Las Vegas, NV and offices in North America and Europe. Dedicated Server and Colocation Store is providing high quality data center services in their Miami, FL data center. The data center services include professional web hosting and colocation for business customers, communication companies, organizations, government agencies as well as game server hosting businesses. Dedicated Server and Colocation Store plans are designed to tailor to specific needs - from small businesses to sophisticated e-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth.

For more details about the specials, please visit: www.dedicatedserverstore.com/colocation-specials.html.

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NameCheap.com Twitter Giveaway Debuts

2008-12-04T02:25:00-05:00

Los Angeles, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) NameCheap.com, will be giving over $17,000 worth of domain names in the Twitter Trivia Holiday GiveAway.

Up to three domain names, hosting packages or transfers will be given away each hour 24 hours a day from December 1st through December 25th.

In order to win a free domain name, hosting package or domain transfer, Twitter users simply have to answer a trivia question pertaining to the holiday season. The first users to answer correctly win. Like every domain or transfer at NameCheap.com, winners will also get free WhoisGuard Protection to keep their identity safe and a free Comodo PositiveSSL for more secured transactions online. The questions will start off easy and will progressively become more difficult. The Twitter user who answers the most questions correctly will also win an iPod Nano.

Richard Kirkendall, CEO at NameCheap remarked, ''NameCheap has always relied on word of mouth for marketing. We've always put our focus on creating an easy to use interface as well as partnering with other companies to make our offerings more attractive. Rather than launching huge SuperBowl ads, we'd rather use means like Twitter and Facebook to better interact personally with our new and existing clients. We're confident that once people see our user control panel as well as get a free WhoisGuard subscription and SSL with us, they will make NameCheap.com their domain registrar of choice.''

Michelle Greer, marketing consultant at NameCheap added, ''I didn't hear about NameCheap from an ad. I first heard about them in a web professionals' Google Group. A company like NameCheap who relies on word of mouth marketing is a perfect candidate for social media. I'm glad Richard and his staff embraced the idea so freely. This contest was actually Richard's idea and I think it's a wonderful way to interact with and reward their clients.''

NameCheap is an ICANN accredited domain registrar founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall in Los Angeles, California. Millions of domains are registered, transferred and renewed at the site each year, making it one of the leading registrars in the world. Customer support is available 24/7 via LiveChat, Twitter, or the NameCheap HelpDesk.

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DediPower to Support JancisRobinson.com

2008-12-03T03:08:00-05:00

Reading, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) DediPower has been chosen to provide services for global wine writing and broadcasting and Financial Times wine correspondent since 1989, firm, Jancis Robinson.

Jancis Robinson qualified as a Master of Wine, the first from outside the wine trade, in 1984, and regularly judges and lectures about wine around the world. She is also responsible for many of the standard reference books on wine including The Oxford Companion to Wine and, with Hugh Johnson, The World Atlas of Wine and has presented several award-winning television programmes including Jancis Robinson's Wine Course and Vintners' Tales. Winner of many international awards, she was awarded an OBE in 2003.

The Jancis Robinson firm explained, ''JancisRobinson.com is my principal outlet and it therefore goes without saying that my hosting partner needs to deliver. Our readership base relies on JancisRobinson.com to keep them informed on developments in the wine world. So we needed a reliable, stable environment to host our website which I hope DediPower will provide. With the team at DediPower managing the back end technology, I don't have to worry and it enables me to focus on my core business and what I enjoy, wine writing.''

DediPower's Managed Hosting provides enterprises with business server solutions delivering custom built high-specification dedicated servers. This is underpinned by a world-class hosting infrastructure that has been designed to ensure the highest levels of network uptime, availability, flexibility and security. Focused on delivering support with passion, DediPower offers one of the best service level agreements in the industry today and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner.

Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower explained, ''The internet is changing the way we engage and interact with people around the world, we are very pleased that Jancis Robinson has selected DediPower. DediPower's enterprise class data centres enable small to medium size enterprises to expand their footprint and deliver innovative business models to go to market.''

DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting Partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self-funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK.

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Aplus.Net Debuts Mascot Enhancement

2008-12-03T02:20:00-05:00

Overland Park, Kansas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Aplus.Net web host and Internet solutions provider, has instituted a new solution, designed to assist customers with enhancing online revenue, during the current economy.

Aplus.net offers business managers expert online marketing advice at askjeff@aplus.net, a new feature intended as an advice resource for online business owners to get immediate answers on all topics regarding managing an online business.

Jeff is modeled after a tech guru and 'trivia whiz' who is skilled at answering even the toughest questions. Jeff is accessible to all business owners throughout the Aplus.net website. In coming months, he will also be found on other portals outside of the Aplus.net community ready to answer questions about web hosting, ecommerce, online marketing including search engine optimization, and more.

According to the mascot's bio, ''Jeff was born in Smalltown, Kansas in 1985. Jeff discovered the vast amount of knowledge available on the Internet when his family bought their first computer in 1993. By 1995, he built his first website. Jeff's favorite thing about the Internet is being able to find answers to questions.''

Aplus.net hopes to inspire users to submit questions in an effort to stump this trivia whiz. The online bio for Jeff ends with a challenge for online business managers to do just that. ''Since joining the team, co-workers have been trying to stump this trivia expert to no avail,'' concludes the bio. Visitors are encouraged to feel free to send Jeff an email with any questions, to join the fun and see if Jeff can be stumped.

Amanda Rusich, Director of Marketing at Aplus.Net remarked, ''We know our customers are going to enjoy interacting with and learning from this fun new personality. Aplus.net has been in the consumer tech industry for almost two decades, and many of our team members have been working in the Internet business since the early nineties. We want to inspire our customers to reach out to us and take advantage of this huge store of information and resources that's at their fingertips, so we created Jeff as a friendly and interactive way for customers to get the info they need to fuel their online success.''

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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LINX Hosted Network Peering Services, Reaches Milestone

2008-12-02T15:00:00-05:00

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) The London Internet Exchange (LINX), is the first Internet exchange point in the world ever to connect 300 members in its network, during 2008.

John Souter, LINX Chief Executive Officer remarked, ''In addition to the major UK and global ISPs, the LINX membership includes e-commerce and DNS specialists plus content delivery and research and education networks. This makes LINX a compelling place for international peering. Our latest members broaden this still further with VoIP, IPTV and gaming services becoming more popular.''

LINX has added 50 new members representing a 19% increase in membership in just eleven months. This rise is indicative of the importance networks attach to peering despite the significant drop in transit pricing over the last decade.

The LINX membership has become highly international, with networks from more than 45 countries represented. This is up from just 16 countries in the year 2000 when there were fewer than 100 members at the exchange.

Over the last quarter LINX has been bolstered by the connection of a number of major content and DNS providers plus the first European peering presence of a leading social networking site.

LINX also boasts an impressive set of technical statistics, with over 600 member Ethernet ports connected, more than 140 of them at the fastest possible rate, 10GigE.

LINX is a mutual organization owned and consisting of approximately 250 Internet service providers and content delivery service providers. The company was was formed in 1994 when five ISPs - PIPEX, BT Internet Services, Demon Internet, Eunet GB and UKERNA/JANET - recognised that there were considerable operational benefits to exchanging traffic between their networks at the same tele-hotel where they all had facilities. It allows competing networks to exchange Internet traffic cost-effectively, bringing speed and efficiency benefits to their customers. The LINX platform enables access to Internet routes, reaching more countries, than any other public peering point. LINX operates in a regulatory and policy environment that is supportive of network operators and the Internet community, which it strives to maintain and reinforce through its Public Affairs activities. LINX has a presence at seven sites around London, all connected by secure fibre links. The extent and resiliency of the network will be further increased this year with the addition of three new points of presence.

For more information about member, please visit: www.linx.net/about/memberlist.html

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GoDaddy Develops Quick Shopping Cart Merchant Solution

2008-12-02T15:00:00-05:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Go Daddy has developed a new solution for online merchants, to leverage its Quick Shopping Cart tool, for business growth.

The Quick Shopping Cart was developed to create a fully functional e-commerce Web site for companies doing business exclusively online, or brick and motor stores looking to expand their Internet presence.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy explained, ''The Internet is where the action is these days, and we don't see that changing. Quick Shopping Cart makes it about as painless as possible for merchants to get online. Once their customers visit the e-commerce site, they discover it's both reliable and easy to use – which translates into dollars.''

Go Daddy's Quick Shopping Cart statistics, comparing July, August and September of this year to last, reveal an increase of more than 100 percent, in terms of revenue generated and the number of different vendors selling products. The trend shows no sign of slowing.

More businesses are turning to the Web as a revenue stream, especially as the economy struggles. According to IDC, nearly half of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2009,i which explains why more businesses are expanding their potential customer base on the Internet.

Overall statistics point to financial gains on sites equipped with Quick Shopping Cart. Consider Hanh Court. His online store, www.Shop.3BSpecialties.com, concentrates on automobile lighting. During the third quarter alone, the site recorded a 115 percent surge in revenue this year over last.

Mr. Court remarked, ''Let's face it, everyone is looking to save money these days. Quick Shopping Cart works because it's an e-commerce tool that is priced right for me and helps customers cut to the chase as far as inventory and purchase paths.

Quick Shopping Cart handles inventory and shipping calculations on the fly. It also is able to sync with QuickBooks for business owners looking to keep their accounting in order on a single program. Built on Go Daddy's Web hosting infrastructure and using an SSL Certificate, Quick Shopping lets anyone take advantage of the fast-growing Internet audience.

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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3FN Enhances Hardware Monitoring and Replacement

2008-12-01T03:31:00-05:00

San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) Colocation, dedicated server, and shared web hosting company, 3FN.Net, Triple Fiber Network, has enhanced services, with hardware monitoring and replacement service upgrades.

Triple Fiber Network is proud to announce the major improvement of hardware monitoring and replacement services, which will significantly enhance web hosting services. The web hosting company constantly improves hardware monitoring and replacement services in order to achieve maximum reliability and efficiency of its web hosting.

Dean McToner, 3FN official representative remarked, ''Hardware monitoring and replacement services can be the key criteria for successful web hosting as there is no such thing as absolute uptime or reliability of web hosting. However, we have achieved results very close to absolute, providing 99.99% uptime and reliability of our web hosting. The stability and reliability of web hosting directly depends on web hosting hardware monitoring and replacement services and improving these services we improve our web hosting considerably. We have achieved such high level of web hosting services uptime only due to quality and careful hardware monitoring and replacement services, which help always react quickly and fix any hardware issue on our web hosting.''

The improvement of web hosting hardware monitoring and replacement services allows to perform any replacements or upgrades immediately providing web hosting with the flawless functioning and maximum possible uptime of all web hosting services. Due to recent improvement web hosting by 3FN remains stable and persistent. In case of malfunctioning within any web hosting service broken server part: central processor, power unit, RAM, or HDD, is replaced by a new one immediately. In addition, the servers can be upgraded instantly if that is required by web hosting customers. As the result such web hosting powered with 24/7/365 monitoring and replacement services becomes a perfect web hosting solution suiting any web hosting requirements. 3FN utilizes the best and most proven hardware as well as hardware monitoring and replacement approaches in all its datacenters, therefore, achieving maximum reliability and stability of its web hosting services.

The US based provider of dedicated servers, shared hosting and collocation hosting services, Triple Fiber Network, 3FN, Inc. is best known for the quality excellence and high reliability of all hosting services provided on a global basis. Triple Fiber Network has a flawless reputation of reliable hosting provider, providing the high-quality and efficiency of all dedicated hosting services within last 10 years. Since that time the company has created one of the most biggest and powerful network of dedicated servers with main datacenter located in Silicon Valley. The Headquarters are located in San Jose, California, the company has also established offices in UK, India, Ukraine and EU. Triple Fiber Network has founded the subdivision called 3FN Marketing - an online pay per click advertising network and webmaster affiliate program. 3FN Marketing offers optimized targeted pay per click advertising for those who want to promote their websites or products and generous revenue shares up to 95% for webmasters. The company provides customers with 24/7/365 support via the toll-free telephone, online chat and ticket system.

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DemoBuilder 7.1 Solution, Launches at DemoWolf

2008-12-01T03:15:00-05:00

Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) DemoWolf has launched its new release of the DemoBuilder 7.1 software, incorporating many new features, asked for by users.

The new features include the new Zoom-n-Pan feature, the ability to insert Flash video into your demos, the addition of Click-to-Continue, Play and Restart buttons, new scene transitions, the ability to execute Javascript, importing PNG files, and an improved timeline.

Rob Moore, President of DemoWolf remarked, ''The new Zoom-n-Pan feature is terrific. It will allow us to add another dimension to the custom tutorials we produce for clients.''

DemoWolf uses DemoBuilder to produce all their online flash-based support tutorials. These tutorials are available for web hosting companies to purchase and make available on their own websites, branded with their own company logos. However, for those companies that want to produce their own tutorials, purchasing DemoBuilder themselves is another option. DemoWolf also works closely with these companies who produce their own tutorials, as they quite often want to outsource much of their tutorial development back to DemoWolf.
DemoBuilder 7.1 is available in two versions: a Standard version and a Professional version. The Standard version has all the same functionality as the Professional version, except for full-motion recording and the ability to import video files. The standard version is currently available for $180.00 US (if purchased through DemoWolf's website, while the Professional version is available for $224 US. A 15 day free trial can also be downloaded from DemoWolf.com. DemoWolf is the authorized sales and support agent for DemoBuilder in North America, and as such has the ability to sell DemoBuilder at these discounted prices. When you purchase DemoBuilder you get 12 full months of free upgrades.

DemoBuilder is a powerful software tool developed by Tanida Inc, based in Romania. It is used to build interactive flash movies that show how applications and systems work. It offers a system that allows users to take a series of editable screen captures of a target application running on a desktop in order to produce flash simulations and interactive demonstrations of the application.

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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