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Lunarpages Adds JustUptime Server Solution

2008-09-30T03:45:00-04:00

La Habra, California - (The Hosting News) Lunarpages has begun adding their technicians into the contact base of customized alert system, JustUptime, to suit their service delivery needs.

Amy Armitage, Head of Business Development for Lunarpages remarked, ''We knew this was a great solution when we saw it. JustUptime really does represent the future of what online service delivery should be: easy to use, transparent, seamless and technologically advanced. The increased reliability really gave us an edge in our industry; there simply isn’t a better solution for monitoring servers available on the market.''

Lunarpages currently hosts over 150,000 customers on a wide range of servers each requiring maximum uptime and quick response time for their users. Their advantage is reliability and their selection of JustUptime has actually allowed them to increase sales based on this factor.

Monitoring such a large number of servers is an impossible task for any webhosting company not willing to invest thousands on development of an in-house solution. Lunarpages contacted JustUptime to improve their company's performance and were immediately setup with a set of logins to their control panel. Lunarpages found Just Uptime's control panel easy enough to begin monitoring their first server within minutes and appreciated the user friendly look and feel of the service.

To customize JustUptime's alert system to suit their needs, Lunarpages began adding all of their technicians into their contact base. They were then able to configure each monitor to alert individual technicians by either SMS, email or both. This meant Lunarpages could now alert the appropriate technician in every possible communications method ensuring the issue would be resolved quickly.

By using JustUptime to monitor their entire network of servers, Lunarpages increased their response time to server issues and reduced the number of downtime related support tickets by 96%. Incredibly their response time to server issues meant their downtime was shortened so much that to customers hadn't even felt the impact.

Aside from alerts, Lunarpages technicians were able to use the uptime and response time data to present graphs and reports from within the JustUptime control panel. These helped with weekly meetings and provided hard copy proof of their uptime which they proudly display via a link in the footer of their website. In short this has helped them develop new sales, based on reliability.

Just Uptime is a web based server and website monitoring service offering immediate real time alerts to downtime incidents. Just Uptime has a global reach and provides vivid and detailed flash logs of monitored sites. Just Uptime is part of the 'Just Develop It' group.

Lunarpages Web Hosting, based in California and serving over 150,000 customers, offers affordable award winning shared and dedicated web hosting and web design services. Lunarpages offers the webmaster community to easily and quickly build and maintain a website that is customized to individual needs. The company is consistently rated the most dependable, responsive and recommended host, while encouraging community interaction via the Lunarpages Forums and the Lunarpages Blog. Lunarpages.com provides a free domain for life to customers,with multiple domain packages for shared and dedicated accounts, hosted on UNIX and Windows Servers.

For more information about JustUptime, please visit: www.justuptime.com.

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GoDaddy b Hosting Firm, Champions Senate Support of Internet Safety Bill

2008-09-30T03:09:00-04:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) GoDaddy has been keenly focused on the momentous bill designed to keep the Internet safe for children, recently passed in the Senate.

The bi-partisan bill is designed to protect children from online predators. Go Daddy has worked long and hard to help shape this legislation. President Bush is expected to sign this into law quickly. Congress is poised to pass another piece of legislation Go Daddy has supported with work in Washington, including testifying before Congress, aimed at preventing rogue pharmacies from operating on the Internet.

The Children Protection bill was modified to incorporate pieces of Senators McCain, Biden, Clinton's proposed bills. It is poised to be approved and sent to President Bush where he is expected to sign this important legislation into law. These bills will make positive improvements to the ability of law enforcement agencies to effectively investigate Internet crimes against children and to prosecute online predators.

Go Daddy routinely works with law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, along with the investigation and shut down of thousands of inappropriate child modeling sites linked to pornography. Go Daddy has testified before Congress various times regarding this important matter. Oprah Winfrey recently voiced her support of The Combating Child Exploitation Act of 2008 as well. The next step involves the bill being given to the United States President to be signed into law.

Recently, GoDaddy completed the redesign of its multimedia component, in order to give users more videos and interactive content, quickly and easily. GoDaddy.TV has expanded, as .TV extension grows in popularity. According to ComScore, more than 11 billion videos were viewed by Americans in July 2008 - up two billion views from just one year ago. Many companies are looking for inexpensive ways to alert visitors to key multimedia elements on their site. Using .TV lets everyone know a site features the power of online video and other multimedia aspects.

The new GoDaddy.TV layout gives users easy access to exclusive videos from Danica Patrick, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the much publicized GoDaddy-esque Super Bowl commercials, plus more. The new Event Gallery offers Go Daddy Girls' video, photos and blogs.

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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NaviSite Offers Dedicated Hosting for Small, Midsize Business

2008-09-29T03:08:00-04:00

Andover, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) NaviSite has new solutions optimized for the needs of small and medium musinesses, with its Dedicated Hosting offerings.

Sumeet Sabharwal, Senior Vice President of Dedicated Hosting at NaviSite noted, ''Our dedicated server packages come loaded with enterprise class features and without additional costs or hidden fees. Our solutions are backed by NaviSite's extensive support infrastructure featuring 'Always There' 24/7/365 support and world class NaviView customer control panel that provides customers complete visibility into their hosting environment. With eleven years of leadership experience in enterprise class hosting, NaviSite is uniquely positioned to bring to market an advanced range of managed dedicated servers and full-service support especially designed for the growing SMB market.''

The newly introduced solutions leverage NaviSite’s experience, and nationwide footprint of enterprise class infrastructure to offer best of class security, scalability and reliability to the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market.

SMBs are increasingly competing with larger enterprises head to head and often need high quality, cost-effective technologies to overcome the challenges of limited human and capital resources. This is prompting SMBs to seek technology providers who can offer enterprise grade solutions and configurations that meet the diverse special needs of SMB customers.

Michael Speyer, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, wrote in the March 2008 report ''Small and medium-size business (SMB) IT decision-makers will focus on ensuring that their IT shops operate smoothly and on leveraging their companies' infrastructure and data assets. 2008 SMB IT Budgets North America: It's Back To Basics. This will drive investments in disaster recovery, security, virtualization, data management, and collaboration tools.''

The same report also mentions that SMB's in North America list improving IT efficiency as a top business priority.

NaviSite's Dedicated Hosting solutions integrate the latest technology including Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Linux and VMware ESX, and feature dual hard drives, RAID, Intel Xeon server grade processors, Intrusion Protection and other industry leading features. All solutions are hosted in NaviSite operated enterprise grade SAS 70 Type II certified data centers, with best-in-class technology and design including N+1systems for power and cooling for guaranteed availability and performance.

NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. Customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in 17 state-of-the art data centers supported by more than 700 professionals. NaviSite provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities, packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in class technologies and a full suite of web-hosting and internet infrastructure options.

NaviSite has also introduced a new Website that enables businesses to easily configure and purchase their Dedicated Hosting solutions online.

To learn more on features, pricing and special offers, please visit: www.navisite.com/dedicatedhosting.

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Brinkster Enhances Dedicated Server Solution

2008-09-26T03:34:00-04:00

Phoenix, Arizona - (The Hosting News) Brinkster Communications Corporation has enhanced its dedicated server offerings, with a guarantee which previously only applied to email and shared web hosting offerings.

Jared Stauffer, President and CEO of Brinkster explained, ''After revamping our dedicated server lineup in June 2008 we saw a significant increase in demand. The 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee makes Brinkster an obvious choice as we have virtually eliminated any risk for the customer.''

Brinkster's 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is a satisfaction guarantee and states: ''during the first ninety days after you purchase service with us, if you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your money minus any setup or domain name fees.'' The money back guarantee is not without its limits. The max a customer can get back is $900 and the refund may be limited if a highly customized dedicated server setup is ordered.

Clint Poole, COO of Brinkster remarked, ''When we made the decision to ramp up our dedicated server business we knew the bar had been raised quite high in this arena over the past few years. We did extensive research and made a significant investment to revamp our dedicated server platform. Our customers have validated our efforts and the response has been exciting. Extending a 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is our way of telling the customer we truly believe in this product.''
Since 1999, Brinkster has been providing web hosting services to customers in over 175 countries from its office and data center locations. Content Management AG, customized the CM4all WebsiteCreator user interface to match Brinkster's corporate design standards and installed the software in Brinkster's data center, designed to create a seamless experience for end users.

For more information about Brinkster's dedicated servers, please visit: www.brinkster.com/server.

To learn more about Brinkster's 90 Day Money Back Guarantee, please visit: www.brinkster.com/guarantee.aspx.

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HostColor Debuts Virtuozzo VPS Hosting Plan Sale

2008-09-26T03:21:00-04:00

Wilmington, Delaware - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Host Color has launched its entry-level Virtuozzo VPS hosting service, featuring 192 MB RAM, 10 GB disc space and 50 GB data transfer per month.

Alexander Avramov, Managing Director of Host Color LLC noted, ''We customize VPS hosting to better serve our business hosting customers. This means a choice of Linux OS distribution, installation and maintenance of all applications they can run under Linux OS in their virtual servers.'

Host Color's VPS Start is priced at $19.95 per month and is powered by Virtuozzo Containers, designed as one of the best priced entry-level virtual private servers in the industry. The web host said that VPS Start is a scalable solution that allows online business owners to further develop and grow their sites in custom web hosting environment.

The hosting company offers VPS Start with a choice of web hosting control panel between Plesk, cPanel and NextColor (nextcolor.com), its own proprietary hosting automation system. Plesk is the recommended control panel for Virtuozzo VPS by Host Color. It provides Plesk licenses to customers for only $15.95 per month.

VPS Start virtual server features 192 MB RAM, 10 GB disc space and 50 GB data transfer per month. Anyone who need to use management services can purchase ''FM VPS'' a Fully Managed (FM) service for Virtual Private Servers that Host Color has priced at only $49.95/month. ''FM VPS'' includes: Initial Set-up, IP management, OS installation and maintenance, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam installation, Reboots, VPS recovery, Control Panel updates, and Resource monitoring.

The web host uses Cent OS to power the VPS accounts, but its executive said that any other Linux distributions can be installed either by customer or as a part of ''FM VPS'' service agreement.

Mr. Avramov also added that his company customizes even Shared Hosting services to allow anyone to work in personalized business environment. Earlier this week Host Color introduced one of its customized shared hosting plans - WordPress Blog Hosting (http://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting/bloghosting/wordpress), which is made solely for WordPress blog owners.

The web hosting company has recently been very active in promoting some national and regional Top-Level domains such as .ME, .US, .Asia and .BZ.

Host Color has also opened its new Affiliate Program (http://www.hostcolor.com/affiliateprogram). The new program transfers 25% of the company's revenue per sale to its affiliates and at the same time pays them for each unique visitor sent to Host Color's website.

Host Color LLC is a U.S. web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It powers thousands of business and personal websites in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, U.S. and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides fully Managed dedicated hosting through HC Servers and European hosting services through HC Europe. It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations.

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HostMySite.com Offers ColdFusion License Discount

2008-09-25T03:54:00-04:00

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) HostMySite, Inc., an Adobe Solutions Partner, is offering ColdFusion 8 Enterprise licenses at a discounted price of $149 per month, for customers purchasing at least one dedicated server.

Art Zeile, CEO HostMySite.com remarked, ''We have worked hard with Adobe in an effort to enhance our ColdFusion solutions for HostMySite customers. Coupling HostMySite.com's industry leading support with ColdFusion 8 Enterprise at this reduced price point meets this goal.''

ColdFusion solves the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development, enhancing the productivity of developers as they create engaging online applications. ColdFusion 8 Enterprise includes all the capabilities of ColdFusion 8 Standard, plus special features for enabling enterprise-class business applications such as:

CF application monitors

Sandbox security

Enhanced event gateways

Multiple administrators and instances

In August, HostMySite added Hyper-V hosting, to its portoflio of service offerings. Hyper-V is the latest in virtualization technology from Microsoft and is a key feature of Windows Server 2008. HostMySite.com is offering a powerful standard solution or a customized server based on each client's needs. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization that provides customers with a fast and scalable virtualization solution. With Hyper-V, it's possible to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine as a virtual environment.

With HostMySite.com's Hyper-V solution, clients get a single hardware server on which they are able to create multiple virtual machines (VMs). Each virtual machine acts as a standalone server running its own operating system, which can be 32-bit/64-bit Windows or Linux. Virtual machines can be configured as application servers, database servers running Microsoft SQL 2008 or MySQL, mail servers, or test environments.

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

To learn more about HostMySite.com's ColdFusion Enterprise licensing, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/promos/coldfusionenterprise.

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MochaHost.com Premieres Private Tomcat Solution

2008-09-25T03:41:00-04:00

San Jose, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) MochaHost.com, has instituted new private Tomcat (JVM) hosting plans offered under a Windows Server 2008 platform and Plesk 8 control panel.

Starting at $13.95/month all of the of private JVM's include support for Tomcat 5/6 as well as JDK1.5/1.6, instant restart tool, WAR support, and a private Tomcat management interface which can be used to control the available domain/subdomain Web Server (IIS 7) to Tomcat mappings.

In addition, all Windows Tomcat clients will benefit from the support for PHP5/MySQL5, ASP.NET, MS SQL, Perl, Python, and the rest of the features offered with any of the new Windows shared hosting packages. The new JVM offering is also available for resellers who can benefit from additional volume discounts.

MochaHost is located in the heart of Silicon Valley (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.

MochaHost has been the recipient of HostReview.com's Top 10 Budget Host Award Feb 2006, is listed as one o fCNET's Most Popular Hosts, a Top 25 Host March 2006 of RateMyHost.com, the Web Design Award Oct 2005 from DesignFirms.org, and one of FindMyHost.com's E-commerce Guaranteed Approved Hosts.

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Dedicated Servers for Virtualization, Consolidation, Upgraded at Sun

2008-09-25T12:00:00-04:00

Santa Clara , California - (The Hosting News) Technology firm and web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc., has extended its line of Intel Xeon-based servers with two new offerings, designed for enhanced scalability, virtualization and consolidation.

Lisa Sieker, Vice President, Systems Marketing, Sun Microsystems noted, ''Sun's Intel Xeon-based products are seeing strong customer adoption and stellar product reviews. Today we're adding new value for customers with Intel's next-generation six-core Xeon chips in our high-density, highly scalable, energy-efficient systems. We also continue to work with Intel to optimize Solaris for Xeon processors.''

According to the company, the solutions are the industry's first and only four-socket (24-way) x64 (x86, 64-bit) 2U rackmount server among top-tier vendors, and a four-socket blade server with 50 percent more memory capacity and up to 71 percent more processing cores per rack than the competition. The Sun Fire X4450 server and Sun Blade X6450 server module, powered by Intel Xeon processor 7400 series with up to six processing cores, run a variety of operating systems, including Solaris 10 10/08, the latest update to the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), in addition to Linux, Windows and VMware.

Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Blade X6450 server customers will have the option of deploying Solaris 10 10/08, the latest update to the Solaris 10 OS. Through the collaboration between Sun and Intel, Solaris 10 10/08 features new capabilities including performance and energy efficiency enhancements, specifically optimized for Intel's new Xeon processor 7400 series. Solaris offers excellent performance and scalability on Xeon processors and is the ideal OS to deploy on hardware powered by the new Intel Xeon processor 7400 series. Solaris 10 10/08 users can also select Solaris ZFS as their root file system and take advantage of a number of key virtualization enhancements enabling them to better consolidate and maximize datacenter efficiency. Solaris 10 10/08 is scheduled to be available in mid-October.

The Sun Blade X6450 server module is an ideal fit for virtualization and server consolidation, HPC, database and enterprise applications, designed for deployment within a wide range of solutions. Supporting the six-core Intel Xeon 7400 series processor, the Sun Blade X6450 server module has 50 percent more memory capacity than competing blade servers, making it an excellent solution for memory-intensive applications. Additional key features include:

Performance Boost: Sun Blade X6450 server modules provide up to 11 TFLOPs of peak performance per fully populated Sun Blade 6048 chassis, giving 1,152 cores per rack and up to 71 percent more compute power than competing blade servers. The Sun Blade X6450 server has four built-in PCIe I/O connections that enable high-speed system interconnects required for solving customers' many complex computing problems.
More Memory: With 24 memory DIMM slots, the Sun Blade X6450 provides 50% more memory capacity than competing HP BL680c, HP BL685c, IBM LS41 and IBM LS42 blade servers. This feature allows customers to process more loads, support more virtual machines per Sun's blade and simplify overall system management.

The Sun Fire X4450 server is the industry's first and only four-socket (24-way) x64 2U server among top-tier vendors and the most scalable x64 server for datacenter virtualization. Ideal for consolidating workloads, the Sun Fire X4450 server saves customers datacenter space, as well as energy and cooling costs. Other key features include:

Lower power consumption: The new Intel Xeon processor 7400 series consumes up to 33 percent less watts per core than the previous generation processor.
Higher scalability: Packaged in half the form factor of comparable servers, the Sun Fire X4450 server is highly optimized for datacenter consolidation, providing capital equipment cost reductions and increased datacenter efficiency. When combined with the new Intel Xeon processor with six processing cores, the Sun Fire X4450 server provides greater virtualization and energy efficiencies.

Increased processing capacities offered by the new generation of Intel Xeon processor 7400 series allow the Sun Fire X4450 server and the Sun Blade X6450 server module to reach new performance heights on divergent workloads ranging from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to Java technology-implemented encryption and encoding algorithms. Today, Sun is announcing the following record-breaking results:

x86 world record on SPECjbb2005 benchmark with a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) running Solaris 10 OS on a Sun Fire X4450 server: This result complements the multi-JVM 4 processor record on the same platform, recently announced at IDF, and highlights the well-rounded performance implementation of the Java HotSpot (version 1.6.0_06 Performance Release) software.1
World record 4-processor result for UNIX on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, as of September 12, 2008. The Sun Fire X4450 server with four Intel Xeon processor X7460 (24 cores, 24 threads) that was running the SAP ERP application Release 6.0 with Unicode software and MaxDB 7.6 database on top of the Solaris 10 OS, was able to support 4,600 SAP SD Benchmark users. This benchmark result highlights the optimal performance of SAP ERP on Sun Fire servers running the Solaris OS and the seamless multilingual support available for systems running SAP applications.2

In addition to breakthrough performance and swift customer adoption, Sun Fire servers powered by Intel Xeon processors have been getting rave product reviews from the press, including ZDNet, Computerworld and InformationWeek.

Customers can maximize performance of both the Sun Blade X6450 and Sun Fire X4450 servers with virtualization, datacenter efficiency, and support services from Sun. These services help ensure the servers are running efficiently and cost-effectively. Sun offers an array of services to reduce costs and maximize efficiency, including heterogeneous support, Eco and Virtualization services and training.

The Sun Fire X4450 server and Sun Blade X6450 server module powered by Intel Xeon processor 7400 series is scheduled to begin shipping next month, with entry-level pricing starting at $8,545 and $9,455, respectively.

Sun Microsystems develops technologies utilized in more than 100 countries and on the Web.

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Web Hosting Provider, Aplus.Net, Enhances Management Team

2008-09-25T09:39:00-04:00

Overland Park, Kansas - (The Hosting News) Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer, Phillip Spencer, as part of its executive management team enhancements.

Tyler Newton, Chairman of the Board of Aplus.net and General Partner at Catalyst Investors, the majority owner of Aplus.net noted, ''We are excited to have Phil join the already-strong Aplus.Net management team. Phil has a successful track record of profitably growing businesses. He is a high-energy, goal-focused leader that will help us grow the business by expanding our customer base and product offering.''

Mr. Spencer succeeds Gabriel Murphy as the company's CEO. Mr. Murphy will remain President of Aplus.Net and will also take on a more tactical oversight role as the company's new Chief Strategy Officer. Mr. Murphy played a pivotal role as Aplus.Net's President and CEO during the company's ownership transition in 2006, and during its move from California to Kansas in 2007.

Mr. Spencer comes to Aplus.Net directly from a highly successful tenure as President and CEO of Everest Connections, Inc., a Lenexa, Kansas-based cable, telephone, and Internet access provider that thrived in a market dominated by larger competition. Under Mr. Spencer's leadership, the company grew to more than $60 million in annual revenues and was named as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Kansas City area in 2005 by Ingram's Magazine and Ernst and Young.

Mr. Spencer remarked, ''Aplus.Net has a strong foundation, with a team that has done an outstanding job of building the business into one of North America's top ten hosting companies. I am looking forward to helping the organization continue to grow its revenue and expand its product offering. Aplus.Net will continue to be the premier provider of web hosting, online marketing, e-commerce, domain name registration, and web design.''

Responsible for developing, overseeing, and guiding the execution of Everest's business strategy, Mr. Spencer successfully led that company from its origins as a modest start-up into a local industry leader with an enterprise value of more than $175 million. During his time at Everest, the company boasted 20 consecutive quarters of growth in EBITDA, revenue, and customer count. Everest was acquired by California-based SureWest Communications earlier this year.

Prior to his tenure at Everest, Mr. Spencer's experience encompassed senior sales, marketing and business development positions with AT and T, Global Crossing, GE Capital Communications Services, and Advantech, Inc. - a telecom firm that he also shepherded from a start-up into a significant industry presence.

A Marquette University graduate, Mr. Spencer has also served on several Kansas City-area boards of directors, including The Blue Valley Schools Foundation, Enterprise Center of Johnson County, Broadband Service Providers Association (BSPA), and Midwest Angel Investors.

In February, the company rebranded its line of dedicated hosting servers, with a shift toward a more hardware-based naming system, with the dedicated hosting plan names based on each server's CPU. The company's website has been reconfigured to highlight these new names, and also to present the servers in three new categories: Single-Core Servers, Multi-Core Servers, and Multi-Processor Servers.

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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Web Hosting Pad Premieres Professional Website Consulting

2008-09-24T03:02:00-04:00

Torrance, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Web Hosting Pad has debuted the launch of its website consulting services, which is offered free of charge to customers, as a valued added service.

Craig White, Senior Administrator of Web Hosting Pad offered, ''We're very excited to offer this service to our customers to maximize their web hosting experience, and utilize our services to meet our customers needs. This will also be a great way to show customers that they are our main priority and that we are here for them whenever they need us. Webmaster consulting is done over the phone with no operators so you get your full one on one experience to benefit you best. Our customers love this idea and feel like they have their own personal webmaster.''

Webmaster service is geared towards ecommerce websites, assisting in getting websites ranked higher in the search engines.

Webhostingpad.com was formed in 2005 with a team of very successful and proven industry veterans, intent on delivering the best value in web hosting. With the growing need of affordable hosting, the company set out to deliver the best web hosting at a price where everyone can afford to have their piece of the world wide web.

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The Planet to Manage Sant Corporation

2008-09-23T03:30:00-04:00

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) The Planet's Northstar Managed Hosting solution, has been selected by The Sant Corporation, to handle its mission-critical applications and management.

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Sant provides software solutions that enable companies to increase their sales effectiveness through the production of persuasive proposals, RFP responses, presentations and related documents. Sant customers span a broad range of vertical markets and include high-profile businesses in the telecommunications, financial services, banking, logistics, hardware and real estate industries.
William A. Geers, Vice President of operations for Sant noted, ''We offer clients two options for licensing our software. They can either install our applications behind their firewall or select our popular hosted option, which we offer through The Planet's data centers. Because many of our customers are in the financial services arena, SAS 70 compliance was also critical. When we announce a new product, long before it's generally available, we are able to conduct extensive alpha and beta testing cycles.''

Steve Kahan, Vice President of marketing and product management for The Planet added, ''Reliability, scalability and security are key for organizations whose customers rely on hosted applications. The Planet Northstar dedicated account team evaluates business requirements upfront based on our Anticipation Advantage methodology. They have a full working knowledge of each company's business goals and processes before implementation even begins. With the designated account team available around-the-clock, customers can be assured their IT infrastructure is well managed.''

Mr. Geers continued, ''The Planet is a big part of that process. Since we set up beta sites for each individual customer, we want to control those environments. We know we can count on the stability of the environment at The Planet, which is one more thing we don't have to worry about. In fact, Planet Northstar has helped us improve our overall customer satisfaction, which is a priceless consideration in our business. The Planet Northstar account team takes a methodical approach to our business through its Anticipation Advantage Methodology and ensures that our systems are scalable. They clearly have a vested interest in our success.''
Mr. Geers concluded, ''Creating proposals and RFP responses is often a complex process, particularly in light of today's competitive business environment. Our customers are in highly competitive industries, where the stakes are high. They come to Sant where we can help them clearly articulate their competitive differentiators with meaningful data that underscores they understand the industry and the requirements of the proposal.''
CIOs in particular appreciate that the entire Sant Suite is accessed through a secure Internet browser without any requirement for installing software. Content can be accessed only by assigned and authorized users, which protects confidential data.
Ultimately, The Planet endeavors 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 Sant Corporation is a provider of software and expertise that improves sales effectiveness. Sant helps companies that provide value-based solutions win more business by accelerating the production of persuasive proposals, RFP responses, presentations and related documents. Businesses choose Sant to improve productivity, increase sales and deliver accurate, consistent sales documents for customers.
The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting over 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 6.7 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by enhanced facilities and network connectivity.

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GoDaddy Upgrades Online Video

2008-09-23T03:13:00-04:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory)">Cheap Web Hosting Directory) GoDaddy, has completed the redesign of its multimedia component, in order to give users easier access to vdeos and interactive content.

GoDaddy.TV has expanded, as .TV extension grows in popularity. According to ComScore, more than 11 billion videos were viewed by Americans in July 2008 - up two billion views from just one year ago. Many companies are looking for inexpensive ways to alert visitors to key multimedia elements on their site. Using .TV lets everyone know a site features the power of online video and other multimedia aspects.

The new GoDaddy.TV layout gives users easy access to exclusive videos from Danica Patrick, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the much publicized GoDaddy-esque Super Bowl commercials, plus more. The new Event Gallery offers Go Daddy Girls' video, photos and blogs.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com remarked, ''We wanted to have GoDaddy.TV match the power of the dotTV extension. When someone visits a dotTV web site, they expect to see multimedia - and that's exactly what the GoDaddy.TV Web site gives them.''

GoDaddy.TV Features include Go Daddy commercials at GoDaddy.TV, Danica Patrick's page, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s page.
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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Colocation Flexibility for Platform Hosting, Premiered by Rackspace

2008-09-23T12:00:00-04:00

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) Hosting services provider, Rackspace Hosting, Inc. has released its new Platform Hosting solution, created as a unique alternative to colocation, at the Web 2.0 Conference recently.

Platform Hosting was developed to give users the control to manage all aspects of their hosting environment, with the added benefit of managed hardware and aggressive service level agreements, backed by a world-class data center and network infrastructure.

Lew Moorman, Chief Strategy Officer, Rackspace Hosting noted, ''For years, colocation has been the only viable option for companies that have the technical expertise on staff to administer their infrastructure but don't want the added expense or burden of managing their own data center facility. However, colocation still requires having resources close by and an inventory of hardware in the event of a failure - which can be a huge burden for IT departments. As a service company, we know that customers value our Fanatical Support and wanted a solution where the hardware burden still rests with Rackspace but full control of the applications and systems reside with them; thus Platform Hosting was born.''

Rackspace's mission is to change the way companies consume IT services by offering an entire portfolio of solutions to fit every customer's evolving needs. With Platform Hosting, Rackspace provides 24/7 management of the equipment, network infrastructure and data center. The customer retains full control and manages the everyday administrative responsibility of their hosting environment including the operating system, networking devices, monitoring, storage and applications. This offering gives customers that require more control and flexibility the ability to administer their environment, without the burden of managing the hardware infrastructure.

The Platform Hosting solution easily scales to fit a customer’s growth and complexity needs. A dedicated Rackspace team provides infrastructure support along with design and deployment expertise to ensure customers can focus on their application environment, not the day-to-day burden of managing the infrastructure. Rackspace backs the Platform Hosting solution with its 100 percent Network Uptime Guarantee and one hour hardware replacement guarantee.

Melanie Posey, research director, IDC offered, ''Rackspace's Platform Hosting is a powerful value proposition for companies that currently host in-house or house their infrastructure in colocation facilities. These companies typically have the internal IT staff to manage the operating system, middleware, and application layers but seek to offload the capital-intensive tasks related to hardware procurement, system administration, and datacenter management. Thus, Platform Hosting represents an ideal ''division of labor'' solution for in-house hosters and traditional colocation customers.''

Mark Imbriaco, system administrator, 37signals added, ''As a long time Rackspace customer, we're intimately familiar with the robustness of their network and the top-notch hardware support they offer. Now that we are using the Platform Hosting service, we're able to take advantage of our own IT management experience, giving us more control over the administration of our infrastructure, which allows us to make changes and address issues faster than ever. At the same time, we're able to rely on Rackspace's world class network, datacenters, and hardware support. The cost savings and convenience are tremendous.''

Rackspace Hosting provides computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, with the goal of making computing more reliable and affordable. 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, email hosting and cloud hosting.

To learn more about Rackspace's Platform Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com/solutions/platform/index.php.

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SoftLayer Unveils New StorageLayer

2008-09-21T18:17:00-04:00

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) SoftLayer, has extended its StorageLayer service with features providing geographic replication utilizing iSCSI storage and EVault online disk backup, at the on-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME).

As with all SoftLayer solutions, StorageLayer and these new features are fully automated and can be provisioned at-will through SoftLayer's proprietary customer portal and API.

Jacob Linscott, Information Systems Director noted, ''StorageLayer is always evolving to remain the ultimate storage solution. With these new features, StorageLayer leverages our iSCSI SAN advantages and our data centers' geographic diversity to provide even more powerful options for data security. Remote data replication is essential for our customers' business continuity and disaster recovery plans.''

StorageLayer is SoftLayer's redundant centralized storage array. It integrates multiple storage technologies into a unified solution to give companies of all sizes unprecedented gains in efficiency, accessibility, and reliability for data storage and backup. Today's additions include:

iSCSI volumes for automatically replicating data to multiple SoftLayer data centers

EVault enhancements to allow backup data to multiple SoftLayer data centers

Snapshots for iSCSI volumes to track and store changes over time

StorageLayer customers can utilize EVault to automate simultaneous backups of a single dedicated server to multiple sites.

Mr. Mr. Linscott noted, ''They can use StorageLayer to have a back up stored locally and then replicated at one of our data centers in another city - and it all happens at the same time.''

EVault lets administrators schedule backups on an hourly, daily, weekly, or custom schedule, and target full systems, specific directories, or even individual files. With iSCSI snapshot capabilities, StorageLayer customers can schedule point-in-time snapshots of their data volumes to provide another local backup solution. The snapshots can be accessed at any time to recover lost data or to be compared with current data. This feature complements the offsite replication capabilities available on iSCSI volumes within StorageLayer.

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.

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Hostway .Pro Domain Name Registration Specials Debut

2008-09-22T03:02:00-04:00

London, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) Hostway Corporation, is encouraging individuals and companies to register for the .Pro domain name since the registry relaunched effectively.

Thomas Herbert, product manager, Hostway noted, ''When the domain name was launched in 2004, it was limited to the medical, legal, accounting and engineering professions. The companies or individuals had to be licensed in the United States, Canada, Germany or the United Kingdom and rigorous checks were required to ensure that professionals were properly accredited. Furthermore, these groups could only register a Second Level name (mydomain.pro) once they had already successfully registered a Third Level name (e.g mydomain.law.pro for certified Lawyers, or mydomain.med.pro for Doctors and Physicians). A lot of that has changed now - all professionals are now eligible for a standard second level .Pro name.''

Following ICANN's announcement regarding the relaxation of regulations around registering for the .Pro domain name, all professional individuals and companies can now register for a second-level .Pro domain name (e.g. domain.pro). Previously, the domain name was limited to four groups of professionals and strict checking procedures were in place. The domain name is now open to all professional groups and categories, from accountants to zoologists.

The .Pro domain name allows professionals to distinguish their website or online identity from any other kind of domain name, and offers an interesting alternative to the now rather stock .com and .co.uk names.

Mr. Herbert added, ''.Pro still feels untapped as an address I believe, and remains a fresh, unique proposition for professionals looking to stand out from the crowd.''
The .Pro live registration opens today - the 8th September, and competition is likely to increase over the next few weeks for the most popular names. Registrants order .Pro names in the same way as any other domain, but they must still self-certify their eligibility by supplying their professional information within 44 days of placing their orders. A full FAQ is available on the Hostway site.

Another barrier to .Pro adoption has also been lifted - and that is the price of a .Pro name. Previously over sixty pounds per year, Hostway is now offering discounted .Pro registrations at 11.95 pounds +VAT for the first year, and 19.95 pounds +VAT for any additional years thereafter - making it far more financially viable for most people. The special promotional pricing applies domains registered between September 8th 2008 and January 1st, 2010.

Founded in 1998, Hostway Corporation is one of the three largest web hosting companies in the world with a direct presence in 11 countries, 15 worldwide operation centres, and more than 700 employees. Serving customers both small and large, Hostway combines best of breed hosting infrastructure with innovative online tools that help customers broaden their reach and grow their businesses online. Hostway offers a wide range of managed hosting services ranging from Windows and Linux based shared hosting plans, to complete dedicated server and Enterprise managed solutions to now over 600,000 customers worldwide.

To learn more about the .PRO domains, please visit: www.hostway.co.uk/dotpro

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Layered Technologies Executive, to Present at BlogWorld

2008-09-22T09:37:00-04:00

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) Provider of ''on demand'' IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies' executive, John Pozadzides, Chief Marketing Officer and founder of Woopra, will be featured at the BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2008 as a speaker.

''The Stats of High Performance Content and Marketing'' panel discussion is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. during the Business of Blogging Track, U407, Room 221 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, located at 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada. The discussion is designed to help bloggers learn how to convert information from web statistics into business results such as increased revenue and higher web site traffic. Layered Tech is also co-exhibiting with customers Woopra and WordPress at BlogWorld Expo Booth 220.

BlogWorld CEO Rick Calvert personally invited Pozadzides to join the panel because of his unique perspective on the business of blogging, given his roles with Woopra and Layered Tech, which provides the infrastructure that powers Woopra.

Mr. Pozadzides' work has already profoundly affected the world's bloggers. Whether they're using Layered Tech's hosting services the company is one of the 10 largest blog hosters in the world - or they're benefiting from Woopra's Web analytics culled from 50 million page views a day, Pozadzides knows what it takes for bloggers to succeed.

Mr. Pozadzides' work has already profoundly affected the world's bloggers. Whether they're using Layered Tech's hosting services - the company is one of the 10 largest blog hosters in the world - or they're benefiting from Woopra's Web analytics culled from 50 million page views a day, Pozadzides knows what it takes for bloggers to succeed.

Bloggers will hear how to convert the information they're getting from web stats into an actionable plan for achieving results such as increased revenue and web site traffic. Pozadzides will explain which Web analytics tools yield actionable, instead of static, data and information. For example, it's not good enough for a blogger to know their site is getting a traffic surge, they greatly benefit from knowing - in real time - which keywords were put into search engines that referred users to the blog. Armed with those details, bloggers can make continuous adjustments to content to ensure that they're attracting the high volumes of visitors they want.

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

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Hosting.com, Colocation Web Hosting Firm, Showcases Cloud Computing Solution

2008-09-22T09:32:00-04:00

Las Vegas, Nevada - (The Hosting News) Global hosting solutions and services firm, Hosting.com, has unveiled the public release of a new solution, designed to provide intuitive, scalable business solutions through a cloud computing environment.

Showcased at VMware's VMWorld 2008, Hosting.com's CloudNine solution provides immediate cloud computing for businesses of all sizes with high availability, dynamic scalability, and reduced costs.

Ilan Kinreich, COO, Radware remarked, ''It is evident that Hosting.com had the end-user in mind when architecting CloudNine. CloudNine provides high availability, scalability, and automation in an optimized virtual environment. Radware's newly released Virtual Director will further optimize and automate CloudNine while ensuring Hosting.com continues to provide the industry's best SLAs and Quality of Experience (QoE) to its clients.''

Hosting.com released a private CloudNine beta to select businesses and organizations earlier this year. Hosting.com's general release beta is available now through November 30, 2008. Organizations that sign up for the beta will receive a production-ready virtual machine in CloudNine that is scalable, flexible and efficient. The beta machines will be free for 90 days, and can seamlessly transition into larger, complex hosted solutions during or after the beta.

Many enterprise companies and those in the SMB space are searching for opportunities to partially move their hosted infrastructure into a cloud-platform and others are looking to completely move to a cloud computing infrastructure to capitalize on the advantages cloud computing provides. Through its involvement in the new VMware vCloud initiative, Hosting.com is working with VMware and other leading technology providers to create standard APIs and services to allow organizations of all sizes to seamlessly extend their traditional IT infrastructures into the cloud. Hosting.com also offers private cloud solutions for clients that require a dedicated, single-tenant environment.

Jonathan Erwin, EVP, CloudNine Sales and Marketing added, ''Over the past 12 months, Hosting.com has successfully designed and deployed custom Cloud environments that include ESX Clusters with tailored processing, memory and redundant storage for clients seeking greater compute efficiencies. Client satisfaction and performance on these highly available solutions prompted the acceleration of CloudNine's creation.''

CloudNine runs on a standards-based architecture utilizing world-class technologies from providers such as VMware, Radware, HP, Fortinet, Cisco and others. Hosting.com's internal developers and solution architects worked closely with these manufacturers and others to stretch the boundaries of virtualization and provide a client-centric, easy-to-use cloud computing platform.

Since 1996, Hosting.com has provided managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer with a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently owns and operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts.

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Hosting.com Showcases Cloud Computing

2008-09-19T04:22:00-04:00

Las Vegas, Nevada - (The Hosting News) Hosting solutions and services firm, Hosting.com, has unveiled the public release of a new solution, designed to provide intuitive, scalable business solutions.

Showcased at VMware's VMWorld 2008, Hosting.com's CloudNine solution provides immediate cloud computing for businesses of all sizes with high availability, dynamic scalability, and reduced costs.

Ilan Kinreich, COO, Radware remarked, ''It is evident that Hosting.com had the end-user in mind when architecting CloudNine. CloudNine provides high availability, scalability, and automation in an optimized virtual environment. Radware's newly released Virtual Director will further optimize and automate CloudNine while ensuring Hosting.com continues to provide the industry's best SLAs and Quality of Experience (QoE) to its clients.''

Hosting.com released a private CloudNine beta to select businesses and organizations earlier this year. Hosting.com's general release beta is available now through November 30, 2008. Organizations that sign up for the beta will receive a production-ready virtual machine in CloudNine that is scalable, flexible and efficient. The beta machines will be free for 90 days, and can seamlessly transition into larger, complex hosted solutions during or after the beta.

Many enterprise companies and those in the SMB space are searching for opportunities to partially move their hosted infrastructure into a cloud-platform and others are looking to completely move to a cloud computing infrastructure to capitalize on the advantages cloud computing provides. Through its involvement in the new VMware vCloud initiative, Hosting.com is working with VMware and other leading technology providers to create standard APIs and services to allow organizations of all sizes to seamlessly extend their traditional IT infrastructures into the cloud. Hosting.com also offers private cloud solutions for clients that require a dedicated, single-tenant environment.

Jonathan Erwin, EVP, CloudNine Sales and Marketing added, ''Over the past 12 months, Hosting.com has successfully designed and deployed custom Cloud environments that include ESX Clusters with tailored processing, memory and redundant storage for clients seeking greater compute efficiencies. Client satisfaction and performance on these highly available solutions prompted the acceleration of CloudNine's creation.''

CloudNine runs on a standards-based architecture utilizing world-class technologies from providers such as VMware, Radware, HP, Fortinet, Cisco and others. Hosting.com's internal developers and solution architects worked closely with these manufacturers and others to stretch the boundaries of virtualization and provide a client-centric, easy-to-use cloud computing platform.

Since 1996, Hosting.com has provided managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer with a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently owns and operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts.

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eMonsterhost, Adds Enhanced Security

2008-09-19T04:07:00-04:00

Green Bay, Wisconsin - (Website Hosting Directory) Hosting provider, eMonsterhost, Inc., has deployed the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems to block attacks, as another layer of security.

TippingPoint systems deliver powerful network protection, functioning transparently at gigabit speeds to guard against cyber attacks. TippingPoint's Digital Vaccine service updates filters regularly to maintain defense against the latest vulnerabilities, viruses and rogue applications.

eMonsterhost has put TippingPoint systems in place to protect all dedicated and virtual dedicated hosting servers at no additional cost. An intrusion prevention system is an in-line device that scans traffic and, based on rules, determines whether data packets are legitimate or malicious.

In addition to this valuable security feature, each dedicated and virtual dedicated hosting plan includes free rapid setup, a free SSL certificate and 24/7 customer support, physical security and network monitoring.

Monsterhost has been serving the web hosting and domain industry since 2002. eMonsterhost is committed to serving customer’s on a whole new level. Customer satisfaction is always a first and a guarantee.

In January, the company began offering the WebSite Tonight product, providing key features designed to facilitate the .MOBI transformation. The new application is designed to allow anyone to design and create a .MOBI-compliant web sites easily and affordably. Pages designed for .MOBI are optimized for on-the-go devices, making them easy to load and navigate from the smaller, more limited screens of wireless phones and PDAs.

According to recent reports, 100,000-plus .MOBI domain names were registered during the first four days of the Landrush period beginning Sept. 26. General registration opens up to the public on Oct. 11 when even more registrations are anticipated. To put the excitement into perspective, it took more than 10 years for other top-level domains to garner 100,000 registrations in the early days of the Internet. The fast popularity of .MOBI registrations may support estimates by Yankee Group, an industry analyst, that the mobile data services market could reach $698 billion in yearly sales by 2009, according to a recent CNNmoney.com article.

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HostV to Sponso WordCamp China 2008 Blog Conference

2008-09-18T04:21:00-04:00

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) HostV, has been named Platinum Sponsor and Hosting Partner of WordCamp China 2008, to be held next week in Beijing, China, and Shanghai, China.

The event will gather hundreds of WordPress users and developers to discuss latest trends and innovations in the field. As a hosting partner for WordCamp China 2008, HostV will have a booth in both the Beijing and Shanghai locations, and representatives will be on site to answer questions about WordPress Web hosting. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg will give keynote speeches in both cities during the event.

John Xie, President of Cirtex Corp., HostV parent company noted, ''WordPress has proven itself as an integral application for the international blogging community. We have focused our energy over the past several years to not only support WordPress, but also provide a fully optimized and ready-to-go hosting environment for the script.''

Virtual Private Servers optimized for WordPress start at $39.99 per month and include at 500GB of premium data transfer and 25GB if RAID 10 disk space. Plans also include the Virtuozzo Power Panel, cPanel, FFMpeg and Red5 (for video hosting), Fantastico script auto-installer, and a variety of other developer tools. All servers are fully monitored and include 24x7x365 premium technical support.

In July, 2007, The first WordCamp was hosted in San Francisco, marking the beginning of a series of worldwide user gatherings of WordPress users and developers. In September 2007, it was hosted in Beijing, China, as the first ever WordCamp outside the United States. The WordCamp Beijing 2007 included many famous bloggers and more than 200 attendees sharing their blogging experiences. This year, in September 2008, WordCamp Beijing is renamed as WordCamp China, and will be hosted in the two biggest cities in China: Beijing and Shanghai. Founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, will give keynote speeches in both cities.

Founded in 2003, Cirtex Corp. is leading provider of Shared, Reseller, Virtual dedicated and Dedicated Web hosting solutions. The company serves thousands of customers internationally through two dynamic brands - CirtexHosting and HostV. Cirtex Corp. offers 24/7 technical support and a 30-Day unconditional guarantee.

For more information about CirtexHosting, please visit: www.cirtexhosting.com.

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AIT Power Buy and Save Program Premieres

2008-09-18T03:18:00-04:00

Fayetteville, North Carolina - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) AIT has created new discounted service plans, designed as valuable technology solutions, and to tie in with marketing options and efforts targeting the small to medium business.

Avery Skelton, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. noted, ''The cost of maintenance, bandwidth, and having a qualified staff is considerable. Just looking at the growth of the web, the small business has to be sales and marketing focused to remain competitive. Those factors are primary contributors why in recent months AIT has reported large scale growth in its Dedicated Hosting Solutions. It's a cost efficient way to maintain an online operation and give the business owner or primary IT personnel peace of mind.''

AIT officials attribute recent rises in demand to the increased competition, security concerns, and overall Internet growth. As such AIT has launched its ''Power Buy'' Savings promotion. The Power Buy limited time offer allows anyone considering a new hosting provider or an upgrade to an additional 20% savings off AIT's already low cost hosting packages.

Bill Harrison, Sales Manager for AIT added, ''The phones haven't stopped ringing and web site traffic has increased. We've sold over 100 businesses in the past month, one of which was a multi-million dollar IP TV company.''

Wally Bell CEO of Sundance Boats of Blackshear, Georgia remarked, ''We started off small with AIT almost ten years ago, since then we’ve upgraded several times as we reached our choke points. Our latest purchase, AIT's Enterprise Server, should give us twenty four to thirty six months to grow. We build boats here and are not the technology types. We need the lights on twenty four seven without any headaches which is why we rely on AIT for our web site hosting.''

In addition to the savings on hosting, AIT is offering up to $500.00 in Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising credits on the tyBit Search Engine to Power Buy or to find out more about hosting from AIT.

Welcome to Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc., home to over 210,000 customers to include Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. AIT was founded in North Carolina and has grown into a multimillion dollar web hosting and technology company. From a garage start-up to a 93,000 SF headquarters, AIT has always been entrepreneurial and customer-centric. Small businesses to larger clients like Time Warner, Microsoft, Newsweek, U.S. Federal Government, PC World, United Nations, Business Week, The Oakridge Boys, State of North Carolina, Department of Defense, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Pizza Hut, GOODYEAR, Smart Money, Discover Radio, and many more have benefited from AIT's products and services.

The technology company has achieved 10 straight years of sustained profitability generating $100s of millions in revenue and creating a profound influence in its surrounding community by creating more than 236 IT jobs. AIT has also been named 2 times to The Inc. 500 list of fast growing firms, 3 times to the Deloitte and Touche Fast 500 list, and has been named as the NC Entrepreneur Firm of the Year.

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Peak 10 Supports Computer Gaming Firm

2008-09-17T02:33:00-04:00

Raleigh, North Carolina - (The Hosting News) - September 17, 2008 - Data center operator and managed services provider, Peak 10, Inc., has entered into a new partnership with game development tools, testing, and interactive management firm, Emergent Game Technologies.

Leveraging the latest in VMware virtualization technology, Peak 10 will provide Emergent with a fully managed dedicated Virtual Server solution and managed firewall.

Greg Rollet, Senior Vice President of Peak 10's North region noted, ''We are excited to support the Emergent team as they utilize virtualization practices to further streamline their internal operations. Emergent is the most recent computer gaming client to join our diverse customer portfolio, and as we become further immersed in this thriving industry we continue to learn new ways in which our services can be implemented to boost productivity.''

Emergent Game Technologies develops and licenses gaming engines and tools to increase efficiency throughout the development process. Their products benefit developers working with multiple video game genres and hardware platforms.

The Peak 10 Raleigh team tailored a virtualization solution to meet Emergent's needs and will ensure that its mission-critical data is both secure and accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Brian Dibene, IT manager at Emergent Game Technologies noted, ''Peak 10 has by far the most technically sound VMware infrastructure and knowledgeable virtualization support staff of any of the companies we considered, which is the key reason we chose them. With helpful and courteous account managers and support team, we have complete confidence that our data is not only available and secure at all times, but that we can rely on their superior IT support.''

Through virtualization, Peak 10 allows businesses to run multiple instances of their servers on a single physical box, reducing hardware and space requirements, optimizing server utilization and providing higher levels of availability for an organization's IT infrastructure. Leveraging its Microsoft Gold and VMware partnerships, Peak 10 combines its secure network, high-tech data centers and portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies nationwide.

Peak 10 owns and operates data centers in nine key markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va. About Emergent Game Technologies Emergent Game Technologies is one of the fastest and largest growing companies dedicated exclusively to providing flexible technologies and services that give developers an unmatched range of integrated capabilities for building, testing and managing games. These proven, stand-alone solutions include the award-winning Gamebryo game engine used to create hit next-generation games for the Wii, PLAYSTATION3, Xbox 360, and PC. Emergent gives developers the flexibility they need to fuel creativity while reducing risk. Emergent is headquartered in Calabasas, Calif., and has offices in Chapel Hill, NC; Austin, Texas; London; Tokyo; China; and Korea. To learn more, visit www.emergent.net.

Peak 10 is an independent data center operator and managed services provider delivering scalable, economical and reliable solutions for hosting and managing complex information technology infrastructure. It combines its portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies including Healthways, Inc., LendingTree, Rivals.com, Global Knowledge, Pergo, Churchill Downs and The Fresh Market. Peak 10 is SAS 70 Type II compliant and helps companies meet the requirements of various regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, PCI and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA).

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The Planet Advanced Services Discounted

2008-09-17T02:17:00-04:00

Houston, Texas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 17, 2008 - The Planet has debuted discounts on its new Alpha Advanced Services, based on the line’s resounding success, through Sept. 30.

Customers who add Alpha Server Monitoring or Alpha Server Security to new orders will receive these services free for the first month.

Urvish Vashi, General Manager for dedicated hosting at The Planet explained, ''Customers have consistently requested additional services to better manage their servers. Now they can choose the services that are right for their business model on either a monthly basis or when there's an occasional requirement, all backed by our team of experts. For those who are simply curious, they can now try us out for no cost in the first month and experience the difference.''

Launched in July, Alpha Advanced Services are designed to supplement the capabilities of The Planet's self-managed dedicated servers. Alpha Server Monitoring provides around-the-clock server and service monitoring, including rapid human reactive response with customized escalation procedures. Alpha Server Security provides ongoing server security management, making certain systems are securely deployed and remain patched and secured throughout their lifecycle.

With Planet Alpha Advanced Services, customers can purchase individual management modules or any combination to supplement the maintenance and administration of their self-managed servers. The Alpha Advanced Services lower operational costs, and improve security and availability.

Alpha Server Monitoring: Provides 24x7x365 server and service monitoring of up to 15 services, including rapid reactive response with customized escalation procedures.With customized remediation, if a server should go down, this advanced service ensures someone is waiting and ready to get the server back online immediately. Customers receive both weekly and monthly uptime reporting.

Alpha Server Security: Provides all the requirements for ongoing server security management, making certain servers are securely deployed, and remain patched and secure throughout their lifecycle. Using industry best practices for system security, customers can take advantage of server hardening, as well as security patch management and weekly vulnerability reports, with unlimited access to a team that can resolve security incidents.

Alpha Server Administration: Provides on-demand administration, general system administration services, migration and custom-issue resolution, which allows customers to use services as required or as part of a bundled package. Planet Alpha Advanced Services are available on Linux and BSD platforms only.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors 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 a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting over 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 6.7 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by enhanced facilities and network connectivity.

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SoftLayer Partners with Citrix

2008-09-16T03:26:00-04:00

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 16, 2008 - Hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, will use and offer the new Citrix Cloud Center (C3) solution from Citrix Systems, Inc.

Nathan Day, Chief Technology Officer at Softlayer remarked, ''Partnering with Citrix was an easy decision. It's clear they are listening to enterprises and cloud service providers - these solutions meet and exceed the needs of this rapidly-evolving IT segment. The flexibility and scalability of Citrix XenServer allows us to deliver advanced virtualization today. And the full Citrix C3 solution will allow us to deliver the cloud computing of tomorrow.''

As a key part of SoftLayer's cloud computing strategy, the implementation of Citrix C3 will leverage SoftLayer’s leading automation capabilities and further the company's vision for utilizing virtualization to transform the data center industry. The first component of the Citrix C3 product family adopted by SoftLayer will be Citrix XenServer Cloud Edition.

The Citrix C3 product family provides a complete set of service delivery infrastructure building blocks for cloud computing. Citrix’s already successful Citrix Delivery Center product family is used by more than 215,000 enterprises and 99 percent of the Fortune 500 worldwide to transform corporate data centers into dynamic ''delivery centers,'' providing applications and desktops as a cloud-like service to their end users. The new Citrix C3 product family extends those same capabilities to cloud providers.

Its dynamic reference architecture combines the power of each individual product to create a secure, highly available, unified service delivery infrastructure.

Citrix XenServer, a key component of both Citrix Delivery Center and Citrix C3, is a powerful, open, easy-to-use server virtualization solution that allows customers to create truly virtual data center environments. XenServer is powered by the popular Xen hypervisor - which operates directly on top of a physical server's bare metal hardware and enables multiple virtual servers to be created and operated on the single physical machine. XenServer includes an industry-leading, easy-to-use management console that can provision and manage any number of physical and virtual machines across a distributed data center environment. These advanced capabilities provide unprecedented opportunities for:

Increased agility and cost effectiveness through server consolidation - with less physical infrastructure, XenServer decreases capital expenditures.

Simplified deployment and integration - by provisioning machines directly on top of the physical hardware, XenServer does not require a single, dedicated-host operating system.

Higher security and reliability - through virtual firewalls and multiple data backup options, XenServer offers a best-in-class solution for running mission critical operations.

Increased storage and clustering scalability - with simplified and accelerated deployment of virtual machines, XenServer lets administrators add or eliminate servers practically at will.

AJ Jennings, Vice President of business development at Citrix Systems remarked, ''Virtualization and cloud-based delivery infrastructures are changing what data centers are literally made of. We're proud to be driving the leading-edge of this revolution and to be partnering with SoftLayer. Their vision for using virtualization to create truly on-demand data center services reflects our own, and their ability to technically execute their ideas is second to none. They are who we had in mind when we created these products.''

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. 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.

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Network Solutions New Corporate Website Unveils

2008-09-16T03:09:00-04:00

Herndon, Virginia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 16, 2008 - Hosting provider and domain name registration services firm, Network Solutions, has debuted the launch of its new corporate website, which offers a comprehensive and personal side of the company.

Michele Krisanda, VP Corporate Communications for Network Solutions noted, ''Our goal with the new corporate website is to make it easier to learn more about what Network Solutions does. Whether you are interested in joining our team, in learning about how we can help your business, or in learning more from one of our talented leaders, Network Solutions' people are here to help.''

According to the company, About.NetworkSolutions.com illustrates what Network Solutions does as well as who the people are behind the big name. The corporate site reflects Network Solutions' behind the scenes identity - a passionate, customer-focused, friendly, helpful, professional, and knowledgeable organization.

The About.NetworkSolutions.com site offers easy access to the company, with clear navigation and topical pages including Who We Are, What We Do and a page detailing career opportunities and the benefits of working with the small business web solutions provider. The images on the site are of Network Solutions team members: a talented group of people dedicated to helping small businesses succeed online.

Along with information on careers and personnel, the new corporate site also gives insight into the motivations behind the passionate employees that make the company a success, including news about recent developments within and without the company and a section on Network Solutions' philanthropy and community involvement initiatives. Visitors are able to search products and solutions as well as view and apply for open positions in the company.

Ms. Krisanda added, ''Everyone at Network Solutions is excited to showcase our people, products and philosophy through our new corporate website.''

Network Solutions provides e-business solutions and domain name registration services, including a full range of online services to small and medium enterprises, with web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions draws on more than 29 years of experience to make it simple and affordable for customers to build and manage an online presence through a one-stop web Solutions provider.

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Rackspace Offers IT Hosting Virtualization, in EMEA

2008-09-15T03:22:00-04:00

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 15, 2008 - Hosting services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has included enterprise-class support of dedicated virtualized servers, as part of its ongoing virtualization initiative in EMEA.

The virtualization platform, built on VMware's third-generation virtualization software suite, maximises hardware investment with better utilisation of servers through virtual machines. The virtualization platform will enable businesses that experience high growth or fluctuations in capacity to quickly meet these demands, by making scaling easier through rapid Virtual Machine provisioning. The service also provides easy access to a stable and secure virtualised environment and is supported by Rackspace's brand of customer service, Fanatical Support.

Brian Thomson, MD of Rackspace EMEA noted, ''We work closely with our customers on the type of products they need to help their business work more efficiently, and are excited to announce a virtualization platform that will provide greater flexibility to meet performance and capacity needs. Customers who were looking to adopt virtualization told us that security was a concern so we have developed our virtual servers to provide protection against unanticipated traffic spikes and security breaches. This enables customers to gain all the benefits of virtualization while reducing the associated risks.''

The virtualization platform will be based on dedicated physical hardware for each customer and include the option of hybrid virtual and physical hosted environments. It will support mission-critical production systems and provide benefits including server consolidation, data protection and on-demand provisioning.

Adrian Palmer-Geaves CEO of Knowledge Solutions, who are already using Rackspace's virtualization service remarked, ''Rackspace's virtualization platform enables Knowledge Solutions to deliver a seamless, scalable and secure hosting solution to our customers, particularly when they experience fluctuating traffic volumes. We have worked closely with Rackspace for a number of years and the virtual platform allows us to offer solutions that are closely aligned to our customers' business needs, in a competitive and responsive fashion.''

Rackspace's US operation launched a virtualization offering earlier this year and has a number of virtual machines under management globally, using the virtualization infrastructure for internal IT operations as well as in its cloud hosting division, Mosso and email hosting division, Mailtrust virtualization is a highly-complex technology, but Rackspace's team of VMware Certified Engineers provides customers with the technical expertise needed to design and leverage a virtualised system.

Mr. Thomson added: ''Virtualization is still an evolving technology, and we believe this is just the beginning for Rackspace. Our RackLabs research and development department continues to work with partners such as VMware, Microsoft and XenSource to make generational leaps in the virtualization hosting arena. We expect future releases of Rackspace virtualization Hosting to include enhanced disaster recovery, storage and scaling capabilities.''

The new offering, comes on the heels of Rackspace's debut of Windows Server 2008 with an enhanced set of flexibility, security, reliability and management features suited for customers' IT hosting needs. As Microsoft's 2007 ''Hosting Provider of the Year,'' Rackspace has worked with Microsoft on the launch for more than a year and will be introducing Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise and web editions to its comprehensive product portfolio in conjunction with Microsoft's worldwide launch. Windows Server 2008 is designed to provide customers the ability to deliver rich web-based experiences efficiently and effectively, with improved administration and diagnostics, development and application tools, and lower infrastructure costs.

The new, flexible Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 provides full customisation of web servers to configure only the server roles and modules needed, creating a more secure and streamlined Web platform for customers.

Windows Server 2008 also includes the enhanced Windows PowerShell to automate common administration tasks for server roles with command-line shell and scripting language to more easily control system administration and to accelerate automation. The hardened operating system and security innovations include firewall improvements, policy based networking and auditing advances to provide improved protection for customers' data. Rackspace recently completed a successful beta test of Windows Server 2008 with positive customer feedback. After successful testing of the new server's performance and stability, Rackspace is now making the new Windows operating system available to customers.

Rackspace provides a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, with hosting specialisation and expertise, integrating the industry's best technologies and delivering them as services, as an extension of its customers' IT departments. Rackspace's portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso (www.mosso.com) cloud computing platform and Mailtrust(tm) (www.mailtrust.com), a provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about the new Windows Server 2008 from Rackspace, please visit: www.rackspace.co.uk/windows2008.

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1&1 Internet, Free RatePoint Tool Debuts

2008-09-15T03:08:00-04:00

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 15, 2008 - Subsidiary of United Internet, 1 and 1 Internet, has initiated a free RatePoint reputation management tool, designed for businesses.

Oliver Mauss, CEO of 1 and 1 Internet noted, ''While most US businesses have taken steps towards a presence online, very few enjoy the means to turn their online sales into a positive online image. RatePoint comprises an excellent means for any sized business to manage their reputation online.''

From September 10th until October 30th, all new Business Web Hosting packages from only $9.99/month, Professional eShops from $24.99/month and Managed Servers from $99/month, include a RatePoint license for establishing and managing an online reputation, free of charge for the life of the hosting package. When the offer ends, RatePoint will be available to other 1 and 1 customers for $9.99/month. The solution enables site owners to collect feedback from their visitors and display a star-rating for satisfaction, communicating their credibility and trustworthiness.

1 and 1 adds another exclusive feature to its industry-leading suite of online marketing tools. RatePoint is a set of highly effective and easy to use tools for capturing customer reviews on a business website in order to develop and promote a positive reputation and boost sales. The solution leverages web users' familiarity with 5-star ratings currently used by large online retailers such as Amazon and eBay. The RatePoint SiteSeal star rating is a powerful means to reassure and encourage website customers using any type of business website.

RatePoint's lead feature provides an online feedback form upon which online customers provide ratings that are dynamically configured into a SiteSeal 1 to 5 star-rating. This well regarded award logo provides shoppers with a genuine representation of customer satisfaction, and signifies that the website has a tangible commitment to online customer service. RatePoint also includes Dispute Resolution Services for tackling online customer disputes swiftly. This facility is a valuable asset for businesses in enabling them to better understand the needs of online consumers and improve their online sales processes. Available free for the lifetime of each new 1&1 business level hosting packages, businesses can now implement an effective reputation management system at no cost. Customers ordering now can save over $200/year.

In addition to online customer care, RatePoint delivers businesses a structured platform on which to approach online marketing and the segmentation of their customer base. RatePoint features email marketing and survey tools facilitating email newsletters, promotions and delivering an analysis of campaigns including open and click-through rates. Testimonial and Widget tools also provide highly efficient means to generate and display relative customer reviews. Participant businesses can further increase marketing efforts by joining RatePoint's Online Business Directory.

Online reputation can be a key factor in online purchasing behavior. Research shows that 77 percent of online shoppers use reviews and ratings when purchasing (Juniper Research, August 06). In using a publicly recognized system such as RatePoint, online businesses are better equipped to reassure potential customers of their credibility, proficiency and trustworthiness.

Mr. Mauss added, ''As the web becomes an increasingly competitive landscape for US businesses, reputation management and online CRM will become vital for protecting revenues and market share. Our current offers are intended to help businesses to begin leveraging their online customer satisfaction.''

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

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Host595 Premieres Discount Promotion

2008-09-12T02:54:00-04:00

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) Linux shared web hosting firm, Host595, has unveiled its first-ever One Year, One Dollar hosting promotion, designed to allow new customers to receive an entire year of premier shared Web hosting at the minimal cost.

Majid Rasool, CTO of Host595 noted, ''This hosting offer is a bold move, as we are offering new customers an entire year of free service. In essence, we are doubling down on the notion that our customers will see the real value in our service, and ultimately become long-term patrons. Our company has been built on customer service, reliability, and value, and we see this as a trend continuing in the near and long term. From powerful servers to leading-edge new features, we are truly all about our customers. We intend to exceed expectations, and that?s what this promotion is all about.''

Customers must already have their domain name registered and hosted at another hosting provider, in order yo participate in the promotion. Customers can use the coupon code 'host595ref' at checkout to have the order total automatically reduced to $1. After the first year, the hosting plan will bill at its regular price of $5.95/month. The plan includes unmetered disk space and unmetered data transfer. The One Dollar, One Year offer is valid through September 30, 2008.

Host595 offers Litespeed Web server on all servers to ensure robust server performance and fast page loading. Litespeed Web server has become a leading alternative to Apache and provides a fully compatible and more secure environment. Host595 has also introduced MailFoundry enterprise spam filtering, offering unparalleled protection against spam. MailFoundry is deployed within the datacenter on a dedicated appliance and monitors incoming emails with real-time anti-spam rules and next-generation filtering to virtually eliminate false positives.

Founded in 2007, Host595 is a provider of Linux shared Web hosting solutions, offering a single hosting plan to meet the needs of a wide spectrum of clients. Host595 offers 24/7/365 technical support and a wide variety of enterprise features, including the Litespeed Web server and MailFoundry enterprise anti-spam.

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CFDynamics, Powers HotelPlanner.com

2008-09-12T02:41:00-04:00

The Colony, Texas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Hosting services in PHP,.NET, and ColdFusion company, CFDynamics, was chosen to provide travel website, HotelPlanner.com, which has had its most successful year ever.

Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer Relations for CFDynamics noted, ''We are thrilled to be hosting the HotelPlanner.com website and we are happy to help them reach their goals by providing reliable web hosting and other business solutions.''

HotelPlanner.com is unique in the way that they cater their business specifically to group events such as family reunions, business meetings, weddings and church events just to name a few. Their main focus is hotel reservations, but they also offer car rentals, airfare, cruises and other travel needs.

John Prince, CEO of HotelPlanner.com remarked, ''I feel very confident in CFDynamics. CFDynamics has been growing with us each year. Their platform gets better and better with no points of failure that could take our website down.''

HotelPlanner.com, the leader in group travel online, is growing like wildfire; growing 300% every year since it began five years ago. Hotelplanner.com will book over one million room nights this year, an enormous increase over last year's business.

Mr. Prince added, ''They are very cutting edge; they don't just sit around and use the same old stuff. They add new hardware and features all the time.''

CFDynamics has been hosting websites for over a decade and prides itself on being a customer-oriented web host, specializing in PHP, .NET and ColdFusion. CFDynamics combines years of development and expertise with excellent customer service to provide individuals, small businesses and large corporations with budget-friendly dedicated and shared web hosting solutions.

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Blackberry Gets TiVo and MySpace, All in One Day

2008-09-12T12:00:00-04:00

TiVo has announced plans to let Blackberry users control their DVR recordings on-the-go with a new app on the way soon. The program will let you browse through program guides and schedule recordings right from the phone.

The other offering comes from MySpace, which unveiled a new Blackberry app to make messaging, commenting, and other services specific to the social network easy. The most interesting feature is probably the camera integration, which lets you take a photo and have it shoot right over into your profile. ...Go to source

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GoDaddy Sponsors NASCAR Sprint Cup

2008-09-11T03:06:00-04:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) Hosting provider and domain registrar, Go Daddy, will be the Sprint Cup Seriesbroadcast sponsor of the Sylvania 300 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire this Sunday.

Airing on ABC at 1 p.m. EDT, the broadcast sponsorship marks Go Daddy's debut into the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. NASCAR consists of three national series: the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The Sprint Cup series is NASCAR's highest level of professional competition.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com noted, ''Moving into the Sprint Cup Series makes sense for Go Daddy because all eyes are on the championship right now, NASCAR fans are about as dedicated as any fans in sports - what's not to like about that?''

Earlier this year, Go Daddy presented the broadcast for the Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway and provided the Canadian telecast for the NASCAR NAPA Auto Parts 200 in Montreal, Canada. Go Daddy was also the presenting sponsor for the Indianapolis 500 television broadcast in the IndyCar Series two years running. Go Daddy hit the NASCAR scene as the primary sponsor for the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, fielded by JR Motorsports, in the Nationwide Series for six races in 2008.

Go Daddy experienced its first NASCAR victory when Ron Fellows won in the Nationwide Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada. Go Daddy leads its industry as the world's largest domain name registrar and is also one of the world's top web hosting companies, helping novices and experts enhance their online presence with fast, friendly customer support. Go Daddy offers Web hosting packages with its exclusive Hosting Connection providing customers access to the most popular open source applications.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sylvania 300 Race from New Hampshire, presented by GoDaddy.com will air on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. EDT on ABC TV. To learn more about how to create an affordable Web site quickly and easily, visit www.GoDaddy.com.

The Go Daddy Group, Inc. 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 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.

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Internap Hosting, Chosen for Financial Services Round Table

2008-09-11T06:00:00-04:00

Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) Internap Network Services Corporation's Content Delivery Network (CDN) and professional services, are delivering customized streaming media services for the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) association of financial professionals.

Anthony Germade, Executive Producer at the Million Dollar Round Table noted, ''Membership in the Million Dollar Round Table is a highly coveted and respected career milestone. Our members are the 'best of the best' in financial services and are held to the highest standards of performance, excellence and ethics. Our web initiative, using compelling, exclusive video content to support our members, is critical to our success. Internap was the best company to provide the network and consulting services to deliver our video library, enabling us to better serve our membership.''

With more than 39,000 members, MDRT selected Internap to develop a specialized media player for a secured, community Web site that offers members exclusive content for their personal and professional development. The MDRT is a member-driven, international network of the world’s best insurance and investment services professionals / advisors who deliver to their clients the highest standards of ethics, knowledge, service and productivity.

The membership from 479 companies in 78 countries, MDRT represents the top 1% of financial professionals. AIG, Prudential, Mass Mutual, New York Life and Northwestern Mutual are just a few of the different companies represented. The MDRT promotes the 'Whole Person Concept' to help members have a balanced, meaningful and successful life through a focus on health, family, spirituality, education, financials, community service and career.

In order to provide this upper echelon of sales experts with the most robust resources on the Web, MDRT engaged Internap to build and support MDRTV, an online private Web channel featuring videos on the meaning of MDRT, mentoring, leadership, education, organizational history, the MDRT volunteer foundation and highlights from the MDRT annual meetings, which are considered some of the best events in the industry.

Internap's CDN solution is unique in the industry in that it comes standard with a 100% service level agreement (SLA) for both quality and uptime. All the major streaming media formats are supported including Adobe Flash, Microsoft Windows Media, Silverlight and HTTP/Web downloads. Internap has a rich history in the CDN industry, working closely with Adobe to develop the first Flash video streaming platform and being the first service provider to offer live and on-demand streaming services for Flash.

Included with Internap's CDN is MediaConsole, a workflow management toolset for streaming media that includes a media manager, pre-built video skins and a real-time reporting dashboard.

Lastly, Internap's CDN offers a suite of optional services, including transcoding, player development, digital asset management and monetization tools to create a tailored solution for every customer environment.

Tim Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer at Internap added, ''The Million Dollar Round Table is an exclusive community of the most successful financial services professionals that demand the most of themselves and their web site. Our CDN service delivers the scalability and performance necessary to empower MDRT’s membership initiatives and we are pleased to provide customized solutions for such a prestigious and respected association.''

Million Dollar Round Table MDRT is The Premier Association of Financial Professionals. Founded in 1927, MDRT is an international, independent association of more than 36,000, or less than 1 percent, of the world's best life insurance and financial services professionals. With membership from 78 nations and territories and 479 different companies, MDRT members demonstrate exceptional professional knowledge, strict ethical conduct and outstanding client service. MDRT membership is recognized internationally as the standard of sales excellence in the life insurance and financial services business.

Internap is a leading Internet solutions company that provides The Ultimate Online Experience by managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with unsurpassed performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed Internet services, a content delivery network (CDN) and content monetization services, Internap frees its customers to innovate their business and create new revenue opportunities. More than 3,700 companies across the globe trust Internap to help them achieve their Internet business goals. For more information, visit www.internap.com.

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Aplus.Net, Awarded by Hosting Resources

2008-09-11T06:00:00-04:00

Overland Park, Kansas - (Website Hosting Directory) Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has been named on best hosting lists at resource providers, WebHostDirectory, FindMyHost, TopHosts and TopSeos.com.

The web hosting awards for September 2008, are most notably the Budget Hosting Award from WebHostDirectory and the Editors Choice Award for Shared Hosting from FindMyHost.com. The company also ranked once more on Topseos.com's Best Search Engine Marketing Hosts this month, as well as making the grade among TopHosts.com's Top 5 Web Hosts.

Amanda Rusich, Director of Marketing at Aplus.Net noted, ''We're very proud to achieve this level of recognition from the hosting industry's biggest and most well-respected names. Here at Aplus.Net, we strive to provide our valued small business customers with the ultimate in quality and in value, and we're happy to see this recognized not only by consumers but also by the web hosting industry as a whole.''

This marks the latest in a long series of awards from WebHostDirectory for Aplus.Net, who also received the Best Budget Web Hosting Award in November 2007. It's also Aplus.Net's fourth FindMyHost Editors Choice this year, having also received awards for Best Business Hosting and Best eCommerce Host earlier in 2008.

This month also marks the ninth time since February 2006 that Aplus.Net has ranked in the Topseos.com Top 5 Best SEM Hosting Companies list, which are based on quality of service, pricing, innovation, customer and technical support, and overall efficiency and performance, according to the Topseos.com website.

Aplus.Net has also had a continuous presence on the TopHosts Top 5 list for the past five years, and has received the number one web hosting company honors three times from that company since March, 2007.

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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Rackspace Releases Reseller Mailtrust Hosted Exchange 2007

2008-09-09T03:22:00-04:00

Blacksburg, Virginia - (The Hosting News) Rackspace's business-class email specialist division, Mailtrust's 450-plus resellers will have the ability to offer customers Hosted Exchange 2007.

Adam Williams, Manager of reseller sales, Mailtrust noted, ''Mailtrust has more than 450 resellers offering Mailtrust's superior messaging services to end customers. Theses resellers are a vital aspect of our business model, accounting for more than 545,000 Noteworthy mailboxes on 113,000 domains. In return, our resellers benefit from our 100 percent uptime guarantees and industry-leading support, as well as a customizable business email solution to sell to their customers, which can save them heartache and money.''

Previously, resellers could only offer Managed Exchange 2003 or Noteworthy, Mailtrust's premier web-based business-class email platform. The ability to offer Hosted Exchange 2007 is due in large part to the newly redesigned Control Panel for Mailtrust users. Mailtrust's Control Panel is an easy-to-use interface for customers needing to administer to their email domain and with the new enhanced version, it's even easier, faster, and more flexible.

Customers can log in and with the click of a few buttons, add or remove both Exchange and Noteworthy mailboxes in the same interface and domain. This is the next step for Mailtrust to offer a seamless hybrid product for customers wanting to use both Noteworthy and Hosted Exchange.

Hosted Exchange 2007 offers significant upgrades that include larger two-gigabyte mailboxes, larger public folders, web access tools with AJAX enabled interface, and best of all can be fully synchronized with Noteworthy. With Mailtrust's hybrid solution of Hosted Exchange and Noteworthy, Exchange users will be able to fully utilize the Exchange environment, while Noteworthy users enjoy a business-class email suite well equipped with everything from webmail to mobile access.

Both come with world-class spam and virus protection, a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 support. Best of all, both platforms can be administered from one central Control Panel.

Joe Welke, Technical Director, KD Interactive noted, ''With the Mailtrust Hybrid solution, the demands for Microsoft Exchange, shared calendaring, public folders and mobile interface can be satisfied along side users just needing a simple mailbox with POP3/IMAP4/Webmail over SSL. Mailtrust allows us to resell a wide range of email and wireless devices and services, allowing our customers increased flexibility in tailoring their services to meet changing needs on a per-user basis in real-time all the while saving them time, resources and money.''

Mailtrust, a division of Rackspace, provides more than 100,000 small, medium, and geographically dispersed companies with business-class email hosting. The company manages and maintains the email service and hosting infrastructure, freeing up IT resources and eliminating the need for customers to purchase email-related hardware, software, and security services. The company's mission critical email systems are housed in Rackspace's carrier-grade data centers to help ensure uptime. Founded in 1999, and acquired by Rackspace in 2007, Mailtrust is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia and was recently named the 217th fastest growing, privately held company in America by Inc. Magazine.

Rackspace Hosting provides computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, with the goal of making computing more reliable and affordable. 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, email hosting and cloud hosting.

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Subaye.com Hosting to Exhibit SaaS in China

2008-09-09T03:07:00-04:00

Foshan, China - (Website Hosting Directory) Subaye.com, Inc., subsidiary of MyStarU.com, Inc..,Web and hosting, marketing and e-commerce service provider, will be exhibiting at the upcoming 5th China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair.

Scheduled to be held from September 22-25, 2008, at the Guangdong International Convention and Exhibition Center (China Export Commodities Fair Pazhou Complex) Guangzhou, China, the fim plans present: SaaS software: Enabling B2B Engine.

Subaye.com will be sampling the Subaye Corporate Video and Subaye e-commerce brands along with sample pouches of the most advanced instant results performance enhancer. Open hyperlinks of SaaS Enabling B2B Engine to SMEs, the most innovative solution of B2B search, will also be one of the featured products at this tradeshow.

Heying Zhang, Vice President of Subaye.com noted, ''Open link to SaaS Enabling B2B Engine to SMEs, is the upgrade edition of SME e-commerce solution. This software is for SMEs and customizes its online marketing and sales that beyond all other B2B platforms. It is also a core content for both Subaye and Google. We will invite fair exhibitors and a number of guests of the website industry to the upcoming International SME Fair and extend extensive consultation, communication, discussion and cooperation.''

MyStarU.com, Inc. (MYST) is a Total Solutions Provider that offers Integrated Communications Network Solutions and Internet Content Service in universal voice, video, data web and mobile communications for interactive media applications, technology and content leaders in interactive multimedia communications. It develops, markets and sells a universal media software solution for enterprise-wide deployment of integrated voice, video, data web and mobile communications and media applications. Mystaru.com, Inc. does business in Asia via its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Mystaru Ltd. (formerly known as IC Star MMS, Ltd. www.mystaru.com, www.skyestar.com, www.goongreen.org, www.icurls.com, Guangzhou TCOM Computer Technology Limited and majority-owned subsidiary Subaye.com, Inc.

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Interxion Sponsors Web Hosting Transformation Summit

2008-09-08T04:34:00-04:00

Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) Carrier-neutral data centers, Interxion, will support the global forum for hosting, IT services and Internet infrastructure sectors, as a Gold Sponsor, will host the Hosting Transformation Summit North America.

The summit will be held in Las Vegas from September 15th to 17th. In addition to the sponsorship, Phil Collerton, Interxion EVP Operations, will represent the company during a panel session on efficient data centre design.

Dick Theunissen, Chief Marketing Officer of Interxion remarked, ''We sponsor this event because we believe in sharing expertise and discussing developments across the global industry. In addition, there is growing demand from American organisations for high specification transatlantic infrastructure. With 23 data centers in 11 countries, we are in an excellent position to provide a complete pan-European solution.''

Now in its fourth year, the conference has established itself as a leading event on data centre management. This year's focus will include the rise of the green data centre combined with virtualization and its potential to transform the industry. Corporate leaders, senior IT architects and financial professionals come together for two days to learn, network and map out strategies for today's marketplace.

Interxion is a European provider of carrier neutral data centers. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 23 carrier-neutral data centers located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion's data centers offer cost effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks.

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1&1 Internet, Debuts Web Culture Study

2008-09-08T04:17:00-04:00

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - (Website Hosting Directory) Hosting company, and subsidiary of United Internet, 1 and 1 Internet, has released a study indicating that the US is the friendliest on the web.

Compared to British, Germans, French and Spanish - Americans seem to be the most concerned about personal online identity and critical of online material. Americans also use the web more effectively to gain friends than Europeans, according to the new research.

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nd online. In comparison, Germans are the second most web-friendly, with 51 percent gaining a friend online, followed by France and Spain, with less than half (47 and 42 percent, respectively) and lastly, the British with only 16 percent making a friend online.

The study of 5000 consumers(1) also found that Americans are the most critical - with 76 percent admitting to quickly judging others solely based on online material (photos, blog entries, resumes, Facebook profiles), while only 46 percent of Britons and Germans (74 percent) admit to quickly judging online.

The '1 Online Attitudes Study' found that 76 percent of Americans believe you can make a reliable overall assessment of a person online. There was a clear difference between Europe and the US on the issue. In the UK, only 46 percent of the public believe you can make a clear overall assessment of a person online. Similarly, only 57 percent of Spanish, 54 percent of French and 43 percent of Germans agreed that it is not possible to judge an individual from their online material alone.

Oliver Mauss, CEO of 1 and 1 Internet Inc. noted, ''It appears that Americans are leading the pack in using the Internet for social purposes. Based on the Americans' success in achieving friends via the web, a person's online identity may be a reliable way to make an evaluation for a relationship. Therefore, it is highly recommended to use a controllable way to display personal material online for accurate representation, such as with a personal website.''

Reflecting the degree to which Americans judge each other online, the US public is more concerned over the issue of their own personal online identity than Europeans. 77 percent of Americans admit to having concerns about how they may appear online, compared to half of Britons (49 percent), 45 percent of Germans, 44 percent of French and only 38 percent of Spanish.

The research suggests that the more seriously a nation takes personal online material, the more success its residents enjoy in establishing meaningful online relationships. 1 and 1 Internet, the world's largest web host by known servers provides a one-stop-shop for web solutions. 1 and 1 offers a full range of domain names, feature-rich web hosting, servers and ecommerce products.

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

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Web Hosting Industry Survey Results Revealed

2008-09-05T13:30:34-04:00

Toronto, Canada - (The Hosting News) - September 5, 2008 - Tucows hosting industry survey results conducted by its reseller services group, OpenSRS, at the HostingCon 2008 conference in Chicago last month, have been issued.

Survey findings revealed resellers of email and domain names are missing significant business opportunities to tap into social network users. Of the respondents, 60% have their own blog or personal website, and nearly three-fourths use social networks like Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and FriendFeed to share information with friends and family.

Ken Schafer, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Tucows noted, ''While the web hosting industry does not view social networks as a threat to its business, people are going to functional-hosts for services that allow them to share information online. This demonstrates that there are opportunities for web hosts to tap into consumers who embrace social networks - but these opportunities are being overlooked by the very industry that knows the Internet best.''

The survey revealed, that despite the majority of people using social networking services, 81% of the respondents in the web hosting industry do not believe these 'web 2.0' or functional-hosting businesses could hurt their business.

Mr. Schafer added, ''It's important that as the web hosting industry moves forward, we understand that Internet users are seeking a customized, personalized, Internet experience for both personal and professional reasons. Ultimately, it’s about customer relationships. Providers and resellers need to work together to provide the support, services and infrastructure that give users the best experience.''

Other results of the survey revealed that 73% of all domain name resellers enjoy working with their provider. In addition, three-fourths of domain name resellers believe their provider understands its needs and nearly one-half have no complaints with their provider, but of those that did, the top complaints were poor communication or support and lack of the full range of services their customers want.

Mr. Schafer noted, ''It's always great to receive positive feedback from the industry - OpenSRS has made a strong commitment to our reseller community because they have been incredibly supportive of us. By making it easy to sell and manage the highest quality Internet services, we give our resellers the tools they need to be successful.''

In 1999, Tucows became the first domain name wholesaler to be accredited by ICANN and chose the name OpenSRS for its domain name service. Recently relaunched to celebrate its resellers sustained loyalty, OpenSRS today remains one of the world's largest wholesale domain registrars as well as the most reseller-friendly, and has expanded its offerings to include hosted email and SSL certificates. OpenSRS has grown steadily each year and today boasts over 9,000 active resellers on six continents. Those resellers, in turn, have the potential to reach millions of end users.

OpenSRS is a global provider of wholesale Internet services to web hosting companies and ISPs. Wholly owned by Tucows, Inc., OpenSRS provides wholesale services for hosted email, domain name registration, Personal Names, and SSL certificates.

Tucows provides Internet services for web hosting companies and ISPs. Through the global network of over 9,000 service providers, its OpenSRS group provides millions of email boxes and manages over eight million domains. Tucows is an accredited registrar with ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). The company holds a domain name portfolio of approximately 150,000 domain names that are available for sale, monetized through advertising and support our wholesale Personal Names Service. Its Retail division sells Tucows services to consumers and small business owners through Domain Direct, IYD (It's Your Domain) and NetIdentity.

To learn more about OpenSRS, please visit: http://opensrs.com.

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CFDynamics Sponsors BFusion & BFlex Conference

2008-09-05T13:12:02-04:00

The Colony, Texas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 5, 2008 - Web hosting company, CFDynamics, will sponsor the 2nd annual BFusion and BFlex conference, scheduled for September 6-7 at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

The conference is currently booked with dozens on a waiting list. Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer Relations for CFDynamics noted, ''We are thrilled to be involved with a conference of this caliber. The BFusion and BFlex conference is one of a kind and does a lot to support the Flex and ColdFusion communities.''

The BFusion and BFlex conference is unique; it offers attendees free, hands on training building applications tailored to the beginner and the most advanced developer. The focus of the first day of the conference is completely on ColdFusion and the second day, Flex applications.

Bob Flynn, Conference Director added, ''We are absolutely overwhelmed by the response this year. This is not your typical sit-down conference.''

Mr. Flynn added, ''We are pleased with CFDynamics’ sponsorship this year. The giveaways and free hosting they provide will essentially tie in the memory of the training to the physical mementos the attendees take away from the event. When people ask me for referrals for a great hosting company, I don't hesitate before recommending CFDynamics.''

CFDynamics has been hosting websites for over a decade and prides itself on being a customer-oriented Web host, specializing in ColdFusion technology. CFDynamics combines years of development and expertise with excellent customer service to provide individuals, small businesses and large corporations with budget-friendly dedicated and shared web hosting solutions.

To learn more about the BFusion and BFlex conference, please visit: www.bflex.info.

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Server Intellect Premieres Microsoft SQL Server 2008

2008-09-04T12:24:52-04:00

Orlando, Florida - (The Hosting News) - September 4, 2008 - Enterprise web hosting solutions, and Advanced Windows-based shared, virtual private server (VPS), dedicated firm, Server Intellect, has unveiled its new Microsoft SQL Server 2008 line of Windows Dedicated Servers.

Eric Pratt, CEO of Server Intellect noted, ''Server Intellect is jointly partnered with Microsoft in the SPLA program (Service Provider's Licensing Agreement). We are proud to be one of the first Microsoft Gold Certified Partners to offer Microsoft SQL Server 2008. I feel this new product release justly reflects our commitment and experience with the entire Microsoft product line and better positions Server Intellect as an Industry Leader in the Windows Server market.''

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a major upgrade to the previous 2005 version. It offers an array of new and advanced features such as a new Resource Governor, full Database Encryption, Improved Auditing, Row based Index Exclusion and IntelliSense - Microsoft's implementation of auto-completion - for writing and editing SQL Queries.

The SPLA provides Server Intellect the ability to provide customers with the most current Microsoft product versions at a flexible cost structure. Server Intellect offers SQL Server 2008 across its entire Dedicated Server product line and provides full managed support for the product. SQL Server 2008 is available in multiple editions to support the varying server needs of businesses of all sizes. Server Intellect offers five editions including; Express, Web, Workgroup, Standard, and Enterprise. The Express Edition is offered on all dedicated servers at no additional charge, and the other editions begin at $25 per month.

Adam Cady, CTO of Server Intellect remarked, ''As a company who is focused on Microsoft hosting technologies we are excited to offer the latest edition of Microsoft SQL Server on all of our dedicated servers. The addition of SQL 2008 support fits into our focus of providing our customers with the latest technology to meet the growing demands of the online marketplace. We have drawn on our close relationship with Microsoft to be one of the first providers to offer Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on a dedicated server platform.''

A detailed comparison chart which lists the differences between the five versions is available on Server Intellect’s Website. For more information about SQL Server 2008, please visit: www.serverintellect.com/dedicated/sqlserver2008.

Server Intellect is a subsidiary of Client Intellect, Inc, and is a provider of managed Dedicated Server solutions. The company was founded in 2003 and is located in Orlando, Florida. Options range from basic web hosting services and dedicated server packages to sophisticated enterprise solutions encompassing multi-server load balanced configurations. All of the options are explained in detail on the site, allowing visitors to make better informed decisions.

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AIT Offers Free Domain Offer

2008-09-04T12:01:41-04:00

Fayetteville, North Carolina - (The Hosting News) - September 4, 2008 - Hosting and domain registrar, Advanced Internet Technologies (AIT)'s tyBit Unified Search, is offering all new customers until September 15th, a free domain name and year of web hosting.

In order to take advantage of this offer all you have to do is call 1-800-878-4084 and speak with a customer service representative who will walk you through the steps of creating a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising account in the tyBit Search Engine and receiving your initial, FREE $50 credit. tyBit, the cutting edge client side search engine, is generating more than 40 million searches per month since its launch in June, ranking it in the top 10 engines at about #6.

Kitti Jo Finch, General Manager at tyBit offered, ''We have 6,000 advertisers currently in our PPC module alone.'' Wally Bell, a customer, noted, ''I have been one of the Beta advertisers and I am extremely impressed with the tyBit ad module, reports, and results of my online campaigns. I will definitely continue to advertise after the Beta period is over.''

It is estimated that there are over 12 million small businesses in the US and only 300,000 can afford to advertise online. With this one of a kind offering, AIT and tyBit are giving small businesses the perfect opportunity and tools to not only create a website and make their business available online but an advertising venue to drive new traffic to their stores. If small businesses are only interested in reaching their local market, tyBit gives them the ability to limit where their ad displays by state, city, or even zip code in a very affordable manner.

Avery Skelton, VP Sales and Marketing for AIT added, ''Just as the cost of Internet access is becoming more affordable, AIT and tyBit believe that the cost to advertise to these new Internet users should be just as affordable.''

tyBit is a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, an industry trade association dedicated to maintaining the highest standards in online advertising. tyBit Inc. began development of its search engine and social network in late 2006, its beta version in the second quarter of 2008 and will ''go live'' end of third quarter 2008. tyBit is affiliated with AIT (www.AIT.com?pdkw=pr-ew-08-27-2008), a technology company that has achieved 11 straight years of sustained profitability and has generated $100s of millions in revenue while creating a profound economic influence on its surrounding community. AIT has been named 2 times to the Inc. 500 list of fast growing firms, 3 times to the Deloitte Touche Fast 500 list, and has been previously named as the NC Entrepreneur Firm of the Year.

To learn more about AIT, please visit: www.ait.com.

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SoftLayer Honored by Metroplex Technology Business

2008-09-03T13:28:15-04:00

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 3, 2008 - Web hosting virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has been added as a Fast 50 Technology Company, by Metroplex Technology Business Council.

The Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), is the largest technology trade organization in Texas. Its 2008 Fast 50 contains the 10 fastest-growing technology companies in the Dallas/Fort Worth area based on percentage revenue growth over the last year and the 40 fastest-growing technology companies in the Dallas/Fort Worth area based on percentage revenue growth over the last five years.

Cindi Keith, partner/technology marketing industry leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and co-chair of the MTBC's Tech Titans steering committee noted, ''The Tech Titans and Fast 50 Awards provide the premier recognition of fast-growing, highly innovative companies that contribute to the vibrancy of the North Texas economy and make our region an exciting place to live and work. We look forward to showcasing the true leaders in our industry and celebrating their hard work and creativity.''

The rankings of the Fast 50 will be revealed at the Tech Titans and Fast 50 Awards gala event at the Marriott Legacy Town Center in Plano, Texas on Friday, September 26, 2008.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer, SoftLayer Technologies Inc. remarked, ''SoftLayer is thrilled to be recognized for the Tech Titans/Fast 50 Technology Companies. We consider MTBC's Tech Titans to be a very prestigious award and are honored to be considered for the 2008 Fast 50.''

The North Texas region is one of the leading centers for technology business and innovation both in the U.S. and globally. The AeA (American Electronics Association) recently ranked the Dallas-Fort Worth area fifth among U.S. cities in high-tech employment, with approximately 176,000 high-tech workers. In addition, the Dallas-Fort Worth area ranked second nationwide for employment in both the telecommunications services and internet services sectors, and the region is also home to one-half of Texas technology workforce.

The Tech Titans Awards were launched in 2001 by the Metroplex Technology Business Council, North Texas' most comprehensive organization supporting technology. The prestigious annual contest recognizes outstanding information technology companies and individuals in the North Texas area who have made contributions during the past year locally, as well as to the technology industry overall. The Tech Titans committee is a group of dedicated volunteers who organize the awards ceremony each year, and judges for the contest are drawn from a variety of disciplines in technology, leaders in the DFW area and past winners.

Founded in 1994, the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC) is a non-profit organization composed of approximately 300 members that include technology businesses and providers from across the DFW Metroplex. The MTBC produces numerous events, including monthly Management Luncheons, Technical Luncheons, RFID Special Interest Group events, CEO Forums, Tech Week in Austin and the annual Tech Titans Awards and Fast 50 event.

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. 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.

More information about the Tech Titans Awards event, please visit: www.metroplextbc.org/techtitans.

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Hosting Affordability, Focus of New Custom Design, E-Commerce Solution

2008-09-03T13:14:50-04:00

Orlando, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 3, 2008 - Custom website design site, Vistrex LLC's bestsitedesign.net, has launched a complete solution for businesses and individuals, developed to allow for a more affordable website design and hosting solution.

Logo, hosting, SSL shopping cart (if desired), and website design for $19.99 a month, and unlimited website design/logo changes for the duration of the monthly contract.

Deepak Bansal, Founder and President of Orlando based Vistrex LLC noted, ''This has been the missing link for a long time. There are plenty of affordable web hosts out there (many of dubious quality), but hosting is useless without a quality website and website design. People have become savvy enough that they can spot cheap template sites from a mile away, and templates can be difficult to customize to your specific needs. And you still have to spend good money to get a decent logo design, and get a programmer to setup a quality secure shopping cart for you. Now you can get it all for the price of what decent hosting would cost you alone. With one signup you are now guaranteed a quality web presence at a very affordable price. Why just get hosting alone when you get your website professionally designed and maintained as well for the same price?''

To celebrate the launch of this new product, Vistrex LLC is giving away one year free domain registration to the first 100 signups. Mr. Bansal explained, ''Our domain registration prices are very competitive, a .com registration normally costs $9.99 but if you are one of our first 100 customers we will waive registration fees for the first year. Simply signup normally and we will send you details on how to obtain your free one year registration.''

Mr. Bansal continued, ''Most custom web designers act like they're attorneys. They have fancy offices, and they'll bill you $50-$75 an hour or more, even if they're just spending a few minutes responding to an email. And even after you spend an arm and a leg to get your website done, a couple of months go by and now your needs have changed. You need to update your website, but you wince thinking about the cost. So you try to make do with what you have. This is bad for your business, and no way to conduct yourself online. You have to keep your content fresh and up to date. Now you can do so without worrying. We give you peace of mind that you will be taken care of.''

Mr. Bansal added, ''Our hosting is provided by Mosso, which is a division of Rackspace, a publicly traded industry leader in hosting. They will provide our customers with 24x7x365 support via live chat or phone. They have a unique auto scaling cloud computing environment that automatically allocates more resources and bandwidth as loads rise. This allows access to virtually unlimited resources and bandwidth. Our domain registration customers also get 24x7x365 phone support. And all support is provided in the USA. Most cheap hosting will vastly oversell their resources and outsource support overseas. You won't see that with us.''

''As far as web design we've taken all the overhead out of it. With volume we will keep our talented web designers/graphic artists continually working, there's no downtime. We all work from home, again allowing for minimal overhead and happy employees. We take happy customers seriously and want every customer to be a customer for life. We believe in the quality of our work, so we offer a 100% money back guarantee. If at anytime during the first month of service if you don't like quality of our work we'll happily give you a refund, no questions asked. But we know that won't happen.''

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3FN Premieres New Discount Program

2008-09-02T13:46:02-04:00

San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - September 2, 2008 - Server, hosting, colocation and shared web hosting company, 3FN.Net, has launched a new discount program for all web hosting customers.

A web hosting brand since 1999, Triple Fiber Network has instituted its new discount program for all web hosting customers, designed to allow all 3FN web hosting customers to receive generous discounts off the price for the company's web hosting service. The requirements to participate are simple, and any web hosting customer of 3FN is eligible and welcome.

Dean McToner, 3FN spokesperson explained, ''Our web hosting company invites all our customers, who use our web hosting services, to participate in our newly launched discount program. We always go towards our customers creating the most favorable web hosting conditions, and our new discount program proves this once again. The application for a discount is simple. Our customers can apply filling the online form to send a request. The discount for web hosting services is granted for the exchange of placing a small company advertisement anywhere on websites of our web hosting customer. The present rates start from 5%, and both dedicated server customers and virtual hosting customers can participate. In the future, it is also very possible that the amount of the discount will be increased with the program efficiency progressing. We have a strong intention to bring more benefits to our web hosting customers, which become a pleasant addition to our high-quality web hosting services.''

In addition, the recently launched new discount program makes premium web hosting services more attractive price wise. The constant concern about the quality of the provided web hosting, and the creating the most favorable web hosting pricing policy shows the company's attitude to its customers. The web hosting by 3FN stands not only for the quality web hosting service, but also for a significant devotion and commitment to the company's customer community. The new discount program makes web hosting by 3FN more affordable and customer-friendly.

In July, 3FN enhanced its hosting services, with new backup shared hosting plans and backup dedicated server offerings. The new offerings are as in response to the growing customer demand. The company created the new hosting solution, as an ideal comprehensive backup solution, meeting all customer backup requirements. The new backup dedicated server is particularly notable, for its cost-effective pricing structure, and high reliability.

The company has added newly created backup web solution to its comprehensive range of various provided web hosting plans and dedicated servers. New dedicated server is provided with the full set of monitoring and management services and tools as well as all 3FN dedicated servers and web hosting plans, however, this backup server is powered with additional backup features in order to create complete backup solution that will satisfy every customer demand.

New backup dedicated server and backup shared hosting plan deliver end-to-end recovery that allows 3FN's hosting customers to receive the original state of their data and files. Backup servers are powered with advanced services that guarantees the success of all recover processes without failure. Backup processes and services on this dedicated server may be customized depending on customer needs, customers can schedule backup on servers as they need.

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.

To learn more, please visit: www.3fn.net.

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RebateRabbit Launches Cash-Back Reward Program

2008-09-02T13:30:24-04:00

East Greenville, Pennsylvania - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 2, 2008 - A cash-back rebate program for consumers searching for web hosting, offering rewards for new sign ups from more than a dozen leading hosting providers, has been launched by RebateRabbit.

Hosting consumers can choose from a list of RebateRabbit approved web hosting providers, and select a desired shared hosting plan. Once the consumer purchases a qualified hosting plan and the sale is validated, RebateRabbit sends a cash reward directly to the customer through PayPal or mailed check. Rewards range between $25 and $60, depending upon the hosting provider and type of plan purchased.

Steve Quatrani, Operations Manager at RebateRabbit noted, ''We developed RebateRabbit to not only save consumers money on web hosting, but also to help them find providers that offer a real value with a high quality service. For every reputable hosting provider operating today, there are dozens more that the industry could live without. In building our list of qualified providers, we performed extensive testing to make sure each is nothing less than top-notch, from infrastructure and hardware to customer support. We are helping consumers make a sound decision on web hosting, and at the same time, offering a big reward.''

To build its list of recommended Web hosts, RebateRabbit used a variety of tools to determine the community standing of each company, including examining customer reviews, conducting interviews with customers, and analyzing service offerings. It also performed a myriad of tests on service level, including random customer support testing, uptime monitoring, and performance testing.

Launched in 2008, RebateRabbit is a service that offers cash rewards to consumers who sign up for qualified web hosting plans from world-class hosting providers. With more than a dozen in-network providers, RebateRabbit offers the largest program of its kind on the Internet.

To learn more abut RebateRabbit, please visit: www.rebaterabbit.com.

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