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Dedicated Server Provider, ServerChoice, Offers VPS Hosting Trial

2009-04-30T09:36:00-04:00

London, United Kingdom (The Hosting News) The company will offer the first three months on any VPS hosting product for free, in addition to free setup on all VPS accounts.

Mark Boost, ServerChoice Managing Director remarked, ''Our VPS solutions provide an invaluable balance between complete dedicated web hosting control and affordable shared hosting-like pricing. By offering a 3 month free trial period we are giving customers the opportunity to gauge for themselves the advantages of running their own virtual server with absolutely no obligation to buy.''

ServerChoice offers a range of VPS packages on the three month free trial. The Virtual Server products are available via Windows or Linux based operating systems and offer up to 25GB disk space and a guaranteed 448MB RAM. In times of low server load, users will find they can burst above this limit.

Mr. Boost added, ''We are so confident that customers will become lifetime ServerChoice customers that we see this three month free trial as a way of thanking clients for their loyalty in advance.''

ServerChoice has stated that the 3 month free trial offer is available to new customers who sign up to any VPS package before the end of April.

ServerChoice is one of the UK's fastest growing server specialists offering a huge range of affordable and reliable hosting solutions. All servers run on state-of-the-art industry software/hardware to provide the best server performance possible.

For more information about ServerChoice or to learn more about the VPS hosting three month free trial, please visit: www.serverchoice.com.

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Drift2 Web Hosting Firm, Acquires Shared Web Host, Utaria.Net

2009-04-29T09:17:00-04:00

Pittsburgh, PA (The Hosting News) Greg Pruitt, CEO of Drift2 Web Services, Inc. remarked, ''Utaria.net has offered valuable and quality hosting services successfully for the last six years. With our acquisition, we intend to introduce a level of service for Utaria.net customers that offers more personalized customer support and access to a more robust collection of features.''

The Utaria.net brand will be discontinued once the migration is complete and all customers are informed of the change. The acquisition is hoped to enable Drift2 to serve a broader variety of shared hosting clients and grow at a faster pace. Both Utaria.net and Drift2 currently utilize the H-Sphere control panel to provision and manage shared hosting accounts, making the integration of the two companies virtually seamless. Drift2 plans to integrate all existing Utaria.net customers into its primary server cluster and ultimately manage all customers under the Drift2 brand.

Serving customers for more than six years, Utaria.net originally started in Duluth, Minnesota before being acquired by a Baltimore-based owner. It currently operates hosting servers in multiple datacenters and serves customers from eight countries.

Shared web hosting plans from Drift2 start at just $4.95 per month for personal hosting and range to $49.95 per month for corporate hosting packages.

Since April 2003, Drift2 has provided award-winning shared and reseller hosting services to businesses and individuals in the United States and abroad. It currently supports the Linux platform and operates an H-Sphere powered cluster.

To learn more about Drift2, please visit: www.drift2.com.

For more about Utaria.net, please visit: www.utaria.net.

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Hosting.com, Web Hosting Provider, Debuts VMware Cloud Trial Offer

2009-04-28T09:34:00-04:00

Louisville, KY (The Hosting News) VMware vSphere 4 is the industry's first operating system for building the internal cloud, complementing the robust CloudNine solution, which is built on a standards-based architecture that includes the VMware platform.

CloudNine provides cloud hosting and Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions to companies and organizations across all verticals and segments. CloudNine delivers virtually unlimited computing resources, a redundant infrastructure, outstanding flexibility and easy expandability on the reliable VMware platform.

As part of the VMware vCloud initiative, developers, IT professionals, SMBs and enterprises are invited to experience Cloud Computing firsthand with 30 days of complimentary cloud infrastructure from CloudNine. The cloud environment includes a dedicated pool of unlimited processing, memory, storage and networking resources with server root access, online customer management portal, Windows and Linux OS options and 24x7 technical support.

Jonathan Erwin, VP of Sales and Marketing for Hosting.com continued, ''VMware vSphere 4 is not only an exciting launch for VMware, but also for the entire virtualization and cloud computing communities. As part of the VMware vCloud initiative, the CloudNine trial offer will increase accessibility to cloud computing and hosting for companies of all sizes.''

As a VMware vCloud service provider, Hosting.com works closely with VMware and other manufacturers to deliver enterprise-level performance and reliability to every customer. Leveraging the VMware vSphere 4 platform, CloudNine is enterprise-ready and compatible with the applications that matter to businesses of all sizes. Hosting.com and VMware are working closely to bring customers the private cloud, which will allow clients to deploy workloads in the cloud environments, on or off premise, that best align to their business needs.

Aaron Hollobaugh, Hosting.com Marketing and Communications Director noted, ''Virtualization and VMware are revolutionizing the hosting industry, and that's exactly why our relationship and this offer are needed in the marketplace today. Hosting companies have two choices -- invest in and provide virtualized, clustered solutions to their clients, or watch the competition virtually swallow their revenues.''

With this special offer many barriers to cloud computing are reduced and in some cases eliminated. Cost is no longer a barrier to introduce an organization to the benefits of cloud hosting and computing. The dynamic CloudNine infrastructure recognizes a business's evolving needs and reacts instantly to provide the most reliable and scalable solution. Hosting.com expects this offer to further lunge their offering into the forefront of cloud hosting solutions.

Dan Chu, vice president, emerging products and solutions, VMware remarked, ''As part of the VMware vCloud initiative, we are excited to work with Hosting.com to bring cloud services solutions to our customers, and to enable users to easily test drive the cloud with this new free trial. VMware and Hosting.com will continue to work closely together to deliver private cloud solutions to business customers looking to leverage the cloud while maintaining the service levels, security, and manageability of their internal IT environments.''

Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding 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 operates SAS 70 Type II certified data centers in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California and is currently expanding into Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia.

For more information, please visit: www.hosting.com/cloud.

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Hosted 5th Data Centres Europe Attendance, Sustains Prior Years

2009-04-27T09:24:00-04:00

London, United Kindgom (The Hosting News) Nicola Hayes, vice president at BroadGroup remarked, ''Once again we are delighted that our flagship event has sustained its lead in providing content, value and networking opportunities which this year will be unparalleled given the high percentage of CXOs attending. In addition to the conference and exhibition, this year's awards ceremony will be held in Trinity House, an historic but relaxed backdrop to network effectively at the supper and party complemented by a jazz quartet and the awards ceremony.''

5th Data Centre Europe is the leading regional forum for data centre, managed services, outsourcing and cloud computing businesses. The conference brings together Data centre operators, service providers, telcos, network infrastructure providers, managed services specialists, systems integrators, enterprise and government IT directors, property and investment firms, law firms, professional intermediaries, consulting firms, regulatory bodies, and supplier organizations to inform and update, provide critical insight and offer top level networking opportunities.

This year the fifth annual forum is dedicated to the Enterprise and to discuss their key concerns. The conference will be hearing from some of the leading information officers across the European region, drawing lessons from the North America experience, and creating frameworks for enterprises to rationalise their most critical decisions in the year ahead.

Speakers included the CEOs of Digital Realty Trust, Equinix Europe, Interxion, TelecityGroup, with experts and speakers including Akamia, Arup, BroadGroup Consulting, BNB Developments Ltd, BSRIA, Cisco, Cloud Data, Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, e-Shelter, EBRD, eircom, Financial Times Recruitment Solutions, FVC, the Green Grid, IBM, Lamda Hellix, Macfarlanes LLP, Michael Page International, Migration Solutions, Prism Power Ltd, RabbitMQ, Reed Managed Services, Sungard Availability Services, Tech Mahindra ,VocaLink, Wipro Technologies.

The conference was followed by the Awards Reception and Party which was held at the prestigious Trinity House, at Tower Hill in London.

Sponsors included APC by Schneider Electric, Global Insulation, TelecityGroup, Sungard Availability Services, e-Shelter, Interxion, Equinix, IVI, eBRC, P and T Luxembourg, eCooling Solutions, Globeron, Migration Solutions, Lamda Hellix Data Centers, ARUP, CBRE, the Colocation Exchange, Rackwise, TDB Networks, DentonWildeSapte LLP, Sentrum, Uptime Institute, BSRIA, BCS, BIFM, WebHosting Info, DCS, IXNewsSearch, SE10, Datacenter Journal, and Data Centre News.

To learn more, please visit: www.datacentres.com/dce.

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Go Daddy Web Hosting Domain Registrar, Offers Marketplace Membership

2009-04-24T09:28:00-04:00

Scottsdale, AZ (The Hosting News) According to the company, this means vendors don't have to calculate different revenue formulas, deal with shifting fees or renew spiraling membership dues.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder remarked, ''Listen, you shouldn't need to be an accountant to sell something online. The pricing structure we have put in place for Go Daddy Marketplace is simple, it's affordable and it gives you access to millions of Go Daddy customers.''

Go Daddy Marketplace opened for business earlier this year - offering products from electronics to sporting goods, jewelry to antiques. Since its debut, vendors of all kinds have joined to sell their merchandise to Go Daddy's millions of online visitors worldwide. In fact, vendors using Quick Shopping Cart can import products directly to Marketplace with Go Daddy's easy Import Wizard.

Go Daddy Marketplace follows Go Daddy's core principles - offer an online product people want and need - then make it easy to use and affordable.

Go Daddy Marketplace allows Internet merchants to increase their customer base exponentially. While most sole proprietor Web sites likely have hundreds - maybe even thousands - of customers who come to see their products, Go Daddy has more than 6.5 million customers and millions more online visitors drawn to the site.

Go Daddy's push-the-envelope Go Daddy Girl advertising is by itself a true attention-getter - always encouraging viewers to visit the company's web site to see cliffhanger endings. Beyond the draw of advertising, Go Daddy is a world leader in domain registration, web hosting and design and new SSL certificates, which are used to keep web sites secure.

Go Daddy's mission is putting people and businesses online easily and affordably. Go Daddy Marketplace brings buyers and sellers together in a secure environment backed by Go Daddy stability and innovation.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 34 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. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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HostMySite Web Hosting, Managed Dedicated Servers, Government Approved

2009-04-21T09:27:00-04:00

Newark, Delaware (The Hosting News) Timothy Kaufman, Director of Compliance at HostMySite remarked, ''As a GSA Schedule Contractor, HostMySite enables the government buyer a great variety of hosting services to help them meet their mandates to reduce costs while still providing quality service and performance.''

HostMySite's discounted pricing structure for the GSA provides government agencies and authorized GSA buyers the ability to meet their budgeting requirements while still maintaining the high levels of service their constituents have come to expect.

The GSA Schedule serves as a pre-approved list of contractors from which government agencies can purchase goods and services. As a schedule 70 contractor, HostMySite's services are listed on the GSA Advantage Website. Authorized buyers can purchase HostMySite's services through the GSA without the complexity of price and contract negotiations. Available services to GSA buyers are Web hosting plans, Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting, managed dedicated servers and colocation services.

As part of the listing process, the GSA reviewed HostMySite's financial statements to ensure the government's confidence in the host's financial stability. Additionally, HostMySite must annually file various reports including a Past Performance Report from Open Ratings in order to maintain their schedule contract. This report evaluates the host's performance in areas of reliability, cost, order accuracy, delivery and or timeliness, quality, business relations, personnel, customer support and responsiveness as reported by current customers.

The GSA contract adds to HostMySite's current VISA PCI Compliance and SAS 70 Type II achievements.

Founded on the principle of Service Defined, HostMySite provides customers with a full range of web hosting services. The range of services includes domain name registration, shared Website hosting, application hosting, virtual private servers, dedicated hosting and fully managed outsourced technology solutions. For customers who need only a small portion of IT services, the host acts as an expert extension of their IT staff to provide flexible, scalable and affordable solutions that increase revenues, decrease costs and enhance productivity. HostMySite's hosting services are supported by 24×7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email and online chat. "We guarantee our services 100%. If for any reason you are not absolutely delighted with the service you receive, we will refund your money."

For more information about HostMySite.com, please visit: www.hostmysite.com.

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Web Hosting Firm, Host The Best, Releases Upgraded HTB Online Storage Script

2009-04-18T06:00:00-04:00

Bronx, NY (The Hosting News) The script, available at $199.99 (USD) can act as a standalone script or integrate seamlessly with your current hosting script, giving you more flexibility with your features to expand your online hosting business.

HTB Online Storage 3.0.1 comes with a variety of useful features for members such as full site back-up and MYSQL database back-up. As well, users can upgrade their paid plans, and manage their website statistics using HTB Online Storage 3.0.1 Administrative features include the ability to mass email all users, control general settings for hosting, automate registration, and the new ability to setup custom FTP ports.

HTB Online Storage 3.0.1 itself supports paypal and 2CheckOut, and requires a Linux based hosting platform with MYSQL v4 or higher, Apache 3 or higher, and PHP 4 or higher. In addition, you will need your own dedicated server, and root FTP access in order to run the software properly.

The script was made available in February 2009 and comes with one free year of updates. Further updates can be secured from Host The Best for a nominal fee of $99 per year. In addition, the script can be secured for $9.99 per month, with a one time fee for the back-up software.

Founded in 1999, Host the Best Software is a provider of scalable Internet hosting solutions to small and medium businesses. The company offers innovative and reliable VPS and Shared Web Hosting services combined with fast, competent and friendly technical support.

To learn more about Host The Best's HTB Online Storage Script, please visit: www.htbsoftware.com/storage.php.

For more about Host The Best, please visit: www.hostthebest.com

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Web Hosting Domain Registrar, Go Daddy, Develops Business Tool

2009-04-18T06:00:00-04:00

Scottsdale, AZ (The Hosting News) Go Daddy Customer Manager allows business owners to track everything they need to know about a customer - then leverage that information to personalize contact with them.

Go Daddy Customer Manager is designed to help service proidersu stay organized and alert to customer needs, which can lead to improved customer service and a better bottom line.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ''Go Daddy's ace in the hole has always been our commitment to customer service. It's the key to success in any business. That's why we created Customer Manager. It allows any business to build strong relationships with its customers - and is just one more way Go Daddy offers an easy and affordable solution to our customers' needs.''

Go Daddy Customer Manager allows users to:

Quickly add contacts on the Web or by importing from a current contacts list
Store customers' important files and past histories all in one place
Easily sort best customers according to sales volume
Create custom groups, mailing lists and filters to segment customers
Attach files to notes and store important customer related details together
Other companies offer similar products, but in today's 'tighten your belt' economy, finding a solution that offers everything a small business or sole proprietor needs can become cost prohibitive. Go Daddy Customer Manager is first and foremost the most affordable CRM solution on the market, easily integrated by existing businesses and start-ups alike, and can be personalized to each individual business owner's needs. This software solution also integrates easily with Go Daddy Marketplace - a new online shopping mall located at GoDaddy.com where vendors can showcase their products to Go Daddy's millions of visitors without the need to create a storefront of their own.

Customer Manager is one of Go Daddy's newest innovations for business. As a world leader in domain registration, web hosting and SSL certificates, Go Daddy's mission is putting people and businesses online easily and affordably. The company manages more than 34 million domains and has more than 6.5 million customers. That success is due in large part to Go Daddy's low-cost products and services, in-house product development and industry-best 24/7 personalized customer care.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 34 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. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn more about GoDaddy, please visit: www.GoDaddy.com.

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HostGator Web Hosting Provider, Partners with RankSense SEO Software

2009-04-17T09:58:00-04:00

Miami, FL (The Hosting News) Chad Bean, Director of Marketing for HostGator and SEO Hosting remarked, ''HostGator and SEO Hosting recognize that in today's highly competitive hosting marketplace, the key to getting and keeping hosting customers is ensuring they are provided all the necessary tools to ensure their success. This of course, includes the ability for customers to successfully market their websites online, especially being able to drive quality, increased traffic from the search engines to their web sites. Now with RankSense SEO our clients have an easy to use, step-by-step SEO tool wizard which walks our customers through the SEO process.''

The highly-advanced RankSense SEO Software Suite delivers robust new SEO capabilities, enhanced flexibility, an intuitive user interface, and vastly improved processes for gathering and manipulating data generated by its integrated SEO software tools. RankSense SEO provides over 12 highly advanced SEO tools designed to simplify the process of organically ranking web pages highly within the major search engines. Unlike other SEO applications, RankSense provides users with a wizard driven tool that walks the user through the necessary steps needed to achieve improved natural search rankings.

According to Curtis R. Curtis, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer with RankSense SEO, ''We are very excited about what partnering with hosting companies such as HostGator and SEO Hosting offers their hosting clients. Today's web site owners understand that over 85% of all website traffic comes from search engines; better rankings can make or break their success. With RankSense's easy-to-use, step-by-step search engine optimization software, it's easier than ever to pinpoint the most profitable, sought after keywords necessary to drastically improve search engine rankings and radically increase the quality and quantity of their natural search traffic.''

RankSense SEO was developed by NemediaSoft, Inc., a leading provider of software and services designed for small businesses, SEO consultants and bloggers. The company's team of highly talented developers has invested over 40,000 hours designing, programming and refining the RankSense SEO management software, a revolutionary SEO software suite designed to simplify and improve the search engine optimization process. RankSense incorporates easy-to-use, powerful SEO technologies and solutions that facilitate the design, execution and management of successful organic search optimization campaigns.

To better serve its rapidly growing worldwide customer base, RankSense SEO now has offices in the USA, Canada and the Dominican Republic.

HostGator is a world-leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting. The company provides hosting for over 1.8 million websites and supports more than 30,000 resellers worldwide with 24/7 technical support and state-of-the-art web hosting tools including free billing software for resellers and access to over 4,500 high quality free web templates. In August 2008, HostGator was recognized by Inc. Magazine as the 21st fastest growing private company in America.

For more information about Host Gator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.

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FatCow Web Hosting Provider, Experiences 29% Growth

2009-04-16T09:42:00-04:00

Burlington, MA (The Hosting News) Paul Bukhovko, Marketing Manager at FatCow remarked, ''FatCow was founded on the idea that if you treat customers well, they'll return the favor. FatCow's customers are engaged and give us great feedback. By listening to their advice, we're able to make real improvements. For example, we've been able to increase customer satisfaction with our support team by 16% since this time last year.''

FatCow credits most of its growth to a few key initiatives. Late last year, the company rolled out its ''Heifercratic Oath,'' (www.fatcow.com/fatcow/heifercratic.bml) which offers free hosting if FatCow fails to meet its seven-point service guarantee, which includes answering calls in two minutes or less on average.

To ensure satisfaction among existing customers, FatCow initiated a new Customer Experience department, which conducts usability studies, focus groups and a variety of service- and product-related surveys. The studies led to improvements in speed and functionality on fatcow.com, as well as improvements to the control panel, availability of online information, and the CGI and MySQL platforms. Early returns indicate that FatCow has made it much easier for new customers to create web sites and e-mail accounts--the key foundations of any web host's success.

The FatCow Web Hosting Company also expanded its hosting offering tremendously by removing storage and transfer limits. It was among the first hosts to integrate into its control panel a number of tools designed to improve search engine optimization and site usability, including Google Webmaster Tools, Google Custom Search and SubmitNet search services.

FatCow increased its advertising budget this year, and Bukhovko saw drastic improvements in conversions in most of FatCow's advertising and affiliate channels. The improvement coincided with enhancements to its hosting plan, tools, platform--and the company-wide commitment to staying customer focused.

Mr. Bukhovko concluded, ''Our customers are happy, which means they're staying with us, buying additional accounts and referring new customers to us. Our external marketing efforts are more successful because our reputation has gotten even stronger. And we're not going to stop here. Next quarter, we'll be utilizing social media to reach out to our customers and develop a better understanding of who they are and what they need from us.''

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

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Hosting Business, Customers of Spun Creations, Acquired by Final ASP

2009-04-15T09:34:00-04:00

Memphis, TN (The Hosting News) In a move to gain more customers in their own local market, Final ASP reached a deal for an undisclosed amount for the Spun Creations Web Hosting business. Spun Creations has served the local Memphis market for over 10 years and will continue to serve it by focusing on Web Development and Web Design.

The company issued the following statement: ''It has been a good move for us and has allowed us to pick up a large number of customers in our area. We have been successfully moving these customers to our more premium line of services like Hosted Microsoft Exchange and Hosted Microsoft CRM.''

Final ASP has said they are speaking to other organizations about possible buyouts and says they are hoping to announce more soon.

Spun Creations provides low-cost Web Solutions to Business Users for daily Communications and Online Operations.

Final ASP has offered Microsoft Exchange hosting and other hosted Microsoft Applications for the last 6 years, including more applications and services than any other similar provider. Products include: Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Microsoft CRM Hosting, and Hosted Blackberry.

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Dedicated Server Web Host, Hivelocity, Promotes Exclusive Deals on Twitter

2009-04-15T09:33:00-04:00

Tampa, FL (The Hosting News) Steve Eschweiler, General Manager remarked, ''Twitter is a wonderful way to not only introduce non-customers to Hivelocity but to let existing customers know of company and network news. We plan on sending out at least one tweet every day announcing a great deal on a new server or cheap way to upgrade an old server. Everyone needs to know, these promotions are exclusive to our Twitter followers and the only way to know about them is to join our tweet.''

Since their first tweet just 2 weeks ago Hivelocity has attracted over 900 followers. The Twitter phenomenon has taken the world by storm and Hivelocity is more than happy to capitalize on its success. From free secondary hard drives to $99 Core2Quad server offers, Hivelocity is making these offers exclusive to only people who have found them through www.twitter.com/hivelocity. Each of Hivelocity's tweets to this point has been one day only and sometimes one hour only offers.

Twitter is a free social networking site that allows its users to send short bursts of information to anyone who signs up as a follower of someone else. Each Tweet is limited to 140 characters and is meant to keep each follower up to speed with user's day to day activities. Companies like Hivelocity using Twitter to keeps its followers up to speed with the company's day to day activity is becoming more and more common.

Recently, Hivolicity garnered a Best Unix Dedicated Host designation, by DedicatedServerDir.com for April 2009, for the third hosting award in 3 months for its dedicated servers.

DedicatedServerDir collects thousands of votes each month on a range of hosting services. Each month a winner is announced based on the sum of votes in each category. In February of this year Hivelocity achieved the Best Windows Dedicated Host at WebHostDir and was voted a Top 25 overall host by Tophosts in March . In addition to the numerous awards Hivelocity has racked up this year, they were also named Web Host Magazine's Editor's Choice for Best Dedicated Host in 2008.

Since its inception in 2001, Hivelocity has earned a reputation for being one of the best values in the dedicated hosting sector. With Core2Duo dedicated servers starting at $75, Core2Quads at $99 and Quad-Core Xeon dedicated servers starting at $165 they seem to have some of the most competitive pricing around. Considering Hivelocity uses SuperMicro hardware and boasts a 99.98% uptime track record over the last 3 years stats by Webhostingstuff while maintaining this great pricing point, these awards seem to be very well deserved.

To learn more, please visit: www.hivelocity.net.

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Dedicated Server Hyper-V Hosting Plan Promotion, Offered at Apps4Rent

2009-04-14T09:22:00-04:00

New York, NY (The Hosting News) Apps4Rent's Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) plans offer the web hosting industry's best value to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) and resellers who are looking for alternatives to dedicated or virtual private servers (VPS).

Wade Dube, Manager, Apps4Rent remarked, ''The Microsoft Hyper-V hosting platform allows Apps4Rent to deliver an improved offering over traditional VPS offerings generally available in the marketplace while still maintaining VPS type price point. These are fully isolated virtual machines, equivalent of dedicated servers, with CPUs and memory resources of separated from the physical server.''

Pricing for Virtual Dedicated Server starts at $49/month with large amounts of disk space, bandwidth and memory with option to upgrade or add more virtual machines as you grow. Additional details of the plans can be found on www.apps4rent.com/Server-Virtualization-VPS-Software-Hosting/Microsoft-Hyper-V-2008/hyper-v-hosting.html

Advantages of Microsoft Hyper-V hosting over dedicated server are that Hyper-V hosting allows virtualization of multiple operating systems, including Windows and Linux, all on the same server. Hosted Hyper-V virtual machines deliver better availability than dedicated servers because they can be migrated from one server to another with no downtime or can be restored from backup with ease. Hosted Hyper-V virtual machines are also easier to scale without purchasing additional hardware, and more secure because each virtual machine is completely isolated from the hardware and from other virtual machines.

Apps4Rent enhances the Hyper-V hosting with add on managed virtual dedicated server offering and installation and support for the most commonly used applications. Customers can choose to go with managed virtual dedicated server and leave troubleshooting, patching, 24x7 monitoring of services and backups to the expert IT staff from Apps4Rent.

Apps4Rent LLC, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a leading provider of hosted enterprise software applications such as hosted Exchange 2007, Research in Motion's Blackberry Enterprise Server hosting, SharePoint hosting, and Hyper-V Virtual Dedicated Server hosting. Apps4Rent's processes are designed to provide 99.99% uptime with clustered infrastructure located in highly reliable top-tier data centers.

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GoDaddy Web Hosting Domain Registrar, Garners Award

2009-04-09T17:03:00-04:00

Scottsdale, AZ (The Hosting News) Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ''We appreciate the recognition because it further confirms Go Daddy’s approach to both customer service and product innovation are firing on all cylinders.''

Winners were announced last night and are selected by other top-ranked businesses, a voting group comprised of 175 of Arizona's No. 1 companies. The distinction represents the business community's favorite companies, or the Best of the Best, in each of ten major industry categories. Go Daddy had been ranked as the top software company and edged out Cox Communications and Verizon Wireless for Best of the Best.

Go Daddy serves more than 6.5 million customers worldwide and employs more than two-thousand people. This year already, Go Daddy has hired more than two hundred people and has been bombarded with resumes. Go Daddy ranked on the latest Best Places to Work list for the fifth year in a row. Go Daddy is known for treating its employees to generous prizes such as mortgages paid for a year, cars, cash and all expense paid vacations, all for which the company foots the tax bill.

Go Daddy is generous within the community as well, having donated more than $1.7 million to various charities last year alone. According to the company, Go Daddy is coming off its best year ever after increasing its revenue by 42 percent in 2008. In the first three months of this year already, and in spite of the current economic climate, Go Daddy recorded its best financial quarter in company history.

While the company is renowned for its racy Super Bowl commercials, Go Daddy is beloved for its customer service. Go Daddy provides all the services and tools needed to establish an Internet presence, whether for business or personal use. Parsons’ business model has always been to develop affordable, feature-rich products and back them up with industry-best customer support.

Go Daddy has held an industry distinction as ''Best Registrar'' for four years running1 and has grown to be more than three times the size of its closest competitor.2 Over the years, Go Daddy has also been honored as Arizona's Most Innovative Company and Business Leader of the Year. The Scottsdale-based Web host provider also has Arizona offices in Phoenix, Tempe, Gilbert, along with facilities in Denver, Colo. and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

GoDaddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. GoDaddy 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 GoDaddy Group, Inc. has more than 34 million domain names under management. GoDaddy 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 the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The GoDaddy 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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Web Hosting Provider, Rackspace, Hosts Cloud Webinar, with Marketbright

2009-04-09T17:00:00-04:00

San Bruno, CA (The Hosting News) Many companies are now moving their data management systems into the cloud to take advantage of the benefits that software-as-a-service provides. These companies are being rewarded with a strategic advantage over their competitors as they become more agile and take advantage of the rapid innovation in the SaaS marketplace.

Marketbright and Rackspace have teamed up for this Webinar to demonstrate how the shift to cloud-based programs is inevitable. The Webinar 'Cloud Sites: Is Your Corporate Website In the Cloud Yet?' will offer:

-- Specific ROI examples of how SaaS and cloud-based sites can reduce your IT expenses and lower risks; -- Reasons why you should choose a Web site and marketing automation platform and not a standalone content management system; and -- Insight into how moving to the cloud improves.

Marketbright provides the industry's only marketing automation platform that is built into and on top of a company's content management system, so you get everything from lead nurturing to email marketing to web content management in one platform, and everything is integrated at the DNA level. Rackspace provides world class dedicated hosting backed by Fanatical Support.

Attendees of this Webinar will be eligible for the Rackspace and Marketbright cloud jump-start program, which will help move a Web site into the cloud at record speed.

Rackspace Hosting delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, 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. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting.

Marketbright delivers the leading software-as-a-service marketing automation solution, enabling more than 10,000 users at companies such as Varonis, Serena Software, SAP Business Objects and Genesys to make contact, manage leads and convert prospects to customers. Marketbright's full suite of integrated applications includes campaign management, email marketing, event management, landing page creation, lead scoring, lead nurturing and membership management.

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GoDaddy Web Hosting Domain Registrar, Participates in Grand Prix

2009-04-07T10:09:00-04:00

Scottsdale, AZ (The Hosting News) Ms. Patrick is the IndyCar Series' most popular driver. She was recently featured in Sports Illustrated’s famous Swimsuit Edition for the second consecutive year. She also made history last year as the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race after taking the checkered flag in Motegi, Japan.

During the off season, Ms. Patrick has certainly been busy. Earlier this year, she also starred in both Go Daddy Super Bowl ads. One of those GoDaddy-esque ads featured Ms. Patrick in the shower with another woman. The second ad, in which Ms. Patrick admitted to “enhancing” her Web site in a spoof of baseball’s steroid hearings, became the Most Watched Super Bowl commercial this year, according to TiVo.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy offered, ''Danica has phenomenal star power. She has it all. She’s focused, determined, competitive and driven. She's a winner. She's smokin' hot. She's a role model. I can’t think of another spokesperson who brings more to the table than Danica.''

One of Ms. Patrick's upcoming Go Daddy ads is bound to raise eyebrows for its edginess. In this one, a highway patrol officer pulls Ms. Patrick over for speeding. What unfolds thereafter may be Go Daddy's edgiest ad ever. The commercial is expected to debut during the Indianapolis 500 broadcast and features a cliffhanger, pushing viewers to the GoDaddy.com Web site for the ''too hot for television'' conclusion.

In a year when the economy is challenging for many sports sponsors, Go Daddy remains a staple for Ms. Patrick, who is scheduled to drive in all 17 races this season. The first race of the season was seen on the VERSUS television network this past Sunday.

Go Daddy will also be the Presenting Sponsor of the 93rd running of the legendary Indianapolis 500 set to take place May 24, which is the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.

Go Daddy is in expansion mode with its hiring and its sponsorships, including deals with NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Brad Keselowski. Keselowski will attempt to qualify in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets for the Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. If he does, he’ll be driving in that race the same day Ms. Patrick races in Florida.

Beyond racing, Go Daddy recently added two new Go Daddy Girls. Just last week, professional golfer and model Anna Rawson joined the ranks of spokeswomen. Also in March, Vanessa Rousso, Team PokerStars Pro became a Go Daddy Girl. Just a few days later, she made history as the first woman to ever reach the final round in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas.

Go Daddy is a world leader in domain registration, web hosting and new SSL certificates. Go Daddy makes getting online easy and affordable by offering products like WebSite Tonight, Go Daddy Marketplace and Quick Shopping Cart, recently rated the most popular shopping cart in a survey by Practical eCommerce. Go Daddy also provides industry-best, 24/7 personalized customer service.

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Dedicated Server Web Hosting Provider, The Planet, Sponsors SaaScon 2009

2009-04-06T09:39:00-04:00

Houston, TX (The Hosting News) Steve Kahan, vice president of marketing and product management at The Planet remarked, ''SaaS and Web 2.0 companies make up a rapidly growing segment of our customer base. For these businesses, high-performance and scalability for their Web sites and applications are critical priorities. With our enterprise-class network and data centers in the U.S. and London, customers rely on us to meet their IT requirements. We expect to meet with new and existing customers to expand on how they can leverage the power of The Planet to enable the success of their Web and SaaS applications.''
Produced by Computerworld, the conference is the world's premier event for business services technologies. Conference topics include cloud computing and SaaS (Software as a Service); on-demand business and information services; and essential building-block technologies for SaaS.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 25,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 14.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Alpha Professional Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

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Web Hosting Provider, Rackspace, Welcomes New President of Cloud Business

2009-04-06T09:36:00-04:00

San Antonio, TX (The Hosting News) Prior to joining Rackspace in 2000, Mr. Moorman held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company, advising a variety of technology firms. Mr. Moorman holds a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Lanham Napier, president and CEO, Rackspace Hosting remarked, ''As our CSO, Lew helped guide Rackspace into many new territories, most notably cloud computing. He is able to visualize the future for both our customers and our company. Cloud hosting and cloud applications are extremely important to us and that is why we’re putting Lew at the helm of these two strategic businesses.''

As the CSO of Rackspace, Mr. Moorman's responsibilities have included the development, marketing and management of new products and services. Most recently, Mr. Moorman has focused on the company’s entrance into both the cloud hosting and cloud applications spaces by spearheading the launch of The Rackspace Cloud (formerly Mosso) and driving the acquisitions of webmail.us, now the backbone of Rackspace's Cloud Applications division, and, more recently, Slicehost and Jungle Disk. He has helped pave the way for Rackspace to emerge as a leader in cloud computing.

In October 2008, Rackspace announced its cloud hosting strategy at the Rackspace Cloud Event. Since the event and the acquisitions of Slicehost and Jungle Disk, the Cloud Business has seen momentum with several new product launches and integrations, customer acquisitions and additions to its leadership team.

Rackspace's cloud business consists of two divisions, Cloud Hosting, also known as Mosso | The Rackspace Cloud, and Cloud Applications. Led by Emil Sayegh, General Manager, The Rackspace Cloud is the company’s fastest growing division, hosting hundreds of thousands of websites and applications for over 16,000 customers. The Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand scalable website, application and storage hosting through its suite of cloud solutions – Cloud Sites, Cloud Files and Cloud Servers. At the core of the Cloud Application division is Mailtrust, led by Pat Mathews, General Manager and Founder. Mailtrust is home to over one million mailboxes and provides email and communication services allowing companies to focus on their core business strategies.

Mr. Moorman added, ''Cloud computing is the next step for business hosting and brings a whole new set of challenges and opportunities for Rackspace. Our investments in these new technologies have yielded strong results and we think the future model of hybrid hosting, the use of traditional hosting and cloud computing along with our trademark Fanatical Support will be a great combination for our customers. I am privileged to lead incredible teams in this important endeavor for Rackspace.''

Mr. Moorman spoke at this week's Web 2.0 Expo in New York City on the topic of cloud computing. He participated in two speaking sessions - the first is a panel discussion titled ''Cloud Operations is The New Killer Job'' and the other session was ''Cloud Computing and the Paradigm Shift That's Coming in IT''.

As the leader and specialist in hosting services, Rackspace® Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry’s best technologies into a flexible service offering, 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 in the US, ranking number 43 on the list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting (www.rackspace.com), email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).

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

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Hosting Resource Agency, TechPad, Releases iNetMania at Apple App Store

2009-04-04T06:00:00-04:00

Phoenix, Arizona (The Hosting News) The iPhone Game is available for a limited-time promotional price of $2.99 USD (regularly $4.99) from the Apple App Store and can be found at http://itunes.inetmaniagame.com.

iNetMania is based upon TechPad's popular board game, ServerMania, which features players competing to build a successful web hosting company and finish with the most money at the end of the game. iNetMania uses a similar format and rule set as the award-winning board game, but instead of a web hosting company, your goal is to create a successful website!

The iNetMania game allows competition with up to four players (either in hot-seat mode with human controlled opponents or an intelligent computer-controlled AI) all the way from the start-up phase to the finish line, with plenty of highs and lows (or ''Spikes and Slumps'') along the way. Increase your web traffic with savvy rolling, lucky card draws and strategy, as more visitors translate into more money - the player with the largest pile of cash at the end of the game wins.

iNetMania has loads of great features, including:

Great graphics with dynamic, fluid, openGL animations
A quick-play option that allows you to get into the game quickly and easily
Easy to understand rules and a low learning curves ensures that anyone can get in on the fun
The ability to create up to 30 profiles to keep track of your progress and prowess
Gameplay achievements (similar to Xbox 360 Achievements) that set gameplay goals, allow you to track your prowess against your friends and lead to unlockable content, including new game pieces!
Auto-save gameplay (if you quit or have to take a call)
An Accelerometer-based, 3D dice cup to roll the die - a first for the iPhone!
Swap n' Play with up to three other AI or human-controlled players
iNetMania is the internet entrepreneur iPhone Game experience that allows you to grow your own website company from the ground up using lifelike scenarios. Make millions on the go with iNetMania for the iPhone. TechPad Productions is one of the creative divisions of TechPad Agency, a social media research and online publication company. TechPad Productions owns and operates www.TheGameReviews.com, one of the fastest growing online video game communities, and publishes video games for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch platforms. For more information, please visit: www.TechPadProductions.com or www.iNetManiaGame.com.

TechPad Productions is one of the creative divisions of TechPad Agency, a social media research and online publication company. TechPad Productions owns and operates www.TheGameReviews.com, one of the fastest growing online video game communities, and publishes video games for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch platforms. For more information, please visit: www.TechPadProductions.com or www.iNetManiaGame.com.

To learn more about the iPhone Game iNetMania, please visit: www.inetmaniagame.com.

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Web Hosting Managed Hybrid Servers, Upgraded at WiredTree

2009-04-02T13:00:00-04:00

Chicago, IL (The Hosting News) The solution was developed as a unique hosting platform offering access to dedicated resources in a virtualized hosting environment.

Zac Cogswell, President of WiredTree noted, ''Leveraging the 'best of both worlds' is the name of the game. Our Managed Hybrid Servers outperform similarly priced dedicated servers by a formidable margin, and as we look to the future, we are positioning our products to compete more aggressively on both performance and affordability.''

Managed Hybrid Servers now boast 2000GB of monthly premium data transfer, full nightly backups, and a variety of other value-added features. To boot, WiredTree pared pricing by 20 percent, reducing the starting cost to only $99 per month.

Unlike virtual private servers, Managed Hybrid Servers include dedicated, guaranteed server resources hosted on enterprise-level infrastructure. However, unlike traditional dedicated servers, Managed Hybrid Servers offer burstable CPU utilization and more flexible data storage options, including RAID-10 configurations.

All Managed Hybrid Server plans are fully managed and include ServerShield security hardening, in addition to 24/7 phone and helpdesk support.

Formed in June 2006 to set a new standard for managed hosting, WiredTree provides a superior managed hosting environment through customer service, innovative network design, a unique suite of services, and the latest technological advances in server hardware. WiredTree designed a network that leverages two logically separated networks – a public Internet network and a private internal network. This modern “network-within-a-network” design allows the company to securely provide a wide range of value-added services for business of all sizes.

To learn more about Managed Hybrid Servers from WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com/managedhybrid.

For more information about WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com.

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Web Hosting Discounts Premiere at WebhostGIANT

2009-04-02T09:46:00-04:00

San Francisco, CA (The Hosting News) The Cheap Hosting Economy Plan is feature rich and now starts at only $2.79 and Multiple Domain Hosting starts at a difficult to believe $4.59. All plans offer a large variety of features to help get any personal or small business user online at an extremely affordable rate.

Leonard Geiger, President and CEO of WebhostGIANT remarked, ''Even though we offer large savings over our competition, it does not mean we are cutting corners. WebhostGIANT has capitalized on years of experience to streamline a service we now offer. Also, we only do shared web hosting. And we do it well. By listening to our clients and providing the additional services they need, we are always ahead of their expectations. We are never happy with what we offer. This is why we are always adding more features and improving upon our industry-leading services already in place.''

WebhostGIANT's Budget Hosting package comes complete with free setup, Unlimited Web Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Unlimited email accounts and the ability to host unlimited subdomains. WebhostGIANT exists to help clients maximize their dollar by offering the best and most affordable web hosting available.

Guarantees such as 30 days or money back, 99.9% uptime and 24/7 technical support, prove the dedication to great-value, high-quality service and the confidence the WebhostGIANT Team have in their services. WebhostGIANT provides all of its clients with industry-leading hardware, software and technology.

Mr. Geiger added, ''All plans have month-to-month options so you won't be locked into any contracts, thus ensuring satisfaction is sustained throughout the use of services. We also do not play the 'Hidden Price Game'. This is where you see a price for hosting on a website and then only when you go to checkout do you find the service price was for a 2 year order and that smaller terms are 2 times higher. This is bad business and WebhostGIANT does not do it.''

WebhostGIANT provides the following advantages over other hosting providers:

Cheapest Web Hosting with Guarantees
100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed
Guaranteed Support Resolution Time
99.99% Network Uptime Guarantee
Space and Bandwidth Match Guarantees
Experience and Financial Stability
Scalable Hosting Solutions
Unmatched Server Reliability
Tons of other Free Stuff
WebhostGIANT is owned and operated by a million dollar Web Solutions Company founded in early 1999 and has sound experience and financial stability. Since 2003 US based WebhostGIANT has been well known around the world for the excellent quality, highest reliability and Cheap Hosting. The company offers many features and free software, all hosted on high-end servers connected to a 99.99% Uptime Guaranteed Network.

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