Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 21, 2008 - Promotions that offer discounts on a selection of dedicated servers and new technologies, have returned to privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet.

Leading the promotional lineup are two of the company’s most popular options: Double Down and Triple Play. Beginning today, customers can double RAM, hard drive disk space or bandwidth at no additional cost on new server orders. Or, they can triple their performance by doubling RAM, hard disk space and bandwidth for a nominal $47 per month. The above offers are good through Aug. 31, 2008, or while limited promotional supplies last.

The company also unveiled new low pricing on select servers. The Xeon 3210 SAS regularly priced at $249 per month - is now $199, a savings of 20 percent. The Xeon 3210 SATA is now $179 per month, down from $199. Additionally, The Planet is offering the Dual Xeon 2.4 SCSI for $115 per month, a 47 percent discount and its lowest-ever listed price from The Planet. The offer includes free setup, a $25 value.

Urvish Vashi, General Manager for dedicated hosting at The Planet noted, ”As customers begin to ramp up their businesses for the fall, these new promotions offer something for everyone, from low single-server pricing to discounts on our advanced Private Rack solution. Along with the quality of our network and data centers, these promotions mean that businesses can gain a significant competitive advantage by outsourcing their IT infrastructure with The Planet.”

The Planet is offering a free fifth server for customers who purchase four servers in a Dedicated Private Rack, a complex hosting solution with customizable options for bandwidth, networking and advanced hosting technologies such as load balancers and firewalls. Customers can also receive free setup - a savings of up to $1,000 - when they add a load balancer to any Private Rack or Virtual Private Rack order.

Ultimately, The Planet’s goal is to provide:

• High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet hosts over 22,000 small and medium-size businesses and 7.7 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24×7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

For more information about the promotion, please visit: www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/server-specials.

To learn more about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

Toronto, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 21, 2008 - Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, congratulates Olympic Karen Cockburn, a Canadian artistic gymnast, on her triumph in Woman’s Trampoline competition, after sponsoring the contender.

Toronto born gymnast Karen Cockburn, competed today and landed herself and Canada a silver medal, bringing her total medal count to three; a bronze in 2000, silver in 2004 and now silver in 2008.

Ms. Cockburn remarked, ”I’d like to thank everyone that made my dream possible. I had a huge outpour of e-mails from my website and blog prior to competition.”

Her journey, to what may be her final trip to any games, has not been an easy one. In 2007 Karen suffered her second knee injury. Her road to recovery began in early 2008 when she stepped foot onto a trampoline for the first time since her surgery.

Though this is her third time competing in the games, Karen never lets this fact go to her head. Facing stiff competition and a past rival there was no room for her injury or cockiness to cloud her mind. Proving that her determination is always present she earned a score of 37.00 and just barely fell short of first place by eight tenths of a point. She is the fourth Canadian ever to win a medal in three straight games.

Thomas Savundra, President, Netfirms Inc. added, ”Congratulations Karen on an excellent performance. It was a strong finish executed with class and poise in one of the most challenging competitions ever.”

After learning that the trampoline was a competitive sport, Ms. Cockburn made the switch. In 1995, Karen injured her knee to the point where she needed reconstructive surgery and had to miss a years worth of training and competitions. Up until 1999 she had to compete with a brace on her knee. Despite the challenges that Karen has faced she still manages to give 110% and never faults on her determination to win.

Touted as the best Canadian thing to happen to gymnastics, Ms. Cockburn is an eight time Canadian champion, a World Champion in women’s trampoline and the reigning World Cup Synchronized Trampoline Co-Champion. Ms. Cockburn already has a summer games bronze medal in 2000 and silver medal in 2004.

Netfirms, Inc., founded in 1998, provides web hosting solutions and technology to successful small and medium-sized businesses, home office, entrepreneurs and individuals worldwide. Netfirms hosts over 1,000,000 websites, with offices in the U.S. and Canada. Netfirms was selected in 2006 as one of HostReview.com’s Top 10 Fastest Growing Web Hosting Companies. Netfirms has been recognized by CIRA as Canada’s largest .CA domain registrars, and will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary in September.

For more information about Netfirms, please visit: www.netfirms.ca.

West Chester, Ohio - (The Hosting News) - August 20, 2008 - Web hosting industry resource firm, iNET Interactive, has acquired growing print publication serving the Search Marketing industry, Search Marketing Standard.

The acquisition also includes associated web properties, SearchMarketingStandard.com, PayPerClickUniverse.com and SEMCompare.com. Launched in early 2006, with the goal to provide readers with practical, relevant and easy-to-understand Internet Marketing information, Search Marketing Standard magazine has grown from a newcomer in the field to an authoritative resource used by over 50,000 search engine advertisers and Internet marketers. Search Marketing Standard’s websites incorporate user-contributed ratings, reviews, and discussion along with professionally-produced, instructional content focused on helping businesses succeed within the rapidly growing field of search and Internet marketing.

Troy Augustine, President and CEO of iNET remarked, ”We are very excited to be able to add Search Marketing Standard to iNET Interactive’s portfolio of media brands. Search Marketing Standard is a strong brand, and it is a perfect complement to our strengths in the web development and web hosting areas.”

The addition of Search Marketing Standard is a natural extension for iNET Interactive, further strengthening its position as the leading media company serving Internet professionals and technology enthusiasts. The iNET Interactive portfolio also includes Web Hosting Talk, the largest online community serving the web hosting and hosted services industry, and Hot Scripts, the largest directory of scripts for the web development community.

Search Marketing Standard was founded by Boris Mordkovich and Eugene Mordkovich and headed by the Editor-in-Chief, Andrey Milyan. Boris will remain engaged with Search Marketing Standard as an advisor while Andrey Milyan will remain editor-in-chief joined with other Search Marketing Standard veterans to continue their sales and editorial roles.

Mr. Mordkovich added, ”Troy and his team fully embrace the commitment our team has given to our loyal readers and advertisers in producing a high-quality publication and online media properties. We have complete confidence that iNET Interactive will continue to grow and develop Search Marketing Standard with the same energy and dedication that we poured into it.”

Search Marketing Standard is the leading print publication covering the search marketing industry along with its associated online properties, including PayPerClickUniverse.com and SEMCompare.com. It was launched in early 2006 with the goal to provide readers with practical, relevant and easy-to-understand information that they could apply to directly improve their search engine marketing campaigns.

Founded in 2002, iNET Interactive operates some of the most prominent online communities, including Web Hosting Talk and HotScripts.com, designed for technology professionals and technology enthusiasts. Its vertically-focused communities incorporate user-contributed ratings, reviews, and discussion augmented with professionally-produced content.

To learn more about iNET Interactive, please visit: www.inetinteractive.com.

Valparaiso, Indiana - (The Hosting News) - August 19, 2008 - An SEO and Web Hosting Demo Player, to provide access for over 160 video tutorials, has been unveiled at web hosting provider, Got Web Host.

The tutorials cover such subjects as the use of the Direct Admin control panel, transferring domains between various registrars, setting up private nameservers, use of phpMyAdmin and many more common tasks that a web host client might undertake.

Tanya Martin, Director of Internet Marketing explained, ”With our demo player you can see Flash tutorials on many web hosting and search engine optimization topics. Plus when we add more demos or tutorials you will get them automatically each time you start the player. You will only need to download a file again when we update the SEO and Web Hosting Demo Player.”

Lloyd Brown, Director of Sales and Business Development, commented, ”We launched our demo player with over 160 tutorials, covering such topics as using phpMyAdmin and managing MySQL, how to manage DNS nameservers and transferring domains with 15 popular registrars like Godaddy and Dotster. We also cover use of popular email programs, use of various FTP clients, and more.”

These tutorials are available free of charge to everyone. New topics will be added regularly and users are free to suggest additional topics.

Mr. Brown added, ”Our tutorials will help people with specific tasks related to web hosting or SEO a lot easier.” To download the player in either .exe or .zip formats click SEO and Web Hosting Demo.exe for the .EXE or SEO and Web Hosting Demo.zip for the .ZIP file. For more information please go to http://seo.gotwebhost.com/seo-web-hosting-demo-player/. Visit the Got Web Host knowledge base at http://seo.gotwebhost.com/ for more SEO and web hosting related topics.

In June, the company instituted an SEO web hosting plan, for its shared plans, as the latest in its web hosting plan offerings. Got Web Host provides SEO web hosting plans for companies concerned with host crowding penalties associated with search engine optimization. Got Web Host offers Multiple Class C IPs to their users. Many companies specializing in SEO have requested or searched for hosting that provided this type of service, we bring it to you with many different packages.

Got Web Host the SEO web host plans include the following features:

• High Bandwidth Virtual hosting with up to 10 GB of storage and 800 GB of transfer.
• Standard Value Servers with dedicated servers beginning as low as $149 a month.
• SEO Starter web hosting plan with two datacenters, 2 nameservers, 2 Class C IPs.
• Virtual SEO web hosting plans ranging up to 30 IPs, 15 individual Class C IPs and multiple or     private nameservers. Multiple data centers are available.
• Dedicated SEO server plans with up to 50 IPs, with up to 10 individual Class C Subnets and multiple private nameservers.
• Customized packages with up to 80 Class C subnets are available upon request.
• Streaming dedicated hosting plans with either BTN or multi-tier one lines.

Got Web Host has been hosting websites since 2002, including Multiple Class C IP addresses for users, as well as a variety of different packages, designed for specific business needs.

For more information about Got Web Host, please visit: www.gotwebhost.com.

Toronto, Canada - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 18, 2008 - Marketing consultancy online, Single Entry Point, at no additional cost, is offering to assist its clients, with free managed web hosting worth $720 per year.

Mike Lascut, Founder of Single Entry Point explained, ”We’re committed to building a better online presence for each one of our clients. Our free managed web hosting provides further unparalleled value to our customers and helps them realize a higher ROI by saving them money right off the bat.”

Single Entry Point’s limited-time managed hosting offer is extended to all new clients who engage the company with a search, email, or web analytics project. The managed web hosting package is valued at $720 per year and includes: free website hosting on Microsoft Windows 2003 servers; free DNS hosting and management; free one-time website installation with no setup charges; free FTP access to client website; and a free email server.

Single Entry Point is an online marketing consultancy devoted to giving large, medium and small companies an extreme edge through search marketing, email marketing and web analytics. With 12 years of search engine experience under its belt, the company continues to catch the attention of North America’s biggest companies thanks to its unique blend of expertise, proprietary technology, and intelligent application of data, all of which have proven to give its clients an unfair advantage and the prospect of unmatched market share.

To learn more, please visit: www.singleentrypoint.com.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 18, 2008 - The Planet, privately held dedicated web hosting company, has been selected by Brazil’s Atitude Digital Media, to manage its mission-critical IT infrastructure.

Helder Conde, Chief Technology Officer of Atitude Digital Media noted. ”In our business, our Webcasts are live, with several hundred people online for each event. Nothing can go wrong with the level of clients we serve. Our reputation is earned every time we conduct a Webcast, so uptime, stability and security are critical to us.”

Based in Sao Paulo, the 20-year-old company provides webcasting services to some of the world’s largest companies, including Pfizer, Schering-Plough, AstraZeneca, Novartis and Avon, as well as a number of medical societies.

In the past four years, the company has conducted more than 700 Webcasts with thousands of hours of live content to thousands of people in more than a dozen countries. A customer of The Planet since 2005, Atitude previously used dedicated hosting services for managing the company’s complex infrastructure.

Mr. Conde noted, ”We’ve grown rapidly, and we were looking for a company that provides all the services and technical expertise of Planet Northstar. Their Anticipation Advantage methodology helped determine exactly what we needed to create a top-notch infrastructure that could scale with our growth, and at a budget that was workable for us. We expanded our footprint to include additional servers, load balancers, firewalls, SAN storage, managed backup and database management. At Atitude, our core values include being responsive, trustworthy and committed to our customers, and I’m impressed our dedicated account team shares these values.”

Steve Kahan, Vice President of marketing and product management with The Planet added, ”Our development of the Anticipation Advantage enables customers to thoroughly plan their IT infrastructure beyond their needs just today. The methodology also provides key process indicators about when they need to begin scaling, which eliminates the worry and frustration many organizations experience in the face of rapid growth. Equally as important, the account team of highly skilled and seasoned experts is always available to customers so they have the confidence that a knowledgeable partner who knows their business is always available to help.”

In its 20-year history, Atitude has kept a keen eye on emerging market trends. The company was originally known for creating high-quality, computer-generated slides and transparencies for corporate presentations, as well as multimedia productions. Today, it is Brazil’s leading provider of Webcasting services, hosting on average more than one each day from three studios in its Sao Paulo offices.

Mr. Conde continued, ”In the last four years, the Internet has emerged as the best platform for communications, and our client base has moved rapidly for both internal and external audiences. Our clients require extensive training both for sales representatives and physicians, and they’ve found Atitude as the perfect solution to meet these needs.”

The company manages the entire event for clients. They work directly with presenters to host the event, sending notification and reminder e-mails to participants, generating reports on results, providing on-demand access afterwards, as well as maintaining extensive databases for each company. According to Conde, the presentations continue to add value for the companies since each one is typically viewed by at least four times the number of live Webcast participants.

Mr. Conde observed, ”In years past, these companies sponsored semi-annual meetings for their sales forces, but today as new studies emerge or competitive products are announced, it’s critical that they have new data immediately, so they rely on our services to meet that demand. At the same time, if one of these companies hosts physicians at an event anywhere in the world, they can Webcast with us from any venue, and we can support the requirement since our bandwidth connections are incredibly robust. With our capabilities, we make their lives much easier.”

The costs for hosting in the U.S. are five to six times lower than those in his native country. While bandwidth costs are slowly declining, ADSL is more common and far less efficient. In addition, because taxes on hardware are approximately 70 percent, hosting provides far better economic sense for his growing business.

Mr. Conde concluded, ”Making the decision to host overseas was difficult. As our international business grew, I knew it was the right direction for our company. We’ve seen other companies emerge in Brazil, and they appear to do a good job, until the participants begin to load. It’s there they fail. Our speed and reliability set us apart, which makes our offering highly competitive.”

Ultimately, The Planet’s goal is to provide:

• High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet hosts over 22,000 small and medium-size businesses and 7.7 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24×7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

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

Spring, Texas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 18, 2007 - Hosting provider, Eleven2 has launched its affiliate program for shared and reseller hosting, offering up to $100 in cash for every referred contract, with no minimum payout.

Rodney Giles, CEO and Founder of Eleven2 noted, ”As we developed our private affiliate program, we noticed a real demand to create an opportunity for members of the public to generate easy income by referring customers to Eleven2. Our program has been unique so far in its high conversation rates, and we look forward to echoing this success with the public launch of E2Affiliates.”

E2Affiliates, which has been in development since May, is the company’s first affiliate program available to the public. Eleven2 had previously operated a private affiliate program available only to existing customers. With today’s launch, Eleven2 has begun accepting new affiliates; increased sales commissions on all hosting plans; and has developed greater marketing resources for affiliates.

There is no fee to join E2Affiliates and no monthly minimum sales requirements. Commissions are offered on a four-tiered commission grid, rewarding affiliates with the greatest sales volume. Payment is made monthly via PayPal or check.

Shared hosting from Eleven2 starts at $6.00/monthly for 60GB of RAID-protected storage space and 6,000GB of monthly data transfer. All hosting plans include both PHP4 and PHP5; spam filtering; AIM technical support; instant account activation; and an innovative automated backup system that stores over 100 restore points.

Earlier this year, the company relocated to its new, spacious headquarters in Spring, Texas, to accommodate the accelerated growth of its business operations.

Since the company opened in 2004, they have seen its clientele double many times over and now services well over 66,000 websites. In that time, Eleven2 has moved its headquarters five times in order to accommodate.

Established in 2004, Eleven2 Hosting was started by two web developers who, at the time, could not find high quality hosting solutions that met their requirements. Now hosting over 60,000 websites and with ten years of experience, Eleven2 offers shared hosting, reseller hosting, and customized dedicated server plans. Data centers include locations in Houston, TX and Atlanta, GA. The company continues to reinvent the customer experience with VIP, an automated support system developed in-house. Eleven2 Hosting also provides domain sales and database/FTP/email hosting for small to medium sized businesses.

To learn more about E2Affiliates, please visit http://www.eleven2.com/affiliates.

To learn more about Eleven2, please visit http://www.eleven2.com.

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - August 15, 2008 - Hosting solutions firm, HostMySite, Inc. has added Hyper-V hosting, to its portoflio of service offerings, the latest in virtualization technology from Microsoft.

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.

Matt Ferrari, Virtualization Solution Architect for HostMySite.com noted, ”By taking advantage of Hyper-V with Windows 2008, our clients have the ability to take all of their solutions, such as their production and development environments, and simultaneously run them together in a completely isolated hypervisor-based 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.

Mr. Ferrari added, ”This technology has brought the reliability of a robust physical environment and combined it with the cost savings of a virtual environment. Additionally, Hyper-V gives tremendous flexibility and ease of management to developers and technology managers who need to deploy virtual environments quickly.”

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 ASP.NET hosting, supported by 24×7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and live online chat.

To learn more about HostMySite.com’s Hyper-V hosting, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/dedicatedservershosting/hyperv.

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

Boston, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 15, 2008 - Reciprocal licensing agreements, have been entered into with 3D platform, virtual community environments provider, Worlds.com.

The company’s cross licensing agreements are designed to leverage each other’s patented software platforms for each company’s strategic benefit. The alliance includes Paid’s merchandising of WORLDS.COM 3D content development and the integration of PAID’s patented e-commerce technology into WORLDS’ online 3D marketplace.

The three-year contract with option for renewal is expected to open an evolving series of links to increase web site traffic, enhance the experience of WORLDS.COM users and members of PAID-managed celebrity fan clubs, and aggressively grow the revenue and profits of both companies and their clients. As an early pioneer in 3D online merchandise sales, WORLDS.COM CEO Thom Kidrin clearly places the initial emphasis on PAID’s ecommerce capture and fulfillment role.

Mr. Kidrin explained, ”Having operated over 50 online ecommerce stores within 3D worlds for artists such as David Bowie and Aerosmith beginning in 1997, Worlds appreciates the multiple challenges in large scale fulfillment and customer service. Paid’s patented platform and experience in the ecommerce market affords Worlds a unique set of features to offer our users with confidence and a seamless user experience. We are also attracted by the nature of PAID’s relationship consulting services in the areas of sports and music industry marketing, and we see ourselves creating new revenue-generating strategies together as part of the natural progression of our business relationship.”

PAID’s ecommerce technology will be integrated into WORLDS.COM by yearend 2008, and simultaneously PAID will begin to offer its celebrity clients a 3D immersive web presence. This relationship also breaks new ground as a licensing opportunity under which WORLDS.COM can broker the use of PAID, Inc.’s patented shipping calculation technology when signing or renewing contracts with their clients.

Keith Garde, President of Paid Inc. celebrity services noted, ”By establishing an overarching relationship between PAID and WORLDS.COM, we have opened the door to expand further into recording artists, sports figures and other well-known brands to reach greater traffic through partnership.”

This multi-dimensional partnership has such potential for mutual benefit that the natural progression approach should have far-reaching impact in the real world, the virtual world and additional marketplaces such as mobile telephony, sponsorship and advertising sales and the introduction of a 3D fan experience via PAID’s membership-driven client web sites.

The Internet is still basically a 2D experience as an outgrowth of print media that emulates other flat forms of traditional media. 3D virtual worlds represent the next trend in the interactive relationship between celebrities and their fan bases and can include exclusive fan-only experiences such as video previews, virtual voice chats with the celebrities, Avatar interaction within the fan community and more. In parallel, WORLDS.COM now has the capability to introduce PAID’s one of a kind ecommerce platform to WORLDS’ new or existing
clients, which today include some of the world’s most familiar brands and entertainment entities.

Other exciting developments to watch for include the potential of mobile promotions strategies and the creation and sale of new, PAID-inspired virtual merchandise as the companies fully explore the potential applications of leveraging each other’s technology platforms.

Worlds.com, Inc. is the 1st pioneering platform in massive multi-user 3D virtual communities and rich immersive environments. (US Patent 6,219,045 and 7,181,691B1) Worlds leverages its patented proprietary technology in partnership with brand leaders in specific market segments to offer visitors multi-user environments that have interactive Avatars, rich media graphics, text chat, voice-to-voice chat, video/audio, Web 2.0 tools and e-commerce. The 3D communities allow visitors to interact and communicate with each other in their Avatar persona as well as participate in a multitude of shared experiences such as chat, watching movies, listening to music/playlists, shopping, text messaging, sharing profiles, learning, collaborating plus much more throughout the 3D destinations. Besides partnering with existing content providers that have strong brands, rich media assets and an existing following, Worlds also encourages individuals to create their own virtual spaces, communities and unique Avatars with easy-to-use tools.

Paid, Inc.’s celebrity services provides famous people with official web sites and fan club services that include e-commerce storefronts, ticketing and fan experience packages, and web site content. The Company also sponsors autograph signing events and other sports marketing services for sports clientele. Using proprietary patent-pending technology, Paid’s patent-pending AuctionInc brand shipping calculation and auction management software and services are utilized to streamline online auctions, ecommerce and web site development and hosting.

For more information about Paid web hosting services, please visit: www.paid.com.

Quebec, Canada - (The Hosting News) - August 14, 2008 - iWeb Group Inc. and subsidiary of iWeb Technologies, Internet hosting infrastructure provider, has released the financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008, ending June 30, 2008.

Third quarter highlights include:

- Revenue increased 57% to $4.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2008, compared to $2.6 million for the same period in 2007;
- Adjusted EBITDA increased to $1.0 million for the third quarter of 2008, compared to $0.7 million for the same period in 2007;
- Infrastructure work has begun on the fourth and final phase of the Couture Data Center;
- An additional $2.7 million of annually recurring revenue generated in the third quarter.

Eric Chouinard, President and CEO of iWeb noted, ”’Revenues have continued to grow steadily in the last quarter. This progress confirms the effectiveness of recently implemented strategies to support our growth: the new web site, launched in March, improved management of advertising strategies, and a new operational structure in the Company’s sales department. Combined with our standard operations, these strategies are generating remarkable results. In the past three months, we have added $2.7 million in annual recurring revenue to our existing revenues, which bodes very well for the upcoming quarters.”

Revenues for the third quarter ended June 30, 2008 totalled $4.1 million, compared to $2.6 million for the same period of 2007, an increase of $1.5 million, or 57%.

The gross profit margin for the quarter was 49%, compared to 59% for the same period 12 months ago. The strength of the Canadian dollar compared to the U.S. dollar is the main reason for this decrease. The majority of iWeb’s cost of services sold is expensed in Canadian dollars, as opposed to revenues, which are perceived mostly in U.S. dollars. In addition, costs attributed to the co-location site on Nun’s Island, which was brought online on May 1, 2008, have affected the gross profit margin, given the modest revenues recorded thus far for this data center.

Operating expenses have increased, from 47% of revenues one year ago, to 49% of revenues for the third quarter. These additional operating expenses are the result of higher financing costs, due to increased debt facilities, this despite a decrease in sales expenses, the result of the improved management of advertising strategies.

Adjusted EBITDA increased to $1.0 million, or 23% or revenues for the third quarter ended June 30, 2008, compared to $0.7 million, or 27% of revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2007.

Net earnings for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 are close to break-even, at $13,210 or $0.0005 per share compared to $200,848 or $0.0085 per share for the corresponding period of 2007. This decrease in net earnings is the direct result of the lower gross profit margin.

Earlier this summer, iWeb attained ranking among Profit Magazine’s top 100 Canadian companies, based on revenue growth over the past 5 years. From 2002 to 2007, the company’s revenues have gone from 1.35 million to 9.82 million as of October 1st 2007, an increase of 627%; enough for iWeb to make its entry into the 100th position on the annual ranking.

The PROFIT 100 is the annual ranking which rates the top 100 Canadian companies based on the percentage of their revenue growth over a 5-year span. Produced by the business magazine PROFIT, 2008 marks the 20th edition of the ranking.

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

To learn more, please visit: www.iweb.com.

Overland Park, Kansas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 14, 2008 - Hosting and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has premiered a summer sale on select models of its top-selling line of dedicated servers.

Amanda Rusich, Marketing Director at Aplus.Net noted, ”At Aplus.Net, we take pride in providing the kinds of value-oriented solutions that today’s small business owners need more than ever. Offering deep discounts on our most popular dedicated servers - essential tools on the path to online success for many small businesses - lets us provide maximum value to our customers while also helping to ensure that Aplus.Net remains a competitive force in the consumer market.”

New customers purchasing dedicated hosting plans from Aplus.Net receive a discount of up to forty percent off, depending on their choice of sign-up terms, for a limited time. Customers who prepay for a month receive twenty percent off their monthly fee. A thirty percent discount is offered to those customers who choose to prepay for a full year, and customers who prepay for two years receive a discount of forty percent. All discounts last for the duration of the initial sign-up subscription.

Already offering a full range of dedicated hosting solutions that are among the most optimized in the industry, Aplus.Net is offering this promotion on its most popular servers: The Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz , the 2x Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz , and the 2x Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz.

The promotion caps a period in which Aplus.Net has worked to overhaul and better optimize its line of dedicated servers. In recent months, the company has rebranded its entirededicated server line and lowered its prices by amounts of up to hundreds of dollars.

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.

For more information about Aplus.Net, please visit: www.aplus.net.

UK data centre and managed hosting services company iomart has today announced the opening of a new data centre facility in the heart of Nottingham. 

The purpose-built data centre facility, was purchased by iomart last year, and following an 8 month upgrade and commissioning programme, is now open for business.

iomart’s new facility offers approximately 410 square metres of fully resilient and highly secure data centre space. Recognising that power and environmental impact are currently key issues for data centre operations, the centre has been equipped with its own 1 Megawatt on site fully redundant power supply and the latest in energy efficient cooling systems.

The new cooling down flow units utilise seven per cent less power than the units they replace. Hot Gas Re-Heat (HGRH) technology also allows the data centre to maintain the room temperature by recycling heat expelled by the servers.

Angus MacSween, iomart’s Chief Executive Officer said: “The data centre industry is a voracious user of power and we’re serious about playing our part in reducing our impact on the environment, while leading the industry in our delivery of managed hosting services.”

“The opening of our Nottingham facility, our third in the UK, represents another significant step for us in achieving our aim of being recognised as the UK’s leading managed hosting and data centre services Company .“

Angus added: “Our 100 per cent business uptime guarantee is no idle boast. A complete ‘one source’ managed hosting service - from domain to data centre - is very different to what’s on offer from other competing hosting providers, who traditionally provide either pure colocation space and power or rely on third party data centres for their hosting offerings, which puts us in a very strong position in the market.”

This third facility, joining London and Glasgow, with a fourth in Leicester opening in two weeks, gives us a pan UK network enabling us to guarantee continuous uninterrupted service to our clients. This network provides businesses, whether based in Nottingham or not, with an excellent disaster recovery option.”

As part of its launch in Nottingham, iomart has sent 2500 oak tree saplings - capturing the Sherwood connection - to businesses in the city and surrounding areas, with planting instructions and details of the new data centre

Last week, iomart revealed in its annual report, that its data centre ownership had led to an increase of 17% in its managed hosting revenue growth. The company also stated that it has spent £3M on its data centre upgrade programme.