Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 29, 2008 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, after reporting a successful fiscal year, has given gifts to support cancer fighting initiatives, while promoting education in underdeveloped countries.

The company gave $100,000 to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, and $25,000 to One Laptop per Child. The gifts were decided upon by HostGator management and staff, including a significant contribution to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Brent Oxley, President of HostGator noted, ”The gift to Anderson reflected a mix of the wishes of the staff here at HostGator and suggestions from our users. It’s pretty hard to find anybody whose life hasn’t been touched in some way — directly or indirectly — by cancer. We gave to them, partly because we’re located in Houston and some of our employees have had family members treated there, but mostly we gave because of their amazing country-wide reputation for treating patients and researching cancer cures.”

In addition. HostGator donated to the international organization, One Laptop Per Child. The Anderson Cancer Center received a gift of $100,000 and One Laptop per Child received $25,000. The goal of One Laptop per Child is spelled out in its name: to improve the educational opportunities for children in underdeveloped regions by giving every child access to an inexpensive, durable, web-capable laptop. At $100 each, the gift from HostGator should provide at least 250 laptops.

The gift to One Laptop per Child was another easy decision, according to Mr. Oxley, ”If it wasn’t for the internet and computers we wouldn’t be in business. If just one of the kids can further their knowledge in computers and make a career out of it, in some shape or form, it will have been worth every penny.”

At Anderson, one of the country’s largest cancer treatment centers, HostGator’s gift will go to support a variety of programs — from research and clinical trials, to education, counseling and treatments. Mr. Oxley says as HostGator continues to grow and earn profits, it will continue increasing the amount of its annual gifts.

Mr. Oxley added, ”As a company, we expect to go on making charitable donations, and letting our people decide each year where our gifts should go. We want the benefits of our success to go beyond our own narrow interests, so that’s why we’ll keep on doing it. Some other companies may donate for ‘political’ reasons, not because they really want to help — but that’s still good. Whatever the motives and whatever the amounts given, it all helps. The more corporate giving there is, the better.”

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 15,000 businesses become web hosting companies, currently hosting over 700,000 domains. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T and AboveNet. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

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

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 21, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, is offering 4,500 free website templates to customers and resellers, covering nearly 120 different types of businesses, designed to enable non-technical building of effective websites.

Brent Oxley, Founder and President of HostGator remarked, ”These templates are free to any Website hosted by HostGator, whether on a shared or dedicated hosting plan, or through a hosting reseller. We want to make hosting domains or building websites as painless as possible, that’s why we offer the free templates. We also offer free Site Builder, one of the easiest tools available for anybody wanting to custom build a website, rather than use a template.”

The free templates cover a broad range of page designs suitable for nearly 120 different types of small and medium-sized businesses - from accountants and auto dealers, to cleaning services, consultants, martial arts studios, toy stores, women’s health clinics, and everything in between. The wide variety of templates makes it easier for resellers to attract people and businesses who want websites, but don’t have the knowledge or design abilities needed to create good looking websites.

Although it’s common for Web hosting companies to offer a variety of perks, including free or low cost Web tools, and even a limited number of templates, Mr. Oxley says the number of free templates HostGator has is far beyond the average, adding, ”I really don’t know of any other large hosting company offering this many templates. We may be setting the trend here.”

To apply the free templates, a reseller or webmaster may browse through the templates, select one or more to use, and they automatically begin downloading to the omputer. Hosting resellers and webmasters are also welcome to modify and HostGator’s templates, so long as the websites remain hosted by HostGator.

As an added feature, resellers can actually mirror HostGator’s templates pages to show to their customers. That makes accessing the templates easy, while maintaining control over who can accesss them.

Mr. Oxley concludes, ”The only restriction is that the templates can’t be sold or distributed for use on websites not hosted by us.”

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 15,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T and AboveNet. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 29, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has updated its hosting plans, to include new billing software for all of its reseller and dedicated hosting plans, available to all new and existing customers.

Host Gator has licensed the billing solution WHMCompleteSolution to provide it free of charge for all its clients, which normally sells for $249 at WHMCS’ web site. WHMCS provides automated, flexible and easy-to-use client management and billing for web hosts and online businesses. The solution comes with comprehensive support features including a support ticket system, knowledge base, downloads area and server status overview. It also automatically creates, suspends and terminates accounts while providing complete automated billing processes with accounting features and reports, making it the truly complete solution for the web hosts of today.

Brent Oxley, President and Founder of Host Gator noted, ”Billing is a critical part of the hosting business and we want to do everything we can to streamline this process for our resellers. WHMCS is a top of the line billing solution that will make life easier for many of our reseller partners.”

Host Gator has also simultaneously increased disk space and bandwidth for all its shared hosting plans, while dropping prices. Host Gator has also began offering discounted pricing for the first time ever on prepaid accounts.

Mr. Oxley continued, ”Host Gator continues to show why it offers the best value in the industry. Customers were begging for more disk space and bandwidth to accommodate their growing online needs, and that’s what we gave them.”

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 15,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T and AboveNet. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 29, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator’s new subsidiary, SEO Hosting, has added twelve free search engine optimization scripts to its portfolio of offerings, to maximize customer web site search engine placement.

Brent Oxley, Founder and President of Host Gator remarked, ”Host Gator is always looking for ways to help our customers succeed in their online endeavors. Our customers identified search engine optimization as an area where they needed help and we responded by giving them all the technological capabilities they need to achieve these objectives. The scripts are just another example of how we try to do anything we can to meet our customer’s needs. That goes beyond products and services to resources, information and things like scripts that enhance the entire hosting and web site development and marketing process.”

SEO Hosting was developed to enable webmasters to host websites from one control panel (WHM) and assign each account it’s own different Class C IP address. Otherwise search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different web hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all websites on SEO Hosting.

The new service originally stemmed from customers regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting.

SEO Hosting is on Host Gator’s network with The Planet, where sites are on servers at all four of The Planet’s data centers in Dallas, TX and are accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers.

Every hosting plan includes cPanel and WHM Control Panel, separate C Class IPs and nameservers, Linux hosting with Apache, unlimited domains, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. In addition, all hosting plans are covered by 24×7x365 support with instant backups and no contracts required. SEO Hosting is offering a 30-day money back guarantee with instant free setup for new customers.

SEO Hosting is a division of Host Gator, a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting. SEO Hosting was created as a search engine optimization hosting service for businesses desiring to maximize web presence. SEO Hosting has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT and T and AboveNet.

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator is home to 60,000 customers and over 600,000 web sites. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

To learn more about SEO Hosting, please visit: www.seohosting.com.

For more information about the free downloadable scripts, please visit: www.seohosting.com/seo-tools.php.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 11, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has been a top web hosting provider since 2005. With the recent release of its Search Engine Optimization Hosting Services, the new division of Host Gator is designed to enable customers to host on multiple C classes.

SEO Hosting was developed to enable webmasters to host websites from one control panel (WHM) and assign each account it’s own different Class C IP address. Otherwise search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different web hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all websites on SEO Hosting.

SEO Hosting plans to offer useful tools in the future to its customers as well as provide search engine optimization advice from guest experts on its blog.

The new service originally stemmed from customers regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting.

Brent Oxley, President of Host Gator noted, ”With the importance of high organic rankings on web search engines, businesses are looking to maximize every advantage that will help them improve their results. We found that companies were signing up with multiple locations in order to host different C Classes. SEO Hosting allows these customers the ability to consolidate all their accounts onto a single server and host, saving them time and money.”

SEO Hosting is on Host Gator’s network with The Planet, where sites are on servers at all four of The Planet’s data centers in Dallas, TX and are accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers.

Examples of some C Class hosting plans include:

- 5 C Classes for $7 per C-Class
- 30 C Classes for $5.75 per C-Class
- 50 C Classes for $4.75 per C-Class

Every hosting plan includes cPanel and WHM Control Panel, separate C Class IPs and nameservers, Linux hosting with Apache, unlimited domains, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. In addition, all hosting plans are covered by 24×7x365 support with instant backups and no contracts required. SEO Hosting is offering a 30-day money back guarantee with instant free setup for new customers.

Mr. Oxley added, ”The initial response has been extremely encouraging, and we expect the strong demand to continue. Customers are also reassured that SEO Hosting is backed by Host Gator’s reputation for top-notch service and support.”

SEO Hosting is a division of Host Gator, a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting. SEO Hosting was created as a search engine optimization hosting service for businesses desiring to maximize web presence. SEO Hosting has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT and T and AboveNet.

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator is home to 60,000 customers and over 600,000 web sites. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day
money-back guarantee.

To learn more about SEO Hosting, please visit: www.seohosting.com.

For more information about the SEO Hosting from Host Gator’s blog, please visit: http://web-hosting-provider.blogspot.com.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 28, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has premiered the official launch of its new subsidiary, SEO Hosting. Created to provide search engine optimization web hosting offerings, the new services have been designed to afford customers with the ability to host on multiple C classes.

The new service stemmed from customers regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting.

Brent Oxley, President of Host Gator noted, ”With the importance of high organic rankings on web search engines, businesses are looking to maximize every advantage that will help them improve their results. We found that companies were signing up with multiple locations in order to host different C Classes. SEO Hosting allows these customers the ability to consolidate all their accounts onto a single server and host, saving them time and money.”

SEO Hosting is on Host Gator’s network with The Planet, where sites are on servers at all four of The Planet’s data centers in Dallas, TX and are accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers.

Examples of some C Class hosting plans include:

- 5 C Classes for $7 per C-Class
- 30 C Classes for $5.75 per C-Class
- 50 C Classes for $4.75 per C-Class

Every hosting plan includes cPanel and WHM Control Panel, separate C Class IPs and nameservers, Linux hosting with Apache, unlimited domains, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. In addition, all hosting plans are covered by 24×7x365 support with instant backups and no contracts required. SEO Hosting is offering a 30-day money back guarantee with instant free setup for new customers.

Mr. Oxley added, ”The initial response has been extremely encouraging, and we expect the strong demand to continue. Customers are also reassured that SEO Hosting is backed by Host Gator’s reputation for top-notch service and support.”

SEO Hosting plans to offer useful tools in the future to its customers as well as provide search engine optimization advice from guest experts on its blog.

SEO Hosting is a division of Host Gator, a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting. SEO Hosting was created as a search engine optimization hosting service for businesses desiring to maximize web presence. SEO Hosting has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT and T and AboveNet.

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator is home to 60,000 customers and over 600,000 web sites. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day
money-back guarantee.

To learn more about SEO Hosting, please visit: www.seohosting.com.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 9, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has made available, a new widget application, designed to allow visitors to rate how fast web sites are loading.

Available free of charge, the new tool was developed to enable web site and blog owners to cut and paste a short snippet of HTML code into web sites. Brent Oxley, President and Founder of Host Gator explained, ”This simple tool gives our hosting customers valuable insight into their web site’s performance. We are always looking for ways to add value to each and every hosting account we sell and this is just another example of how we do that.”

With the widget installed, site owners can see the rating results, as voted on by their site visitors, and view a map indicating where all its visitors are logging on to the site from. Mr. Oxley continued, ”This tool also enables our hosting customers to evaluate the performance of Host Gator, their web hosting provider. We are absolutely confident in our track record and welcome the chance for our customers to put us to the test.”

Host Gator also recently added SSH (Secure Socket) capabilities with all web hosting plans. The technology was developed to enable customers to establish secure connections between local and remote computers. Host Gator recently moved its headquarters to Houston, Texas from Boca Raton, Florida as part of a company-wide expansion, which also includes a new Canadian office in Toronto.

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

To learn more about the Web Hosting Speed widget, please visit: www.hostgator.com/webhostingspeed.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 20, 2006 - Web hosting company, Host Gator, has instituted comprehensive upgrades for its shared and reseller hosting plans, available to new and existing customers, including 50GB, 100GB and 200GB of disk space, and 200GB, 1,000GB and 2,000GB of bandwidth, respectively.

Brent Oxley, President and Founder of Host Gator remarked, ”We are delighted to be able to offer our customers this increased capacity. Copious amounts of disk space and bandwidth are a basic hosting need and we make sure our customers have more than enough at their immediate disposal. It’s just part of our mission to give our customers everything they need to succeed and prosper online.”

Host Gator also recently added SSH (Secure Socket) capabilities with all web hosting plans. The technology enables customers to establish secure connections between local and remote computers. Host Gator recently moved its headquarters to Houston, Texas from Boca Raton, Florida as part of a company-wide expansion, which also includes a new Canadian office in Toronto. The company has various new features planned for the coming year, including the addition of Ruby on Rails, an open source framework for building database-driven web applications.

Mr. Oxley continued, ”Host Gator continues to be committed to adding as many features with its web hosting services as possible. We plan to roll out several new features throughout the next year, further validating Host Gator as the hosting provider that delivers the most bang for the buck.”

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day
money-back guarantee.

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

Boca Raton, Florida - (The Hosting News) - October 11, 2006 - Shared, dedicated and reseller hosting leader, Host Gator, will offer free, as part of its portfolio of Internet hosting solutions, Soholaunch.com, Inc.’s Website Builder for Business. Customers using Host Gator may install the solution to any domain hosted on Host Gator’s servers. In addition, every Host Gator reseller can immediately offer all end users unlimited free use of Soholaunch.

Soholaunch Website Builder for Business features a Quick Start Site Building Wizard, ”Drag and Drop” page editing, photo albums, among other features. Optional advanced features include a multi-currency shopping cart, database table manager, event calendar system, eNewsletter system, secure user management, site backup/restore, and a blog manager. Host Gator clients can upgrade their free license to include these optional advanced features of Soholaunch easily online.

Brent Oxley, CEO of Host Gator remarked, ”Host Gator is pleased to include Soholaunch as one of several popular commercial web tools capable of being installed to domains at the click of a button. Soholaunch’s feature-rich website builder and management system will prove valuable to Host Gator clients seeking to build quality websites quickly and easily.”

Jim Buckler, CEO of Soholaunch.com added, ”Host Gator’s addition of Soholaunch to their hosting offers tremendously enhances the value of the hosting packages they offer to end users. We are excited to have Soholaunch become available to even more users through this association with Host Gator, ultimately making it easier for more people to easily create a quality presence on the Internet.”

Soholaunch.com, Inc. provides hosting companies, domain name registrars, data centers, and ISPs with server based software designed to instantly create websites and allow end users to easily manage the created sites through a web browser. Use of Soholaunch is anticipated to increase the hosts’ ability to better capture, retain, and develop a loyal and profitable customer base.

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

To learn more about Soholaunch, please visit: www.soholaunch.com.

For more information about Host Gator’s Soholaunch Website Builder for Business, please visit: http://hostgator.com/soho.shtml.

To learn more about Host Gator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.

Host Gator Partners with Soholaunch to Offer Website Creation Software for Resellers and Clients

Host Gator now enables clients to build websites in minutes with free Soholaunch® Website Builder for Business

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 11, 2006 — Host Gator, a leading provider of shared, dedicated and reseller hosting, and Soholaunch.com, Inc., provider of website creation and content management software, announced today that Soholaunch Website Builder for Business is now included free as part of Host Gator’s portfolio of Internet hosting solutions.

Customers using Host Gator now have the ability to install, with the simple click of an icon, the Soholaunch Website Builder for Business to any domain hosted on Host Gator’s servers. Every Host Gator reseller can immediately offer all end users unlimited free use of Soholaunch to easily create websites in only minutes.

Soholaunch Website Builder for Business features a Quick Start Site Building Wizard, “Drag & Drop” page editing, photo albums, and much more. Optional advanced features include a multi-currency shopping cart, database table manager, event calendar system, eNewsletter system, secure user management, site backup/restore, and a blog manager. Host Gator clients can upgrade their free license to include these optional advanced features of Soholaunch easily online.

Brent Oxley, CEO of Host Gator commented, “Host Gator is pleased to include Soholaunch as one of several popular commercial web tools capable of being installed to domains at the click of a button. Soholaunch’s feature-rich website builder and management system will prove valuable to Host Gator clients seeking to build quality websites quickly and easily.”

“Host Gator’s addition of Soholaunch to their hosting offers tremendously enhances the value of the hosting packages they offer to end users,” said Jim Buckler, CEO of Soholaunch.com. “We are excited to have Soholaunch become available to even more users through this association with Host Gator, ultimately making it easier for more people to easily create a quality presence on the Internet.”

Learn more about Host Gator’s new offer of Soholaunch Website Builder for Business by visiting http://hostgator.com/soho.shtml.

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Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, helping over 11,000 businesses become Web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT&T. Information on Host Gator Hosting services is available at www.HostGator.com.

About Soholaunch

Soholaunch.com, Inc. provides hosting companies, domain name registrars, data centers, and ISP’s with server based software that instantly creates websites and allows end users to easily manage the created sites through a web browser. Use of Soholaunch increases the hosts’ ability to better capture, retain, and develop a loyal and profitable customer base.

For more information on Soholaunch products please visit http://www.soholaunch.com.

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Wichita, Kansas - (The Hosting News) - August 28, 2006 - Internet performance metrics company, RealMetrics, has announced its results for the most outstanding performance of web hosts for July 2006. Ranking and graphing uptime, speed and technical support of web hosting companies, RealMetrics establishes actual hosting accounts and then conducts systematic tests on several parameters of online service. The highest ranking web hosting companies for July 2006 are being recognized for top performance in Uptime, Web Speed, CPU Speed and Disk Speed.

Rick Ralston, President and CEO of RealMetrics commented, ”We are pleased to recognize the outstanding performance of these web hosts for July 2006. With all the web hosting options available in today’s marketplace, it is good to see these providers reaching out to their customers through outstanding performance. In both our Shared Hosting category and our VPS Hosting category, there are providers that are not just setting the bar, but raising the bar for the web hosting industry.”

Kent Johnson, Chief Technology Officer of RealMetrics stated, ”We conduct over 60,000 tests per day from half a dozen locations across the United States. To achieve high performance is no easy task for a web hosting provider. For the Uptime metric, as an example, we test actual accounts every 30 seconds from multiple monitoring locations. To obtain the 100% Uptime recognition, a web hosting provider is required to be up for the entire 30 days during the recognition period.”
The July 2006 RealMetrics award winners are:

#1 VPS Hosting CPU Speed – RimuHosting
#1 VPS Hosting Web Speed – EV1 Servers
#1 VPS Hosting Disk Speed – iPower
#1 Shared Hosting Web Speed – 1and1 Internet
100% Shared Hosting Uptime – 1and1 Internet, HostGator, Pair Networks, and Powweb
100% VPS Hosting Uptime – Linode, ProHosters, RackCo, RimuHosting, and VPS Land

Peter Bryant, Founder of RimuHosting added, ”RimuHosting is serious about the quality and performance of its hosting solutions. It is good to see a company like RealMetrics using monitoring data to objectively report on hosts.”

RealMetrics is an independent provider of objective performance metrics to enable Internet businesses to make more informed technology selection decisions. RealMetrics is rapidly becoming the trusted source for fact-based performance, reliability and customer service metrics. These metrics include uptime, web speed, CPU speed, disk speed, and technical support response speed.

To learn more about RealMetrics, please visit: www.realmetrics.com.

Boca Raton, Florida - (The Hosting News) - August 2, 2006 - Shared, dedicated and reseller hosting leader, Host Gator, has premiered its VOIPo, a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. VOIPo will operate as an independent subsidiary of Host Gator, and is targeting late September for a live launch.

According to the company, VOIPo will offer the VoIP telephone service in 6,000 markets throughout 50 US states. The service will be available directly to customers, giving them the ability to place and receive phone calls with broadband Internet connections at a much lower cost than standard phone lines. Through its proprietary platform, Host Gator will also offer the service to its web hosting partners on a reseller basis.

Timothy Dick, President and Chief Executive Officer of VOIPo commented, ”Let’s face it: VoIP is hot and it’s getting hotter. As the technology advances, we’re fast approaching a point where switching to a VoIP-based service is the only logical option for smart consumers. VOIPo will not only provide those consumers with a rock-solid option, but it will also allow entrepreneurs nationwide to enter the VoIP market easily and capitalize on the demand.”

VOIPo Founders, Timothy Dick and Brent Oxley have extensive backgrounds in the web hosting industry. Prior to founding VOIPo, Mr. Dick served as Vice President of Operations for VoIP provider ViaTalk and web hosting provider HostRocket. Mr. Oxley is the President and Founder of Host Gator, one of the world’s leading providers of shared, dedicated and reseller hosting. Host Gator currently has over 500,000 domains hosted as well as an extensive network of over 11,000 resellers.

Mr. Oxley added, ”Offering an emerging technology such as VoIP is a great way for our web hosting reseller partners to expand their service portfolio and generate more revenues,” said Oxley. We plan to duplicate Host Gator’s success in reseller hosting with VOIPo’s reseller VoIP offerings.” The company is currently conducting private Beta testing and will soon invite pre-launch group members and select Host Gator customers to try out the service.

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are priced at $6.95, $9.95, $14.95
per month, with a semi-dedicated virtual hosting plan priced at $74.95
per month. Each plan is supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day
money-back guarantee.

To learn more about the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, please visit: www.voipo.com.

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