BlueHost has increased both the disk space and bandwidth amounts in their web hosting offering. Until recently, the BlueHost plan came with 30 GB disk space and 750 GIGS bandwidth. According to the company’s Web site at www.bluehost.com, 50 GB hosting space and 999 GIGS bandwidth transfer are now offered with the plan.

BlueHost has been providing hosting solutions since 1996. The company offers a shared web hosting package that helps businesses and individuals get high-powered service at a fraction of the cost. The increase would seem to put BlueHost ahead of most competitors in terms of disk space/bandwidth quantity and make BlueHost one of the more generous of all low cost shared hosting providers. Related: BlueHost web hosting review.

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - September 29, 2006 - HostMySite.com, a leading web hosting provider for small and medium-sized businesses, is providing free, managed, dedicated hosting to online volunteer community organized to spread the news about the Mozilla Firefox web browser, SpreadFirefox.

Over 200,000 Firefox fans meet at SpreadFirefox to discuss strategies and plan campaigns for spreading the word about the browser. To celebrate the two-hundred-millionth download of the award-winning web browser, SpreadFirefox launched the Fox Tales website (http://www.thefoxtales.com), offering users a place to share stories about how they spread the word about Firefox. To assist the launch of the web space, HostMySite.com developed and deployed a multi-server hosting setup, including powerful load-balanced servers, to create a redundant and stable platform on which 50,000 simultaneous visitors may view the website swiftly.

Jason Morris, Director of Sales for HostMySite.com remarked, ”We see a lot of similarities between the loyalty of the Firefox community and HostMySite.com customers. Our customers regularly send us unsolicited testimonials. Many of them can’t believe the dedication our customer support team shows to their business. In fact, we receive so many that we added a section to our own website to share these experiences. This contribution is our way of helping Mozilla achieve their goals of offering a superior web browser and email software, and improving Internet technology and standards.”

Mozilla chose to work with HostMySite.com, based on the web host’s expertise in ColdFusion hosting, dedicated servers, and unparalleled customer service. Just as Firefox relies mainly on word of mouth for business growth, HostMySite.com was built on a foundation of unmatched 24×7x365 customer service, and recognizes fellow organizations that pride themselves on providing a superior product praised by users. Over 70% of new customers to HostMySite.com are referred by existing customers.

Founded in 1997, HostMySite.com is a privately held provider of affordable web hosting services. With a combination of sophisticated hosting technology and applied business knowledge, HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with affordable web hosting solutions and managed dedicated servers supported by an unwavering commitment to customer service. HostMySite.com service includes 24×7 customer support through toll-free telephone, e-mail, and live online chat.

To learn more about SpreadFirefox, please visit: www.spreadfirefox.com.

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 29, 2006 - Dedicated hosting and game server solutions provider, The Planet-EV1Servers, has recently won several awards, recognizing the company for excellence and growth.

The recognition recently achieved includes:
CRN Fast Growth 100 – Solution Providers, wherein The Planet is ranked number nine in the fastest growing solution provider category. Inc. 500 has listed The Planet as number 100 in its list of fastest growing private companies in the country. The Planet moved up the rankings significantly from number 149 in 2005. Deloitte Technology Fast 50, ranked The Planet sixth, among technology companies in the Texas Crescent region. EV1Servers and The Planet have been selected by HostReview’s editorial staff to be one of the “Top 10″ Hosts in the new Best Dedicated Server Package category for eight out of the last nine months this year. EV1Servers and The Planet have been selected by HostReview’s editorial staff to be one of the ”Top 10” Hosts in the new Best Dedicated Server Package category for eight out of the last nine months this year. In addition, EV1Servers received the award for ”Best Internet Service Provider Web Site” for its latest web site design.

Doug Erwin, Chairman and CEO of The Planet-EV1Servers commented, ”The best-of-the-best have come together to form one company and provide our customers with world-class hosting services. We are honored to be ranked so highly among our industry and within the business community. We can’t wait to see what future recognition holds as our integration continues to strengthen our company.”

The Planet-EV1Servers, the newly merged webhosting firm, provides dedicated server lines with multiple datacenters in Dallas and Houston, The Planet-EV1Servers provides fully redundant dedicated hosting solutions that are readily available and scalable.

To learn more about EV1Servers, please visit: www.ev1servers.net.

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

Troy, Michigan - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 29, 2006 - Web host, co-location, managed solutions, design and marketing services company, Awecomm Web Strategies (AWS), has contracted with numerous local business to provide them with hosting services. AWH has contracted with Wallside Windows, Tile and Stone Works, Quality Lumber and the Michigan Tooling Association to provide shared, dedicated or co-located services.

Brent Yax, President of Awecomm Technologies commented, ”AWH is very excited about expanding our local business relationships through developing hosting contracts with these great companies.”

Wallside Windows of Taylor, MI, is Michigan’s largest, most preferred, most referred replacement window company. Tile and Stone Works of Shelby Township, MI, is a tile and stone retailer carrying a vast array of tile and stone designs. Quality Lumber of Columbus, MI, carries building products including cabinets, carpet, engineered flooring systems and is the largest Hurd Window distributor in Michigan. The Michigan Tooling Association of Farmington Hills, MI, is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving, enhancing and promoting the success of its member companies and the metalworking industry.

For over six years, Awecomm Technologies have provided hosting to small companies, mammoth global corporations, as well as mid-sized businesses. Awecomm Web Strategies began with a small design and marketing staff, and grew to include hosting services.

For more information about Awecomm Web Strategies, please visit: www.awecommwebstrategies.com.

Chicago, Illinois - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 29, 2006 - Web hosting and managed technology services company, Hostway Corporation, has engaged IP network, video and conferencing standard firm, Telanetix, Inc.’s Digital Presence systems, to connect Hostway’s Vancouver, B.C. operation center with its Corporate Headquarters in Chicago, IL.

The Digital Presence system is designed to allow the separate locations to be merged into a single unified environment where users appear on four 50-inch plasma screens, eye-to-eye and in full size without the latency and jitter normally associated with video conferencing. Using Telanetix developed Codecs to deliver real-time video, audio and data over the clients’ private network, the system produces clear, crisp high definition images at 30 frames per second.

John Martis, VP and Division General Manager for Hostway explained, ”We have been looking for a life-like communication solution to connect our global operations. The Digital Presence System from Telanetix gives us a top quality video conferencing experience at a price that makes sense for us.”

Tom Szabo, Chairman and CEO of Telanetix added, ”Hostway is a global leader and innovator in their industry, we are pleased to be able to provide them with a tool that will facilitate their continued growth.”

Telanetix, Inc. has developed a technology designged to allow a fully immersive and interactive environment that integrates audio, video, and data from multiple locations into a single environment regardless of geographic boundaries. The company’s Digital Presence Technology delivers full size, face-to-face images of real-time video, audio, and data in high quality resolution at 30 frames per second which is so profoundly real that users feel as if they are all present in the same room. Using Telanetix developed Codecs and advanced MPEG-4 compression on a Linux platform, the Company has effectively replaced the central videoconferencing bridge of legacy systems with high quality decentralized IP multicasting which provides speed and resolution which is significantly greater than those found in most existing technologies.

Hostway Corporation provides domain registration, web hosting, web design and online marketing services to more than 400,000 customers worldwide. Hostway helps individuals, small businesses and large enterprises achieve more value from state-of-the-art Web-based technologies by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the five largest web hosting companies in the world with offices in North America (Chicago (HQ), Austin, Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (Belgium, France, Frankfurt, Hannover, London and Netherlands), Asia (Korea) and Australia (Sydney).

To learn more about Telanetix Corporate, please visit: www.telanetix.com.

For more information about Hostway Corporation, please visit: www.hostway.com.

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 28, 2006 - Website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com, is expanding options for its dedicated server customers by adding an Assisted Service Plan, developed as a professional solution, without traditional costs.

The GoDaddy.com Assisted Service Plan was developed for customers requiring a dedicated server, but lack the time or technical skills to administer it effectively. This service from GoDaddy.com provides a level of support customers need to quickly get their server up and running. With the plan, Go Daddy’s professional system administrators will address needed patches, backups, monitoring and vulnerability assessments.

Bob Parsons, Founder CEO of GoDaddy.com remarked, ”Our Assisted Service Plan brings Go Daddy’s experience and credibility as a top hosting provider into reach for a new range of customers. By helping our customers who need a dedicated server but want someone else to manage it, Go Daddy is responding to their needs with a simple, affordable solution.”

Customers can get the power of a dedicated server without having to perform all of the administrative tasks associated with an unmanaged account such as server startup, patching and anti-virus protection. Add-on services, with the purchase of a service contract, include security scans, backup and recovery, monitoring and escalation management, at no additional fee. Custom engineering options are also available, billed at a flat hourly rate.

The plan can be added to qualified dedicated hosting accounts during the purchase process. While users are provided with a basic startup environment, Go Daddy can also assist customers who have special needs. As with all dedicated servers accounts, customers can choose from a wide range of options including operating systems, RAM, hard drives, processors and firewalls. In addition, as with all Go Daddy services, the plan is backed by Go Daddy’s fanatical 24/7/365 customer support.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services developed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group is the world’s largest domain name registrar, with approximately 14.6 million domain names under management as of June 30, 2006 and North America’s largest shared web site hosting provider. During the final six months of 2005, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top five generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info.

To learn more about GoDaddy.com’s Assisted Service Plan, please visit: www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/dedicated.asp

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

San Diego, California - (The Hosting News) - September 28, 2006 - Web host and online presence solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has experienced a revenue growth of more than 40 percent over the last two years. As a result, the San Diego Business Journal has named Abacus America, Inc., parent company of Aplus.Net, to the list of San Diego’s Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies.

Ryan Elledge, Chief Operations Officer for Aplus.Net explained, ”We’re very proud to have our success endorsed by the San Diego Business Journal, a publication that commands enormous respect in this community. We’ve worked hard to build our business, and it’s good to receive recognition for that, particularly in a city that’s so well known for its competitive small business market.”

The list of the region’s 100 fastest growing companies is compiled annually by the San Diego Business Journal and is based on audited and verified company financial statements. This year’s list represented the two-year period from 2003 through 2005. It was the second consecutive year on the list for Aplus.Net, which was also ranked among San Diego’s top 40 largest employers and top 50 highest revenue generators.

The San Diego Business Journal is an award-winning publication that examines the San Diego economy and offers analyses of the community’s ever-changing business and economic scene.

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.

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

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - September 28, 2006 - SWsoft, an established leader in server automation and virtualization software, has developed PEM.Billing, a business support system (BSS) for service providers and ISPs, designed to streamline core service delivery processes to improve customer satisfaction and retention.

SWsoft’s PEM.Billing was developed to provide a customizable workflow engine to manage and automate back end systems and processes, such as ordering, account management, billing, invoicing, trouble ticketing and fraud control. The solution uses a web-based storefront and management control panels to help service providers rapidly launch new services, implement promotions, provide web-based online account management and integrate service delivery systems.

Douglas Johnson, Product Manager at SWsoft explained, ”PEM.Billing is a flexible, scalable solution that delivers superior business support processes, which can be critical to improving customer satisfaction and renewals. The software can be easily integrated with existing systems, so users can quickly react to market conditions with new services and deliver specific service plans for target customers.”

PEM.Billing is a modular system that allows service providers to use core features or a mature set of APIs to integrate external systems. The new solution provides several key capabilities, including:

• Customized workflow and internal controls – change automated and manual processes to match business, security and legislative needs.
• Rapid delivery of new services – the SDK and API simplify the process of adding new services. PEM.Billing integrates with legacy systems, which makes it easy to migrate existing services and launch new ones.
• Flexible pricing and promotions – respond to market changes by offering discounts and promotions. New prices are instantly reflected in the online store.
• Online account management – online control panels help customers manage their accounts, pay bills, view invoices and order services.

• Automated renewals and service messages – improve customer retention and revenue by targeting customers with specific service plans.
• Advanced fraud controls – plug-in modules with point-based fraud scoring protect service providers from excessive bad debt. Availability Although PEM.Billing is tightly integrated with the PEM provisioning system, it can be purchased separately and integrated with multiple service delivery platforms. PEM.Billing is immediately available and can be purchased by contacting a SWsoft PEM sales representative.

SWsoft is a recognized leader in server automation and virtualization software. With more than 10,000 customers in over 100 countries, SWsoft’s suite of products delivers proven performance, reliability, manageability and value. With offices around the world; SWsoft is a high growth company, funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners and Intel Capital, offering comprehensive solutions – transparently integrated through the OPEN FUSION Initiative - including Virtuozzo, Plesk, SiteBuilder, HSPcomplete and PEM.

To learn more about PEM Billing, please visit: www.swsoft.com/pem/billing.

For more information about SWsoft, please visit: www.swsoft.com.

Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - September 28, 2006 - FastServers.Net has reported that it has completed a massive update project, securing more than 900 cPanel servers in less than 48 Hours, allowing the possibility of privilege escalation, which allowed an attacker with access to a local account to gain root privileges on the server.

The cPanel exploit become public on September 23rd, at which time a team of support engineers started the process of updating over 900 managed dedicated servers. In less than 18 hours, the security response team patched over 70 servers.

Matt Doyle, Director of West Operations for FastServers.Net explained, ”It was important that we quickly assemble a team to insure the security of our managed clients, as this exploit could have led to servers being compromised and potential data loss and embarrassment for the server operators. I am very pleased with our security response team’s ability to provide what I consider record-breaking deployment of the patch.”

FastServers.Net has been a distributor of cPanel since 1997 and has been offering managed dedicated servers since 2001. As one of the most widely-used control panels, cPanel is the leading Linux control panel purchased by new dedicated server owners at FastServers.Net.    

cPanel is a leading Web Hosting Control Panel Software provider supplying hosting automation tools to numerous data centers and customers all around the world. cPanel offers web hosting software that automates the intricate workings of web hosting servers. cPanel products are used on tens of thousands of servers worldwide to equip server administrators with the tools they need to provide top notch hosting to their customers.

FastServers, Inc is a dedicated server and colocation service managing over 2,500 dedicated servers. The company was founded in 1996 by Ian Andrusyk and Travis Schaffner in Sumner, Iowa. FastServers.Net currently has datacenters in Cedar Falls and Fremont, California. The Midwest Data Center is powered by Internap (www.internap.com) and Hurricane Electric (www.he.net) with direct fiber connections to Equnix in Chicago. FastServers.Net competitors include Rackspace (www.rackspace.com), Interland (www.interland.com), Verio (www.verio.com, EV1Servers (www.ev1servers.net), and The Planet (www.theplanet.net).

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

Chicago, Illinois - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 28, 2006 - Web hosting and managed technology services company, Hostway Corporation, has added 22 new country-code Top-Level-Domains (ccTLDs), which brings it’s full offering of TLDs to 92.

Domain Management Account. Domain registration through Hostway also comes with the following features:

• Name server editing: Manage the name servers for domain names
• Registration information management: Edit the Whois information for domain names
• Parking page: Park domain for free until web site launch
• Domain forwarding and masking: Forward domain to another site and maintain the URL in the browser window
• Domain locking: Helps prevent transfer errors and domain hijacking. Transfers for domains won’t go through until locking is turned off
• Business card page: Allows fast establishment of web presence using new domain name with a one page template
• Web-based control panel: Manage all aspects of your domain name registration

John Lee, VP of Global Marketing of Hostway explained, ”With the addition of these 22 new domain name extensions, Hostway is step closer to becoming the one stop shop for customers’ domain name registration needs. We are not going to stop until we cover all domain name extensions.”

Hostway Corporation provides domain registration, web hosting, web design and online marketing services to more than 400,000 customers worldwide. Hostway helps individuals, small businesses and large enterprises achieve more value from state-of-the-art Web-based technologies by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the five largest web hosting companies in the world with offices in North America (Chicago (HQ), Austin, Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (Belgium, France, Frankfurt, Hannover, London and Netherlands), Asia (Korea) and Australia (Sydney).

To learn more the ccTLDs offered by Hostway, please visit: www.hostway.com/domain-name/new_domain.html.

For more information about Hostway Corporation, please visit: www.hostway.com.

Phoenix, Arizona - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 28, 2006 - Subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, and provider of Windows-based web hosting, CrystalTech, has updated its offerings with Adobe Cold Fusion MX web site hosting solutions, to provide a higher degree of integration between ColdFusion and Adobe Flex 2.

As an Adobe Premium Partner, CrystalTech is able to offer customers the latest update for ColdFusion MX for our affordable web hosting packages. Robert Cichon, President of CrystalTech commented, ”CrystalTech is committed to providing our web hosting customers with the latest technologies soon after they become available. With this update, our customers will be able to utilize ColdFusion and Flex together to create next generation applications to power their websites. The close integration of ColdFusion MX and Flex 2 is a huge leap forward for Adobe and truly proves their commitment to the ever-growing legions of CFMX developers. As one of the premier providers of shared and dedicated web hosting for the ColdFusion community, we are extremely excited about the changes Adobe has made to CFMX with this update. The inclusion of Flex only increases the already large toolset we make available to the many ColdFusion developers we host.”

Founded in 1992, CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. is one of the largest Windows-based web hosting companies in the world, hosting customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. CrystalTech is responsible for hundreds of millions of visits each day on the Internet and uses a data center that includes redundancy throughout core systems such as, power, air conditioning, network connectivity, network transportation, as well as a secured environment for their network operations center. CrystalTech is a subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc., a provider of business services and financial products to small and medium-sized businesses. For more information about CrystalTech, please contact 877-323-4678.

Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a direct distributor of business services and financial products to the small to medium-sized business market. According to the SBA, there are over 23 million small businesses in the United States which in total represent 99.7% of all employers, generate 60 – 80 percent of all new jobs annually and generate more than 50% of non-farm GDP. Since 1999, Newtek has helped these business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools needed to manage and grow their businesses. Newtek focuses on providing its 60,000 customers with access to financial, management and technological resources that enable them to better grow and compete in today’s marketplace. Newtek’s products and services include:

• Newtek Small Business Finance: U.S. government-guaranteed small business lending services;
• Newtek Merchant Solutions: electronic merchant payment processing solutions;
• Newtek Insurance Agency: commercial and personal insurance;

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

Vancouver, Canada - (The Hosting News) - September 27, 2006 - SuperbServers.Net, subsidiary of managed dedicated and shared hosting and e-commerce solutions firm, Superb Internet Corp., has improved and expanded its dedicated server offerings, to include the fastest, latest generation CPU based servers in the industry.

According to the company, Superb Servers is offering the industry’s fastest, newest generation CPUs, including the new, more powerful than any other Intel or AMD single CPU, Intel Conroe CPU based servers, and the new Intel Woodcrest based dual CPU servers. Intel Conroe is considered the undisputed fastest single CPU on the market, while the Intel Woodcrest is the fastest dual CPU on the market.

Haralds Jass, President and CEO of Superb Internet commented, ”For over 10 years, our company has always led the industry, while others have followed us. Many of the services that are now common in the hosting industry and are taken for granted were pioneered and invented or first used by us. Us being the first dedicated server provider to offer the new Conroe and Woodcrest CPU based servers, offering the fastest servers in the market, is a continuation in our decade long tradition of being true to our motto, ”Ahead of the Rest.” While others focus on technologies of the past, our R and D department is tirelessly working to always bring the newest, fastest technologies to the market first.”

Since 1996, Superb Internet Corp. has been consistently rated as one of the very best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting services, from virtual hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated service solutions. Superb’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ahead ”Ahead of the Rest.”

Superb Internet Corp. has offices and 24-hour/365-day operations in Washington, DC, McLean, Virginia, Tukwila, Washington, and Vancouver, BC, serving customers in over 150 countries worldwide. Superb Internet Corp. consists of four operating divisions providing a wide range of services, each targeted to a specific market segments:

SuperbRegistrar.net - Affordable domain name registration and management services.
SuperbHosting.net - Value-priced shared hosting with powerful, feature-rich, and growth potential, for personal and small business use.
SuperbServers.net - Self-managed dedicated server solution.
SuperbEnterprise.net - Personal, white glove service for clients requiring custom or complex Enterprise level solutions for mission critical operations.

To learn more about SuperbServers.Net, please visit: www.superbservers.net

For more information about Superb Internet Corp., please visit: www.superb.net.