Newark, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - February 28, 2007 - Web hosting provider, Webbez.com, has released a new version of its corporate web site, introducing an array of new features, along with 24/7 technical support and discounted web hosting plans.

The new web site is designed to appeal to an international audience, and features condensed navigation and more detailed plan grids and ordering options. It now also features an integrated customer support portal, offering interactive tutorials, downloads, a troubleshooter, a knowledgebase, and a service-status indicator.

Alistair Craig, CEO of Webbez.com remarked, ”It is important we communicate professionally, effectively and in a timely manner with our customers. Our new site allows us to meet these three goals, and we hope it will allow us to further develop the interaction we have with our customers.”

Webbez.com also reconfigured its Shared and Reseller web hosting plans. Starting at $4/monthly, its PH100 Shared plan includes 100MB of disk space and 1,000MB of monthly transfer. The RH100 Reseller plan starts at $16/monthly and includes 2000MB of disk space and 20,000MB of monthly transfer.

Mr. Craig added, “By offering our Reseller plans at these rates, we hope to attract more personal and small business customers who are ultimately seeking a more affordable and robust multi-domain hosting solution. And by fully managing all Reseller accounts, we hope to allow our customers to further concentrate on the key aspects of their business, as opposed to their hosting account.”

Originally founded in 2004, Webbez.com is a United Kingdom-based Shared and Reseller Web hosting provider. The company currently offers a plethora of budget and midsize hosting solutions, and provides genuine 24/7 technical support.

To learn more about Webbez.com, please visit: www.webbez.com.

Surrey, British Columbia - (The Hosting News) - February 28, 2007 - Linux Server Management services, designed to meet the technical needs of small to medium sized cPanel/WHM, Plesk and DirectAdmin-based web hosting providers, have been debuted by WebHostGear’s ServerProgress.

The new company is designed to provide services on the heels of over four years of server management and security consultation experience. Its founder has also served in a variety of technical and customer support management positions at leading hosting companies.

Steven Leggett, Founder of ServerProgress.com remarked, “ServerProgress provides a unique service because of our industry experience and knowledge after years managing thousands of Linux systems on a daily basis. We also create our own custom tools, rule sets, and products such as ‘Nobody Check,’ which offers a level of server protection that is simply not available anywhere else.”

ServerProgress offers a variety of specialized services, including New Server Setup, Security Enhancements and Hardening, Anti-Spam Optimization, and Server Analysis. It also provides management assistance on an hourly basis.

Mr. Leggett continued, “There is a growing need for server help and administration. Many businesses just don’t have the time, expertise or resources to properly address the requirements of dedicated or Virtual Private Server systems. We are here to offer our experience and expertise so our customers don’t have to worry about technical aspects of running their businesses.”

ServerProgress specializes in an assortment of custom solutions, including PHP Rebuilds, Kernel Upgrades, Firewall Installations, Spammer Resolution, Chkrootkit and Rkhunter scanning, and Server Migrations. Launched in 2007 by the founder of hosting industry resource site WebHostGear.com, ServerProgress is an experienced provider of Linux Server Management services. The company also produces server management software, including the Nobody Check security tool.

To learn more about ServerProgress, please visit: www.serverprogress.com.

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - February 28, 2007 - UK webhosting company, ResellersPanel, featuring a free web hosting reseller program, has released the new version of its Resellers Control Panel, featuring upgrades including new client management tools, and an Invoice Manager section.

In addition, an improved statistics section with more details and an easier to work with main navigation menu with modified titles and descriptions of the different sections has been added to Resellers Panel v2, with technical support through a new trouble ticket system, where the resellers can request help by opening a ticket or themselves provide direct support to their existing hosting customers.

New updates to the clients’ hosting control panel, which is now available also in Dutch, have been made as well. They include multi-year bulk domain registration and multi-domain registration/transfer options, PHP5 support, new Registrar-Lock Status/Obtain EPP Key/Invite a Friend options, an RSS news generator, which allows the hosting clients to add free news content onto their websites, and an SPF protection section where they can specify which computers are authorized to send email from a specific domain and thus ensure their internet privacy. Easy-to-understand help tooltips have been added as well so that if a given hosting client is not sure what a certain section of the control panel does, they can simply point the mouse over the respective icon and learn more.

ResellersPanel has also launched a new web hosting plan - the Enterprise plan, which is suitable for medium and large enterprises, as well as for web designers, webmasters and advanced internet users, and which offers 40 GB of Disk Space, 500 GB of Bandwidth, the ability to host unlimited domains, sub-domains, e-mails, databases and more. The Business and the Corporate plans have been improved as well so that the resellers and their clients can now host several domain names in a single account.

Information released by the company indicated that Nick Blaskov, CFO of ResellersPanel, indicated that the new version of the control panel offers a large selection of new options, which will help the reseller hosting entrepreneurs to more easily and successfully run their online businesses, that from now on their clients will be able to register up to 50 domain names at once and modify their MX records, and that ResellersPanel will continue the development of its hosting platform by introducing a server load balancing cluster technology for all hosting accounts, multi-currency pricing and payments support, and a new kind of parked domains management.

ResellersPanel reports more than 32 500 resellers, featuring a fully-automated reseller hosting program, developed entirely by UK-based LiquidNet Ltd. LiquidNet Ltd. was established in February 2003, and the ResellersPanel program began in April, 2003. ResellerPanel’s global network includes modern technologies that have undergone a significant development, resulting in 24/7 support, with resolutions in less than 30 minutes.

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

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Minneapolis, Minnesota - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - February 28, 2007 - Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River subsidiary, BlueHornet Networks, Inc., will exhibit at the MarketingSherpa E-mail Summit 2007, to be held March 4-6, 2007, at the Radisson Hotel Miami Downtown in Miami, Florida.

BlueHornet will be exhibiting at booth #2, where it will showcase its SureSend™ e-mail deliverability enhancement suite. The SureSend suite helps e-mail marketers improve their inbox delivery rates by combining deliverability consultation services with e-mail diagnostics. These services and tools are integrated into BlueHornet’s flagship e-mail marketing application, eMarketing Suite 4.0.

MarketingSherpa is a research firm that publishes award-winning case studies, benchmark guides and know-how materials for the marketing profession. Its annual e-mail summit offers e-mail marketers an opportunity to network, share lessons learned and hone their skills.

BlueHornet Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital River, Inc., is a provider of permission based e-mail marketing solutions. BlueHornet conducts e-mail campaigns for hundreds of top brands, including Match.com, Famous Footwear, 3M, GUESS?, House of Blues Entertainment, Inc., Kyocera Wireless and Red Lobster. In addition, BlueHornet supports more than 100 resellers, many using private label versions of its e-mail marketing solution.

Founded in 1994, Digital River, Inc., focuses on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.

For more information, please visit: www.bluehornet.com.

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New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2007 - E-commerce solutions firm, MIVA, Inc., has fostered its global network, by entering into new Pay-Per-Click Ad partner agreements, whereby MIVA ads will be featured on partner websites.

Among these new agreements are:

• An in-text, Pay-Per-Click advertising agreement in the U.S. with TransWorldNews, Inc., a global leader in news and press release distribution, and owner of Finditt.com, an interactive search engine. TransWorldNews, Inc. will be displaying MIVA InLine Ads across www.transworldnews.com.
• A search and content agreement with leading French automotive website, Argusauto.com (www.argusauto.com). Argusauto.com is one of the top three automotive websites in France(a) and will be displaying MIVA’s Pay-Per-Click Ads through both content implementations and prompt links.
• A content agreement with France’s second most visited finance website, Boursier.com (www.boursier.com). Boursier.com generates over a million unique users per month and more than 15 million page impressions(a).
• A content deal with Germany’s largest sports portal Sport1 (www.sport1.de). The agreement reunites MIVA and Sport1 who had a previous Pay-Per-Click agreement in place a year ago. Under the terms of the new agreement MIVA will be displaying content driven Pay-Per-Click Ads across both the homepage and channel pages of the site.
• A content deal with MyVideo.de (www.myvideo.de), Germany’s 4th largest website with over 653 million page impressions per month(b). Under the terms of the agreement, content driven MIVA Pay-Per-Click Ads will be displayed across selected channels of the site.
• The resigning of a content agreement with Grupo Zeta, one of the top five publishers in Spain(a). The agreement will see MIVA continue to display content driven Pay-Per-Click Ads across a portfolio of 13 different Grupo Zeta sites including www.sport.es and www.elperiodico.com.

In addition to these agreements, MIVA also last month announced the signing of a search and content deal with the U.K.’s second largest local newspaper publisher, Johnston Press Plc(a). The agreement sees MIVA display targeted Pay-Per-Click Ads across a network of over 300 national, regional and classified websites.

Peter Corrao, Chief Executive Officer at MIVA offered, “We believe we’re building a good level of momentum following the signing of these new partner agreements. These are prestigious publishing brands across both the U.S. and Europe and we believe the wins are a significant vote of confidence in our ability as online monetization experts.”

Ray Firth, CFO of TransWorldNews, Inc. remarked, “The award of our Pay-Per-Click agreement to MIVA was based on the company’s proven track record in online monetization and demonstrable expertise in delivering highly relevant and targeted Pay-Per-Click Ads.”

These new partners form part of the MIVA MC Managed network, a Pay-Per-Click network that is designed for large online publishers and offers fully customized Pay-Per-Click implementations as well as ongoing account management and optimization services. The MIVA MC Managed network operates alongside MIVA’s new self-serve Pay-Per-Click online monetization platform, MIVA MC. MIVA MC launched in the U.S. and U.K. earlier this year.

MIVA Small Business is a solution partner that endeavors to enable tens of thousands of businesses worldwide to do business online. MIVA Small Business partners with an established network of e-commerce web hosts, software developers and web designers. MIVA is an online advertising network, dedicated to helping businesses grow. MIVA connects millions of buyers with sellers at exactly the right place and time. MIVA delivers qualified leads to advertisers, helps maximize revenue for partners, facilitates commerce for online merchants and provides relevant information to customers. The Company operates in North America and Europe.

For additional information about MIVA Merchant Express, please visit: www.miva.com.

Mechanicsville, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2006 - International web hosting company, GlobalWebBrands, has consolidated its three web hosting plans into one Enterprise plan. In addition, through a new feature in the web hosting control panel, the company has also introduced official support for PHP 5.

GlobalWebBrands’ three previous plans (Business, Corporate, and Enterprise), combined into one offering, the Enterprise hosting plan, offers unlimited domain hosting, and other features that many of GlobalWebBrands’ customers have been requesting for some time, such as SSH access. The new Enterprise plan has the same $9.99 per month price as GlobalWebBrands’ previous Enterprise hosting plan. The free web design service will continue to be offered with the Enterprise hosting package.

Daniel J. Briere, CEO of GlobalWebBrands commented, “We continuously received the same requests from many of our users, and we finally decided to go all out in meeting their needs. It’s taking a big risk for us to offer only one hosting plan, but in the end, it’s better, too. We can focus more of our resources on helping users on one plan, instead of losing efficiency and trying to manage multiple plans.”

In addition to refining its web hosting offerings, GlobalWebBrands introduced official support for PHP 5. A new section has been introduced in the hosting Control Panel that allows customers to easily manage the way their PHP-based applications are handled and run by the Web server. Customers can now choose whether PHP 4 or PHP 5 is used by default. PHP 5 is now officially supported on all servers.

In a statement addressing customers about the new PHP Management section of the web hosting control panel, Mr. Briere explained, “There are several differences in the configuration and in the way certain functions and expressions are handled. PHP 4 has a larger installed base at this point, but since PHP is a server side script, it will hardly affect the end user. PHP 5 is simply a newer release, which offers its own improvements and add-ons. However, there might be some incompatibility issues when certain applications are run on both versions. You should use PHP 5 only if it is required by the script author.”

Since August 2004, GlobalWebBrands has provided shared web hosting services across the world. Operating under the ‘GlobalWebBrands’ name since January 1st, 2005, the company was twice awarded by HostReview.com as a Top 10 Fastest-Growing Host in 2006. GlobalWebBrands is a debt-free company, based in Mechanicsville, Virginia-USA, with offices in Florida-USA; London, UK; and Sofia, Bulgaria.

For more information about GlobalWebBrands, please visit: www.globalwebbrands.com.

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Mesa, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - February 27, 2007 - Web hosting firm, Crucial Web Hosting, ltd., has developed and released a new affiliate program, for which $101.00 will be paid for every successful referral that produces a shared hosting product signature.

Available to all participants, including those without online market systems or websites, the Crucial Cash program will allow for affiliates to place graphic and text links including their affiliate code on websites and other marketing material. When a visitor clicks the link that connects to the Crucial website, a browser cookie will be set with that affiliate’s code. The cookie has a 30-day expiration period, so even if the visitor doesn’t purchase on their first visit, the affiliate can still profit if the visitor purchases within 30 days.

Crucial offers a premium hosting product for $9.99 monthly, which includes a $49.99 setup fee. Offering a coupon code with a discount of more than $59.98 would make the sign-up absolutely free for the visitor and would still provide for an affiliate commission of $41.02 ($101 - $59.98). The client pays absolutely nothing to sign up, and by using the discount code provided by the affiliate, the affiliate earns $41.02 for providing the visitor with the coupon code. Affiliates have many ways to profit from the Crucial Cash Program.

Crucial offers a 101-day full money-back guarantee on all shared hosting packages. Affiliates are paid after this 101-day grace period to allow for cancellations and credit card charge backs. The Crucial Cash Affiliate program includes an intuitive browser interface that allows the tracking of delivered visitors and sales completed by those visitors including real-time traffic log graphing. The Crucial Cash Program also offers affiliates the ability to track their own sales, which is a great advantage in today’s market.

To learn more about Crucial Web Hosting’s instant activation, please visit: www.crucialwebhost.com.

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Palo Alto, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - February 27, 2007 - Healthcare technology company, The TriZetto Group Inc., has reported tripled efficiency, from its hosting services, through its data centers, with the help of Tidal’s job scheduler software, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler.

The software has also helped TriZetto improve customer satisfaction rates through the rapid, accurate, and frequent delivery of information. Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, today announced that

Cyd Means, Director of Computer Operations for TriZetto remarked, ”After deploying Tidal’s software, we were able to reduce lag times between jobs, as well as manual intervention and errors. Today, we have tripled the volume of our production. Tidal plays a valuable role in our operations and in helping us to achieve a high level of customer service, our top priority.”

TriZetto’s Hosting Services team supports three data centers serving customers across the United States, running heterogeneous systems and hosting TriZetto’s applications for more than 75 health insurance payers. TriZetto hosts and provides full-spectrum application management services to healthcare payers to support their day-to-day operations, such as claim processing, enrollment and billing, medical management, customer service, EDI and Web transactions. Using Tidal software, TriZetto can create a customized job schedule for each customer, and can easily and automatically exchange secure data files with customers for streamlined operations.

Mark Davis, Manager of Scheduling for TriZetto remarked, “Customers entrust us with their mission-critical IT operations. Tidal is easy to use. It enables us to respond to customer processing and reporting needs quickly and provide a frequent, detailed status, all of which can help bolster the customer experience. From the CIO to the operators, Tidal provided support and cooperation for the implementation, and it paid off for everyone, including our customers.”

Mr. Means continued, “One impressive result is that we have virtually eliminated scheduling errors, and we’ve also achieved a 99.9 percent success rate for error tracking and resolution. Tidal’s job scheduler helps us to quickly identify and turn around these issues, an important capability.”

Rod Butters, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Tidal added, “TriZetto demonstrates exactly how data centers can deploy an enterprise job scheduler to simplify IT operations, and create positive results for the business. We were able to provide a simple, powerful solution to a challenging problem, and we are proud to be a part of their team.”

TriZetto touches nearly half of the insured U.S. population through the premier information technology solutions it provides to health plans and benefits administrators. TriZetto’s healthcare payer-focused offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting. TriZetto will also offer Tidal’s Enterprise Scheduler to its software license customers through the Tidal Reseller Partnership program. TriZetto will resell Tidal products within North America.

Tidal Software is a leading provider of advanced application scheduling and performance management software that radically simplify IT operations by automating performance and process management. Tidal provides a unique comprehensive management solution that enables IT organizations to maximize the automation, visibility, and control they have in the operation of their systems, ultimately making applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle E-business Suite, as well as composite solutions consisting of packaged applications and custom SOA-based components more efficient, productive, reliable, and secure, enabling them to return greater business value. Tidal has increased the efficiency of advanced datacenters for global enterprises such as General Mills, HP, Microsoft, T-Mobile, ING and Warner Brothers. The privately held company is venture-funded by JPMorgan Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Novus Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

For more information about Tidal Software, please visit: www.tidalsoftware.com.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - February 26, 2007 - Managed hosting, colocation, and IT outsourcing services, VeriCenter, has named Steve Lesem as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, who will report to President and CEO, Gray Hall. Mr. Lesem will be responsible for demand generation, field marketing, communications, business development, analyst relations, and messaging.

Mr. Hall explained, “We are delighted that Steve has taken this role within VeriCenter. He is a proven leader and his addition further strengthens our executive team. Because Steve has been successful in both sales and marketing roles throughout his career, he will provide us with the leadership VeriCenter requires to develop a stronger marketing competency, driven by customer needs and industry demands.”

Mr. Lesem brings more than 20 years of experience in IT marketing and sales. He was most recently Senior Vice President of worldwide sales for SafeNet, a Maryland based security technology firm. At BMC Software, a Houston based systems management software solution provider, Lesem served in a variety of capacities, including a VP role in Asia Pacific business development and channel programs, VP of Americas Marketing, and VP of Sales and Marketing for BMC’s Security Business Unit. Prior to BMC, Mr. Lesem held several important sales and marketing positions at IBM including General Manager, PC Server Sales and Marketing for North America.

Mr. Lesem continued, “I am honored to receive this important assignment and join the VeriCenter team,” said Lesem. VeriCenter’s pace setting growth and leadership of the managed hosting industry are truly exciting. VeriCenter has a world-class industry reputation, great solutions, a seasoned management team, and an extremely strong commitment to their customers. I look forward to working with the team as we accelerate the company’s success in this fast, dynamic and rapidly growing market.”

2006 Highlights for VeriCenter Include:

• 26th consecutive quarter of sequential sales growth
• 22th straight EBITDA-positive quarter
• 169 new customers, including BodyCote, Energy Partners, First Data Systems, Jason’s Deli, Merrill Lynch Commodities, Peerless Manufacturing and Ziff-Davis.
• Introduction of Premier Services, a dedicated technical support offering for complex enterprise environments.
• Release of Version 4.0 of the VeriCenter Customer Portal, which presents real-time data to customers about their environments hosted at VeriCenter, and serves as a communication mechanism between VeriCenter and its customers.
• Completed expansion projects in VeriCenter’s Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, and Denver data center facilities, bringing the company’s current level of production raised floor space to 145,000 square feet.
• For the second consecutive year, VeriCenter was recognized in the Inc. 500 as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.

VeriCenter, Inc. is a managed services, application hosting and IT infrastructure outsourcing company for large and mid-market enterprises. From its nationwide network of seven premier data center facilities, VeriCenter endeavors to provide a comprehensive range of managed services including management of servers, storage, backups, network, databases, security and data centers to more than 600 business customers in a broad range of industries. In addition to providing cost savings through economies of scale, VeriCenter delivers value to its customers by providing application availability, reliability and scalability, combined with a flexible and service-oriented culture, and by continuously adapting services to incorporate advances in infrastructure technology such as virtualization and utility computing solutions. In both 2005 and 2006, VeriCenter was recognized in the Inc. 500 as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.

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

Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - February 26, 2007 - High-speed Internet, data, video and voice services firm, Qwest Communications International Inc., has expanded its offerings to include a new CyberCenter in the Seattle, which increases the number of Qwest locations to 14, nationwide.

Qwest CyberCenters were developed for businesses seeking hosting solutions to manage and protect all critical data and systems. Businesses are hoped to maximize efficiencies and realize significant cost savings, by outsourcing hosting and application services. Qwest CyberCenters provide expert support for customers to conduct e-commerce, operate complex web sites, and manage entire IT environments including enterprise applications, databases and data storage.

Dean DuVall, Managing Director for IT Customer Services and Infrastructure at Alaska Airlines remarked, “Qwest Hosting Services have proven to be a dependable, secure and cost-effective solution for Alaska Airlines. Through our relationship with Qwest Hosting, we are able to maintain a secondary e-commerce presence for our web-based reservations, vacations, mileage plan and check-in systems. Having this capability significantly increases the performance and availability of our most important and visible web site.”

Qwest offers a spectrum of CyberCentersolutions including colocation, operating systems, application and database monitoring and management, storage management and business protection services. The facilities offer 24-hour-a-day staffing, indoor and outdoor security monitoring and biometric access screening. CyberCenters are equipped to withstand disastrous conditions and protect customer systems and equipment with top-of-the-line fire-detection and fire-suppression systems. In addition, customers receive reliable connectivity to Qwest’s extensive, coast-to-coast network backbone.

Dan Yost, Executive Vice President of Product and Marketing at Qwest added, “We are seeing a significant increase in the demand for Qwest managed hosting solutions, and the new Qwest CyberCenter will allow Qwest to expand the number of customers we can serve with leading broadband applications and network services. Opening the newest facility in Seattle demonstrates Qwest’s continued success in the hosting arena and our ongoing commitment to providing the most comprehensive and secure solutions available.”

Qwest CyberCenters are state-of-the-art facilities that can house more than three million feet of data cable and fiber optics, providing the extensive infrastructure features necessary to maintain a customer’s environment. Cooling towers, water pumps and chillers provide enough cooling capacity to air-condition the equivalent of approximately 1,820 private homes. With 19.5 mega-watts of emergency power to ensure network operations, Qwest CyberCenters generate enough power for approximately 5,000 households.

The 14 Qwest CyberCenters are located in 11 metropolitan areas, including Burbank, Calif.; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Minneapolis; Newark, N.J.; Sacramento, Calif.; Seattle; Sterling, Va.; Sunnyvale, Calif.; and Tampa, Fla. Qwest was voted “Hosting Center of the Year” in an InfoWorld reader’s choice survey and was also ranked number one for providing application services in a recent America’s Network end-user survey. Business customers also ranked Qwest a top data provider in a recent issue of Spokane Business Catalyst magazine resulting in an award in the “Best Web Hosting Business” category.

Qwest offers a combination of voice and data solutions for businesses, government agencies and consumers – locally and throughout the country. Customers coast to coast are turning to Qwest’s industry-leading national fiber optic network and its Spirit of Service for quality products and superior customer experience. Qwest Communications International Inc., through its operating subsidiaries, is a provider of high-speed Internet, data, video and voice services, with nearly 40,000 employees.

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

Lynchburg, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - February 26, 2007 - Residential and business Internet access, web hosting and services firm, Sitestar Corporation, has acquired the customers and assets of Magnolia Internet Services, an Arkansas-based Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Located in South Arkansas and founded in 1997, Magnolia Internet has grown its base of dial-up, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and web hosting customers to include both residential and business accounts. Sitestar has begun migrating the Magnolia Internet customers to its own reliable network and highly efficient customer infrastructure. The company intends to leverage its economies of scale business model to achieve robust profit margins and expects to increase customer retention by delivering higher levels of service and customer support.

Frank R. Erhartic, Jr., CEO for Sitestar remarked, “The Magnolia Internet deal neatly dovetails with our strategy to acquire the assets or customers of the seller and transition them to the Sitestar platform. Given our size and business processes, we’re able to realize greater cost savings than most ISPs, so we can generate a faster and stronger return on investment. We have established a repeatable process whereby we are identifying, qualifying and negotiating deals to grow our customer base and revenues. Most importantly, we’re looking out for our shareholders by staying disciplined and buying smart.”

Magnolia Internet customers are hoped to benefit from extended customer support hours and have access to value-added products and services. Mr. Erhartic continued, “On behalf of everyone at Sitestar, we welcome the new Magnolia Internet customers.”

Sitestar is an Internet and computer solutions provider that offers narrow-band (dial-up) services and broadband Internet access services (ISDN, DSL, satellite, cable and wireless), web hosting and design, and other value-added services including web acceleration, spam and virus filtering as well as spyware protection. Headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia, Sitestar maintains multiple sites of operation and provides services to customers throughout the U.S. and Canada, with concentrations of customers in the Mid-Atlantic and Rocky Mountain regions in the U.S. and in Ontario, Canada. With a focus on competitive pricing, reliability, service and speed, Sitestar delivers customer value.

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

Mechanicsville, Virginia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - February 26, 2007 - Web hosting provider, FreewayWebhost, has unveiled a website building program, to be included both with its free and paid website hosting plans, featuring comprehensive design solutions for the creation of professional websites.

FreewayWebhost has developed a test account to display the new website builder. When using the website builder with free hosting accounts, users are not required to display ads on their sites, and so receieve ad-free hosting for free.

Daniel J. Briere, CEO of FreewayWebhost remarked, ”We wanted to provide an extra-special upgrade to our users, and after thinking things through, we decided that free web hosting with no ads, along with a Website creation program, would show our users how happy we are to have them.”

In addition to the website buidler, FreewayWebhost has also recently added domain redirection, search engine submission, an HTML file editor, CRM software, and a help file database to its free Web hosting service.

For more information about the new website builder, please visit: http://testingaccount.freewaywebhost.com.

To learn more about FreewayWebhost, please visit: www.freewaywebhost.com.

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