Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 31, 2007 - Privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, has unveiled discounted unmetered bandwidth, for new server orders, wherein customers may gain unlimited access to a 10 MB uplink from the company’s multiple Tier-1 providers, along with its 100 percent uptime service level agreement.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management at The Planet remarked, ” Many of our customers operate high-traffic e-commerce sites, which require high bandwidth availability to ensure peak performance at peak times. Bandwidth overages are similar to cell phone overages which translate to additional costs for customers. The Planet delivers a ”no surprise guarantee” with unmetered bandwidth at a nominal price, which enables SMB customers to prepare for seasonal or unexpected spikes in traffic.”

With direct connections to the Internet through several Tier-1 telecom providers, The Planet ensures that customers are able to bypass congested transit networks, and shorten the network path between the IT infrastructure and customers or end users. This helps to ensure lower latency, maximum speed and unparalleled reliability.

Recently, The Planet added enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) to its private rack portfolio, to provide its customers access, to highly scalable, high-performance disk storage. The new storage solution from Network Appliance, is designed to provide The Planet’s customers with maximum data availability and protection, particularly for those whose businesses require critical online data repositories, including databases, media libraries, backup archives and e-mail.

The new addition follows the company’s recent addition of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 Series Firewalls and Foundry ServerIronXL load balancers to its comprehensive private rack portfolio. For Web 2.0 companies and SaaS providers that operate complex hosting environments, the new products add enterprise-class capabilities and enhancements at attractive, self-managed pricing.

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at The Planet remarked, ”With the proliferation of e-commerce and e-mail, the data needs of our customers continue to explode. Our new storage options enable customers to gain the same enterprise capabilities usually available only to larger organizations. As a result, they are able to make faster decisions, better serve their own customers and continue to grow their businesses without the worry of IT management. For those who have outgrown the storage provided by local hard disks, the new NetApp storage solutions provide a powerful, affordable option.”

The Planet’s new high-performance, is geared toward highly scalable storage, to add additional options specifically designed to deliver value. According to the company, NetApp FAS storage operates faster than data stored on local disks, offering high throughput and fast response times that are required for transaction processing, database and technical applications. The non-disruptive capacity expansion can be easily configured, managed and maintained. When additional storage is required, NetApp offers non-disruptive capacity expansion. In addition, the solution is fault-tolerant, with predictive technology that sends notices of an impending failure, warnings are sent to customers, The Planet and to its own automated systems.

Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Solutions Marketing at Network Appliance added, ”Reliability, scalability and simplified management are hallmarks of NetApp storage solutions. Customers want solutions that do not compromise their data or application availability. NetApp systems allow customers to confidently expand storage requirements within The Planet’s private racks in a cost-effective manner.”

The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 2.8 million web sites worldwide. By offering the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and the highest level of network connectivity, The Planet endeavors to turn information technology into a competitive advantage, enabling customers to grow businesses.

To learn more about the Network Appliance solutions and services, please visit: www.netapp.com.

For more information on the unmetered bandwidth special, please visit: www.theplanet.com/unmetered-bandwidth?utm_campaign=ZPHONOOA.

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 31, 2007 - Web hosting solutions provider, JaguarPC, has entered into a partnership with Elfbox.com, to offer a half price promotion on colocation services, featuring up to 50% discounts, for Elfbox server, tower and rack server customers.

ELF Technologies has focused on providing individuals and businesses custom-built high-end computer systems at an affordable price. The new promotion offers customers the opportunity to experience the power of a dedicated box on a colocation plan backed by JaguarPC’s 24/7 support, free installation and setup.

Eric Echter, President and Chief Executive Officer for ELF Technologies remarked, ”We’re pleased to partner with a web host that has the stellar reputation for uptime and support as JaguarPC. Our customers expect only the best in quality and value, and this promotion will allow them to experience the great colocation services that JaguarPC has to offer.”

One Server

• 1u-4u or Tower
• 1 power port
• 1 network port
• 324 GB Bandwidth (1mbps)
• Normally $97/mo — after Elfbox partner discount only $47/mo
  Full Rack
• 42 U
• 20 amps power
• 324 GB Bandwidth (1mbps)
• Normally $597/mo — after Elfbox partner discount only $397/mo

Greg Landis, President of JaguarPC remarked, ”Businesses looking for colocation services need a high degree of reliability and support. This is a fantastic opportunity to get hardware built to their exact specifications that Elfbox is known for and pair it with the best offer for colocation in the industry today.”

Every JaguarPC plan includes:

• Full root access
• Free reboots
• Free moving assistance and data transfer for moves
• Free 5 IP addresses
• Free initial OS install
• Managed backups and services available
• Choice of control panels: cPanel, Interworx, DirectAdmin, Plesk

JaguarPC, based in Houston Texas and owned by Jaguar Technologies LLC Hosting, provides Internet hosting solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, government agencies, prominent individuals and non-profit organizations worldwide. JaguarPC’s core portfolio comprises information technology and business hosting services, as well as programming services. JaguarPC’s complementary subsidiary businesses are dehe.com, a vps and dedicated provider specializing in the Windows platform, and Devpond software, a web software company.

For more information about the offering, please visit: www.jaguarpc.com/services/elfbox.php.

To learn more about JaguarPC, please visit: www.jaguarpc.com.

Englewood, Colorado - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 31, 2007 - Shared and reseller hosting provider, Exabytes Network, has upgraded its EBiz Gold hosting plan, to include additional free gift packs with its hosting offerings. Immediate changes include the addition of large amounts of disk space from 15 GB to 300 GB, and monthly data transfers from 150 GB to 300 GB.

In addition, an extra 30 add-on domains have been added, for EBiz Gold. The free gifts pack has freebies such as Free Life Time Domain, Free Backup Mail Server,Free 90 Days Submitnet Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Free 150 Web Site Templates.

In conjunction with this event, Exabytes has also upgraded all other shared hosting and reseller plans including semi-dedicated hosting plan. The significant upgrades include the disk space quota, monthly data transfer and add-on domains. Semi-dedicated hosting plan will also include additional free gifts pack just like the EBiz Gold hosting plan.

Chan Kee Siak, CEO of Exabytes Network remarked, ”With these changes we’re keeping Exabytes Network competitive and attractive to new clients, as well as improving services for our existing clients. I am pleased to announce the winner who participated in our Guess-N-Win contest one week ago that was mainly organized for everyone to guess our EBiz Gold new disk space and data transfer. The winner of USD 300 (RM 1000) is Abdil Qudus Bin Abdul Rahman.”

Exabytes was voted as one of the ”most reliable web hosts” by Host Pulse. With multiple redundant backbones, leveraged clusters of servers including load balancing as well as advanced security features, its data centre is equipped with smoke detection and alarm systems, and guarantees 99.9% network uptime and 99.5% server uptime. Services come with a 30-day money back guarantee. In December 2005, Exabytes earned the prestigious MSC-status.

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

Victoria, Australia - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 31, 2007 - Web hosting services provider, Flexihostings Australia, has re-packaged its web hosting packages, to cater to a variety of customers, in addition to revamping its website, to include an uncluttered design, for easier browsing.

The hosting products range from 800MB hosting space plus 100GB premium bandwidth to the highest of 160GB hosting space with 2000GB premium bandwidth.

Sean Lim, CTO of Flexi e-Solutions remarked, ”You can find just about everything in this website, from a simple web hosting account, a smaller scale of reseller account, VPS hosting account, semi-dedicated hosting account, dedicated hosting account, backup mail server, web design service, SSL certificate and even domain registration.”

Albert Goh, CEO of the Company added, ”We understand that customers do not want to be confused from the website they are visiting. They want a straight to the point website, where they can find all the necessary information they want, place an order efficiently with no fuss, and get it done ASAP. Thus, we have re-designed our website to cater for all the above and make sure that placing an order with Flexihostings is no-fuss, quick and efficient.”

The Company stated that all of the hosting accounts will be housed and hosted within their secured and reinforced servers that are located in USA, Singapore and Europe data centres that are backed with redundant power, lightning fast fiber connections, and experienced server engineers. Flexi e-Solutions also stressed that customers will be given the choice and flexibility in choosing where they would like to host their web hosting account based on their own preferences and conveniences.

A Shared Hosting and Multiple Domain Hosting company, Flexihostings Australia plans start from 20 cents per day. Free Domain 4 life and all accounts come with 47 scripts auto-installer. In addition, the firm provides 24/7 to support with free access to an emergency paging system, backed by a 30 day money back guarantee, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

To learn more, please visit: http://www.flexihostings.net.

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - May 30, 2007 - ColdFusion web hosting solutions provider for small and medium-sized businesses, and Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner, HostMySite.com, has debuted free hosted accounts for the new release of Adobe’s ColdFusion 8 beta.

Adobe ColdFusion 8 was released in beta today as well, making HostMySite.com the first ColdFusion host to offer the new product to the developer marketplace. HostMySite.com has been selected by Adobe to be among the few elite ColdFusion web hosting companies to offer the free beta in order to demonstrate the functionality of the new release. Adobe ColdFusion 8 is a fast and easy way to create Internet applications. It solves the day-to-day challenges faced by developers, integrates in complex enterprise environments, and delivers rich and engaging application experiences for users.

Particularly well suited to dynamic Internet applications using a variety of databases, the new release of ColdFusion permits developers to easily extend and customize the ColdFusion scripting language, CFML, through custom tags, reusable object-based components, and user-defined functions, as well integrate with Java, .NET, and SOAP web services.

Mr. Tim Buntel, Senior Product Marketing Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe, remarked, ”Having a relationship with HostMySite.com has been great for us. They’ll offer accounts that allow customers to try out the ColdFusion 8 functionality on a shared hosting platform. If I had to say one thing about the release overall that this is Adobe ColdFusion. ColdFusion 8 shows what happens when you inject ColdFusion with Adobe’s DNA. It’s really about making a great experience for the application user, with PDF’s, rich Internet applications, multi-media presentations - much greater integration in the enterprise. We’re doing for .NET what we’ve done for java in the past as well. Additionally we’re enhancing the developer’s experience.”

HostMySite.com has been a pioneer in ColdFusion, hosting many of the industry’s premier ColdFusion websites - including those of ColdFusion guru Ben Forta, and also Tim Buntel’s ColdFusion website. The company has been offering ColdFusion since it’s inception in 1997, and continues to support innovation in ColdFusion web hosting.

Monish Sood, Director of Marketing at HostMySite.com added, ”HostMySite.com is committed to a strong partnership with Adobe ColdFusion and the entire ColdFusion developer community. This free ColdFusion 8 beta program will allow everyone with an interest in the new release to “test drive” the new features and to become familiar with the greatly expanded functionality now available. We look forward to seeing what the ColdFusion developer community can do with this impressive new product.”

Mr. Buntel added, ”For businesses running ColdFusion today there are compelling reasons to move to ColdFusion 8 even if you don’t rewrite a single line of code. Simply moving those applications to ColdFusion 8 will yield a range of benefits - it’s going to be faster, it’s going to be more stable, and applications can be monitored in production. Existing ColdFusion developers will be able to take advantage of the enhanced features very quickly and easily.”

Founded in 1997, HostMySite.com is a privately held provider of affordable managed dedicated servers, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and shared web hosting solutions. 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 with 24×7 customer support through toll-free telephone, e-mail, and live online chat.
HostMySite.com CEO Lou Honick has presented his ”Pillars of Customer Service” at several professional conferences this year including HostingCon, ISPCon Spring 2006, ISPCon Fall 2006, ITEC Dallas, and ITEC Indianapolis. Additionally, Mr. Honick was recognized as one of the ‘Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30′ by Inc. Magazine.

For more information about HostMySite.com’s
free ColdFusion beta accounts, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/cf8.

To learn more about HostMySite.com, please visit: www.hostmysite.com.

Overland Park, Kansas - (The Hosting News) - May 30, 2007 - Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has updated its corporate philosophy, revising its motto to reflect a new ”Everything For Your Business Online,” mantra.

Gabriel Murphy, President and CEO of Aplus.Net remarked, ”We felt that the company’s previous slogan, ‘Everything for your online business,’ inadequately represented our mission statement. It suggested that our services are helpful only to those companies that already have an online presence. In reality, though, our purpose, our resources, and our capabilities go far beyond that: We provide the tools that every company needs to succeed in the Twenty-First Century.”

Ryan Elledge, Chief Operations Officer of Aplus.Net added, ”We’re here to help small businesses succeed online, period. You could be a fledgling start-up with no web presence, or a 10-year-old business with a fully developed eCommerce site. Either way, Aplus.Net can provide what’s needed to take your company to the next level. And we feel that this change to our slogan is a better reflection of our capability to do just that. It may seem like a minor change, but those two words make all the difference.”

Aplus.Net’s new slogan seeks to emphasize that position during a time of change, according to company representatives. Having recently relocated from the West Coast to the Midwest and revamped its entire line of dedicated servers, Aplus.Net is also poised to announce several additional significant changes in the near future. This updating of its corporate philosophy is also a means to reassure its customer base - which numbers more than 200,000 - that, throughout all upcoming changes, Aplus.Net remains steadfast in its mission to help small businesses succeed online.

The new slogan appears on the heels of Aplus.Net’s next phase of its month-long new dedicated server hardware product line, featuring extensive processor and motherboard updates. The Aplus.Net Standard, Standard XR, Premium, and Premium XR server plans now offer Intel Core microarchitecture. The Premium and Premium XR - Aplus.Net’s top-tier server offerings, designed for processor-intensive, high-volume transactions and applications - now feature an Intel Xeon Woodcrest Dual-Core 5130 (2.00 GHz, 1333MHz) and Intel Xeon Woodcrest Dual-Core 5140 (2.33 GHz, 1333MHz) processor, respectively.

In addition, the Aplus.Net Standard server processor has been upgraded to an Intel Celeron D, with the Standard XR now featuring an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU - among the most premium technology available. Both Standard and Standard XR servers are now also equipped with new and improved Intel motherboard chipsets to facilitate dual core processor support and increased memory capacity. The Intel motherboards are known to be more reliable and scalable than previously used motherboards. The Aplus.Net dedicated server plans have also received significantly increased bandwidth, and all six are now equipped with an enormous 250 GB SATA of default configuration disk space.

Sneharthi Roy, Vice President of Aplus.Net’s Dedicated Server Business Unit remarked, ”We can now proudly say that, at our price point, we offer the fastest, most responsive, highest-quality dedicated server plan configurations available in this industry. This is just the beginning. In the future, look to Aplus.Net to continue to lead the way in web hosting technology and software.”

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 about Aplus,Net, please visit: www.aplus.net.

Derbyshire, United Kingdom - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 30, 2007 - Budget web hosting company, Streamline.Net, has increased the power of its Home and Power User packages, without price increases, beginning at $13.99 per plan, including a free UK domain name.

Details of the plan upgrades include:

Home User used to come with 150MB, now it comes with 250MB
Power User used to come with 500MB, now it comes with 750MB

Andrew Dollamore, CEO of StreamlineNet remarked, ”This is great from a sales point of view but more importantly it�s great to give our existing 60,000 plus customers even more value for money.”

StreamlineNet hosts over 100,000 domain names for over 60,000 customers and add around 200 domains to their servers every day. Hosting packages start from $13.99 per year and servers from $26.99 per month. See www.streamline.net for further details.

Last year, a survey sponored by Streamline.Net, revealed that a survey of its customers indicated that the majority of the 8,753 customers questioned, utilize a broadband, rather than dial-up connection. Out of all of the customers only 259 are still using a dial up connection. At present, there are 11,599,000 Internet users within the UK, of which only 5,300,000 are using broadband.

Andrew Dollamore, CEO of Streamline.Net, who conducted the survey, remarked, ”These findings are very interesting on two levels. Firstly, it’s good to better understand our customers in order to target more accurately products and services more appropriate to their needs. Secondly, it illustrates the potential of up selling broadband users web hosting as the next natural step. There’s no denying that the gap between broadband and dial up is closing but the gap within the web hosting communality seems almost gone.”

Streamline.Net offers 5 Hosting Packages on either Windows or Linux servers, that may be added to, as often as desired. Recently, Streamline.Net moved in to newly extended offices and have more than doubled the size to allow for continued expansion. Streamline.Net hosts over 90,000 domain names for over 60,000 customers and adds around 200 domains to its servers every day. Streamline.Net was originally launched in 1999 as a diversification of its parent company, Dollamore Ltd. According to Streamline.Net, 20% of all of its new customers, come via referrals.

For more details on Streamline’s shared hosting packages, please visit: www.streamline.net/wh.php.

To learn more about Streamline.Net, please visit: www.streamline.net.

San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 30, 2007 - Online entertainment destination for Los Angeles, LA.com, has launched its new web site, on Clickability’s hosted web content management platform. The new platform is designed to help the LA entertainment web site syndicate news from 10 publications with a comprehensive foundation.

Since its launch in 2003, LA.com has established itself as the top destination for finding hot spots and uncovering the best-kept secrets in Los Angeles. The website, which targets 18 to 35 year olds, features blogs, articles, and entertainment reviews submitted by LA.com’s editorial team of Los Angeles insiders. It has won industry recognition including a Forbes Best of the Web and frequent coverage in the The New York Times.

The move to Clickability enables LA.com to broaden and deepen its appeal through syndicated content and social media, managed through a single, consistent system. For instance, the site plans to use Clickability’s ”content loader” feature to complement its existing coverage with syndicated content feeds supplied by LA.com-publisher MediaNews Group and its 10 Los Angeles newspapers. The content loader is an interface to Clickability’s content platform; it enables LA.com to aggregate entertainment feeds from the print based-newspapers and publish them online. The result will be a site with more entertainment content, covering greater Los Angeles clubs, restaurants, events, movies and other entertainment news.

Jason Odom, Director of LA.com remarked, ”The goal is to be the entertainment content king in Los Angeles.”

LA.com will also also roll out new social media capabilities available with Clickability. Adding to to existing feature such as blogs and comments, the site plans to add user-submitted video, audio, photos, calendar events and to enable people to manage their own profiles from the site. The result will be the first Web 2.0 entertainment destination for Los Angeles. Choosing Clickability for its hosted web content management system made business sense for LA.com.

Mr. Odom added, ”Clickability’s streamlined interface and up-to-the-minute technology lets our content producers be creative about how they add new content and features, while the stability of its hosting environment minimizes the overhead on our IT staff. The end result is more traffic, which translates directly to more ad revenue.”

LA.com is a magazine-style city guide serving the nation’s largest internet-using, trendsetting marketplace. We reach professionals where they live and work. It’s a dynamic insiders-guide covering where to go, what to do, what’s new and what’s classic. Offering a broad range of premium advertising units, rich media, viral and direct messaging features and exclusive editorial and content sponsorships, LA.com is designed to fit a variety of marketing objectives and budgets.

Clickability is a single source provider of on-demand web content management services. Clickability’s organic product philosophy provides customers with resources to build a more profitable web business. Clickability’s hosted web content platform allows customers to eliminate the need for technical overhead or infrastructure. Clickability helps customers manage millions of content items, across billions of web pages served. Clickability is headquartered in San Francisco.

For more information about Clickability, please visit: www.clickability.com.

To learn more about LA.com, please visit: www.la.com.

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 29, 2007 - On-demand hosting services for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer Technologies, has debuted the release of several new products, including: enterprise racks, Specialty servers, Xpress servers, and an Open API for integrated management.

Lance Crosby, President and Chief Executive Officer of SoftLayer remarked, ”Our new web site and new products clearly demonstrate our commitment to raising the level of end user control in dedicated hosting. We are merging the physical layer with the virtual layer to become the first truly web-enabled hosting company.”

According to Mr. Crosby, all servers come with the standard virtual private rack that allows for additional servers and services to be added on-the-fly without service interruptions. Alternatively, SoftLayer also offers a virtual dedicated rack with advanced graphing options and bandwidth pooling. The premier offering includes a virtual datacenter offering that targets enterprise companies who seek full racks of dedicated servers delivered on demand.

Additionally, SoftLayer is launching Specialty servers and Xpress Series servers. Specialty servers include; redundant power servers, mass storage servers, streaming media servers, private NAS servers, and high-end servers with twelve hot swap drive bays capable of holding twelve terabytes of data. A more cost-efficient option, the Xpress Series servers target developers and IT managers who need servers sooner rather than later.

Mr. Crosby added, ”Open API might be the most significant development of them all. “The release of Open API signifies the importance we place on opening up our infrastructure management system. Now our customers have the ability to integrate all features into third-party server control panels, third-party commercial applications and even corporate intranets.”

Mr. Crosby concluded, ”We remain steadfast in our dedication to extend control of the hosted environment, so that we may provide end users with a level of control equal to or greater than their own internal datacenter environments.”

Located in the INFOMART in Dallas, Texas, SoftLayer was formed in June 2005 by a team of industry executives seeking to deliver low cost next generation on-demand hosting services for the small to medium enterprise (SME). Utilizing proprietary software, coupled with the industry’s network-within-a-network topology, the company endeavors to deliver power and control in order to securely manage IT environments while providing scalability.

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

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Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - May 29, 2007 - Website and Internet services company, Web.com, Inc., is scheduled to participate in two upcoming conferences in New York City: The Friedman Billings Ramsey and Co. 2007 Growth Conference at The Grand Hyatt, and the Cowen and Company 35th Annual SMid-Cap Technology Conference at The New York Palace Hotel.

A live webcast of both presentations will be available through the investor relations section of Web.com’s website, www.web.com/ir. Please note that participants will need to register in order to access the webcast and it will be available on Web.com’s website for replay.

The Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and Co., Inc. 2007 Growth Conference will feature presentations from approximately 200 public and a select group of private companies. Presentations from more than 100 public companies in the TMT, Consumer and Healthcare sectors.

Company sectors to be featured include:

Technology, Media and Telecom
o Cable and Broadband
o Enterprise Hardware
o Enterprise Services
o Financial Technology
o Internet Services
o Publishing and Education Services
o Semiconductor Devices
o Semiconductor Manufacturing
o Software
o Solar Manufacturing
o Telecommunications

Healthcare
o Biotechnology
o Emerging Pharmaceuticals
o Healthcare Services
o Healthcare Information Technology
o Pharmaceutical Informatics
o Senior Care
o Specialty Pharmaceuticals

Consumer
o Entertainment and Leisure
o Hardline Retail and Other
o Restaurants
o Specialty Apparel

The Cowen and Company engages in research, trading and investment banking, centered around the key sectors of growth in the economy - Health Care, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Consumer, and Aerospace and Defense, which has served nearly 90 years of growth.

Web.com, formerly Interland, Inc., offers do-it-yourself and professional website design, website hosting, ecommerce, web marketing, developer hosting, and e-mail resources, since 1995.More than 4 million websites have been built using Web.com’s proprietary tools, services and patented technology. As one of the longest-standing leaders in the website hosting industry, Web.com offers proprietary, point-and-click technologies and expert support professionals to ensure simplicity and ease-of-use at every step of the process. Distribution Partners include: Yellow Pages directories, broadband services, telecommunications, retail, and others. Strategic distribution partners include: R.H. Donnelley, Dex Media, EarthLink, British Telecom, Terra Lycos, Thomas Publishing, Ambassador Yellow Pages, Hawaiian Telcom, Encore Software, Office Depot, CompUSA, Amazon.com, and Monster Worldwide. Technology Partners include: Cisco, Compaq, Foundry Networks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Lycos, Macromedia, Miva, Microsoft, Network Associates, Openwave, PayPal, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Staples, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, Verizon, VERITAS, Yahoo, and WebTrends.

Web.com has been honored with the following accolades:

• Deloitte, Technology Fast 50 Winner, 2005 and 2006
• Excellence in Technology 2005 Awards Ecommerce, SmallBusinessComputing.com
• # 12 on Deloitte’s 2004 Technology Fast 500
• #1 Web Design, Development and Services Company 2005, Atlanta Business Chronicle
• Frost and Sullivan Market Leadership Award 2003
• Who’s Who in Technology 2003 and 2004, Atlanta Business Chronicle

To learn more about Friedman Billings Ramsey and Co., please visit: www.fbr.com.

For more information about Cowen and Company, please visit: www.cowen.com.

To learn more about Web.com, please visit: www.web.com.

Minneapolis, Minnesota - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 29, 2007 - Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River, recently sponsored, exhibited and presented, at the International Independent Software Developers Forum (ISDEF) Spring 2007, at the Holiday Inn Moscow in Russia.

Digital River was a premier sponsor of the ISDEF spring conference, hosting an exhibit booth and co-sponsoring an evening social event for conference attendees. Digital River presented a breakout session focused on the state of the shareware industry, strategies and tactics on how to increase online sales, reseller management and how to effectively price software for online sales.

ISDEF Spring 2007 is a conference devoted to software development and marketing issues. The bi-annual event attracts independent software developers and international IT professionals. More information about the conference is available at www.isdef.com/en/conference.

The Independent Software Developers Forum (ISDEF)’s main topic was ”Automatization of Business Processes in Software Companies.”

Each year ISDEF holds a 3-day fall conference Last year’s ISDEF 2006 conference attracted over 600 participants from all over the world. The variety of topics and the number of potential participants are so great that they would no longer fit into a single event.

Representatives of Russian and Western companies will share their experiences, which may help conference participants to establish an efficient process of development, support, sales, and marketing of software products.
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Some of the speakers and sponsors of the ISDEF Spring 2007 included:

• Registrators: SoftKey (Russian Federation), Avangate (Netherland), CleverBridge (Germany), Digital River (USA), Plimus (USA);
• Software Developers: Bitrix (Russian Federation), Famatech (Russian Federation), Fast Reports (Russian Federation), Microsoft Russia, Terrasoft (Ukraine);
• Representatives of the law firms and venture funds: ABRT Venture Fund (Russian Federation), femida.us (USA, Russian Federation, EU).

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.

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Gloucester, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 29, 2007 - Independent hosting company for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), Fasthosts, has partnered with Microsoft, to offer exclusive dedicated server and web design packages, to enable enterprise-class websites for UK small businesses.

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can now achieve affordable enterprise-class websites thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft and the UK’s largest hosting provider, Fasthosts, launched today. The first 300 customers to purchase a Windows DS600 or DS800 Dedicated Server from Fasthosts will receive Microsoft’s Expression Web design software for free.

The combined package gives SMEs all they need to exploit the potential of the web. The special dedicated server packages provide online businesses with tools for success, including unlimited bandwidth, a high speed virtual data pipe, and a secure private network. Now added to this is Microsoft’s Expression software, empowering SMEs with professional design tools to easily build dynamic, interactive websites for a compelling user experience.

Stephen Holford, Director of Product Marketing at Fasthosts explained, ”This is the perfect package for aspirational UK businesses. The technical capabilities of our high-end servers means that all the boxes for back end functionality are ticked, while the Expression software means the shop front has access to the latest in web design. We’re not just giving businesses the tools to build their online business; with this exclusive deal, we’re giving them the means to set out their stalls too. With no bandwidth limits and a high speed connection, this range of servers is excellent value for money.”

Small business productivity has been historically hamstringed by server downtime. A 2005 Fasthosts study found that the average downtime for a small business was two weeks. In recognition of this, Fasthosts dedicated servers possess a unique feature that allows users to control their servers remotely and reboot them online as required by simply clicking a restart button on a control panel.

Fasthosts’ dedicated servers offer the user permanent keyboard, video and mouse control by using a self-powered on board card, meaning that the customer is given complete control over their dedicated server. This includes changing BIOS configuration access, hardware reset and remote desktop (Windows) as well as SSH (Linux). Customers can also benefit from guaranteed bandwidth through the allocation of a virtual data pipe connected directly to their server. This means that SMEs do not have to share resources and bandwidth with other companies on the same unmetered, unlimited connection and they don’t have to pay for additional bandwidth.

Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites with superior quality. Its built-in support for the latest Web standards means SMEs can quickly and easily build accessible websites with cross-browser compatibility, without needing in-depth technical knowledge. The visual designers, art design tools and intuitive lay out features, are designed to enable SMEs to design eye-catching, creative sites for a compelling user experience, while easily incorporating and building XML data.

John Allwright, Head of Web Design at Microsoft UK offered, ”Microsoft Expression Web has really raised the benchmark for standards based website design. We chose to partner with Fasthosts for this offer because we wanted to provide small businesses with both the tools to design an enterprise-class website and the IT infrastructure to enable it as well. Fasthosts were an obvious choice with their reputation for excellent customer service and support.”

Fasthosts, based in the UK, and operating 24×7 from its dedicated UK data centres, Fasthosts serves over 1 million domains.
All of Fasthosts services can be self-managed through its web-based control panel, enabling customers to set up and manage new websites, email accounts, databases, and other hosted services online. Fasthosts was voted the number one webhost by tophosts.com in September 2005; won the Web Host Directory ‘eCommerce webhosting award’ and was also announced as the best dedicated server package in August 2005 by HostReview.

For more information on Fasthosts’ Free Microsoft Expression Web design software, please visit: www.fasthosts.co.uk/dedicatedservers/expression-web.

To learn more about Fasthosts, please visit: www.fasthosts.co.uk.