Overland Park, Kansas - (The Hosting News) - September 28, 2007 - Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has unveiled an extensive overhaul and redesign of its main website, designed to update the company’s image, while offering improved navigation.

Gabriel Murphy, President and CEO of Aplus.Net commented, ”We worked hard to come up with a dynamic and customer-friendly design that reflects the fact that, although our emphasis and our expertise are still firmly based upon helping small businesses succeed online, we’re also entering into an exciting new era for Aplus.Net and our more than 90,000 customers.”

According to the company, while the new website boasts a modernized look and feel, it is still consistent with the company brand and immediately recognizable as Aplus.Net. The color palette remains the same, and Aplus.Net’s logo, which was itself overhauled in May, will also be left unchanged. The site’s layout continues to reflects a simple, classic look and feel, but with modern flourishes, updated graphics, and greatly improved ease of use. Gone are the constantly shifting sub-menus that once followed cursors through the horizontal main menu. The main menu remains horizontal, but is now accompanied by a new animated sidebar to provide improved visibility for Aplus.Net’s most popular products and services.

Ryan Elledge, Chief Operations Officer at Aplus.Net offered, ”Our many customers are the foundation of Aplus.Net, and so we wanted to offer them a website that’s easier than ever to navigate and to understand. These improvements were designed first and foremost to make the Aplus.Net shopping experience as customer-friendly and as enjoyable as possible. Secondly, it was important to update our image to let the world know that, whatever new advances the future of online business may bring, you’ll find it here first.”

The launch was timed to occur just days before the much-anticipated unveiling of the new Aplus.Net web design page (scheduled for the first of October), which will offer the newly acquired web Image brand of web design templates. Sub-domains for Domain Names and Dedicated Servers have already been successfully launched in recent weeks, as well.

Mr. Murphy continued, ”There’s a lot in store for this company. As we continue to expand our web hosting base and fully integrate the Web Image brand into the Aplus.Net family, we’ll also be moving into the next generation of Internet services, such as Web 2.0 and Software-as-a-Service. It’s essential for our website to emphasize that this is a visionary company, an industry leader.”

In August, Aplus finalized its acquisition of full-service Internet marketing and website development company based in White Plains, New York, WebImage. Aplus.Net was represented by RBC Daniels in the transaction and financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. WebImage is best known for its highly streamlined approach to volume web design, with its business model focused on premium Internet presence solutions for small businesses. In addition, WebImage positions itself as a business partner for small- to medium-sized businesses seeking a single business partner to provide an Internet presence solution complete with design, hosting and marketing services.

WebImage was formerly a business unit of White Plains, New York-based TSV Group. Felix Rodriguez, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TSV Group remarked, ”We’ve worked hard to make the WebImage brand synonymous with excellence and value, and we have complete confidence that under Aplus.Net, with its distinctive history of technological innovation, that reputation will grow even stronger.”

Aplus.Net has provided web services since the Internet’s commercial start in 1995. Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers award-winning services that include web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, domain name registration, and much more. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors’ Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and PC Magazine.

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

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San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 28, 2007 - Managed hosting services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting, will begin offering the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor to its U.S. customer base, featuring energy efficiency, performance and virtualization designed to upgrade the Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors.

Patrick Patla, Director of Product Management, Server/Workstation Division at AMD remarked, ”Rackspace has been a long-time, successful vendor of AMD Opteron processors. Their commitment to continuous performance improvement for their thousands of customers pushes us to deliver industry-leading technology like Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. With innovative power management capabilities, increased performance-per-watt capabilities, and scalable performance, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors will help Rackspace create a scalable, secure and high-performance web environment.”

According to the company, Rackspace will be the first hosting provider to offer Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, which present a native multi-core architecture with all four cores on one piece of silicon, allowing them to communicate more efficiently for improved performance and performance-per-watt. These processors also include power efficiency features like AMD CoolCore technology, designed to turn off portions of the processor logic and memory controller when not in use and reduce processor energy consumption and heat generation. Along with Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology, the processors’ advanced performance-per-watt capabilities help lower the energy consumption of a customer’s IT infrastructure while providing optimum application performance.

Nicolas Keller, Director of Platform Products at Rackspace Managed Hosting offered, ”We’ve found that AMD Opteron processors are an incredibly reliable platform for customers with multi-threaded applications or heavy database usage. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors coincides directly with our GreenSpace initiative of lowering power consumption, which in turn delivers great cost benefits to us that we can ultimately pass on to customers. It is apparent that the processor was designed with virtualization in mind, delivering near native performance on virtualized applications and greatly improving virtualized application performance by allowing virtual machines to manage memory more efficiently.”

Recently, Rackspace conducted a survey revealing that 57 percent of respondents are already using virtualization for internal applications. In addition, 72 percent of respondents are comfortable hosting mission-critical applications in a production environment on a virtualized platform. There is a great demand for leveraging the benefit of virtualization through a third-party hosting company: 71 percent of respondents would host their applications on a virtualized infrastructure with a hosting provider. However, the majority of customers are currently not comfortable utilizing a shared, virtual environment. Only 13 percent of respondents are confidently willing to share a physical server with other hosting customers, a practice common in hosting, with top concerns stemming from performance and security vulnerabilities in shared environments.

Additionally, the Rackspace survey revealed that 42 percent of respondents believe virtualization will have a fundamental impact on information technology. Although 43 percent had no preference between using open source or proprietary virtualization products, the majority of respondents use VMware. The methodology for this research involved sending an email survey to approximately 3,000 Rackspace customers. More than 12 percent of survey recipients responded to the questions.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Vancouver, British Columbia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 28, 2007 - Managed IT services provider specializing in the delivery of ITIL certified managed hosting solutions and managed IT infrastructure, Canada Web Hosting, has been ranked 8th on Business in Vancouver’s annual ranking of Fastest Growing Companies in British Columbia.

Canada Web Hosting recorded a 2,182% increase in revenue over the past 5 years. Brian Shepard, CEO of Canada Web Hosting offered, ”Canada Web Hosting’s significant revenue and market growth rates prove that our dedication to providing enterprise-class managed hosting solutions, as well as our belief in the partnership approach to managed services and our focus on great people are a winning combination.”

Each year, Business in Vancouver (BIV) newspaper publishes Top 100 lists in several categories, including the Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in B.C. which list is based upon revenue growth over the past 5 years. Canada Web Hosting was also ranked 88th by number of employees on the Top 100 High Tech Companies in B.C. list.

Mr. Shepard continued, ”The latest BIV rankings stand as another testament to our ongoing efforts to strive for business excellence. This is an accomplishment achieved by all of the team members at Canada Web Hosting.”

Recently, The PROFIT 100 magazine list, has named Canada Web Hosting as a rapidly expanding managed IT services firm, as it moves to the 11th position on the 19th annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies.

In Canada’s largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement, PROFIT Magazine’s Editor, Ian Portsmouth explained, ”PROFIT 100 companies are the new heroes of Canadian business, creating jobs at home and products used around the world. They’ve accomplished this by building great employee teams, exploiting export markets and rapidly responding to the customer’s fast-changing needs.”

In the 19th annual PROFIT 100 ranking published in the June issue of PROFIT and online at PROFITguide.com, PROFIT Magazine recognizes Canada Web Hosting’s over 3800% growth in revenues over the past five years. In 2006 almost a quarter of Canada Web Hosting’s growth each month was derived from existing clients expanding their managed hosting services. Through a focus on partnerships and on comprehensive solutions built around ITIL best practices for IT service management, Canada Web Hosting has continued to show leadership in this challenging market. To further help manage and accelerate their growth Canada Web Hosting also embarked on a successful campaign to attract experienced management professionals in the areas of IT Services, Marketing, Human Resources, and Research and Development. By drawing on the knowledge of individuals that have many years of Hosting experience, Canada Web Hosting has scaled its operations smoothly and deepened its core competencies. Since January 2005, Canada Web Hosting has expanded to over 70 staff members with offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Kelowna.

Canada Web Hosting endeavors to deliver mission-critical hosting solutions to Canadian and American clients from its world-class operations centers in Toronto and Vancouver. CWH’s mission is to provide the highest-value enterprise-class hosting solutions available in Canada through a comprehensive, customer-focused sales and technical support model in combination with robust network and data center services from key geographical locations.

For more information on Canada Web Hosting, please visit: www.canadawebhosting.com.

Houston, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 28, 2007 - Privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, will participate at the SMB Nation 2007 conference, scheduled for Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, 2007, at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, WA.

The Planet will highlight its hosted Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) solution at Booth 17. The Planet’s SBS solution provides small business system integrators with a complete enterprise-class ”IT portfolio-in-a-box” that includes Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server, bundled with anti-virus and spam protection, and a comprehensive data backup solution.

Carl Meadows, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Solutions of The Planet offered, ”System integrators are trusted advisors for their customers, which makes their role critically important to the SMB communities they serve. We are showcasing our newly announced Microsoft Small Business Server solution at this conference to demonstrate how integrators can rapidly deploy customized hosted solutions for their customers in days - not weeks - using our world-class data centers. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we help IT integrators increase revenues by turning one-time projects into more profitable recurring revenue relationships with more options for e-mail and collaboration.”

SMB Nation 2007 operates one of the largest SMB channel partner-focused conferences. This gathering, which focuses on IT consultants who serve SMB customers, is the annual convention for small business specialists, registered partners, TS2 attendees, resellers, SMB consultants, VARs and VAPs.

In August, The Planet released a new white paper that reflects a more than 50 percent cost savings for customers, that use its hosted Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) solution. Prepared by Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast Partners, the white paper compares hosted solutions with the do-it-yourself, in-house approach over the course of a three-year period. The company plans to deliver the new hosted solution in September.

”The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS Service: An Attractive IT Outsourcing Solution for Small Businesses,” — weighs the cost of an in-house, do-it-yourself approach compared with The Planet’s hosted Microsoft SBS solution. The study evaluates the three-year total cost of ownership based on server costs, software licensing fees, security, lease premiums, dedicated Internet access, utilities and in-house administration. For example, initial results show SMB customers with 20 employees spend approximately $35,600 with The Planet’s hosted SBS solution, while a do-it-yourself approach could average upwards of $87,400.

Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast practice directly assists clients in achieving their strategic objectives by providing critical and objective insights. Stratecast’s industry analysts and market experts provide the communications industry with market consulting and tactical strategic forecasting. This market information and industry research helps senior executives make critical business, technology, product, partnership and tactical strategy decisions. Our custom consulting, analyst availability and market subscriptions provide your firm with winning business growth strategies.

The Planet’s network is designed without single points of failure, which means the network operates with full redundancy for its core routers and distribution switches. The company also offers carrier diversity, with connections to seven Tier-1 telecommunications providers. As a result, customers never face obstacles or suffer from poor peering connections, sub-optimal routing paths, or congested or oversold networks that limit the power, speed and availability of their sites.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

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

The Planet 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 servers, software tools and support, backed by its facilities and network connectivity, The Planet endeavors to turn information technology into a competitive advantage, to enable business growth.

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

Lowell, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - September 27, 2007 - Enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software firm, Virtual Iron Software, has debuted its launch of a new research survey, in order to determine the emerging IT infrastructure requirements of hosted service providers.

All respondents will be automatically entered in a drawing for a new Apple iPhone, to encourage participation. At the project’s conclusion, Virtual Iron will publish the findings of the results of the survey, and make them available for download at its website. The brief survey, focusing on the data center needs of hosted service providers and the potential role of server virtualization, is located at www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Cpjf7jAFhNOAL7GtfQde6Q_3d_3d.

Hosted services businesses have unique IT infrastructure requirements - managing hundreds — if not thousands — of different customer environments. They need to cost-effectively deliver increasingly high service levels in a utility computing model. To be successful they must:

• Share computing infrastructure across multiple customers while delivering all the security, isolation and performance of a dedicated environment.
• Expand and differentiate service offerings while meeting stringent service level requirements.
• Address problems associated with under-utilized capacity or under-sized hardware and manage hardware outages.
• Simplify system management and reduce high operational costs caused by a complex data center infrastructure.

The survey examines hosted service provider’s needs in these areas and the role server virtualization might play in addressing them by reducing data center operational costs, increasing management flexibility and improving service levels. Participants should be involved with at least one of the following business types:

• Website hosting
• Application hosting, software as a service
• Outsourced servers (shared or dedicated environments)

Virtual Iron provides production-ready server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management capabilities for unmodified Windows and Linux at one-fifth the cost of comparable alternatives. The platform combines an open source hypervisor with advanced virtualization services and sophisticated policy-based management. Virtual Iron’s products are designed to enable users to take full advantage of new hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT and AMD-V) on servers, to deliver near native performance. The software also offers other enterprise-class capabilities such as large memory support (up to 96 GB), large SMP capabilities (up to 8 CPUs) and the ability to virtualize server platforms with up to 32 physical CPUs. Virtual Iron requires no installation or management of software on physical servers, further simplifying installation and data center operations, which differs from other virtualization solutions.

Virtual Iron’s enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software, is designed to enable companies to reduce the cost and complexity of managing and operating data centers. The software includes advanced capabilities that leverage industry standards, open source economics and built-in hardware-assisted acceleration. Small, medium and large organizations worldwide may use Virtual Iron for: production server consolidation; development and test optimization; cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery; dynamic capacity management; and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The software is available exclusively through Virtual Iron’s Channel One partner network. Evaluation copies are also available for free download.

To learn more about the survey, please visit: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Cpjf7jAFhNOAL7GtfQde6Q_3d_3d.

For more information about Virtual Iron, please visit: www.virtualiron.com.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 27, 2007 - Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft’s CDP Server, has been upgraded to the next major version of the Continuous Data Protection product, with CDP Server 2.0.

The new release includes a variety of functional enhancements from previous versions of the product, and also introduces an array of new features not previously available. Namely, CDP Server 2.0 offers improved speeds when disk compression is enabled, Disk Safe Repair to cleanly recover archived data from server crashes or power failures, and performance improvements that allow users to run as many simultaneous backup tasks as their hardware can handle.

CDP Server 2.0 now includes email reporting features, allowing the server to automatically dispatch status reports via email directly to end users. The new version now comes standard with support for the ReiserFS file system and No More File System Indexing (Make File List) which means no more waiting for file system indexes to restore files. Files are available for restore as soon as the backup operation has completed.

David Wartell, Founder and CEO of R1Soft remarked, ”The release of the second major version of CDP Server marks an important milestone for both our company as a whole and our dedicated development team. With today’s announcement, we are making available a product that has been in the months in the making. We have invested thousands of hours in building the next iteration of the world’s most innovative, flexible, scalable and reliable data protection product.”

To upgrade from previous versions of CDP Server, users need to download and execute the upgrade installer for version 2.0. The software will automatically update without the need for a clean installation of the new version.

Recently in August, R1 Soft announced that it now fully supports ReiserFS, a journaling file system and leading alternative to the standard Linux extended file system, known as ext2 or ext3. The company’s CDP Server has previously introduced support for an array of Linux distributions running on the Linux 2.4 Kernel or higher. Specifically supported distributions include Fedora Core; Debian Linux; CentOS Linux; OpenVZ; RedHat Enterprise; Virtuozzo; Ubuntu; and custom built vanilla or patched Linux 2.6 kernels. A beta Windows agent of the CDP Server is also available. R1Soft plans to introduce official support for Novell Suse and OpenSuse in the near future.

R1Soft’s CDP products diverge significantly from traditional backup technologies, which essentially copy files at intervals from hard disks to another medium, such as a tape drive. These methods often only provide data protection on a daily or weekly basis, resulting in large losses of data in the event of a disaster. R1Soft’s CDP Server, however, monitors changes to the disk as they happen, thereby reducing backup windows to seconds or minutes. It also affords even busy servers a significantly higher level of reliability in the event of a disaster, without the consumption of a large amount of system resources.

R1Soft currently produces Continuous Data Protection solutions designed for data centers, web hosting providers, and other firms using Linux servers. Founded in 2003, Righteous Software is a provider of disk-based backup solutions, with low cost, scalable and integrated products, featuring products designed to integrate with Linux-based systems.

To learn more about R1Soft’s MySQL CDP product, please visit: www.r1soft.com/mysql.

Berlin, Germany - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 27, 2007 - Web hosting company, STRATO, has launched its Web Shop in the UK, following success in the German market. Over the past four years, STRATO has set up over 20,000 Web Shops in Germany and is looking to expand in the UK.

SMEs desiring to expand with an online presence or specialise online and budding internet entrepreneurs with an idea they believe will sell online, can set up a secure STRATO Web Shop. The STRATO Web Shop set-up was designed to be easy and can be achieved quickly with professional design templates, customisation tools and a Wizard assistant to guide users through the installation steps. It is done on the web browser so no CD is required and the Web Shop is secure and backed up by STRATO servers at the datacentres.

Once up and running, efficient online inventory management with automatic current stock and minimum quantity reminders, UPS shipping and payment systems including Paypal, HSBC and Worldpay make shipping, tracking and payment easy for both shop owners and customers. With STRATO, even the smallest shop has a credit card payment facility included and all customer data is stored securely.

Additional marketing features to increase the shop’s competitiveness and visibility are advertising via kelkoo, manual or automatic cross-selling capability with recommendations, tips and shopping lists, newsletters, gift certificates, a tell-a-friend tool and an award winning eBay interface, whereby shop owners can quickly transfer sales items from shop to eBay. Up to eight languages and pound and euro options allow success in both the domestic market and abroad.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO offered, ”Online shopping is a lucrative business. The British spend more money online per-capita sales than any other European country and European e-commerce turnover is expected to double within the next five years. Such positive trends in online spending signalled an ideal time for a UK launch of the STRATO Web Shop and our user-friendly product offers instantly recognisable features and tools, making the experience straightforward for both shop owners and customers.”

Recognised for exceptional innovation and high performance, STRATO Web Shops received the German eco Award from Web Host Directory and are TUV certified. Shop owners can further increase security and install trust in customers with a professional thawte SSL certificate from VeriSign. STRATO Web Shops come in three variations, each with different feature packages.

STRATO also includes several MySQL 4 databases, back-up and free professional customer support. An extensive selection of interactive elements provides homepage dynamics. With the CGI 2005, users can incorporate modules like newsletters, guest books and a visitor counter into pages. The programming scripts, PHP 5 and Perl, are also available to those users who choose to program web applications or implement finished scripts from online collections. Unique security performance is also included with the STRATO package. All customer website data is automatically saved with STRATO BackupControl. In case of an emergency, users can access up to ten backup copies that are respectively hours, days and weeks old. Data transmission may also be encoded with SSL, ensuring that sensitive entries in web forms are sent over the web with effective protection.

In addition to complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce, and has one hundred per cent subsidiary of freenet.de, a listed Internet and telecommunications company with over ten million customers. STRATO offers products including a .eu domain, at no extra charge and for a low monthly flat rate. Five individual domains are offered that can be either in .eu or .co.uk format. STRATO was recognized as Germany’s top web host provider by the eco Association of the German Internet industry. STRATO is based in Berlin and currently has two million domains and one million customer contracts. STRATO operations currently exist across Europe, including Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands. STRATO was the first major European web host to receive the internationally coveted German Technical Control Board seal ”BS7799” which is now ISO 27001:2005. The British standard certification was awarded by the independent German testing organisation TUV SUD, for the reliability of its computing centres, security and data availability. Partners of STRATO include Sun Microsystems, Cisco, AMD, Adobe and Microsoft.

To learn more, please visit: www.strato-hosting.co.uk.

Burlington, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 27, 2007 - Hosted Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint and CRM services firm, 123Together.com, has launched a contest for all current and new affiliates for its hosted email service.

The goal of the contest is to generate additional revenue for its shared and dedicated hosted Microsoft Exchange Servers and is in addition to the standard affiliate payouts.

Ravi Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer of 123Together.com noted, ”The partnership between 123Together.com and our affiliates is very important to us. We appreciate their efforts and want to reward their hard work. According to analysts, the market for hosted Microsoft Exchange will grow by over $600 million over the next year so our affiliates have the opportunity to obtain great prizes during this contest.”

Contest Levels and Prizes Awarded:
The affiliate contest for shared servers will run through March 10, 2008.

Sales Levels and Prizes:

Sell between $2,000.00-$4,999.99 and get a Home Theatre System
Sell between $5,000.00-$9,999.99 and get a 32” LCD HDTV
Sell between $10,000.00-$19,999.99 and get a 50” Plasma HDTV
Sell $20,000.00+ and get a 50” Plasma HDTV plus Home Theatre System

The affiliate contest for dedicated servers will run through November 30, 2007.

Server Types and Prizes:
Sell a Silver Server and get a iPod Nano with video
Sell a Gold Server and get a 42” Plasma HDTV
Sell a Diamond Server and get a 50” Plasma HDTV
Sell a Platinum Server and get a 50” Plasma HDTV plus Home Theatre System

123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, endeavors to help small and medium-sized businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server. With over 9 years of hosting industry experience, 123Together.com is one of the largest providers of Microsoft Exchange Hosting today. With up to a 100% uptime guarantee, 123Together.com provides Mission Critical E-mail to companies such as banks, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and public companies, around the world, with flexible hosting options including shared and dedicated server hosting, full mobile availability for Blackberry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone, and Windows Mobile handhelds, and the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.

To learn more about the contest, please visit: http://news.123together.com/2007/09/11/affiliate-contest.

For more information about 123Together, please visit: www.123together.com.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 26, 2007 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has relaunched its Double Down promotion, offering customers twice the RAM, hard-drive space or bandwidth, for all new orders of select servers, at no additional cost.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management at The Planet explained, ”The customer feedback we’ve received on the Double Down promotion leads us to bring it back to meet the tremendous numbers of requests our sales team has received. We work to be a customer-driven company and bringing back Double Down is a clear indication that we’re listening.”

The Double Down offer will be available through 11:59 P.M. CST on Sept. 30, 2007, or while supplies last.

The Planet’s Super September Giveaway is still underway, whereby all customers purchasing a new dedicated server will be entered into a drawing for an array of prizes. Winners will be notified via e-mail or phone by Monday, Oct. 1, 2007. In addition, The Planet will have daily drawings for the choice of a $50 gift card for either iTunes or Best Buy.

The Super September Giveaway grand prize is a Dell XPS M1210 laptop, valued at more than $1,800. The first-prize winner will select from a 160 GB iPod and $100 iTunes gift card, or an Xbox 360 Elite gaming system. For the second-prize, there’s a choice of an 80 GB iPod and $50 iTunes gift card, or a Nintendo Wii gaming system and a $50 Best Buy gift card. The third-prize winner will be eligible for an iPod Nano and a $25 iTunes gift card.

The Planet’s network is designed without single points of failure, which means the network operates with full redundancy for its core routers and distribution switches. The company also offers carrier diversity, with connections to seven Tier-1 telecommunications providers. As a result, customers never face obstacles or suffer from poor peering connections, sub-optimal routing paths, or congested or oversold networks that limit the power, speed and availability of their sites.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

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

The Planet 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, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

For more information on the giveaway, please visit: www.theplanet.com/september-giveaway.

To learn more about Double Down promotion, please visit: www.theplanet.com/double-down-promotion.

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

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - September 26, 2007 - The London Internet Exchange (LINX), has expanded its corporate office team, with the appointment of Jennifer Atherton as its new Business Development Executive.

Ms. Atherton is a Nottingham University graduate and will support new member recruitment and communications activities, reporting to Sales and Marketing manager, Richard Yule.

Mr. Yule commented, ”Jennifer’s arrival coincides with a period of unprecedented growth at LINX. She has already met many of the members having attended the recent LINX58 meeting and we see her contribution as key to strengthening future communications with prospective and existing members.”

Ms. Atherton remarked, ”As an non-profit organisation at the heart of the Internet industry, LINX really appealed to me. They offered exciting prospects and the opportunity to be part of a close-knit, well-organsied team. I am really looking forward to my future experiences of working for LINX and getting to know its members.”

LINX is a mutual organization owned and consisting of approximately 250 Internet service providers and content delivery service providers. It allows competing networks to exchange Internet traffic cost-effectively, bringing speed and efficiency benefits to their customers. The LINX platform enables access to Internet routes, reaching more countries, than any other public peering point. LINX operates in a regulatory and policy environment that is supportive of network operators and the Internet community, which it strives to maintain and reinforce through its Public Affairs activities. The LINX network includes over 550 connected member ports, over 50 member-facing 10GigE ports, and over 150Gb/sec of peak traffic.

To learn more about LINX, please visit: https://www.linx.net.

Jupiter, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 26, 2007 - Web hosting company, HostNine, has garnered the number one spot on the Top 10 Fastest Growing Company list, from HostReview.

The list showcases fast-moving companies that are increasing quickly in size and prestige according to HostReview.com. This is the first award HostNine has received from HostReview.com.

Ben Gabler, Director of Operations at HostNine remarked, ”Everything from the partnerships we have with FastServers.Net and ModernBill to the outstanding employees we have working day in and day out has contributed to our success. It’s an amazing feeling to know we were hand picked for this award by the DevStart team, the team behind HostReview.com.”

Maria Mitsova, Editor at DevStart, Inc. added, ”HostNine is a young company whose ambition has led to terrific results after only one year of service. HostNine’s use of the latest technologies and the utmost care it shows for its customers won the company the top position on the HostReview fastest growing hosting companies list.”

When ranking hosting companies, DevStart takes into consideration a suite of factors. Factors include customer service, new products, promotions, overall performance, and the popularity of the company’s website.

HostNine’s use of the latest technologies includes the launch of its new Reseller Central product in August. Since the launch, the hosting company has experienced an increase in overall performance due to substantially lower server loads.

Recently, the company debuted the launch of its Reseller Central, where resellers may manage all of their domains across multiple cPanel servers, regardless of their physical location. Resellers no longer have to purchase multiple accounts with multiple companies to delegate their domains across different servers. Reseller Central was designed from the ground up by the HostNine team and replaces the WHM control panel completely. Customers can host their domains in locations around the globe including London, Australia, Ireland, California, Chicago, Cedar Falls, Texas, Virginia, New York, Florida, and more. Resellers can choose from any of the available cities when adding domains in the control panel. Reseller Central lets resellers spread their accounts across multiple servers, networks, and locations. By using Reseller Central, HostNine can significantly decrease the maximum number of accounts on a single server. Doing so results in faster response times, quicker connections world-wide, and lower CPU and Memory usage on the server.

Mr. Gabler continued, ”With Reseller Central backed with top quality 24/7 100% in-house American support and our server performance increases, we have the leading edge on web hosting companies. Customers sign up with HostNine because they trust us with the security of their website(s). And Reseller Central provides the ability to choose from over ten different locations around the world to host their website(s).”

HostNine, is a reseller hosting company, created for web designers, developers and other technology service providers, to extend their capabilities, and empower web hosting startups to quickly launch and grow web hosting businesses. HostNine LLC was founded in 2006 by hosting industry veterans, the company’s offerings include technology and solutions across multiple products and services, including shared web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated server hosting. The Jupiter, Florida based company utilizes 100% Dell PowerEdge servers.

To learn more about HostNine, please visit: www.hostnine.com.

Montreal, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 26, 2007 - Web hosting company, Top Hosting Center (THC), has entered the Web 2.0 Market, with a hosting plan to match competitor pricing, including its Top Host Special plan, offered at $4.95 (USD) per month.

Including 250 GB disk space and 3000 GB bandwidth, free site builder, non-stop support, instant updates with no hidden costs, and much more. With its 100 MySQL databases included, developed as an ideal plan for home-businesses, as well as bloggers.

Eric Vanier, CEO of THC explained, ”This is The Web 2.0 plan. It was specially created for social networking and community hosting, but it fits in the exigencies of the online e-commerce owners too: 1 free domain registration and 30-day money back warranty, in addition to all the features any professional hosting plan should include.”

THC offers web hosting, an affiliate program, dedicated servers, virtual servers, resellers network services, and SiteBuilder web design. Affiliate programs invite bloggers and website owners to monetize their online business and make up to $ 150 (USD) per sale or unlimited monthly earnings, depending on the plan they choose to promote. All THC hosting plans are available as Linux or Windows. THC connectivity is a constitution of multiple redundant Tier 1 backbone providers. Through its partnerships with Level (3) and Congent, the company deploys an 8Gbps bandwidth capacity.

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