Renton, Washington - (The Hosting News) - January 31, 2008 - Server virtualization firm, Parallels (formerly SWsoft), has released its latest version of the container-based server virtualization software. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Version 4.0, includes enhancements and features designed to improve usability, data center management and business continuity.

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers differs from traditional hardware virtualization solutions in that it dynamically partitions a single Windows or Linux operating system instance into highly efficient and scalable virtual environments or ”containers.”

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels noted, ”The ever-changing needs of today’s enterprise data centers call for a virtualization solution that is flexible and delivers high performance. With the release of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0, we are launching the next wave of virtualization, including a suite of products that help IT administrators effectively manage their growing virtual infrastructures.”

By delivering native server performance, Virtuozzo virtualization can be used with performance-sensitive workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases that are not practical with other virtualization solutions due to their associated overhead and the performance penalties that are incurred.

Mr. Beloussov continued, ”Parallels offers the right technological approach coupled with the best economics to deliver a comprehensive suite of virtualization and automation products for any hardware or software environment.”

Also, Parallels Virtuozzo offers three times the density or more versus other solutions, which permits data center managers to maximize the number of virtual containers per each physical server. In fact, Virtuozzo is the only virtualization solution that enables dozens to hundreds of containers to immediately and automatically leverage hardware, resulting in exceptional data center efficiency from administrative, ROI and energy-consumption perspectives. Along with the increased density capabilities, IT administrators can reduce operating system sprawl in the data center by using Virtuozzo.

Robert Berry, Director of Technical Services, Homes and Land Magazine, noted, ”We were impressed by the Beta and are looking forward to implementing Virtuozzo 4.0. The new centralized management and networking options in the tools will make managing our virtualized data center even easier.”

John Humphreys, Program Vice President with IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group remarked, ”With the Virtuozzo product, Parallels is focused on taking virtualization to the next level. By virtualizing above the operating system, customers get both the benefits of hardware reduction and a reduction in the number of operating system images they need to run to support their applications.”

Diane Bryant, Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Server Platforms Group commented, ”As virtualization continues to proliferate in data centers and on desktops, Intel is delivering leading platform capabilities and performance to foster the growth. Parallels Virtuozzo 4.0’s manageability tools, ease-of-use and reliability take advantage of the performance improvements with Intel’s latest generation of Quad Core Xeon and Itanium processors and make it a leading virtualization solution.”

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 offers new features and functionality in several key areas:

- Business Continuity - Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 includes several new options to drive uptime, such as Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat clustering services. In addition, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 delivers a comprehensive set of backup enhancements

- Ease of Use and Manageability - Version 4.0 extends the already significant resource management in Parallels Virtuozzo Containers with the inclusion of virtual CPU improvements, burstable CPU limits, hardware device forwarding, hardware device sharing and more

- Efficiency - Version 4.0’s architectural enhancements provide even higher levels of stability and performance. New efficiency-driving features include real-time optimization of hardware resources, and an improved Virtuozzo file system that speeds common management tasks and more effectively utilizes hard disk resources. More information about how customers are using Parallels Virtuozzo can be found at www.parallels.com/virtuozzo.

Virtuozzo 4.0 also introduces the Parallels Infrastructure Manager, a powerful tool for managing the Virtualized Data Center that enables IT administrators to efficiently manage their infrastructure from anywhere.

The Parallels Infrastructure Manager includes a number of important features such as:

- Enhanced Permissions - Includes role-based security and audit, Microsoft Active Directory support and LDAP integration.
- Newly Designed Management Tool - Easier assessment of resources and assets via powerful dashboards.
- Large Scale Deployment and Management Capabilities - Includes application and OS templates as well as centralized data center management, providing logical views of the data center.

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 is available worldwide from Parallels or any of its partners. The product, including the Parallels Infrastructure Manager, is available for $3,000 per dual CPU. A Parallels Virtuozzo Containers license can be purchased without the Parallels Infrastructure Manager for $2,500 per dual CPU.

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses and service providers across all major hardware, operating system and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe and Asia.

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

New York, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 31, 2008 - SitePal speaking avatar technology platform, has been added to uplinkearth web hosting and Internet solutions provider firm’s portfolio, to offer talking avatars for its customers.

Adi Sideman, CEO of Oddcast noted, ”The data at this point is quite clear these innovative avatars dramatically increase conversion rates, and ultimately, the efficacy of web sites. Uplinkearth, with its largely small business customer base, is a company we look forward to working with for many months and years to come. As the Web continues to grow more competitive and interactivity on pages becomes even more crucial to maximize monetization, we are confident that uplinkearth’s small business customers will see the incredible value that speaking avatars bring to any web site.”

Through the partnership, uplinkearth customers can take advantage of the award-winning marketing tool at no additional charge. SitePal, which was developed by Oddcast, allows small business owners and webmasters to create speaking, animated characters - or avatars - for web sites, especially on pages where visitor conversion rates are critical. The avatars feature either text-to-speech generated audio or are linked with a voice recording, provided by the user or created by talent at Oddcast.

Uplinkearth customers will have access to SitePal’s basic avatars at no charge and with no obligation or time limit. Customers then have the option to upgrade to enhanced versions of the product at an additional charge. More information about the offering is available in uplinkearth’s customer control panel.

Michael Yablonowitz, President and CEO of uplinkearth commented, ”One of our key initiatives over the past several years has been to introduce a wider variety of distinctive member benefits for our customers, and continue to distinguish our company’s specialization in meeting the unique needs of small to medium sized businesses. Through this partnership with SitePal, we hope to offer yet another sales and marketing tool for our customers, with which they can grow their businesses,” said “In the end, when our customers succeed, we do too.”

SitePal, developed and distributed by Oddcast, allows small business owners to create speaking avatars for any web site. The tool is designed to enrich the user experience, is cost-effective and is proven to increase sales and conversion rates. Over 9,000 webmasters worldwide use SitePal.

Based in Somerset, New Jersey, uplinkearth is a commercially successful web host providing a full range of Internet solutions for businesses, including Windows Web hosting, clustered email, and data management services. Since 1997, uplinkearth has served Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and thousands of small and mid-sized businesses in more than 50 countries.

For more information about Uplinkearth, please visit: www.uplinkearth.com.

To learn more about SitePal, please visit: www.sitepal.com.

Aliso Viejo, California - (The Hosting News) - January 30, 2008 - Utility and grid computing solutions firm, 3Tera, Inc., presented a discussion on the Impact of Utility Computing on new the Web 2.0, at the Technosium 2008 Global Conference and Expo, with Senior VP Product Management, Bert Armijo.

The 2008 Technosium Global Conference and Expo, which took place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, is an international Information Technology and Wireless and Mobile Broadband Telecommunications conference and expo for technology professionals from all around the world. The speaking session was entitled, ”Utility computing - Tapping a new resource to power your Web applications.”

The speaking session examined the fact that while the biggest value in new Web 2.0 applications is functionality, deploying and operating applications on fixed infrastructure is becoming prohibitively expensive. Power costs are skyrocketing, servers depreciate before they’re plugged in, and skilled operators are in short supply. The presentation discussed and demonstrated a new architectural model for running and scaling Web 2.0 applications without breaking the bank - utility computing.

An annual Mega-Event in Silicon Valley, Technosium’s goal is to bring IT companies and end-users closer, face-to-face and open all the possibilities to discuss products, solutions, the latest technologies and business opportunities. With more than 150 vendors participating at Technosium 2008, this educational and networking event is for the corporate market, public sector, technology professionals and the venture capital community.
Bert Armijo, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product Management, 3Tera, Inc.

Bert Armijo is Co-founder and VP of Product Management at 3Tera, Inc., a provider of grid computing and utility computing. A veteran of multiple startups, Mr. Armijo co-founded Topspin Communications, a pioneer in fabric computing, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005. Mr. Armijo was a co-founder of a Gigabit Ethernet startup Rapid City Communications, where he launched the first Gigabit Ethernet routing switch in 1997. Later the company was acquired by Bay Networks, which was acquired by Nortel. At Nortel’s High Performance Switching Division, Armijo was responsible for launching the Passport 8600 Enterprise LAN switch. Mr. Armijo has an MBA from Saint Mary’s College. His blog is at www.3tera.com/hotcluster.html.

3Tera, Inc. is a grid and utility computing firm for the deployment and scaling of web applications. Named a 2007 Category Breaker by NetworkWorld magazine, 3Tera’s AppLogic grid operating system enables the first true utility computing services that completely remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. The operating system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually operate deploy and scale transactional web applications without any modification of code. Software-as-a-Service providers, Web 2.0 companies, enterprises and open source developers may obtain new online services, to market by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning using only a browser.

For more information about 3Tera, please visit: www.3tera.com.

South Bend, Indiana - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - January 30, 2008 - Shared web hosting provider, Host Color, is offering a promotional service package featuring a one month promotional campaign on web hosting services, with six months of complimentary hosting services, to all customers that sign-up or renew Multi Domain or business hosting plans.

Alexander Avramov, Marketing Manager of Host Color LLC noted, ”We are quality web hosting provider focused to deliver results to web entrepreneurs. This means that we power their web sites with useful software applications which help them to better organize and to implement various businesses processes.”

Multi Domain enables site owners to host 30 different web sites and to use 30 GB disc space and 500 GB monthly transfer. Business plan comes with 2GB disc space and 50 GB data transfer per month.

Company’s customers of Multi Domain and Business hosting plans can use ”PowerTools,” a software applications package that works with Host Color’s proprietary hosting automation system - NexColor. It features 20 of the most popular and software applications in web hosting industry such as phpBB and Vanilla forums, Drupal, Joomla and TextPattern CMS, OpenAds ads server, Zen shopping cart, and various blogging capabilities.

The complimentary 6 additional months are applicable for all customers who sign up for 12 or 24 month contract. The web host also adds a free SSL certificate to all Multi Domain subscribers. Multi Domain hosting plan also comes with free US or Canadian domain and extended 90 days money back guaranty. It costs $9.49 per month. Business hosting plan comes with SSH, com, net or org domain registration and many other useful tools. It costs $6.95 per month. Host Color recently added Textpattern CMS, Wiki software and Social networking capabilities to shared hosting plans.

Host Color LLC is a US web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It has been operating on the hosting market since 2000. The company hosts thousands of personal and business web sites, offering web hosting services in US and European data centers. The hosting company provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe.

For more information about Host Color, please visit: www.hostcolor.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lancashire, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 29, 2008 - Web hosting provider, Pulse Web Hosting (which recently replaced Supanet Hosting), has initiated upgrades and enhancements, designed to facilitate website acquisition and management.

Sam Benson, Product Marketing Manager for Pulse, noted, ”We provide a plethora of information about our hosting packages clearly and prominently on our website. Signing up to a package is now as simple as counting 1,2,3.”

Pulse Web Hosting, following a wide-ranging and thorough review of its signup process, admin system and web builder program, has developed a system that requires three steps for customers to select a domain, choose the appropriate hosting package and make a secure payment. Pulse’s recently relaunched, new look website offers a complete overview of every package making the selection of the one most appropriate easy.

Every customer gets access to the company’s Web Builder for no additional charge. Using a template system it takes less than an hour to build a professional looking website using the Web Builder and it takes one click to upload a site onto the web.

Mr. Benson added, ”Our newly redeveloped Web Builder is so simple anyone can use it, even if they have no previous web building experience. There’s no need for complicated coding or confusing web page building programs, best of all, our Web Builder is completely free.” Additionally the admin system for managing the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a website has been completely overhauled.

Recently, Pulse awared a holiday competition winner its top hosting package, Power Plus, free for 2008.

The Power Plus package includes a free fully configured e-commerce platform and a free blog. The competition ran on the Pulse homepage throughout December 2007 and was open to anybody who visited the company’s site.

Pulse will be running a plethora of offers and competitions during the next 12 months as part of its plan to revolutionise the web host industry. Mr. Benson added, ”This competition is only the first of many offers and prizes that we will be offering in 2007. We feel the gift of quality hosting is best that anyone can receive.”

Pulse Web Hosting launched on November 22, 2008 and replaced Supanet’s previous hosting service, Supanet Hosting. Pulse Web Hosting offers low-cost high quality hosting services, with selected packages fully configured for e-commerce web sites. The hosting provider also offers email packages, domains, dedicated servers and corporate services such as online marketing and business broadband. Pulse web hosting has invested in both network equipment and backbone connections, for the fastest access possible to content.

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

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 28, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has revealed a new corporate strategy, based upon a reconfiguration of its identity, to reflect its intention to shift into IT hosting, while transforming traditional IT functions into consumable services via the web.

Lanham Napier, President and CEO, Rackspace noted, ”Rackspace has been focused on Fanatical Support® since the beginning - it’s in our DNA - and our new identity reflects that. Now we see the industry shifting to a service-based paradigm. Fanatical Support has been the key to our managed hosting success for the past nine years and will continue to propel us as we embark upon this new era of IT hosting.”

As more enterprises transition from purchasing in-house computing assets to leveraging service providers, Rackspace now offers a suite of hosted IT services that are more reliable and provide better value, including virtualization, hosted mail, custom application support, back-end IT and storage.

The newly-launched name, Rackspace, drops the Managed Hosting” terminology, signifying Rackspace’s new breadth of hosted services supporting companies of all sizes. In addition to Rackspace’s traditional managed hosting offering, its venture companies also complement the new strategy. They include:
- Mosso, the Rackspace cloud computing brand
- Mailtrust, the Rackspace business-class hosted email brand

The new logo incorporates Rackspace’s popular ”FANATIGUY” icon, which better reflects Rackspace’s people-centric culture and award-winning Fanatical Support. It also highlights the company’s transition from servers to services. Rackspace is moving beyond the historical hardware focus of the web hosting industry and towards a services strategy, assembling the best technologies in the industry and delivering them as a service. Fanatical Support has always been the key differentiator for Rackspace, but through the strategy shift, service will be accentuated even more.

Daniel Golding, Vice President and Research Director, Tier 1 Research noted, ”As the IT hosting sector evolves, it is becoming that the true competitive differentiator is customer support. As the very idea of IT hosting makes the leap into enterprise adoption, those firms that can offer truly outstanding support will come out on top.”

Mr. Napier added, ”As Rackspace leads the industry’s transition to hosted services, we will build upon our core managed hosting business and Fanatical Support. Our new services will compliment our existing portfolio allowing customers to easily offload more and more IT functions to Rackspace.”

Since the company’s founding in 1998, Rackspace has grown to more than 2,000 employees world wide, powering through the dotcom bust and moving up to become a leader in the managed hosting space. Growing at approximately 50 percent per year in revenue since the company’s inception nearly ten years ago, Rackspace has been named Microsoft’s Hosting Provider of the Year three times, The American Business Awards Best Customer Service Organization twice and a Leader in Gartner Inc.’s annual North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant since 2004.

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 15,000 customers across eight 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.

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Toronto, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 28, 2007 - Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, is cautioning that the new dot-ca domain names will sell out quickly in 2008. In particular, Canadians have embraced dot-ca domains, with nearly one million domains registered to date.

According to CIRA’s dot-ca domain registration count, the rapid growth of dot-ca domains is no surprise to Netfirms, whose customers have found that dot-ca domains are trusted by Canadians, more available than dot-com and priced competitively.

Alexey Kapralov, Founder of eShopp remarked, ”Having a dot-ca domain name has helped customers trust my online store. I’ve found that Canadians prefer to buy from my store because I’m located in Canada. That’s why having a dot-ca domain name is especially important for Canadian businesses.”

Registering a dot-ca domain name is particularly important for small businesses targeting Canadian consumers. A dot-ca domain name, paired with a Canadian focused website helps establish a trusted brand that attracts Canadian customers.

Although they’re going quickly, there are still more dot-ca domains available than dot-com. The entire dot-ca domain namespace consists of nearly one million registered domains compared to nearly seventy million registered dot-com domains.

Gregg McLachlan, Founder and President of WorkCabin commented, ”Showing our Canadian identity is extremely important - that’s we were glad to find our dot-ca domain name was available. It has definitely helped us successfully grow our services on the web and immediately connect us with Canadians.”

Jason Matheson, Product Manager, Netfirms, Inc. noted, ”Until a few years ago, dot-ca domain names were typically more expensive than dot-com. We started offering CIRA certified dot-ca domains for as low as $9.95 CAD per year – comparable to the industry standard price for a dot-com.”

Netfirms offers small businesses everything they need to establish a Canadian web presence with the lowest priced dot-ca domain names and business web hosting. For $9.95 per year, the dot-ca domain product includes:

• A CIRA certified, dot-ca domain name (example.ca).
• A basic webpage accessible through the domain name that can be edited immediately.
• An email account @ the domain including spam filtering.
• Full DNS management through the user-friendly Netfirms control panel.
• 24/7 access to expert technical support.

Mark Bowden, Founder of Truthplane Communication Training added, ”My dot-ca domain and web hosting through Netfirms has made it easy for me to share my knowledge and expand my Canadian client-base. Netfirms is simply the best choice for feature-rich domains and business web hosting.”

Netfirms, Inc., founded in 1998, provides web hosting solutions and technology to successful small and medium-sized businesses, home office, entrepreneurs and individuals worldwide. Netfirms hosts over 1,000,000 websites, with offices in the U.S. and Canada. Netfirms was selected in 2006 as one of HostReview.com’s Top 10 Fastest Growing Web Hosting Companies.

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Frontpages Web Hosting Network Lowers CAL Cost for MOSS 2007

January 24, 2008 – Managed hosting and dedicated service provider Frontpages Web Hosting Network (www.fpweb.net) has lowered their client access license (CAL) cost for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  Dedicated MOSS 2007 hosting plans now feature CALs at $9 a month for each individual user, a 25% cost savings. 

Frontpages offers MOSS hosting plans ranging from small developer plans with just 5 CALs up to global enterprise plans with thousands of CALs and hundreds of TB of storage.  Each managed hosting plan comes with superior customer service and IT support to back them up.  Plus, with Frontpages Tier 4, SAS 70 compliant data centers, dedicated MOSS clients are guaranteed maximum uptime, security and control.

“It is our goal to provide customers with enterprise level MOSS 2007 solutions at an affordable price,” said Rob LaMear, Frontpages President.  “Companies who choose Frontpages to be their managed hosting provider can save as much as 60% on in-house IT costs.

Frontpages Web Hosting Network is a leader in providing managed web hosting services for SharePoint, Exchange, CRM and dedicated server solutions to customers around the world.  As one of the largest independent, U.S.-owned, managed hosting providers today, they serve companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to the SME (small and medium-enterprise) market.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 25, 2008 - Web hosting solutions firm, JaguarPC, has issued two new lifetime promotions, in connection with its recent top ten fastest growing web host award, in addition to reseller hosting recognition.

The new
promotion offers a 15% discount for life on Managed/Linux/Windows VPS Hosting and cPanel Reseller Hosting plans, and a 20% discount for life on cPanel Shared Hosting plans.

Darren Tabor, Chief Executive Officer of DevStart, parent company of HostReview noted, ”JaguarPC just exploded on the scene in 2007,”said “It
was our pleasure to recognize the phenomenal growth of this well-respected Web Hosting Provider.”

HostReview.com selected JaguarPC as a top ten Fastest Growing Companies in 2007, while Web Host Directory named JaguarPC as a Reseller Web Hosting award winning provider for January 2008. HostRevew selects winners judged on pricing, up-time, money-back guarantees, plan features and flexibility, technical support, security features and users reviews. Monthly results are prepared and displayed on their pages on the 1st of the following month. HostReview.com will
be awarding companies on a yearly basis, and will include the yearly performance of the company in the related category.

Similarly, Web Host Directory gave top honors to JaguarPC as one of the best Reseller Hosts for January 2008. These awards are given to the best web hosts in each of their web host categories by tabulating the votes they receive from their visitors and review board. Each host is given a rating of 1 to 10 (10 being best) in different areas of performance, including Cost, Features, Support, Reliability and Speed.

Greg Landis, President of JaguarPC remarked, ”We’re honored to be recognized by respected voices of the industry. It is a culmination of the efforts we’ve put into the last ten years of really listening to our customers’ needs. Our new lifetime promotions will help continue the strong growth as we look to roll out compelling features and plans tailored to the needs of different segments.”

Savings for Life promotion details:

Managed VPS Hosting plan includes:
-Quad-core nodes with a minimum of 12 GB registered ECC RAM
-Large RAID10 drive arrays
-Full root/adminstrator access
-JagPC Fully Managed Support 24×7x365
-30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
-Free daily backups via large R1Soft ECDP NAS appliances
-Free moving assistance and data transfer for moves
-Choice of OS: Windows, CentOS, Debian, Fedora Core, Suse
-Extra 50% free disk space for life on every plan
-15% off for life on every plan
-Free Plesk 10 domain control panel on every plan

cPanel Reseller Hosting plan includes:
-Host Unlimited Accounts
-Quad-core nodes packed with registered ECC RAM
-Large RAID10 drive arrays
-24×7x365 Support
-30 Day Money Back Guarantee
-Free IP addresses (3)
-Free WHM/Cpanel with Fantastico
-Free daily backups via large R1Soft ECDP NAS appliances
-Free moving assistance and data transfer for moves
-Free Enom.com domain registrar account; sell domains under your own brand
-15% off for life on every plan
-Free Rvskin; see rvskin.com for details
-Free ClientExec client billing and management software

cPanel Shared Hosting plan includes:
-Large premium bandwidth limits
-Powerful muli-core multi-CPU servers
-Large RAID10 drive arrays
-24×7x365 Support
-30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
-Free cPanel control panel with Fantastico
-Free daily backups via large R1Soft ECDP NAS appliances
-Free moving assistance and data transfer for moves
-20% off for life on every plan
-50% more disk space and bandwidth

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 is Devpond software, a web software company.

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

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - January 25, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy’s 2008 Super Bowl television campaign ad, has been approved, after ten submissions, including five concepts, three of which Go Daddy actually produced, and a number of revisions.

The Fox television network has approved ”Spot On” to air during this year’s Super Bowl broadcast. Several character actors are in the commercial, which also includes a key appearance by Indy race car driver and Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick.

Bob Parsons, Founder and CEO of GoDaddy noted, ”I think Exposure is the funniest commercial we’ve ever made. It’s hilarious. We are going to have to make lemonade out of lemons on this one. It’s risky, but we’ve changed our whole marketing plan so we can leverage something out of this smokin’ hot spot.”

According to Go Daddy, CEO and Founder Bob Parsons is disappointed the network won’t approve another commercial featuring Patrick, but neither Fox, nor Mr. Parsons, will compromise. In the ad, titled ”Exposure,” Parsons refused to capitulate to Fox’s request for the word ”beaver” to be removed. The word ”beaver” is used to reference Animatronics beavers filmed in the ad.

Since Go Daddy can’t broadcast ”Exposure,” Mr. Parsons has decided, instead, to use the thirty-second approved Super Bowl commercial slot to tell people how to see the ad intended for the big game on www.godaddy.com.

Go Daddy is no stranger to difficult approval processes and has a notorious history with the Fox television network. The network pulled Go Daddy’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial after approving it in writing. The commercial was a parody on censorship. It aired once during the 2005 broadcast, but Fox yanked it before its second airing, triggering an avalanche of controversy. Ironically, a college marketing textbook featuring the legendary Go Daddy commercial notes how Fox is actually known for its irreverent programming.

Mr. Parsons added, ”Ever since the so-called wardrobe malfunction, Super Bowl ads have lost a certain edge. We want ours to be GoDaddy-esque. That means it’s funny, edgy and just a touch inappropriate… but nothing more outrageous than you might see on any given day at any shopping mall in America.”

Some critics have panned the risqué advertising style, but Go Daddy’s Super Bowl commercials have translated into big market growth each and every year. Following the 2005 Super Bowl commercial, Go Daddy grew its industry market share of new domain names from 16 percent to 25 percent, making it the largest registrar in the world. The following year, new market share surged to 32 percent and last year’s commercial helped boost Go Daddy’s industry edge to its current 42 percent mark.

The often maligned GoDaddy-esque ad from last year’s Super Bowl not only generated big business, it also stuck in viewers’. In fact, IAG Research recently ranked Go Daddy’s 2007 ad as the Most Recalled commercial for the entire year.

This year’s ad, like Go Daddy’s controversial 2005 wardrobe malfunction” spot, spoofs a certain pop culture celebrity phenomenon. ”Exposure” will be available at www.goDaddy.com/superbowl08 when the company’s approved commercial airs game day, February 3.

Danica Patrick remarked, ”The Exposure commercial is hot, it’s funny and I just can’t wait for the whole world to see it.”

The Go Daddy Group, Inc. is a domain name registrar with more than 22 million domains under management and 24-hour-a-day customer support. More than 4 million customers are serviced by Go Daddy for domain registration, web site hosting, email and related Internet services. Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy also provides a variety of on-demand and other services. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.

To learn more about this year’s submissions and rejections timeline, please visit: www.godaddy.com/timeline08.

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Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - January 24, 2008 - Webhosting company, and subsidiary of United Internet, 1 and 1 Internet, is supported by Foundry Networks, Inc., with its installation of the NetIron XMR 4000 backbone routers, to power the network for scalable growth and allow for significant capital and operating expenditure savings.

During the planning phase of this major backbone upgrade, 1 and 1 chose Foundry’s NetIron XMR 4000 for its port density and performance, while also offering compelling economies of scale and long-term investment protection. 1 and 1 initially installed the NetIron XMR routers in the European part of the backbone and after successful results expanded the installation to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area Network (MAN).

Due to the large scale, 1 and 1 is running its own transcontinental Wide Area Network (WAN) - which differentiates the company from other web hosting firms. On the equipment side, backbone routers of multiple vendors are used to ensure maximum redundancy, reliability and security. On the network structure side, two independent ring systems in Europe and the United States are connected redundantly via two transatlantic connections and grant access to more than 400 other providers via 700 BGP routing sessions.

To meet consumer and business customers’ expectations for fast and reliable services, 1 and 1 is continuously optimizing its network. To preserve market leadership and provide next generation services, the European WAN network, which originally consisted of a SDH topology with a bandwidth of 2.5 GB/sec, is now upgraded to connections consisting of single or even multiple 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) channels. This ensures that 1 and 1’s future network increases as web hosting continues to grow.

The new Lenexa Data Center has the capacity for more than 40,000 servers and enables 1 and 1 to support rapid customer growth in the United States. The data center is linked to 1 and 1’s own 10GbE Kansas City metro ring to continue offering a high level of product and providing more than 99.99% uptime. The addition of Foundry routers gives 1 and 1 hosting users the advantage of heightened security and the next generation of technology enabling industry leading performance.

1 and 1 Internet has reported extensive growth as one of the world’s largest and fastest growing web hosts. According to independent studies, 1 and 1 hosts almost 2.6 million active web sites and has 9.1 million domains registered. 1 and 1’s global community is 7.07 million customers strong. Expanding globally, 1 and 1 is already one of the United States’ top five service providers. The data transfer rate of business and consumer Web sites hosted is nearly 6.5 petabytes per month.

Andreas Gauger, Chairman for 1 and 1 Internet remarked, ”The reason for the increasing popularity of 1 and 1’s web hosting service, besides affordability, is the industry leading performance and reliability. To maintain this advantage, we are constantly implementing technologies to improve our customers’ experience. After thoroughly analyzing competing products, we are convinced that Foundry’s NetIron XMR Series routers provide us with the upgrade path and feature set that allows future bandwidth growth and a high level of performance.”

Ken Cheng, Vice President and General Manager for Foundry’s High-End and Service Provider Systems Business Unit noted, ”We are very pleased that 1 and 1 Internet has chosen the NetIron XMR backbone routers to power their global Web hosting and service provider network. Performance, reliability and scalability are crucial elements in accommodating future network expansion. Using Foundry’s class-leading routers, 1 and 1 is well prepared for this growth and poised to take advantage of market opportunities as the world’s largest and fastest growing Web host.”

Foundry Networks, Inc. is a provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless LAN and access points, metro and core routers. Foundry’s customers include the world’s premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies.

1 and 1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with a market cap of $4 billion and over 3,500 employees. 1 and 1 was established in 1992 and hosts more than 9 million domain names, while more than 40,000 servers run on the company’s five data centers. 1 and 1’s global community is over 6.8 million customer contracts strong. The company’s U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA. 1 and 1 features an array of services, from instant domain packages to all-inclusive shared hosting plans, dedicated servers and ready-to-run eShops. 1 and 1 is a Microsoft Joint Development Partner, and works with other paramount companies such as Google, Plesk, Symantec, and HP/Compaq.

To learn more about Foundry Networks, please visit: www.foundrynet.com.

For more information about 1 and 1 Internet, please visit: www.1and1.com.