Dayton, Ohio - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2008 - The Web Hosting Talk community, has debuted the launch of its new Enhanced Member Profiles, which adds a new layer of social networking for its community membership.

Enhanced Member Profiles enable any Web Hosting Talk registered member to build more credibility and connect more deeply with other web hosting community members by integrating their social networks, building a powerful personal identity and sharing their broader expertise, interests and hobbies with the Web Hosting Talk community.

Web Hosting Talk members may integrate ”outside the community” reputations into their Web Hosting Talk persona, by leveraging existing online social media including YouTube, Blog feeds, Diggs, social bookmarks like Del.icio.us, Flickr photos, LinkedIn, forum activity, friend’s list and much more.

Web Hosting Talk is bringing together over 5 million forum posts with an advanced social sharing and communication tool to strengthen its value to the web hosting industry. The new Enhanced Member Profiles offer a unique new way for Web Hosting Talk members to get more engaged with the online community through not only forum participation but to also discover, share and discuss opinions, experiences and insights occurring outside the four walls of Web Hosting Talk. The Enhanced Member Profiles creates greater membership engagement which fosters stronger loyalty within the overall community.

Troy Augustine, CEO of iNET Interactive, the parent company of Web Hosting Talk noted, ”Web Hosting Talk is very excited about the launch and the quick adoption rate of the new Enhanced Member Profiles. The Enhanced Member Profiles provide added value for Web Hosting Talk’s members and creates a new social layer on top of forum participation.”

Since its launch in late March 2008, over 4,000 Member Profiles have been created by registered Web Hosting Talk members. Each week, hundreds of additional members are creating Enhanced Member Profiles. Some of the benefits for the profiles include:

1. Building deeper and stronger community relationships.

2. Adding character to a member’s Web Hosting Talk identity.

3. Combining a member’s outside the community reputation into their Web Hosting Talk identity to build credibility.

4. Gaining more search engine exposure for a member and their company.

5. Broadening a member’s online reputation and prominence by leveraging Web Hosting Talk’s authority in the web hosting industry.

Mr. Augustine continued, ”It’s just the start though. Over the coming year, Web Hosting Talk will be rolling out additional modules for the Enhanced Member Profiles beyond an already impressive list of social media.”

Any individual or company interested in setting up an Enhanced Member Profile should visit www.webhostingtalk.com/memberprofiles to learn more. Free registration is required.

Web Hosting Talk is a comprehensive and active web hosting community, with over 180,000 registered members who have generated over five million posts. Built initially as a message board, Web Hosting Talk has grown to include a web hosting wiki, web host directory and web hosting news. Web Hosting Talk is considered one of the largest, most influential web hosting communities on the Internet.

Founded in 2002, iNET Interactive embraced social media before the term was coined. iNET Interactive operates some of the most prominent online communities, including Web Hosting Talk and HotScripts.com, designed for technology professionals and technology enthusiasts. Its vertically-focused communities incorporate user-contributed ratings, reviews, and discussion augmented with professionally-produced content.

To learn more about iNET Interactive, please visit: www.inetinteractive.com.

For more information about Web Hosting Talk, please visit: www.webhostingtalk.com.

Santa Clara, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - April 30, 2008 - Web hosting provider and software development company, Sun Microsystems, has debuted its new visual database design tool, MySQL Workbench.

The solution is designed to integrate data modeling, physical database design, database creation, change management and documentation capabilities into a single, seamless environment for MySQL developers and DBAs.

Michael G. Zinner, team lead for Sun’s database developer tools noted, ”We are very happy to deliver a powerful open source database design tool for the MySQL ecosystem. The two editions are designed to meet the needs of the do-it-yourself community developer, while providing a very affordable and compelling commercial product for the corporate database professional.”

MySQL Workbench is available for download in two versions: an open source Community Edition and a (US) $99 commercial Standard Edition. Both are available now for Microsoft Windows, with future cross-platform support for Linux and Macintosh OS X under development.

The announcement was made at the sixth annual MySQL Conference and Expo. With nearly 2,000 attendees, it is the world’s largest community event for open source database developers, users, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.

The MySQL Workbench Community Edition is freely available for download under the open source GPL license at dev.mysql.com/workbench. This full-featured tool provides a base framework for data modeling and physical database design.

The MySQL Workbench Standard Edition is a commercial extension to the community edition that adds specialized plug-in modules that can boost productivity and save time. These include reverse- and forward-engineering capabilities, synchronization to and from live databases, HTML and text-based documentation, built-in validation of models and security management for modeled objects. At the MySQL Online Shop (shop.mysql.com), users can purchase a (US) $99 subscription for a perpetual single-seat license and software updates for a full year. Volume license discounts for multiple seats are also available for purchase.

As a special introductory promotion, customers who purchase or renew MySQL Enterprise silver, gold and platinum level subscriptions by June 30, will receive a complimentary one-year subscription for MySQL Workbench Standard Edition.

Jamie Schultz, vice president of Operations at B Three Solutions, Inc. commented, ”MySQL Workbench SE has allowed our team to improve productivity and deliver products on time and within budget. The tool is very intuitive and we find our new staff can ramp up quickly. This tool has significantly reduced the task-time of our data modeling, leaving more time to concentrate on quality. It also helps eliminate defects early in our development phase.”

Kevin Haas of OpenBI, LLC noted, ”We’ve looked at many applications to manage database development, and MySQL Workbench is the best. It’s an amazingly powerful database management front-end that’s also easy to learn. I use it exclusively now for most data design tasks — from advanced data modeling to general database administration. I recommend it.”

David Alsbury, CEO/President of Alsbury Media Group added, ”MySQL Workbench SE is a powerful visual design tool. I have tried other modeling tools, but the learning curve was too steep. With Workbench, I was up-and-running within minutes. From now on, MySQL Workbench will be an integral part of my development toolkit.”

MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world. Many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume web sites, critical business systems, and packaged software. At www.mysql.com, Sun provides corporate users with commercial subscriptions and services, and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.

Sun’s web hosting, is powered by Joyent and NaviSite using Solaris Container virtualization technology, part of the Solaris 10 OS, delivering the infrastructure to help deploy next-generation web applications that can scale based on demand. Sun’s partners also provide value-add services to manage and monitor their hosted environments. With highly flexible hosting offerings, customers can choose to start with a small capacity and grow flexibly as their business and community grows.

To learn more about the new solution, please visit: www.mysql.com/workbench.

For more information about Sun’s web hosting program, please visit: www.sun.com/startupessentials.

To learn more about Sun Microsystems, please visit: http://sun.com.

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - (The Hosting News) - April 29, 2008 - Hostopia web hosting company, has made a definitive agreement to purchase the customer assets of New Jersey-based hosting services provider, uplinkearth.

Uplinkearth accepted the all-cash offer last week. The companies plan to migrate all users of record from uplinkearth’s data center facility to Hostopia’s unified web services platform by June 30, 2008. The companies indicated that all users shall continue to be served under the familiar brand of uplinkearth, which will operate as a managed service by Hostopia.

Colin Campbell, CEO of Hostopia noted, ”We are very pleased to have concluded this agreement with uplinkearth. They have approximately 12,500 small business subscribers, which we feel are very compatible with the Hostopia web services platform. Our strategy will be to migrate all users and present them with many upgraded features and services. Over time, we will expect additional value-added services to be a logical upgrade path for many of these small businesses. Hostopia’s main focus is private-labeled, wholesale outsourced web services that we sell to Telco’s and broadband providers. Acquisitions such as uplinkearth complement our organic growth plan by adding end-users to our unified platform and giving us revenue-per-user opportunities through the many additional value-added services we offer, such as fax-to-email and collaborative email with wireless mobility synchronization.”

Michael Yablonowitz, Co-founder and President of Uplinkearth added, ”My partners and I have built a very successful hosting services business over the years. We are experiencing increased demand for new services from our customers which can drive opportunity for our business to grow. We decided the market timing was ideal to transfer our user base over to a highly capable provider in the hosting and SaaS arena - one who can deliver the high-demand services our users need. Hostopia’s proven credentials and track record in migrating large numbers of hosted business customers made them the ideal choice as our chosen buyer. We think our users will eagerly respond to the many new upgrades and value-added services Hostopia plans to offer them.”

Earlier this year, Hostopia reported a 42% increase in its operating income with record third quarter revenue, for the third quarter of 2007.

Highlights included: - Q3 revenue increased 29.8% year over year; 7.1% sequentially from Q2 - 31st consecutive quarter of increasing revenue - 17th consecutive quarter of positive operating income - Announced the launch of new Nexthaus mobile data synchronization applications - Closed 9 new customer contracts for web services, templates and mobile sync services - Added 8,000 end users.

Financial Results for the Third Quarter of Fiscal 2008 Revenues increased 29.8% to $7.3 million in the three months ended December 31, 2007, compared to the same period last year. This was the 31st consecutive quarter of higher revenues. Sequential revenue growth of 7.1% in the third quarter was primarily due to the migration of 28,000 end users onto the Hostopia platform in the previous quarter as well as the net addition of 8,000 end users this quarter. Two website template license contracts also contributed to the sequential revenue growth. Gross profit of $6.3 million increased by $1.4 million compared to last year. Income before interest and income taxes was $643,000 up $189,000, compared to the third quarter of last year.

The 42% increase in income before interest and income taxes was tempered by the $1.2 million increase in operating expenses resulting primarily from: (1) personnel costs associated with two new start-up units within Hostopia: Website Experts (website creation services) and the Nexthaus mobile syncing service, (2) higher amortization expenses related to the acquisition of licensed technology and Nexthaus’ intellectual property, (3) increased operating costs and sales commissions related to the large end user migrations in the second quarter, and (4) the effect of the appreciation of the Canadian dollar on our Canadian dollar denominated expenses. Income before income taxes of $950,000 was $320,000 higher than the same period last year because of improved operating profitability as well as $131,000 higher net interest income.

As revenues continue to grow over the remainder of the year, both from our existing and expanding customer base as well as our expanded product offerings, we expect our income before interest and taxes will continue to improve. Net income of $615,000 was $242,000 higher than the same quarter last year. Basic and diluted net income per common share were both $0.05 this quarter compared to $0.05 for basic and $0.04 for diluted net income per common share in the third quarter of last year. Net income per share was little changed as higher net income was offset by the increase in weighted average shares outstanding related to the Company’s public offering of 4.83 million shares in the third quarter of last year and the exercise of 516,000 stock options this year.

Hostopia is a provider of web services that are designed to enable small and medium-sized businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence. The company’s customers are communication services providers, including telecommunication carriers, cable companies, internet service providers, domain registrars, and web hosting service providers. Hostopia’s customers purchase its web services on a wholesale basis and resell these services under their own brands to small and medium-sized businesses. The company provides customers with the technology, infrastructure, and support services to enable them to offer web services, while saving research and development as well as capital and operating costs typically associated with the design, development, and delivery of web services.

For more information about Hostopia, please visit: www.hostopia.com.

Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - April 29, 2008 - Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf,
will be exhibiting at HostingCon 2008 in Chicago, to be held from July 28 through the 30th this summer.

HostingCon is the largest conference and tradeshow for the hosted services industry. HostingCon 2008 will be held at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois, over 56,000 square feet being reserved for the event. Hosted services professionals around the world will gather to learn more about the industry, network with peers and vendors, and help grow businesses. 

DemoWolf plans to showcase it’s growing list of support tutorials for hosting companies, as well as their various custom services. There will also be prizes and giveaways, details of which will be provided at a later date. DemoWolf will be exhibiting at booth #320.

Rob Moore, President of DemoWolf noted, ”We had a great time and connected with lots of people in the industry at last year’s HostingCon. I look forward to seeing everyone again, and of course meeting new people. It’s the perfect venue for exchanging business ideas and showcasing what we offer to hosting companies.”

DemoWolf has over 1,600 tutorials available to be branded with company logos, including cPanel, WHM, Helm, H-Sphere, Plesk, Virtuozzo, SeverCP, Direct Admin, FTP, Email, and SmarterMail, and several DNS domain name tutorials.
Many of DemoWolf’s tutorials are also available in audio-voice versions, as well as Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch and Spanish translated versions. DemoWolf also provides custom tutorials for any application upon request. DemoWolf also has several tutorial series with voice/audio narration, with 18 different voices to choose from, with accents including North American, British, Australian and French Canadian.

To learn more about HostingCon 2008, please visit: www.hostingcon.com/2008.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.

Waltham, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - April 28, 2008 - Managed web hosting and IT services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has entered into an agreement with residential property valuation and risk management firm, Pro-Teck Services.

Under the terms of the agreement, Pro-Teck will utilize Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting to support the company’s ProValue platform that requires 24×7 availability to service today’s rapidly evolving financial markets.

Luc Levensohn, Vice President Security and Infrastructure, Pro-Teck Services noted, ”We did a lot of due diligence and determined Rackspace could provide us with the highest level of disaster recovery and system redundancy to protect our clients information while providing the scalability and capacity to support our growth.”

Pro-Teck’s ProValue connects many of the world’s largest financial institutions with the real estate data, modeling and expertise they need to effectively manage their real estate collateral. The system requires robust performance to support a large number of simultaneous connections as vendor and client partners throughout the United States process thousands of daily transactions in real time. The platform also provides extensive archiving, retrieval and data stream capabilities critical to its client’s business operations.

Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of worldwide sales, Rackspace remarked, ”Because Pro-Teck’s IT infrastructure was Microsoft-based, they found Rackspace’s Windows expertise and Microsoft Gold Certification a true advantage. Intensive Hosting takes a consultative approach with our enterprise customers. Through our dedicated team of experts, we are able to build a deep working relationship, effectively becoming an integral component of customers’ IT departments. We work alongside Pro-Teck as an extension of its IT department and work diligently for our customer’s success.”

Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting provides Pro-Teck with a fully-managed hosting solution. With primary and failover server locations, advanced custom monitoring services, managed backup and storage, and Windows 2003 Enterprise database services, Pro-Teck relies on Rackspace’s 24/7/365 Fanatical Support(TM) demanded by today’s financial markets.

Last month, Rackspace announced two high-level appointments - Florian Schiebl as European Business Director, and Tarquin Bellinger as Sales Director, to reinforce its European operations. Prior to joining Rackspace, Schiebl was Managing Director of iPass, being responsible for the Central and Eastern European regions. He has also held positions at Bertelsmann, Compaq, Siemens, COLT Telecom and MFN.

Mr. Bellinger has joined Rackspace to lead the Sales and Solutions Engineering team. His previous position was at BT, where he led the company’s 21st Century Network business development programme. Prior to that, he led Cable and Wireless’ global services business division focusing on financial markets, based in New York.

Established in 1977, Pro-Teck Services works with Mortgage Lenders, Mortgage Servicers, Secondary Market Investors, Capital Markets and Property and Casualty Insurers to improve risk management through superior real estate collateral information. Pro-Teck provides a comprehensive suite of services including on-line real estate data, fraud scoring, value modeling, inspections, valuations and appraisals.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

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

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Website Hosting Directory) - April 28, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, Go Daddy, has been selected by intrusion prevention company,TippingPoint, for its SSL Certificate solution.

The new agreement underscores each company’s commitment to safeguarding data and combating cyber crime through the implementation of the most stringent security standards.

An SSL Certificate, which enables a browser and server to establish a secure, encrypted connection, is the de facto standard for protecting sensitive information from identity theft, hacking and tampering. Businesses, for example, rely on SSL Certificates to thwart hackers from accessing credit card information during online transactions.

James Hamilton, President at TippingPoint noted, ”Both TippingPoint and GoDaddy.com know network security is of paramount importance. The combination of product, price and service made GoDaddy.com SSL Certificates an obvious choice for our networks.”

GoDaddy.com has seen its SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) business jump a dramatic 83 percent in the last 16 months. The company, which first started providing the secure certificates in March 2004, is the world’s second largest Certification Authority, according to Netcraft, Ltd.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com noted, ”GoDaddy.com’s SSL Certs provide IT administrators an easy and cost effective way to protect their networks. It just makes sense for a company as committed to online security as TippingPoint to recognize the advantage - our customers get the same functionality, stringent vetting standards and reliability as any other cert in the industry. The difference is GoDaddy.com SSL certs cost a fraction of the price.”

GoDaddy.com offers SSL Certificates with three assurance validation levels: Standard, Deluxe and Premium with Extended Validation. All Go Daddy certificates offer up to 256-bit encryption and are backed with 24/7 customer support.

Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 28 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn more about Go Daddy SSL Certificates, please visit: www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp.

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

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - April 25, 2008 - Owner and manager of corporate datacenters and Internet gateways, Digital Realty Trust, Inc., has issued a new research study indicating that green movement will grow in importance for datacentre providers.

The Digital Realty Trust survey also finds that vendors need to articulate green datacenter strategies in the next 24 months. ”How Green is Green?” focused on determining the depth of the Green movement in the European datacentre market. The release of this data follows the publication of a parallel study of the North American datacentre market. This European study is based on a recent poll of senior decision makers who are leaders in datacentres or influence significant decisions related to datacentre operations at large European companies.

The surveyed companies come from a wide range of industries, a quarter of which are from financial related services. Key findings from the research study and additional data points are provided below: — 60 per cent of respondents have a declared green strategy. — Firms with green strategy are largely holistic in nature and think their strategy must include both the facility as well as the equipment operating within it. — Datacentre carbon footprints are a key area of concern: over 60 per cent of respondents include the purchase of carbon credits in their overall green strategy. — Less than 50 per cent of respondents require vendors to have a green strategy. — Less than 35 per cent of survey participants know of a datacentre partner with a declared green strategy. The lack of clear vendor strategies leads to leniency. — The need for vendors to articulate a green strategy will only continue to grow in the next 13 to 24 months: over 60 per cent or respondents indicate that this need will continue to increase within the next two years.

Jim Smith, Vice President of Engineering at Digital Realty Trust noted, ”At the same time that we conducted this survey of European companies, we did a study of green datacentre trends in North America. There are some interesting findings that I believe have relevance to the European market. The North American survey indicates that forward momentum of green datacentre initiatives has stalled or even lost ground. The primary culprit appears to be the lack of clear industry standards for green datacentres. European companies expressed similar concern about the lack of clear, practical industry standards, and that could be a harbinger of a similar green ’slowdown’ in Europe. Companies are looking to the datacentre industry for leadership and clarity on how to define, design and operate a green datacentre. The industry must make this a key focus this year.”

A number of additional findings from the research study are as follows: — Respondents feel that there are many potential standards bodies to choose from but there is still no clear leader. The key factor for this is that the definition of Green is not universally adopted. — No clear definition of ‘Green’ exists and multiple components are currently viewed as green. At the moment survey participants feel that coalescence is required around a defined set of principles. Almost 70 per cent see efficient power usage as the ‘greenest’ component. — Being ”Green” will become an essential selection criteria for vendors within the next 24 months: almost 70 per cent of respondents indicated that this will be an important selection criteria in the next 24 months. — Green Strategy is expected to grow as a requirement for vendors in the next 12 to 24 months, forcing datacentre firms to articulate and clarify their green strategies.

Mr. Smith continued, ”Digital Realty Trust takes great pride in being an industry leader in green datacentre design and operations. We are also committed to supporting industry-wide initiatives to increase datacentre efficiency. One of the key ways we are doing this is by sharing energy efficiency data. We are the first company in the datacentre industry to do so, in response to customers and other end-user organizations who are seeking data and benchmarks that educate them about the energy efficiency of competing facilities and about how their datacentre can support their corporate green strategy."

Mr. Smith added, ”We are also supporting industry-wide green datacentre initiatives by continuing to be an active member of The Green Grid, which is doing excellent work establishing standards and best practices for datacentre energy efficiency. We will continue to be a leader in applying LEED and BREEAM specifications to our building design and operations. Although these specifications are not designed specifically for datacentres, they have tremendous value for institutional building owners like Digital Realty Trust. These specifications provide a holistic view of how buildings impact our environment and a proven methodology for minimizing that impact.”

Digital Realty Trust will also hosted a webinar about the results of the green datacentre trend studies. The Webinar was conducted by Bernard Geohegan, Vice President, Europe, who provided additional data and analysis of the trends.

The Methodology Metrics reported in this study are based on web-based surveys of IT decision makers at large corporations in five European countries: the U.K., Germany, France, the Netherlands and Ireland. Almost 100 per cent of all surveyed companies have annual revenues greater than 1 billion Euros. 69 per cent of them have 5000 or more employees worldwide and 52 per cent over 7500. All surveyed organisations are ”leaders” in setting industry direction based on expense related to datacentre design and construction. Approximately 60 per cent of the respondents were Managing Directors and almost 13 per cent are ”C” level executives. The survey was conducted in March 2008.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, redevelops, develops and manages technology-related real estate. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacentre and Powered Base Building datacentre solutions for domestic and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from information technology and internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty Trust’s 71 properties, excluding one property held as an investment in an unconsolidated joint venture, contain applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacentre tenants. Comprising approximately 1.2 million rentable square metres (12.6 million square feet) as of April 1, 2008, including 186,000 square metres (2 million square feet) of space held for redevelopment, Digital Realty Trust’s portfolio is located in 26 markets throughout Europe and North America.

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

La Habra, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - April 25, 2008 - Provider of shared, windows, VPS, and dedicated services and webhosting solutions firm, Lunarpages Web Hosting, has debuted new spring discounts.

A special discount for all new customers purchasing LunarPage’s most popular web hosting solution,
The Basic Hosting Plan, which offers 1,500 GB storage space and 15,000 GB bandwidth/month, is normally priced at $6.95/month. The sale price is $4.95/month, with free domain name, free website templates, free blogs, free photo galleries and chatrooms, and unlimited email addresses. The promotion will last until June 20, 2008.

Amy Armitage, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Lunarpages noted, ”Starting today, new customers who purchase our 24 month Basic Hosting Plan will benefit from a savings of $48. We reduced the price to $4.95/month, which means more people can afford our already low cost solutions. And dont let the name fool you our Basic Hosting Plan can host blogs, forums, chatrooms, Joomla websites, ecommerce businesses, and everything in between.”

Lunarpages Web Hosting, based in California and serving over 150,000 customers in over 200 countries, out of 3 data centers, offering affordable award winning shared and dedicated web hosting and web design services. Lunarpages offers the webmaster community to easily and quickly build and maintain a website that is customized to individual needs. The company is consistently rated the most dependable, responsive and recommended host, while encouraging community interaction via the Lunarpages Forums and the Lunarpages Blog.

Lunarpages.com provides a free domain for life to customers, and has been rated the most dependable, responsive and recommended host and offer multiple domain packages for shared and dedicated accounts, hosted on UNIX and Windows Servers.

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

Frontpages Web Hosting Network Offers New Shared MOSS 2007 Hosting Plan

April 23, 2008 – Managed hosting and dedicated service provider Frontpages Web Hosting Network (www.fpweb.net) now offers a shared hosting plan for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. At a new affordable rate, users can now access the MOSS enterprise portal packed with groupware features, free web parts, business data catalog, excel services, workflow and so much more.

“We hope that our shared MOSS hosted solution will allow customers, who otherwise could not afford it, to explore and experience the features of MOSS,” said Rob LaMear, Frontpages President.  “All MOSS features are still intact in the shared environment; the biggest thing that has changed is the cost.”

The Starter Plan is priced at $295 with 1GB of space and 5 users. Space and users can be added on the fly. So if you are looking for a MOSS solution with maximum speed, uptime and security, without big IT costs, check out Frontpages’ Shared MOSS 2007 Hosting plan. Plus, get a free 14 day trial!

Frontpages Web Hosting Network is a leader in providing managed web hosting services for SharePoint, Exchange, CRM, SQL 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.

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - April 24, 2008 - Webhosting company, ResellersPanel, in celebration of its fifth anniversary in business, has debuted major upgrades to its hosting platform, including a new file manager, multi-currency billing solution, and new multi-store functionality solution.

In addition to the default store, resellers have the opportunity to create up to three more, entirely independent of each other, free reseller web hosting stores, configured according to their specific marketing strategies. They can get a unique domain name, choose a different website template and activate a separate DNS cluster for each of the stores, which will drive brand recognition and significantly increase their reseller anonymity.

The new multi-currency billing solution, on the other hand, gives the resellers the possibility to offer web hosting and domain registration services in the five most widely used online transaction currencies and directly address the demands of a particular target audience or a specific local market.

Nick Blaskov, CFO of ResellersPanel, commented that five years of hard work have passed since ResellersPanel first opened the door to the whole new world of the private brand reseller web hosting services, and that this special anniversary coincides also with the introduction of several important updates to ResellersPanel’s platform, such as a new file manager, which will enable the clients to handle the content of their websites more easily and efficiently, and new multi-store and multi-currency options, which will dramatically expand the marketing reach of the resellers themselves.

The new file manager, which has been integrated in the web hosting control panel, boasts an entirely new, easy to navigate user-friendly interface. Beside the ability to manage multiple files and folders at once, the users now have an unprecedented opportunity to edit their files using a WYSIWYG editor and to view the changes they are making directly in a web browser in real time.

The new file manager also gives the clients the opportunity for the first time to upload .zip, .rar, .tar.gz and .gz archived files and folders, which are being automatically unpacked in the selected directory, and visually keep track of the process by means of a progress bar. Pop-up tooltips, which contain essential information about a given file or folder and display the actions that can be performed on them, self-evident file type icons and image file thumbnails have been introduced as well.

The updates to the multi-lingual hosting control panel include also the addition of the Chinese language, PHP6 support, a new domain parking option, a WHOIS/ID protection service, which allows the registrants to shield their identity against spammers and fraudsters, and a new .htaccess file generator, which offers IP authentication, hotlinking protection, SSI activation, URL redirection and custom error pages creation.

ResellersPanel is a fully-automated reseller hosting program, developed entirely by LiquidNet Ltd., a UK-based hosting company. LiquidNet Ltd. was established in February 2003 in London, UK. The ResellersPanel program began on April 2, 2003. Over 58 000 resellers are affiliated with the firm. The company’s technical equipment and offerings include competitive solutions, with The modern solutions that continue to undergo significant developments.

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

Seattle, Washington - (Website Hosting Directory) - April 24, 2008 - Amazon Web Services LLC, an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc.’s Founder, Jeff Bezos. has accepted an invitation to speak at the Carnegie Mellon Business School and Computer Science Diploma Ceremonies.

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., is a distinctive, world-class research university that blends cutting-edge programs across many disciplines including business, computer science, the arts and sciences, engineering and public policy.

As guest speaker, Mr. Bezos will preside over Carnegie Mellon’s diploma ceremonies for its Tepper School of Business and School of Computer Science during the university’s commencement weekend, May 17-18.

Mr. Bezos will speak to business school graduates receiving master’s and doctor’s degrees at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 17 at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, 4141 Fifth Avenue in Oakland. He will receive an honorary doctorate in science and technology during the 11 a.m. university-wide commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 18.

At 1 p.m., Sunday afternoon, he will speak to graduates of the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Avenue in Oakland. In 1994, Bezos created a business model that leveraged the Internet’s unique ability to deliver huge amounts of information rapidly and efficiently, and founded Amazon.com Inc. Today, it is the leading online retailer.

Kenneth B. Dunn, Dean of the Tepper School of Business noted, ”Tepper School graduates around the world are renowned for their innovations within the intersection of business and technology, so it is a special privilege to host a leader whose vision both reflects and inspires our own school’s mission.”

Before heading west to start Amazon.com, Mr. Bezos worked at the juncture of computer science and finance, helping to build one of the most technically sophisticated quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street for D.E. Shaw and Co. He also led the development of computer systems that helped manage more than $250 billion in assets for Bankers Trust Company.

Randal E. Bryant, Dean of the School of Computer Science remarked, ”We are pleased that Jeff Bezos, an executive with a deep understanding of how computer science is transforming our world, will be sharing his insights with our graduates this year. Much of Amazon’s success stems from the sophistication of its computer and networking technology and we are proud that Amazon has hired a number of our students over the years to help build that technology.”

Some 58 alumni of Carnegie Mellon work for Amazon, including 16 with degrees from the School of Computer Science. About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities.

Over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe.

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

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