Manchester, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2008 - MMO game, Cabal Online, will be hosted by online hosting services and solutions for the interactive entertainment industry, Hypernia Hosting Corp, through a global partnershp agreement with U.K.-based game publisher, GamesMasters.com LTD.

Hypernia was selected by GamesMasters.com LTD as their official international online partner based on Hypernia’s lengthy and successful history in the online games space, as it is known for providing tier-1 bandwidth for CDN, gaming and media streaming. Hypernia’s large volumes of equipment, bandwidth and facilities around the world enable game players to enjoy a robust multi-player experience.

GamesMasters.com publishes high quality games for the European online games market. GamesMasters.com is best known for their successful MMO title, Cabal Online, an RPG game product with 90,000 users, with a recent acceleration in subscribers to an additional 10,000 players per week. This rapid rate of increase in players, plus a high level of customer service, ensures that the game remains one of the best free-to-play games on the market.

James Vallord-Costa, CEO and co-founder of Hypernia, noted, ”GamesMasters.com cut their costs for bandwidth considerably after joining us. With the ‘flex computing’ capability of our on-demand utility hosting model, they were able to add new expansions and games without the added risk. Most companies would not be able to experiment with a new expansion or game, but we made it easy for them.”

GamesMasters.com will utilize Hypernia’s on-demand utility hosting model which provided flexibility and cost savings, enabling the company to undergo significant service improvements in recent months. These included the addition of updated payment methods, the release of several large patches which has vastly increased the content of the game Cabal Online, a host of new features including new hunting grounds (the Chaos Arena), new rewards for Player vs Player action (players can now gain EXP from PvP) and several important bug fixes. As a direct result of their hosting partnership with Hypernia, these upgrades have produced positive results and Cabal Online is now one of the largest games in Europe.

Hypernia provided multi-gigabit feeds as GamesMasters.com increased their player base. This functionality guaranteed an excellent Internet connection for players, no matter how many extra users were online simultaneously. To accommodate for game world growth, Hypernia also provided GamesMasters.com with new servers during different periods, while also providing an inexpensive CDN solution to keep the GamesMasters.com patches and downloads affordable for all the new users.

Thorsten Schauer, company Director at GamesMasters.com LTD offered, ”GamesMasters.com believes that game play should be easy and convenient for all MMORPG game players. With that in mind, Cabal Online was designed for new users and other MMORPG users who will be able to easily adapt to our game system. Cabal Online does not require long periods of game play. Hypernia’s role as our global hosting partner has been instrumental to our marketplace achievements with this game play plan for our customers.”

By allowing GamesMasters.com to host their own files, Hypernia helped keep users on the Cabal Online web site, instead of impacting the site’s ‘’stickiness” by driving players to third parties for file down-loading. Hypernia also provided full 24-hour customer support, a crucial feature since more than fifty percent of the Cabal Online players are based in Europe.

With the intention of providing a rich diversity of gaming styles for our customers, Games-Masters.com publishes MMO games from both the USA and Asia. The product of these two deeply differing cultures provided a gaming experience to suit all, and even niche groups of players. Initially, GamesMasters.com began publishing games crossing several genres such as Fantasy, Sports, Real Time Strategies and even Casual gaming, before expanding further into other genres.

Founded in 2001, Hypernia Hosting Corp engaged the Internet data center market with innovative service offerings that would help businesses and individuals take advantage of the speed and global reach of technology and the Internet. Hypernia believes that for organizations to be successful, they need a partner that provides solutions that spark independence and confidence in their new way of doing business. Hypernia established its high volume network for intense application hosting such as online gaming in 2002, and continues to be a leading provider of complex Internet hosting for enterprises with mission-critical Internet operations.

To learn more about GamesMasters.com LTD, please visit: www.games-masters.com.

For more information about Hypernia Hosting Corp, please visit: www.hypernia.com.

Fayetteville, North Carolina - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 30, 2008 - An Enterprise Web Mail solution, in an effort to fulfill the need for customer reliability, security, and control, has been developed by Advanced Internet Technologies (AIT) web hosting company.

Avery Skelton, Director of Product Development at AIT commented, ”For months we had been receiving requests from our customers telling us they wanted better reliability, more security, and more control over their email application, with this solution we are now able to fulfill that need.”

According to the company, standard features of Enterprise Web Mail include an intuitive web mail interface designed to be compatible with any browser, including Internet Explorer, and Mozilla/Firefox. In addition, an address book feature will allows for the import and export of contacts in conjuction with CSV files, through a simple admin interface. The new features are including and accessible upon setup of the system.

Sean McCoy, Chief Marketing Officer for AIT remarked, ”No other web hosting company is offering a comparable plan at our price point.”

Jean Ramon, one of the first AIT customers to purchase the new web mail offering, noted the solution as, ”A featured packed bundling with all the latest in security and management level features you could ever hope for in a mail application.”

Over 210,000 web sites, including Fortune 500 companies as well as home businesses, utilize the services of AIT. The company was founded as a garage start up in North Carolina and has grown to a two-time INC 500, multimillion dollar web hosting and technology company. From a two-car garage to a 93,000 Square foot data center, AIT has always been entrepreneurial and customer-centric. Small businesses to larger clients like Time Warner, Microsoft, Newsweek, U.S. Federal Government, PC World, United Nations, Business Week, The Oakridge Boys, State of North Carolina, Department of Defense, Wall Street Journal, ZD net, Pizza Hut, Goodyear, Smart Money, Discover Radio, and many more utilize AIT’s products and services.

AIT offers Web Hosting, Domain Name Registration, Web Design, Email Services, Technical Training and Enterprise Network Solutions. AIT is customer-centric and committed to providing excellent, ongoing service to help your business grow, improve and profit. Services include technical and marketing solutions featuring managed dedicated servers and clustered servers, security products as well as custom ecommerce, and web hosting solutions designed as unique, user friendly, and performance-based applications. The company offers fully Managed Dedicated Servers, for both Windows and Linux Server Environments. The multi-honed, GIG-E network is fully redundant and meshed for maximum uptime, managed by certified MCSE, CCNA and RHCE Engineers.

To learn more about AIT, please visit: http://www.AIT.com.

Phoenix, Arizona - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 27, 2008 - All customers will have access, free of charge, to the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 hosting beta program, launched by DiscountASP.NET.

Customers can enable their free SQL 2008 hosting beta account through their control panel. Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ”Under the SQL 2008 Go Live program, we are giving our customers a free SQL 2008 beta database account for testing purposes. The beta program provides our customers with the opportunity to get a jumpstart in testing SQL 2008 in a live hosted environment before its official release.”

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a major update to its enterprise database product and is currently in RC0 release. Although no launch date has been officially stated, the final release of SQL Server 2008 is said to be slated for Q3 2008.

For developers, some of the new SQL 2008 features include new data types, such as date/time data types and geospatial data types. In addition, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), integrated full text search, sparse columns, and large user-defined types are improvements that will help drive next-generation data-centric applications.

Recently, the Company reported that it is the first host to introduce Microsoft DBManager and AmdinPack IIS Manager UI extensions in public beta for customers. Along with the launch of Windows 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7), Microsoft introduced IIS Manager, a new IIS tool which provides users with a familiar user interface to remotely manage IIS7 server configurations. Using IIS Manager, DiscountASP.NET customers can view settings and manipulate their web.config files for features that have been delegated to them.

DiscountASP.NET introduces the following Microsoft IIS Manager UI extensions:

ASP.NET Authorization Rules UI: This tool allows customers to configure ASP.NET authorization settings.
ASP.NET Error Page UI: This tool allows customers to configure ASP.NET custom error settings.
Request Filtering UI: This tool allows customers to configure IIS request filtering module settings.
DBManager: This tool allows customers to perform basic database administration and queries.

DiscountASP.NET provides Microsoft Windows hosting, as a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. DiscountASP.NET is one of the first hosts to offer Windows 2008 shared hosting and was recently voted Best ASP.NET Hosting Service in the asp.netPRO Magazine 2008 Readers’ Choice poll for the fourth consecutive year. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting.

To learn more about Microsoft SQL 2008, please visit: www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008.

For more information about DiscountASP.NET, please visit: www.discountasp.net.

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 26, 2008 - Web hosting company, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has partnered with Internet and IT services provider, IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd, to offer new online solution services.

IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd provides all types of Information Technology (IT) services to clients internationally. IDS Logic offers web based services such as web hosting, web designing, offshore software development and marketing on the Internet. The company plans to adopt Rackspace’s website updating mandate, and is based in Noida NCR (National Capital Region, New Delhi), India with its sales and support teams in the USA and UK.

The main impetus behind the new product is to eliminate business management issues pertaining to web hosting services in India. While there are many IT companies that assure many benefits such as high uptime, bandwidth and disk space, IDS Logic attempts to distinguish itself by offering a full service approach for IT requirements.

IDS Logic, in joint collaboration with Rackspace, has launched shared web hosting services in India. The hosting service provides a 100 percent money back guarantee for one month of its managed shared hosting service. It also guarantees clients with 100% uptime for websites, along with spam checking as well as virus scanning. The new service is geared toward traffic, and easier navigation.

The company plans to deliver its services to both traditionaly bricks and mortar businesses, as well as more complex service providers.

IDS Logic operates from its offshore development centre located in Noida, India and with sales and support partner offices in UK and USA IDS LOGIC Pvt. Ltd. D-40, IInd Floor, Sector-6 Noida (Delhi NCR) 201301 U.P, INDIA.

IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd is a web based solutions provider to global clients. IDS Logic operates from its offshore development centre located in Noida, India and with sales and support partner offices in UK and USA IDS LOGIC Pvt. Ltd. D-40, IInd Floor, Sector-6 Noida (Delhi NCR) 201301 U.P, INDIA.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. By integrating the industry’s best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure maintenance and management, customers can focus on their core business. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso (www.mosso.com) cloud computing platform and Mailtrust (www.mailtrust.com) a provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd, please visit: www.idslogic.com.

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

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 26, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, with domain name RulesOfSaving.com, has marked a historic milestone and an industry record, of 30 million domain names.

While reports of a wavering economy and surging oil prices dominate the news, this Internet-first reflects thriving conditions on the Web and at GoDaddy.com. More and more people and businesses are moving to establish their own space on the Internet.

Go Daddy is registering, renewing and transferring names used for Web site addresses to the tune of about one every second of every day. This flies in the face of critics who, years ago, suggested the surge to register domain names was all but over.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder at Go Daddy explained, ”These numbers really demonstrate how the Internet is alive and well, even in these rough financial times. We knew from the start, helping make it easy and affordable for people to get online would make a difference. That’s why we developed products our customers wanted, priced them right and then backed them up with personal customer service… and, well the rest is history.”

Go Daddy is also racking up substantial e-commerce numbers, which align with industry analyst predictions. Forrester Research forecasts online spending in 2008 will increase by 17 percent. Go Daddy expects even higher numbers. The Web leader’s Quick Shopping Cart is a key e-commerce tool because it makes setting up an online store easy and affordable. Projections, based on recent months, indicate a 72 percent increase this year over last, in terms of revenue generated by customers with Quick Shopping Cart enabled Web sites.

Ironically, the 30 millionth domain name, RulesOfSaving.com, could be viewed as a sign of times, as far as the struggling U.S. economy or as a nod to Go Daddy’s low price points. While many registrars charge more than Go Daddy, some have even raised prices in recent days.

Go Daddy has a 45 percent market share of active, new domain names and is nearly three times the size of its closest competitor. Go Daddy is also one of the world’s leading providers when it comes to Web hosting and SSL certificates, which are used to keep online transactions secure.

Go Daddy has expanded its workforce to keep up with its rapid growth, its four offices including one in Arizona, and one each in Colorado, Iowa and Washington, D.C.

While many companies are looking for ways to cut back, Go Daddy is hiring more and more employees. Go Daddy now employs more than two-thousand people, which is up about 33 percent in fewer than three years. Go Daddy is known as an employer that takes care of its own too, having been honored as one of the Best Places to Work for four consecutive years.

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.

GoDaddy.com has also been honored by various industry organizations and publications as Best Registrar and Best Hosting Company already this year. In 2007, Go Daddy was named Arizona’s Most Innovative Company and Business Leader of the Year.

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

WebDeal, which is both a world-class eZ Publish expert and an IBM Business Partner, has now brought together the best of two worlds to the benefit of its enterprise customers.

Large enterprises need to run the best, most stable software solutions, but not even top-notch solutions will work well unless they run on powerful server systems. These server systems must in turn be sustained by an excellent hosting infrastructure.

After performing a battery of quality assurance tests, WebDeal’s technical team can now attest that the combination of eZ Systems’ eZ Publish Content Management System (CMS) and IBM System z hardware is possible on WebDeal’s premium hosting environment. WebDeal’s System z users will be able to run eZ Publish without having to make any changes to their existing server platform.

This announcement further establishes the concept of “Technical Excellence” that has become WebDeal’s trademark.

eZ Publish is eZ Systems’ award-winning, Open Source CMS for web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets, while System z is IBM’s mainframe platform for the enterprise. WebDeal is the world’s leading eZ Publish hosting provider, and therefore also the most qualified to unleash all the potential of eZ Publish on mainframe platforms.

WebDeal will be demonstrating the successful combination of eZ Publish and IBM System z at the upcoming Open Nordic & eZ Conference in Skien, Norway, on June 19 & 20.  This conference brings together Open Source and eZ Publish enthusiasts from around the world.

Existing and potential customers interested in hearing about the advantages of mainframe systems and eZ Publish are also welcome to contact WebDeal at sales@webdealhosting.com for more information.

About WebDeal

Founded in 2001, WebDeal is the world’s leading eZ Publish hosting provider. The company has a strong partnership with IBM in the Open Source marketplace. Mastering both conventional Intel-based servers and more advanced IBM Power servers, WebDeal has over the years been recognized for its high technical standards, a strategy they call “Technical Excellence”. WebDeal’s services include Premium Shared Hosting, Fully Managed Dedicated Servers and Fully Managed Dedicated Clusters. As an international organization, WebDeal has offices located in Norway, UK and USA.

Chicago, Illinois - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 25, 2008 - FindMyHost.com’s Editor’s Choice award, for the industry’s #1 dedicated service provider, goes to managed web hosting provider, SingleHop, as its third citation of this kind.

Zak Boca, President, SingleHop noted, ”FindMyHost.com is a well respected source for companies seeking out a reliable and vetted hosting provider for their managed hosting needs. We are thrilled to be awarded an Editors’ Choice, especially in light of earning a spot on HostReview.com’s top ten list for 2007.”

According to FindMyHost.com, Web Hosts who have won the Editors’ Choice Award are honest, reliable, and excel in all areas — most importantly technical support. These Web Hosts are worth investigating for your next Web Hosting experience. Editors’ Choice Winners have been hand picked for excelling in distinct areas of Web Hosting. You can choose any of the following and expect a smooth and professional relationship.

SingleHop introduced new industry policies by offering a fully transparent suite of a la Carte services. For the first time ever business customers are able to tailor their level of support to their needs and expertise, instead of being pigeonholed into fixed fee trouble ticket or vague tiered services support.

SingleHop, Inc. is a fully transparent managed dedicated server ISP, located in Chicago, IL. SingleHop was formed to deliver low cost managed IT services for the small to medium enterprises from a central Midwest hub location. The company has capacity for over 2000 servers in one datacenter, with a network powered entirely by Cisco.

To learn more about SingleHop, please visit: www.singlehop.com.

Seattle, Washington - (The Hosting News) - June 24, 2008 - Superb Internet Corp., gGlobal web hosting, managed dedicated server, shared web hosting and e-commerce hosting solutions provider, has awarded the winner of the Core 2 Duo Dedicated Server Hosting Solution giveaway prize, from the SMX Advanced 2008 event.

Worth over $3500, the prize was awarded in partnership with Seomoz.org, to SEO software suite developer, Ranksense, at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX Advanced) conference, held in Seattle. Featuring top search marketing industry professionals, the event included such notables as Matt Cutts from Google, Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand, Rand Fishkin from Seomoz and Kevin Johnson from Microsoft.

Curtis R. Curtis, SVP, Sales and Marketing, Superb Internet noted, ”We are especially pleased that a new rising star in the search marketing community, Ranksense, has won our dedicated server prize. Their revolutionary new Point and Click SEO software suite helps businesses and organizations alike drive their websites to the top of the search engines.”

As noted in a recent Superb blog, Seomoz was the "belle of the ball” with it’s SMX Whiteboard Friday interviews, especially ”STFU! with Brent Csutoras.”

Mr. Curtis added, ”Ranksense’s collaborative SEO tools, which include: an all-in-one fully integrated suite, break through keyword research capabilities and ‘Advanced SEO intelligence’ that identifies a single top-ranking site for those keywords you are seeking to target and makes recommendations based on the ensuing analysis are sure to be a hit with any company seeking to take its search marketing efforts to new heights. We are pleased to be able to help deliver their offering to the marketplace and will continue to support Ranksense and all its SEO partners in their online endeavours.”

Hamlet Batista, CEO of Ranksense remarked, ”Winning Superb’s Dedicated Server prize was definitely a major highlight for us; especially at this critical juncture in our development where we are now poised for runaway growth in the SEO marketplace. Having a reliable, rock solid hosting company like Superb managing our server and network infrastructure means we can focus on bringing our services to the SEO marketplace without having to worry about whether our server is online or not. Best of all, collaborating with Curtis, we hope to be able to partner with Superb to collectively bring our services to the hosting marketplace. We are very excited to have Superb as our hosting partner with its ongoing commitment to the SEO industry.”

Ranksense is owned by Nemedia, SA which is a full-service search engine marketing software firm. The company headquarters is located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - a fact that often meets with some surprise. But it’s true. The Dominican Republic is not just a country famous for harvesting phenomenal baseball players and other talented individuals. It is a nation committed to progress, employing the highest standards of excellence, intelligence, and integrity.

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the very best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. Superb’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ”Ahead of the Rest.” Superb Internet has offices and 24-hour/365-day operations in McLean, VA, Tukwila, WA, and Vancouver, BC, serving customers in over 150 countries worldwide.

For more information about Superb Internet, please visit: www.superbhosting.net.

La Habra, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 24, 2008 - Shared, windows, VPS, and dedicated services and webhosting solutions firm, Lunarpages Web Hosting, has launched a new software and services bundle for its web hosting plans.

Valued at $775, the software and webmaster services bundle is completely free to all new and existing Lunarpages customers. Lunarpages has partnered with ten successful companies to offer solutions that will please every customer. They are giving away free with every hosting account full registered versions of Parallels Workstation, WinSettings, an award winning Windows security software from FileStream that helps you gain maximum performance from your PC; Photo TurboBackup, a very popular backup software also from FileStream, which easily backs up photos and saves them in various formats.

Also included is two editions of The Logo Creator’s logo design software; 2 months free with RatePoint; 3 months free subscription to Visitorville, the website statistics program that’s Sims meets stats; 15 DNS level accounts from Gafana to offer 100% accurate spam and virus protection; DMXReady’s Contact Us Manager to update contact forms effortlessly from anywhere in the world; 3 months free of SiteScout; $100 free advertising from LinkWorth; and $20 free advertising from BidVertiser.

Amy Armitage, Director of Lunarpages Business Development noted, ”We’ve chosen to partner with some of the biggest and best companies in the world, and this is just the beginning. In the coming months, we will be adding more, so stay tuned.”

Soeren von Varchmin, VP of SaaS at Parallels remarked, ”Lunarpages again demonstrates their leadership position in the hosting industry. We’re pleased to partner with Lunarpages to offer users Parallels’ industry-leading desktop virtualization products such as Parallels Desktop for Mac and Parallels Workstation.”

Robert Savage, Founder and self-appointed Mayor of Visitorville added, ”I’ve been an entirely satisfied customer of Lunarpages for years, and know firsthand how great their service and support is. It was only natural that I would want to partner with such a great organization. This is going to be wonderful/”

Gabriel Afana, Founder of Gafana explained, ”In working with Lunarpages, I’ve learned that they are a fantastic company run by genuine people who truly care about their customers. Our offer includes our 100% accurate spam solution, virus protection, consolidation of multiple email addresses into one place, public calendar with txt message and telephone reminders, auto-updating address book, media storage/sharing, and much more. This package is valued at $125 but in staying true to their commitment to their customers, Lunarpages has arranged to have this service provided for free.”

Tom Serani, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, RatePoint added, ”We are extremely excited to have Lunarpages join us as a partner. Lunarpages’ commitment to offering the RatePoint offering is another clear sign that merchants are looking for powerful customer feedback solutions and additional ways to connect with their customers.”

Ron Wikcer, CEO of LinkWorth noted, ”I think it says a lot about a company that actively seeks for additional value to extend to their customers. For customers, after finding the perfect hosting company, the next logical step is marketing your site. LinkWorth has agreed to help all Lunarpages customers get off to the right start with a $100 advertising credit.”

Shahar Jacobi, CEO of BidVertiser noted, ”It was a pleasure partnering with Lunarpages and we are thrilled to offer their customers their first boost of traffic for free using the BidVertiser $20 advertising credit. Best of all, this credit does not require any initial deposit. Setting up a website is not enough and you have to drive targeted traffic to it - Lunarpages now gives their customers a way to do it for free.”

Lunarpages is currently offering their award-winning Basic Hosting Plan for $4.95/month, which includes Free Domain Name, Unlimited Emails, Ecommerce and Blog Software, and more. Add that intense discount to this new software bundle worth over $775 and you have a web hosting value that cannot be beat.

Marc Sylvesterm CEO and Founder of The Logo Creator added, ”I’ve been online selling my software since 1998 and had countless hosting providers over the past 10 years. All of them lacked certain things I wanted and specific things I needed. I was lucky enough to finally find Lunarpages, where they provide incredible customer support, easy to use back end tools, and my hosting plan is the fastest I’ve ever had. What I really like about them is their personal touch to everything. I’m proud to offer my software to all Lunarpages members. We’re all family - and it really feels that way.”

Lunarpages Web Hosting, based in California and serving over 150,000 customers in over 200 countries, offers affordable, award-winning Linux and Windows personal, small business, VPS and dedicated Web Hosting Solution. Lunarpages has the staff, patience and high service levels expected to assist their webmaster community to easily and quickly build and maintain a website that is customized to their individual needs. Lunarpages.com provides a free domain for life to customers, and offers multiple domain packages for shared and dedicated accounts, hosted on UNIX and Windows Servers. The company is consistently rated the most dependable, responsive, and recommended web host by industry leading hosting resource firms.

For more information on this new exclusive software bundle, please visit: www.lunarpages.com/free-bonus.php.

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

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 23, 2008 - Dedicated server products and utility services firm, Layered Technologies, Inc., has debuted its new dedicated management services offering, the DEFCON Management Services.

Jack Finlayson, Chief Executive Officer of Layered Technologies noted, ”One of the largest opportunities we saw in our acquisition of FastServers.Net was the ability to rapidly offer DEFCON Management Services to our current customers. We have worked together efficiently to make this offering available. We are very pleased to be able to leverage the knowledge and expertise of FastServers.Net and pass that onto our customers for their benefit and value.”

DEFCON Management Services provides a tiered class of management services specific to dedicated server needs. This exclusive service allows the distinct classification of service level that provides server monitoring, security, server software updates, and advanced support. Integration efforts as a result of the recent acquisition of FastServers.Net by Layered Technologies are now enabling Layered Technologies to provide their current customers with the ability to utilize the server management expertise of FastServers.Net.

In this first phase of deployment, current Layered Technologies customers are able to apply and purchase managed services. As part of a select group that will be supported by trained server engineers, these customers will have the ability to receive support, security, monitoring, and server upgrades from a team of highly-skilled server support engineers.

DEFCON Management Services solves several problems that can be associated with operations of a dedicated server, including a single source for server administration, service level based support, 24×7 monitoring and recovery, patch management, and live 24×7 telephone support.

Aaron Phillips, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, FastServers.Net remarked, ”For the past 10 years, DEFCON Management Services have been an integral part of customer satisfaction and organizational efforts with all departments. The extension of these services to a larger customer base will allow a scalable managed infrastructure that provides managed support to over 6,000 clients of Layered Technologies.”

Layered Technologies customers that are interested in DEFCON Management Services can apply online at www.layeredtech.com/services/defcon-apply.html. This initial phase will be available to a segment of customers that meet specific criteria. A specialized Quality Assurance Team will carefully deploy the services.

Todd Abrams, Chief Operating Officer and President of Layered Technologies commented, ”As one of our most significant service rollouts, our entire company is well prepared for this initial phase. This ensures that execution and resources are available for a full and complete customer deployment in the coming months.”

FastServers.Net features managed dedicated servers combined with exclusive DEFCON Management Services. FastServers.Net provides full server monitoring and recovery, patches and upgrades, advanced technical support, and enhanced security features. By partnering with leading vendors such as Microsoft, Red Hat, cPanel, Plesk, HELM, InterNAP, Urchin, among other solutions.

Layered Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and Web services. By providing high quality technology, infrastructure and support we enable customers to forego capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Technologies’ scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service (”SaaS”), content distribution and more. Its clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

To learn more about FastServers, please visit: www.fastservers.net.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.layeredtech.com.

Wilmington, Delaware - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 23, 2008 - Web hosting provider, Host Color, has added to its portfolio of offerings, for use with all of its web hosting plans, the AtMail web mail client solution.

Danail Stoychev, of the Marketing Department at Host Color noted, ”I am glad we announced the installation of @Mail, one of the fastest growing reputation mail software. We already offer three other webmail clients - Iloha Mail, Overlook and Round Cube, but adding @Mail means nothing but another professional offering and flexible option for our clients. They can now move all their mail management under the web based software and virtually have it accessible from everywhere in the world.”

The AtMail software includes online web module, it supports POP3 and IMAP servers. It is all Ajax based and quite easy to use despite being feature-rich program. @Mail has online spell checker and address book where contacts can be stored, and business correspondence may be easily managed, according to the company.

Mr. Stoychev added, ”Yes, you can have even video messaging on your @Mail account and what else you can expect from a open source program.”

Host Color LLC is a US web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It powers thousands of small business and personal websites in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, US and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides fully Managed dedicated hosting through HC Servers (www.hcservers.net). It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations.

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

Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - June 20, 2008 - Hosting industry professionals are preparing to gather for the upcoming HostingCon 2008 tradeshow and conference, at the historic Navy Pier, from July 28-30, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.

Mark Rogers, Director of Cloud Services at Microsoft Corp., will deliver one of the keynote addresses, according to Interjuncture Corp.

HostingCon 2008 is the only conference and tradeshow, focused exclusively on the hosting industry. As companies and individuals continue to expand usage of hosting services and hosted applications, hosting providers have new opportunities to provide valuable services to customers.

George A. Roberts IV, Executive Director of HostingCon 2008 noted, ”HostingCon 2008 will be a great place to learn about how cloud services will impact your hosted services business and how you can take advantage of those trends. It will also be a wonderful opportunity to network with others in the industry and get their thoughts and ideas on how they’re transforming their businesses to thrive in a cloud services future.”

The emergence of the Web as a business and consumer platform presents many new possibilities for the hosting industry, as well as a new set of challenges. While hosted services providers are rightly concerned with a new competitive landscape that includes Microsoft and others, cloud services hold the key to a bright future. Mr. Rogers spends his time talking to the industry about the choice between on-premise software and cloud services, and the important factors to consider when determining and investing in models for software and services.

Mr. Rogers explained, ”Hosting providers are contemplating the challenges and opportunities cloud computing represents. At HostingCon 2008, I look forward to sharing the exciting technology developments taking place, and initiating a dialogue about the potential concerns and opportunities for hosting service providers.”

In addition to Mr. Rogers’ keynote address, HostingCon 2008’s conference program will contain a number of sessions discussing cloud computing and its impact on hosted services providers. Attendees will be able to learn how to help their customers feel comfortable with cloud services, how software as a service and open source software work together and how to employ virtualization in your infrastructure.

HostingCon 2008 will feature a full three days of conference sessions, intended to allow hosting professionals the ability to expand knowledge in business, shared services, enterprise, data center, and application hosting.

HostingCon is the largest conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, this year to be spread over 56,000 square feet reserved specifically for the event, with approximately 20,000 net square feet of booth space in an easy to navigate floorplan. The exhibit hall will feature over 70 vendors displaying products and services, offering demonstrations and activities related to the hosted services industry.

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

Editor’s note: TechPad Agency (parent company of The Hosting News) will be exhibiting at HostingCon 2008 in booth #418.