Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - August 29, 2008 - The five distinguished advisory subcommittees, are soliciting new members, by The Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers (AIHSP).

Paul Hirsch, President of the AIHSP Founding Committee explained, ”Our advisory subcommittees will play an important role in shaping the future of this organization, laying the groundwork for the realization of our goals. Today, we are a small but agile group of dedicated volunteers, and we see these advisory subcommittees as an opportunity to involve the greater community and benefit from the collective wisdom therein. It is crucial that AIHSP be driven by its constituents, and that the energy and founding philosophy be widespread among the vast spectrum that is the web hosting and Internet services industry.”

The AIHSP is the first-ever trade association serving the shared interests of providers and vendors in the Web hosting and Internet services industry, today announced a call for qualified industry professionals to join five distinguished key advisory subcommittees, each charged with critiquing and improving the organization’s roadmap to implementing core initiatives.

Launched last month at HostingCon 2008, the largest annual gathering of web services professionals, AIHSP has received broad attention for its intention to unify the Web hosting and Internet services industry and use collective power to resolve problems within the marketplace and provide greater public and political representation.

The AIHSP Founding Committee seeks qualified industry professionals to sit on five key advisory subcommittees: AIHSP Benefits and Professional Services Subcommittee; AIHSP Standards and Ethics Subcommittee; AIHSP Industry Representation and Advocacy Subcommittee; AIHSP Systems and Infrastructure Subcommittee; and AIHSP Research Investigatory Subcommittee. Each subcommittee will meet online and in teleconference calls over a six week period to fulfill its charge and provide the necessary guidance and advice to help AIHSP reach its 14 inaugural goals (www.aihsp.org/About-AIHSP/AIHSP-Goals.php).

Tyrone Adams, Ph.D., Director of the AIHSP Founding Committee and the Richard D’Aquin Professor of Journalism and Communications at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette noted, ”The formation of AIHSP advisory subcommittees is critical in terms of getting quality feedback from service providers, and more importantly, is highly relevant in the process of organizational structuration. One of the most important missions of the AIHSP will be to continually generate panoramic snapshots of the industry in action, and build apparatus to address the problems and inefficiencies we find.”

All qualified industry professionals are strongly encouraged to nominate themselves to take part in a subcommittee. The AIHSP Founding Committee will announce the final selection of subcommittee members in early September after careful review of those interested in taking part. Self-nominations may be made at www.aihsp.org/About-AIHSP/Build-AIHSP.php.

The five key Advisory Subcommittees, as charged include:

AIHSP Benefits and Professional Services Subcommittee
The AIHSP Benefits and Professional Services Subcommittee will collaborate to research viable sources for essential employee benefits (medical, dental, vision, life); research viable sources for essential small business services for AIHSP retainer on behalf of its members (accounting, tax preparation, legal, public relations); and compare and contrast providers in order to make recommendations to the founding committee.

AIHSP Standards and Ethics Subcommittee

The AIHSP Ethics, Standards and Certifications Subcommittee will collaborate to establish ethical standards of business operation; establish criteria for businesses to be considered in good standing; establish processes for updating ethical standards; establish grievance processes for businesses and consumers; and establish mediation guidelines and policies.

AIHSP Industry Representation and Advocacy Subcommittee
The AIHSP Industry Representation and Advocacy Subcommittee will collaborate to explore and determine key legislative objectives and priorities to ensure the sustained success and viability of the hosted services marketplace and fair competition within: research the viability and feasibility of implementing a direct lobbying campaign to influence existing and pending legislation; draft an initial series of communication goals and priorities for AIHSP as a representative body for business; and determine the scope, scale and objectives of an AIHSP media relations and crisis communications apparatus.

AIHSP Systems and Infrastructure Subcommittee
The AIHSP Systems and Infrastructure Subcommittee will collaborate to develop a project scope for the following systems: technical certification tracking system, grievance process tracking, research repository database, crisis communication system, intelligent business directory, employment portal and fraud database; determine most appropriate technologies for development of these systems; determine the hosting architecture best suited to these systems; research developers/firms for in-kind work and compensated work; make recommendations regarding custom development versus off-the-shelf application use; and research application security vendors for systems auditing.

AIHSP Research Investigatory Subcommittee
The AIHSP Research Investigatory Subcommittee will collaborate to determine the paramount research priorities and needs of its hosting and Internet service provider constituents; refine these compelling issues into a prioritized, ordered hierarchy for AIHSP advocacy and lobbying efforts; define which research data should be culled for in a members-only State of the Industry quarterly report for longitudinal tracking and archival purposes; and identify and maintain a database of emerging threats to the industry, whether political, economic, technological, or legislative.

Launched in July, 2008, the Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers (AIHSP) is an innovative collaboration of businesses and professionals in the Web hosting and Internet services industry, working together to unify the industry, achieve meaningful representation, and secure a more prosperous marketplace for all.

To nominate yourself to join an AIHSP Advisory Subcommittee, please visit: www.aihsp.org/About-AIHSP/Build-AIHSP.php.

For more about AIHSP, please visit: www.aihsp.org.

Cambridge, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 29, 2008 - Domain name marketplace, Sedo, online marketplace for the buying and selling of domain names, has appointed a new vice president, of its product management.

Former Oversee.net executive Sam Nunez, will manage the product roadmap for the Sedo online marketplace, define marketing requirements and feature changes and drive their execution.

Tim Schumacher, CEO of Sedo noted, ”A well known insider within the domain industry, Mr. Nunez is an excellent addition to the Sedo team. His extensive, global expertise will help Sedo to enhance its leadership position and expand the company’s product offerings.”

Before Sedo, Mr. Nunez worked at Oversee.net, where he was in charge of product management for Domain Sponsor. In this role, he led the internationalization of Domain Sponsor, revamped its publisher extranet by adding a new lander customization engine and 12 new reports, and enhanced Domain Sponsor optimization to include direct and non-traditional advertisers. In addition to the product team, Mr. Nunez managed product designers and the project management office.

Prior to Oversee.net, Mr. Nunez worked at Ask.com as Group Product Manager for Search Personalization and Platforms. Before Ask.com, he was responsible for all e-business initiatives at Silicon Graphics, where he launched, among other things, the company’s first online store in 1998.

Mr. Nunez remarked, ”I look forward to helping Sedo strengthen its market position in the global domain name marketplace. Sedo will continue to leverage its tremendous success with online auctions, as it extends other services such as live auctions, globally.”

Mr. Nunez holds a M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Ecole Centrale in Paris, as well as an MBA from U.C. Berkeley.

Sedo, an acronym for Search Engine for Domain Offers, is the leading online marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Sedo has assembled the world’s largest database of domain names for sale, with more than 14 million listings. The success of Sedo’s model has attracted a global membership base of more than 790,000 domain professionals. Sedo is majority-owned by AdLINK Group, which is part of the German United Internet AG (ISIN DE0005089031/ WKN 508903). Sedo offers regional versions of its site for the UK (Sedo.co.uk), France (Sedo.fr), Germany (Sedo.de), and Spain (Sedo.com).

To learn more about Sedo, please visit: www.sedo.com.

Houston, Texas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 28, 2008 - A new promotion offering outsourced IT at a 34 percent savings, priced at $59 per month, with discounted select Dual Xeons, at The Planet.

Featuring two hard drives and two processors, the Dual Xeon 2.8-SCSI is now $125, down from $269. The Dual Xeon 2.8 Monster, equipped with eight 300GB SCSI/SAS drives and two 73GB system drives for exceptional performance, is now priced at $599, a savings of $200 per month. From its line of Ready To Go Servers, available in just one hour, the Dual Opteron 265-SATA is discounted more than $100, now priced at $145 per month.

Urvish Vashi, General Manager for dedicated hosting remarked, ”At The Planet we’re committed to offering cost-effective hosting solutions for our SMB customers. By discounting a variety of servers — from Celerons to Xeons to our Ready To Go Servers(TM) — we’re making it easier and more affordable than ever to host with The Planet.”

The above offers are good through Sept. 7, 2008, or while limited promotional supplies last.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide:

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

The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting over 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 6.7 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by enhanced facilities and network connectivity.

For additional information about the special offers, please visit: www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/server-specials.

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

Miami, Florida - (The Hosting News) - August 27, 2008 - Integrated Tier-1 Internet exchange and managed IT infrastructure solutions provider, Terremark, has completed deployment of the Infinistructure utility-computing platform at its facilities in Madrid and Amsterdam.

Manuel D. Medina, Chairman and CEO of Terremark Worldwide, Inc. explained, ”Through our industry-leading Infinistructure utility platform, we are able to deliver world-class IT infrastructure services that are scalable to their needs. Based on Infinistructure’s success in the United States, we anticipate that deploying the Infinistructure platform in Madrid and Amsterdam will continue to spur strong demand for our managed services from our current European customers and prospects.”

The platform is anticipated to benefit Terremark’s European and American customers and has been met with high demand from current customers and prospects. Infinistructure’s enterprise-class server and storage infrastructure combines Terremark’s proprietary service-management platform with leading-edge virtualization technology from partners including VMWare, Cisco, and IBM, providing a highly scalable and flexible high-performance computing platform. Infinistructure’s on-demand network, storage and computing architecture allows customers to precisely match their infrastructure to their business needs, while leveraging a fully managed solution with plug-and-play access to network connectivity from multiple carriers. The Infinistructure platform is connected to the ESpanix exchange point in Spain and the AMS-IX exchange point in The Netherlands, the largest internet connection point in Europe with over 400 Gb/s in peak traffic.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (AMEX:TWW) is a leading operator of integrated Tier-1 Internet exchanges and a global provider of managed IT infrastructure solutions for government and private sectors. Terremark delivers its portfolio of services from seven locations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and from four service aggregation and distribution locations, which aggregate network traffic and distribute network-based services in Europe and Asia to meet specific customer needs. Terremark’s flagship facility, the NAP of the Americas, is the model for the carrier-neutral Internet exchanges the company has in Santa Clara, California (NAP of the Americas/West), in Sao Paulo, Brazil (NAP do Brasil) and in Madrid, Spain (NAP de las Americas - Madrid). The carrier-neutral NAP of the Americas is a state-of-the-art facility that provides exchange point, colocation and managed services. Terremark is headquartered at 2601 S. Bayshore Drive, 9th Floor, Miami, Florida USA, (305) 856-3200.

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

Panama City, Panama - (The Hosting News) - August 26, 2008 - Automation and software, server virtualization provider, Parallels, has welcomed as a Gold partner, HostingPanama offshore web hosting, dedicated servers, and colocation firm.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels noted, ”As a Parallels Gold partner, HostingPanama benefits from greater market exposure, expanded business opportunities through joint strategic marketing initiatives and a high level of service and support. We’re excited to be working together with HostingPanama to offer more customers optimized computing through Parallels’ virtualization and automation technologies.”

Gold partner status is a distinguished and advantageous partnership status available from the Parallels Service Provider Partner Program. As a Parallels Gold partner, HostingPanama receives a wide variety of benefits unavailable to most hosting providers. Namely, through volume licensing software discounts, HostingPanama is able to offer a wider array of services with significantly lower pricing than its competitors. HostingPanama also receives access to exclusive tools and Web resources that will allow it to reach more customers around the world.

To better support its large deployment of Parallels technologies, HostingPanama receives priority technical support through direct access to Parallels engineers and programmers. HostingPanama is also able to more effectively package and deploy Parallels technologies to generate more focused results for its clients.

According to Parallels, Gold partners are service providers that typically serve a national or regional customer base and often own their own datacenters. Partners of this type generally have made significant investments in their infrastructure and use automation to streamline their business processes. Typically, Gold partners have been in business for over 5 years and have grown into the Gold level through working with Parallels Channel Account Managers that provide advice on their go-to-market strategy, marketing, and service plans.

Eduardo Vila, Chief Sales Officer of HostingPanama remarked, ”As a Gold Partner in Parallels’ Service Provider Partner Program, we are able to leverage a plethora of marketing and operational resources to further develop the services we provide to our clients. I view this partnership as an opportunity to increase the scale and scope of our virtualization and automaton services, and I look forward to the continued progression of our relationship with Parallels.”

HostingPanama is the largest Web hosting provider in Panama and offers a robust variety of offshore hosting services for businesses in North America and Europe. HostingPanama’s multiple datacenter nodes offer access to major fiber optic continental backbones, ensuring especially low latency to the United States and Canada. The datacenter nodes also feature round-the-clock physical access security, advanced automation, and of course redundancy interlaced throughout every infrastructure system.

Based in Panama City, Panama, HostingPanama is an outsourcing web hosting, dedicated server, and colocation service provider. Emphasizing privacy, security and reliability, the company provides services to over 7,000 businesses worldwide in its nearly 14,000 square feet of datacenter space. HostingPanama was founded in 1999.

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 about HostingPanama, please visit: www.hosting.com.pa.

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 25, 2008 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has been ranked by Inc.com, as the 21st fastest-growing private company in the country, on its Inc 5000 list.

Brent Oxley, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HostGator remarked, ”I started the company with a $1,000 budget from my dorm room in Boca Raton, FL. Today the owners of more than 1.3 million websites depend on our hosting service. We are extremely proud of our strong past growth, but we’re really only getting started.” Mr. Oxley, who turned 25 in March, attributes the growth of the company to its commitment to customer service and dedication to providing customers with the best web hosting experience in the hosting industry.

The 2008 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, for profit, independent - not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies - as of December 31, 2007, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004, and $2 million in 2007.

HostGator revenue grew by 5297% during the measured period. In addition to being ranked #21 overall, HostGator was also ranked #1 for growth in the Houston metro, #2 for growth in the Business Services category, and #1 for growth within the state of Texas.

The Houston-based company had revenues of $18,700,000 in 2007 compared to revenues of $326,000 in 2004 and projects revenues over the next 12 months will reach $50,000,000. Since moving to Houston in 2006, HostGator has created over 155 positions for highly skilled technicians and systems administrators. It recently completed renovations to accommodate a large increase in hiring activity and expects to add at least 100 new employees in Houston over the next few months.

In January, 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.

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.

Inc.com, the daily resource for entrepreneurs, delivers how-to guides, advice, tools, breaking news, and rich multi-media to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses. Inc.com offers dynamic marketing solutions to help advertisers effectively reach Inc.com’s audience of business leaders.

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 provides hosting for over 1.3 million websites and supports over 50,000 resellers worldwide with 24/7 technical support and web hosting tools, including free billing software for resellers and access to over 4,500 high quality free web templates. 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.

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

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 25, 2008 - Customers at GoDaddy, are being offered email packages with no storage limits, in an effort to respond to the increasing demands of email communication.

Go Daddy Unlimited Email provides users an edge, especially when you consider the potential growth of email usage worldwide. Consider this, leading analyst firm IDC Research estimates the number of email boxes worldwide will top two-billion in 2010. This is an increase of more than 297 percent in a decade. With continued growth of email boxes, the amount of storage space needed to accommodate photos and attachments via email will naturally increase as well.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy noted, ”It was an easy decision for us to offer unlimited email storage. It gives our customers the peace of mind they will always have space for incoming emails. This is about giving our customers what they want and that’s what Go Daddy is all about.”

Go Daddy Unlimited Email is designed to address these growing concerns. It gives customers unlimited storage - meaning, among other things, users can save elements like photos, documents and important files without running out of space. It also affords customers the ability to create a customized address. This makes Go Daddy email unlike free generic email services, where address options and space are often limited.

As with any Go Daddy email purchase, customers receive Online File Folder and Calendar. These extras give customers online storage capacity for photos and files, as well as the ability to create a personal calendar that can be kept private or shared with others.

Go Daddy Web-based Email also affords its users virus protection, spam filtering, phishing fraud protection and 256-bit encryption, as a few of the enhancements for no extra charge.

Go Daddy is a provider of services that 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 31 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 rated the world’s largest hostname provider 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.

To learn more about GoDaddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

Quebec, Canada - (The Hosting News) - August 22, 2008 - Internet hosting infrastructure provider, iWeb Group Inc. and subsidiary of iWeb Technologies, will soon be completing its network expansion, to upgrade total network capacity to 15Gbps.

While adding three new carriers, the addition of these three new transit providers will mean better diversity, redundancy and reachability for all our customers and partners.

The following new carriers will be added to iWeb’s Network:

- T-Systems / Deutsche Telekom (In production)
- 3Men@Work / Bell Peering (In production)
- Level 3 Communications (Coming at the end of August)

With the additional transit providers, iWeb will be directly linked to more networks which will result in connections being more direct and more efficient for all customers. These additions will affect mostly the High Quality Network customers, but will also enhance incoming routes for its Redundant Unmetered Network customers; while also providing additional redundancy.

The Unmetered Network upgrade includes additional Cogent Bandwidth.
Once all the upgrades will be completed, iWeb’s network will have a total network capacity of 15 Gbps dedicated to hosting services. The High-Quality Network and incoming routes will combine the networks of 7 carriers for a total of 11 Gbps, while the Redundant Unmetered Network (Cogent-based) now totals 4 Gbps. It is important to note that each part of iWeb’s network (High Quality and Unmetered) is configured to backup the other if necessary and that customers of both networks benefit from all available routes for incoming traffic.

Below is complete list of its network composition:
- 3 Gbps with Videotron Telecom
- 3 Gbps with Tata Communications, formerly Teleglobe
- 4 Gbps with Cogent Communications (Unmetered Network)
- 1 Gbps with Peer1 Network
- 1 Gbps with Priority Colo (TorIX peering)
- 1 Gbps with Level 3 Communications (Coming at the end of August)
- 1 Gbps from 3 Men @ Work (Bell peering)
- 1 Gbps from T-Systems / Deutsche Telekom

iWeb’s first telecom link, back in 2000, was a 100 Mbps link, which had less than 1% of the capacity offered to iWeb customers currently. In the next few months, the company also expects to upgrade its main transit providers to 10Gbps.

Earlier this summer, the company attained ranking among Profit Magazine’s top 100 Canadian companies, based on revenue growth over the past 5 years. From 2002 to 2007, the company’s revenues have gone from 1.35 million to 9.82 million as of October 1st 2007, an increase of 627%; enough for iWeb to make its entry into the 100th position on the annual ranking.

The PROFIT 100 is the annual ranking which rates the top 100 Canadian companies based on the percentage of their revenue growth over a 5-year span. Produced by the business magazine PROFIT, 2008 marks the 20th edition of the ranking.

Founded in 1996, iWeb offers a full line of advanced IP hosting services either through shared hosting, dedicated servers or colocation in three data centers, featuring over 52,000 square feet of floor space and the latest technological equipment. iWeb provides services in English, French and Spanish to clients in more than 130 countries.

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

Ahmedabad, India - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 22, 2008 - Radixweb software solutions firm, includes Microsoft .NET technologies solutions, such as ASP.NET, C.Net, and VB.NET-based custom web application development offerings, in its service portfolio.

.Net Solutions at Radix is a global provider of various internet and custom software solutions, to help better manage businesses, for quality service delivery. The company’s Dot Net development model guarantees that clients get the best blending of performance, consistency and cost. The process is a tag-oriented development methodology in each stage of the application development process, to minimize risks and reduce development time, which is very important for further business growth of the both sides.

Radix is in the practice of developing and maintaining Microsoft.NET based applications since many years. The company enlists an efficient and highly skilled team, capable of handling the projects of Radix, is presenting itself as a strong contender for developing Microsoft.NET based application with considerable size and complexity.

Some of the key areas demonstrating capabilities in this practice are:

• Development Environment
• Testing Server
• Database
• Source Controls
• Coding Standards
• Other Best Practices
• Expertise

All development systems are loaded with necessary tools/utilities to carry out .NET based development. The key tools installed include:

• Development Tools (Based on project Requirement)
• MS Visual Studio 2003
• MS Visual Studio 2005
• .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0
• MS Visual Source Safe Client
• DBMS Clients (Based on project Requirements)

The testing server environment consists of separate server for deployment of demo or testing versions with full time Sr. Network and Infrastructure Manager and 2 Jr. Engineers to assist on network/connectivity and infrastructure related issues. The updated versions of the developed applications are regularly deployed on the testing server which is utilized for internal as well as client testing.

This environment helps customers and end-user to test the application over the Internet and provided their feedback/comments. The company provides various options on database to the customer based on their requirements and production environment details. The current offerings for databases include.

• MS SQL 2000
• MS SQL 2005
• Oracle 9i
• Oracle 10g
• MySQL

Radix maintains a separate Source Control Server to for Visual Source Safe and implements scheduled backups of the server as a part of Business Contingency Planning.

Radix Microsoft.NET Practice recommends and uses Microsoft .NET Library Standards as a part of naming conventions guidelines. This facility helps in standardization of the code and ease of readability for the reviewers.

Some highlighted items used as the best practices include:

• Using Microsoft Enterprise Libraries encapsulate the Microsoft recommended best practices for .NET applications.
• Using Open Source tools like Cruise Control which is an automated build and integration server.
• Using NUnit as a unit-testing framework for .NET based application.
• Using Standard 3-Tier Architecture for application development in order to provide the necessary flexibility, scalability and performance gain to the application.
• Maintaining standard templates for logging issues, client clarifications, Application Features, etc.

Radix has developed various sort of applications based on Microsoft.NET Platform, catering different sorts of requirements.
Some of the key areas of expertise include:

• B2C applications like Shopping Carts, Auction Sites
• Bank Claims Management Systems
• Socket based programming using TCP/UDP Protocols, console applications, services
• Real Estate / Appraiser Management Systems
• Content Management Systems

Systems related to Education Domain for Online course/event/training management Our .Net solutions help businesses lessen their cost of operations, heighten operational efficiencies and amplify customer approval.

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 21, 2008 - Promotions that offer discounts on a selection of dedicated servers and new technologies, have returned to privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet.

Leading the promotional lineup are two of the company’s most popular options: Double Down and Triple Play. Beginning today, customers can double RAM, hard drive disk space or bandwidth at no additional cost on new server orders. Or, they can triple their performance by doubling RAM, hard disk space and bandwidth for a nominal $47 per month. The above offers are good through Aug. 31, 2008, or while limited promotional supplies last.

The company also unveiled new low pricing on select servers. The Xeon 3210 SAS regularly priced at $249 per month - is now $199, a savings of 20 percent. The Xeon 3210 SATA is now $179 per month, down from $199. Additionally, The Planet is offering the Dual Xeon 2.4 SCSI for $115 per month, a 47 percent discount and its lowest-ever listed price from The Planet. The offer includes free setup, a $25 value.

Urvish Vashi, General Manager for dedicated hosting at The Planet noted, ”As customers begin to ramp up their businesses for the fall, these new promotions offer something for everyone, from low single-server pricing to discounts on our advanced Private Rack solution. Along with the quality of our network and data centers, these promotions mean that businesses can gain a significant competitive advantage by outsourcing their IT infrastructure with The Planet.”

The Planet is offering a free fifth server for customers who purchase four servers in a Dedicated Private Rack, a complex hosting solution with customizable options for bandwidth, networking and advanced hosting technologies such as load balancers and firewalls. Customers can also receive free setup - a savings of up to $1,000 - when they add a load balancer to any Private Rack or Virtual Private Rack order.

Ultimately, The Planet’s goal is to provide:

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

The Planet hosts over 22,000 small and medium-size businesses and 7.7 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24×7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

For more information about the promotion, please visit: www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/server-specials.

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

Toronto, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 21, 2008 - Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, congratulates Olympic Karen Cockburn, a Canadian artistic gymnast, on her triumph in Woman’s Trampoline competition, after sponsoring the contender.

Toronto born gymnast Karen Cockburn, competed today and landed herself and Canada a silver medal, bringing her total medal count to three; a bronze in 2000, silver in 2004 and now silver in 2008.

Ms. Cockburn remarked, ”I’d like to thank everyone that made my dream possible. I had a huge outpour of e-mails from my website and blog prior to competition.”

Her journey, to what may be her final trip to any games, has not been an easy one. In 2007 Karen suffered her second knee injury. Her road to recovery began in early 2008 when she stepped foot onto a trampoline for the first time since her surgery.

Though this is her third time competing in the games, Karen never lets this fact go to her head. Facing stiff competition and a past rival there was no room for her injury or cockiness to cloud her mind. Proving that her determination is always present she earned a score of 37.00 and just barely fell short of first place by eight tenths of a point. She is the fourth Canadian ever to win a medal in three straight games.

Thomas Savundra, President, Netfirms Inc. added, ”Congratulations Karen on an excellent performance. It was a strong finish executed with class and poise in one of the most challenging competitions ever.”

After learning that the trampoline was a competitive sport, Ms. Cockburn made the switch. In 1995, Karen injured her knee to the point where she needed reconstructive surgery and had to miss a years worth of training and competitions. Up until 1999 she had to compete with a brace on her knee. Despite the challenges that Karen has faced she still manages to give 110% and never faults on her determination to win.

Touted as the best Canadian thing to happen to gymnastics, Ms. Cockburn is an eight time Canadian champion, a World Champion in women’s trampoline and the reigning World Cup Synchronized Trampoline Co-Champion. Ms. Cockburn already has a summer games bronze medal in 2000 and silver medal in 2004.

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West Chester, Ohio - (The Hosting News) - August 20, 2008 - Web hosting industry resource firm, iNET Interactive, has acquired growing print publication serving the Search Marketing industry, Search Marketing Standard.

The acquisition also includes associated web properties, SearchMarketingStandard.com, PayPerClickUniverse.com and SEMCompare.com. Launched in early 2006, with the goal to provide readers with practical, relevant and easy-to-understand Internet Marketing information, Search Marketing Standard magazine has grown from a newcomer in the field to an authoritative resource used by over 50,000 search engine advertisers and Internet marketers. Search Marketing Standard’s websites incorporate user-contributed ratings, reviews, and discussion along with professionally-produced, instructional content focused on helping businesses succeed within the rapidly growing field of search and Internet marketing.

Troy Augustine, President and CEO of iNET remarked, ”We are very excited to be able to add Search Marketing Standard to iNET Interactive’s portfolio of media brands. Search Marketing Standard is a strong brand, and it is a perfect complement to our strengths in the web development and web hosting areas.”

The addition of Search Marketing Standard is a natural extension for iNET Interactive, further strengthening its position as the leading media company serving Internet professionals and technology enthusiasts. The iNET Interactive portfolio also includes Web Hosting Talk, the largest online community serving the web hosting and hosted services industry, and Hot Scripts, the largest directory of scripts for the web development community.

Search Marketing Standard was founded by Boris Mordkovich and Eugene Mordkovich and headed by the Editor-in-Chief, Andrey Milyan. Boris will remain engaged with Search Marketing Standard as an advisor while Andrey Milyan will remain editor-in-chief joined with other Search Marketing Standard veterans to continue their sales and editorial roles.

Mr. Mordkovich added, ”Troy and his team fully embrace the commitment our team has given to our loyal readers and advertisers in producing a high-quality publication and online media properties. We have complete confidence that iNET Interactive will continue to grow and develop Search Marketing Standard with the same energy and dedication that we poured into it.”

Search Marketing Standard is the leading print publication covering the search marketing industry along with its associated online properties, including PayPerClickUniverse.com and SEMCompare.com. It was launched in early 2006 with the goal to provide readers with practical, relevant and easy-to-understand information that they could apply to directly improve their search engine marketing campaigns.

Founded in 2002, 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.