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Lunarpages Begins JustUptime Deployment

La Habra, California - (The Hosting News) - September 30, 2008 - Hosting provider, Lunarpages, has deployed the customized alert system of JustUptime, by adding their technicians into the contact base.

Amy Armitage, Head of Business Development for Lunarpages remarked, ”We knew this was a great solution when we saw it. JustUptime really does represent the future of what online service delivery should be: easy to use, transparent, seamless and technologically advanced. The increased reliability really gave us an edge in our industry; there simply isn’t a better solution for monitoring servers available on the market.”

Lunarpages currently hosts over 150,000 customers on a wide range of servers each requiring maximum uptime and quick response time for their users. Their advantage is reliability and their selection of JustUptime has actually allowed them to increase sales based on this factor.

Monitoring such a large number of servers is an impossible task for any webhosting company not willing to invest thousands on development of an in-house solution. Lunarpages contacted JustUptime to improve their company’s performance and were immediately setup with a set of logins to their control panel. Lunarpages found Just Uptime’s control panel easy enough to begin monitoring their first server within minutes and appreciated the user friendly look and feel of the service.

To customize JustUptime’s alert system to suit their needs, Lunarpages began adding all of their technicians into their contact base. They were then able to configure each monitor to alert individual technicians by either SMS, email or both. This meant Lunarpages could now alert the appropriate technician in every possible communications method ensuring the issue would be resolved quickly.

By using JustUptime to monitor their entire network of servers, Lunarpages increased their response time to server issues and reduced the number of downtime related support tickets by 96%. Incredibly their response time to server issues meant their downtime was shortened so much that to customers hadn’t even felt the impact.

Aside from alerts, Lunarpages technicians were able to use the uptime and response time data to present graphs and reports from within the JustUptime control panel. These helped with weekly meetings and provided hard copy proof of their uptime which they proudly display via a link in the footer of their website. In short this has helped them develop new sales, based on reliability.

Just Uptime is a web based server and website monitoring service offering immediate real time alerts to downtime incidents. Just Uptime has a global reach and provides vivid and detailed flash logs of monitored sites. Just Uptime is part of the ‘Just Develop It’ group.

Lunarpages Web Hosting, based in California and serving over 150,000 customers, offers 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,with multiple domain packages for shared and dedicated accounts, hosted on UNIX and Windows Servers.

For more information about JustUptime, please visit: www.justuptime.com.

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

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Senate Bill, Supported by GoDaddy, Passes

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 23, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, has been keenly focused on the momentous bill designed to keep the Internet safe for children, recently passed in the Senate.

The bi-partisan bill is designed to protect children from online predators. Go Daddy has worked long and hard to help shape this legislation. President Bush is expected to sign this into law quickly. Congress is poised to pass another piece of legislation Go Daddy has supported with work in Washington, including testifying before Congress, aimed at preventing rogue pharmacies from operating on the Internet.

The Children Protection bill was modified to incorporate pieces of Senators McCain, Biden, Clinton’s proposed bills. It is poised to be approved and sent to President Bush where he is expected to sign this important legislation into law. These bills will make positive improvements to the ability of law enforcement agencies to effectively investigate Internet crimes against children and to prosecute online predators.

Go Daddy routinely works with law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, along with the investigation and shut down of thousands of inappropriate child modeling sites linked to pornography. Go Daddy has testified before Congress various times regarding this important matter. Oprah Winfrey recently voiced her support of The Combating Child Exploitation Act of 2008 as well. The next step involves the bill being given to the United States President to be signed into law.

Recently, GoDaddy completed the redesign of its multimedia component, in order to give users more videos and interactive content, quickly and easily. GoDaddy.TV has expanded, as .TV extension grows in popularity. According to ComScore, more than 11 billion videos were viewed by Americans in July 2008 - up two billion views from just one year ago. Many companies are looking for inexpensive ways to alert visitors to key multimedia elements on their site. Using .TV lets everyone know a site features the power of online video and other multimedia aspects.

The new GoDaddy.TV layout gives users easy access to exclusive videos from Danica Patrick, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the much publicized GoDaddy-esque Super Bowl commercials, plus more. The new Event Gallery offers Go Daddy Girls’ video, photos and blogs.

Go Daddy is a provider of services that are 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 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.

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RSHosting Partners with TheVisionWorld & WHMCS

RSHosting, a cpanel reseller hosting provider, today announced partnerships with TheVisionWorld, a provider of web-based helpdesk software and WHMCS Ltd, a client-management company. The company says that it will now offer a helpdesk software “Vision Helpdesk” and a billing automation software “WHMCS“, to its Reseller customers. http://publish.responsemine.com

The company sates that it has specialized in providing whm/cpanel reseller web hosting accounts on servers physically based in UK and US datacenters. It also claims that it runs servers from top class data centers ensuring 99.99% uptime and adding to this is their round the clock support.

The company explains that with this new partnership its customers will be able to use helpdesk software to offer support to end users, and it can also offer WHMCS Client Management Billing Software to its reseller customers. Vision Helpdesk includes features like managing Emails, Scrap Book, Staff Private Messaging, WHMCS offers Billing, Domain Integration/Management, claims the company.

“We have been able to build a strong reseller customer base by continually bolstering our plans to meet the ever-evolving requirements of Internet businesses. Offering these softwares free of cost is another example of our commitment to provide excellent value to our customers”, said Company Director, Mr. Sean Collar.

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TheVisionWorld Partners with WebHostingChat.

TheVisionWorld.com, providers of an extensive web-based helpdesk software “Vision - helpdesk”, today announced their new partnership with WebHostingChat.com, one of the leading Web Hosting discussion forums.

“Vision” is a promising helpdesk software, having a potential to deliver features that any organization needs to manage their day to day customer care and support activities. “Vision” provides the optimum combination of call management automation, functionality and flexibility, delivering a comprehensive Helpdesk solution that satisfies most IT service managment requirements.

“We always urge to help WebHostingChat members by all possible means to improve their business. With this partnership, we can now offer Free Vision Helpdesk Annual License to our most active members.( Eligibility - A member should have minimum 100 posts on WebHostingChat)”, said WebHostingChat CEO - David Kathir” Read the rest of this news story »

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Fasthosts Offers Unlimited Reseller Plans

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - (The Hosting News) - September 29, 2008 - Web hosting company, Fasthosts Internet Inc., has debuted the launch of 1 year free unlimited reseller web hosting, in the US.

Stephen Holford, Chief Marketing Officer, Fasthosts Internet Inc. remarked, ”We are delighted to offer Americans a really effective way to create their own hosting company. Our unlimited web space and bandwidth removes the risks that often deter entrepreneurs, so more people can now tap into this lucrative industry. Existing US hosting providers often restrict resellers to selling off-the-shelf products and have confusing rules of service. Fasthosts not only enables you to create your own brand, but also to create your own packages. With 12 months free reseller subscription, there’s never been a better time for American users to explore reseller hosting.”

Currently the UK’s largest reseller web host, Fasthosts now offers the US an excellent new way to resell own-branded web solutions including web hosting and domain names. Fasthosts’ unique philosophy offers resellers unlimited web space and bandwidth enabling them to create their very own packages and set their own prices, and includes a high quality hosting plan free to resellers that delivers 100% profit. With 12 months free Reseller Package subscription, Fasthosts comprises an excellent no-risk way for American IT pros and entrepreneurs to start their own web solutions brand.

Reseller web hosting is designed to enable an entrepreneur to retail web solutions (such as hosting, domains and email solutions) and earn profit on the items they sell. IT professionals can combine their own services, such as web design, programming or IT advice, with web solutions in order to charge premium prices. The low costs and recurring fees model make reseller hosting a highly profitable business activity. The reseller hosting market is growing and will be of interest to many individuals with IT skills.

Fasthosts Reseller Package, currently free for 12 months (and $50/month thereafter), enables a user to create their own web hosting brand and retail web solutions at their own price points. Fasthosts offers the reseller complete flexibility in structuring their hosting plans - resellers can create a customized package for each end customer, design and create their own range of packages or simply resell Fasthosts’ own off-the-shelf packages. This flexible platform means that resellers can tailor their services closely to their customers’ needs. Fasthosts’ philosophy for reseller hosting will free US resellers to achieve the best possible business model. Fasthosts provides both Linux and MS web hosting, a comprehensive range of domain name registrations and award winning MS Exchange email packages for resale.

While America’s existing reseller hosting providers commonly place limits on web space per end customer and can levy expensive charges for bandwidth used, Fasthosts removes these risks with both unlimited web space and bandwidth. While resellers are free to make whatever charges they wish, Fasthosts resellers will themselves never face their users being cut-off or unexpected charges from their provider. Unlike other vendors, the company offers instant activation and requires no time-consuming or intrusive qualification details.

Another unique aspect of Fasthosts’ reseller operation is the option to sell an off-the-shelf Fasthosts hosting plan that is provided free of charge to its resellers. The high quality free hosting package, one of a range of off-the-shelf plans available, has 10GB web space allowance, 5 FTP Accounts, unlimited email accounts and is ASP / PHP5 / Perl compatible. The package is permanently available for resellers to sell on an unlimited basis and is totally free of reseller charges, meaning a remarkable 100 percent profit on each one sold.

The Fasthosts Reseller Package boasts an industry-leading reseller Control Dashboard, which has been reengineered for the US market. This intuitive interface reduces administration for resellers and comprises a highly efficient catalyst for reseller activities. The custom branding tools enable you to customize your customers’ control panels, webmail and SiteBuilders. Within the package, the reseller calculator provides instant cost transparency and the advanced customer management area provides an excellent overview of a reseller’s hosting business.

Fasthosts provides its US resellers with dedicated service 24/7 with US based technical support via phone or email. As a reseller hosting specialist and the UK’s number 1 reseller web host, Fasthosts is well placed to offer a high quality reseller web hosting service. All US customer websites are hosted within the company’s state-of-the-art data center in Lenexa, KS and benefit from 30GBit high-speed connectivity.

Mr. Holford added, ”With reseller hosting, the quality of service to the reseller and their customers is paramount. We are confident that even the most experienced hosting reseller will be impressed with Fasthosts. US providers often cause many barriers to building a successful reseller hosting business and for resellers the market can be confusing and risky. Fasthosts aims to significantly improve the market, and our experience and status in Europe means that we can deliver unrivalled support and innovation in equal measures.”

Fasthosts is a reseller web hosting provider and the UK’s number one web hosting company. In the US the company is based in Chesterbrook, PA. Operating 24×7 from its dedicated data centers, Fasthosts keeps over 1 million domains running smoothly and ensures over 6 million emails are delivered safely each day. All Fasthosts services can be self-managed through the award winning Fasthosts’ web-based control panel that provides customers with unparalleled online control, enabling them to manage their hosted services seamlessly. Fasthosts’ highly successful reseller channel has recently been rated Number 1 for reseller hosting by industry portal Web Host Directory.

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

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NaviSite Dedicated Hosting for SMBs Unveiled

Andover, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 29, 2008 - Dedicated hosting ffferings, which have been optimized for the needs of small and medium businesses, has debuted at web hosting provider, NaviSite.

Sumeet Sabharwal, Senior Vice President of Dedicated Hosting at NaviSite noted, ”Our dedicated server packages come loaded with enterprise class features and without additional costs or hidden fees. Our solutions are backed by NaviSite’s extensive support infrastructure featuring ‘Always There’ 24/7/365 support and world class NaviView customer control panel that provides customers complete visibility into their hosting environment. With eleven years of leadership experience in enterprise class hosting, NaviSite is uniquely positioned to bring to market an advanced range of managed dedicated servers and full-service support especially designed for the growing SMB market.”

The newly introduced solutions leverage NaviSite’s experience, and nationwide footprint of enterprise class infrastructure to offer best of class security, scalability and reliability to the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market.

SMBs are increasingly competing with larger enterprises head to head and often need high quality, cost-effective technologies to overcome the challenges of limited human and capital resources. This is prompting SMBs to seek technology providers who can offer enterprise grade solutions and configurations that meet the diverse special needs of SMB customers.

Michael Speyer, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, wrote in the March 2008 report ”Small and medium-size business (SMB) IT decision-makers will focus on ensuring that their IT shops operate smoothly and on leveraging their companies’ infrastructure and data assets. 2008 SMB IT Budgets North America: It’s Back To Basics. This will drive investments in disaster recovery, security, virtualization, data management, and collaboration tools.”

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same report also mentions that SMB’s in North America list improving IT efficiency as a top business priority.

NaviSite’s Dedicated Hosting solutions integrate the latest technology including Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Linux and VMware ESX, and feature dual hard drives, RAID, Intel Xeon server grade processors, Intrusion Protection and other industry leading features. All solutions are hosted in NaviSite operated enterprise grade SAS 70 Type II certified data centers, with best-in-class technology and design including N+1systems for power and cooling for guaranteed availability and performance.

NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. Customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in 17 state-of-the art data centers supported by more than 700 professionals. NaviSite provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities, packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in class technologies and a full suite of web-hosting and internet infrastructure options.

NaviSite has also introduced a new Website that enables businesses to easily configure and purchase their Dedicated Hosting solutions online.

To learn more on features, pricing and special offers, please visit: www.navisite.com/dedicatedhosting.

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Brinkster Dedicated Services Upgraded

Phoenix, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - September 26, 2008 - Dedicated server offerings, with a guarantee which previously only applied to email and shared web hosting, are now offered at Brinkster Communications.

Jared Stauffer, President and CEO of Brinkster explained, ”After revamping our dedicated server lineup in June 2008 we saw a significant increase in demand. The 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee makes Brinkster an obvious choice as we have virtually eliminated any risk for the customer.”

Brinkster’s 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is a satisfaction guarantee and states: ”during the first ninety days after you purchase service with us, if you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your money minus any setup or domain name fees.” The money back guarantee is not without its limits. The max a customer can get back is $900 and the refund may be limited if a highly customized dedicated server setup is ordered.

Clint Poole, COO of Brinkster remarked, ”When we made the decision to ramp up our dedicated server business we knew the bar had been raised quite high in this arena over the past few years. We did extensive research and made a significant investment to revamp our dedicated server platform. Our customers have validated our efforts and the response has been exciting. Extending a 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is our way of telling the customer we truly believe in this product.”

Since 1999, Brinkster has been providing web hosting services to customers in over 175 countries from its office and data center locations. Content Management AG, customized the CM4all WebsiteCreator user interface to match Brinkster’s corporate design standards and installed the software in Brinkster’s data center, designed to create a seamless experience for end users.

For more information about Brinkster’s dedicated servers, please visit: www.brinkster.com/server.

To learn more about Brinkster’s 90 Day Money Back Guarantee, please visit: www.brinkster.com/guarantee.aspx.

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Host Color Debuts Entry-Level Virtuozzo

Wilmington, Delaware - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 26, 2008 - Host Color’s entry-level Virtuozzo VPS hosting service, features 192 MB RAM, 10 GB disc space and 50 GB data transfer per month.

Alexander Avramov, Managing Director of Host Color LLC noted, ”We customize VPS hosting to better serve our business hosting customers. This means a choice of Linux OS distribution, installation and maintenance of all applications they can run under Linux OS in their virtual servers.’

Host Color’s VPS Start is priced at $19.95 per month and is powered by Virtuozzo Containers, designed as one of the best priced entry-level virtual private servers in the industry. The web host said that VPS Start is a scalable solution that allows online business owners to further develop and grow their sites in custom web hosting environment.

The hosting company offers VPS Start with a choice of web hosting control panel between Plesk, cPanel and NextColor (nextcolor.com), its own proprietary hosting automation system. Plesk is the recommended control panel for Virtuozzo VPS by Host Color. It provides Plesk licenses to customers for only $15.95 per month.

VPS Start virtual server features 192 MB RAM, 10 GB disc space and 50 GB data transfer per month. Anyone who need to use management services can purchase ”FM VPS” a Fully Managed (FM) service for Virtual Private Servers that Host Color has priced at only $49.95/month. ”FM VPS” includes: Initial Set-up, IP management, OS installation and maintenance, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam installation, Reboots, VPS recovery, Control Panel updates, and Resource monitoring.

The web host uses Cent OS to power the VPS accounts, but its executive said that any other Linux distributions can be installed either by customer or as a part of ”FM VPS” service agreement.

Mr. Avramov also added that his company customizes even Shared Hosting services to allow anyone to work in personalized business environment. Earlier this week Host Color introduced one of its customized shared hosting plans - WordPress Blog Hosting (http://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting/bloghosting/wordpress), which is made solely for WordPress blog owners.

The web hosting company has recently been very active in promoting some national and regional Top-Level domains such as .ME, .US, .Asia and .BZ.

Host Color has also opened its new Affiliate Program (http://www.hostcolor.com/affiliateprogram). The new program transfers 25% of the company’s revenue per sale to its affiliates and at the same time pays them for each unique visitor sent to Host Color’s website.

Host Color LLC is a U.S. web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It powers thousands of business and personal websites in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, U.S. and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides fully Managed dedicated hosting through HC Servers and European hosting services through HC Europe. It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations.

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

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ColdFusion License Sale, at HostMySite.com

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - September 25, 2008 - Adobe Solutions Partner, web hosting solutions firm, HostMySite, Inc., has debuted, for customers purchasing at least one dedicated server, ColdFusion 8 Enterprise licenses at a discounted price of $149 per month.

Art Zeile, CEO HostMySite.com remarked, ”We have worked hard with Adobe in an effort to enhance our ColdFusion solutions for HostMySite customers. Coupling HostMySite.com’s industry leading support with ColdFusion 8 Enterprise at this reduced price point meets this goal.”

ColdFusion solves the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development, enhancing the productivity of developers as they create engaging online applications. ColdFusion 8 Enterprise includes all the capabilities of ColdFusion 8 Standard, plus special features for enabling enterprise-class business applications such as:

  • CF application monitors
  • Sandbox security
  • Enhanced event gateways
  • Multiple administrators and instances

In August, HostMySite added Hyper-V hosting, to its portoflio of service offerings. Hyper-V is the latest in virtualization technology from Microsoft and is a key feature of Windows Server 2008. HostMySite.com is offering a powerful standard solution or a customized server based on each client’s needs. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization that provides customers with a fast and scalable virtualization solution. With Hyper-V, it’s possible to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine as a virtual environment.

With HostMySite.com’s Hyper-V solution, clients get a single hardware server on which they are able to create multiple virtual machines (VMs). Each virtual machine acts as a standalone server running its own operating system, which can be 32-bit/64-bit Windows or Linux. Virtual machines can be configured as application servers, database servers running Microsoft SQL 2008 or MySQL, mail servers, or test environments.

HostMySite.com was founded by partners Lou Honick and Neil Heuer in 1997. The foundation of the culture at HostMySite.com is a top-down commitment to complete customer satisfaction. HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with Managed Dedicated Server Hosting, VPS Web Hosting, ColdFusion hosting, and ASP.NET Hosting, supported by 24×7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and live online chat.

To learn more about HostMySite.com’s ColdFusion Enterprise licensing, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/promos/coldfusionenterprise.

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MochaHost Plans Include Private Tomcat

San Jose, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 25, 2008 - Webhosting company, MochaHost.com, has developed new private Tomcat (JVM) hosting plans, offered with the Plesk 8 control panel, under a Windows Server 2008 platform.

Starting at $13.95/month all of the of private JVM’s include support for Tomcat 5/6 as well as JDK1.5/1.6, instant restart tool, WAR support, and a private Tomcat management interface which can be used to control the available domain/subdomain Web Server (IIS 7) to Tomcat mappings.

In addition, all Windows Tomcat clients will benefit from the support for PHP5/MySQL5, ASP.NET, MS SQL, Perl, Python, and the rest of the features offered with any of the new Windows shared hosting packages. The new JVM offering is also available for resellers who can benefit from additional volume discounts.

MochaHost is located in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California); specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, E-commerce, and Internet promotion services. MochaHost’s plans are designed to tailor to specific needs - from personal use/small businesses, to sophisticated E-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth and disk space.

MochaHost has been the recipient of HostReview.com’s Top 10 Budget Host Award Feb 2006, is listed as one o fCNET’s Most Popular Hosts, a Top 25 Host March 2006 of RateMyHost.com, the Web Design Award Oct 2005 from DesignFirms.org, and one of FindMyHost.com’s E-commerce Guaranteed Approved Hosts.

To learn more about the specials, please visit: www.mochahost.com/java.php.

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Green Solutions, Deployed by HostGator

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 24, 2008 - Web hosting firm, HostGator, to both power and cool all of its shared and reseller servers, has purchased Green-e certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from a Texas wind farm representing 130 percent of electricity used.

RECs offset energy production through a renewable energy resource. The green energy is then fed into the electrical grid. Inc. magazine’s 5000 list recently named the company as the 21st fastest growing company in North America.

Brent Oxley, President and CEO of HostGator.com noted, ”We’re in a position to be part of the solution to climate change, rather than part of the problem. If climate change is happening because of people’s activities, then you have to wonder what kind of world we’re leaving to our children if we don’t change.”

The average server produces roughly the same greenhouse gas emissions as a 15 mpg SUV. Nationwide, some three to four percent of all electricity consumed in the United States goes to powering the IT sector.

HostGator’s service accounts for approximately 1.3 percent of all the domains on the entire Internet, and their green initiative is the equivalent of the following:

  • Removing 444 cars from the road for a year, or
  • Powering 321 homes with clean energy for a year, or
  • Saving 5,654 barrels of oil, or
  • Protecting 551 acres of forest for a year.

The IT sector has been conspicuously silent when it comes to admitting and addressing its impact on the climate. HostGator.com lives by a different mantra: Be the change you want to see.

Mr. Oxley added, ”From a purely financial perspective, it would be difficult to justify our greening program, especially given how far we’ve come to get where we are. But we cannot wait any longer for the government to fix the problem of climate change. All of us, including private companies like HostGator, need to do our part as stewards of the environment. We also have a different planning horizon than many companies. We’re looking five, 10, even 20 years into the future. Both individuals and businesses are already beginning to look for ways to reduce their climate impact, and green hosting is a simple way to get started. We have faith that over time the public will respond to what we’re doing.”

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.

Founded in 2002, HostGator is a provider of shared web hosting, dedicated servers and reseller hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. HostGator has become a leader in reseller hosting, helping over 20,000 businesses become Web hosting companies.

To learn more on HostGator.com’s greening program, please visit: www.hostgator.com/green-web-hosting.shtml.

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Consulting, at Web Hosting Pad

Torrance, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 24, 2008 - Offered free of charge to customers, are new consulting services, at web hosting services company, Web Hosting Pad.

Craig White, Senior Administrator of Web Hosting Pad offered, ”We’re very excited to offer this service to our customers to maximize their web hosting experience, and utilize our services to meet our customers needs. This will also be a great way to show customers that they are our main priority and that we are here for them whenever they need us. Webmaster consulting is done over the phone with no operators so you get your full one on one experience to benefit you best. Our customers love this idea and feel like they have their own personal webmaster.”

Webmaster service is geared towards ecommerce websites, assisting in getting websites ranked higher in the search engines.

Webhostingpad.com was formed in 2005 with a team of very successful and proven industry veterans, intent on delivering the best value in web hosting. With the growing need of affordable hosting, the company set out to deliver the best web hosting at a price where everyone can afford to have their piece of the world wide web.

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