Clearwater, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 30, 2007 - Web host, market communications and related Internet technologies firm, Think Partnership International Division, has been invited to participate in the SMX London 2007 event.

Jim Banks, President of the company’s international division, will speak at the 2007 Search Marketing Expo to be held at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel and Conference Center, November 15-16, 2007.

The conference will feature an exposition hall and conference sessions on paid and organic Internet search. Conference sessions are conducted by selected search engine marketing experts and are customized to the needs of professionals in the industry.

Mr. Banks is scheduled to speak to attendees of the Advanced Search Ads Track, one of three 75 minute conference sessions that begins at 4:30 p.m. DST on November 16. The Advanced Search Track Ads session will highlight a ”Beyond the Majors” topic on paid search traffic, and discuss options, tips and strategies.

Think Partnership first entered the UK market in 2006 by acquiring England-based search marketing firm WebDiversity. Last month the company expanded its UK operations with the launch of PrimaryAdsUK, a CPA (cost per acquisition) affiliate network.

Search Marketing Expo comes to London with its inaugural SMX London event, 15-16 November 2007 at the Hilton London Metropole.

SMX is programmed by Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief, Danny Sullivan, and executive editor Chris Sherman, to cover the topics, interview the luminaries and educate generations of search marketers. The two-day conference and expo will expose marketers to actionable search marketing tips and techniques, as well as the winning strategies for orchestrating campaigns and measuring results. The conference will feature sessions on organic and paid search. Sessions will be conducted by SEM experts and tailored to the needs of professionals in the market.

Think Partnership operates under three divisions:
Think Direct: Online lead generation and direct marketing of consumer loyalty products and services including online life-stage niche marketing targeting the expected parent demographic and the marketing of home based business opportunities, social networking, and other related services. Think Network: Online advertising network of affiliate, search, and ROI driven ad exchange services including proprietary technologies such as ValidClick, the Company’s patent-pending click fraud prevention solution; KowaBunga!, the Company’s online affiliate marketing platform; and SecondBite, the Company’s patent-pending revenue recovery technology. Think Advertising: Hybrid off-line/online advertising agency that provides branding, collateral advertising, public relations, television advertising, and radio advertising services as well as interactive advertising services such as sear engine optimization, online branding, and paid search management.

Think Partnership Inc. is an international interactive performance-based marketing and related Internet technology firm, providing a comprehensive and integrated set of scalable and cost-effective marketing solutions for both advertisers and publishers. The solutions are designed to increase customer retention and revenues through a diverse set of related marketing channels, including affiliate marketing, click-fraud-protected pay-per-click advertising, lead generation, interactive direct marketing, integrated offline advertising, campaign management, public relations, and branding. Think also operates several direct-to-consumer services including online dating, online education, and home business opportunities. High-profile brands include ValidClick, PrimaryAds, iLead Media, KowaBunga!, BabyToBee, Second Bite and MarketSmart.

For more information about the expo, please visit: www.searchmarketingexpo.com/london.

To learn more about Think Partnership, please visit: www.thinkpartnership.com.

Los Angeles, California - (The Hosting News) - October 17, 2007 - ISPCON Fall 2007 has opened at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The three day event billed as ‘The Internet Industry Event’ launched with educational speaking sessions in the morning, a well delivered keynote address after lunch, and a networking event in the exhibit hall in the afternoon.

This fall’s event features several tracks for the sessions including: wireless, hosting, technology, VoIP, and business. Among the many intimate and informative sessions in the business track was the talk entitled, “Positioning Your Internet Company for Sale - and Making More Money” delivered by Tom Millitzer, President, New Commerce Communications. Mr. Millitzer, who is also a blogger at industry website The WHIR, delivered a great session that focused on how an Internet services company can maximize the price a buyer would consider fair in an acquisition. Among the many useful tidbits of information:

Rule #1 - Be honest.

Other than rule #1 - there are no rules.

Mr. Millitzer, who brings hundreds of transactions worth of experience to the table, explained such topics as: how to turn a negative into a positive, and his ”5 minute rule”. The 5 minute rule says that any decision maker who sees the details of the 40-50 page brochure created for the sale has to be able to make a decision regarding acquisition - right then (or within 5 minutes). He then went on to describe the M and A process - and revealed an industry secret. Overall, the discussion was very insightful - and the question and answer session afterwards brought up some key points from the audience as well.

One of the presentations in the hosting track was delivered by Tobby Davasia from the executive team at Bobcares.com and Douglas Johnson, Director of Hosting Marketing at SWsoft. This “tag team” affair delivered on the session title of, ”10 Ways to Improve Business and Data Center Effiiciency”. The short scoop on the 10 things:

1. Use I.T.
2. Automate ordering and ecommerce
3. Automate provisioning
4. Virtualize your infrastructure
5. Self service control panels
6. Standardize applications
7. Build upgrade processes
8. Automate billing
9. Marketing vision
10. Hire the right support staff

The session translated an incredible amount of industry knowledge and experience into a well delivered presentation.

Another session that delivered tangible results for the attendees was the aptly titled, ”Strategies for Growing Your Hosted Business” presented by Ravi Agarwal, CEO of groupSPARK and Rich Bader, President and CEO with EasyStreet Online Services. Mr. Agarwal explained how web hosts and ISPs could take advantage of the 20,000 to 40,000 new hosted exchange seats being created each month - each with the capability of generating an average of $20 per month of ARPU. Mr. Bader chimed in with real world experience in transitioning an ISP into a data center, colocation and managed services provider to increase margins. The combination of an active web hosting company coupled with a great service provider with high margin private labeled solutions was powerful.

Here are a few other thoughts from some hosting professionals in attendance.

Stacy Griggs, Vice President of Sales with HostMySite.com, “ISPCON is a great show. It’s always good for companies to get together and exchange ideas and best practices. The sessions were informative and high quality.”

Candice Rodriguez, Director of Business Development and Marketing at the Web Host Industry Review, “There are a lot more web hosting vendors. There are more companies who want to get their foot in the door with larger hosting providers.”

This content was written by Derek Vaughan and is provided courtesy of The Hosting News.

Clearwater, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 20, 2007 - Web host, market communications and related Internet technologies firm, Think Partnership Inc., has reported the company’s financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2007.

Q2 2007 Financial Results include, as compared to the previous quarter and the same period a year ago:

• Revenues totaled $16.9 million, a decrease of 4% from $17.7 million in the previous quarter and a decrease of 12% from $19.3 million a year ago.
• Net loss from operations was $0.4 million, an improvement from a loss of $0.7 million in the previous quarter and compared to a gain of $0.3 million a year ago.
• Basic and fully diluted earnings per common share totaled a loss of ($0.01), unchanged from a loss of ($0.01) in the previous quarter, and an improvement from a loss of ($0.03) per share a year ago.
• Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization expenses (”EBITDA”) was $2.1 million, an increase of 24% from $1.7 million reported in the previous quarter and an increase of 2% from $2.0 million reported a year ago. This includes approximately $200,000 of restructuring costs directly related to severances, relocation, and other consolidation efforts. A reconciliation of EBITDA to income from operations is included at the end of this release.

Q2 2007 Event Highlights include:

• Microsoft selected Think Partnership’s KowaBunga! affiliate tracking and management solution with ValidClick click fraud protection to launch and manage the affiliate networks of its Online Services Group. Think Partnership customized the KowaBunga! MYAP v9 platform for Microsoft, allowing it to create unique, yet integrated, fraud-protected affiliate programs for each of its product lines.
• Think Partnership released ValidClick DirectAds 2.1, a private labeled PPC platform which allows publishers to manage their own pay-per-click advertisers through an online interface. Version 2.1 presents advertisers with significantly improved conversion tracking and reporting abilities.
• Oversee.net chose Think Partnership’s ValidClick DirectAds private label PPC platform for Revenue.net as part of its direct navigation advertiser solution.
• Think Partnership and BET Interactive launched an online dating service. The enterprise-level solution provides BET with the technology and services to automate the signup, management and networking of single African-Americans in a branded, exclusive dating network.

Scott P. Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Think Partnership remarked, ”’We have been pleased with the adoption rate of our products and services by our clients as well as the increased effectiveness of our advertising platform, which was significantly enhanced during the quarter. However, our Advertising Segment did not realize $2.5 million of expected revenue primarily due to delays in execution of a certain contract as well as ongoing weaknesses in its international business. As a result, this segment realized an operating loss of more than $300,000 rather than an expected gain of more than $200,000. The delayed contract work is expected to be completed in the second half of 2007.”

Mr. Mitchell added, ”Although our growth has been slower then we forecasted, we are confident that our financial performance during the second half of our fiscal year will show an improvement over the first half based on the business we already have in place. Meanwhile, we will continue to execute our consolidation and integration plans, evaluate strategic opportunities that could unlock shareholder value, and focus on growing both the top and bottom line.”

Think Network - The company addresses this segment with its online ad network, comprised of the company’s search network, affiliate network, software solutions and web hosting. Network revenues for the quarter totaled $3.9 million, up 8% from $3.6 million in the previous quarter and down 33% from $5.7 million a year ago. This contributed 23% of total revenues, up from 20% in the previous quarter and down from 30% in the same quarter a year ago. Network EBITDA was $1.3 million, an increase of 22% from $1.1 million in the previous quarter and down 25% from $1.7 million reported a year ago.

Think Direct - Think Direct is primarily engaged in the interactive direct marketing of internally generated and third party offers. The company’s operations in this segment generates revenue mainly from online memberships, lead sales and list management services, as well as direct-to-consumer services including online dating, online education, and home business opportunities. Revenue from Think Direct totaled $9.0 million in the second quarter 2007, down 6% from $9.5 million in the previous quarter and up 28% from $7.0 million reported a year ago. This contributed 53% of total revenues, which was down from 54% in the previous quarter and up from 36% a year ago. Direct EBITDA was $2.5 million, up 28% from $2.0 million reported in the previous quarter and up 51% from $1.7 million a year ago.

Think Advertising - This segment comprises traditional offline and online advertising agency services. Advertising revenues for the quarter totaled $4.4 million, down 6% from $4.7 million in the previous quarter and down 35% from $6.7 million a year ago. This contributed 26% of total revenues, unchanged from 26% in the previous quarter and down from 35% in the same quarter a year ago. Advertising EBITDA was a loss of $0.3 million, a decrease from a loss of $0.1 million in the previous quarter and compares to positive EBITDA of $0.03 million reported a year ago.

EBITDA, other - There were certain costs that occurred on the corporate level that were factored into the company’s total EBITDA. These costs amounted to $1.5 million for the second quarter, an increase of 12% from $1.3 million in the previous quarter and up approximately 3% from $1.4 million in the same year-ago quarter.

Think Partnership, Inc. is an international interactive performance-based marketing and related Internet technologies firm. Think endeavors to provide a comprehensive and integrated set of scalable and cost-effective marketing solutions for both advertisers and publishers. The solutions are designed to increase customer retention and revenues through a diverse set of related web hosting, marketing channels, including affiliate marketing, click-fraud-protected pay-per-click advertising, lead generation, interactive direct marketing, integrated offline advertising, campaign management, public relations, and branding. Think also operates several direct-to-consumer services including online dating, online education, and home business opportunities. High-profile brands include ValidClick, Second Bite, PrimaryAds, iLead Media, KowaBunga!, BabyToBee and MarketSmart.

To learn more about Think Partnership, please visit: www.thinkpartnership.com.

Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - August 2, 2007 - Web hosting provider for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), Netfirms, at the recent HostingCon 2007 event held in Chicago, hosted a major topic of discussion on clustered server (grid) hosting, at the ”The Future of Service Enablement” keynote.

The majority of the panel agreed that clustered technology is the way of the future. Philbert Shih, Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research recognized Netfirms as a leader in clustered hosting, during his HostingCon session titled ”Marketing Web Hosting Services in a Rapidly Transforming Market.”

Tophosts.com also recognized Netfirms as a leader in clustered server technology during the event. The article titled ”The Benefits of Clustered Web Hosting” showcases the Netfirms clustered hosting platform. Jason Matheson, Product Manager at Netfirms remarked, ”Clustered hosting is better on all levels. It’s faster to develop on, it’s more reliable because there’s no single point of failure and it’s going to be up 100 per cent of the time. We offer clustered hosting because it increases efficiency and reliability, two things our customers expect from us. It’s only a matter of time before other hosts realize clustered hosting is the way to go.”

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

For more information on HostingCon 2007, please visit: http://hostingcon.com/2007.

To learn more about Tophosts.com, please visit: www.tophosts.com/articles/005528.html.

For more information about Netfirms clustered server technology, please visit: www.netfirms.com/enterprise-hosting.

To learn more about Netfirms, please visit: www.netfirms.com.

Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - July 24, 2007 - Management software for unified communications and collaborative infrastructure firm, Ensim Corporation, will demonstrate the capabilities of its most recent product release, including Unify Shared Edition - version 4.0, at the ongoing HostingCon 2007, currently taking place in Chicago.

Ensim Unify Shared Edition is a single, centralized software application that simplifies the day-to-day burden of activating, configuring and managing a service provider’s Unified Communications and Collaboration infrastructure. The new version allows service providers to provision and manage Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 in a wide range of deployment scenarios, such as on HMC 3.5, HMC 4.0, and homegrown infrastructure.

HMC 4.0
Ensim Unify Shared Edition 4.0 extends Microsoft’s technology and allows service providers to centrally provision and activate subscribers with Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and existing Ensim Unify modules for popular applications such as BlackBerry and Siemens OpenScape, among others.

HMC 3.5
Service providers with an existing HMC 3.5 platform can utilize Unify to deploy Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 on their existing infrastructure without the need to upgrade to HMC 4.0.

Homegrown Hosted Exchange Deployments
Service providers currently offering hosted Exchange on a homegrown platform can install Unify 4.0 on their infrastructure and easily deploy any of the Ensim Unify modules as hosted services without incurring significant costs.

Ensim will also demonstrate its Unify Managed Service Provider Edition for MSPs supporting mid to large-sized enterprise infrastructures, on or off premise. Unify Managed provides the necessary tools to quickly and easily deploy and manage next-generation applications and devices for customers with a single extensible platform while simplifying the ongoing management of users and remote administration. Ensim Unify Shared Edition 4.0 is immediately available for use.

HostingCon is the definitive conference and tradeshow for the hosting industry. HostingCon 2007 is currently being held through July 25th, at the Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Hosting professionals around the world gather to learn more about the industry, network with their peers and vendors, and help grow businesses. HostingCon is produced by Interjuncture Corp., an Aurora, Ill.-based technology conference producer.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is a provider of management software for unified communications and collaboration infrastructure. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft. For more information, contact Ensim at 1-877-693-6746 or 1-408-496-3700 outside the United States.

To learn more about the new release, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/unify.

For more information about HostingCon, please visit: www.hostingcon.com.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Chicago, Illinois - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 24, 2007 - Microsoft Corp. will announce its comprehensive strategy for enabling hosting providers to be successful in the world of software plus services, through its presence at HostingCon 2007 this week on two panels, as well as hosting Booth 309 at the event.

The strategy includes providing the next- generation hosting platform, delivering applications ready for hosting, and driving growth through tight integration with Microsoft’s extensive partner ecosystem. At the show, Microsoft will demonstrate recent additions and updates to its core platform technologies and applications for the hosting industry that enable service providers to offer a compelling next-generation end-user experience for their customers. Microsoft will highlight new development tools and applications to hosting providers for the first time, detail the initial successes of its Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Go Live license program for Microsoft® IIS7 beta, and announce that cPanel Inc. has introduced a Windows version of its control panel. With these enhancements, hosting providers are well positioned to play an important role in the software plus services ecosystem by partnering with Microsoft.

John Zanni, Managing Director of Worldwide Hosting in the Communications Sector at Microsoft explained, ”The adoption of software plus services has presented many new possibilities for the hosting industry to evolve and grow. There is a tremendous opportunity through the emergence of the web as a business and consumer platform, but it also introduces potential challenges for hosting providers as the industry undergoes this transformation. The hosting providers that will succeed are those that understand the software plus services opportunity and recognize how to leverage their expertise to offer compelling new services to customers. Our goal at Microsoft is to provide the technology, both our own and through our vast partner network, that will enable hosting providers to continue to successfully deliver a broad range of services.”

In addition to providing technical resources, Microsoft is establishing profitability models for hosting partners that reach beyond the scope of traditional hosting, giving way to expanded business opportunities. Ranging from hosting to advertising to design and developing, among others, these models significantly expand the potential of hosting providers. Furthermore, a strong emphasis is being placed on creating relationships between hosting providers and value-added resellers (VARs), which enable them to grow their business.

The next generation of hosting will take advantage of existing infrastructure assets while adding capabilities to offer new services. Microsoft offers the core platform, applications, independent software vendor (ISV) relationships, development tools and Web assets that hosting providers need to transition into this new era.

Platform technologies have always been an important competency, particularly for hosting providers that have mastered the core requirements for security, scalability and reliability. With the upcoming launch of Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 with IIS7, Microsoft will offer significant enhancements to these capabilities over previous versions of the platform. Focused on delivering a low total cost of ownership (TCO) for its server products, Microsoft has developed key features such as integrated health management for Web services, optimized PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor application hosting on Windows, a fast and scalable configuration system, and delegated administration.

In the next-generation hosting environment, TCO will continue to be a major consideration, but hosting providers will need to offer new services cost-effectively to be competitive players in the market. With the Windows hosting platform, service providers can gain the advantage they need to be successful. As part of the IIS7 Go Live license program, hosting providers can test drive the new functionality, which will be integrated into Windows Server 2008. Microsoft has already seen a number of hosting providers sign up for the program, including Applied Innovations Corp., DiscountASP.net, HostMySite.com, MaximumASP LLC and WebFusion.

Lou Honick, CEO of HostMySite.com remarked, ”As a Microsoft Certified Partner, we were able to participate in the IIS7 beta program, which has given us the opportunity to experience firsthand the considerable improvements in its reliability and flexibility. IIS7 will benefit our business by substantially improving server performance. So far, we have received tremendous positive feedback from our beta clients, and we look forward to rolling it out for all our Windows hosting clients.”

Identifying and deploying new services is the critical next step for most hosting providers. Microsoft provides a suite of applications such as Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Exchange Server and the 40 off-the-shelf applications included within Windows SharePoint Services that can be easily converted into revenue-generating services. Microsoft also has announced several programs, including the SaaS Incubation Center Program and the SaaS On-Ramp Program, aimed at helping ISVs adopt the Software-as-a-Service delivery model with business and technical guidance from an established hosting channel, and discounted licensing.

In addition to connecting with ISVs, the next-generation model emphasizes stronger relationships between hosting providers and VARs. For hosting providers such as groupSPARK, partnering with VARs enables them to grow their business, while providing resellers with a platform to offer hosted Microsoft Exchange services through a completely private-labeled solution. Today Microsoft announced that cPanel, the leading Web hosting control panel software provider, will release its first Windows Server 2008-based product line in beta later this year. Traditionally a Linux- and FreeBSD-based supplier of hosting automation tools, cPanel is collaborating with Microsoft to provide its customers with a greater choice in platform selection with IIS7.

J. Nick Koston, CEO of cPanel added, ”Microsoft has shown a strong commitment to the hosting industry over the past several years. cPanel’s Windows development team feels that IIS7 offers a robust, high-performance Web server with increased security that the industry will quickly adopt. Microsoft Server 2008 and IIS7 with its modern architecture and support for legacy products was the natural starting point for our expanded product offering.”

Using the solutions Microsoft provides for hosters, such as Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration, service providers, including Apptix and groupSPARK, are able to reach new levels of operational efficiency by optimizing hardware and networking resources as well as features that help make administrators more productive.

The tremendous amount of content being created for the Web has opened up new opportunities for hosting providers to act as a one-stop shop for Web agencies and content producers. Microsoft will demonstrate at HostingCon its latest development tools and Web assets, including Expression® Web, Microsoft Silverlight and Virtual Earth. Microsoft is helping developers and designers create cutting-edge Web sites and applications, and is driving demand for hosting providers with strong expertise with Windows.

Microsoft recently announced Rackspace US Inc. as the winner of its Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year award for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions. The award recognizes partners that have demonstrated solution innovation and a commitment to engaging with Microsoft. Rackspace was chosen as this year’s winner because it exemplifies the key qualities Microsoft looks for in a hosting partner, such as constantly raising the bar on innovation and expanding into new markets.

As part of its continuing efforts to provide hosting providers with a full complement of industry-specific skills, Microsoft announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference this month that Hosting Solutions will become a full competency in the Microsoft Partner Program. As part of the program, Microsoft is helping to ensure that partners receive the benefits, tools, information and business opportunities that are most valuable to them.

Microsoft will shared its vision for the hosting industry through participation in the following speaking session Monday, July 23, 11:15 a.m. ”IIS 7.0 Preview: Architectural and Performance Enhancements for Hosters,” Michael Joffe, product manager for Windows-based Hosting, Microsoft; and will be featured at the following session on Wednesday, July 25, 8:30 a.m. ”Delivering Applications With Windows SharePoint Services,” with Hyder Ali, industry manager, Communications Sector, Microsoft.

HostingCon is the definitive conference and tradeshow for the hosted services industry. HostingCon 2007 is being held July 23-25, 2007 at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted services professionals around the world gather to learn more about the industry, network with their peers and vendors, and help grow their business. HostingCon is produced by Interjuncture Corp., a Crystal Lake, Illinois-based technology conference and tradeshow producer.

To learn more about HostingCon 2007, please visit: www.hostingcon.com.

Phoenix, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - July 23, 2007 - As HostingCon 2007, the largest hosting industry trade gathering, drawing hosting executives and technical experts from around the world opens, the SmarterTools and WebHost Automation companies will introduce a new partnership, featuring a complete hosting solution with flexible monthly license payments.

WebHost Automation, producers of Helm, a Windows webhosting control panel, will offer SmarterTools’ collaborative mail server, Web analytics package, and customer support ticketing system in conjunction with Helm 4. Web hosts and other businesses who could benefit from this adaptive method of acquiring mission-critical software can now utilize WebHost Automation to make their purchases.

Mark Hall, Founder and COO of WebHost Automation remarked, ”This partnership is the perfect complement to our existing business model. We feature convenient lease financing on our Helm 4 control panel and the addition of the SmarterTools product line - SmarterMail, SmarterStats, and SmarterTicket - provides us with the perfect opportunity to create a comprehensive solution at an exceptional value.”

Using lease-like monthly payments to purchase software is a significant and growing trend in the marketplace. Customers now have the ability to control the amount of software they use, giving them just-in-time-delivery of exactly what they need, exactly when they need it. Further, monthly licensing from WebHost Automation and SmarterTools reduces business risks by including unlimited version upgrades at no additional charge.

Tim Uzzanti, CEO of SmarterTools added, ”We are very excited to partner with WebHost Automation. We have great respect for Helm 4 and the entire suite of WebHost Automation products. The coming months will be a time of great innovation as customers take advantage of this unique way to purchase software that quickly adjusts to changing market demands.’

WebHost Automation Limited is based in Bristol, United Kingdom, and has developed Helm, billed as the only true multi-server control panel software for Windows. Since start-up in 2002, WebHost Automation has grown steadily and now has customers in well over 130 countries.

Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology-management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona. SmarterTools builds applications designed to simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about the Helm community, please visit: http://forums.webhostautomation.com.

For more information about SmarterTools Inc., please visit: www.smartertools.com.

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Cologne, Germany - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - July 23, 2007 - Web-based applications solutions provider, CM4all, will showcase new products at HostingCon 2007, including its New Business Edition Release of WebsiteCreator and Backup Client for OnlineDrive, including enhanced Web 2.0 capabilities and new business-focused features.

In addition, the firm’s update includes a new Backup Client for its online storage solution, the CM4all OnlineDrive.

Both products will be available to web hosting companies, MSOs, ISPs, and telcos for licensing, customization and installation soon.

According to the company, the new release of the CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition empowers any level of business user to create their own dynamic company website with enlarged Web 2.0 capabilities and some very specific new business features such as; a Business blog ideally suited for company news, press releases and marketing campaigns, a Multi-Media album for easy upload of photos, videos and music files and integrated Live Website Statistics with an open interface to popular statistic tools like Google Analytics. In addition, the design template database of professional agency-designed business templates has been significantly extended.

The new Business blog is a corporate broadcast medium where users can feed company information to their visitors. Comments and RSS feeds can be enabled or disabled. The clear layout of the Business blog allows for the smooth dissemination of information to visitors, resulting in a renewal of visitor interest to the website.

With the new Live Website Statistics feature, website owners now have full control over all user-generated content and can actively monitor visitor interactivity and website interest using popular online statistics software like Google Analytics. Easy access to visitor interactivity ensures that unwanted content can be deleted quickly, and responses can be posted in good time. In addition, because the new Business Edition is powered by unique CM4all technology, business users do not need several software applications to run multiple websites in HTML, .mobi and W3C Accessible formats. Multiple output format publishing is simply done by the push of a button, ensuring interoperability.

Other features of the new and improved CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition include enhanced search engine settings with the generation of the most up-to-date technology sitemap files, WYSIWYG editor enhancements with definition of own paragraphs through the enhanced CSS paragraph editor and setting a Favicon for the published website including a Favicon editor with import option for images.

The new Backup Client for the CM4all OnlineDrive allows customers to schedule or force backups to their CM4all OnlineDrive. This feature addition extends the levels of the user’s protection from data loss, ensures unrestricted global access to the latest files and offers flexible backup management routines by multiple profiles. The platform friendly add-on for the OnlineDrive works with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Macs and an integrated Auto-update function keep the application up to date.

Robert Schovenberg, CEO of CM4all remarked, ”By integrating new business features such as a Business blog, Live website statistics and analysis, Web 2.0 functionality and additional professionally designed business-oriented templates, we are sure that this new release of the CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition will increase our competitive edge. We are also certain that it will be a very valuable update for our existing and new customers, enabling them to generate additional revenue and increase customer retention.”

Cornel Schnietz, CTO of CM4all added, ”With the use of our unique CM4all technology based on using XML and XSLT for data and template description, we are able to meet current formats today such as HTML, .mobi and W3C Accessibility, whilst at the same time be very confident that we are well prepared for future formats and the demand to serve multiple output format websites from a single software.”

Since the launch of the CM4all WebsiteCreator Consumer Edition at last year’s HostingCon in Las Vegas, OEM customers of CM4all can target both the Business and Consumer markets simultaneously, as only one software installation, which includes both editions is required. As always, the CM4all WebsiteCreator has additional appeal for service providers seeking to retain their brand identity and benefit from resourceful and ongoing CM4all feature developments.

HostingCon is the definitive conference and tradeshow for the hosted services industry. HostingCon 2007 will be held July 23-25, 2007 at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted services professionals around the world gather to learn more about the industry, network with their peers and vendors, and help grow their business. HostingCon is produced by Interjuncture Corp., a Crystal Lake, Illinois-based technology conference and tradeshow producer.

With over 1.5 million paying customers worldwide, CM4all software is currently being distributed via leading telcos, MSOs, ISPs and web hosting companies in Europe, Canada, the USA, South America and Japan. Customers include T-Online, 1 and 1 Internet AG, Terra Networks S.A., Swisscom Fixnet AG, Verio Inc. and NTT Communications. Headquartered in Cologne, Germany, Robert Schovenberg and Cornel Schnietz founded Content Management AG (CM-AG) in 1999. CM-AG develops and distributes software and infrastructure solutions based on CM4all’s scalable software, which allows for the creation, maintenance and easy-updating of Web sites and mobile devices.

To learn more about CM4all, please visit: www.cm4all.com.

For more information about HostingCon 2007, please visit: www.hostingcon.com.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 20, 2007 - Dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, will showcase current and future hosting solutions at Booth 505, of the fast approaching premiere web hosting event, HostingCon 2007, at Chicago’s Navy Pier, to begin July 23, running through the 25th.

Conference attendees will be able to take advantage of the ”Lowest Hosting Price on The Planet” special at HostingCon, delivering a 10 percent savings for customers who switch from a hosting competitor. The Planet will be taking new server orders at Booth 505, and each attendee that drops off a business card at the booth will be entered into a drawing for an 80GB video iPod.

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing at The Planet, commented, ”We host more resellers than any other company for a reason. With our unparalleled network, data centers and solutions, the reseller community relies on The Planet to support their extensive customer base. In addition, our comprehensive reseller program provides opportunities for resellers to grow their businesses profitably and faster than any other dedicated hosting company. Our lowest hosting price offer makes it a no-brainer for companies to give The Planet a try.”

HostingCon 2007 delivers the opportunity to learn from the best and brightest in the industry, and network with peers through educational conference sessions. The annual conference also delivers a packed exhibition hall with industry-leading vendors showcasing the newest technology and solutions.

The Planet’s network is designed without single points of failure, which means the network operates with full redundancy for its core routers and distribution switches. The company also offers carrier diversity, with connections to seven Tier-1 telecommunications providers. As a result, customers never face obstacles or suffer from poor peering connections, sub-optimal routing paths, or congested or oversold networks that limit the power, speed and availability of their sites.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

• High level 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 more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 2.8 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

To learn more about HostingCon 2007, please visit: www.hostingcon.com/2007.

For more information about the presentation, please visit: www.theplanet.com/news/events.asp.

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

Vancouver, Canada - (The Hosting News) - July 19, 2007 - Provider of Internet marketing solutions for both web advertisers and publishers, eBridge Marketing Solutions, will return as a sponsor of the impending HostingCon 2007, scheduled to take place at Chicago’s historic Navy Pier, from July 23-25, 2007.

eBridge Marketing Solutions has been a supporter of the hosting industry for over 6 years. By investing in signage throughout the show, eBridge will be one of the contributing sponsors at HostingCon 2007. At the show, eBridge will also be promoting its Web 2.0 marketing services, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO) analysis, implementation and copy writing.

Hartland Ross, President of eBridge remarked, ”Sponsoring HostingCon 2007 not only enables us to promote our marketing solutions but it gives us a rare opportunity to address the entire hosting services industry. Hostingcon is an important show for anyone in the industry. The conference does a great job at putting together relevant information, seminars and showcasing top vendors as well attracting the whose who of the industry. I highly recommend anyone who is serious about taking their business to the next level to attend the 3 day event.”

Joining Hartland will be Frank Siano, a Search Marketing Strategist who has been part of the eBridge team since 2005 and heads their search marketing and strategy client programs. Mr. Siano remarked, ”I am personally looking forward to meeting new people and reconnecting with current clients as well as members of the hosting community.”

In addition, eBridge Marketing Solutions will be promoting their partnership opportunities for hosting companies. These partnership programs are designed to enable companies to diversify their portfolio of services to offer marketing solutions to their client base leveraging either the eBridge brand through its referral program or its expertise through the private labeled arrangement.

eBridge Marketing Solutions is a provider of Internet Marketing Services, whose services are designed to enable clients to effectively and efficiently meet online marketing objectives and advertising requirements. As a marketing agency that specializes in the development and administration of cost effective Internet marketing campaigns, eBridge Marketing Solutions include advertising, consulting and strategic planning, search engine optimization, website design, ecommerce development, business brokering, article and press release writing, and advertisement campaign management, among other services.

HostingCon is the definitive conference and tradeshow for the hosted services industry. HostingCon 2007 will be held July 23-25, 2007 at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted services professionals around the world gather to learn more about the industry, network with their peers and vendors, and help grow their business. HostingCon is produced by Interjuncture Corp., a Crystal Lake, Illinois-based technology conference and tradeshow producer.

To learn more about HostingCon 2007, please visit: www.hostingcon.com.

For more information about eBridge Marketing Solutions, please visit: www.ebridgemarketingsolutions.com.

Los Angeles, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - July 13, 2007 - Internet marketing and advertising agency, TechPad Agency, will return to HostingCon 2007 web hosting conference and tradeshow, as a premier media sponsor.
TechPad Agency will host Booth #200, including a ”Special Edition” giveaway, including 2 iPhones.

Ben Fisher, Executive Vice President of TechPad Agency, will host a workshop entitled, ”A Modern SEO / SEM Clinic,” at 9:00 am on Monday, July 23. The workshop is for participants interested in learning more about the fine points of PPC advertising, On and Off site SEO, Linkbaiting and reputation management in the social media space. Co-presenting with Mr. Fisher will be SEO industry luminary, Neil Patel, the Chief Technology Officer at ACS.

Derek Vaughan, Chief Marketing Officer with TechPad Agency, will present ”The Future of Web Hosting Marketing,” at 11:15 am on Monday, July 23. The presentation will discuss the transitions taking place in the web hosting and Internet landscape and include positioning strategies for web hosting companies, so that they may be prepared to take full advantage of future opportunities.

Mr. Vaughan remarked, ”We have been believers in this event since day one. What George Roberts and his team - including Frank Spaulding and Sue Church - have been able to accomplish is truly great. HostingCon is the definitive web hosting event each year - and this year’s event will undoubtedly prove to be the largest and most productive conference and exhibition to date. TechPad Agency is proud to be associated with HostingCon - from acting on the advisory board, to exhibiting and speaking - we applaud the organizers their world-class attitude. This is a must-attend conference for anyone in the web hosting business.”

The HostingCon 2007 will feature an exhibit hall with over 70 vendors displaying products and services related to the hosted services industry, offering demonstrations and activities. In addition, a networking reception in the Lakeview Terrace at Navy Pier, a Business Networking Cruise, and a rooftop barbecue, followed by a fireworks display over Navy Pier are scheduled at the hosting industry’s premiere conference event. Keynote addresses will include: Richard Rosenblatt Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Demand Media, a Keynote Panel moderated by W. David Snead, Attorney, with panelists: Serguei Beloussov CEO of SWsoft, Lou Honick, CEO, of HostMySite.com, David Koston, Operations Manager of cPanel, Sean Richards, Technical Director of Touch Support, LLC, David Wippich, Chief Executive Officer of Ensim, Chris Gladwin, President/CEO of Cleversafe, and Jinesh Varia, Web Services Evangelist of Amazon Web Services.

TechPad Agency is a full service marketing and advertising agency, specializing in the web hosting industry. The company assists web hosting businesses grow through search engine optimization, advertising placements in the TechPad Agency publishing network, and professional business consulting. TechPad Agency also operates the industry’s definitive hosting news source, www.thehostingnews.com.

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

For more information about TechPad Agency, please visit: www.techpadagency.com.

McLean, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - July 12, 2007 - Global web hosting, managed dedicated server, shared web hosting and e-commerce hosting solutions provider, SuperbHosting.Net, a subsidiary of Superb Internet Corporation, will host a $25,000 high availability solution contest giveaway, to be debuted at HostingCon 2007.

SuperbHosting.Net’s give away will include a one year geographically load-balanced hosted solution, complete with Coyote Point Equalizer Load Balancers, and dedicated servers located in both the Seattle, WA and McLean, VA data centers, valued at over $25,000.

(Curtis) R. Curtis, Sr. VP of Superb Internet explained, ”We would like to invite every attendee of Hostingcon 2007 for whom having a mission critical, completely redundant online solution is their number one priority for 2007, to stop in at the Coyote Point booth #220 to enter to win what every serious online company should have; a very high availability hosting solution. With the hosting solutions we provide using Coyote Point technologies, balancing across geographically distributed server clusters is no longer rocket science. We are able to deliver advanced hosting solutions that will ensure that your data is always online and optimized for performance.”

James Scriba, Director of System Engineering for Coyote Point added, ”In today’s online environments, very High Availability has become a business imperative for managed services. Even the smallest online content and application providers now expect carrier-grade availability, ‘five nines’ uptime, minimal latency and guaranteed delivery of content. They seek the utmost flexibility in managing traffic based on a variety of factors such as server capacity, availability, response time, current load and geographical location. As it becomes increasingly clear that throwing bandwidth at the problem is not a prudent solution, they are ready to deploy hosted solutions that take advantage of advanced traffic management, server clustering and geographic server load balancing.”

Coyote Point Systems, Inc. is the industry’s leading provider of server load balancing systems with advanced traffic management functionality. Independent tests confirm that Coyote Point’s Equalizer Series systems deliver more than twice the performance and throughput at less than half the price of other industry-leading load balancing and traffic management systems. Thousands of customers worldwide deploy Coyote Point solutions to ensure non-stop availability and top performance for their Web applications systems. Coyote Point is headquartered in San Jose, CA and works with leading channel partners in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

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 Internet Corp. has offices and 24-hour/365-day operations in Washington, DC, McLean, Virginia, Tukwila, Washington, and Vancouver, BC, serving customers in over 150 countries worldwide. Superb Internet Corp. consists of four operating divisions, each targeted to a specific market segment:

SuperbHosting.Net/Webhosting- Web hosting with free domains, free setup, blogging, unlimited traffic, 200GB web, and up to 26 sites
SuperbHosting.Net/DedicatedServers - Fully-managed dedicated servers and colocation, offering Intel P4, Conroe and Woodcrest Servers
SuperbRegistrar.net - Domain name registration and management services, starting at $9.95

To learn more about Coyote Point Systems, Inc., please visit: www.coyotepoint.com.

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