Pearl River, New York - (The Hosting News) - May 14, 2008 - Two new dedicated Windows VPS plans, each with two terabytes of bandwidth, have been added to Easy CGI’s services.

As a Microsoft partner, Easy CGI is increasing their number of dedicated server plans to five. Their range of plans is now capable of satisfying almost any dedicated hosting need - from those of small businesses, to those of large corporations.

The two new plans, Dedicated X10 and Dedicated X20, offer 100 and 200 gigabytes of disk space, respectively, two and four gigabytes of RAM, and two terabytes of bandwidth per month.

Dan Richfield, President of Easy CGI noted, ”Customers clearly want more server capability such as more disk storage and memory. We’ve always prided ourselves on being flexible about delivering what our customers want.”

Significantly, all of Easy CGI’s dedicated VPS plans guarantee a limited number of virtual servers for each hardware node, something few other hosting services do. By limiting the number of virtualization clients, each client is assured of a greater share of processor time, RAM, and disk space.

Dedicated virtual private servers (VPS) are midway between shared web hosting services and dedicated hosting services. They create multiple, independent virtual servers, each with its own operating system and other software, on a single, partitioned physical server. VPS customers enjoy the benefits of private hosting, but a less cost than having their own dedicated server.

Mr. Richfield continued, ”These range of plans suits almost any company of any size that needs an economical alternative to dedicated hosting. Our plans offer a variety of options, coupled with cutting edge technology.”

Recently, EasyCGI has released its Window Server 2008, making it available to all hosting customers, to allow for flexibility, better performance and greater security, with hosting features designed to save programming time and ehance profitability.

Windows Server 2008 hosting features IIS 7 (Internet Information Services 7) which builds upon the previous IIS 6 release to provide enhanced security and performance for web hosters. With the new server platform, Easy CGI’s hosting customers now have the flexibility to set up their hosting plans on Windows 2008, or continue with Windows 2003.

Microsoft has reported that IIS 7 is the most ambitious Microsoft Web server it has yet offered, having such features as FastCGI, which runs powerful PHP applications at high performance levels, and feature delegation, which lets users modify many website settings quickly through the web.config file. By offering more and better controls to developers, Windows Server 2008 enables them to develop applications locally, and then transfer them to the live server, without having to make updates to the server site.

Easy CGI has opted to provide Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7 for several reasons:

• Security - IIS 7 builds on the security features of IIS6 to offer the most secure web services ever offered by Microsoft.
• High-performance, reliable PHP hosting on the IIS web server using FastCGI.
• Cost-effective modular architecture - IIS 7.0 is already established in more than 40 feature modules that can be independently, quickly, and inexpensively installed.
• Improved functionality with IIS 7 Extensibility - The IIS7 core web server features use a new set of public web server APIs that all developers can use to extend, replace or add functionality to their web servers.
• Unified Configuration - Distributed configuration files can now be stored along with Web site or application content.
• LINQ - The LINQ (Language Integrated Query) Project is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that include language-integrated query, set, and transform operations.

Easy CGI has been in the web hosting industry since 1994, offering technology, with cost effective, efficient solutions and customer service.

For more information about Easy CGI’s VPS Windows 2008 offering, please visit: www.easycgi.com/services/dedicated+hosting+overview.html.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - April 22, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has released a new technical brief, containing comparisons of the business benefits and advantages of dedicated hosting and colocation services delivered to small- and medium-sized companies.

As the organizations grow increasingly dependent on their IT infrastructure and require an always-up-and-running Web presence, the decision to host or collocate becomes even more critical.

”
Dedicated Servers or Colocation: Which Is Best for Your Hosted IT?”– weighs the capital expense of colocation versus subscribing to on-demand dedicated hosting. It also evaluates the costs associated with a typical colocation scenario, which include setting up, configuring, maintaining and updating servers, as well the staffing and travel costs incurred by IT experts who are required to travel to the colocation site for repairs in the event of a hardware or software failure. In contrast, dedicated hosting from The Planet provides a scalable IT infrastructure with 24/7/365 support, rapid server deployment, customized server applications and an uptime guarantee.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management at The Planet noted, ”By offering an affordable dedicated hosting solution with a wide scope of products and services, The Planet puts SMBs on a level playing field with their larger, better-funded competitors. By hosting with The Planet, businesses can gain access to high-powered information technology, backed by our world-class data centers and high-performance, fully redundant network. This new white paper demonstrates the value we provide customers with around-the-clock support and an infrastructure that is both reliable and scalable.”

According to the report, colocation represents a less-than-optimal solution for SMB customers, considering the prohibitive cost of hardware ownership and in-house staffing, coupled with the limited response time to correct problems. Choosing a dedicated hosting solution from a provider like The Planet offers cost savings and increased performance. The paper also asserts:

• A fully scalable IT infrastructure allows businesses to grow as quickly as necessary, without investing in more hardware than needed.
• Dedicated hosting allows businesses to outsource the management burden associated with day-to-day hardware and facilities maintenance costs.
• Businesses gain a competitive advantage by leveraging the latest server technology and software solutions offered by dedicated hosting providers.

To download the complete white paper, please visit: www.theplanet.com/forms/register_wp.asp?type=TB_WP.

Recently, The Planet received the Landmark 08 award for ”Best Corporate Headquarters Relocation,” for opening its Bayou Place headquarters in December 2007. Consolidating its offices in downtown Houston from two locations in north Houston, the Planet was nominated for the award by its real estate brokers, Jackson and Cooksey Ltd.

Sponsored by the Houston Business Journal, The Planet earned first prize in the category against competition from far larger projects and companies. Nominee finalists included Bechtel Equipment’s regional headquarters and the Reed Hycalog world headquarters and technology center.

A broad range of companies partnered with The Planet to create its new headquarters location. Following is a partial list:

Developer: The Cordish Company, represented by Taylor Gray
Real Estate Brokers: Jackson and Cooksey Ltd. brokers included Senior Vice Presidents Andy Iversen and John Beach, and Senior Associate Anthony Squillante
Architect: Kendall/Heaton Associates’ Jory Alexander led the design and architectural team
Contractor: D.E. Harvey Builders, represented by Rusty Gorman, Eric Lowe, Charles Gates and Javier Escalona

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

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - April 15, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, was chosen to be the hosting service for MMO Guildsites, a web site design and hosting company based in Toronto.

MMO Guildsites assists the massive multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) guilds, to create feature-rich sites for its membership.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer for SoftLayer noted, ”We’re excited to be MMO Guildsites’ solution of choice. They have an exceptional offering. And we’re proud of our role in the online gaming industry. We are an established leader in the segment, with a strong and growing customer base. Clearly, our level of performance and connectivity, as well as our interconnected facilities from coast to coast, have made us an ideal resource for the industry.”

Founded in 2006, MMO Guildsites differentiates itself from competitors with premium site-building features, including: • an easy-to-use site design tool with an advanced AJAX interface • a visual theming tool with a library of 80 professionally designed themes • innovative add-ins that integrate game activity into the guild sites The company has grown to host more than 700 sites for guilds based around the world, representing major game titles including World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, and EverQuest.

As the company grew, MMO Guildsites struggled with finding a provider that offered the winning combination of network reliability, hardware and services to ensure positive experiences for itself - and its expanding customer base. MMO Guildsites turned to SoftLayer for the level of performance and stability necessary to accommodate its growing technology needs. They chose SoftLayer’s quad processor multi-core platform and use secure, out-of-band management through VPN for full control of their environment, enabled by SoftLayer’s industry-leading network topology. Additionally, SoftLayer’s proprietary customer portal lets the company easily track its customers’ traffic and usage.

Mr. Kardis added, ”SoftLayer’s commitment to innovation and service allows our customers to constantly evolve. We are pleased to be part of MMO Guildsites’ continuing success.”

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry’s first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

To learn more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Overland Park, Kansas - (The Hosting News) - February 4, 2008 - Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, is offering significant price reductions on its line of dedicated servers, with a new structure for set-up fees on all dedicated hosting plans.

Clarke Caines, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales noted, ”We’re excited to be able to pass on a whole new level of savings to dedicated server consumers. This price drop represents a savings of hundreds of dollars on some models. For example, the start-up fee for our Premium Server is now about $240 less than it was before. On our Premium XR model, the savings is more than $350.”

Every dedicated server — from the economically priced models to the fully optimized high-end servers — will feature the same $24.99 set-up charge. According to company officials, the difference amounts to a savings of hundreds of dollars in start-up costs for the company’s most optimized models, particularly the Premium and Premium XR Servers.

Mr. Caines remarked, ”Even for our more intermediately priced servers, the savings is in the double and triple digits. We’re confident that this move will help to draw the attention of customers who may not yet be familiar with Aplus.Net products and the incredible value and quality they offer.”

The change in set-up fees is reportedly the first in a series of dramatic overhauls to the company’s line of dedicated server prices and hardware, with company representatives stating that more announcements would follow in the coming weeks.

Aplus.Net has provided web services since the Internet’s commercial start in 1995. Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers award-winning services that include web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, domain name registration, and much more. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors’ Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and PC Magazine.

For more information about Aplus,Net, please visit: www.aplus.net.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 29, 2008 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, 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.

Brent Oxley, President of HostGator noted, ”The gift to Anderson reflected a mix of the wishes of the staff here at HostGator and suggestions from our users. It’s pretty hard to find anybody whose life hasn’t been touched in some way — directly or indirectly — by cancer. We gave to them, partly because we’re located in Houston and some of our employees have had family members treated there, but mostly we gave because of their amazing country-wide reputation for treating patients and researching cancer cures.”

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.

Mr. Oxley added, ”As a company, we expect to go on making charitable donations, and letting our people decide each year where our gifts should go. We want the benefits of our success to go beyond our own narrow interests, so that’s why we’ll keep on doing it. Some other companies may donate for ‘political’ reasons, not because they really want to help — but that’s still good. Whatever the motives and whatever the amounts given, it all helps. The more corporate giving there is, the better.”

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 has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 15,000 businesses become web hosting companies, currently hosting over 700,000 domains. 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. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

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

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 16, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has premiered discounts on select servers, with its Super Server Sale, as a pricing promotion on servers from its extensive server product line.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management with The Planet noted, ”To keep pace with the changing needs of our customers, we’re offering temporary special pricing on two of our most popular servers. For customers looking for a solid price/performance equation, these servers clearly meet that requirement.”

Currently, and through Jan. 28, 2008, the Celeron 2.4 is available at $92 per month, a cost savings of 16%. In addition, the company now offers the Dual Xeon 2.4 priced at $143 per month, a savings of 32%. The offer is good while limited 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 3.1 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by enhanced facilities and network connectivity.

To learn more about the sale, please visit: www.theplanet.com/super-server-sale.

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San Jose, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 4, 2008 - VPS and dedicated server web host, BODHost.com, has been rendering services for 8 years, and will no longer provide shared and reseller hosting services.

The decision comes as the firm recognizes its specialized services for customized VPS hosting solutions with the latest technologies and VPS management softwares.

Virtuozzo Power Panel is an imminent feature of all our VPS plans. Wide range of VPS and Dedicated Servers with variant configurations. Minimal setup times for VPS and Dedicated servers enable a firm to be up and running quickly, as the firm delivers dedicated servers installed with control panel of choice in 3 hour.

VPS deliveries are completed in 30 minutes. Having two redundant Tier III network connections allows BODHost to switch networks in case of downtimes or outages almost instantly without downtimes. Automated Latest PHP / MYSQL Versions, FrontPage Extensions, Webalizer, SSI, CGI-BIN, Perl, JDK and other software Updates can be installed as per your request on your VPS and provided to you as per your requirement. The firm also allows rebooting of customer’s own VPS with Instant reboot capability (through Virtuozzo Power Panel).

BODHost.com is a managed dedicated servers solutions specialist, providing top-class dedicated servers at cheap prices. Dedicated server hosting is the preferred choice when more output than conventional servers can offer is needed. Servers will always have a minimum uptime of 99.96%, due to quick responses from server and network administrators. State-of-the-art technologies and the ultra-modern support systems are highly responsive, following a set pattern of algorithm which is complimentary along with low cost best dedicated hosting servers. The 24/7 dedicated technical support team is always available to maintain the quality standards. Dual Core Configurations to Quad Core Configurations all have been setup on Branded Dell Hardware Chassis.

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