Orlando, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 3, 2008 - Owner and operator of custom website design site, bestsitedesign.net, Vistrex LLC, has launched a complete solution for businesses and individuals, developed to allow for a more affordable website design and hosting solution.

Logo, hosting, SSL shopping cart (if desired), and website design for $19.99 a month, and unlimited website design/logo changes for the duration of the monthly contract.

Deepak Bansal, Founder and President of Orlando based Vistrex LLC noted, ”This has been the missing link for a long time. There are plenty of affordable web hosts out there (many of dubious quality), but hosting is useless without a quality website and website design. People have become savvy enough that they can spot cheap template sites from a mile away, and templates can be difficult to customize to your specific needs. And you still have to spend good money to get a decent logo design, and get a programmer to setup a quality secure shopping cart for you. Now you can get it all for the price of what decent hosting would cost you alone. With one signup you are now guaranteed a quality web presence at a very affordable price. Why just get hosting alone when you get your website professionally designed and maintained as well for the same price?”

To celebrate the launch of this new product, Vistrex LLC is giving away one year free domain registration to the first 100 signups. Mr. Bansal explained, ”Our domain registration prices are very competitive, a .com registration normally costs $9.99 but if you are one of our first 100 customers we will waive registration fees for the first year. Simply signup normally and we will send you details on how to obtain your free one year registration.”

Mr. Bansal continued, ”Most custom web designers act like they’re attorneys. They have fancy offices, and they’ll bill you $50-$75 an hour or more, even if they’re just spending a few minutes responding to an email. And even after you spend an arm and a leg to get your website done, a couple of months go by and now your needs have changed. You need to update your website, but you wince thinking about the cost. So you try to make do with what you have. This is bad for your business, and no way to conduct yourself online. You have to keep your content fresh and up to date. Now you can do so without worrying. We give you peace of mind that you will be taken care of.”

Mr. Bansal added, ”Our hosting is provided by Mosso, which is a division of Rackspace, a publicly traded industry leader in hosting. They will provide our customers with 24×7x365 support via live chat or phone. They have a unique auto scaling cloud computing environment that automatically allocates more resources and bandwidth as loads rise. This allows access to virtually unlimited resources and bandwidth. Our domain registration customers also get 24×7x365 phone support. And all support is provided in the USA. Most cheap hosting will vastly oversell their resources and outsource support overseas. You won’t see that with us.”

”As far as web design we’ve taken all the overhead out of it. With volume we will keep our talented web designers/graphic artists continually working, there’s no downtime. We all work from home, again allowing for minimal overhead and happy employees. We take happy customers seriously and want every customer to be a customer for life. We believe in the quality of our work, so we offer a 100% money back guarantee. If at anytime during the first month of service if you don’t like quality of our work we’ll happily give you a refund, no questions asked. But we know that won’t happen.”

To learn more, please visit: http://www.bestsitedesign.net.

London, United Kingdom - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - February 6, 2008 - Kronik Media is currently offering an end to end e-commerce service for smaller businesses that includes niche design, e-commerce software, web-hosting, secure payment processing and search engine optimisation, beginning at 400 pounds.

Web hosting and design for e-commerce small business is in high demand, as online sales continue to command an increasing share of total sales made by businesses in UK. Kronik Media has found that while there is no shortage of web design businesses and ecommerce companies offering solutions to small businesses in the UK, quality web design and e-commerce services at an affordable price are either hard to find or too expensive and far exceed the budgeted expenditure of smaller businesses. Outsourcing web design and e-commerce development to offshore companies may seem viable and cost effective. However they often lead to long term problems as it is difficult to get support and timely response.

Internet shopping among UK consumers soared almost 50% in the 10 weeks before Christmas, a report has found. Shoppers spent 4.98bn online during the period, compared with 3.3bn for the same time a year earlier, according to e-commerce trade body IMRG. Kronik Media understands that e-commerce is more than just having shopping cart software. Kronik Media focus on forming along term relationship with small businesses offering the same level of professional and responsive service usually available only to larger, established businesses. Kronik Media’s business model allows them to offer up-market e-commerce and web design service to small businesses at an affordable price.

To learn more, please visit; http://www.kronikmedia.co.uk/small-business-ecommerce.jsp.

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San Jose, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - February 1, 2008 - MochaHost.com, wbhosting company, has launched a limited time offer which will include a free 128-bit private SSL for the Mocha ($10.96/mo) e-commerce hosting plan.

The new offer will allow e-commerce site owners to enjoy 128-bit encryption between their site visitors and their site – which is extremely important when taking credit cards online, and is a mandatory requirement by all major credit card processors. Besides being used to secure transactions, SSL encryption can be very important for any type of sensitive data transmission such as submission of contact forms, secure site authentication, and secure webmail access.

In addition, for limited time only 128-bit SSL will be offered on a discounted price of $59/year with all Business and Mocha shared hosting plans.

Recently, MochaHost unveiled the addition of its new shared hosting plans, including SVN (subversion) support, included automatically with the Business and Mocha plans. Starting at $5.96/month, this new offer will allow web developers to enjoy web- based SVN repository and friendly cPanel interface. In addition to the new SVN support, all clients will benefit from the support for Zend Optimizer, IonCube, PHP5, MySQL5, and Ruby on Rails; these are included with the rest of the features offered with all shared hosting plans.

MochaHost is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, in 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.

To learn more about the new offering, please visit:
www.mochahost.com/ssl.

For more information about MochaHost, please visit: www.mochahost.com.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 18, 2008 - Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River’s BlueHornet Networks, has added new companies to its client roster, including Mikimoto, Wilton Industries, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Johnny’s Selected Seeds and Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.

Jo Arnone, Production Director of Editorial Projects in Education, Inc., remarked, ”BlueHornet is helping us deliver highly personalized content to educators who have a wide variety of interests and needs. BlueHornet’s eMS allows us to customize our messages for subscribers based on data they volunteer, such as their job title and area of specialization. The eMS application also makes it much easier for us to create more effective follow-up campaigns based on responses to previous campaigns. We are happy to be a new BlueHornet client and look forward to a long partnership.”

Using BlueHornet’s flagship email marketing application, eMarketing Suite (eMS), these new clients can enhance the value they offer subscribers by delivering highly targeted email campaigns with content and offers that evolve to match their customers’ position in the purchasing process or lifecycle. BlueHornet’s eMS helps online marketers build stronger customer relationships and improve email response rates by increasing email relevance as recipients needs and interests change over time.

Tim Marusich, Vice President and General Manager for BlueHornet remarked, ”We are pleased that companies with well-known and respected brands across multiple industry verticals continue to select BlueHornet. With eMS, we can help marketers not only significantly reduce the complexity of sending more personalized messages throughout the duration of messaging campaigns, but also use advanced segmentation tools to ensure that email content evolves as the customer moves through the purchasing process.”

BlueHornet Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital River, Inc., is a provider of permission-based e-mail marketing solutions. BlueHornet conducts e-mail campaigns for hundreds of top brands, including Match.com, Famous Footwear, 3M, GUESS?, House of Blues Entertainment, Inc., Kyocera Wireless and Red Lobster. In addition, BlueHornet supports more than 100 resellers, many using private label versions of its e-mail marketing solution.

Founded in 1994, Digital River, Inc., focuses on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.

To learn more about Blue Hornet, please visit: www.bluehornet.com.

For more information about Digital River, please visit: www.digitalriver.com.

Overland Park, Kansas - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - January 4, 2008 - Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has debuted two new promotions, designed to provide consumers with an advantage in the competitive world of eCommerce in the new year.

Amanda Rusich, Marketing Manager at Aplus.Net noted, ”We’re excited at the opportunity to bring our customers even more value for our award-winning services in the new year. We’ve got some exciting new changes in store for 2008. This is just the beginning.”

Aplus.Net’s concern with the growing fraud and security risks throughout today’s Internet landscape, is the motivation behind the company’s incentive to bolster customer dedicated servers with secure firewall services. Under this promotion, Aplus.Net pays the set-up fee (a value of $99) when customers choose to add a firewall service to their dedicated hosting plan.

The second promotion is designed to help promote the visibility and effectiveness of customers’ websites by providing a free month of eTraffic ($24.99 value) when they add that service to their custom web design package. With its eTraffic service, Aplus.Net guarantees at least 120 qualified visitors to a customer’s site per year and an estimated 6,000 impressions for their advertisements.

In addition to these new sales, the company’s previous shared hosting promotion (up to a 30% discount on annual sign-ups) is being extended into the first weeks of 2008. Aplus.Net has also recently announced that its newly introduced gift card promotions are being offered indefinitely. Certain restrictions and rules on applicability apply to all of Aplus.Net’s promotions.

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.

Herndon, Virginia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - December 5, 2007 - Web hosting provider and domain name registration services firm, Network Solutions, has enhanced its E-Commerce web site software packages with the release of v7.1, which includes added features designed to simplify the process of e-commerce web site creation.

Nearly 10,000 online stores are powered by Network Solutions e-commerce products, and the release of v7.1 builds upon previous versions of the software to deliver a robust e-commerce solution providing the tools that growing businesses need to do business online.

Jeff Zimmerman, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management with Network Solutions remarked, ”The release of E-Commerce v 7.1 provides many of the tools that growing businesses need to streamline their online sales operations. The new features that we have launched in v7.1 are all designed to help make the process of operating an online business as easy as possible for our customers.”

E-Commerce v 7.1 offers users the ability to create an E-Commerce web site with unmatched flexibility, customization and functionality. New features include seamless integration with QuickBooks Point of Sale; the ability to set tiered product price levels; the ability to set up drop shipping from pre-determined suppliers; the addition of personalization questions and checkout questions; and bulk data import/export enhancements, among other features.

Network Solutions E-Commerce web site creator packages have always offered a completely customizable storefront design. Professional design themes can be modified with a simple, WYSIWIG design editor and click-and-drag layout tool, or pages can be customized with standard HTML editing tools such as DreamWeaver or FrontPage. Network Solutions E-Commerce solution also includes a built in sitemap that makes it easy for search engines to crawl the store, while all content pages include customizable title tags and meta tags so clients can enter appropriate keyword phrases for search engine spiders to index. Completely customizable product and category page URL’s are created from names rather than mysterious characters and ID codes that most shopping carts use, making it easier for search engines to crawl your site.

Network Solutions E-Commerce Web site products have never charged users transaction fees. In addition, Network Solutions is the first–and one of very few–e-commerce solution providers to comply with the Visa USA Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) to meet the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. Network Solutions backs up their E-Commerce Web site packages with free, 24×7, award winning telephone and email customer support.

Network Solutions provides of web based solutions and domain name registration services, including web hosting, web site development, online marketing, security services and e-mail services. Network Solutions draws on 26 years of experience to offer tailored solutions.

For more information about Network Solutions, please visit: www.networksolutions.com.

Lancashire, United Kingdom - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - December 3, 2007 - Subsidiary of broadband ISP, Supanet.com, Supanet Hosting, has unveiled, along with its partner, Pulse Web Hosting, is offering a fully configured, e-commerce website, with selected hosting packages, at no charge.

Anyone who signs up to Pulse Web Hosting’s Power or Power Plus packages will be provided with a fully-configured e-commerce website for free. Sam Benson, Product Marketing Manager for Pulse web Hosting, offered, ”Working with Supanet we are providing a fantastic e-commerce website. We will take care of the installation and configuration making it ideal for everyone from the small businessperson to the novice looking to earn some extra money.”

The hosting provider is promising to offer comprehensive technical support for every query via telephone, email and online forums. Mr. Benson added, ”A lot of e-commerce programs can be difficult to set up or can confuse users, we aim to take a lot of the hassle out of running a site of this nature. Our experts will be available via telephone, email or the forums on our website.”

The e-commerce site provided by Pulse uses the world’s leading e-commerce open source software, Zen Cart. As part of the offer customers will also receive a free blog platform with Pulse once again handling the entire configuration and setup.

Mr. Benson added, ”Blogging has become one of the most popular activities on the net with everyone from Posh Spice to politicians doing it. When people sign up to our Power or Power Plus packages we will make it as easy as possible for them to join in with this internet phenomenon.”

Pulse Web Hosting was launched on November 22, 2007, replacing Supanet Hosting, and has promised to provide the best quality service for the lowest price. As well as web hosting Pulse also offers dedicated servers, domains, email and corporate services. All of the company’s web hosting packages include a free web builder that Pulse guarantee will make building a website easy for even the most novice of users.

Pulse’s mission statement is to offer the highest-quality web hosting services for the best possible price and to make it as simple and as easy for everyone from the novice user to the biggest business. Pulse web hosting has one of the best-connected hosting facilities in the world, and has invested a great deal in both network equipment and backbone connections so customers get the fastest access possible to their content. This efficient infrastructure means that Pulse can offer its customers a great-value, high-quality service.

Supanet has provided Internet access and a range of other services to UK customers since 1998. The Supanet portal offers free, quality content, with services including free webmail, SMS services and comprehensive online help. Commercial partnerships with, among others, Ask, MIVA, MoneySupermarket and uSwitch provide valued services for visitors to the site.

To learn more about Pulse Web Hosting, please visit: www.pulsewebhosting.com.

For more information about Supanet, please visit: www.supanethosting.com.

Minneapolis, Minnesota - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 24, 2007 - Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River, has inked an agreement, with Japanese productivity software for visualizing and using information firm, Mindjet Corporation, to launch and manage the company’s e-commerce interests.

As part of the agreement, Digital River recently built and launched a localized Japanese online store, located at www.mindjet.com/jp. For the Mindjet site, Digital River is hosting the e-commerce operations, managing the online sales, and delivering the digital and physical software applications.

Jon Wong, Vice President of e-commerce and distribution for Mindjet explained, ”We have doubled our Japanese e-commerce business since engaging with Digital River. Local product fulfillment for online store orders, along with the acceptance of local credit card transactions and payment methods like Konbini, were among the essential services we looked for in an e-commerce provider. Digital River is able to provide all of these to help us successfully sell through the online channel into Japan.”

Customers visiting the Mindjet online store can enjoy a completely localized shopping experience, including native Japanese language descriptions and Yen pricing. Transactions can be made in preferred payment methods - including Konbini and local credit cards. Businesses and consumers can purchase Japanese versions of Mindjet’s flagship products MindManager Pro 7 or Lite 7 for Windows-based computers or MindManager 7 Macfor Mac-based computers. In addition to powering the online store, Digital River is providing fraud prevention screening and customer service support in Japanese.

Don Peterson, Senior Vice President of global client development at Digital River added, ”With the growing acceptance of online purchasing across worldwide geographies, it is important that we continue to expand our capabilities on a global basis to help online merchants maintain a competitive edge when selling into their key markets. With regional offices and in-house experts on three continents, local payment methods, product fulfillment options on multiple continents and other important localization capabilities, Digital River has one of the most extensive global footprints in the e-commerce marketplace. The Mindjet Japanese-language online store is a perfect example of how our clients can leverage our extensive localization capabilities to cater to the specific needs and preferences of a global market.”

Mindjet makes software that helps people visualize and use information. Its leading product, MindManager software, enables individuals and teams to work smarter, think creatively, and save time every day. There are over 920,000 licenses of MindManager software used globally by 85 of the Fortune 100 companies and more than 50 percent of the Global 2000. Mindjet is headquartered in San Francisco with offices throughout the world, including Tokyo, and is backed by the leading international venture capital firms, Investor Growth Capital, Inc. and 3i.

Founded in 1994, Digital River, Inc., focuses on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.

To learn more about Digital River, please visit: www.digitalriver.com.

Toronto, Canada - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 4, 2007 - Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, has reported that online stores are gaining popularity, as over 20,000 small businesses indicate revenue increases through hosting at the e-commerce services based company.

Selling products through online stores is becoming more and more popular among small businesses in the United States. Internet technology has advanced since the beginning of the dot-com era, making online stores much easier to setup and manage, more reliable and affordable. This explains why 53% of small businesses in the United States sell their products or services through their own online stores and have seen a 4.3% increase in online sales revenue between 2001 and 2006.

E-commerce web hosts aim to make it easy for small business owners of any skill level to startup and manage their own online stores. Over 20,000 online stores are powered by Netfirms Commerce Pro, a complete e-commerce solution that gives customers the ability to setup their online stores with total control of product catalogues, shipping rates, and methods of payment (PayPal, Credit Card, Authorize.Net). CommercePro also gives small businesses added features including marketing tools, secure transactions, and customizable sales reports to help maximize their online sales revenue.

According to information released by the company, Jeannine Ranni, Owner of Embellished Bean, has been selling gourmet coffee and tea online from her home in New York since 2005. Her secure, reliable online store keeps her customers coming back. Using CommercePro has also helped Ranni reduce her costs by a couple thousand dollars each year because she can make changes to her store without the help of a web designer. Many small businesses owners like Ranni are keeping their costs to a minimum by choosing Netfirms CommercePro for their online stores. CommercePro is included in Netfirms Advantage and Business Web Hosting plans starting at $9.95 per month.

Online stores powered by CommercePro have secure and reliable features that make it easy for shoppers to purchase the products they desire without a glitch. Searching for products is easy, the shopping cart has smooth navigation, and shoppers have the opportunity to read or post reviews of their favorite products and access their order status and purchase history. I Buy Direct, an online store specializing in business hardware, electronics, and IT services, has been hosted at Netfirms since February 2007. Lawrence Wong, Owner of I Buy Direct, finds that selling his products through his own online store has helped him keep his costs down and increase his sales. He plans on starting up a couple more online stores at Netfirms in the near future.

Philbert Shih, Analyst at Tier 1 Research stated, ”The e-commerce hosting solutions available to small businesses are becoming easier to use, more secure, and affordable - one of many reasons why businesses are choosing to sell products through their own online stores.”

Although many small businesses are already selling their products online, it will become a must-have capability for in the next two years. As online selling becomes more of a necessity, it is also becoming more profitable as 97% of small businesses expect their revenue from online sales to stay the same or increases over the next one to two years. E-commerce web hosts help small businesses with small budgets generate revenue from their own online stores with reliable solutions that are easy to setup and manage.

Earlier this month, Netfirms was named to the PROFIT 100 List, for its second straight year, recognized as one of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies. Citing a growth rate of over 800% in the past five years, Netfirms placed 71 in the 19th annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. The PROFIT 100 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies and is Canada’s largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.

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.

Last month, to celebrate web hosting domain name provider for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), Netfirms’ debut of its Web Design service, the company planned to give away five free website makeovers, to website owners.
Developed as a cost-effective professional website design service, including small businesses success tools, businesses may choose from three packages ranging in price from $399 to $1199. The Starter package includes six pages; Standard package, fifteen pages; and Ecommerce package, a fully functional e-store. All packages include a professionally designed website, free hosting, a domain name (website address), and optional maintenance. Also included is one on one consultation with a professional web designer throughout the design process. Websites are powered by an intuitive web-based content management system that allows business owners to easily make updates, and are typically built within five business days.

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.

To learn more about Netfirms Commerce Pro, please visit: www.netfirms.com/ecommerce-about.

For more information about Netfirms, please visit: www.netfirms.ca.

Berlin, Germany - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 27, 2007 - Web hosting company, STRATO, has launched its Web Shop in the UK, following success in the German market. Over the past four years, STRATO has set up over 20,000 Web Shops in Germany and is looking to expand in the UK.

SMEs desiring to expand with an online presence or specialise online and budding internet entrepreneurs with an idea they believe will sell online, can set up a secure STRATO Web Shop. The STRATO Web Shop set-up was designed to be easy and can be achieved quickly with professional design templates, customisation tools and a Wizard assistant to guide users through the installation steps. It is done on the web browser so no CD is required and the Web Shop is secure and backed up by STRATO servers at the datacentres.

Once up and running, efficient online inventory management with automatic current stock and minimum quantity reminders, UPS shipping and payment systems including Paypal, HSBC and Worldpay make shipping, tracking and payment easy for both shop owners and customers. With STRATO, even the smallest shop has a credit card payment facility included and all customer data is stored securely.

Additional marketing features to increase the shop’s competitiveness and visibility are advertising via kelkoo, manual or automatic cross-selling capability with recommendations, tips and shopping lists, newsletters, gift certificates, a tell-a-friend tool and an award winning eBay interface, whereby shop owners can quickly transfer sales items from shop to eBay. Up to eight languages and pound and euro options allow success in both the domestic market and abroad.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO offered, ”Online shopping is a lucrative business. The British spend more money online per-capita sales than any other European country and European e-commerce turnover is expected to double within the next five years. Such positive trends in online spending signalled an ideal time for a UK launch of the STRATO Web Shop and our user-friendly product offers instantly recognisable features and tools, making the experience straightforward for both shop owners and customers.”

Recognised for exceptional innovation and high performance, STRATO Web Shops received the German eco Award from Web Host Directory and are TUV certified. Shop owners can further increase security and install trust in customers with a professional thawte SSL certificate from VeriSign. STRATO Web Shops come in three variations, each with different feature packages.

STRATO also includes several MySQL 4 databases, back-up and free professional customer support. An extensive selection of interactive elements provides homepage dynamics. With the CGI 2005, users can incorporate modules like newsletters, guest books and a visitor counter into pages. The programming scripts, PHP 5 and Perl, are also available to those users who choose to program web applications or implement finished scripts from online collections. Unique security performance is also included with the STRATO package. All customer website data is automatically saved with STRATO BackupControl. In case of an emergency, users can access up to ten backup copies that are respectively hours, days and weeks old. Data transmission may also be encoded with SSL, ensuring that sensitive entries in web forms are sent over the web with effective protection.

In addition to complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce, and has one hundred per cent subsidiary of freenet.de, a listed Internet and telecommunications company with over ten million customers. STRATO offers products including a .eu domain, at no extra charge and for a low monthly flat rate. Five individual domains are offered that can be either in .eu or .co.uk format. STRATO was recognized as Germany’s top web host provider by the eco Association of the German Internet industry. STRATO is based in Berlin and currently has two million domains and one million customer contracts. STRATO operations currently exist across Europe, including Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands. STRATO was the first major European web host to receive the internationally coveted German Technical Control Board seal ”BS7799” which is now ISO 27001:2005. The British standard certification was awarded by the independent German testing organisation TUV SUD, for the reliability of its computing centres, security and data availability. Partners of STRATO include Sun Microsystems, Cisco, AMD, Adobe and Microsoft.

To learn more, please visit: www.strato-hosting.co.uk.

Minneapolis, Minnesota - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 13, 2007 - Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River, Inc., has been chosen to provide global e-commerce services for Quark Inc., by managing the online sale and delivery of Quark’s desktop publishing, multimedia, pre-press, and graphic and web design software applications.

Digital River built and is hosting the online U.S. and international Quark stores. Don Peterson, Senior Vice President of Global Client Development at Digital River noted, ”We are pleased to add an industry leader such as Quark to our client base, a growing group of companies looking to us to help them achieve maximum success in the online sales channel. We specialize in helping our clients expand their online presence, expertly merchandise their sites and use statistical analysis to optimize their online stores and revenue, all while providing a seamless, stable online shopping experience.”

Digital River is powering each of Quark’s global online software stores. The U.S. Quark store displays in English and Spanish while the European Quark stores display in international English, French, Italian, German and Spanish languages. For the sites, Digital River is managing order transactions using multiple preferred payment methods, including credit cards, wire transfers and checks, as well as providing fraud screening and customer service support. The sites also use Digital River’s e-commerce technology and services to offer complementary products through automated cross-sells, electronic download insurance and optional back-up CDs of Quark software applications.

Adriaan Roosen, Senior Vice President of Operations at Quark added, ”We selected Digital River as our e-commerce partner as part of our efforts to make it easier to buy our products and services online. Digital River’s comprehensive e-commerce tools provide a much improved buying experience, and quick turn around of promotions and special offers. Digital River’s global reach allows us to very rapidly expand our e-stores internationally, with stores already live in seven countries and five more geographies underway, including Japan and Scandinavia.”

Quark Inc. is a software company providing design, production, and collaboration solutions for creative business communications. Quark has provided award-winning software for professional publishers since its flagship product, QuarkXPress, changed the course of traditional publishing. Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.

Founded in 1994, Digital River, Inc., focuses on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.

For more information about
Quark Inc., please visit: www.quark.com.

To learn more about Digital River, please visit: www.digitalriver.com.

Pasadena, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 5, 2007 - Advanced ASP.NET hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has entered into a partnership with ASP.NET 2.0 storefront solution for developers and system integrators, Znode.com.

Takeshi Eto, Vice President of Marketing, DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”One of our goals is to provide our hosting customers with value-added deals, especially for robust ASP.NET ecommerce solutions. The Znode Storefront is a solid customizable ASP.NET shopping cart solution for developers.”

Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a 20 percent discount on Znode Storefront application. Znode.com users can get six months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan.

Vish Vishwanathan, CEO of Znode remarked, ”We wanted to partner with a reputable ASP.NET web hosting company. After thoroughly testing out their ASP.NET web hosting platform and Control Panel tools, it became clear that DiscountAsp.NET provides a quality service that complements Znode Storefront perfectly.”

Znode Storefront is an ASP.NET 2.0 storefront solution, designed for developers and system integrators. The framework allows developers to build custom tailored, user friendly e-commerce websites for their clients with all the functionality they need to successfully sell online. Znode Storefront supports 80 major payment gateways and integrated directly with UPS for real-time shipping rates.

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