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.

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Aliso Viejo, California - (The Hosting News) - January 30, 2008 - Utility and grid computing solutions firm, 3Tera, Inc., presented a discussion on the Impact of Utility Computing on new the Web 2.0, at the Technosium 2008 Global Conference and Expo, with Senior VP Product Management, Bert Armijo.

The 2008 Technosium Global Conference and Expo, which took place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, is an international Information Technology and Wireless and Mobile Broadband Telecommunications conference and expo for technology professionals from all around the world. The speaking session was entitled, ”Utility computing - Tapping a new resource to power your Web applications.”

The speaking session examined the fact that while the biggest value in new Web 2.0 applications is functionality, deploying and operating applications on fixed infrastructure is becoming prohibitively expensive. Power costs are skyrocketing, servers depreciate before they’re plugged in, and skilled operators are in short supply. The presentation discussed and demonstrated a new architectural model for running and scaling Web 2.0 applications without breaking the bank - utility computing.

An annual Mega-Event in Silicon Valley, Technosium’s goal is to bring IT companies and end-users closer, face-to-face and open all the possibilities to discuss products, solutions, the latest technologies and business opportunities. With more than 150 vendors participating at Technosium 2008, this educational and networking event is for the corporate market, public sector, technology professionals and the venture capital community.
Bert Armijo, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product Management, 3Tera, Inc.

Bert Armijo is Co-founder and VP of Product Management at 3Tera, Inc., a provider of grid computing and utility computing. A veteran of multiple startups, Mr. Armijo co-founded Topspin Communications, a pioneer in fabric computing, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005. Mr. Armijo was a co-founder of a Gigabit Ethernet startup Rapid City Communications, where he launched the first Gigabit Ethernet routing switch in 1997. Later the company was acquired by Bay Networks, which was acquired by Nortel. At Nortel’s High Performance Switching Division, Armijo was responsible for launching the Passport 8600 Enterprise LAN switch. Mr. Armijo has an MBA from Saint Mary’s College. His blog is at www.3tera.com/hotcluster.html.

3Tera, Inc. is a grid and utility computing firm for the deployment and scaling of web applications. Named a 2007 Category Breaker by NetworkWorld magazine, 3Tera’s AppLogic grid operating system enables the first true utility computing services that completely remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. The operating system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually operate deploy and scale transactional web applications without any modification of code. Software-as-a-Service providers, Web 2.0 companies, enterprises and open source developers may obtain new online services, to market by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning using only a browser.

For more information about 3Tera, please visit: www.3tera.com.

Orlando, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - December 10, 2007 - Shared, reseller, dedicated and virtual private server hosting solutions firm, Surpass Hosting, is offering its Holiday Magic promotion, including the company’s Power hosting plan for $12 for the first year, or $1 per month.

The Power Plan, which includes 200GB of disk space and 2000GB of monthly data transfer, is regularly offered at $6/monthly or $60/yearly. The plan includes support for both PHP 4 and PHP 5, and is hosted on dual-core AMD-powered servers, managed with cPanel/WHM.

Kayla Fleming, Vice President of Sales, Surpass Hosting noted, ”As a company, we strive to offer fun and novel incentives to reward our existing customers and attract prospective customers. It is important that we never lose sight of the individuals who comprise the very core of our business, especially at this time of year.”

There are no sign up restrictions on the promotion, and both existing and prospective customers are eligible to take advantage of the offer, which is valid through the end of December. After the first year of the plan, customers can renew at regular plan prices.

Known for its strong and vibrant 20,000 user community, Surpass Hosting is a leading provider of Shared, Reseller, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting solutions. It offers world class customer support, open and frequent customer communication, as well as highly competitive hosting plan specifications. Surpass Hosting utilizes Level3 and Time Warner to provide network connectivity.

To learn more about the Holiday Magic promotion, please visit: www.surpasshosting.com/content/holiday2007/.
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire - (The Hosting News) - December 3, 2007 - Website hosting, design and development firm, Port City Web, has assigned a new sales and marketing manager, with plans to expand corporate offices for business growth, as the company prepares to sign a new Class-A office space lease.

While relocating its corporate headquarters, Port City Web welcomes Andrew Ghezzi as the new Sales and Marketing Manager. Andrew Ghezzi will be responsible for re-building the sales and marketing teams and departments within Port City Web, as well as handling new sales opportunities. Prior to joining Port City Web, Andrew was the founder of the actions sports retailer, Powerline Sports. Over the course of four years, Andrew was instrumental in expanding its retail operations into three locations as well as positioning Powerline Sports as a top ranked ecommerce destination for kiteboarding related gear on the web. The business was sold in 2007 to a group of private investors.

Prior to Powerline Sports, Mr. Ghezzi worked in various sales and account management roles at E*Trade Financial in Boston, MA and Computershare in Jersey City, NJ. Andrew holds a Master’s Degree in Risk Management from Georgia State University as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Binghamton University.

Erik Crago, President and CEO of Port City Web remarked, ”I’m thrilled to have Andrew join us and look forward to a new chapter in our history at Port City Web. His background in ecommerce, along with his experience in sales and account management, coupled with his years in New York City and Boston, helps Andrew stand out from his competition. His level of professionalism and understanding of ecommerce will help our customers immensely, and will help Port City Web bring on new levels of customers,” noted Crago. We have seen explosive growth in web services in 2007 and expect it to continue into 2008.”

Additionally, Port City Web is close to signing a new lease for just over 2,000 square feet of Class-A office space in the Pease area of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Mr. Crago continued, ”We have experienced another year of double digit growth and have run out of space in our current 4,000 square foot facility. The new facility will have expanded conference rooms, more space for developers, designers and other professional staff, and the building is in the heart of Pease, the new business district in Portsmouth.”

The company expects to relocate the web services, executive, sales and marketing, as well as project management staff to the new location by the first of the new year.

Port City Web is a, full-service website hosting, design, development, and marketing company. Specializing in online commerce, also known as ecommerce, Port City Web provides cost effective electronic marketing tools that are built to work with current systems. Past and present clients include The University of New Hampshire, Born and Bicknell, Columbia University, Service Credit Union, NAPS, K2, Lonza Biologics and Smith and Wesson.

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

Beijing, China - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 9, 2007 - Web hosting firm, Subaye.com, Inc., a subsidiary of MyStarU.com, Inc., reports that 6,123 companies became members of its new corporate video and B2B website, during the largest fair in China: the Canton Fair, in Guangzhou, China.

300 staff from Subaye’s sales and marketing teams assisted exhibitors and successfully presented online video exhibitions, which is the core content and purpose of the Subaye e-commerce strategy to exhibitors. The video production team is following up with exhibitors to produce video web pages as a free trial product. The new corporate video B2B users find Subaye’s e-commerce strategy useful for search engines such as Google.com and B2B platforms such as Alibaba.com, in order to do their online marketing and promotions. Most of those 6,123 companies have experience in the B2B marketplace and in doing e-commerce, and they respect Subaye for having complemented e-commerce websites and enhanced their performances in the B2B marketplace.

Earlier this year, the company launched a finance video channel for real views on public companies, targeted to serve 100 million Chinese stockholders. The enterprise video web development, marketing and e-commerce service provider, is offering the new channel at http://subaye.cncspace.com. The new channel is designed to provide official information and third party research reports with video sharing for public companies and for overseas listed companies intent on bringing presentations into the China investment community. Content on Finance Video Channel will be initially offered free of charge to existing online corporate video members who are public companies also engaged in presentations to individual investors. Company information on the channel will be open to any end user sharing their views through video as well as their experiences with public companies. This launch will complement other finance websites. Likewise, it will further extend the company’s support of China’s investors and public companies, currently served by other finance websites.

MyStarU.com, Inc. (MYST) is a Total Solutions Provider that offers Integrated Communications Network Solutions and Internet Content Service in universal voice, video, data web and mobile communications for interactive media applications, technology and content leaders in interactive multimedia communications. It develops, markets and sells a universal media software solution for enterprise-wide deployment of integrated voice, video, data web and mobile communications and media applications. Mystaru.com, Inc. does business in Asia via its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Mystaru Ltd. (formerly known as IC Star MMS, Ltd. www.mystaru.com, www.skyestar.com, www.goongreen.org, www.icurls.com, Guangzhou TCOM Computer Technology Limited and majority-owned subsidiary, Subaye.com, Inc.

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

Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - November 8, 2007 - Web hosting provider, global domain name registrar, Hostway Corporation, has debuted its new Double the RAM and No Setup Fee promotion, for various dedicated servers, through the month of November.

Included in the promotion, is a selection of Truflex and Truflex-S servers. Hostway offers a full line of Dell dedicated servers and uses only high-quality Dell hardware in its data centers. Each dedicated server plan is backed by 24/7 telephone technical support and Hostway’s secure data center infrastructure.

Through the month of November, new dedicated server customers can take advantage of special deals on some of the company’s most popular dedicated servers. With free setup, customers can save more than $300.

Earlier this year, Hostway debuted a new content delivery network, incorporating significantly reduced web page load times.
According to the company, Edge Caching uses patent-pending technology to reduce web site abandonment by cutting the time it takes for web pages with large images or multimedia files to load. released Edge Caching, a CDN, or content delivery network that makes image and media-heavy web pages load in seconds. Study after study has shown that people simply click away from a web site that takes more than a few seconds to load. Edge Caching improves the user experience by speeding content to the visitor’s browser. It is especially good for online stores with hundreds of product images, multimedia-heavy web sites and social media sites with many user-generated profiles.

The Edge Caching content delivery network is a group of servers strategically deployed in data centers across four continents (North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The servers work together to determine the fastest path to speed the data to the user’s screen. For example, without Edge Caching, a web page displaying multiple product images might take 3 to 30 seconds to load, depending on the distance between the user and the server. That’s even if it’s sent over a high-speed Internet connection. The same page using Edge Caching will load in less than .5 seconds, regardless of the distance from server to user. That time differential may be all it takes to lose a prospective customer to the dreaded back button.

Hostway Corporation provides domain name registration, web hosting and ecommerce, colocation, managed dedicated hosting, SaaS hosting, web design and online marketing services to more than 600,000 customers and over 2 million Web sites worldwide. It operates state-of-the art data centers that reduce the complexity and cost of Web-based technologies for small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 1998, Hostway provides web hosting and has a direct presence in 11 countries, 15 worldwide operation centers and more than 700 employees. Hostway franchises include: Affinity Internet, Bigstep, DiscountDomains, Hostway UK, Hostway Netherlands, Hostway Korea, Hostway Australia, Hostway Denmark, NetNation, PowerMedium, RegistryPro, Server Service, Service Over Internet, ValueWeb and WinSave.

To learn more about the Dedicated Server Promotion, please visit: www.hostway.com/dedicated-servers/index.html.

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Toronto, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 7, 2007 - Web hosting provider for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), Netfirms, has reported an increased demand for its MultiPlatform technology, since it debuted in early February 2007, which allows web developers to use both Microsoft Windows and Linux-based web development tools simultaneously.

Thomas Savundra, President of Netfirms, Inc. added, ”Our research shows that web developers want the flexibility of using both Windows and Linux environments to build their websites. That’s what attracts web developers to our seamlessly integrated MultiPlatform technology.”

Netfirms recently surveyed 1,000 customers about which features were most important in their decision to choose Netfirms MultiPlatform. Results indicated that Microsoft features, including MSSQL, ASP.Net 2.x and ASP.Net 1.x were most important. In terms of Linux features, web developers ranked PHP 4/5 and MySQL as most important.

Nadeem Bilal Bhatti, CEO and Web Developer, AComputer.ca, uses Netfirms MultiPlatform for its flexibility. Bhatti has been developing websites and customized applications for over ten years using Windows and Linux platforms, including classic ASP, ASPX, PHP, Perl. Mr. Bhatti explained, ”We selected Netfirms because they offer both Windows and Linux hosting in the same hosting plan, so we don’t have to commit to one or the other anymore.”

Overall, Windows and Linux MultiPlatform features ranked most important to web developers when choosing a web host, above price, online research, and advice from colleagues or friends. The findings indicate a strong attraction to the flexibility of being able to use Microsoft Windows and Linux features on one single account.

Netfirms Multiplatform is available on Netfirms Business and Netfirms Enterprise hosting plans starting at $14.95/month, which include ASP.NET 1.0 and 2.0, SQL Server 2005, Apache, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Perl, and PHP. Customers who select the Netfirms Business plan can build their website with both Microsoft and Linux functionality plus get 300 GB of disk space, 3,000 GB transfer, five free domain names, email, e-commerce, statistics and 24/7 customer support.

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 1,200,000 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 MultiPlatform, please visit: www.netfirms.com/web-hosting/web-hosting-business.

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Aliso Viejo, California - (The Hosting News) - November 5, 2007 - Self-managed, dedicated server products and utility services firm, Layered Technologies, Inc., and 3Tera, are offering free utility computing solutions, to assist California wildfire affected businesses.

Free Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Virtual Private Datacenters (VPDs) will be offered to businesses affected by the California wildfires.

Bert Armijo, Senior Vice President, Sales and Product Management, 3Tera noted, ”The recent wildfires have displaced hundreds of thousands in Southern California. To assist affected businesses, we’re offering free virtual private datacenters in conjunction with our partner, Layered Technologies. The VPDs allow business to move applications online so they can remain productive.”

Todd Abrams, President and COO of Layered Technologies added, ”Layered Technologies is proud to team with 3Tera to offer assistance during this unprecedented tragedy. The people of California are in our thoughts, and we are glad to be in a position to extend our support to those who have experienced disruptions.”

This offer is available to any California business, whose IT or web presence has been affected due to the wildfire disaster. Virtual private servers and Virtual Private Datacenters are offered for free for 90 days. All setup charges and support fees for the period are also waived.

With clients in over 120 countries, Layered Technologies’ custom technology solutions are designed to allow both large and small customers to rapidly deploy on-demand hosting and utility computing services, providing all the controls of colocation without the start up costs, capital investments, long term contracts and associated challenges. It is hoped that by partnering with Layered Technologies, companies will be able to achieve ROI quickly via reduced capital investment, total cost of ownership (TCO), labor reduction, training, and floor space.

Layered Technologies, Inc. is a provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and web services. Layered Technologies’ scalable infrastructure powers millions of websites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service (”SaaS”), content distribution and more. Its clients range from Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises to some of the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

3Tera, Inc. provides grid and utility computing, simplifying the deployment and scaling of Web applications. Named a 2007 Category Breaker by NetworkWorld magazine, 3Tera’s AppLogic grid operating system enables the first true utility computing services that completely remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. The operating system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually operate deploy and scale transactional web applications without any modification of code. Software-as-a-Service providers, Web 2.0 companies, enterprises and open source developers can now get new online services quickly to market by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning using only a browser.

To learn more about 3Tera, please visit: www.3tera.com.

For more information and support, please visit: www.3tera.com/utility-computing-disaster-recovery.html.

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Merced, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 5, 2007 - Wholly owned subsidiary of EarthLink Inc., New Edge Networks, has been selected by County Bank, to extend its MPLS Network, for the student-operated branch at an area high school.

A student-run County Bank branch at a high school in Fresno, Calif., is among the almost 45 community bank sites that will be connected to a new MPLS network powered by New Edge Networks, a unit of EarthLink Inc. (NASDAQ:ELNK). County Bank, the principal subsidiary of Capital Corp. of the West (NASDAQ:CCOW), is strategically using new network technology and innovative community outreach for maintaining its leadership position in Central and Northern California.

Greg Griffiths, Vice President of Marketing for New Edge Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based EarthLink Inc. noted, ”MPLS (short for Multi Protocol Label Switching) technology provides high flexibility, reliability, availability, and substantial savings on monthly communications fees.”

By extending its MPLS network to the student-run branch office at McLane High School, County Bank is reinforcing its community commitment and fostering financial literacy among students and their families. First in California, the fully functioning, student-run County Bank branch opened for business this school year for students, parents, and faculty. Incoming senior students were selected before the start of the school year to run all branch operations with direction from a County Bank supervisor.

County Bank is upgrading its wide area network from one based on frame relay technology to new MPLS. It awarded New Edge a three-year contract. County Bank’s MPLS network is expected to be fully operational by the end of the November.

Anthony F. Salas, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for County Bank based in Merced, Calif. added, ”For us, upgrading from frame relay to MPLS was a no-brainer decision. New Edge proposed a fairly seamless migration to MPLS by using existing lines, existing routers, and existing interfaces versus ripping everything out and starting all over again. We have been very happy with New Edge; the support has been very good, very reliable.”

County Bank recently announced the acquisition of 11 branches from National Bank of Arizona’s California Stockman’s Bank and almost doubled its transmission speeds for about the same monthly cost of the legacy frame relay network. MPLS provides guaranteed bandwidth availability and a class-of-service feature for prioritizing voice and data traffic over the network, optimizing bandwidth utilization.

Mr. Griffiths added, ”New Edge designs MPLS network solutions that provide the same levels of features and capabilities previously affordable only by the largest enterprises. The support model we use helps ensure we can provide the highest level of attention that our customers need to operate efficiently and profitably.”

County Bank is using its network for all banking transactions and enabling any branch office or service center to communicate with any other branch. This eliminates the need to funnel all bank data traffic through a single location, eliminating a single point of failure. County Bank also is initiating VoIP telephony to cut long-distance calling charges and improve efficiency.

Mr. Salas added, ”With the proliferation of applications that are running over our network, class of service is certainly one feature we are going to take advantage of.”

County Bank, the primary subsidiary of Capital Corp of the West (NASDAQ:CCOW), is Northern California’s leading community bank. County Bank currently has 30 branches with an additional 11 branches being added later this year and three service centers. According to the latest FDIC data, County Bank has a 7.5% market share in the six Central California counties in which it has significant retail branches. This ranks County Bank fifth among thirty-seven financial institutions in this market area.

New Edge Networks, based in Vancouver, Washington, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EarthLink Inc. (NASDQ: ELNK). New Edge Networks builds and manages private networks for businesses and communications providers. Through its nationwide backbone network with about 900 switches and Internet routers, New Edge Networks uses any blend of access technologies (xDSL, frame relay, ATM, cable, wireless, and satellite) for providing broadband connectivity at any business address in the United States. Network options include any combination of access, network management functions, and on-site installation services.

For more information about New Edge Networks, please visit: www.newedgenetworks.com.

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - November 1, 2007 - Web hosting company, HostMySite.com, was recently honored as a recipient of the ‘Philadelphia 100,’ by the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Business Journal and the Wharton Small Business Development Center.

HostMySite.com was ranked 38th out of the elite 100 companies. As a managed services and small business hosting firm, HostMySite.com has grown 140% between 2004 — 2006.

The Philadelphia 100 was created to spread the word about the economic vitality of the Greater Philadelphia region, and to place a spotlight on the 100 fastest growing, privately-held companies which form the backbone of the region’s economy. HosyMySite.com is a repeat honoree, having been recognized for exceptional growth in the previous year as well.

Lou Honick, Founder and CEO of HostMySite.com remarked, ”We are privileged to share this recognition with the other high-growth businesses on the Philadelphia 100. This type of industry acknowledgement is important not only to the HostMySite.com staff, but it is mostly important to our customers. This type of growth confirms that we are delivering the highest market value to our customers when we highly focus our efforts directly on their needs.”

HostMySite.com has recently celebrated 10 years in the web hosting and domain name business. The company has also reached a rare milestone in web hosting company growth - the 100,000 hosted domains mark. This benchmark positions HostMySite.com as one of the largest web hosting brands in North America. Additionally, the company hosts websites in over 130 separate countries around the globe.

In 1988, a group of entrepreneurial supporters and professional service providers gathered at the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia to brainstorm about how to highlight the contribution of entrepreneurial companies to the region, resulting in the Philadelphia 100, a yearly research project to identify the fastest growing, privately held companies.

Founded in 1997, HostMySite.com is a privately-held provider of customer-focused web hosting services. With a combination of sophisticated hosting technology and applied business knowledge, HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with affordable managed dedicated servers, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and shared web hosting solutions, supported by 24×7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and live online chat. The company is based in Newark, Delaware.

To learn more about the Philadelphia 100, please visit: www.philadelphia100.com.

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Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - October 31, 2007 - Internet performance network services company, Internap Network Services Corporation, was chosen to power Defender Hosting, with its flow control platform technology, designed to enhance network performance and route optimization.

Through the FCP, it is expected that Internap’s intelligent route-control technology will also enable decreased operational expenditures. In pursuit of a way to better manage bandwidth and resolve operational expenditures used to manually troubleshoot their network, Defender Hosting selected Internap based on their high-quality technology and track record of successful, automated network optimization. As a result, Defender Hosting has experienced a seamless improvement in traffic management, reduced latency and packet loss and decreased Internet routing issues.

Thomas Kiblin, CEO of Defender Hosting remarked, ”Internap is known for its quick turnaround and high-quality, cutting-edge technology for network maintenance and management. Thanks to Internap, we can focus on serving our customers and delivering them a quality experience.”

Internap’s FCPs intelligently route traffic across Defender Hosting’s network while managing connectivity. In addition, the technology is configured to route based on cost, performance and application. The FCP improves transfer speeds and features robust reporting tools for tracking comprehensive network performance data over multiple service providers.

Tim Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer for Internap added, ”Our mission is to enable our customers to focus on their core businesses and we are pleased Defender Hosting can rely on our sophisticated technology. Through our robust suite of services, customers like Defender Hosting can continue to enjoy cost savings and improved performance.”

The Internap FCP product line includes solutions to manage traffic from 10 megabits per second up to 10 gigabits per second and beyond. Features include intelligent load balancing, which increases the overall efficiency of managing bandwidth costs while providing visibility into network performance. The FCP is scalable to support the growing bandwidth requirements of Web-centric businesses. The FCP’s measurement tool, FlowView, also allows customers to proactively address impacts from software and application changes. Staff can pinpoint problems quickly and use end-to-end visibility to make informed decisions. Reporting to executive management is simplified, allowing customers to monitor application performance using real-time statistics on metrics such as packet loss, latency and jitter.

Defender Hosting, a managed virtualization hosting provider, has deployed over 10,000 virtual machines for businesses of all sizes across the globe, handling design, deployment, monitoring, and management services for its customers.

Internap is an intelligent route control solution, developed to provide reliability, performance and security to the Internet, as well as a global integrated content delivery service, designed to enable businesses to stream digital media over the Internet. The company provides patented and patent-pending technologies that address the inherent weaknesses of the Internet, to enable enterprises to deploy business-critical applications such as e-commerce, VoIP, and audio/video across IP networks. The company provides additional solutions, including video and audio streaming, advertising placement, reporting and analysis, live event broadcasting, media asset management, integrated web hosting and consulting services. Internap currently serves more than 3,000 customers throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

For more information about Defender Hosting, please visit: www.deftechgroup.com.

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Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 25, 2007 - Self-managed, dedicated server products and utility services firm, Layered Technologies, Inc., is collaborating wth Sun Microsystems, to offer Sun Startup Essentials members, the ability to rapidly deploy on-demand solutions, on Sun’s platform of products and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).

Todd Abrams, President and COO of Layered Technologies offered, ”We pride ourselves on using the best and most efficient technology at Layered Technologies. By collaborating with Sun and offering their platform of premium products to our customers aligns with this strategy. Our collaboration with Sun further strengthens our ability to help our clients reduce their infrastructure and operating costs, eliminate capital expenses involved with building their own infrastructure, as well as increase their ROI (return on investment).”

Layered Technologies will provide Unix-based Solaris OS as part of its comprehensive, world-class hosted dedicated server offerings. The Solaris 10 OS server hosted solutions are ideal for small, medium and enterprise customers, delivering an optimum blend of reliability, affordability and flexibility, similar to Layered Technologies’ other server packages.

Mr. Abrams explained, ”Many of our clients are Web 2.0 and SaaS companies. As a member of the Sun Startup Essentials Program, we have the opportunity to offer these customers the Solaris 10 OS and Sun systems that provide them with added functionality and flexibility, as well as superior performance and security. We see that as a big advantage for us.”

Juan Carlos Soto, Vice President, market development for Sun Microsystems added, ”Sun understands that startups today need flexible, scalable and affordable web hosting solutions that will enable them to focus on growing their businesses. Layered Technologies’ hosting solution is an ideal component of Sun Startup Essentials, and we are confident that our customers will enjoy the functionality and flexibility of Layered Technologies’ platform for the open source Solaris 10 OS, all while keeping operating costs low. We welcome Layered Technologies to the Sun Startup Essentials program and look forward to working together to help startups prosper.”

With clients in over 120 countries, Layered Technologies’ custom technology solutions are designed to allow both large and small customers to rapidly deploy on-demand hosting and utility computing services, providing all the controls of colocation without the start up costs, capital investments, long term contracts and associated challenges. It is hoped that by partnering with Layered Technologies, companies will be able to achieve ROI quickly via reduced capital investment, total cost of ownership (TCO), labor reduction, training, and floor space.

Based in Frisco Texas, Layered Technologies, Inc. is one of the five largest global providers of on-demand hosting and utility computing solutions, providing dedicated, partially managed server hosting solutions, primarily for the small and medium-sized enterprise (”SME”) market. The firm provides customers with technology, infrastructure and support services designed to enable them to operate servers at secure Tier III/IV data centers, while saving capital and operating costs typically associated with purchasing and maintaining servers at co-location facilities. Layered Technologies servers and associated network facilities are used by customers to host a variety of Internet-enabled applications, including content and e-commerce web sites, software as a service (”SaaS”) offerings, online multiplayer games, shared web site hosting services, and streaming multimedia content distribution and delivery, among other applications.

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