South Bend, Indiana - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - January 30, 2008 - Shared web hosting provider, Host Color, is offering a promotional service package featuring a one month promotional campaign on web hosting services, with six months of complimentary hosting services, to all customers that sign-up or renew Multi Domain or business hosting plans.

Alexander Avramov, Marketing Manager of Host Color LLC noted, ”We are quality web hosting provider focused to deliver results to web entrepreneurs. This means that we power their web sites with useful software applications which help them to better organize and to implement various businesses processes.”

Multi Domain enables site owners to host 30 different web sites and to use 30 GB disc space and 500 GB monthly transfer. Business plan comes with 2GB disc space and 50 GB data transfer per month.

Company’s customers of Multi Domain and Business hosting plans can use ”PowerTools,” a software applications package that works with Host Color’s proprietary hosting automation system - NexColor. It features 20 of the most popular and software applications in web hosting industry such as phpBB and Vanilla forums, Drupal, Joomla and TextPattern CMS, OpenAds ads server, Zen shopping cart, and various blogging capabilities.

The complimentary 6 additional months are applicable for all customers who sign up for 12 or 24 month contract. The web host also adds a free SSL certificate to all Multi Domain subscribers. Multi Domain hosting plan also comes with free US or Canadian domain and extended 90 days money back guaranty. It costs $9.49 per month. Business hosting plan comes with SSH, com, net or org domain registration and many other useful tools. It costs $6.95 per month. Host Color recently added Textpattern CMS, Wiki software and Social networking capabilities to shared hosting plans.

Host Color LLC is a US web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It has been operating on the hosting market since 2000. The company hosts thousands of personal and business web sites, offering web hosting services in US and European data centers. The hosting company provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe.

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

Cary, North Carolina - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 14, 2007 - InfTek Hosting, a division of InfTek, Inc., is offering a variety of web hosting and related services. With website hosting prices starting at $3.99 a month, customers can purchase domain names, set up unlimited email accounts, and host websites on reliable servers.

Other services include web design and search engine optimization (SEO). As a result, customers can use InfTek to fine-tune almost every aspect of their websites, from how a site looks to its visibility on the search engines.

Scott Bowen, Co-Owner of InfTek, Inc. noted, ”Customers want professional-looking websites, efficient customer service, and knowledgeable web consulting. What they don’t want is to feel confused and overwhelmed when they are launching their website. InfTek strives to be the all-in-one website resource for our customers.”

Among the most popular of InfTek Hosting’s services is their web design packages: Approximately 40 percent of customers who host their websites through InfTek Hosting also utilize the company’s web design services. InfTek Hosting offers packages for designing logos and/or websites of any size and complexity. Web design can be done using any of the most popular scripts, including HTML, PHP, CSS, ASP, My SQL, Flash, and Javascript.

Mr. Bowen added, ”Many businesses depend on their websites to score sales from their visitors. What they don’t realize is how important it is to have an attractive, professional website. You wouldn’t run your business out of a dirty shop or a run-down building. In the same respect, the appearance of your website indicates the level of professionalism potential customers can expect from your business. Sites such as Amazon and eBay have demonstrated the potential of e-commerce, but you don’t have to be that big in order to succeed. For a small or mid-size business, an attractive website makes all the difference in creating a professional presence on the web.”

Sister company of InfTek, Inc. of North Carolina, InfTek Hosting provides affordable cPanel web hosting solutions to individuals, entrepreneurs, SMEs as well as major corporations throughout the world.

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

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - November 13, 2007 - Web hosting company, HostMySite.com, has unveiled special promotions for the month of November, including three months of free services, when customers purchase a new shared annual hosting account, also waiving the setup fees.

In addition, customers purchasing a new annual plan, may save up to $100. Free setup is also being offered on the host’s Virtual Private Server (VPS) plans, with savings of up to $99. select Select dedicated server configurations and processors from HostMySite.com, are being offering in a ‘Double Your Processing Power’ deal. Customers ordering a new dedicated server, may buy a single core processor and get a dual core - or buy a dual core processor and get a quad core.

Monish Sood, Director of Marketing with HostMySite.com noted, ”Three months free on shared accounts and doubling processors on dedicated servers are both unprecedented offers from HostMySite.com. Due to our low cost operational structure and strong supplier relationships, we are able to pass these substantial savings along to our customers. I expect that these offers will be very popular, and they are being offered only for a limited time.”

HostMySite.com was recently honored by the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Business Journal and Wharton Small Business Development Center as a recipient of the ‘Philadelphia 100’, which tracks the fastest growing, privately held companies in the Greater Philadelphia area. HostMySite.com was ranked 38th out of the elite 100 companies. The company has also celebrated 10 years in the web hosting and domain name business this year. HostMySite.com hosts websites in over 130 separate countries.

HostMySite 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.

HostMySite.com recently celebrated 10 years in the web hosting and domain name business, reaching its 100,000 hosted domain 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 each offer, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/hosting/eom.

For more information about HostMySite.com, please visit: www.hostmysite.com.

San Francisco, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 1, 2007 - Web hosting solutions provider, DomainPlusHost, has launched its new resource website, to include web hosting reviews, SEO, domain tools, web templates, top ten web hosts (editors pick), as well as industry specific articles.

Peter Thomas of Domainplushost remarked, ”Actually it is a combination of world’s five best websites which we have named ‘Host Reviews’, ‘Web Templates’, ‘Knowledgepedia’, ‘Web Tools’ and ‘Editors Pick’.”

The ‘Host Reviews’ section consists of web hosting reviews, including reviews on web hosting providers written by its editors and submitted by guests. The main feature is that any user or guest can rate and review web hosts and share opinions.

The ‘Web Templates’ under the banner of WebTemplates7, is a collection of high quality and original web templates, Flash templates and graphic elements. Each and every template can be customized online or can be downloaded as it is, to create state of art websites.

‘Knowledgepedia’ consists of articles related to web hosting, web design, web domains and search engine optimization (SEO). Any visitor or user can submit articles, as well.

‘Editors Pick’ (Top Ten Web Hosts) consists of the top ten hosting providers as chosen and rated by experts. The experts have reviewed the best web hosts based on reliability, quality of service, uptime, cost, features, ease of use, customer support, domains supported, web space, bandwidth, control panel, previous record, technological superiority, response time, reputation, hosting plans and additional benefits.

‘Web Tools’ consists of domain, and search engine optimization tools, with solutions for growing businesses. The tools available in domain tools are backlink checker, cloaking checker, Google banned checker, Google datacenter search, Google Page Rank prediction, index checker, keyword density checker, keyword suggestion, link popularity, search engine position, search listings preview and spider view.

The search engine optimization (SEO) tools are Alexa traffic rank, broken link checker, domain availability, domain lookup, domain whois, instant domain checker, IP location, link price calculator, ping test, reciprocal link checker, server status and website speed test.

The other tools includes html encrypt, html optimizer, http headers, link extractor, meta tags extractor, source code viewer, .htaccess url rewrite, anonymous emailer, Google adsense calculator, Google adwords preview, link shortener and your browser details.

Mr. Thomas added, ”It is just the beginning, soon we will be adding two more sections to this website, one will be best Web Hosting Awards and the other will be a social networking community of web designers and Search engine optimizers like orkut, myspace and hi5 etc where its members can interact and help others in their work.”

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

Overland Park, Kansas - (The Hosting News) - October 26, 2007 - Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has unveiled a newly launched campaign, designed to introduce new branding, with an eye toward maximizing exposure through products and promotions.

Gabriel Murphy, President and CEO of Aplus.Net noted, ”With new ownership, new management, a new corporate headquarters, a new web design brand, and now an all-new website, there are some very exciting changes happening. We’ve worked hard to improve the company in dramatic ways, and we felt it was important to communicate to the world that we are essentially a new Aplus.Net.”

The campaign was launched to put a face on the many changes Aplus.Net has undergone since new ownership took over in the latter part of 2006. New ads were designed to serve as a visual extension of the company’s redesigned website, which was rolled out during the final days of September and which features a more modern design and a more customer-friendly interface.

Aplus.Net’s acquisition of the WebImage web design firm in August led to an overhauled web design product offering, which is also actively promoted in the new ads. The campaign was also designed to tie in to Aplus.Net’s current promotions, an across-the-board series of sales that offer aggressive discounts on shared hosting, dedicated hosting, and web design. In addition, the ads serve as a prelude to announcements of further improvements, which are imminent.

The company launched the campaign in mid-October. The new ads can already be seen throughout the Internet.However, company officials emphasized that, while there are many new elements to Aplus.Net, its well-known products, services, and support, for which the company has received acclaim and numerous awards, have not been lost.

Mr. Murphy added, ”Part of the greatness of the Aplus.Net brand is its longevity. Having started offering shared hosting in the 1990s, this company has survived the dot-com boom to become one of the world’s longest-lasting hosting providers. What existed before 2007 - from our state-of-the-art data center to our commitment to the success of America’s small businesses - has not been lost, but only improved. We still offer the same great services that won Aplus.Net the CNET Editors’ Choice Award in 2003. But at the same time, we’ve also grown into a world-class company that offers so much more than that.”

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.

Pearl River, New York - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 23, 2007 - Web hosting firm, Easy CGI, has entered into an agreement with Oddcast.com, in order to offer SitePal talking avatars, to the shared hosting customers at Easy CGI.

SitePal Talking Avatars are customizable, talking characters that can be adapted from a library of characters or created from photographs. When added to Web sites, Talking Avatars are proven to help convert sales at higher rates than conventional online sales formats because they engage visitors with characters that interact with them. Talking Avatars can provide knowledgeable sales or customer support information, or direct visitors to other, specific areas on the web site.

The Avatar’s eyes follow on-screen mouse movements and the lips synchronize realistically with speech. Voices can be generated automatically, or users can have their scripts read by voice professionals in a variety of styles, accents and languages.

SitePal’s Talking Avatar is just one of many tools that Easy CGI makes available to its customers to improve the functionality and performance of their Web sites.

Ted Beckwith, Vice President of Easy CGI offered, ”Our Advanced shared-hosting plans are designed to give our customers easy-to-use tools to build a successful online presence. SitePal’s easy-to-use interface and easy integration with an existing web site means our clients have one more, hassle-free way to drive more online traffic and sales.”

Oddcast, which provides SitePal Avatar by subscription, is equally excited to be offering its product through Easy CGI.

Shawn Holt, Vice President, SitePal Business Development offered, ”Yes, we’re very excited to partner with Easy CGI,” says “SitePal is the only web-based avatar platform in the world that focuses on driving business results, while Easy CGI has a great history of bringing their customers the most innovative and effective web tools on the market. Our collaboration is a definite win-win-win - for us, for Easy CGI and for their customers. We look forward to seeing Easy CGI customers personalizing their web sites and driving more sales using SitePal’s speaking characters.”

The SitePal Avatar, a speaking character platform from Oddcast, is a powerful personalization and conversion tool that is easy to understand and use. SitePal enables small and medium-sized businesses to rapidly customize and deploy virtual salespeople or customer service reps to their web sites - producing immediate increases in traffic, site stickiness and conversions.

Easy CGI was founded after running a successful regional Internet Service Provider, which began in 1994. Since its inception in 1998, Easy CGI has hosted over 20,000 web sites. Consistently ranked among the top 10 Web Hosting providers worldwide, Easy CGI has developed an expandable shared web hosting platform, with a control panel that allows the customer to administer every aspect of its account at any time, from any location. Easy CGI´s three tiers of shared web hosting solutions incorporate a wide range of individuals and companies, including simple to complex. Easy CGI maintains its own Data Center located in the same facility as its corporate headquarters. Extensive system monitoring allows support staff to quickly assess and resolve problems.

For more information about Easy CGI, please visit: www.easycgi.com.

San Jose, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 19, 2007 - Webhosting company, MochaHost.com, has instituted a Halloween Special, including promotions to be introduced for each of the remaining Holidays, including: Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

All promotions will be valid for new and current customers. The current Halloween Special includes 6 months of free hosting, 2 free domain names, and a free site builder for any of the MochaHost plans for every customer who signs up for 2 years of service. Other season specials include free domain for any annual purchase and special discounts for non-profit organizations and military personnel. The offer will be valid through 11/15/2007. More details and how to sign up can be obtained at: www.mochahost.com/specials.

Earlier this year, MochaHost introduced an affiliate program, that is offered free at sign up, available for both current and new MochaHost’s clients. Under the plan, MochaHost’s clients will be able to earn revenues by referring the service to others and by placing simple banner ads at web sites.

In addition, MochaHost added new JSP hosting plans to its offerings. In addition, JSP support will be offered for a limited time for the SoHo ($4.95/month) plan, which also comes equipped with 5GB of storage and 50GB of monthly bandwidth.
All JSP plans (shared) include support for JSP and servlet deployment - based on Tomcat 4 server. Future plans for upgrade to Tomcat 5 in near future are in place, the upgrade will be offered for free when it becomes available. In the addition to the JSP support all clients benefit from the support for PHP5, CGI, modperl, MySQL 4 and the rest of the features offered for the standard shared hosting plans.

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

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

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

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 28, 2007 - Managed hosting services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting, will begin offering the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor to its U.S. customer base, featuring energy efficiency, performance and virtualization designed to upgrade the Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors.

Patrick Patla, Director of Product Management, Server/Workstation Division at AMD remarked, ”Rackspace has been a long-time, successful vendor of AMD Opteron processors. Their commitment to continuous performance improvement for their thousands of customers pushes us to deliver industry-leading technology like Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. With innovative power management capabilities, increased performance-per-watt capabilities, and scalable performance, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors will help Rackspace create a scalable, secure and high-performance web environment.”

According to the company, Rackspace will be the first hosting provider to offer Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, which present a native multi-core architecture with all four cores on one piece of silicon, allowing them to communicate more efficiently for improved performance and performance-per-watt. These processors also include power efficiency features like AMD CoolCore technology, designed to turn off portions of the processor logic and memory controller when not in use and reduce processor energy consumption and heat generation. Along with Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology, the processors’ advanced performance-per-watt capabilities help lower the energy consumption of a customer’s IT infrastructure while providing optimum application performance.

Nicolas Keller, Director of Platform Products at Rackspace Managed Hosting offered, ”We’ve found that AMD Opteron processors are an incredibly reliable platform for customers with multi-threaded applications or heavy database usage. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors coincides directly with our GreenSpace initiative of lowering power consumption, which in turn delivers great cost benefits to us that we can ultimately pass on to customers. It is apparent that the processor was designed with virtualization in mind, delivering near native performance on virtualized applications and greatly improving virtualized application performance by allowing virtual machines to manage memory more efficiently.”

Recently, Rackspace conducted a survey revealing that 57 percent of respondents are already using virtualization for internal applications. In addition, 72 percent of respondents are comfortable hosting mission-critical applications in a production environment on a virtualized platform. There is a great demand for leveraging the benefit of virtualization through a third-party hosting company: 71 percent of respondents would host their applications on a virtualized infrastructure with a hosting provider. However, the majority of customers are currently not comfortable utilizing a shared, virtual environment. Only 13 percent of respondents are confidently willing to share a physical server with other hosting customers, a practice common in hosting, with top concerns stemming from performance and security vulnerabilities in shared environments.

Additionally, the Rackspace survey revealed that 42 percent of respondents believe virtualization will have a fundamental impact on information technology. Although 43 percent had no preference between using open source or proprietary virtualization products, the majority of respondents use VMware. The methodology for this research involved sending an email survey to approximately 3,000 Rackspace customers. More than 12 percent of survey recipients responded to the questions.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 27, 2007 - Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft’s CDP Server, has been upgraded to the next major version of the Continuous Data Protection product, with CDP Server 2.0.

The new release includes a variety of functional enhancements from previous versions of the product, and also introduces an array of new features not previously available. Namely, CDP Server 2.0 offers improved speeds when disk compression is enabled, Disk Safe Repair to cleanly recover archived data from server crashes or power failures, and performance improvements that allow users to run as many simultaneous backup tasks as their hardware can handle.

CDP Server 2.0 now includes email reporting features, allowing the server to automatically dispatch status reports via email directly to end users. The new version now comes standard with support for the ReiserFS file system and No More File System Indexing (Make File List) which means no more waiting for file system indexes to restore files. Files are available for restore as soon as the backup operation has completed.

David Wartell, Founder and CEO of R1Soft remarked, ”The release of the second major version of CDP Server marks an important milestone for both our company as a whole and our dedicated development team. With today’s announcement, we are making available a product that has been in the months in the making. We have invested thousands of hours in building the next iteration of the world’s most innovative, flexible, scalable and reliable data protection product.”

To upgrade from previous versions of CDP Server, users need to download and execute the upgrade installer for version 2.0. The software will automatically update without the need for a clean installation of the new version.

Recently in August, R1 Soft announced that it now fully supports ReiserFS, a journaling file system and leading alternative to the standard Linux extended file system, known as ext2 or ext3. The company’s CDP Server has previously introduced support for an array of Linux distributions running on the Linux 2.4 Kernel or higher. Specifically supported distributions include Fedora Core; Debian Linux; CentOS Linux; OpenVZ; RedHat Enterprise; Virtuozzo; Ubuntu; and custom built vanilla or patched Linux 2.6 kernels. A beta Windows agent of the CDP Server is also available. R1Soft plans to introduce official support for Novell Suse and OpenSuse in the near future.

R1Soft’s CDP products diverge significantly from traditional backup technologies, which essentially copy files at intervals from hard disks to another medium, such as a tape drive. These methods often only provide data protection on a daily or weekly basis, resulting in large losses of data in the event of a disaster. R1Soft’s CDP Server, however, monitors changes to the disk as they happen, thereby reducing backup windows to seconds or minutes. It also affords even busy servers a significantly higher level of reliability in the event of a disaster, without the consumption of a large amount of system resources.

R1Soft currently produces Continuous Data Protection solutions designed for data centers, web hosting providers, and other firms using Linux servers. Founded in 2003, Righteous Software is a provider of disk-based backup solutions, with low cost, scalable and integrated products, featuring products designed to integrate with Linux-based systems.

To learn more about R1Soft’s MySQL CDP product, please visit: www.r1soft.com/mysql.

Herndon, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 12, 2007 - Web hosting and small business solutions company, Network Solutions, has released its new BuildMyMobi Mobile Web Site Builder, developed for small businesses to build .mobi web sites.

According to the company, recent studies show that 50 percent of mobile phones in the United States are able to access the Internet, a number that will certainly grow as Americans, on average, replace their mobile phones every 18 months.

As the public becomes more accustomed to accessing the Internet using mobile devices, businesses must capitalize on this growing trend by designing and launching their own mobile-enabled web sites, as a mobile compliment to their main .com web site. Network Solutions announced today the introduction of BuildMyMobi, a mobile web site builder that makes it easy for businesses to design and publish a web site specifically designed to be viewed on a mobile device, such as a mobile phone or PDA.

The .mobi domain name, which launched in September 2006, is gaining popularity as a means to indicate that a web site is mobile-friendly. More than 650,000 .mobi domain names have been registered in over 100 countries, and are being used by large corporations and small businesses alike who want to ensure that their customers can find their web sites when they are on-the-go. BuildMyMobi ensures that Network Solutions customers are able to quickly and easily build a web site that is both professional looking and easily accessible, and also complies with specific guidelines that to which all .mobi web sites must conform.

Jeff Grosman, SVP of Product Marketing and Management with Network Solutions remarked, ”BuildMyMobi allows our small business customers to actually deliver a quality mobile web site experience that is available when, where, and how customers want to access it. The mobile phenomenon is important to businesses because a mobile device is important to customers, it’s always on, always carried, and very personal. People can access information when they want it and from wherever they are, across the street or around the globe.”

Using the BuildMyMobi design wizard, customers can select from 24 design options and six languages, choose their colors, select the title, footer and header, upload logos, images and photos and pick the number and types of pages. BuildMyMobi also allows customers to log in at any time to edit, manage and publish their .mobi web site. After the initial set up, customers can add or delete new pages, re-order and edit the design, colors, text and images on their pages, and publish their .mobi website.

To ensure the best and consistent customer experiences, the BuildMyMobi design wizard also includes an automatic report and scoring tool that ensures that the web site adheres to the mandatory .mobi site design guidelines. This report tells how the web site scores on a 5-point scale based on the .mobi design guidelines, as well as tells how the web site will display on mobile devices. Prices for BuildMyMobi Mobile Web Site Builder start at $20/year, and include web hosting.

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 27 years of experience to offer tailored solutions.

For more information about BuildMyMobi Mobile Web Site Builder, please visit: www.buildmymobi.com.

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

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 11, 2007 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has debuted the launch of its Free Fall Savings promotion, designed for all new server orders, including a host of server performance and backup upgrades at no additional cost.

New server orders are eligible for free setup, a free RapidSSLCertificate and free 2GB DiskSync backup. For servers with a base monthly price of $150 or more, the special also includes free control panel software from a wide selection of industry vendors, including cPanel, Plesk, Ensim and Helm. This offer is available on all new server orders through Oct. 26, 2007 or while supplies last(a).

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at The Planet remarked, ”Customers are preparing for the upcoming holiday traffic spike, so now’s the time to be certain systems can manage the influx. With Free Fall Saving, customers can take advantage of additional cost savings on performance and backup upgrades, backed by The Planet’s world-class data centers and network.”

Recently, The Planet debuted its new Dedicated Backup Server, equipped with R1Soft’s full-featured CDPServer continuous data protection software, including three storage options — 500 GB, 1TB or 1.5TB, with introductory pricing through September. The backup solution offers a small to large business solution with mission-critical, intense data storage needs. With unique delegated administration functionality provided on The Planet’s Dedicated Backup Servers, the new R1Soft solution is ideal for resellers who need backup capacity for their clients. In addition, there is no limit to the number of clients backed up for any of the three offerings.

The Planet’s Dedicated Backup Server delivers bare-metal recovery that allows customers to recover servers to their original known state. CDP provides a near-continuous snapshot of customer data, with the ability to rollback to the last data snapshot to minimize loss.

Dedicated Backup Server - Available in three configurations, The Planet’s Dedicated Backup Server provides the optimal price performance mix for a wide range of backup requirements:

• 500MB Dedicated Backup Server: Priced at $279/month, this server provides 3 250GB hard drives, RAID5, 1.5 TB of bandwidth and R1Soft CDPServer Backup Software with unlimited licenses
• 1TB Dedicated Backup Server: Introductory pricing at $309/month. Provides 3 500GB hard drives, RAID5, 2.5 TB of bandwidth, and R1Soft CDPServer Backup Software with unlimited licenses
• 1.5TB Dedicated Backup Server: Introductory pricing at $399/month. Provides 3 - 750GB hard drives, RAID5, 4 TB of bandwidth, R1Soft CDPServer Backup Software with unlimited licenses

The Planet’s hosted Microsoft SBS solutions provide customers with the following features for IT infrastructure:

• All-in-one practical solution: With a complete SMB IT portfolio-in-a-box, customers gain immediate access to Microsoft Exchange Server, Outlook, SharePoint Server and SQL Server, bundled with anti-virus and spam protection, and a comprehensive data backup service.
• Low upfront investment and predictable monthly costs: Customers can control their costs and reduce capital costs, which frees funds to grow their businesses. Using The Planet’s world-class data centers, there’s no need to purchase hardware, software and networking equipment, and no requirement to hire additional support staff.
• Anytime, anywhere access: Using any PC, customers can connect to critical e-mail, calendar and contact information through the Internet.
• Always up and running: All hosted Microsoft SBS servers are backed by an ironclad SLA that guarantees continuous availability.
• Dedicated infrastructure provides security and customizable solutions: With a dedicated hosted SBS server, critical e-mail and business data are stored on a system that’s not shared with other companies. Users can configure and customize solutions to meet their unique business needs, all managed by their trusted IT advisor and integrator.
• Do more with less: Using Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint technologies enables customers to share e-mail, calendar contact information and critical documents, improve productivity and reduce costs.

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

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

• High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 2.8 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

For more information or to purchase a server, please visit: www.theplanet.com/free-fall/.

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

Chicago, Illinois - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 31, 2007 - Web hosting and online technology services company, Hostway Corporation, has 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.

John Enright, Vice President of sales and marketing of Hostway remarked, ”User expectations for immediate access to greater content on the web continue to increase. Hostway’s Edge Caching offering is our answer to the market demand for the technology to meet these expectations.”

Hostway Corporation provides web hosting services with eight locations in the US (Chicago (HQ), Austin, Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (Belgium, France, Frankfurt, Hannover, London and Netherlands), Asia (Korea) and Australia (Sydney), Canada, Germany, Korea, and Australia. Serving customers both small and large, Hostway provides hosting infrastructure services with online tools to help customers broaden their reach and grow their businesses online. Hostway offers a wide range of managed hosting services ranging from Windows and Linux based shared hosting plans, to complete dedicated server and Enterprise managed solutions to over 400,000 customers worldwide.

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