Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - April 11, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, Go Daddy, has premiered a new Internationalized Domain Name Service, to enable registration in over 100 native languages.

An IDN is a Web address expressed in a native language, and it’s helping to revolutionize the Internet. In the past, it has been difficult to translate western character domain names to other languages because popular scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese or Cyrillic, contain characters that were not previously supported by web browsers.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com remarked, ”GoDaddy.com is committed to making it easier for consumers all over the world to navigate domain names. With Internationalized Domain Names, users can find what they need in their own language.”

GoDaddy.com has made Internationalized Domain Names available in more than 100 native languages for .com and .net domain names. Go Daddy also plans to make Internationalized Domain Names available in select languages for .info later this month.

Registering an Internationalized Domain Name with GoDaddy.com gives consumers the chance to build a complete Web presence in most any language. That’s because many of the GoDaddy.com products - including Go Daddy web-based Email and web hosting packages - support non-Western language-based characters.

GoDaddy.com Email offers virus protection, spam filtering, phishing fraud protection and 256-bit encryption at no additional charge. GoDaddy.com is the world’s top paid host provider - all its packages feature unparalleled 24×7 Customer Support, world-class data centers and a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee.

Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 28 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn more about the new service, please visit: www.godaddy.com/gdshop/registrar/idn.asp.

For more information about GoDaddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

Watsonville, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 20, 2008 - JVM JAVA hosting provider, WebAppCabaret, has released a number of new JAVA Hosting plans, including features designed to implement a High Availability (HA) GRID infrastructure for the company’s standard JAVA hosting services.

Each of the standard plan sits on a High Availability Cluster on the company’s network Grid. One of the critical functions of the HA Cluster, is that it provides NETWORK RAID. Data is written to the live server as well as to another server on the Grid. This provides a level of redundancy way above and beyond regular DISK RAID. Also as each member of the cluster is simply a node on the Grid, if a live server goes down, it automatically fail-over to an available node. In addition, the web sites of these plans are now protected by Hardware firewalls.

Ronald Parris, President of WebAppCabaret explained, ”Nothing beats the reliability and security of hardware firewalls compared to the many free software based firewalls.”

WebAppCabaret feature Firewall appliances from CISCO. The company has also increased the limits of certain plans, including RAM Memory and disk space. All the enhancements and improvements comes without raising prices for the various plans.

WebAppCabaret is a web site and Application Hosting service, owned and operated by WebAppShowcase, founded in 1998. WebAppShowcase specializes in Java EE and Open Source and Commercial based server development, products, application hosting and services. The company is a Java EE Web Hosting and Outsourcing Service Provider, offering the latest standards based JAVA EE Servlet containers, EJB servers, and JVMs. Providing options such as e-Commerce, EJB 2.x, the latest PHP, Perl and CGI scripting, High Availability Failover, and Disaster Recovery.

For more information, please visit: www.webappcabaret.com.

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.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 21, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has revealed the recipient of its inaugural FANATI Award for Outstanding Customer Service, to honor the customer that has best demonstrated customer service excellence.

Website design firm for small to medium sized businesses, Websketching, is the 2007 winner. As an industry-leading service company, Rackspace introduced the FANATI to recognize the customer service excellence of other companies in an effort to promote customer service among all businesses today. Award applications, available only to Rackspace customers, were accepted online through the MyRackspace customer portal. Customers completed the online applications, which included questions regarding how the company delivers and tracks customer service as well as success stories of going above and beyond for customers. Rackspace then reviewed the applications and a short-list of nine finalists was announced.

Christine DeGraff, Co-Founder and partner of Websketching noted, ”By limiting the geographical area we serve, we can take the time to personally meet with our clients’ at their place of business so that we can better determine the needs of their business. My clients trust that our goal is to help their business succeed, just like Rackspace. In just one year at Rackspace, I have seen Fanatical Support firsthand. It means that I do not have to wonder if my request has been received or when it will be done; but a peace of mind knowing that my request is always immediately acknowledged and that every request is treated as important and completed in as little time as possible. This is something I try to duplicate to my clients.”

Finalists moved on to the second round of judging which involved two scoring categories. First, their application was critiqued and graded by a panel of five service industry experts including Joe Wheeler, Executive Director of The Service Profit Chain Institute; best-selling authors and speakers Drs. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg; Phil Terry, CEO of the Creative Good; and Frederick Mendler, Vice President of Fanatical Support for Rackspace’s Managed segment.

In addiiton, in order to validate the finalists’ applications, a customer satisfaction survey was sent to the nine finalists’ customers. Based on the survey results and the judge’s scores, Websketching proved their customer service excellence and came out on top due in large part to a near-perfect customer satisfaction score. Rackspace will begin accepting customer applications for the 2008 FANATI in July.

In comments left on the survey about Websketching, Patricia Smith, Secretary of The Woodstown-Pilesgrove Business Association said, ”As a business association, we were in need of a website; however none of our members had any technical experience. Websketching listened to our thoughts and ideas for what we wanted and developed a product that perfectly encompassed our vision. Websketching was extremely thoughtful of our needs and guided us throughout the entire process in a pleasant and non-intimidating manner. They designed a website that is both professional in nature and visually attractive. Working with Websketching was like working with a friend.”

Rackspace announced the creation of the award at its Customer Conference, held every October at its San Antonio-based headquarters. Representatives from Websketching will attend Rackspace’s annual company kick-off this January, where they will be presented with the FANATI trophy by Rackspace President and CEO, Lanham Napier.

Mr. Napier remarked, ”As the home of Fanatical Support, we wanted to know how our customers approach customer service in their respective industries. As a company whose mission is to become one of the world’s greatest service companies and which is a two-time winner of the American Business Awards’s Best Customer Service Organization, we believe we are experts on customer service. Through the nomination process, we saw many of our own customers that take a similar approach to customer service and we’re glad to be able to recognize the one that stood out the most.”

Websketching is a NJ based web design company offering a full range of website design, development and marketing services to clients located in the NJ/PA/DE tri-state area. Websketching specializes in creating custom website designs that can be equipped with their proprietary content management system.

Viewed as a critical investment in customer communication, the MyRackspace portal is continually evolving with major updates released on a bi-monthly basis. Additional new features include:

— Firewall Control Panel allowing authorized users to manage firewall permissions in real-time

— Suggestions Center enabling greater collaboration among the Rackspace customer community and creating an additional channel for Rackspace to listen to customer requests and share its extensive hosting knowledge

— Ticket attachment giving customers the option to securely attach a document to support tickets and provide more information to their support team about issues or queries

— Release Communication Center containing portal release information as new versions of the MyRackspace portal are launched every other month

Upcoming developments to the MyRackspace portal will include customer access to historical availability monitoring data as well as Managed Backup Threshold Alerts to provide an early warning system that notifies customers before reaching critical backup subscription usage.

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 15,000 customers across eight 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.

To learn more about Websketching, please visit: www.websketching.com.

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

Watsonville, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 29, 2007 - JVM JAVA hosting provider, WebAppCabaret, has released a number of new JAVA Hosting plans, including features designed to enhance the traditional offerings, including Private JVM JAVA Hosting, with additional value-added services.

One of the new services, is a one of a kind JAVA SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Enablement service that helps SaaS providers automate their operations, to save time and money. The JAVA SaaS Automation Infrastructure technology incorporated by WebAppCabaret, enables SaaS providers to automate the provisioning of their JAVA application for their customers. In addition to a web control panel, SaaS providers have a number of other methods at their disposal, including a JAVA API and a command line interface to manage application deployments.

The SaaS Automation service is designed to allow SaaS providers to automate the deployment of an application across multiple application server installations or within the same JVM (via cloning). At the same time isolating the dynamic aspects of the application, such as Datasource database access and authentication realm configuration. The service is reportedly so sophisticated, that it has intelligent logic build in, to configure application resources separately for each customer. In short, WebAppCabaret SaaS Enablement service leaves the management of the dynamic aspects of the application to another entity (the WebAppCabaret SaaS Automaton service).

WebAppCabaret is a Web site and Application Hosting service, owned and operated by WebAppShowcase, founded in 1998. WebAppShowcase specializes in Java EE and Open Source and Commercial based server development, products, application hosting and services. The company is a Java EE Web Hosting and Outsourcing Service Provider, offering the latest standards based JAVA EE Servlet containers, EJB servers, and JVMs. Providing options such as e-Commerce, EJB 2.x, the latest PHP, Perl and CGI scripting, High Availability Failover, and Disaster Recovery.

For more information, please visit: www.webappcabaret.com.

Mechanicsville, Virginia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - July 31, 2007 - Web hosting and domain registration provider, Netpreneur Host, has partnered with Mobile SMS Marketing, to offer a service designed to allow users to achieve more intimate relationships with customers, than through other methods of marketing.

By allowing customers to communicate through cell phone text messaging, the service utilizes the Mobile SMS Marketing phone number, together with a special text string. When end-users send a company’s unique text string to the phone number provided by Mobile SMS Marketing, they are added to that company’s list, and can be sent special offers and updates from the company. For instance, sending the word CLUB to 41513 from a cell phone demonstrates how a night club or disco might use the service.

Daniel J. Briere, CEO of Netpreneur Host explained, ”This new service allows businesses to quickly build large lists of opt-in cell phone users, which provides a captive audience of people with whom businesses can build deeper, more intimate relationships than with traditional marketing. The Mobile SMS Marketing service is a very exciting addition to our existing services that we are very happy to be able to provide to our users, and which will further differentiate us from other web hosting providers.”

Mobile SMS Marketing represents a new form of opt-in marketing for technology-oriented consumers. During an introductory period, Mobile SMS Marketing is waiving the service setup fee, and also offering discounts for three-month and six-month accounts.

To learn more about Netpreneur Host, please visit: www.netpreneurhost.com.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 23, 2007 -
ServerPoint, formerly APlusHosting.com, has introduced a new value-add blog hosting service to its existing web hosting plans, available at no additional charge to customers, developed exclusively for ServerPoint.

ServerPoint, a provider of Shared, Reseller, Colocated, Dedicated and VPS hosting solutions, will allow customers to take advantage of blogging without the technical requirements of managing a blog application. The new service, which is available on all existing shared hosting plans at no additional charge, offers customers a pre-installed, fully configured and optimized copy of WordPress, an open source blog application. With the customization, features such as comment spam protection and database caching, to prevent failure under heavy traffic, are included. Customers can easily select from over 50 free themes for their site, and can get their blog started in just minutes.

Erik Johnson, CTO of ServerPoint remarked, ”We are making a conscious effort to introduce new and exciting value-add features to our hosting services. By integrating a customized version of WordPress into our already optimized hosting environment, we can provide our customers with the power and control they demand from open source software, with the ease of use that traditional shared hosting provides.”

ServerPoint has been developing the new service for the past several months, and it will continue to refine and update its version of the software in the future. The company’s development team even created a custom WordPress auto-installer script, allowing for more flexibility than usually available with traditional one-click installations, such as Netenberg’s Fantasico suite for cPanel. ServerPoint’s auto-installer script completely configures WordPress and builds the database, so customers can simply log in and begin blogging. The blog hosting service is targeted primarily to business customers, who may choose to add blogs alongside their existing sites. ServerPoint plans to introduce additional hosted applications in the coming months.

Founded in 1998, ServerPoint is a recognized Web hosting industry leader, providing an array of Shared, Reseller, Colocated, Dedicated and VPS hosting solutions to thousands of customers in over 100 countries. ServerPoint has been formerly known as APlusHosting.com.

For more information about blog hosting from ServerPoint, please visit: www.serverpoint.com/english/wordpress-blogs.phtml.

To learn more about ServerPoint, please visit: www.serverpoint.com.

Englewood, Colorado - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 2, 2007 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, has been recognized by CMP Media’s VARBusiness magazine, as one of North America’s top technology service providers, placing in the top 25 percent of the list.

Iimproving its position this year to #113 in the 10th annual VARBusiness 500 ranking, Verio provides many of the services and high growth technologies increasing in importance to solution providers and the customers they serve, including managed security solutions and storage network infrastructure.

The 500 companies are the leading revenue producers among approximately 90,000 solution provider organizations and account for $324 billion in sales of information-technology services and products. The complete listing of the VARBusiness 500 was published in a recent issue of the biweekly business magazine that provides strategic insight for technology integrators.

Robert C. DeMarzo, Editorial Director of VARBusiness remarked, ”Companies such as Verio are an integral part of the decision-making process for implementing technological innovations for business and government.”

James Treuting, President of global sales for Verio added, ”Verio’s placement on the VARBusiness 500 is a strong indication of our growing base of channel partners. By giving our partners complete access to a variety of higher value hosting services and a range of Internet services unavailable from many other hosting vendors, our channel program has seen tremendous success over the past year and we intend to continue to this trend throughout the year.”

To complete the 2004 ranking of the 500 largest North American solution providers, VARBusiness partnered with research firms Bernett Research and Answers Research to help collect and analyze the data. VARBusiness designed the survey which was administered on its Web site from early February through mid-April, as a means to collect the data. Finalists were ranked according to their fiscal year 2003 revenue. The viaVerio Partner Program was also recognized earlier this year with a five-star rating awarded from VARBusiness Magazine. This program assessment reviewed more than 280 partner programs for the coveted five-star rating in the magazine’s 10th annual Partner Programs Guide survey.

The combined recognition for viaVerio Partner Program reiterates the breadth and depth of the channel program offerings and benefits to viaVerio partners, and the importance of the partner channel to Verio’s strategic long-term goals. The viaVerio Partner Program is designed to provide small to medium enterprise resellers and larger channel partners with access to a variety of high-value hosting services, including hosting on a dedicated, shared, virtual private server or managed private server platform, in addition to a range of Internet services such as managed services and network access. In addition, viaVerio resellers receive volume discounts, private label opportunities, and technical, sales and marketing support based on program participation.

For the past 17 years, VARBusiness has endeavored to provide strategic business and technology insight for Solution Providers through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design.

Verio Inc. is a provider of hosting and managed services for small and midmarket companies and partners worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT America, US subsidiary of NTT Communications, which provides complementary global network access reaching over 200 countries worldwide. The company offers businesses a range of Internet services, including web hosting, managed services and value-added professional service offerings. Verio supports its operations with scalable global infrastructure and systems including the NTT Communications Global IP Network, and provides business solutions to customers and partners in more than 146 countries.

To learn more about VARBusiness products, events and services, please visit: www.varbusiness.com.

For more information about the viaVerio Partner Program, please visit: http://www.verio.com/partners.

To learn more about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

Foster City, California - (The Hosting News) - June 22, 2007 - The first Editor’s Choice Award for Service Catalog contributions, from the Open Source Service Catalog Community (OSSCC), has been bestowed upon the service offering definition, ”Dedicated Hosting Environment,” for its completeness, relevance, and usefulness.

The OSSCC Editorial Board is comprised of an independent team of ITIL experts, consultants, industry analysts, and practitioners. With more than 2,100 members, the Open Source Service Catalog Community is the most popular forum worldwide for IT practitioners to leverage best practices and proven examples as they get started with their Service Catalog initiatives. The vendor-neutral community includes areas for members to download Service Catalog templates, and encourages members to upload their Service Catalog examples to share among the community. The site also includes free resources, articles, community forums and links to relevant blogs.

Rodrigo Flores, CTO of newScale and Chairman of the Open Source Service Catalog Community Editorial Board remarked, ”The phenomenal response to the new Open Source Service Catalog Community demonstrates the growing hunger for information and best practice Service Catalog content.”

The winning Dedicated Hosting Environment service offering describes the end-to-end delivery and back-end management of a Windows or Linux application hosting environment. Unlike other entries that were focused on IT services provided to an end user or business unit, this particular service offering is an Infrastructure service provided to other IT groups or application development teams in a large enterprise. As a result, this service offering would ultimately be included as a component within a bundled service under the category of Application Services or Application Management.

The editorial board consists of chairman Rodrigo Flores, newScale, Inc.; Loy Allen, Perot Systems; Charles Betz, author and IT practitioner; Eric Borboen, Blue Infinity; Kris Brittain, Gartner; Troy DuMoulin, Pink Elephant; Martin Gandar, Butler Group; Brian Grafsgaard, QBS; Chip Gliedman, Forrester; Char LaBounty, LaBounty and Associates, Inc.; Michael Nieves, Accenture; Don Ottomano, Column Technologies; and Kirk Rothenberger, IT director. Detailed bios of the editorial board members are available at: www.servicecatalogs.com/Config/IntroText/AboutUs.

Martin Gandar of the Butler Group added, ”The description of this service offering is excellent. It outlines the service level options and pricing – and the different tiers of service are clearly defined. For IT practitioners seeking to define their application hosting services, this provides an excellent starting point and a valuable contribution to the community.”

The Dedicated Hosting Environment service includes a companion service request template, for requesting the setup, maintenance and on-going management of a new dedicated hosting environment in a shared data center. This template provides a real-world depiction of how to link the service definition in an actionable Service Catalog to the Request Fulfillment process for provisioning. As highlighted by one member’s comments in the community,”I do not know if this is coincidental. I had developed a very similar Service Request form 2 years ago. This form actually validates what my own development was. Thanks a ton.”

As a founding sponsor of the community, newScale is providing a shared instance of its newScale AlignmentCenter and newScale RequestCenter applications so that community members can envision how their service definitions could be published in a Service Catalog and communicated to business customers and end users. Membership is to the community is free and open to everyone, to encourage cross-industry collaboration and an open dialogue among ITIL experts, practitioners, and novices.

The community is dedicated to the creation, sharing and distribution of Service Catalog and Service Portfolio best practices. The community is created, managed and maintained by independent IT practitioners committed to helping deliver greater IT value and to foster better IT-business alignment. As an Open Source community, contributions are critical to building and fostering a vibrant forum to achieve the community’s goals.

To learn more about the winning service definition, please visit: www.servicecatalogs.com.

For more information about the Open Source Service Catalog Community, please visit: www.servicecatalogs.com.

Pasadena, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 5, 2007 - ASP.NET and SQL and Windows hosting firm, DiscountASP.NET, has garnered a Best Hosting Service award, from asp.netPRO Readers, for the third consecutive year. In addition, DiscountASP.NET also received the Honorable Mention award for the 2007 Product of the Year category.

During March/April 2007, asp.netPRO Magazine asked readers to participate in voting for their favorite ASP.NET products and services. There were 22 categories, including Best IDE, Best Forum Application, and Best Hosting Services.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”We are extremely grateful to the asp.netPRO magazine readership and the ASP.NET developer community for their continued support. Our team is energized by this win and remains committed to innovation in the ASP.NET hosting and SQL hosting space.”

DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and featured ASP.NET Host in the Microsoft ASP.NET Hosting Advantage Program. The DiscountASP.NET web hosting plan includes instant activation, access to custom-built ASP.NET-powered control panels, web hosting on secure and reliable ASP.NET platforms where each website is hosted in its own isolated application pool, and access to many free ASP and ASP.NET components.

For more information about DiscountASP.NET, please visit: www.discountasp.net.

San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - May 22, 2007 - Web host and national provider of integrated voice and data communications firm, Covad Communications Group, Inc., has unveiled its new Bonded T1 Service for Small Businesses and Distributed Enterprises, including mission critical bandwidth and advanced applications.

The new service combines two 1.5 Megabits per second (Mbps) T1 lines together to serve businesses with fast, symmetrical 3.0 Mbps data speeds. The service is available nationwide throughout the same footprint as Covad’s standard T1 service.

Eric Weiss, Covad Chief Marketing Officer remarked, ”With the launch of Bonded T1, Covad enhances its ability to provide mission critical bandwidth to meet the demands of businesses running new and advanced applications. With Bonded T1, Covad customers enjoy lower costs, faster data speeds, and simpler installation and maintenance than they do with separate T1 lines. We also provide 24×7, dedicated support to ensure a superior customer experience.”

Atlanta-based Post Properties is a current Covad T1 customer requiring more bandwidth to conduct its business. Bill Nesmith, IT Manager for Post Properties commented, ”We have been a Covad customer for six years and wanted to augment our T1 service in order to run more complex applications. These applications support essential business functions, such as: forecasting and budgeting, accounts payable, lease tracking, and running virtual tours of properties over our website. We are upgrading our service to Bonded T1 and look forward to continuing our relationship with Covad.”

In addition to providing increased bandwidth performance, Covad Bonded T1 also offers small businesses the opportunity to save money by reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their data communications. For example, a typical small business customer with 40 employees working in a single location can reduce its TCO by over 20 percent by purchasing a Covad Bonded T1 instead of just adding another single T1. With the introduction of Bonded T1, Covad also continues to be the easy to do business with provider, enabling customers to reduce administrative and technical expenses, and retain a simple infrastructure with one set of IP addresses, one Internet access point, and one network firewall.

Companies are increasingly turning to higher bandwidth services to meet their business needs, according to industry research firm In-Stat. Covad’s launch of Bonded T1 demonstrates its understanding of the evolving needs of the small business communications market, where the company is among the leaders in competitive solutions, said David Lemelin, In-Stat senior analyst. The trends behind this adoption include:

• Applications increasingly require higher bandwidth. These include: videoconferencing, e-learning, telemedicine, corporate intranet/extranet, premium CRM, and others. These more powerful mission-critical applications help businesses make fast intelligent decisions on virtually every aspect of their operations, including forecasting, manufacturing, inventory control, distribution, customer service, and more.
• More applications are being centralized with the growth of software as a service. Remote and branch offices need bandwidth to ensure adequate application performance to maintain productivity.
• More applications are being designed for web access and encrypted to reduce client software support cost. The web browser is now the standardized interface to a new generation of business applications. Browser based applications can utilize up to 5 times the bandwidth of typical client-server applications. More encryption is adding traffic overhead.
• Outsourcing (i.e. data storage, HR, IT support) via the Internet.
• Compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and Basel II increases the amount and rate of data transfers.

Covad’s Bonded T1 is made possible through recent upgrades to Covad’s next-generation broadband network and is available through Covad and its network of distribution partners. Call 1-888-GO-COVAD or contact your Covad channel partner to take advantage of introductory pricing on Bonded T1 services.

A nationwide provider of integrated voice and data communications, Covad offers DSL, Voice Over IP, T1, web hosting, managed security, IP and dial-up, wireless broadband, and bundled voice and data services directly through Covad’s network and through Internet Service Providers, value-added resellers, telecommunications carriers and affinity groups to small and medium-sized businesses and home users. According to the company, as the first company to commercially deploy DSL in the United States, Covad has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a network that passes more than 57 million homes and businesses in 44 states - the largest nationwide footprint of any DSL company. Covad broadband services are currently available across the nation in 235 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) which represent over 50 percent of all US homes and businesses. Corporate headquarters is located at 110 Rio Robles, San Jose, California 95134. Telephone: 1-888-GO-COVAD.

For more information about Covad Wireless services, please visit: www.covadwireless.com.

To learn more Covad, please visit: www.covad.com.