Phoenix, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - September 26, 2008 - Dedicated server offerings, with a guarantee which previously only applied to email and shared web hosting, are now offered at Brinkster Communications.

Jared Stauffer, President and CEO of Brinkster explained, ”After revamping our dedicated server lineup in June 2008 we saw a significant increase in demand. The 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee makes Brinkster an obvious choice as we have virtually eliminated any risk for the customer.”

Brinkster’s 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is a satisfaction guarantee and states: ”during the first ninety days after you purchase service with us, if you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your money minus any setup or domain name fees.” The money back guarantee is not without its limits. The max a customer can get back is $900 and the refund may be limited if a highly customized dedicated server setup is ordered.

Clint Poole, COO of Brinkster remarked, ”When we made the decision to ramp up our dedicated server business we knew the bar had been raised quite high in this arena over the past few years. We did extensive research and made a significant investment to revamp our dedicated server platform. Our customers have validated our efforts and the response has been exciting. Extending a 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is our way of telling the customer we truly believe in this product.”

Since 1999, Brinkster has been providing web hosting services to customers in over 175 countries from its office and data center locations. Content Management AG, customized the CM4all WebsiteCreator user interface to match Brinkster’s corporate design standards and installed the software in Brinkster’s data center, designed to create a seamless experience for end users.

For more information about Brinkster’s dedicated servers, please visit: www.brinkster.com/server.

To learn more about Brinkster’s 90 Day Money Back Guarantee, please visit: www.brinkster.com/guarantee.aspx.

For more about Brinkster, please visit: www.brinkster.com.

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - April 21, 2008 - Web hosting firm, HostMySite.com, has redesigned its website, with strong focus on managed dedicated servers and VPS hosting, as the culmination of several months of internal and outside design and development work.

The website also introduces a new tagline for the HostMySite.com brand: ‘Service Defined’. The ‘Service Defined’ tagline encompasses the deep committment that HostMySite.com has developed for 100% customer satisfaction. HostMySite.com CEO, Lou Honick, has outlined the company’s service philosophy at: www.hostmysite.com/servicedefined. The ‘Service Defined’ theme is also evident in the presented customer testimonials, which confirm the strategic value in maintaining the highest levels of customer service and support.

The new HostMySite.com website presents web hosting solutions to four key audience segments: personal website creators, professional developers and designers, small business website owners, and those needing enterprise scale hosting solutions. The site also builds on the strong markets that HostMySite.com has served in managed dedicated servers and VPS hosting. The managed dedicated sections of the website have been updated to present a complete online data center tour, vastly increased detail on the dedicated server offerings at HostMySite.com and tools for determining which dedicated server solutions best match a client’s needs. To view the new dedicated server section of the HostMySite.com website please visit: www.hostmysite.com/dedicatedservershosting.

Tom Shebest, Creative Director at HostMySite.com remarked, ”Development time was reduced by implementing the Agile development process, ensuring tasks were completed correctly and on time. HTML and CSS production time was reduced significantly by implementing a CSS framework that allowed us to rapidly move from wireframes to complete webpages. The combination of these three factors allowed the team to spend the majority of development time improving the HostMySite.com experience for our customers.”

The company included clients and client testimonials within the design, in keeping with HostMySite’s customer-centric approach. The main page of the website focusses on testimonials from current HostMySite.com clients. The ‘Customer Stories’ section of the new website highlights various customers who convey their experiences with HostMySite.com. To see these customer stories, please view: www.hostmysite.com/stories.

HostMySite.com was founded by partners Lou Honick and Neil Heuer in 1997. The foundation of the culture at HostMySite.com is a top-down commitment to complete customer satisfaction. HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with affordable dedicated servers, VPS hosting, and ColdFusion hosting, supported by 24×7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and live online chat.

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

Lancashire, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 29, 2008 - Web hosting provider, Pulse Web Hosting (which recently replaced Supanet Hosting), has initiated upgrades and enhancements, designed to facilitate website acquisition and management.

Sam Benson, Product Marketing Manager for Pulse, noted, ”We provide a plethora of information about our hosting packages clearly and prominently on our website. Signing up to a package is now as simple as counting 1,2,3.”

Pulse Web Hosting, following a wide-ranging and thorough review of its signup process, admin system and web builder program, has developed a system that requires three steps for customers to select a domain, choose the appropriate hosting package and make a secure payment. Pulse’s recently relaunched, new look website offers a complete overview of every package making the selection of the one most appropriate easy.

Every customer gets access to the company’s Web Builder for no additional charge. Using a template system it takes less than an hour to build a professional looking website using the Web Builder and it takes one click to upload a site onto the web.

Mr. Benson added, ”Our newly redeveloped Web Builder is so simple anyone can use it, even if they have no previous web building experience. There’s no need for complicated coding or confusing web page building programs, best of all, our Web Builder is completely free.” Additionally the admin system for managing the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a website has been completely overhauled.

Recently, Pulse awared a holiday competition winner its top hosting package, Power Plus, free for 2008.

The Power Plus package includes a free fully configured e-commerce platform and a free blog. The competition ran on the Pulse homepage throughout December 2007 and was open to anybody who visited the company’s site.

Pulse will be running a plethora of offers and competitions during the next 12 months as part of its plan to revolutionise the web host industry. Mr. Benson added, ”This competition is only the first of many offers and prizes that we will be offering in 2007. We feel the gift of quality hosting is best that anyone can receive.”

Pulse Web Hosting launched on November 22, 2008 and replaced Supanet’s previous hosting service, Supanet Hosting. Pulse Web Hosting offers low-cost high quality hosting services, with selected packages fully configured for e-commerce web sites. The hosting provider also offers email packages, domains, dedicated servers and corporate services such as online marketing and business broadband. Pulse web hosting has invested in both network equipment and backbone connections, for the fastest access possible to content.

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

La Habra, California - (The Hosting News) - January 4, 2008 - Web Hosting provider, Lunarpages, has instituted extensive upgrades to its Basic and Business Web Hosting Plans, including more storage and bandwidth, than other typical hosting plans.

The Lunarpages Basic Hosting Plan now comes with 1,500 GB of storage space and 15,000 GB bandwidth, several times what the competition currently offers. Their Business Plan, already boasting unlimited storage space, was increased as well to include 15,000 GB of bandwidth.

Amy Armitage, Business Development and Marketing Director at Lunarpages noted, ”We know it’s hard to find the perfect web host for your website. So we’re making it one step easier to sign up with us and get the service and support you need. We offer the best 24/7 support in the industry, Free Domain Registration, and incredible hosting services for every level of webmaster. Now, we’ve added the biggest storage web space and data transfer rates in the industry. That’s hard to beat.”

In addition to the new plan increases, Lunarpages continues to provide free 24/7 support to their 140,000 ecstatic customers, and plans even bigger upgrades and add-ons in the future.

Lunarpages Web Hosting, based in California and serving over 100,000 customers in over 200 countries, offers affordable award winning shared and dedicated web hosting and web design services. Lunarpages offers the webmaster community to easily and quickly build and maintain a website that is customized to individual needs. The company is consistently rated the most dependable, responsive and recommended host, while encouraging community interaction via the Lunarpages Forums and the Lunarpages Blog. Lunarpages.com provides a free domain for life to customers,with multiple domain packages for shared
and dedicated accounts, hosted on UNIX and Windows Servers.

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

Vancouver, British Columbia - (The Hosting News) - October 4, 2007 - Internet infrastructure and hosting solutions provider, PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc.,
has upgraded its dedicated hosting services, with the SWsoft Plesk 8.2 for Linux Control Panel application.

Plesk provides server administrators with a simple yet powerful tool to manage their servers and websites. Plesk 8.2 also includes an intuitive interface that allows users without a technical background to create new email accounts and manage domains.

Ted Smith, Vice President of dedicated hosting for PEER 1 offered, ”The decision to incorporate the new version of the SWsoft Plesk control panel was an easy one for PEER 1. SWsoft listens to customer feedback, suggestions, and other criteria and actually implements them in upgrades. This new version includes many features beneficial to our customers like the Single Sign-on (SSO) feature that assists with user authentication, and allows users to go from one application to another without having to sign in for each one.”

The Plesk control panel automates a large number of tasks to help service providers reduce operating costs and resources. The new feature set also includes additional skins and the ability to customize, along with improved security via a redesigned subsystem and support for third-party FTP servers to assist with secure uploads.

Kurt Daniel, Vice President of marketing and alliances at SWsoft added, ”By offering Plesk 8.2 with its managed hosting packages, PEER 1 customers can take advantage of new options for e-commerce and secure email to drive incremental revenue. Plesk 8.2 further advances our OPEN FUSION initiative to deliver an open, integrated platform for SaaS and hosting.”

OPEN FUSION is an SWsoft technology initiative to improve integration among a wide range of systems, third-party applications and modules, and custom and in-house solutions. The OPEN FUSION platform enables optimized delivery of SaaS and traditional hosting services to help ISVs and service providers take full advantage of new opportunities in the market.

SWsoft is a global leader in virtualization and automation software that helps consumers, businesses, and service providers optimize their use of technology. The company’s software powers more than 130,000 servers and 600,000 desktops worldwide. The SWsoft product line includes Virtuozzo — the leading operating system virtualization solution, Parallels — the leading desktop virtualization product, and Plesk — the leading server control panel. Founded in 1999, the company has offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

In September, PEER 1 expanded its EMC Platform, across multiple dedicated hosting data center operations. The IT Infrastructure provider has deployed the EMC Storage Area Network Platform in Atlanta, Miami and Silicon Valley. The EMC platform was developed to provide the best technology available, to optimize PEER 1’s data backup solution, providing managed dedicated hosting customers with faster and more reliable backup and data recovery.

The data backup service from PEER 1 provides customers with either daily or weekly backup options of local server storage to the EMC Storage Area Network in a highly secure area of the PEER 1 data centers. PEER 1’s backup and data recovery solutions are fully managed by internal PEER 1 data backup experts and support professionals.

In addition to backup services, the EMC storage solution allows PEER 1 to offer highly available mass storage options to customers over 4Gbit Fiber Channel connections. This external storage will provide additional scaling options to PEER 1 customers that have traditionally been limited to local server storage.

PEER 1 is an Internet infrastructure provider delivering highly scalable hosting solutions to facilitiate fast performing online presence, with 100% availability. Since its inception in 1999, the company has grown to include data centers and network points of presence in 17 major cities across North America and Europe, all connected by PEER 1’s world class Internet network. PEER 1 serves a variety of small and medium-sized businesses including emerging technology companies, hosting providers, online gaming providers, Internet phone (VoIP) companies, and professional services organizations. The company’s headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada and the stock is traded on the TSX Venture exchange under the symbol PIX.

For more information about Peer 1, please visit: www.peer1.com.

To learn more about SWsoft, please visit: www.swsoft.com.

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - September 19, 2007 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has launched an upgraded .NET 3.5 Framework Hosting Beta Program, as an enhanced version of its IIS7 hosting beta program.

This latest Microsoft Windows 2008 Server (Longhorn) and Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) application, is available to all DiscountASP.NET customers at no additional cost.

.NET Framework 3.5 expands on the previous versions, with Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and new tools for developers to simplify building applications using Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.

Takeshi Eto, VP marketing at DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”DiscountASP.NET is committed to innovation in the ASP.NET hosting niche and being an early adopter for new .NET technology. Now, our customers can begin experimenting with .NET Framework 3.5 in a live hosted environment. We are also excited to offer our customers with some features that they have been asking for - like LINQ and FastCGI.”

DiscountASP.NET customers can enable their free beta .NET 3.5 hosting accounts instantly via their hosting control panel. This beta hosting program will continue until the final version of Windows Server 2008 is officially released.

This new development, comes on the heels of the company’s partnership with video tutorial resource for Microsoft developers, LearnVisualStudio.NET, to offer special promotions for consumers. Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive free monthly videos and a 20% discount on LearnVisualStudio.NET’s subscription fees to access the entire ASP.NET tutorial library. LearnVisualStudio.NET users can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan.

LearnVisualStudio.NET offers over 100 hours of screen-cast videos covering ASP.NET, VB, C#, AJAX, ADO.NET and all things .NET that help developers build their skills, their careers and their future with video tutorials for beginners to seasoned veterans.

In addition, DiscountASP.NET received the 2007 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Web Hosting, from Visual Studio Magazine. The 2007 winners, which appear in the June issue, are chosen by Visual Studio Magazine’s readers and honor excellent software and services in 22 development categories. DiscountASP.NET also received the Visual Studio Readers’ Choice Award for Best Hosting in 2005 and the Best Hosting Merit Award in 2006.

DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Windows-based shared hosting provider, focused on ASP.NET and SQL database hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and Microsoft ASP.NET Hosting Advantage Program featured member, DiscountASP.NET was one of the first hosts to launch ASP.NET 2.0 hosting and SQL 2005 database hosting.

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

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - September 4, 2007 - Customers of HostMySite.com web hosting, will now have the option to use a simpler interface to manage Windows servers, through HostMySite’s partnership with creator of Windows-based control panel, the Helm, and software-based systems and services developer, WebHost Automation Ltd.

Helm is considered unique among control panels in that it interacts directly with the services on a server, rather than storing settings in its own database. For example, if a customer were to make changes to IIS, DNS, or email directly on the server, those changes would be reflected in Helm.

According to the company, HostMySite.com’s customers can use Helm to simplify the administration of Windows servers, in addition to Helm’s built in billing system, offering hosting reseller customers with tools to help with management, process transactions, and run the hosting business.

Lou Honick, CEO of HostMySite.com commented, ”HostMySite.com has extensively tested numerous control panel solutions for both Linux and Windows. It is our experience that since Helm was designed specifically for Windows, it has far superior performance on that platform. The product is easy to support and offers a robust control panel solution. We look forward to our ongoing relationship with WebHost Automation and their products.”

Mark Hall, Founder and COO with WebHost Automation Ltd. offered, ”We are excited about partnering with HostMySite.com. By offering Helm with their dedicated servers, HostMySite.com customers now have access to the leading control panel for Microsoft Windows servers. We look forward to working with HostMySite.com to help their customers grow their hosting businesses using Helm.”

Recently, HostMySite.com celebrated its 10th year in the hosting industry business this month, while earning placement on INC. 500’s last two lists of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States. Founded by Lou Honick (CEO) and Neil Heuer (CTO) in 1997, the Newark-based Internet technology company was also recently mentioned and featured, as a ‘Great Place to Work,’ by the Delaware Today magazine publication. The pair launched the company with a small amount of capital made from their website design business. Now, both are prepping for a move to their third state-of-the-art facility which will house a larger technology infrastructure that supports the growing number of customers (over 65,000 in 126 countries), and ample room for the amount of employees (180) needed to support it. The new facility is anticipated to bring a significant number of new jobs to the Newark area.

WebHost Automation Limited is based in Bristol, United Kingdom, and has developed Helm, a multi-server control panel software for Windows. Since start-up in 2002, WebHost Automation has grown steadily, and now has customers in well over 130 countries.

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.

For more information about The Helm community, please visit: http://forums.webhostautomation.com.

To learn more about the new Helm control panel at HostMySite.com, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/dedicated/helm.

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

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Rajasthan, India - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 23, 2007 - India-based web hosting provider, ZNet India, is offering free web site building software, with each of its web hosting plans, in addition to a double web space and bandwidth special promotion.

Some of the features available in the site builder include over 800 unique designs and 15,000 templates, a web page editor, image/photo editor, navigation or menu builder, guest book, event calendar, news updates, animated cursors, language translation and current date and time stamps.

In addition, the company is also offering marketing features to help optimize web sites for search engines, such as an email marketing tool, blog creation and management, customized forms builder and information on how to incorporate banners.

ZNet India was founded in 1999, and operates from Jaipur, Rajasthan India. The company’s servcies include Linux and Windows web hosting, web design, domain registration, e-commerce SSL certificats, and SEO services.

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

Lancashire, United Kingdom - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 21, 2007 - Subsidiary of broadband ISP, Supanet.com, Supanet Hosting, has unveiled a redesigned website, revealing a comprehensively designed, newly featured, more user-friendly interface, available at the usual domain location.

Sam Benson, Project Marketing Manager for Supanet Hosting remarked, ”We are very confident that our web hosting services are the best available and now we can boast having the best-looking and most functional website as well.”

As part of the overhaul, the old ordering and sign-up process has been replaced by what the company hopes is a more efficient and easy-to-follow, three-step system. Supanet Hosting’s full range of fast web hosting services, dedicated server packages and email accounts are explained in detail on the newly designed site.

The offers that the company makes available for its hosting customers, such as 50 pounds of MIVA pay per click adverts and a free Fax2Mail number, are also displayed prominently following the redesign. Additionally, the new-look site gives access to Supanet Hosting’s free web builder. For the first time. perspective customers can ‘test drive’ the web builder through a free trial.

Mr. Benson added, ”The web builder is one of our key features and as part of the new site launch we have decided to make a free trial of it available. This lets everybody try it and see how simple and easy it makes building a website.”

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

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

Louisville, Kentucky - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 31, 2007 - Microsoft Windows based hosting services, MaximumASP, has chosen Global Crossing as a third Tier 1 bandwidth provider to deliver high bandwidth availability and rapid response times.

The addition of a third bandwidth provider allows MaximumASP customers to leverage multiple high speed Internet connections through fully redundant OC-12 SONET-based connections supplied by Qwest, AT&T, and now Global Crossing. By intelligently routing traffic across these providers, MaximumASP gives the client the best local and international network paths, allowing customers to fully maximize the optimal routes for Internet traffic.

Eric Peek, Director of Security at MaximumASP commented, ”One of MaximumASP’s responsibilities is to anticipate the requirements and growth needs of our customers. A third internet bandwidth provider ensures even faster response times to and from our datacenter and a better experience overall for the end user.”

MaximumASP has seen rapid growth with customers that are using the Internet to distribute software as a service (SaaS), providing on-demand video over the Web, as well as hosting popular sites that have been referenced on blog and linking sites such as Digg and Twitter. The need to rapidly ramp-up bandwidth availability has been a primary requirement for these customers, and MaximumASP has responded with a flexible network design that allows quick changes to customer rate limits, a modular core network that provides easy expansion without customer downtime, and the addition of bandwidth providers as needed.

Mr.
Peek added, ”By partnering with Tier 1 providers such as Qwest, AT and T and Global Crossing we are giving our customers the response times and extensive bandwidth requirements expected in today’s marketplace. Additionally, we don’t take shortcuts on performance or reliability and that’s why we settle for nothing less than Tier 1 internet bandwidth.”

MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Microsoft Windows based hosting services. The company currently hosts more than 44,000 domains for customers in over 60 countries.

To learn more about MaximumASP, please visit: www.maximumasp.com.

Pearl River, New York - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - July 9, 2007 - Web hosting firm, Easy CGI, has upgraded its service portfolio, by increasing the bandwidth and disk space capacity for all of the shared web hosting plans offered. All current customers have received the upgrade, at no additional cost, in the firm’s second shared resources enhancement this year.

The shared resource limit for the Advanced Plan has been increased from 100GB disk space and 1000GB bandwidth to 350GB disk space and 3,500GB bandwidth. The limit for the Advanced X2 Plan has been improved from 200GB disk space and 2,000GB bandwidth to 500GB disk space and 5,000 GB bandwidth, while the limit for the Advanced X4 Plan has been raised dramatically from 300GB disk space and 4,000GB bandwidth to 750GB disk space and 7,500 GB bandwidth.

Dan Richfield, President and C.E.O. of Easy CGI offered, ”This is our second massive increase in disk space and bandwidth capabilities for our customers in less then a year. Our current customers continue to benefit from our desire to provide the most resources at an affordable price, while our new potential customers have yet another reason to choose Easy CGI over other hosting companies.”

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

To learn more about the latest upgrades on all CGI hosting plans, please visit: http://easycgi.com/services/overview.html.

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

Jersey, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 9, 2007 - Web hosting company, Hostony, has upgraded its web hosting offerings, to feature the resources of all shared plans, including doubling of the Profi and Special web hosting plans.

In addition to the upgrades, Hostony will offer the newly structured plans, without an increase in its pricing. Customers may experience increased terabytes of bandwidth, more gigabytes of diskspace, as well as the customary, usual services, including technical support for both Linux and Windows plans.

The upgraded ‘Special’ hosting plan, offers 600 GB of webspace, rather than 300GB. In addition, consumers will be able to use 6 TB of bandwidth in place of 3 TB. Among these benefits, the company also offers free domain, for $6.95 with free setup.

The Profi Plan provides customers with 400GB (instead of 200GB) of diskspace, 4 TB bandwidth,1 free domain and 20 hosted sites for $4.95. Other plans’s features are: unlimited email accounts, PHP, Perl and Python support, MySQL, SSL, PhpMyAdmin, 24/7 support. In addition, Hostony allows to hosting of unlimited subdomains, unlimited parked domains and provides the cPanel/Helm control panel with user-friendly interface. The company provides consumers with security guarantee. The plans where developed to serve all types of web sites, from smaller cut-away sites, to larger, more comprehensive business web sites.

Founded in 2001, Hostony.com is a hosting solutions provider, offering virtual hosting, private label reselling and managed servers. Serving online businesses and hosting companies with the latest technology, its servers are equipped with the latest hosting management software (CPANEL/WHM and Plesk).

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