There are many different kinds of hosting for businesses to choose from, and depending on your business model, some kinds of hosting will make more sense than others.

When it comes to tech companies — i.e. companies that exist and operate primarily online — there two alternatives to actually having to invest in the infrastructure of having your own servers in-house. For companies that are relatively well established and are experiencing stable growth, dedicated hosting probably makes the most sense. But for newer companies still in the start-up phase of their existence, cloud hosting will probably make a lot more sense. Let’s take a look at how these two kinds of hosting differ, and why your tech company should rely on one rather than the other. read more »

Agreed, it’s a pain in more places than one when you have to migrate from one web host to the other, but when your needs grow and your current host fails to keep up, it’s best to do the dumping as soon as possible. But before you sever all ties, you must protect what’s yours and make sure your site is up and running without a hitch at your new host. Here’s a list of 13 things you must do before you dump your web host:

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McKremie Offers Web Hosting for Non-Profits and Public Schools
Las Vegas, NV (October 29, 2008)—McKremie Web Hosting Solutions is proud to announce the launch of the Nonprofit and Public School Web Hosting Program.  This is a program that offers all US-based registered 501(c)(3) non profit organizations and public schools free web hosting services. This is a new service being offered by McKremie Web Hosting Solutions and it is available to all US-based non-profits, not just those located in Las Vegas! In order to request more information or to find out if your service qualifies for free web hosting, there is a request form available at the McKremie website (http://www.mckremie.com/nonprofits.php).

The web hosting plan offered by McKremie Web Hosting Solutions provides non-profits and public schools with features like 3,000 GB’s transfer, 15,000 MB disk space, unlimited MySQL databases and unlimited sub-domains.  Normally this plan would cost buyers well over two hundred dollars!

“We are pleased to give back to the organizations and schools that are the backbone to our society.  To us, there is nothing more rewarding than contributing to these worthy causes.” Says Stuart McHenry, the president of McKremie, LLC—the company that owns McKremie Web Hosting Solutions.

McKremie, LLC is a company that began offering web hosting services because its owners were frustrated with the large amounts of downtime and terrible customer support that they were experiencing with their former web hosting company.  McKremie Web Hosting Solutions boasts customer support that is US-based and available all day, every day.  The McKremie Web Hosting Solutions servers are located in Michigan and provide all clients with Tier1 bandwidth from AT&T, MCI, Level3 and Savvis.  On hand emergency generators provide each server with twenty four hours of back up power in the event of an electrical failure.

The entire team at McKremie Web Hosting Solutions is extremely excited about the Nonprofit and Public School Web Hosting Program and wants to encourage nonprofit organizations, no matter where in the US they are located, to sign up and get free web hosting!

Washington, D.C. – (The Hosting News) – July 22, 2008 – Reseller, shared and virtual private server web hosting for businesses and individuals, has launched its Managed Dedicated Container Hosting service, designed to offer dedicated servers in a virtualized environment.

Mike Noman, Owner of 2MHost noted, ”Our Managed Dedicated Container Hosting service is our company’s first major leap into the virtualization market. We have been developing this offering for the past several months and our customers who have tried the service have been enormously impressed with its performance. We are offering a fully-managed virtual solution that will give any mid-level dedicated server a serious run for its money.”

Similar to a Virtual Private Server, Managed Dedicated Container Hosting provides users with guaranteed access to server resources and a fully managed hosting environment. Plans start at $69/monthly for at least 512MB of RAM, 25GB of disk space and 25GB of backup storage. A maximum 30 users share each server, powered by 8 Intel Xeon 5430 processor cores with 16 GB of RAM.

Each Managed Dedicated Container Hosting package comes with a fully-loaded, optimized hosting environment. 2MHost installs and maintains Apache, MySQL 5, PHP 5, Ruby, Perl, Python and cPanel/WHM. Users have the option to self-manage their Dedicated Container, in which case they will be provided with root access and 2MHost will no longer maintain software in their hosting environment.

2MHost has been serving clients for nearly eight years, for nearly 30,000 Web sites, from users on six continents.

Launched in 2001, 2MHost represents the pinnacle of quality for shared and reseller hosting for businesses and individuals. Hosting nearly 30,000 Web sites, 2MHost provides its users with 24×7 live chat support and a variety of value-added software packages, including the 2MExpress Web site builder and one-click open source script installations.

To learn more about Managed Dedicated Container Hosting from 2MHost, please visit: www.2mhost.com/vps-hosting.

For more about 2MHost, please visit: www.2mhost.com.

Manchester, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – June 30, 2008 – MMO game, Cabal Online, will be hosted by online hosting services and solutions for the interactive entertainment industry, Hypernia Hosting Corp, through a global partnershp agreement with U.K.-based game publisher, GamesMasters.com LTD.

Hypernia was selected by GamesMasters.com LTD as their official international online partner based on Hypernia’s lengthy and successful history in the online games space, as it is known for providing tier-1 bandwidth for CDN, gaming and media streaming. Hypernia’s large volumes of equipment, bandwidth and facilities around the world enable game players to enjoy a robust multi-player experience.

GamesMasters.com publishes high quality games for the European online games market. GamesMasters.com is best known for their successful MMO title, Cabal Online, an RPG game product with 90,000 users, with a recent acceleration in subscribers to an additional 10,000 players per week. This rapid rate of increase in players, plus a high level of customer service, ensures that the game remains one of the best free-to-play games on the market.

James Vallord-Costa, CEO and co-founder of Hypernia, noted, ”GamesMasters.com cut their costs for bandwidth considerably after joining us. With the ‘flex computing’ capability of our on-demand utility hosting model, they were able to add new expansions and games without the added risk. Most companies would not be able to experiment with a new expansion or game, but we made it easy for them.”

GamesMasters.com will utilize Hypernia’s on-demand utility hosting model which provided flexibility and cost savings, enabling the company to undergo significant service improvements in recent months. These included the addition of updated payment methods, the release of several large patches which has vastly increased the content of the game Cabal Online, a host of new features including new hunting grounds (the Chaos Arena), new rewards for Player vs Player action (players can now gain EXP from PvP) and several important bug fixes. As a direct result of their hosting partnership with Hypernia, these upgrades have produced positive results and Cabal Online is now one of the largest games in Europe.

Hypernia provided multi-gigabit feeds as GamesMasters.com increased their player base. This functionality guaranteed an excellent Internet connection for players, no matter how many extra users were online simultaneously. To accommodate for game world growth, Hypernia also provided GamesMasters.com with new servers during different periods, while also providing an inexpensive CDN solution to keep the GamesMasters.com patches and downloads affordable for all the new users.

Thorsten Schauer, company Director at GamesMasters.com LTD offered, ”GamesMasters.com believes that game play should be easy and convenient for all MMORPG game players. With that in mind, Cabal Online was designed for new users and other MMORPG users who will be able to easily adapt to our game system. Cabal Online does not require long periods of game play. Hypernia’s role as our global hosting partner has been instrumental to our marketplace achievements with this game play plan for our customers.”

By allowing GamesMasters.com to host their own files, Hypernia helped keep users on the Cabal Online web site, instead of impacting the site’s ‘’stickiness” by driving players to third parties for file down-loading. Hypernia also provided full 24-hour customer support, a crucial feature since more than fifty percent of the Cabal Online players are based in Europe.

With the intention of providing a rich diversity of gaming styles for our customers, Games-Masters.com publishes MMO games from both the USA and Asia. The product of these two deeply differing cultures provided a gaming experience to suit all, and even niche groups of players. Initially, GamesMasters.com began publishing games crossing several genres such as Fantasy, Sports, Real Time Strategies and even Casual gaming, before expanding further into other genres.

Founded in 2001, Hypernia Hosting Corp engaged the Internet data center market with innovative service offerings that would help businesses and individuals take advantage of the speed and global reach of technology and the Internet. Hypernia believes that for organizations to be successful, they need a partner that provides solutions that spark independence and confidence in their new way of doing business. Hypernia established its high volume network for intense application hosting such as online gaming in 2002, and continues to be a leading provider of complex Internet hosting for enterprises with mission-critical Internet operations.

To learn more about GamesMasters.com LTD, please visit: www.games-masters.com.

For more information about Hypernia Hosting Corp, please visit: www.hypernia.com.

South Bend, Indiana – (Website Hosting Directory) – June 10, 2008 – Shared web hosting provider, Host Color, has added PHP-Fusion CMS to its portfolio of web hosting services, integrating the application in the auto installer software library, PowerTools.

Building and maintaining an online community with PHP Fusion is made easy – having installed all the additional modules such as forum guestbook, newsletter and file uploading functionality converts the software in a very useful and in the same time powerful tool to manage your online projects or establish successful partnerships.

Danail Stoychev, from the Marketing Department at Host Color noted, ”Host Color has great community and we share a lot of respect and trust between us and our clients and partners. This is very crucial, especially in a environment where the web is so continuously developing and pro-business orientated. This is the reason why we think building a solid and trustful community. PHP Fusion is one of those tool that can help you do that.”

PHP-Fusion is an all-in-one open source CMS written in PHP. It uses a mySQL database to store all of its content such as News, Articles, Forum Posts, Shoutbox Posts and more. Its simple and smart design makes it really easy and fast to set up and configure. PHP-Fusion implements most of the features common for other applications and integrates them in one easy to use system. There is no code understanding required to use its full flexibility and design a website for any specific needs. Also you can use some of the ready themes and customize it for your website or blog.

The Host Color branded auto-installer program is reaching almost 30 of the most used tools on the web and the main aim of the web host now is to build a greater physical and software environment to promote and help small and medium business reach their potential on the web.

Host Color LLC is a US web hosting company incorporated in Delaware, powering thousands of small business and personal websites in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, US and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company also provides fully Managed dedicated hosting through HC Servers (www.hcservers.net). It offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations.

To learn more about Host Color, please visit: www.hostcolor.com.

RSHosting.com, a web hosting company, today announced the addition of an online website builder RVSiteBuilder to its range of options.

The company declared that it has recently upgraded its entire line of reseller hosting plans, increasing storage space, bandwidth, and adding features.

It articulated that RVSiteBuilder is an advanced website builder which allows you to easily create a professional grade website within few minutes. The system also offers a powerful WYSIWYG html editor and enables users to preview sites before publishing them. Clients also receive an assortment of business-management software at no additional charge, including a billing software and free Enom account, avers the company. In addition it states that all its plans also feature FFMpeg hosting, 100% Private Nameservers, 24/7 technical support, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

“This is going to make web hosting easy for our clients. The RVSitebuilder adds additional value to our already feature-rich web hosting plans. We are excited to be able to deliver this added benefit to our growing customer base”, explained RSHosting’s Sales and Marketing Director, Mr. Sean Collar.

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 21, 2008 – C I Host, web hosting and solutions company, has launched the SecureStore backup system, designed specifically to address the needs of enterprise level customers, and offered it to all of its dedicated hosting clients.

SecureStore is the first of many business innovations currently in progress at C I Host. SecureStore offers businesses an enhanced level of security and reliability and can be customized to provide the level of protection needed. This backup system not only secures files containing vital business systems, but goes several steps further in backing File Permissions, System State, Registry, and SQL Databases.

Nicholas Claunch, Chief Technology Officer at C I Host explained, ”SecureStore is a completely different kind of backup solution from those previously offered. SecureStore is a collection of software-driven solutions that backs up and restores your data exactly as it was at the point of your most recent backup. Your files and your system can be restored as they were before a failure, reducing your downtime.”

Available for all Windows and Debian Unix servers, backups are stored off-server in C I Host’s NAS, meaning that critical system information is protected even if there is a system failure.

Allan Brand, Chief Operations Officer of C I Host commented, ”SecureStore is an enterprise class solution for a small / medium business budget. This new backup solution uses redundant hardware, and data can be restored quickly if a drive fails.”

SecureStore has the added benefit of reducing administrative overages since backups do not affect customer’s bandwidth utilization.

C I Host, based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is a web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) hosting hundreds of thousands of domains around the world. C I Host creates business-class web hosting solutions for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market, with the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by ICANN to register domain names. C I Host operates three data centers across the United States, with its main facility and Network Operations Center in Bedford, Texas. C I Host also has offices in Los Angeles and Chicago.

C I Host has been ranked among the 5,000 fastest growing companies in the United States by Inc. magazine, with over 250,000 clients and a growth rate of 85 percent, placing it at #3488 in the list. C I Host has also been ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web Hosting Guide. C I Host has been consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by cnet’s Ultimate Web Host List, HostPulse, WebHostsOnline.com and HostChart.com. C I Host was named among the Top 25 Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com.

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

Houston, Texas – (Website Hosting Directory) – May 8, 2007 – In concert with President George W. Bush’s Economic Stimulus Plan, Eleven2 Hosting has launched a new solution that will work to provide web hosting services for life, at $600.

Rodney Giles, Co-founder and CEO of Eleven2 remarked, ”We really wanted to do something out of the box here at Eleven2. A lifetime hosting plan is pretty out of the box and just the right match for President Bush’s plan. For $600, anyone is able to take advantage of our lifetime hosting plan.”

In January of 2008, Bush announced that U.S. taxpayers would get checks of several hundred dollars from the government in order to boost the economy. Eleven2 immediately began to brainstorm ways on how to give something back as well.

Eleven2 is offering lifetime hosting for $600. Based on the pricing of its "launchParty" plan, $600 would only go as far as roughly eight and a half years.

Mr. Giles continued, ”We know we are practically giving away hosting at this point. But we really wanted to do something that made people have to take a step back and say, ‘woah!’ We feel like this plan will do just that.”

In April, Eleven2 Hosting expanded its corporate management team, through an appointment of a new Customer Service Director, Cory Beavers, a hosting industry veteran.

Mr. Beavers began his career at Yahoo! Web Hosting and was most recently employed by HostGator Web Hosting. Rodney Giles, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Eleven2 noted, ”Cory’s focus will be on increasing the level of support our customers experience here at Eleven2. With Cory’s previous experience at Yahoo! Web Hosting and HostGator Web Hosting, he brings the experience, knowledge, and dedication needed to take our customer support to the next level.”

Mr. Beaver’s daily tasks include developing and implementing training programs for customer support advocates, enhancing response times on support requests, and improving the quality of responses to customers from the Eleven2 Hosting staff.

Mr. Giles added, ”Cory’s leadership in these areas will help attract customers wanting top-notch customer service at every point of service, from pre-sales to ongoing support, something rarely seen in the hosting industry. When our customers are happy, our retention rates increase and customers start spreading the word about the quality of our hosting and support services.”

In addition to adding a new customer service director, Eleven2 has plans to extend its development team to keep up with the expansion of their upcoming hosting products and services. Customers can interact with the Eleven2 Hosting team through the company’s VIP platform, a user-friendly control panel for managing billing information, support requests, daily website maintenance, and email.

Established in 2004, Eleven2 Hosting was started by two web developers who, at the time, could not find high quality hosting solutions that met their requirements. Now hosting over 60,000 websites and with ten years of experience, Eleven2 offers shared hosting, reseller hosting, and customized dedicated server plans. Data centers include locations in Houston, TX and Atlanta, GA. The company continues to reinvent the customer experience with VIP, an automated support system developed in-house. Eleven2 Hosting also provides domain sales and database/FTP/email hosting for small to medium sized businesses.

To learn more, please visit: www.eleven2.com.

Capitola, California – (The Hosting News) – May 5, 2008 – AppServer Manager 8.1, designed to automate multiple installations and configurations, has been released by application server management software developer NGASI.

Developed for application servers and applications on a single server machine, the solution works across multiple virtual servers, and across multiple physical servers. The first maintenance release for 2008 contains over 30 bug fixes and improvements. Some of the improvements, includes tighter integration for the management of remote systems with the leading web hosting control panels; the addition of key-based authentication to remote servers, which prevents the need to store passwords.

Additionally, newer versions of supported application servers have been added to the software stack. Plus, additional applications have been added to the Application Factory repository. The Application Factory enables 1 click installation of standard applications. For IT Managers, NGASI AppServer Manager enables central management of application server assets and resources spread across the enterprise. And for Service Providers, it facilitates SaaS-Enabled or Cloud-computing based JAVA Hosting.

Earlier this year, NGASI debuted the launch of its NGASI AppServer Manager 8.0, designed to automate multiple installations and configurations for Application Servers and Applications on a single server machine.

Developed to work across multiple virtual server and multiple physical servers, one of the new features included with this release is the ability to centrally manage end-to-end deployments across remote servers. This is in addition to central management on a single server or across multiple virtual servers.

Additional applications have been added to the Application Factory repository. The Application Factory enables 1 click installation of standard applications. For IT Managers, NGASI AppServer Manager enables central management of application server assets and resources spread across the enterprise. And for Service Providers, it enables SaaS-Enabled JAVA Hosting. NGASI AppServer Manager is designed to automate 99% of deployments, so consultants and IT staff can concentrate on the other 1% that really needs personal attention.

NGASI provides advanced server technology featuring a complete line of control panels, Virtual Private Server and JAVA hosting automation software including its AppServer Manager. The company combines the solid performing NGASI control panel software with the AppServer Manager, Domain Manager and Email Manager end-to-end solutions and services for hosting service providers such as Internet data centers, application service providers, managed hosting providers and web hosters.

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

Overland Park, Kansas – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – April 8, 2008 – Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has debuted its launch of a new series of promotions, developed to give consumers an advantage in the competitive online marketplace.

Customers will now receive a free hard drive upgrade when ordering the 2x Xeon 2.4 Ghz or the 2x Xeon 2.8 GHz, two of the company’s most popular dedicated hosting servers. This free additional storage is designed to maximize the value of what are already among the most fully optimized, value-packed dedicated servers in the industry.

The company has also overhauled its ”Refer a Friend” program to include all Aplus.Net shared hosting plans. For each new customer referred to Aplus.Net, the referring customer is awarded a month of free hosting on his or her existing account. All shared hosting plans, from the basic Personal Plan to the state-of-the-art eCommerce Plan, are now included in the promotion.

In addition, Aplus.Net’s previous shared hosting promotions (up to a 30% discount on annual sign-ups and free set-up) are being extended due to popular appeal.

Nathan Denny, a company spokesman noted, ”We work hard to provide Aplus.Net customers with as much value as we possibly can. A free extra hard drive not only adds crucial storage to our customers’ hosting platform, it also saves them hundreds of dollars each year. Given these somewhat uncertain economic times, that’s more important than ever.”

Recently, Aplus.Net also deployed four additions to its line of dedicated servers, including two high-power dual quad servers that are among the most optimized in the industry. New additions to the company’s line of Multi-Processor Servers are the 2x Quad Core 2.0 GHz and The 2x Quad Core 2.33 GHz servers. Each has a 2x Intel Xeon Quad-Core 1333MHz CPU, two Gigabytes of DDR2-667 ECC RAM, and a 250GB SATA Hard Drive. In addition, the servers boast double the processing power over similar models.

Joining Aplus.Net’s line of Multi-Core Servers are the Quad Core 2.13 Ghz and The Quad Core 2.4 GHz servers, both with Intel Xeon Quad-Core 1066MHz CPUs, two Gigabytes of DDR2-800 ECC RAM, and a 250 GB SATA Hard Drive. The new servers are the latest in Aplus.Net’s campaign to overhaul and rebrand its entire line of dedicated hosting services to a more hardware-based naming system.

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.

Only a few months after announcing the opening of our offices in Oslo and London, WebDeal is proud to cut the ribbon on yet another branch – this time in the United States.WebDeal’s new American division is located in San Francisco, California, in the heart of the city’s elite financial district.The opening will allow us to get closer to our partners and customers in North America, as well as extend our reach even further across the globe.WebDeal, the world’s leading specialist in eZ Publish hosting solutions, has also announced the coming opening of a new state-of-the-art data center in San Jose, California. This will allow us to bring our renowned Technical Excellence to a new market, where we will be focusing mainly on eZ Publish solutions and hosting packages ranging from Shared Premium hosting to Fully Managed Dedicated servers and clusters.The new WebDeal office opens in parallel to the new eZ Systems North American office opening in Chicago, Illinois. “We are very excited that WebDeal is bringing its considerable expertise with eZ Publish hosting to the North American market. Most of our customers choose to host their eZ Publish solutions, and WebDeal has the unique combination of proven hosting experience and deep knowledge of the eZ Publish content management system” says Graham Tillotson, Managing Director, eZ Systems North America.Fronting the new USA office is WebDeal’s Marketing & Public Relations Manager, Shezmeen Hudani. For more information on exciting new business opportunities in the North American market, please contact shezmeen@webdealhosting.com.About WebDealFounded in 2001, WebDeal is the world’s leading eZ Publish hosting provider. The company has a strong partnership with IBM in the Open Source marketplace. Mastering both conventional Intel- based servers and more advanced IBM System p servers, WebDeal has, over the years, been recognized for its high technical standards, a strategy they call “Technical Excellence”. Webdeal’s services cover both Premium Shared Hosting, Fully Managed Dedicated Servers and Fully Managed Dedicated Clusters.

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.

StrikeData.com offers reliable shared web hosting packages for individuals and businesses. Each package will come packed with CPanel, Fantastico, Instant Setup, and more. Purchase any of their web hosting packages for any period of time and receive 25% off by using the coupon code 25OFF.

If it’s a domain name that you’re in the marketplace for, Strike Data offers affordable domain registration for .com, .net, .info, .in, .co.in, and many other extensions. Be sure to visit the site and see more offers including web design, search engine optimization, and more.

New York, New York – (Website Hosting Directory) – February 21, 2008 -
Enterprise-level managed services and hosting solutions provider, Logicworks, has become the first authorized MySQL Platinum Hosting Partner, in the U.S.

As the first authorized partner of the program in U.S., Logicworks will offer customers a managed MySQL Enterprise database for the delivery of mission-critical applications. This additional offering complements Logicworks’s Managed Database Services, which includes a suite of services geared towards minimizing database downtime under any circumstance, as well as ensuring that no transactions are lost in the process of recovery.

Rich Nigro, Service Provider Business Manager at MySQL AB noted, ”A longstanding supporter of MySQL, Logicworks has been instrumental in the creation of this program. The MySQL Authorized Hosting Partner Program will enable top-tier Managed Hosting Providers, such as Logicworks, to distinguish themselves by offering premier, MySQL-certified services based on MySQL Enterprise software and support.”

With this new program, Logicworks will offer customers premier MySQL-certified services including the ability to run the MySQL Enterprise Server, while Logicworks utilizes the MySQL’s Enterprise Monitor and production technical support to ensure their customers’ service levels are met. Leveraging the suite of MySQL Enterprise’s database and monitoring software plus production support, Logicworks can deliver highly availability, scalable, and high performance data management. MySQL has proven to reduce database TCO by 90%, offering a cost-effective open source solution for companies looking to reduce their costs.

Carter Burden, CEO, Logicworks added, ”With the delivery of a formalized MySQL Hosting Partner Program, MySQL continues to expand the reach of its open source database software beyond the enterprise by offering this cost-effective solution. Logicworks has always been a proponent of MySQL and with the inauguration of this partner program, we are looking forward to offering our customers increased scalability, high availability, and support of their MySQL managed database services. Partners like MySQL help us to deliver our high Service Level Agreements (SLA) and 100% uptime guarantees.”

The hosting partnership establishes Logicworks as a premier hosting provider supplying the strongest MySQL services, software and offerings to their customers. Utilizing MySQL Enterprise, Logicworks will further enhance its promise to deliver scalable, cost-effective and highly available solutions. MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company’s flagship offering is ‘MySQL Enterprise’, a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services

MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software. Many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software — including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube and Zappos.com. With headquarters in the United States and Sweden — and operations around the world — MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers’ needs.

Founded in 1993, Logicworks provides enterprise-level managed services and hosting solutions to support all types of complex, business-critical applications. From internal applications such as ERP and CRM solutions, to externally-facing Software as a Service (SaaS) and Application Service Provider (ASP) business models, Logicworks helps clients gain a competitive edge, empower employees, reinforce customer relationships, and keep pace with growth. Through its Enterprise Managed Hosting and Managed Database Hosting Service, Logicworks offers unmatched technology expertise and experience to help align IT with business needs. With its proprietary LogicOps application that manages all aspects of technology deployments, Logicworks is uniquely positioned to deliver value-added service and support. Clients include Court TV, US Robotics, Brown, Harris, Stevens/Halstead.com, Starwood Hotels, and DailyCandy, among others.

To learn more about MySQL, please visit: www.mysql.com.

For more information, please visit: www.logicworks.net.

Pasadena, California – (The Hosting News) – February 7, 2008 – ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has debuted the integration of SmarterMail API, into its open control panel framework, to provide customers with the ability to develop web, desktop, or mobile applications that interface directly with the web hosting account.

With the SmarterMail API integration, DiscountASP.NET customers can now retrieve email account lists, modify passwords, and create/delete email accounts through web services without accessing the hosting control panel or the SmarterMail webmail client. DiscountASP.NET customers can activate access to the API library via their control panel and are assigned a unique Authentication Key. In addition, a Sandbox Key is provided so customers can test their applications without the risk of making changes to their hosting account.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ”SmarterTools already provides powerful APIs out-of-the-box with their SmarterMail product, so naturally we wanted to integrate them within our Open Control Panel framework. Our vision is to continue to expand the Control Panel API and offer our customers the choice and flexibility to manage their hosting presence either using our hosted control panel application or through web services and customized user-driven solutions.”

Tim Uzzanti, CEO of SmarterTools remarked, ”We are excited that DiscountASP.NET is offering their customers access to SmarterMail management through their Open Control Panel. DiscountASP.NET is opening new doors of automation and flexibility to their customers and helping them maximize the potential of the SmarterMail service.”

Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology-management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona. SmarterTools builds applications that simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in more than 100 countries.

DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Windows-based shared hosting provider, focused on ASP.NET and SQL database hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified partner, DiscountASP.NET was one of the first hosts to launch a free .NET 3.5 hosting and IIS7 hosting beta program, Silverlight-compatible hosting, and ASP.NET AJAX hosting.

To learn more about SmarterTools, please visit: www.SmarterTools.com

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

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Phoenix, Arizona – (The Hosting News) – February 6, 2008 – IPOWER Hosting has deployed the integration of a comprehensive customer feedback and online reputation management platform, RatePoint, into all of its hosting plans.

RatePoint is designed to provide small- and medium-sized business with a method of soliciting customer feedback and posting customer ratings on their Web sites. It is now included in every hosting plan that IPOWER offers and is just the first of many new and innovative solutions IPOWER will be rolling out to its customers in 2008.

Thomas Gorny, CEO of IPOWER noted, ” We realize our customers need us to be problem solvers – not just a hosting provider. In response to that, we’re going to be integrating more tools that help customers save time, money and worry. RatePoint is one of the first, and it addresses an issue that plagues many small businesses – consumer trust. Many consumers are hesitant to buy online from smaller companies, simply because they don’t recognize the name or have any idea about a company’s reputation. RatePoint provides a platform for providing feedback, generating approval ratings and settling disputes. That kind of unbiased, third-party information gives businesses credibility and consumers peace of mind.”

RatePoint is designed to allow businesses to manage their online reputation by easily capturing and publishing consumer reviews and feedback directly from their web sites through the RatePoint site seal. RatePoint verifies actual consumer ratings for authenticity, and businesses then have an opportunity to respond to feedback and publish those reviews online. In addition, a robust suite of tools, including surveys, coupons, e-mails and other communication and marketing tools, plus a Web-based management interface, make it easy for businesses to connect with customers, increase sales and improve consumer confidence.

Founded in 2006, RatePoint, Inc. offers a quality-assurance certification and customer feedback platform for growing businesses. Leveraging the latest in Web 2.0 trends, web content authentication and consumer ratings systems, RatePoint, Inc. was created by the founders of GeoTrust and is a venture backed by Prism VentureWorks and .406 Ventures.

IPOWER, Inc., was founded in October of 2001 and provides web hosting and web services for small and medium-sized businesses worldwide, that desire to build, manage, promote and profit from an online presence. Named on Deloitte’s 2006 Technology Fast 500, as a ”Rising Star,” for its three year 2003 to 2005 growth, the company’s portfolio of services includes domain registration, web site hosting, e-commerce tools, merchant services, application hosting, online marketing, site optimization services, and web site design. IPOWER serves over 500,000 customer accounts in over 150 countries. For more information call 888-511- HOST (4678).

For more information about IPOWER, please visit: www.ipower.com.

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

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

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

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

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Newark, Delaware – (The Hosting News) – February 5, 2008 – HostMySite.com web hosting provider for small and medium-sized businesses, as a result of dramatic growth in web servers, hosted accounts and company personnel, has expanded into its new Worldwide Corporate Headquarters.

The new headquarters in Newark, Delaware, adjacent to the company’s previous workspace, houses both employee offices and one of the company’s data centers. According to the company, a further portion of the former headquarters building will now be converted into data center space, occupying over eight thousand square feet. To minimize any effect on current web hosting and dedicated server customers, the majority of the move to the new facilities, was accomplished over a period of several hours late at night.

Derek Vaughan, Vice President of Marketing at HostMySite.com noted, ”In order to serve our hosting customers with the highest levels of quality and support, HostMySite.com must continue to keep pace on the employee side of the equation. This means that to manage the growth in customer accounts we must add the corresponding compliment of engineering and technical support staff. With our rapid growth over the past few months, HostMySite.com simply outgrew the previous facilities. With the move to the new Worldwide Corporate Headquarters, the company can now expand data center space quickly, while preparing for continued customer growth.”

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. In the past year, HostMySite.com has provided customers with an upgraded call center, a new hosting control panel, and the build out of an additional state-of-the-art data center. The data center boasts a completely redundant network of premier Tier 1 providers with 6 fiber-optic connections and consistent delivery of 100% uptime. The company has also maintained a solid financial history being profitable and growing. With a combination of sophisticated hosting technology and applied business knowledge, HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with affordable dedicated servers, VPS hosting, and ColdFusion web hosting, supported by 24×7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and live online chat. HostMySite.com CEO Lou Honick has presented his ”Pillars of Customer Service” at several professional conferences this year including HostingCon, ISPCon Spring 2006, ISPCon Fall 2006, ITEC Dallas, and ITEC Indianapolis. Additionally, Mr. Honick was recognized as one of the ‘Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30′ by Inc. Magazine.

George Roberts, Founder of the hosted services industry’s premier conference and tradeshow, HostingCon, added, ”HostMySite.com is clearly doing many things right with regard to the SMB web hosting market. The company’s commitment to service and the well-being of the customer is paying rich dividends in account growth. I expect to see HostMySite.com at the forefront of web hosting growth for the foreseeable future.”

HostMySite.com was also recently honored as a Fortune 5000 company.

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

Scottsdale, Arizona – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – February 5, 2008 – Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy’s 2008 Super Bowl television campaign ad, reportedly was viewed by over one million video views, as tracked to GoDaddy.com on Sunday, before the game’s conclusion.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder at Go Daddy noted, ”I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Danica’s Exposure is probably our funniest ad ever. It is definitely our most effective ad in terms of immediate results.”

According to GoDaddy, it is believed to be one of the largest spikes in Super Bowl advertising history. Super Bowl viewers went online to see Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick’s ”Exposure” ad almost on cue. They were directed to do so by Go Daddy’s televised ad, which aired at the beginning of the second-quarter. The long-awaited ”Exposure” commercial featured animatronics beavers in a spoof of the paparazzi and certain female celebrities.

Go Daddy originally intended ”Exposure” to be its Super Bowl ad, but Fox rejected it, insisting the word ”beaver” be removed. Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons refused, saying instead, he would make lemonade out of lemons.

Go Daddy Productions went to work to create ”Spot On,” which was approved for broadcast. It invited viewers to go to GoDaddy.com to see the rejected commercial and was essentially an ad for an ad, which was a first for Super Bowl commercials. ”Spot On” contained a ”Viewer Discretion” advisory – also thought to be a Super Bowl advertising first.

Comments varied widely, but no one can argue the commercial’s effectiveness for generating online traffic. As the post-game celebrations were being broadcast, GoDaddy.com was already reporting more than 1.5 million visits to its site. Those numbers continue to climb rapidly.

The final ad had finally been approved, after ten submissions, including five concepts, three of which Go Daddy actually produced, and a number of revisions.
Mr. Parsons continued, ”We’re thrilled – think about it, it was one of the greatest Super Bowl games ever played and yet fans still took time to come to our site during the game.”

Traffic stats were expected to surge again on Monday, Feb. 4. In past years, the Monday following the game has yielded traffic spikes as fans talk about the ads, and then go online to see them for the first time, or to enjoy them again with colleagues and friends.

The Go Daddy Group, Inc. is a domain name registrar with more than 22 million domains under management and 24-hour-a-day customer support. More than 4 million customers are serviced by Go Daddy for domain registration, web site hosting, email and related Internet services. Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy also provides a variety of on-demand and other services. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.

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

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