Brainpulse Technologies launches Free Web Hosting services

Brainpulse Technologies, a leading web hosting company introduces Free web hosting with zero Ads.  Free Web hosting package is a lucrative deal for all college students and newbie developers wishing to run their projects and start their own online ventures but cannot afford the expense of availing web hosting services. The account provides basic hosting requirements so that the clients can maintain their online presence at least expense.

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There’s a certain element of luck involved in finding a perfect web host – not all free web hosts suck and not all hosts who charge sky-high rates are the best in the business. Some people get lucky with the first host they sign up with, and for them, it’s a lifelong relationship that has its ups and downs, but which survives nevertheless. Others however, have to undergo a number of divorces before they find their perfect match. Although a lot of thought and research go into the process of finding the perfect web host, you know you got lucky with your choice if:

• Your site is up 99 percent of the time: If your web host has servers that are not capable and that get pretty slow when they are overloaded, you know you’re out of luck. Your page does not load and the status is often “not found.” This annoys visitors who are specifically looking for your site and drives away those who are arriving for the first time based on search engine results. So if your site is up and running 99.9 percent of the time, you’ve struck it rich in the world of web hosting.
• Your visitors don’t complain of slow access: When your server is capable of loading your pages in the blink of an eye no matter how large your files are or how heavy the traffic is, you know you were lucky enough to find a good web host. Most web users are frustrated with slow load times – even if their speeds are at DSL-level or higher, they are limited by the speed of the server that loads the page they’re looking for.
• You know how to reach your hosts in case of any problem: Not many hosts are great with customer support and service, so if your provider answers your calls and takes care of any issues immediately, you’re luckier than a man who just won a lottery. When you’re able to avoid downtime and frequent technical hassles because your customer support is top notch, you know you have a web host worth staying with.
• You have the option to upgrade your space requirements as you go: Your storage space depends on what you pay for your web hosting service. When you start out on the Internet, you don’t expect too many visitors and your needs are limited. But then as you gain in popularity and your traffic increases, you expand accordingly. And if your web host accommodates your storage needs as and when you need more space, then you know your partnership was a stroke of luck.
• You don’t find that your site has disappeared overnight: We live in a world of fly-by-night operators who close shop without a word and disappear into the dark when they’ve made their money. They don’t bother to inform people who depend on them to run their sites, so if you find that your website has disappeared, it’s because your service provider has shut shop to cut their losses. If your host has been around for a while and you’re never worried about being left in the lurch, you know you got lucky with your choice of web host.

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This guest post is contributed by Barbara Williams, she writes on the topic of Computer Technician Programs . Email her at:  barbara.williams07@gmail.com .

Clustered hosting has lately turned around heads of many including biggies such as YouTube, Yahoo!, MySpace, Flickr etc, which use this web hosting service. Usually, it is chosen by big companies with massive websites receiving thousands of hits every day.

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Special Offers in the Market from Leading Web Hosting Providers

Web hosting business is getting noisier day by day with the entry of a number of new web hosting providers. Each one claims—We’re the Best! However, you cannot always trust all of them since such offers can be fake also & you may end up ruining your online effort.

On the other hand, there have been witnessed success stories of special offers of some of the most trusted names in this sphere. These providers tracked great sales owing to the success of these offers. Hence, special offers from the reputed providers are most often in the interest of their users worldwide.

Without wasting any more time, it’s time to take you on a ride of some of the special offers running in the web hosting business currently.

LimeDomains Special Offer—Although LimeDomains is a relatively new entrant in the web hosting & domain-related business yet it has succeeded in creating a lot of buzz in the market owing the varied offers such as free web hosting on domain purchase/transfer, 15-day free trial offer etc. Their latest offer provides users with a good discount of 25% on all web hosting plans and 10% on annual domain purchase or transfer. What better deal than this!

GoDaddy Special Offer—An established name in domain registration & web hosting business for the last 12 years, greets its users worldwide with tempting domain & web hosting offers from time to time; the latest offer being 15% Off your order of $50.

HostGator Special Offer—HostGator, running successfully in the market since 2002, has been luring its users & other netizens with its varied offers such as Affiliation program, winter offer etc. Currently, HostGator is running a winter special offer through January 1^st. On every initial order, the user will get an appreciable discount of 20% on using the coupon code.

FatCow Special Offer—FatCow, born in 1998, has been quite popular in the web hosting business since its inception. It’s more renowned as a provider powered by 100% wind energy. The current special offer running on this platform gives the users as heavy discount as 50% on the purchase of any web hosting plan.

With so many special discount offers on web hosting services hitting the market floor, it’s time for you to act smart & reap the benefits of the same for strengthening your online presence.

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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Choosing between a dedicated servers and shared hosting brings up a lot of questions. Does your site need a dedicated server or is shared web hosting good enough? How can I tell? Should I save money or get a powerful server now? How much control will I have with each option? Today I will be answering these questions and hopefully helping to make the choice easy.

When Is The Decision Is Easy?
The decision is easy when you don’t have a choice… If your site is getting tons of visitors, if your current shared host says it is using too many resources, if you are running a lot of dynamic php mysql sites that demand a lot of memory and cpu, or if you can’t afford downtime because you are doing marketing on your sites that can’t be down. Any of these reasons make the decision to go with a dedicated server easy and the real question then becomes what type of dedicated server.

By The Numbers…
You should fit into one of these hypothetical situations… Just keep in mind these are very ruff and you should give your hosting company stats so they can decide.

1. I run WordPress or PHP/MySQL site and get over 500 unique visitors a day. Get a dedicated server. Under that number of visitors and you are probably fine on shared web hosting.

2. I run a static site and get under 500 visitors a day. Shared hosting is fine. Go dedicated or VPS if it grows a lot. Static is a lot easier on the server.

A lot of shared hosts will be fine with bigger sites but its borderline in most cases. I also tend to error on the side of caution. I’ve seen plenty of intensive forums with 3,000 visitors a day running on shared hosting for months and then one day something flukes to cause a spike and suddenly they have 10 days to upgrade.

By The Money
Shared hosting is around $10 a month while a dedicated server is at least $70. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to make this choice. If money is a factor go with shared hosting.

I Want Control
If you want complete control of your hosting environment go with a dedicated server. Shared hosting will limit what you can do, what you can tweak, and what you can install. With a dedicated server you can do anything you want!

I work for UK2 and over the last ten years have helped a lot of people choose between the dedicated servers we offer versus our shared web hosting. It really just boils down to the above issues.

Flexihostings Singapore (http://flexihostings.com.sg) presents newly Revamp website with competitive pricing

“We have decided to lower our profit margin in times of great difficulties So that more people who may have been affected by the down turn can now look to a cheaper way to start their business online. This is fully inline with our mission statement – Empowering Web Entrepreneurs. Flexihostings have the expertise to not only provide web entrepreneurs to competitively setup their business online, we also have web designing, Search Engine Optimisation to help fellow web entrepreneur kick start their business. We are essentially your one stop shop for anything online.” Says Albert.G, CEO Flexi e-Solutions Pty Ltd.

He also highlighted Flexihostings Multi Region Hosting plan to leverage the global market cheaply and efficiently through proper Search Engine Optimisation and strategically hosted account in a specific region. With our Multi Region Hosting, everybody can have their brand / product presence in the 5 major continents” says  Albert.G

Flexihostings Australia / Singapore / UK / Europe / New Zealand, Receptionist.net.au, Virtual-Office.com.au is a brand name of Flexi e-Solutions Pty Ltd.

For additional Press information, please contact Flexihostings team at +613 9014 0718 or by email at cs@flexihostings.net . Visit Flexihostings @ www.flexihostings.net

Dania Beach, FL (Web Hosting Finds) March 2, 2009 – LiquidNet, the famous web hosting services provider, announces that it has recently launched Themza.com – a new online project aimed at offering a wide variety of free templates and web design themes for PHP script-based websites such as blogs, image galleries and content management systems. New skins are being continuously added to the list of the Joomla templates, WordPress, Moodle and 4images themes currently available for download in .zip format to all the users contemplating a new personal or business website and searching for an appropriate template to accommodate its contents, as well as to those simply looking for a fresh new theme to replace their current outdated one.

Users can get acquainted with the layout and the functionalities of each particular skin by examining the demo versions provided or by simply clicking on the respective thumbnail image for a larger view. All they have to do is download the preferred template to their personal computer and then upload it to a website of their own, provided that they have already obtained an up-to-date version of the script the template in question pertains to. Users are also given the opportunity to pick an appropriate package optimized to accommodate the various free themes should they still have not found an adequate hosting service for their open source script-based website or in case they are unable to handle the whole script installation process all by themselves.

Themza.com offers free, ready-made design templates for the two most popular stable Joomla versions – Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5. Using this advanced open source content management system software, users can create personal web pages, non-profit and small business platforms, corporate portals, intranets, extranets, online shops, no matter whether their website is about IT technologies, mobile solutions, nature, music, sports, cars. Most of the templates are made available in more than one skin color and offer various banner, logo and sidebar layout configuration options, customizable header and footer areas, advanced drop-down menus, modules for posting Latest News, Polls, etc.

Themza.com also offers Moodle course management system templates to educators who want to create an e-learning collaborative community website and deliver online courses, lessons, quizzes, assignments, surveys, workshops, instead of the traditional face-to-face courses. Using Moodle they would be able to build not only a single-teacher educational platform but also a multi-student online university portal, which could in a way replace attending the lectures in person. Based on well-proven pedagogical traditions, it gives instructors full control over all settings of an e-course through a user-friendly WYSIWYG HTML editor and offers multi-language, multi-course and multi-format support.

Beside CMS templates, Themza.com offers also WordPress and 4images themes for blogs and image galleries, respectively. WordPress is a popular publishing platform suitable both for keeping a personal online diary and for maintaining larger business pages that need regular website updates. Using some of the many available plug-ins users can thus customize WordPress so that it does not even look like a blog any longer. 4images Gallery, on the other hand, is a web-based media gallery management tool for accommodating large volumes of photo collections and presenting them in an orderly manner. Beside image formats such as .jpeg, .gif, .png, .tiff and .bmp, 4images supports also a number of video formats, among them .avi, .mov, .mp3, .mpeg, .swf and .rm.

Nick Blaskov, CFO of LiquidNet, said that all users can download for free any of the readily available, turn-key, yet highly customizable skins currently on offer, and create professionally appearing personal blogs and corporate homepages, content-rich e-learning portals, colorful online photo galleries and many more quickly and easily, that the web design work invested in the creation of the free templates this new website is offering answers all the requirements of the respective online software and its specific design theme integration manuals, as well as the requirements of even the most demanding Joomla, Moodle, WordPress and 4images users, and that Themza.com will start offering Drupal and Mambo content management templates in the near future as well.

About LiquidNet

LiquidNet provides a large number of professional services in the fields of web hosting, reseller hosting and domain name registration. On the whole, the number of the webmasters who currently use LiquidNet’s services totals 450,000.

For more information, please visit www.themza.com or www.liquidnetlimited.com.

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – February 2, 2009 – The acquisition of Wi-Fi service provider Wayport, Inc., as well as a successful fourth quarter 2008 for AT and T Business Solutions (ABS), and the new features for the AT and T Telepresence Solution, have debuted at the ISP company and web hosting provider.

The accomplishments, as well as key sales wins and enhancements to its business services portfolio, helped the business unit enter 2009 on firm footing. The enhancements to the AT and T Telepresence Solution, based on Cisco TelePresence technology, now provide unique multipoint functionality and highly secure intercompany capabilities that allow users at multiple locations and from different companies to connect with each other.

The new capabilities represent the latest milestone in ABS’s efforts to provide customers with powerful and cost-effective collaboration tools while helping decrease costs associated with business travel. Also during the fourth quarter 2008, AT and T announced two acquisitions to expand its wireless mobility capabilities. The acquisition of Wayport added local Wi-Fi network management, emerging applications support and infrastructure expertise to its world-class communications capabilities.

The deal, which was completed in December 2008, brings the number of AT and T domestic hotspots to nearly 20,000 — the most of any U.S. provider. Globally, it has more than 80,000 Wi-Fi hotspots. And by the end of the quarter, the business unit transitioned thousands of Starbucks company-operated stores in the U.S. to AT and T Wi-Fi service, strengthening the ability to personalize broadband access across devices and customer locations.

The company also said it had entered into an agreement to acquire Centennial Communications, a regional provider of wireless and wired communications services based in New Jersey. The transaction will enhance the company’s wireless coverage for customers in largely rural areas of the Midwest and Southeast regions of the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

AT and T Hosting and Application Services expanded its global hosting footprint during the quarter with the opening of an internet data center (IDC) in Bangalore India — its first in India — and increased capacity in five additional markets including Dallas, Boston, Amsterdam, Singapore and Shanghai. The expansions in Amsterdam and Singapore were completed to augment the ’super IDCs’ previously announced with AT and T Synaptic Hosting, a next- generation platform that creates a virtual IT infrastructure in which business customers can receive computing processing, services and support instantaneously and at scale.

ABS further strengthened its application services portfolio by rolling out a subscription-based Oracle PeopleSoft payroll and payroll tax solution for midsize businesses that combines the software with its business process outsourcing services, its innovative utility computing platform and its application management capabilities. Another highlight during the quarter involved the expansion of its global Ethernet footprint through the availability of its global virtual private LAN service (VPLS) into 14 countries in Europe and Asia.

The service, called AT and T OPT-E-WAN(SM), enables businesses to link multiple locations — whether across the city or around the world — with the ease and efficiency of a flat Ethernet wide area network. In addition to broad coverage in the U.S., the service is now available in Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland in Europe; and Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore and Japan in Asia Pacific. ABS also recorded significant sales wins in the fourth quarter, highlighted by a 10-year, $600 million agreement for network services with the state of Tennessee and a five-year contract with the state of Georgia, worth a projected $346 million, to provide managed voice and data services across state government agencies.

Ronald E. Spears, President and Chief Executive Officer, AT and T Business Solutions offered, ”Throughout 2008, ABS launched key transformational services such as our Digital Media Solutions, AT and T Telepresence Solution, Synaptic Hosting and Unified Communications. And by the fourth quarter, we added features that enable us to offer customers complete solutions in these critical areas. These enhancements, along with capabilities acquired through strategic alliances and acquisitions, have given us a strong platform for growth in 2009.”

ABS provides networking services and solutions for business customers and organizations globally. Its customers include every company listed in the Fortune 1000; large, medium, and small businesses; wholesale customers; and U.S. governmental agencies.

During the fourth quarter 2008, ABS made the following updates to its enterprise portfolio of services for business customers: Voice Over IP (VoIP) — AT and T Voice DNA — Site Survivability: AT and T VoIP Services now includes site survivability as an optional feature with AT and T Voice DNA. This feature provides customers with continuity of service in the event of a failure in their connectivity to the AT and T VoIP network, by routing off-site calls over the public switched telephone network. — AT and T IP Flexible Reach Technical Assistance: The enhanced implementation of AT and T IP Flexible Reach gives customers optional project management, site readiness surveys and on-site installation services. — IP Telephony and LAN Service Country Expansion: The business unit expanded the reach of this LAN and IP-PBX management service beyond the U.S. to include an additional 55 countries. — AT and T IP Toll-Free Interoperability and Throughput Expansion: Four IP contact center vendors (Aspect, Avaya, Genesys and Nortel) successfully completed interoperability testing of their latest contact center solutions with AT and T IP Toll-Free services. Interoperability certification allows customers using solutions from a variety of suppliers to adopt session initiated protocol (SIP) based services faster, avoiding any disruption to their contact center applications.

AT and T VoIP Service now has an increased maximum concurrent call throughput, allowing up to 1,000 concurrent calls over a T3 connection. Customer Experience — Unified Agreement for Billing: ABS launched a unified agreement to establish a common set of terms and conditions for all product portfolios worldwide. With the unified agreement, customers experience less paperwork and simpler and faster contracting. Enterprise Mobility — Fleet Management Options: ABS enhanced its enterprise mobility portfolio to include a comprehensive suite of fleet-management suite of offerings with the addition of in-vehicle options through extended relationships with TeleNav and Xora.

These enhancements help businesses with mobile workers and mobile assets to have better visibility into the locations of their vehicles or the status of deliveries, improving the overall management of fleet operations. — AT and T Mobile Extension Service: ABS also announced the availability of AT and T Mobile Extension — a premises-based solution that extends Internet Protocol (IP) private branch exchange (PBX) features to wireless devices. Customers using an IP-PBX from Cisco Systems, Inc. can add software that will enable this capability in compatible wireless devices. ABS will then contract for wireless minutes to be used for fixed mobile convergence calling between the PBX and the enabled wireless device.

It is a demonstration of adding wireless access to core business solutions that will enable future unified communications initiatives. — AT and T Global Network Client for Remote Access Service: Enhancements to the latest version of the AT and T Global Network Client version 7.6 include: — The ability to prevent multi-homing (e.g., concurrent fixed wireline and mobile broadband access). This feature makes it impossible for a user to have IP access through more than one physical interface if the connection was established with the AT and T Global Network Client. — Support for monitoring the NetMotion virtual private network (VPN) client, a third-party VPN client software. — The ability to select preferred cellular service type (3G or 2G) and configure access warnings for cellular roaming connections. — The ability to centrally manage and dynamically update global network client customizations. — The ability to download software and access point updates in the background. — Plug-and-play support for AT and T LaptopConnect devices now available from AT and T Mobility’s AT and T Communications Manager 6.9 desktop client software. — Tethering support for the BlackBerry Bold. Hosting and Applications Services: — PCI Certification Audit: AT and T Hosting and Application Services successfully completed a third-party audit and were found compliant with payment card industry (PCI) data security standards. Being compliant saves customers time and money because they can leverage ABS’s certified audit materials in their own PCI audits. — Hosting and Application Management Services: Enhancements made during the fourth quarter include: — Supplementing the hosting and application management capabilities by adding new products that include Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and IBM Websphere Application Server. — New capabilities for the AT and T BusinessDirect customer portal that streamline change management processes and improve customer cycle time. — The addition of service level agreements for the AT and T Virtual Dedicated and Managed Dedicated Server Offerings supporting 99.9 percent uptime. Data Services: — New Ultravailable (UV) Network Service Options: ABS expanded the reach of its Ultravailable Network Service with two new options.

Both offer the full complement of the UV network’s monitoring and management tool sets, expert support and visibility through BusinessDirect. The options are: — Service Option 2 (UV2) — Allows customers to build a SONET ring, managed by ABS, with room to grow to a second wavelength without additional upfront cost. Includes support for non-SONET protocols such as Storage and native Ethernet. — Service Option 3 (UV3) — Allows ABS to design, build, monitor and manage an Ultravailable Ring using customer-provided fiber and fiber maintenance. Also, monitoring and management of customers’ existing network can be provided. — AT and T Wavelength Private Line: AT and T Wavelength Private Line, a point-to-point wavelength service available nationwide, was also added.

AT and T Wavelength Private Line is a versatile, long-haul, monitored and managed service that can support multiple protocols that include gigabit Ethernet, 10 gigabit Ethernet LAN (local area network) and WAN (wide area network) PHY and configurations. Security Services: — Web Security Services Enhancements: ABS enhanced the AT and T Web Security services to include features for email protection services that were previously available only in the AT and T Secure E-Mail Gateway Services offering. The new features include message security to provide spam and malware protection, message discovery for archiving, and message encryption for policy-based encryption. Other enhancements include the addition of Anywhere+, a Web malware scanning and Web filtering services feature for remote users.

AT and T Inc. is one of the world’s largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States. Operating globally under the AT and T brand, AT and T companies are recognized as the leading worldwide providers of IP-based communications services to business and as leading U.S. providers of high speed Internet, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services.

For more information on AT and T hosting services, please visit: www.business.att.com/hosting.

San Antonio, Texas – (The Hosting News) – January 29, 2009 – Rackspace has ranked on the FORTUNE 12th annual ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list, for the second consecutive year, placing at number 43.

A driving factor for the companies on this year’s list is that they excel at creating jobs. According to the FORTUNE List, Rackspace is ranked 2nd for job growth. This growth has fueled Rackspace’s commitment to employees. Rackspace continues to advocate for its workforce, who proudly call themselves Rackers, through diligent hiring and training processes to achieve the appropriate employee caliber and fit. Rackspace invests in the professional and personal development of Rackers through its internal training department, Rackspace University.”

Lanham Napier, President and CEO, Rackspace remarked, ”We are honored to be recognized as one on the Best Places to Work For by FORTUNE magazine. Each day, Rackers come to work and volunteer their best to each other and our customers. We are proud of the culture we are building and this culture powers Fanatical Support. Many thanks to all of the Rackers who work so hard every day to build our company.”

FORTUNE.com blog, Managing Editor Andy Serwer writes, ”No matter what happens with the economy, the demand for talent will remain. Great companies know that super-motivated, happy, world-class employees are an incredible competitive advantage.”

Rackspace has created a unique culture built around Fanatical Support that is a vital part of the company’s success. The company has a long history of being ranked as a ‘great place to work’ by numerous sources. This honor can be traced back to the unique people who are hired to deliver Fanatical Support. Rackspace was built around a culture that fosters friendly, service-oriented people who care about customer service.

Notable perks for working at Rackspace include open communication with executives all the way up to the CEO and Chairman. In addition, Rackers are recognized for hard work through a variety of out-of-the-box awards including the coveted Straightjacket Award and keys to the Rackspace BMW, also known as the ‘Rackermobile.’ Rackspace also provides an outlet for its employees to contribute through the Rack Gives Back philanthropic committee which was established to get employees involved in the community. Every quarter a large scale project and half a dozen small scale projects are completed on a completely voluntary basis.

To pick the ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ FORTUNE works with Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz of the Great Place to Work Institute global research and consulting firm with offices in 30 countries to conduct one of the most extensive employee surveys in corporate America.

More than 81,000 employees from 353 companies responded to the 57-question survey created by the Institute. Two-thirds of a company’s score is based on the survey, which is sent to a minimum of 400 randomly selected employees. The remaining third is based on a company’s responses to the Culture Audit questionnaire, which asks detailed questions about demographics, pay and benefits, and open-ended questions on philosophy, communication, among other things.

Any company that is at least seven years old with more the 1,000 U.S. employees is eligible to be included on the list. The deadline for applying for next year’s list is March 31, 2009. For an online nomination form, go to www.greatplacetowork-100best.com.

As a global leader and specialist in hosting, Rackspace Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry’s best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support, furthering the company’s mission to be one of the world’s greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 43 on the list. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).

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

Louisville, Kentucky – (The Hosting News) – January 29, 2009 – MaximumASP is offering a free 30 day introductory account, on its MaxV platform, featuring Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization technology.

The introductory offers include a choice of either a MaxV Plan A or Plan B Virtual Dedicated Hosting Plan.
MaxV Virtual Dedicated Plans are hosted on either WS 2008 or 2003 Operating Systems with 32- and 64-Bit Editions. MaxV supports SQL Server 2008 and 2005, or high-performance Shared SQL servers are also available. High Availability, Intelligent Monitoring, Recurrent Backups and Scalability are all included on the MaxV platform.

Wade Lewis, Managing Partner of MaximumASP offered, ”As the need to reduce costs, simplify management, and establish sustainable computing practices continues to grow, we will continue to provide only the best growth path options for our customers.”

The MaxV dynamic IT infrastructure will support virtualization strategies across sever workloads, desktop applications, and both physical and virtual assets.The light overhead, efficient design, overall completeness and proven performance of MaxV also make it the right virtualization choice for server consolidation, disaster recovery and production servers with live applications and data.

Dominic Foster, CTO of MaximumASP added, ”MaximumASP is built around a simple guiding principle: investing the resources and time to do hosting and IT services well so our customers have the time to do what they do well. In the case of MaxV developers can tap into our resources to maximize their coding efficiency and reduce the cost of development by building on existing, extensible components without having to build anything from scratch.”

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 48,000 domains for customers in over 60 countries. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for Microsoft developers seeking a robust hosting platform for mission-critical web applications.

For more information about MaxV, please visit: www.maximumasp.com/maxv.

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

Manchester, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – January 28, 2009 – Website hosting company, 34SP.com, has updated its business hosting account services, by way of its customer service infrastructure, in keeping with customer growth and client demands.

According to information released by the company, the customer service investments include hiring additional staff, improved office hardware, and expansion of the customer service footprint within the 34SP.com global headquarters.

Part of initiative for the additional investments were the results of an extensive client survey conducted by 34SP.com in January 2009. The survey queried a large subset of 15,000 website hosting clients at 34SP.com and included shared, business, VPS and dedicated server clients. According to the survey results, when given a choice between: price, features, working with a local company, or service and support – the vast majority of clients chose ’service and support’.

Co-founder of 34SP.com, Stuart Melling, explained the reasoning behind the customer service investments, ”Our clients have clearly confirmed what we have known since launching 34SP.com – service and support are the drivers behind our success and rapid growth. Our clients have rewarded our service focus with loyalty and referral business. These additional investments in our customer service department are an obligation for us in order to maintain the highest levels of service and support. Our clients deserve nothing less.”

In addition to increasing staff levels by 20 percent, 34SP.com has also added an improved chat functionality to its customer service offerings. The combination of increased manpower and an additional communication channel for service inquiries is expected to reduce wait times while adding convenience in the support process. The investments in additional staff also created the opportunity for 34SP.com to expand the footprint of the customer service department while upgrading the hardware used to support clients.

34SP.com also revealed one other interesting statistic from the client survey – referral rates. When asked, ”How likely are you to recommend 34SP.com?” a stunning 98 percent affirmed that they would refer the company. The company points to this data as confirming the positive effect that outstanding customer service has on referral rates.

34SP.com offers professional website hosting services for cost conscious web developers and designers. The 34SP.com team of technical experts offers award winning support and service coupled with a money back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. Website hosting services offered include: VPS hosting and reseller web hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

To learn more about 34SP.com and its business web hosting services, please visit: www.34sp.com/business-hosting.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – January 28, 2009 – The Planet, privately held dedicated web hosting company, has reported a record fourth quarter, ending December 31, 2008, in its customary update to customers, business partners and prospects with information relative to new initiatives and its progress

Kevin Klausmeyer, Chief Financial Officer of The Planet noted, ”Once again, we had a record year and a record quarter. Our cash flows remain healthy, and, in fact, were stronger in the fourth quarter than in all prior quarters, despite a difficult economic climate. We reached high-water marks in virtually all of our efficiency metrics, as a result of continued process improvements and investment in our systems. Our EBITDA came in right on plan for the year and the quarter, and our balance sheet is very strong.”

Douglas J. Erwin , Chairman and CEO of The Planet added, ”We ended the fourth quarter with solid revenue growth and another record year in 2008. Across every unit in the company, we made significant gains. Within customer service, data center operations, network development, marketing and product management, our metrics indicate extraordinary improvements. Nevertheless, we will continue to focus on every aspect of our company to enhance our performance. Customers have clearly seen and experienced these changes, and they continue to entrust The Planet with their businesses.

”Despite the challenging economic environment, we are confident that we will again set new standards for our operations and deliver solid revenue growth in 2009. We’re secured by our new $45 million credit facility, which allows us to deliver on our strategic vision, and customers can be confident in our financial stability. Our new 86,000 square foot data center, and the enhanced products and services we will offer this year, provide our customers with the power to choose from the broadest range of cost-effective hosting solutions in the industry.”

Fourth Quarter Highlights include:

Strong Customer Activity: In the fourth quarter, the company added 1,400 customers, bringing the total to 25,500. The greatest growth came from the company’s current customers, who continued to upgrade and expand their server portfolios. In addition, the company now hosts more than 14.5 million web sites.

New $45 Million Credit Facility: The company secured a $45 million credit facility to fund demand-driven expansion and strategic initiatives. Wachovia Bank NA led the transaction with $30 million, followed by Bank of America with $15 million.

Dallas-Area Colocation Data Center: The company announced plans for a new 86,000 square foot data center in the Dallas suburb of Plano, bringing its raised floor footprint to 216,000 square feet. The new facility will support The Planet’s expanding colocation business, accommodate Northstar Managed Hosting customers, and house its complex infrastructure technologies including private and virtual racks.

Designed with new green efficiencies, the company expects the new facility to be operational in May 2009.

Dallas D6 Expansion: The Planet announced the opening of the last phase of its Dallas D6 data center, which adds 12,000 square feet to its operations.

Storage Cloud: The company announced the limited availability of its new highly scalable and on-demand storage cloud service. In an industry first, The Planet merges on-premise storage with cloud storage capabilities. Customers gain additional benefits, including free uploads to the local node and a single policy-driven account to manage all file-based storage requirements.

East, West Coast Expansion: New nodes were added on the East and West Coasts of the United States in Equinix colocation facilities located in San Jose, Calif., and Ashburn, Va. The changes enhance network performance and latency for customers, in addition to interconnecting directly with international ISPs in these locations. International customers in particular will experience enhanced network performance from the company’s enterprise-class network.

Network Upgrades: The company made significant improvements to its highly regarded enterprise-class network. The upgrades consolidated Houston and Dallas into a single global network, which provides increased reliability, better scalability and a more consistent experience for the company’s more than 25,000 customers. It also provides capabilities that make the network IPv6-ready.

Bargain Bin: The Planet launched a new real-time searchable repository that provides overstocked and clearance dedicated servers in a variety of configurations. The servers are available on a revolving basis, with prices starting at $45 per month.

Northstar Managed Hosting: The company added the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system to its managed hosting platform, which now offers support for both Linux and Microsoft. Customers with blended environments can also take advantage of the company’s service.

EdgeCast CDN: The Planet introduced the EdgeCast Content Delivery Network (CDN), a world-class platform that offers customers cost benefits and flexibility for controlling their own CDNs, while eliminating the expensive capital investments and operational hassles typically associated with the technology.

Awards: The company earned several awards during the quarter, including the Deloitte Texas Fast 50, Deloitte North America Fast 500, and the Houston Business Journal FastTech 50 and its Enterprise Champion Award.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

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

The Planet is a provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 25,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 14.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Alpha Professional Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7x365 support.

For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – January 27, 2009 – ColoGuys dedicated Server, colocation services, and web hosting private data facility, has added a new transit connection to Internap, for a fully-redundant and reliable Internet connectivity and infrastructure solution.

Jon Montroll, President and CEO of ColoGuys remarked, ”We are committed to our clients’ success and this is another important step in our on-going pursuit to provide the very latest technology to the companies that depend on us. We seek to provide the optimal connectivity to our clients and we hope this investment will accomplish these goals.”

Internap’s unique multi-carrier intelligent routing technology, which uses Private Network Access Points (P-NAPs), optimizes the speed of Internet traffic between end users datacenters. The technology provides key advantages to ColoGuys and its clients, which rely on world-class data transit to meet their business needs.

The Internap connection will offer an additional 10GB of added capacity and allow ColoGuys greater connectivity to North America, Europe, and Asia.

All ColoGuys customers are automatically are able to utilize the new connection with Internap. Customers may also request their traffic to be handled exclusively through the Internap network. In addition to Internap, ColoGuys carries connectivity with Level 3 and Global Crossing. ColoGuys plans to add additional data transit capacity as needed to satisfy increased demand and network requirements.

Located in the Dallas Infomart, ColoGuys, Inc. is a data facility offering Internet access, colocation and dedicated servers. The facility maintains connectivity with multiple Tier-1 data transit providers, including Level3, Global Crossing, and now Internap. ColoGuys serves small to medium sized businesses.

To learn more about ColoGuys, please visit: www.cologuys.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – January 27, 2009 – Toll-free numbers, at no additional cost, for all of its Business hosting plans, have been added by shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, HostGator.

Each toll-free number will include 100 minutes of free usage per calendar month. Additional minutes are available for 4.9 cents per minute. Each toll-free number can be pointed to any existing phone number in the U.S. and Canada and customers can update the destination number and view their toll-free number’s call history in real-time.

Brent Oxley, Founder and CEO of HostGator remarked, ”Late last year, we set a new industry standard by including a free SSL certificate and dedicated IP address with our Business hosting plan. Now, we’re taking it a step further and giving those same customers a toll-free number at no charge.”

The Business plan, HostGator’s flagship shared hosting offering, allows users to host unlimited websites and includes a free private SSL certificate and dedicated IP address as well as unlimited disk space and bandwidth. The addition of a toll-free number will complement the plan’s existing offerings and allow HostGator’s business customers to further grow their businesses.

The toll-free service is managed and provided by Houston-based voice-over-IP provider VOIPo. VOIPo, which provides a wide range of telecommunications services including toll-free numbers, residential VoIP services and SIP trunking, was founded by a former HostGator executive in 2006. More information about VOIPo can be found on the web at VOIPo web site.

Chad Bean, Marketing Director at HostGator added, ”It’s no mystery that having a toll-free number on your website can drastically improve conversion rates and further establish trust with your site’s visitors. By providing toll-free numbers for free, we’re adding another service to our growing roster of free add-ons and helping to give our web hosting customers the competitive edge in the increasingly competitive hosting market.”

HostGator is a provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting. The company provides hosting for over 1.6 million websites and supports more than 30,000 resellers worldwide with 24/7 technical support and state-of-the-art web hosting tools including free billing software for resellers and access to over 4,500 high quality free web templates. In August 2008, HostGator was recognized by Inc. Magazine as the 21st fastest growing private company in America.

For more information about Host Gator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.

Los Angeles, California – (The Hosting News) – January 26, 2009 – Colocation America of Los Angeles, has added to its Managed Services Division, expanding the offerings of the Internet transit, network transport, colocation and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services provider.

Colocation America has deployed the premier Managed Security Solution from ProtectPoint Security, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The company operates data centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Colocation America has been offering Internet related services since 2000 and is privately owned and cash flow positive. Colocation America’s IP Services allow clients direct or managed connections to majority of backbone providers across the universe at substantial discounts. The aggressive pricing is achieved by leveraging the large commitment by current clients to providers and strategic partnerships with large volume resellers.

Steve Harris, CEO for ProtectPoint noted, ”We are very excited about our partnership with Colocation America. Their strategic business vision is a perfect fit for our Premier Managed Security Services. By adding the ProtectPoint solution to their Managed Services Division, we are confident ColocationAmerica.com can now provide a much needed value-add for their clients. We look forward to Colocation America joining our ProtectPoint Channel Alliance and certainly expect for this to be an extremely successful relationship for both organizations.”

Managed Services provide clients with a complete and low cost solution to the complex world of network management, Colocation America’s Managed Services is the only one of its kind with the client’s corporate interest in mind and fully branded. Processes such as IP acquisitions, equipment, bandwidth purchases and client contacts are performed with the client’s corporate name and are maintained under the client’s ownership. Increasing capabilities and reliability of services offered by clients at a fraction of the cost makes Colocation America’s Managed Services ideal for small to mid-size businesses.

As a leading Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), ProtectPoint Security, Inc. has developed a suite of innovative managed security solutions to cost effectively monitor and respond to internal and external network threats in real-time 24/7/365. By employing best practices combined with proprietary methodologies ProtectPoint identifies security events before systems are compromised, eliminating time-consuming and costly security incidents. ProtectPoint offers a comprehensive set of security services: Intrusion Detection/Prevention Service, Managed Firewall Service, Managed VPN Service, Content Filtering, Traffic Analyzer, Virus scanning, Spam Eradication and Vulnerability Scanning. ProtectPoint Security, Inc. is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The primary Data center located on the world famous ‘One Wilshire’ building in Los Angeles (West Coast Hub) and 60 Hudson (East Coast Hub) in New York allows for maximum scalability as major fiber carriers run directly allowing us to easily connect to virtually any backbone provider and scale our internet connectivity to meet client’s needs. Additionally our Network is directly connected via Fiber Optic lines to the meet-me-room of the One Wilshire building allowing direct access to over 240 bandwidth providers in the world.

To learn more about ProtectPoint, please visit: www.protectpoint.com.

For more information about Colocation America, please visit: www.colocationamerica.com.

Overland Park, Kansas – (The Hosting News) – January 26, 2009 – As a sales advantage in today’s economy, wb host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has developed a new user-friendly eCommerce solution.

Aplus.net’s Premium Shopping Cart was designed as a more robust, fully customizable merchant tool designed to maximize online store sales in what continues to be a difficult economic climate. With its broad range of product merchandising, CRM and SEO features and multiple payment options, the new cart is a timely alternative for businesses of all sizes and supports unlimited products. This new eCommerce solution is easy to set up and designed to make the entire shopping/purchasing process easier and more secure for site visitors.

Dennis Kittrell, Senior Product Manager at Aplus.net explained, ”For its price, ease-of-use and feature-set, I am confident this shopping cart will grow to become the leader in eCommerce software. The premium shopping cart was developed with the challenges of the small business in mind. It is very Search Engine friendly and provides business owners with many of the tools previously available only to larger corporations.”

Designed by marketers for marketers, Premium Shopping Cart is included free as a standard feature with any Aplus.net eCommerce Hosting plan. The cart is also available as an add-on for all other Aplus.net Shared Hosting plans (Unix and Windows ) and Aplus.net WebImage web design (Standard or Premium) plans.

The Aplus.net Premium Shopping Cart offers a full set of features and options: One-Page Checkout, Real-Time Shipping Options, No Product Limits and No Transaction Fees. Also available are advanced marketing features that include email marketing, SEO and the ability to support Google Analytics and other metrics. The scalable, easy-to-deploy cart also comes ready to support gift cards, discount codes, recommended products and more.

The powerful PHP shopping cart application runs on Unix and Windows; minimum server requirements are mySQL databases. All carts receive Aplus.net’s free 24/7/365 support.

Earlier this month, the company instituted new services, to assist small businesses enhance online marketing performance, with WebImage and its two new web site design plans. The plans feature fast, affordable, professional quality, loaded with options and add-ons. The company has also added new, state-of-the-art dedicated servers to its lineup and lowered prices on a wide range of its most popular legacy servers.

Aplus.net specializes in helping small businesses build an online customer base with a comprehensive range of services that includes shared hosting, dedicated hosting, web design, online marketing, eCommerce, domain name registration, and more. Aplus.net has received multiple awards 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.

Quebec, Canada – (The Hosting News) – January 23, 2009 – A subsidiary of iWeb Technologies, has released the financial results for the period ending September 30, 2008, of Internet hosting infrastructure provider, iWeb Group Inc.

In line with its growth strategy, revenue increased 59% to $15.6 million and EBITDA grew to $3.7 million, though a weak US dollar and charges related to early debt repayment combined to produce the Company’s first net loss.

Martin Leclair, co-founder and President, Products and Technology of iWeb commented, ”The IP hosting market remains vibrant and active, a powerful statement considering the roller-coaster events of the past twelve months. A good sign is our net recurring revenues, which are improving in the three first months of new new fiscal year.”

Recently appointed Chief Financial Officer, Philip Tousignant noted, ”As a result of the financing agreement with Goldman Sachs, we incurred charges from our other financial partners; penalties related to early debt repayment, basically. The other significant factor is the record devaluation of the US dollar compared to the Canadian dollar during that period; Almost 80% of iWeb’s revenues are in USD, which has had a net negative impact of $865,000 before income taxes on our results for the year compared to last year results. A good thing though, the situation seems to have returned recently to a more favourable conversion rate for our operations.”

Financial Highlights include:

• Record revenue total of $15.6 million, a 59% improvement
• EBITDA increases to $3.7 million, 24% of revenue.
• Net loss of $552,000
• $22 million US financial agreement with Goldman Sachs in August
• $4.1 million public offering in November 2007

Operational Highlights include:

• Opened third Montreal Data center for co-location services
• Tripled Network capacity and expanded IP network to 8 carriers
• Second Data center began Phase IV (Final Phase) of its deployment, total capacity will be 12,000 dedicated servers and 122 cabinets

Corporate Highlights include:

• iWeb named to TSX Venture 50, Profit 100 and Branham 300.
• Inaugurated new Headquarters in September, with Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay and Nicole Menard, then Parliamentary Assistant of the Minister of Economic Development of Quebec addressing iWeb’s staff, clients and partners and shareholders.

Eric Chouinard, President and CEO of iWeb noted, ”The revenue increase is an excellent result, in line with our growth strategy. This has certainly been our most challenging year, as our sustained growth has consistently created new challenges and opportunities. The key to reaching our main strategic targets has been our flexibility and the strong work ethic of our team. Our sales growth is consistent, and with the punctual opening of our third data center and the final expansion phase of the second one, we are meeting demand and helping our clients succeed online through these uncertain times.”

Revenues for the year ended September 30, 2008 were $15.6 million, compared to $9.8 million for the same period of 2007, an increase of $5.8 million or 59%. Management assesses than in spite of the present difficult economic situation, the maintained growth in monthly recurring revenues and the increase in product offerings will enable the Company?s growth in terms of revenues.

Cost of services sold were at 49% of revenues for the year ended September 30, 2008, compared to 43% in the preceding year, an increase of 6%. Gross profit was therefore 51% of revenues for the last year compared to 57% of revenues for 2007. This decrease is explained by the impact of a stronger Canadian dollar over the U.S. currency over the last 12 months (impact of $1.0 million) and by costs incurred in the Nuns? Island facility, for which revenues are still at an early stage (impact of $300,000). Excluding these two items, gross profit for the year ended September 30, 2008 would have been higher by $1.3M or 56% of revenues (compared to 57% of revenues for the same period of 2007).

Operating expenses were 42% of revenues for 2008, compared to 41% for 2007. The increase is due to administrative expenses growing from 23% to 24% of revenues due to stock based compensation expense and costs related of moving the head office to new premises.

The final results for the year was an operating profit at almost break-even, $82,000 after interest expenses, compared to $880,000 in 2007. The main reason for this is the increase in value of the Canadian dollar against the US dollar which has had a negative impact of $865,000.

This operating profit was impacted by the cost of $547,000 of the early retirement of certain long-term debts and by an unrealised exchange loss of $152,000 on long-term US$ debt for and after tax final loss of $552,000.

Earnings before financial expenses, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and stock-based compensation (?Adjusted EBITDA?) was $3.7 million (23.8% of revenues) for the last year compared to $2.8 million in 2007 (28.9% of revenues).

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT Infrastructure, and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V : IWB). With three secure data centers, all in Montreal, iWeb has carved out an enviable position on the international scene with more than 60% of its revenues from abroad.

Founded in 1996 in Montreal, iWeb has recently completed a $22M financing agreement with investment banking giant Goldman Sachs. iWeb now has over 150 full-time employees providing Dedicated Server Hosting, Co-location and Web Hosting services to more than 19,000 customers in 150 countries.

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

Reading, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – January 22, 2009 – Managed dedicated hosting provider, DediPower, has been chosen to provide services for a new government educational initiative, with the Oculus integrated design and communications agency.

The website for the CfBT Education Trust will support the Learning Outside the Classroom programme, which is aimed at helping professionals working with young people up to the age of 19 to provide high-quality experiences. DediPower has been contracted to deliver all the managed hosting requirements.

CfBT Education Trust is a leading ‘not-for-profit’ organisation providing education for public benefit in both the UK and throughout the world. With more than 2,000 staff in more than 40 countries, CfBT manages large Government contracts; provides education services and directly manages a growing number of schools to support, teach, advise, research and train.

Adrian Garcia-Sierra, Head of Digital Strategy, Oculus noted, ”We have built a very successful working relationship with DediPower on a number of complex projects requiring comprehensive and dependable managed hosting service. DediPower has consistently delivered a high quality flexible service supported by a depth of technical understanding and competency.”

DediPower’s Managed Hosting provides enterprises with business server solutions delivering custom built high-specification dedicated servers. This is underpinned by a world-class hosting infrastructure that has been designed to ensure the highest levels of network uptime, availability, flexibility and security. Focused on delivering support with passion, DediPower offers one of the best service level agreements in the industry today and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner.

Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower remarked, ”We are very proud of the relationship we have built with Oculus and our ability to successfully support them in the creation and delivery of mission critical websites for the education sector. Over the last few years DediPower has established itself as a leading managed hosting provider in partnership with some of the most dynamic digital marketing agencies in the UK.”

DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK.

For further information, please visit: www.dedipower.com.

Pasadena, California – (The Hosting News) – January 22, 2009 – ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has renewed its Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, with four Microsoft competencies, recognizing the firm’s expertise and impact in the technology sector.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development for DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”As a hosting provider that focuses 100% on Windows-based shared web hosting, we felt that it was very important for us to obtain the Hosting Solutions competency and we are extremely proud to join the expert group of hosts that have attained this competency. Having achieved four competencies firmly demonstrates our expertise and commitment to Microsoft technology and innovation.”

In its commitment to the hosting ecosystem, Microsoft introduced a new Hosting Solutions competency last year and has introduced new exams to qualify for this competency. The new competency provides hosting partners access to sales, marketing and training opportunities and establishes the organization as a hosting expert.

DiscountASP.NET has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers’ needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the channel, as a Gold Certified Partner.

As one of the requirements for attaining Gold Certified Partner status, DiscountASP.NET had to declare a Microsoft Competency. Microsoft Competencies are designed to help differentiate a partner’s capabilities with specific Microsoft technologies to customers looking for a particular type of solution. Each competency has a unique set of requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific skills and services that partners bring to the technology industry. DiscountASP.NET attained the Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Networking Infrastructure competency to qualify for the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner level in 2006 and the Security Solutions competency in 2008. DiscountASP.NET has now added the new Hosting Solutions Competency as their fourth competency.

The Microsoft Partner Program was launched in October 2003 and represents Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to the success of partners worldwide. The program offers a single, integrated partnering framework that recognizes partner expertise, rewards the total impact that partners have in the technology marketplace, and delivers more value to help partners’ businesses be successful.

DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Windows-based shared hosting provider, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET and SQL database hosting. DiscountASP.NET was one of the first hosts to launch Windows 2008 hosting and SQL 2008 hosting. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting.

To learn more about DiscountASP.NET, please visit: www.discountasp.net.