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Web Hosting Provider, LeaseWeb, Powers Heineken.nl Web Site

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:01:11 +0000

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - July 16, 2009 - One of Europe's largest dedicated hosting providers, LeaseWeb, has been chosen to power the Heineken The Netherlands launch of its new multifunctional website, Heineken.nl.

LeaseWeb installed the hardware and software for the website, a VMware-based hosting solution, in LeaseWeb's dedicated space within the green data-center environment of EvoSwitch in the Amsterdam region.

The website Heineken.nl is a portal that not only provides information in the form of a comprehensive musical and sports agenda, but also features a web shop where you can reserve and purchase various extras, including music downloads and tickets to sold-out concerts. Visitors to Heineken.nl can use so-called Heinekene's - the savings system at Heineken.nl - to pay for those special offers. The new Heineken portal caters is intended to enhance the level of enjoyment for people going out in the Netherlands, for both music lovers and sports enthusiasts.

Heineken.nl was created in close collaboration with well-established partners, including LeaseWeb. LeaseWeb provides Heineken The Netherlands with a VMware-based hosting solution for the website. Within this solution, several VMware Virtual Machines (virtual servers) run on the VMware-based virtual hosting platform developed by LeaseWeb. LeaseWeb also provides the necessary hardware-based servers as well as network equipment, such as a firewall and a load balancer.

LeaseWeb's engineers worked to ensure that the migration of Heineken.nl to the new virtual hosting solution at LeaseWeb could be completed in one night.

Ruud Mous, sales director of LeaseWeb noted, ''Our engineers have extensive knowledge of VMware, and will - where necessary - provide support to Heineken The Netherlands with regard to maintenance and/or supplements to the existing web environment.''

LeaseWeb's own worldwide hosting network using telecom carriers and Internet exchanges ensures that consumers can make unlimited use of the Heineken.nl website. LeaseWeb's network has ample bandwidth, currently more than 750 Gigabits per second, which benefits websites with heavy traffic, multimedia applications and/or streaming video.

Mr. Mous asks, ''Why were virtual servers used for this website? Virtual hosting is particularly attractive to the enterprise market and the higher segment of the small and medium-sized business sector. A corporate hosting environment such as Heineken.nl, in particular, benefits from a virtualized solution compared to a purely hardware-based solution. Examples of such benefits include scalability and availability. It also makes migrations much simpler, and it does not affect the applications.''

LeaseWeb uses VMware for this virtual hosting solution, since its stability is crucial to the corporate market. Mous: VMware is the Rolls Royce of virtual hosting. This is state-of-the-art virtualization software, which makes it ideal for use in enterprise and large corporate environments.

Mr. Mous adds that LeaseWeb's green data center environment is also in agreement with the sustainable market approach that is being implemented by an increasingly large number of corporate businesses. ''We have a dedicated space within EvoSwitch in the Amsterdam region. This space benefits from substantial energy savings in the data center compared to conventional data centers. Furthermore, EvoSwitch uses green energy and residual CO2 emissions are compensated for by investments in tree-planting and biogas projects.''

Heineken.nl has a large amount of musical content. The download shop offers more than 2,500 CDs and 650 DVDs, and more than 500 downloads are available. There is also a web shop where you can find a variety of gifts in the form of Heineken gadgets, such as clothing, beer glasses, bags and wristwatches. Heineken.nl also features a ticket shop operated in collaboration with Ticket Online, where visitors can order tickets online for (musical) events, for example.

The website allows consumers to pay with a so-called Heineken E-Card, a full-fledged VISA credit card specially designed and customized for Heineken. They can also use the E-Card to save. This E-Card is therefore the payment and savings method at Heineken.nl. With each purchase using the Heineken E-Card, the card holder collects that make the buyer eligible for a variety of special offers. In addition to the e-offers and the extensive musical and sports agenda, Heineken.nl also features a Pub Search Engine that allows consumers to find the 2,000 largest Heineken pubs in the Netherlands, with a description, address details and itinerary for each pub.

The beer brewer views Heineken.nl as a logical initiative that complements the brand. Herwin van den Berg, marketing director of Heineken The Netherlands: The primary objective of Heineken.nl is not to sell more beer, but rather to encourage our customers to feel even more strongly connected to the brand by offering them tangible benefits, priority and privileges, in order to make their night out even more enjoyable.

LeaseWeb is an international provider of hosting solutions that is primarily geared towards the professional market. The company is among the top-20 hosting providers worldwide and its services include server virtualization, dedicated servers, collocation, streaming, webhosting, and domain name registration. LeaseWeb is the proprietor of a first-class network that offers a bandwidth of more than 750 Gbps, spanning four data centers in the Amsterdam region via major telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is also present via Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Londen, Frankfurt, New York, Brussel, Kopenhagen, Parijs, Budapest, Boekarest, Warschau, Praag, Bratislava, Milaan, Wenen, Stockholm, Oslo, Zumlrich and Madrid. This way, LeaseWeb enables companies around the world to create and continue their online presence in a simple and affordable manner. Since its founding in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb has expanded its network to include more than 22,000 servers. LeaseWeb's clients include Royal Joh. Enschede, OGD, 123Video, Jaap.nl, Relatieplanet, MijnAlbum, Starbucks, Hyves, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Twenga, Direct Wonen, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and Unive.

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

The Planet Dedicated Hosting, Bundles Parallels Services

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:27:18 +0000

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - July 16, 2009 - Web hosting provider, The Planet, is providing an automation and virtualization special bundled offering that combines Parallels Plesk Panel, together with Parallels Plesk Billing.

The promotion also delivers to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a free bundled promotion that includes Parallels Panel with 100 domains, in addition to The Planet's Alpha Monitoring service. The promotion, which launches July 6, 2009, offers the Parallels bundle free of charge, for one-month. It is available on all dedicated servers, and includes 24/7 server and service monitoring.

Urvish Vashi, general manager of The Planet's Dedicated Servers line of business noted, ''The Planet and Parallels are committed to helping resellers increase hosting revenues. Few companies are in a position to offer a promotion of this significance. Combining the power of Parallels Panel and Parallels Billing, with The Planet's enterprise-quality data centers and network, ensures our reseller channel has access to the most competitive and the best technology available today.''

The promotion provides The Planet's reseller channel with a dedicated hosting solution targeted specifically to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Details for the reseller and SMB promotions can be found at: www.theplanet.com/parallels-plesk-offer. The robust solution combines Parallels Plesk Panel - an integrated hosting automation control panel software, with Parallels Plesk Billing. Parallels Panel is the only control panel that gives users direct availability to hundreds of applications via the Application Packaging Standard (APS).Parallels Plesk Billing automates billing operations and is designed specifically for any business that needs recurring billing support - from taking orders, provisioning services, managing invoices and collecting payments.

Each server automation application shares a seamless interface, ensuring end-users can easily navigate and perform tasks quickly. The advanced bundle gives resellers and their customers an intuitive, easy-to-use Web-based managed hosting solution.

Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Division, Parallels remarked, ''The Parallels Plesk Panel bundle presents the ideal path to generate IT revenue, particularly in today's difficult economic environment. Parallels and The Planet created the dedicated server promotion to ensure resellers are armed with the best dedicated hosting service, at the best price-point. These applications are designed to allow anyone to setup their system in minutes and begin selling immediately.''

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 17.8 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by
state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

For more information about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

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

Colocation Services for The Cloud, by Interxion

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:17:41 +0000

Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - July 16, 2009 - European provider of carrier-neutral data centres, Interxion, has been selected by Europe's largest independent provider of mobile WiFi broadband, The Cloud.

Interxion will support The Cloud's colocation services in both London and Stockholm. The Cloud has signed an agreement for colocation space with a power configuration of 5kW per cabinet, to support its customer requirements and international expansion programme.

Greg McCulloch, Managing Director UK at Interxion noted, ''Interxion's infrastructure is designed to support the current and future power and connectivity requirements of ambitious service providers like The Cloud. We have structured our services across Europe to deliver SLA-driven operational resilience, giving fast-growing customers peace of mind as they scale their services to meet demand.''

Founded in 2003, The Cloud has grown rapidly into the number one WiFi network in Europe, operating across 12 markets and serving millions of mobile broadband connections through laptops and smartphones with broadband multimedia experiences.

The Cloud needed colocation facilities that could deliver high-density power configurations as well as a connectivity-rich environment. Interxion provides 5kW per cabinet as standard and, across its 24 European carrier-neutral data centres, it provides direct access to well over 500 carriers and ISPs. Interxion also provides its customers with access to 15 of Europe's leading Internet exchanges, including LINX in London and NETNOD in Stockholm. Customer equipment is monitored 24/7 by expert local staff, as well as Interxion's ISO 27001-accredited European Customer Service Centre, which monitors all customer equipment and connections across Europe from an advanced Network Operations Centre in London.

Interxion is a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 24 carrier-neutral data centres located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion's data centres offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks.

For more information please visit: www.interxion.com.

Web Hosting Tutorials Released for WHMCS, by DemoWolf

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:56:36 +0000

Nova Scotia, Canada - (The Hosting News) - July 16, 2009 - Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, is offering newly released series of 46 new tutorials for the latest version of WHMCS version 4, a client billing system for web hosts that continues to grow in popularity.

The new tutorials are divided into 3 separate series as follows:

WHMCS 4 end-user series (10 demos)
WHMCS 4 Setup series (22 demos)
WHMCS 4 Management series (14 demos)

These 3 new series replace the existing WHMCS series of 10 tutorials already offered by DemoWolf, and the new end-user series have been produced without the WHMCS header at the top, so they can easily be used by web hosts who use their own branding. This brings the total number of flash support tutorials available to web hosts through DemoWolf to over 3,300.

In addition, DemoWolf is the only hosting tutorial provider to offer Voice Tutorials, and has a library of over 1,200 Voice Tutorials for hosts to choose from. Voice Tutorials are the same as DemoWolf's regular Flash Support Tutorials, except that they are professionally narrated by Anne Swist, DemoWolf's voice artist. Voice versions of these new WHMCS 4 tutorials will be available in the coming weeks. DemoWolf customers who purchased WHMCS 3 tutorials from DemoWolf within the last 6 months will receive a credit for the amount spent on the old WHMCS tutorials, to be put towards the new WHMCS 4 tutorials. For more information, please contact DemoWolf directly.

DemoWolf will be exhibiting for the third consecutive year at HostingCon in Washington, DC from August 10-12, 2009. Stop by booth 318 and learn about all the new things DemoWolf has planned for the coming year.

DemoWolf is the largest Flash tutorial provider in the hosting industry, offering flash tutorials for hosting companies, including voice tutorials (flash tutorials that include voice audio narration). DemoWolf is also the fastest growing tutorials provider, adding 200+ new tutorials every month. DemoWolf has tutorials available for Parallels Plesk, cPanel, Helm, H-Sphere, DotNetPanel, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, WordPress and many more. For more information, you may contact DemoWolf by visiting their website or by calling toll free 1-866-905-4678.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.

Web Hosting Company, Superb Internet, Opens Virginia Data Center

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:06:36 +0000

Honolulu, Hawaii - (The Hosting News) - July 15, 2009 - Global web hosting, managed dedicated server, shared web hosting and e-commerce hosting solutions provider, Superb Internet, has opened a new data center, strategically located in Springfield, Virginia.

Haralds Jass, President and CEO of Superb Internet remarked, ''Our Springfield data center has been designed to Superb's standards of excellence for a world-class data center that is efficient, reliable, and secure. The addition of this new data center will ensure Superb's customers will have plenty of space for future expansion as our customers' business grows with us.''

This new addition, DCA3 compliments its two existing data centers located in McLean, VA and Seattle, WA. Superb's McLean, VA data center, DCA2, is at 90% capacity - due to continued strong demand for businesses to outsource their data center, dedicated server and bandwidth needs, especially in the current economic climate, where partnering with Superb brings not only cost savings, but also added quality of service and reliability for businesses mission-critical online presence. As such, DCA3 is being open just in time for Superb to have capacity to continue growing its dedicated and colocated customer base on the east coast.

Superb Internet invested significant resources to ensure this facility has optimal network connectivity, with direct access to major fibers with fully redundant systems which include 8 parallel UPS units, 2 parallel redundant 1.25MW diesel generators, and over 200 tons of AC cooling, expandable to over 500 tons.

The new facility will accommodate the growing demand for Superb Internet's dedicated server and colocation services, coinciding with the launch of its new professional services division, which offers customers a full spectrum of advanced hosting solutions including: managed back up, proactive monitoring, scalability and capacity planning, disaster recovery, clustering, and high availability solutions. Superb attributes their continued success to the combination of offering high-performance servers with the superior connectivity and unparalleled customer support that it has been well known for since 1996.

As with all Superb data center locations, the Springfield facility is staffed 24x7x365 by experienced, certified systems and network engineers supporting multi-OS server infrastructure solutions, including high-availability configurations and application hosting.

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the very best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting, through dedicated and managed services, and up to high-volume, mission-critical, high-availability, geographically-dispersed cluster solutions. Superb's core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ''Ahead of the Rest.'' Superb Internet has its own data centers staffed 24x7x365 in McLean, VA, Springfield, VA, and Seattle, WA, and its own coast-to-coast IP backbone. Superb's headquarters is located in Honolulu, HI.

For more information about Superb Internet Corp., please visit www.superb.net.

Rackspace Hosting Releases Public API for Cloud Servers

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:57:04 +0000

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 15, 2009 - The Cloud Servers API beta solution has premiered at web hosting provider, Rackspace Hosting, as part of the company's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering.

The service provides inexpensive compute capacity that can be instantly sized allowing businesses to pay only for what it uses - as needed. Through the open, standards-based API, Rackspace Cloud customers can now manage their cloud infrastructure with greater control and flexibility. The API, for example, enables elastic scenarios as users can write code that programmatically detects load and scales the number of server instances up and down.

The Rackspace Cloud solicited feedback and conducted intensive testing with its partners and cloud developers to help ensure that the community shaped the API. With today's announcement, users now have control panel and programmatic access to the company's cloud infrastructure services.

Michael Mayo, iPhone application developer noted, ''It's been a great experience to collaborate with the Rackspace Cloud team on the development of the Cloud Servers API. Working together with the Rackspace team enabled me to develop my application much more quickly. I'm very pleased with the open feedback process as it makes my work a lot easier.''

The Cloud Servers API will introduce four new features including:

- Server Metadata - Supply server-specific metadata when an instance is created that can be accessed via the API.

- Server Data Injection - Specify files when instance is created that will be injected into the server file system before startup. This is useful, for example, when inserting SSH keys, setting configuration files, or storing data that you want to retrieve from within the Cloud Server itself.

- Host Identification - The Cloud Servers provisioning algorithm has an anti-affinity property that attempts to spread out customer VMs across hosts. Under certain situations, Cloud Servers from the same customer may be placed on the same host. Host identification allows you to programmatically detect this condition and take appropriate action.

- Shared IP Groups - While Rackspace has always supported shared IPs, it's been made simpler with the creation of Shared IP Groups and the ability to enable high availability configurations.

Rackspace Cloud customers will be able to manage their Cloud Servers or Cloud Files accounts anytime, anywhere on their iPhones thanks to an application built off the APIs by developer Michael Mayo. The application is expected to be available in the App Store within a month.

With the API, developers can create applications for the Rackspace Cloud which can automatically access compute power as required. The Cloud Servers API also allows developers to work with partners on pre-built applications.

David Day, CTO, Zeus Technology offered, ''After testing, it is apparent the Cloud Servers API was created to meet the needs of the community. The REST API has a complete feature set and is easy to use. We are excited to be building on such a robust platform.''

Emil Sayegh, General Manager, The Rackspace Cloud added, ''With the launch of our API, we're looking forward to working with our partners and the developer community to create a powerful cloud ecosystem which we believe will generate new tools and applications to make cloud hosting even easier and more efficient. We see programmatic control as essential for igniting an ecosystem around the Rackspace Cloud. It's a key tool for generating the next big thing in cloud because it gives developers the power and control to bring their great ideas to fruition.''

The Cloud Servers API is implemented using a RESTful web service interface. Aiming to build a cohesive approach to all products in the Rackspace Cloud suite, Cloud Servers shares a common token authentication system that allows seamless access between products and services.

Launched earlier this year, Cloud Servers is a compute service that provides server capacity in the cloud to businesses of all sizes and leverages key technology developed by Slicehost, LLC, a Rackspace wholly-owned subsidiary. Until today, interactions with Cloud Servers only occurred via the Rackspace Cloud Control Panel (GUI) and now programmatically via the Cloud Servers API.

The Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support. Through its suite of cloud solutions, Cloud Sites, Cloud Files and Cloud Servers, The Rackspace Cloud enables astute developers and IT managers to minimize the hassles, upfront investments and high costs associated with dedicated hardware, while offering the ability to easily scale hosting resources.

As the leader and specialist in hosting services, 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, Cloud Hosting, and Email and Apps.

To learn more about the Cloud Servers API, please visit: www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers/compare.

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

SoftLayer Dedicated Servers Support Michael Jackson Memorial Service Event

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:35:02 +0000

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 15, 2009 - Dedicated server solution provider, SoftLayer, recently supported the live Internet broadcast of the Michael Jackson Memorial Service, as an on-demand data center services provider, selected by multi-platform IP services and content delivery provider, Highwinds.

As a trusted partner to support high-quality live streaming of the global event, it is believed that the memorial service's viewership was second only to the inauguration of President Barack Obama, also streamed by SoftLayer and Highwinds.

Ric Moseley, Vice President of Engineering at SoftLayer noted, ''It would be enough of an accomplishment just to handle an event of this scale. But being able to handle it without any interruption to regular operations really proves the robustness of our architecture and network. We are proud to have been a part of such a historic occasion, and that customers like Highwinds keep coming back to us for our expertise.''

SoftLayer provisioned more than 400 servers for the one-day netcast, demonstrating the service providers' massive and dynamic scalability. SoftLayer streamed more than 45Gb of event coverage for the day, leading to a one-day high of 100Gb total traffic between its three data centers, with no reported outages or performance issues.

More and more people are turning to the Internet instead of television as their video source for important live events. After media and social networking sites experienced outages and overloading on the day of Jackson's passing, it was expected his memorial service would generate record levels of attention.

George Antoniou, Vice President of Operations at Highwinds explained, ''We knew from our mutual success streaming the Obama Inauguration that SoftLayer was the ideal partner for this event.''

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

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

Web Host, The Planet, Hosts IT Survey, at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:25:33 +0000

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 15, 2009 - IT hosting provider, The Planet, is participating at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference through July 16 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, a collection of buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Steve Kahan, vice president of marketing and product management at The Planet's noted, ''As a Microsoft Gold Certified See certification, we invite partners, customers and prospects to stop by either of The Planet's locations to learn how they can leverage our hosting partner solutions and IT infrastructure to help their businesses grow.''

Conference attendees who stop by The Planet booth can enter to win one of two grand prizes. The first-place winner receives six months of free service on a Dell PowerEdge R710 server, complete with two 2.4 GHz Intel Nehalem processors and 6GB of RAM (a $2,940 value). The second-place prize is a free Storage Cloud account for six months, which includes 100GB of cloud storage Cloud storage (also known as Cloud computing or Cloud services) is a model of networked data storage where data is stored on multiple virtual servers, generally hosted by third parties, rather than being hosted on dedicated servers and 250GB of bandwidth (a $465 value).

The Planet will also host the IT Effectiveness Index (www.iteffectivenessindex.com) at its booth, an online survey that lets small- and medium-size business owners see in real time how their IT system performance compares to industry peers. Microsoft is one of nine survey sponsors.

The Worldwide Partner Conference provides Microsoft's partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership, and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed. Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology, the Worldwide Partner Conference is an ideal setting for partners to garner valuable knowledge from their peers and from Microsoft.

The IT Effectiveness Index is the first-ever benchmarking tool that measures the technology effectiveness of small- and medium-sized businesses throughout the world: www.iteffectivenessindex.com. Spearheaded by companies with a core interest in the SMB market, the survey provides insight and counsel for improving business processes and IT effectiveness. Members of the consortium include the following companies: HostSearch (www.hostsearch.com); Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw State University, commonly known as Kennesaw State, is a public, coeducational university and is part of the University System of Georgia. It is located in Kennesaw, an unincorporated community in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, approximately 20 miles north of (www.kennesaw.edu); Microsoft (www.microsoft.com); Nine Lives Media (www.ninelivesmediainc.com); The Planet (www.theplanet.com); SmallBizTechnology.com (www.smallbiztechnology.com); Small Business Trends (http://smallbiztrends.com); SMB (1) Small to Medium-sized Business). Also called SME (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. Nation (www.smbnation.com) and Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. (www.yankeegroup.com).

The Planet's goal is to deliver enterprise level hosting solutions that are readily available, affordable, and scalable. The Planet offers dedicated servers, co-location, Internet access, email and business continuance. Customers receive extreme value through offerings such as advanced security, proactive monitoring, database administration, data storage, load balancing, and virtual private networks, all managed through Orbit, The Planet's customer portal. The Planet's Northstar Managed Hosting and data center colocation is all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

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

Web Hosting Provider, Storm Internet, Reveals Exponential Growth

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:23:40 +0000

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - July 14, 2009 - Storm Internet, an International web site hosting company, has revealed an increase of 120% growth since July 2008.

The Oxfordshire based company, which provides high quality web hosting solutions for individuals and businesses around the world, has seen its profits treble in the last 12 months - highlighting that it's still possible for businesses to succeed in the economic downturn.

Salim Benadel, CEO explains, ''I believe our marked success this year is down to two things; offering an excellent product and providing customer support that is second to none. We understand that buying anything IT related is an important business decision. And that's why we place so much emphasis on support. From our 24/7 hour customer service, to Live Chat, to assigning each customer a dedicated Account Manager, we are committed to providing the best expert service we can.''

Mr. Benadel believes that word of mouth is the best way to receive and retain businesses, continuing, ''The majority of our customers come from recommendation; whether it is from friends, colleagues or as a result of online customer reviews. We work on the principal that if you spend time with you customer and build a solution to their IT problems, then not only will they stay with you, but they will recommend your services to other people. That's the type of growth we want.''

Mr. Benadel also doesn't believe in spending thousands on advertising and marketing, saying ''Let's face it anyone can pay to blow their own trumpet. We hope that our products and services do the talking for us.''

Storm's vision for future growth is to continue offering excellent customer service and to focus on flexibility in their range of products and services. Recently Storm launched a range of business solutions for small and medium sized organisations.

Mr. Benadel added, ''In order to compete in the economic downturn, it has become more important than ever for small businesses to sell their services on the internet. And it's not just having a good website that's a must. An effective email system is imperative, as is ensuring that important data is backed up.''

Recent statistics from the London Chamber of Commerce highlight that 90% of businesses that lose data from a disaster are forced to shut down within 2 years.

Since 1996, Storm Internet has built a reputation of providing consistent and reliable Internet connectivity in urban and rural communities. An industry leader in fixed-wireless connectivity, Storm currently maintains one of the largest broadband wireless networks in North America, covering approximately 35,000 square kilometers, spanning more than 50 communities and municipalities (see: coverage map/chart). Through a network of partners, resellers, and affiliates, Storm continues to demonstrate a leadership position in connecting urban and rural communities with broadband infrastructure.

To learn more, please visit: www.storminternet.co.uk.

Google Search Engine, Developing Chrome Operating System

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:02:17 +0000

Mountain View, California - (The Hosting News) - July 14, 2009 - Search engine, Google, has been in development of its Google Chrome OS, an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.

Later this year Google will open-source its code and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Approximately nine months ago, launched the Google Chrome browser, which is being used by over 30 million people. Google Chrome was designed for people who live on the web - searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS, to be fast and lightweight, to start up in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of the user's way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And with the Chrome browser, Google is going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and the company is working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple - Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, Google believes that choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including the company.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

To learn more, please visit: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-os-faq.html.

Reseller Web Hosting Services, Value Reseller, Acquires LogicSupport

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:44:17 +0000

Flemington, New Jersey - (The Hosting News) - July 14, 2009 - Private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has acquired white label provider of outsourced technical support, administration and management services exclusively for web hosting companies, LogicSupport.

Ali Davachi, Chief Executive Officer of Value Reseller remarked, ''Value Reseller is only as successful as its partners. We will always look to bring on new and enhanced capabilities that will drive strategic and bottom line value, whether through acquisition, partnership or internal development. We will put the full weight of our company behind our reseller partners.''

LogicSupport provides hosting companies with 24/7 technical support services and guarantees a response time of one hour for any issue. Services offered include serving administration, 24/7 server monitoring, security scans, firewall installation, troubleshooting, and server setup and configuration. LogicSupport also offers a full range of security services that includes scanning, monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention and security software installation. In addition to a full range of server management services, LogicSupport has expertise with databases, FTP, e-mail, DNS and scripting.

The LogicSupport acquisition follows Value Resellers' recent purchase of Javascript Zoom, a Javascript application that allows users to zoom in and focus closely on web site objects. The application is used to enhance customer web sites hosted by resellers, enhancing the overall value of their service. These two deals underscore Value Reseller's commitment to providing all the technology, tools and services necessary to deliver a high-quality hosting service that generates additional revenue streams for partners.

LogicSupport can handle almost any type of hosting customer, supporting the Fedora Linux, CentOS Linux, SUSE, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Windows operating systems. Hosting control panels supported include Plesk, cPanel, WHM, H-Sphere, Ensim Pro, Alabanza, Web Admin and Direct Admin.

Value Reseller has integrated LogicSupport into its infrastructure and is now capable of backing any hosting scenario or deployment. Reseller Partners will now have access to another critical service from a single source, reducing aggravation and increasing service quality across the board.

Mr. Davachi added, ''We are extremely excited about this acquisition. LogicSupport has developed a stellar reputation across the industry and its addition significantly strengthens our overall support and management capabilities. LogicSupport enables us to provide a completely integrated, end-to-end offering to web hosting resellers, including everything from the servers, network and data center to the technical support infrastructure and marketing tools. No other company can match such a powerful value proposition and it is why more and more resellers are coming on board at Value Reseller.''

Value Reseller provides a private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime. Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners and is fully committed to helping them succeed.

Value Reseller, established in 1998 with facilities in Boston, MA and Jersey City, NJ, is a privately owned private label web hosting provider focused exclusively on the reseller market. Hosting services offered include shared hosting, enterprise virtualization, virtual private and dedicated servers, and are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. All of Value Reseller's services are backed by a leading edge datacenter infrastructure and network, and supported live 24/7/365 by technicians and customer service professionals. Value Reseller features a next-generation hosting platform built on the principles of cloud computing, making it possible to guarantee 100% uptime availability. This platform is the foundation from which Value Reseller has been able to offer customers hosting for unlimited domains - one of the biggest breakthroughs in web hosting over the past 10 years. Value Reseller is committed to enabling the success of its resellers and does not participate in the retail market in competition with its partners. With a complete private label service, web developers, ISPs, design shops and Internet professionals have everything they need to build a successful hosting business or enhance their existing offerings.

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

Hosted Parallels APS, Deployed by Persony Web Conferencing

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:12 +0000

Los Gatos, California - (The Hosting News) - July 14, 2009 - Private label web and video conferencing software firm, Persony, has made available a free version of its Web Conferencing 2.0 in the Application Packaging Standard (APS) format promoted by Parallels.

Adopted by key Cloud Services Providers and third party application vendors, APS is a new industry standard that simplifies deployment of web applications, enabling service providers and their customers to easily deploy Persony's web conferencing software on their web sites.

Soeren von Varchmin, Vice President of SaaS, Parallels remarked, ''We are pleased to see Persony joining the growing list of commercial applications in the APS Catalog. Persony's web conferencing application is a highly demanded service and helps to round out a broad range of applications that cloud services providers can offer to their SMB customers, quickly and easily.''

Persony Web Conferencing 2.0 is an easy-to-use and feature-rich web and video conferencing solution. Participants can join a meeting with virtually any web browser and do not need to download any special software. Unlike many other web conferencing services, Persony web conferencing can be hosted on a standard web server with full private labeling. The free version of Persony software allows Parallels Plesk Panel users to easily create a web conferencing site with up to 100 trial users, including free audio conferencing. Trial users can host unlimited number of meetings with two participants per meeting. Meeting room sizes ranging from 10 to 100 participants can be purchased from Persony. Add-on options include multi-point video and voice over IP, synchronized audio and web conferencing recording, and an iPhone application for moderating or joining a meeting from an iPhone.

Eric Chen, CEO of Persony noted, ''We have been looking for ways to bring the benefits of online meetings to small businesses and help them reduce costs and increase productivity. The Application Packaging Standard is supported by many leading hosting providers and allows us to reach millions of users globally.''

The APS format of Persony Web Conferencing is available for download immediately at www.apsstandard.org. Persony is actively looking for service providers to offer web conferencing as an add-on option under a revenue sharing model.

Persony's web and video conferencing solutions enable many service providers to offer fully branded, feature-rich, and easy-to-use web collaboration services at very affordable pricing. Persony's patent-pending smart-client technology puts the intelligence of a collaborative application on the client side and uses standard web servers to connect remote users. By leveraging the millions of web servers in existence, Persony's solutions can be deployed anywhere and at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. The smart-client approach is a disruptive technology that allows individuals and small businesses to afford applications that were once only available to larger corporations.

For more information about Persony, please visit: www.persony.com.

To learn more about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Web Hosting Rewards Program, Debuts at Hosting Zoom, Reseller Zoom

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:46:27 +0000

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 9, 2009 - Provider of end-to-end web hosting services, Hosting Zoom and Reseller Zoom, have introduced a new Web Hosting Rewards Program, designed for new and existing customers, who will be eligible to accumulate reward points on a monthly basis and exchange them for new hosting or add-on services.

Greg Landis, CEO of Hosting Zoom and Reseller Zoom remarked, ''It has been a privilege for us to have served such a loyal customer base in over ten years of business. Our Web Hosting Rewards Program is a way for us to give back something to our customers and thank them for their continued patronage. It also lets us deliver some immediate value to new customers as soon as they sign up for hosting services. This is just the latest demonstration of our commitment to being there for customers both large and small. We look forward to doing business with them for many years to come.''

Points will be distributed on a recurring monthly basis. Every month a customer is on board, they will receive 50 reward points. On top of this, they will receive an additional reward point for every dollar spent on their monthly bill. For example, a customer that spends $10 per month will receive 50+10 for a total of 60 rewards points each month.

For every dollar spent in the initial sign-up month, customers will receive 50 bonus reward points. For example, a new customer signing up for $10 of monthly hosting services will receive 500 reward points (10x50=500) for that first month of service. This is limited up to a maximum of 2,500 points.

Hosting Zoom and Reseller Zoom will also reward customers a bonus of 2,500 reward points for new referrals. To thank our many customers for their loyalty, reward points will be issued retroactively for each month they have been a hosting Zoom or Reseller Zoom customer.

There is no limit to the number of points a customer can accumulate and the points do not have an expiry date. Customers can use the points whenever they wish. Monthly points are paid out on the first day of every month. Sign-up and monthly bonus points are awarded whichever day during the month they are incurred.

Customers can redeem points through their web-based control panels. Points can only be redeemed for additional hosting and add-on services. They cannot be used to pay existing hosting bills.

Hosting Zoom and Reseller Zoom are providers of web hosting services to small and medium-sized businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations worldwide. Hosting Zoom and Reseller Zoom customers enjoy the flexibility of choosing from a full suite of hosting solutions, ranging from shared hosting and virtual private servers to dedicated hosting and managed hosting. Reseller Zoom operates a reseller program, helping smaller organizations jump into the hosting business or augment their current offerings. Each hosting plan is backed by a world-class data center infrastructure and network, and supported by a rock solid customer service operation. Hosting Zoom and Reseller Zoom help organizations realize their full potential by capturing the power of the Internet.

Learn more, please visit: www.hostingzoom.com and www.resellerzoon.com.

Dedicated Server Provider, OLM.net, Launches Service Revamp

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:33:22 +0000

Trumbull, Connecticut - (The Hosting News) - July 9, 2009 - Provider of dedicated servers, web hosting and e-business solutions for individuals, small to medium size business, and enterprises, OLM, LLC, has completed a major overhaul of its Web site and service structure, including new hosting plans, control panel, and dozens of new features.

Chris Silkman, Business Manager at OLM.net offered, ''OLM.net has represented the utmost in stability, reliability, and affordability for tens of thousands of businesses since we started hosting in 1996.Today, with the completion of a major new Web site and service overhaul, we are taking a big step forward and offering a set of hosting services that will enable us to more aggressively compete in the marketplace of tomorrow.''

The OLM.net web site has been completely overhauled, and offers significant aesthetic improvements. The site is easier to navigate, faster to load, and more accessible to visitors with disabilities. The new horizontal navigation has been streamlined to just six tabs, providing quick access to the company's five key areas of service and detailed information about OLM.net's top-tier network infrastructure.

Shared web hosting plans now exclusively offer management through the cPanel control panel, which is configured with Fantastico script auto-installers and shared SSL. All Shared Web hosting plans now also offer unlimited disk space and unlimited data transfer - a significant boost with no reduction in prices for customers. The entry-level Business Web Hosting plan still starts at just $5.95 per month.

After a brief hiatus, OLM.net is now once again offering Virtual Private Servers (VPS), powered by either cPanel/WHM or DirectAdmin. All new VPS accounts are hosted on the Xen virtualization platform, and feature next-generation server hardware. Customers can choose from five customizable VPS plans, starting at just $10.95 per month.

OLM.net has also made changes to its critically acclaimed line of Dedicated Servers. New Dedicated Servers now have the option to utilize the DirectAdmin control panel as well as Parallels Pro and cPanel, and can store data on ultra-fast solid-state hard drives. The Cisco® ASA hardware firewall is also available as an added layer of security protection. Robust, business-class dedicated servers start at just $64.95 per month, and offer a wide range of customization capabilities.

OLM.net is an integrated dedicated server, Web hosting and e-business solution provider for individuals, small to medium size business, and enterprises around the world. Founded in 1996, OLM has since emerged as one of the largest global Internet Solution Providers, hosting over 350,000 domains and thousands of dedicated servers in over 150 countries. OLM.net offers web hosting, e-commerce, virtual and dedicated servers, reseller accounts, merchant and search engine services, web design, SEO, and other services.

To learn more about OLM.net, please visit: www.OLM.net.

For more about dedicated servers from OLM.net, please visit: www.OLM.net/dedicated-servers.

Web Hosting Summer Special, Premieres at Pronethosting.NET

Reseller Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, WebHost News — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:23:11 +0000

Los Angeles, California - (The Hosting News) - July 9, 2009 - Pronethosting.net, web hosting provider, has debuted the launched of its ''CRAZY SUMMER SPECIAL'' for the month of July, featuring 1 year of Linux web hosting for $4.95.

The special includes unlimited space and bandwidth with the new Linux shared web hosting packages. During the tough economic times, Pronethosting.net is offering their Linux shared web hosting services at an incredible discount. The Linux shared web hosting packages feature unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, web development package, web site builder with hundreds of easy templates, and much more!

Ryan Morris, Marketing Director at Pronet Hosting remarked, ''People still need web hosting in our tough economic times, and we are offering our services to get them up and running.''

The coupon code for this promotion is FREEJULY.

Pronethosting.net was formed by a group of IT professionals in early 2001 to introduce a new standard in the fast-changing environment of web hosting. Our mission is to achieve your 100% satisfaction, which is guaranteed by our professional service and friendly support. With over 8 years of web hosting experience on various hosting platforms and operating systems, particularly Linux web hosting, Windows web hosting, and reseller web hosting, we bring a wealth of knowledge and the capability to handle any hosting needs. This experience also comes with the support and knowledge customers have come to rely on, which ensures that their problems are being resolved timely and effectively and they are able to obtain friendly and respectful customer support.

To learn more, please visit: http://www.pronethosting.net