Overland Park, Kansas – (The Hosting News) – July 23, 2009 – Aplus.net web hosting company has introduced a new web design product to accompany its shared hosting services, designed to allow business owners to reach the masses through the Internet through a personalized and professional website.

Sharon Bruley, Web Design Manager at Aplus.net noted, “Ecommerce is booming and businesses are finding the Internet is a large source of revenue that is much easier to manage than a brick-n-mortar store. By offering web design with no strings attached, business owners have complete control over what direction they take their website and their business.”
 
 
Reducing costs and application integration are currently the top priorities for small-to-medium-size business owners online, according to Emergent Research (http://genylabs.typepad.com/small_biz_labs/2009/06/small-and-midsized-business-software-usage-trends.html). However, only 41 percent of small-business owners operated an online storefront in Sept. 2008, according to a study by Warrilow and Co., which means a majority are unable to reach the 1.6 billion Internet users. (http://www.warrillow.com/Images2/Article_usNews_20080926.pdf).  

The Internet provides many benefits for SMBs that include global market penetration, brand enhancement, 24/7/365 support and availability and simplified data collection, just to name a few.
 
Web Design from Aplus.net is designed to allow SMBs to take advantage of these many opportunities. In addition, SMBs own their designed website-unlike many other website design houses- and may select from 4,000 design templates for full personalization. SMBs will reduce costs by retaining ownership of their website and can seamlessly launch and manage the site through one of Aplus.net’s shared hosting plans. Each design package includes 5 web pages, a free website consultation and a 12-day delivery guarantee so the website can launch on-time. Packages start at $50/month for 12 months or $500/year for HTML-based websites, while new Flash-based websites start at $80/month for 12 months or $850/year.
 
In addition to standard design packages, Aplus.net offers a variety of service upgrades such as eCommerce, SEO services, maintenance plans and more providing customers with additional revenue generating tools.
 
Aplus.net specializes in helping small businesses build an online customer base with a comprehensive range of services that includes web design, shared hosting, 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) – July 22, 2009 – The iWeb Group Inc. has confirmed the completion of $3 million financing with one of its major financial partners, BMO Bank of Montreal.

The revolving credit facility is available in term loans, bearing interest of 4.75% currently, (prime rate plus 2.5%), payable in monthly installments over a 42 month time frame.

iWeb intends to use this loan facility to fund servers in the largest of the Company’s three Montreal data centers. According to Philip Tousignant, iWeb’s CFO, this investment in IT infrastructure will continue expanding iWeb’s dedicated hosting service offering, which has passed the 10,000 server mark in March 2009. $1.37 million has been disbursed immediately for servers already in use.

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT Infrastructure, with three secure data centers in Montreal. Since 2004, the Company’s compounded annual growth rate has been above 75%, making it one of Canada’s 100 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine. iWeb has also been named one of the top movers and shakers among Canadian IT companies in the 2009 edition of the Branham300.

Founded in 1996 in Montreal, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues from abroad and employs over 170 full-time employees. Providing Dedicated Server Hosting, Co-location and Web Hosting services to more than 21,000 customers in 150 countries. iWeb’s shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V : IWB).

For more information, please visit: http://investors.iweb.com.

Washington, D.C. – (The Hosting News) – July 22, 2009 – The organizers of the fifth annual web hosting industry event, HostingCon 2009 recently revealed that all of its booth space will be filled to capacity. The event will take place from August 10-12, 2009 at The Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington D.C.

With a projected attendance of over 2,000 Internet professionals from over 30 countries, this year’s premiere hosting industry event is expected to be the best one ever produced of its kind in the United States. The HostingCon 2009 exhibit hall will include nearly 100 hosted services vendors displaying products and services, as well as many exciting demonstrations and other activities by top industry businesses.

Kelly Kleiner, VP of Sales and Events for iNET Interactive, producers of HostingCon 2009 noted, ”Selling out the booth space is a strong sign for the confidence exhibitors have in iNET Interactive and their expectation for HostingCon 2009 delivering a successful outcome.”

Although all available booth space is sold, a number of sponsorship opportunities still exist including: 1. Networking Reception sponsorships; 2. WiFi sponsorship; 3. Bag inserts; and 4. Video Advertising.

As the only conference and trade show focused exclusively on the hosted services industry, HostingCon 2009 will feature keynotes by industry influencers from leading firms such as Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Rackspace, Parallels, SoftLayer, Mezeo, and UK2. The keynotes will expose industry trends, provide information on what successful business providers are doing to succeed, and reveal next generation technologies that are making an impact on hosted services worldwide.

Educational tracks will consist of 52 conference sessions and will allow for hosting professionals to expand their knowledge in the most relevant areas of the hosting industry, including: (1) marketing and sales, (2) technology and operations, (3) business development, and (4) emerging trends.

In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to network with hosting business and industry professionals at numerous events, private parties, and a lounge hosted by the WHIR hosting publication resource.

HostingCon was originally the brainchild of George A. Roberts IV, President and CEO, and Frank Spaulding, Executive Vice President and COO of Interjuncture Corp., a Crystal Lake, Illinois-based technology conference and trade show producer.  HostingCon is presently produced in connection with social media company, iNET Interactive, which operates prominent online communities for technology professionals and enthusiasts such as the largest and most influential hosting resource, WebHostingTalk.

To learn more about HostingCon news, please visit the official web site which contains all of the latest information regarding the conference.  The HostingCon blog details the latest developments of the event such as scheduled panels, speakers, exhibitors and high-profile keynotes.

For more about HostingCon 2009, please visit: www.hostingcon.com.

McLean, Virginia – (The Hosting News) – July 22, 2009 – Provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide, ServInt, has appointed Eric Morales as its new Business Intelligence Manager.

Mr. Morales will be responsible for market research, competitive analysis, company evangelism, customer communications, social networking programs and other areas related to the development and marketing of ServInt’s high-performance web-hosting services.

Christian Dawson, Vice President of Operations at ServInt explained, “Our efforts to create competitive, valuable services depend upon securing current data on customer requirements and industry developments. Eric will ensure that we always have up-to-the-minute industry data and will communicate the importance of new ServInt programs to our customers and other stakeholders.”

Mr. Morales will monitor and gather strategic information from sources related to the web-hosting industry and the vertical markets of ServInt customers. He will be regularly engaged in ServInt customer forums to secure critical feedback and evangelize ServInt’s products and services both off and online. He will also serve as an editor for The ServInt Source blog and spearhead ServInt’s presence in social-networking sites including Facebook and Twitter.

Prior to joining ServInt, Mr. Morales served two years in small/medium business development and management in Apple Inc’s retail division. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from Temple University.

ServInt is a pioneering provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide. ServInt’s commitment to Green IT services is demonstrated by its popular Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions. ServInt was founded in Northern Virginia in 1995 as one of the world’s first web-hosting companies to offer a Managed Dedicated Server solution. From multiple world-class data centers, ServInt now provides its scalable suite of VPS and Managed Enterprise Server packages to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries.

To learn more, please visit: www.servint.net.

Glasgow, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – July 22, 2009 – Domain name and web hosting provider in the UK, Easyspace, has launched its summer domain discounts, following from the popularity of the company’s various domain offers of 2008.

Taking its cue from the “indefinite reduction” domain offer that ran from February through to May in 2009, Easyspace decided to continue rewarding its customers (new and existing) with more opportunities to save.

Customers can benefit from discounts on 4 different domain extensions. With a 40% discount on .Us and .Org domains and a 25% discount on .Me and .Info domains, all customers have to do is add at least one other full price extension to their baskets. For doing this, they’ll be able to add unlimited numbers of discounted domains in the same transaction.

Errol Vanderhorst, Sales and Marketing Manager for Easyspace offered, “We’ve been offering discounts on domain names for a long time now and customers do appreciate it. Domains are a growing and popular business these days, so potential domain owners are always happy if they can pick up a bargain. We sell a large variety of extensions at Easyspace, each one important for its own reasons. The July offer lets customers pick up four of those extensions for discounts of up to 40%.”

Easyspace offers various domain name services on its website, from a simple domain search tool to a service offering alternative domains based on keywords. In addition, Easyspace also offers access to a premium domain market where customers can view domain names currently on private sale from a few hundred pounds to several thousand pounds.

Founded in 1997, Easyspace was one of the first domain and web hosting companies in the UK. Easyspace domains come with the usual admin features, including MX Control, Name Server Control and web redirection.

To learn more, please visit: www.easyspace.com/domain_names

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – (The Hosting News) – July 21, 2009 – The SpamExperts company, provider of professional email security solutions, has been named a Gold sponsor at this year’s number one hosting event in Washington, HostingCon. To celebrate, SpamExperts, is offering the chance to win a full conference pass, valued at USD 570.

The company invites all who are interested to provide the most creative explanation as to why “you think you deserve it.” All applications should be send to hostingcon2009@spamexperts.com. The winner together with the winning explanation will be announced here  July 25, 2009. 

For who apply but do not win may still make use of the gold sponsorship voucher code of SpamExperts upon registration. The voucher provides a USD 60 discount on the full conference pass. When registering, enter SPAMEXPERTS2009 to receive the discount. The discount code also applies for partial passes, with a slightly lower savings. SpamExperts also invites everyone to stop by at booth 230 in the main exhibition hall. 

SpamExperts is also offering, for all of July and August, a 25% discount on all licensing packages for both the hosted and the dedicated anti-spam solutions. Please mention the coupon code: SEJP0709 upon purchasing anything with SpamExperts. 

SpamExperts is an email security solutions provider from The Netherlands. With clients in more than 100 countries, SpamExperts focuses especially on filtering email and securing networks for ISPs and webhosts. The SpamExperts dedicated solutions are managed email security installations that can run on the hardware of the webhost. The hosted email security gateway clusters are located in 8 datacenters around the globe to provide for redundancy, synchronous filtering, and securing the networks of customers at all times. Standard unlimited user licensing makes SpamExperts the best value-for-money provider in the market.

To learn more, please visit: http://www.spamexperts.com.

Scottsdale, Arizona – (The Hosting News) – July 21, 2009 – The GoDaddy.com web hosting and domain registrar company is hiring technically skilled Spanish speakers to better serve its global customers currently.

At a news conference held at its Tempe, Ariz. facility today, Go Daddy Vice President of Customer Care Miguel Lopez announced 20 open positions in the Spanish language unit. Lopez is a native Spanish speaker himself, and oversees all Go Daddy’s Customer Care operations.

The newly formed team services Spanish speaking customers who want help setting up their online presence, with domain names, Web sites, e-commerce tools, blogs, photo albums or any of the 52 products Go Daddy offers.

Mr. Lopez explained, “We are looking for Spanish speakers with computer knowledge, but we also train our staff so they know our products and services inside and out. Since we began offering Spanish language assistance this year, we’ve seen a significant spike in business from Mexico and Spain. So few companies actually offer a phone number for top-notch customer service … clearly, there is a need for people to have access to friendly, knowledgeable service when it comes to getting up and running on the Internet.”

Go Daddy is one of a handful of Inc. 500/5000 companies in hiring mode these days. The Web giant employs more than 2,170 people, and serves more than 7 million customers worldwide.

In addition to the Spanish speaking positions, Go Daddy has 100 open jobs right now.

The Scottsdale-based company ranked on the Valley’s Best Places to Work list for the last five years running. Other distinguished honors and awards over recent years include Go Daddy being selected Most Innovative Company, Business Leader of the Year, Best Registrar, Best Employee Perks and Best Manufacturing and Technology company in the Valley.

Go Daddy offers outstanding health benefits, generous vacation time, competitive salaries, educational assistance and opportunities to advance.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 35 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn more about working at Go Daddy, please visit: www.GoDaddy.com/Jobs.

For more about establishing online presence, please visit: www.GoDaddy.com.

Plano, Texas – (The Hosting News) – July 21, 2009 – Provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, Inc. has been named to the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On Demand)” published in July, 2009.

Written by Gartner analysts Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlin, according to the Gartner report which evaluated 16 companies overall, “The Web hosting market is evolving rapidly and converging with cloud system infrastructure services, creating new opportunities for cost savings and business agility.”

Gartner based its 2009 evaluation on five use cases for hosting: self-managed hosting, mainstream-managed hosting, highly complex managed hosting, global solutions portfolio, and enterprise applications hosting.

Jack Finlayson, CEO of Layered Tech remarked, ”There are hundreds of hosting companies, so Layered Tech is particularly pleased to be named to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant because we believe that industry recognition like this validates the strategies we have been implementing during the past year. Layered Tech is committed to delivering a broad range of managed solutions to our customers. As a technology innovator, we continue to enhance our solution set while broadening our roadmap to include automated solutions that support our customers’ evolving needs.”

Layered Tech offerings introduced during the past year include: * Launch of Astro, Layered Tech’s proprietary platform for rapid server deployment * The deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to Astro for rapid server deployments broadening the existing portfolio which includes Linux and Unix operating systems * Expanding Astro offerings to include Virtual Firewall Solutions from Fortinet * Expansion of its DEFCON managed services to include virtual machines

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009, by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis on how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Layered Technologies is a global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.LayeredTech.com.

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – July 21, 2009 – Hosting over 200,000 premium Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, Intermedia has revealed a sign of growing optimism among the company’s customer base of 11,000 small and medium-sized businesses.

The 200,000+ total puts Intermedia ahead of any other Exchange hosting provider. Intermedia hosts more than 400,000 mailboxes overall. The premium mailboxes use Microsoft’s full MAPI license, which includes a downloadable copy of Microsoft Outlook, the power to share calendars, and other features essential to business users.

Serguei Sofinski, chief executive officer at Intermedia remarked, ”It’s still too early to tell whether the economy is getting back on track. Intermedia’s growth indicates that small and medium-sized businesses aren’t standing by, waiting for the economy to turn around or the stimulus to kick in. Our customers are optimistic about what the future holds – they are taking concrete steps to improve their business.”

Intermedia’s recent performance parallels trends in the small and medium-sized business climate:

• In Q4 2008 and Q1 2009, Intermedia saw slower mailbox growth in its existing customer base. Higher than average numbers of accounts pared back the number of mailboxes they use – a reflection of staffing cuts enacted in response to the economy. This phenomenon tapered off in Q2 2009, signaling that many small and medium-sized businesses are stabilizing operations.
• An offering aimed at “corporate refugees” – business people who left or were laid off from large enterprises – experienced 240 percent monthly account growth in Q2 2009. Intermedia attributes the spike to growing entrepreneurial spirit among displaced workers. The offering combines a hosted Exchange email account with synchronization to a Blackberry, iPhone or Windows Mobile smartphone.
• Intermedia’s revenue and mailbox count continued to grow in Q1 2009, but the pace slowed to a level similar to that seen following the dot-com bust. In Q2 2009, the growth rate for new accounts more than doubled from the prior quarter. Q2 2009 “revenue per mailbox” also grew as existing customers provided Intermedia’s Blackberry, iPhone and Windows Mobile smartphone synchronization to additional employees.

A profitable 14-year old company, Intermedia has grown organically and without debt. The company attributes its consistent quarterly gains in part to its Exchange Concierge service that manages customers’ transition to Intermedia from other hosting providers or an in-house server. Typically in less than an hour, customers are set up without disruption to email or other files.

Mr. Sofinski added, ”We are passionate about providing small and medium-sized businesses with the same communications and collaboration experience a Fortune 500 company can provide its employees. But we need to deliver our services in a way that is simple to set up, use and manage. That’s the bar we set for ourselves and how we can best help our customers put technology to work.”

Intermedia recently exhibited at the Microsoft World Partner Conference (WPC) in New Orleans.

Founded in 1995, Intermedia is the leading provider of business email including Microsoft Exchange hosting to the small and medium business market. Intermedia specializes in providing enterprise-grade solutions through its world class infrastructure and service to small and medium businesses at a price they can afford. Businesses looking for a more cost-effective and manageable solution for enterprise-class email and collaboration solutions should visit Intermedia’s Web site.

To learn more, please visit: www.Intermedia.net/Exchange.

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.

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.