Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – June 26, 2008 – Web hosting company, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has partnered with Internet and IT services provider, IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd, to offer new online solution services, incorporating Rackspace’s website updating mandate.

IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd provides all types of Information Technology (IT) services to clients internationally. IDS Logic offers web based services such as web hosting, web designing, offshore software development and marketing on the Internet. The company is based in Noida NCR (National Capital Region, New Delhi), India with its sales and support teams in the USA and UK.

The main impetus behind the new product is to eliminate business management issues pertaining to web hosting services in India. While there are many IT companies that assure many benefits such as high uptime, bandwidth and disk space, IDS Logic attempts to distinguish itself by offering a full service approach for IT requirements.

IDS Logic, in joint collaboration with Rackspace, has launched shared web hosting services in India. The hosting service provides a 100 percent money back guarantee for one month of its managed shared hosting service. It also guarantees clients with 100% uptime for websites, along with spam checking as well as virus scanning. The new service is geared toward traffic, and easier navigation.

The company plans to deliver its services to both traditionaly bricks and mortar businesses, as well as more complex service providers.

IDS Logic operates from its offshore development centre located in Noida, India and with sales and support partner offices in UK and USA IDS LOGIC Pvt. Ltd. D-40, IInd Floor, Sector-6 Noida (Delhi NCR) 201301 U.P, INDIA.

IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd is a web based solutions provider to global clients. IDS Logic operates from its offshore development centre located in Noida, India and with sales and support partner offices in UK and USA IDS LOGIC Pvt. Ltd. D-40, IInd Floor, Sector-6 Noida (Delhi NCR) 201301 U.P, INDIA.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. By integrating the industry’s best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure maintenance and management, customers can focus on their core business. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso (www.mosso.com) cloud computing platform and Mailtrust (www.mailtrust.com) a provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about IDS Logic Pvt. Ltd, please visit: www.idslogic.com.

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

Renton, Washington – (The Hosting News) – June 25, 2008 – Web hosting server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has launched with Quest Software, a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) bundle, designed to offer a centralized Windows desktop deployment and management platform.

The end-to-end stack is hoped to significantly reduce the management and security headache of desktop computing, and reduces the investment required in hardware and software licenses.

The combination of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers server virtualization and Quest’s Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite (VAS) desktop brokering and management solution simplifies desktop and image management, improves security, addresses regulatory compliance and offers the most cost-efficient approach to terminal services.

Michael Rose, Research Analyst at IDC noted, ”The bundled VDI solution from Quest Software and Parallels provides customers with a unique offering of high consolidation ratios and a reduction in image management requirements. The combined platform can enable organizations to build a VDI infrastructure with high density that maximizes management efficiency.”

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers enables users to run multiple workloads as isolated, simultaneously executing virtual environments called ‘containers.’ Since it is installed on top of the operating system (OS), the containers use the resources of the underlying host OS, rather than needing their own. This means a far greater density of workloads can be run on a physical server: three times that of other approaches. In addition, fewer deployed OS instances means the solution is easier to manage and containers can be provisioned with applications and services on-the-fly, with a single click.

Paul Ghostine, VP and General Manager of Quest Software’s Provision Networks division remarked, ”By delivering up to three times the number of virtual desktops on each physical server, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers makes VDI a truly cost effective solution. We see this partnership as an opportunity to further extend our leadership in the VDI space by giving customers a variety of platform choices for their desktop virtualization needs.”

Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite is the only enterprise-grade Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solution, providing multi-platform integration and the most comprehensive desktop lifecycle management capabilities. These include automated provisioning, sysprep editing, AD integration, power management, support for application streaming, advanced brokering and arbitration, a complete scheduling infrastructure for automated task execution, and the best experience for LAN and WAN users.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO, Parallels explained, ”The combination of our two best-of-breed solutions offers customers a desktop computing solution that reduces management headaches and easily scales to meet the business’ needs. We are pleased to work with Quest Software’s Provision Networks Division, providing customers an easy path to centralizing, virtualizing and optimizing their desktop infrastructure.”

Quest Software, Inc., an enterprise systems management vendor, delivers products designed to help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 90,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest provides customers with client management as well as server and desktop virtualization solutions through its subsidiaries, ScriptLogic, Vizioncore and Provision Networks.

Provision Networks, a division of Quest Software, is a global provider of presentation and desktop virtualization solutions. Provision Networks solutions embrace and extend the Microsoft Terminal Services platform and Virtual Infrastructure platforms from Microsoft, Parallels, Virtual Iron, and VMware, delivering resilient, scalable and dynamic on-demand desktop deployment and application delivery for enterprises worldwide.

With a world-class client list, comprised of some of the world’s largest commercial enterprises, and government organizations, Provision Networks is the most trusted name in presentation and desktop infrastructure virtualization. To learn more about Provision Networks and our enterprise access solutions, please visit us at www.ProvisionNetworks.com.

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is the world’s leading operating system (OS) virtualization solution, dynamically partitions a single Linux or Windows operating system instance into highly efficient and scalable virtual environments. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers includes patented technology that enables density of up to hundreds of virtual environments per physical server. Unlike virtual machines and hypervisors, Virtuozzo Containers addresses the challenges of operating system sprawl faced by today’s data centers. Its unique architecture and management tools make Parallels Virtuozzo Containers the ideal solution for provisioning, monitoring and managing virtualized server resources.

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

For more information about Quest Software, please visit: www.quest.com.

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

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Seattle, Washington – (The Hosting News) – June 24, 2008 – Global web hosting services solutions provider, Superb Internet Corp., in partnership with Seomoz.org, has revealed the winner of the Core 2 Duo Dedicated Server Hosting Solution giveaway prize, from the SMX Advanced 2008 event.

Worth over $3500, the prize was awarded to SEO software suite developer, Ranksense, at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX Advanced) conference, held in Seattle. Featuring top search marketing industry professionals, the event included such notables as Matt Cutts from Google, Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand, Rand Fishkin from Seomoz and Kevin Johnson from Microsoft.

Curtis R. Curtis, SVP, Sales and Marketing, Superb Internet noted, ”We are especially pleased that a new rising star in the search marketing community, Ranksense, has won our dedicated server prize. Their revolutionary new Point and Click SEO software suite helps businesses and organizations alike drive their websites to the top of the search engines.”

As noted in a recent Superb blog, Seomoz was the “belle of the ball” with it’s SMX Whiteboard Friday interviews, especially ”STFU! with Brent Csutoras.”

Mr. Curtis added, ”Ranksense’s collaborative SEO tools, which include: an all-in-one fully integrated suite, break through keyword research capabilities and ‘Advanced SEO intelligence’ that identifies a single top-ranking site for those keywords you are seeking to target and makes recommendations based on the ensuing analysis are sure to be a hit with any company seeking to take its search marketing efforts to new heights. We are pleased to be able to help deliver their offering to the marketplace and will continue to support Ranksense and all its SEO partners in their online endeavours.”

Hamlet Batista, CEO of Ranksense remarked, ”Winning Superb’s Dedicated Server prize was definitely a major highlight for us; especially at this critical juncture in our development where we are now poised for runaway growth in the SEO marketplace. Having a reliable, rock solid hosting company like Superb managing our server and network infrastructure means we can focus on bringing our services to the SEO marketplace without having to worry about whether our server is online or not. Best of all, collaborating with Curtis, we hope to be able to partner with Superb to collectively bring our services to the hosting marketplace. We are very excited to have Superb as our hosting partner with its ongoing commitment to the SEO industry.”

Ranksense is owned by Nemedia, SA which is a full-service search engine marketing software firm. The company headquarters is located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – a fact that often meets with some surprise. But it’s true. The Dominican Republic is not just a country famous for harvesting phenomenal baseball players and other talented individuals. It is a nation committed to progress, employing the highest standards of excellence, intelligence, and integrity.

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 to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server 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 offices and 24-hour/365-day operations in McLean, VA, Tukwila, WA, and Vancouver, BC, serving customers in over 150 countries worldwide.

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Plano, Texas – (The Hosting News) – June 23, 2008 – Self-managed, dedicated server products and utility services firm, Layered Technologies, Inc., has debuted its new dedicated management services offering, DEFCON Management Services.

Jack Finlayson, Chief Executive Officer of Layered Technologies noted, ”One of the largest opportunities we saw in our acquisition of FastServers.Net was the ability to rapidly offer DEFCON Management Services to our current customers. We have worked together efficiently to make this offering available. We are very pleased to be able to leverage the knowledge and expertise of FastServers.Net and pass that onto our customers for their benefit and value.”

DEFCON Management Services provides a tiered class of management services specific to dedicated server needs. This exclusive service allows the distinct classification of service level that provides server monitoring, security, server software updates, and advanced support. Integration efforts as a result of the recent acquisition of FastServers.Net by Layered Technologies are now enabling Layered Technologies to provide their current customers with the ability to utilize the server management expertise of FastServers.Net.

In this first phase of deployment, current Layered Technologies customers are able to apply and purchase managed services. As part of a select group that will be supported by trained server engineers, these customers will have the ability to receive support, security, monitoring, and server upgrades from a team of highly-skilled server support engineers.

DEFCON Management Services solves several problems that can be associated with operations of a dedicated server, including a single source for server administration, service level based support, 24×7 monitoring and recovery, patch management, and live 24×7 telephone support.

Aaron Phillips, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, FastServers.Net remarked, ”For the past 10 years, DEFCON Management Services have been an integral part of customer satisfaction and organizational efforts with all departments. The extension of these services to a larger customer base will allow a scalable managed infrastructure that provides managed support to over 6,000 clients of Layered Technologies.”

Layered Technologies customers that are interested in DEFCON Management Services can apply online at www.layeredtech.com/services/defcon-apply.html. This initial phase will be available to a segment of customers that meet specific criteria. A specialized Quality Assurance Team will carefully deploy the services.

Todd Abrams, Chief Operating Officer and President of Layered Technologies commented, ”As one of our most significant service rollouts, our entire company is well prepared for this initial phase. This ensures that execution and resources are available for a full and complete customer deployment in the coming months.”

FastServers.Net features managed dedicated servers combined with exclusive DEFCON Management Services. FastServers.Net provides full server monitoring and recovery, patches and upgrades, advanced technical support, and enhanced security features. By partnering with leading vendors such as Microsoft, Red Hat, cPanel, Plesk, HELM, InterNAP, Urchin, among other solutions.

Layered Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and Web services. By providing high quality technology, infrastructure and support we enable customers to forego capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Technologies’ scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service (”SaaS”), content distribution and more. Its clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

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Chicago, Illinois – (The Hosting News) – June 20, 2008 – Hosting industry professionals are preparing to gather for the upcoming HostingCon 2008 tradeshow and conference, at the historic Navy Pier, from July 28-30, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.

Mark Rogers, Director of Cloud Services at Microsoft Corp., will deliver one of the keynote addresses, according to Interjuncture Corp.

HostingCon 2008 is the only conference and tradeshow, focused exclusively on the hosting industry. As companies and individuals continue to expand usage of hosting services and hosted applications, hosting providers have new opportunities to provide valuable services to customers.

George A. Roberts IV, Executive Director of HostingCon 2008 noted, ”HostingCon 2008 will be a great place to learn about how cloud services will impact your hosted services business and how you can take advantage of those trends. It will also be a wonderful opportunity to network with others in the industry and get their thoughts and ideas on how they’re transforming their businesses to thrive in a cloud services future.”

The emergence of the Web as a business and consumer platform presents many new possibilities for the hosting industry, as well as a new set of challenges. While hosted services providers are rightly concerned with a new competitive landscape that includes Microsoft and others, cloud services hold the key to a bright future. Mr. Rogers spends his time talking to the industry about the choice between on-premise software and cloud services, and the important factors to consider when determining and investing in models for software and services.

Mr. Rogers explained, ”Hosting providers are contemplating the challenges and opportunities cloud computing represents. At HostingCon 2008, I look forward to sharing the exciting technology developments taking place, and initiating a dialogue about the potential concerns and opportunities for hosting service providers.”

In addition to Mr. Rogers’ keynote address, HostingCon 2008′s conference program will contain a number of sessions discussing cloud computing and its impact on hosted services providers. Attendees will be able to learn how to help their customers feel comfortable with cloud services, how software as a service and open source software work together and how to employ virtualization in your infrastructure.

HostingCon 2008 will feature a full three days of conference sessions, intended to allow hosting professionals the ability to expand knowledge in business, shared services, enterprise, data center, and application hosting.

HostingCon is the largest conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, this year to be spread over 56,000 square feet reserved specifically for the event, with approximately 20,000 net square feet of booth space in an easy to navigate floorplan. The exhibit hall will feature over 70 vendors displaying products and services, offering demonstrations and activities related to the hosted services industry.

To learn more about HostingCon 2008, please visit: www.HostingCon.com.

Editor’s note: TechPad Agency (parent company of The Hosting News) will be exhibiting at HostingCon 2008 in booth #418.

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McLean, Virginia – (The Hosting News) – June 19, 2008 – Business web hosting firm, ServInt, has adopted and developed a new Green Initiative, in an effort to demonstrate its commitment to climate-positive hosting.

ServInt’s Green Initiative also outlines commitments to responsible recycling of hardware at end of life. ServInt recycles all recyclable components and meets or exceeds environmental standards for the disposal of all non-recyclable hazardous components.

Reed Caldwell, Founder and CEO of ServInt noted, ”The web hosting industry is a major contributor to global energy consumption and carbon emissions. ServInt is committed to offering hosting services that have a positive effect on the environment.”

ServInt’s Green Initiative deploys multiple green methodologies to help customers operate with minimal environmental impact. ServInt’s commitment to climate-positive hosting applies to its entire line of Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting services. Each of ServInt’s VPS services is backed by a commitment to offset the total carbon footprint of the VPS by at least 110 percent. ServInt accomplishes its carbon-offsetting goals through large-scale reforestation campaigns operated by American Forests.

To ensure a truly climate-positive approach, ServInt calculates its reforestation commitment not only on the energy consumption of the host servers, but on its entire VPS infrastructure. That includes compensating for all core routing and switching equipment, for cooling and redundant power operations, and for an extensive back-LAN that provides customers with free backups and centralized update repositories.

As part of its Green Initiative, ServInt announced that two of its most popular hosting services are now its most environmentally responsible offerings. ServInt’s SuperVPS and UltimateVPS services feature low per-capita energy consumption through efficient virtualization. These services also make exclusive use of Dell low-voltage server hardware, which provides high-performance while operating with a much smaller carbon footprint.

Both SuperVPS and UltimateVPS are powerful replacements for the traditional dedicated server. They offer customers increased redundancy while providing the same computing performance of a traditional dedicated server with significant cost savings. These solutions are ideal for small and medium-size web-based companies that demand a hosting service managed by experienced professionals.

Mr. Caldwell added, ”More businesses now realize that, besides harming the environment, energy-inefficient computing can adversely affect their company’s financial health and lead to serious competitive disadvantages. Our method of virtualization improves energy efficiency via the decommissioning of unnecessary physical servers and higher utilization of the remaining, more energy-efficient servers.”

ServInt was founded in Northern Virginia in 1995 as one of the first web-hosting companies to offer a managed, dedicated server solution. ServInt is a provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide. It services are provided from multiple data centers, including a scalable suite of VPS, dedicated and enterprise-level server options. ServInt’s commitment to Green IT services is demonstrated by its popular Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions. ServInt’s clients include thousands of customers in over 60 countries.

To learn more about ServInt’s Green Initiative, please visit: www.servint.net/about/green.php.

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The Colony, Texas – (The Hosting News) – June 18, 2008 – ColdFusion website hosting company, CFDynamics, has announced that the company will continue its agreement with SmarterTools, in order to enhance service value to customers.

Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer Relations for CFDynamics noted, ”These tools allow us to give an unbeatable value to our customers with high quality software for them to use on their dedicated servers.”

SmarterMail features extensive spam blocking features which provide users with more time to focus on the important, time-sensitive messages that come through the mail server. SmarterMail is a scalable and easy to manage mail server with a richly rendered Webmail Interface, synchronization (Microsoft Outlook, Pocket PC, and Smartphones), out-of-the-box Antispam/Antivirus, and an industry-leading Events architecture that provides automated Actions and detailed Notifications.

When a customers signs up for a dedicated hosting account they will now receive $750 worth of features including SmarterMail, SmarterStats and SmarterTrack. SmarterStats are web log analysis tools which enable customers to manage their site at any time, using a simple web browser. It provides businesses, hosting environments, and webmasters with an in-depth understanding of keywords and visitor navigation trends by providing on-demand Website Statistics, Custom Reports, Data Mining, Geographic Mapping, and more.


SmarterTrack is a support with Help Desk, Ticket System, Live Chat, Cost Analysis, Data Mining, Knowledge Base, Reporting and Analytics, and Event-driven software application delivered through an elegant web interface.

CFDynamics’ services feature:

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- Comprehensive online support
- A variety of hosting plans to suit individual needs.
- 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
- State-of-the-art data center
- 24/7 network monitoring
- 99.5% uptime

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Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – June 17, 2008 – On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has enhanced its content delivery network, CDNLayer, initially launched in the middle of May, 2008.

CDNLayer is SoftLayer’s industry leading content delivery network (CDN). It uses a system of servers running advanced software for organizing, storing, and streaming website content to end-users. Rather than serving content directly from the host server to the end-user, CDNLayer moves content from the host server to a node that is geographically closer to the end-user. This minimizes the distance the data has to travel, avoiding network traffic jams, and decreasing latency. CDNLayer includes tools for improved management and control, helping with digital rights management and content monetization. In addition, it features the ease-of-use and a high level of control for which SoftLayer is known.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer at SoftLayer remarked, ”SoftLayer customers are very sophisticated users of technology and we feel that it is critical to prioritize and respond to their requests. This is simply the first set of enhancements to CDNLayer that we have planned and expect to see an even more aggressive take-up of the service in the coming months.”

The new features that have been added to CDNLayer include:

• Bandwidth Monitoring by CDN PoP
• Origin Pull of Content
• FTP Across the SoftLayer Private Network

These services are available from all SoftLayer datacenters, so customers can still choose the location that best suits their needs.

Over the last month, well over one hundred customers have signed up for CDNLayer. These early adopters have made suggestions for additional functionality, with these three features being the most requested.

More Information on the New Features includes:

Bandwidth Monitoring by CDN PoP – SoftLayer has deployed Point of Presence (PoP) bandwidth reporting. Customers can now determine the specific PoP being used to download content.

Origin Pull of Content – SoftLayer added the origin pull feature to CDNLayer. Each CDNLayer account can have an origin pull location which, when configured, will pull content from a web server at cache-controlled intervals before sending data to the final users’ CDNLayer requests. With origin pull, users do not have to upload content through the SoftLayer portal or API. They simply manage the content on the origin web server. Users must still use the portal or the API to upload streaming content, such as Windows Media and Flash video.

FTP Across the SoftLayer Private Network – SoftLayer has enabled customers to use FTP to populate their CDNLayer accounts. With FTP access, customers can use scripts to automate the file transfer. FTP is a very efficient and simple means of managing file transfers regardless of the file size. By delivering this across the private network, customers can now send files from their server without any charge against the monthly bandwidth allotment.

Recently, SoftLayer began receiving its delivery of servers under a new packaging program, designed to reduce packing materials by 80-percent. The program was created through several months of close collaboration between SoftLayer and its server manufacturer, Supermicro.

SoftLayer’s reduced packaging program provides multiple environmental benefits. It eliminates more than 8 pounds of packing material per server, as well as the shipment of user manuals and unnecessary components, thereby greatly reducing the volume of materials produced or recycled. Moreover, these measures reduce the total shipping ”footprint,” enabling the same sized shipping containers to carry more units and reducing the amount of fuel consumed and carbon emissions produced when shipping.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that recycling one ton of cardboard and paper products leads to saving:

• 17 trees
• 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space
• 360 gallons of water
• 100 gallons of gasoline
• 60 pounds of air pollutants
• 10,401 kilowatts of electricity

The savings from eliminating the initial production of the cardboard is even more dramatic. Based on these figures, SoftLayer’s new program will save over 750 trees per year.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry’s first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

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Scottsdale, Arizona – (The Hosting News) – June 16, 2008 – Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, has garnered a ”Favorite Linux-Friendly Web Hosting Company” award, as voted by Linux Journal magazine’s users, for its annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

In the last year, GoDaddy added Cron, a service that allows Linux customers to run a task on a scheduled basis. Go Daddy customers can now use this feature to schedule updates of content, email daily archives of forums or create a custom job that fits specific needs. GoDaddy customers also have Database Backup and Restore options, the ability to integrate Google Webmaster Tools and Password Protected Directories, a feature that allows the customer to limit web access through their hosting accounts.

Carlie Fairchild, Linux Journal Publisher remarked, ”Obviously, GoDaddy has made tremendous strides with our readership.”

GoDaddy.com provides Linux customers with newly supported application frameworks as well, including a new web-based File Manager and Editor. GoDaddy.com additionally offers its Hosting Connections portfolio featuring one-click install applications to enhance Web sites. GoDaddy.com has also added a highly requested application, Drupal, a free software program allowing customers to publish and manage Web content.

The Internet hosting and domain registrar has been honored with a range of awards, beyond the Linux distinction. GoDaddy.com was voted “Best Registrar” by Domain Name Wire recently. Earlier this year, GoDaddy was given the ”Domainers Choice Award for Best Hosting Company – 2008.” Last year, The GoDaddy Group, Inc. appeared on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list.

GoDaddy is also one of the top web host providers in the business and supports more than five million customers and largest domain name registrar, with over 29 million domain names in its portfolio.

GoDaddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. GoDaddy 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 GoDaddy Group, Inc. has more than 28 million domain names under management. GoDaddy 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 the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The GoDaddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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Dover, Delaware – (The Hosting News) – June 13, 2008 –
Web hosting solutions firm, HostMySite, Inc., is welcoming Governor Ruth Ann Minner, in a visit to celebrate the Internet technology company’s continued expansion of its operations in Delaware.

Around 75 new high-wage jobs will be created over the next three years, following the move into new international corporate headquarters in Newark, Delaware earlier this year.

Governor Ruth Ann Minner noted, ”’HostMySite.com’s confidence in the state of Delaware and our partnership with the company is a testament to my Administration’s dedication to growing our technology-based industries. I am extremely pleased that HostMySite.com continues to choose Delaware as the perfect location to expand.”

The Delaware Economic Development Office awarded HostMySite.com a Strategic Fund Grant in the amount of $274,000 for the purchase of three new generators required for the company’s data center expansion. HostMySite.com provides highly scalable hosting solutions including managed hosting, dedicated hosting, virtual private servers, and shared hosting. The investment will generate an additional $3.5 million, bringing the company’s total economic impact to more than $16.5 million annually.

Judy McKinney-Cherry, Director of DEDO remarked, ”At the Delaware Economic Development Office, part of our job is to recognize entrepreneurial efforts and assist gazelle firms like HostMySite.com become more successful. As a company that has already experienced exceptional growth, HostMySite.com is expected to provide a significant return on investment for the State.”

HostMySite.com.com was founded in 1997 and has grown from a two-man operation, to one of the top web hosting companies, serving more than 60,000 customers in 130 countries. When HostMySite.com applied for the Strategic Fund Grant, the company employed 165 professionals. Just a few months later, they now employ 250 professionals. It is recognized by Delaware Today as one of the ‘Great Places to Work’ and by INC. 500 lists as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States.

Lou Honick, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of HostMySite.com commented, ”HostMySite.com is honored to be recognized by Governor Minner for our contribution to the Delaware economy. It is a tribute to the entire HostMySite.com team who has worked to grow our operations exponentially over the past few years. Judy McKinney-Cherry and her staff at DEDO have created a great win-win situation with this investment in future job growth for the state. We applaud her efforts and look forward to continued economic expansion.”

In the past year, HostMySite.com.com has provided customers with an upgraded call center, a new hosting control panel, and the build out of an additional state-of-the-art data center. Last week, the company also announced it was acquired by Wachovia Capital Partners, the private equity investing arm of Wachovia Corporation, the fourth largest bank holding company in the U.S. With the backing of a strong financial partner, the company will continue to grow as a leading managed web hosting company.

The Delaware Economic Development Office is an executive state of Delaware agency responsible for attracting new investors and businesses to the state, promoting the expansion of existing industry, assisting small and minority-owned businesses, promoting and developing tourism and creating new and improved employment opportunities for all citizens of the State.

With a combination of sophisticated hosting technology and applied business knowledge, HostMySite.com.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with affordable managed dedicated servers, VPS, and shared web hosting solutions.

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Quebec, Canada – (The Hosting News) – June 12, 2008 – Internet hosting infrastructure provider, iWeb Group Inc. and subsidiary of iWeb Technologies, has attained ranking among Profit Magazine’s top 100 Canadian companies, based on revenue growth over the past 5 years.

From 2002 to 2007, the company’s revenues have gone from 1.35 million to 9.82 million as of October 1st 2007, an increase of 627%; enough for iWeb to make its entry into the 100th position on the annual ranking.

Eric Chouinard, CEO and co-founder of iWeb noted, ”The increase in revenue is not necessarily the measure of our success, but rather the cumulative result of all our successes combined. Our listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX-Venture) in 2004 has been an important milestone in this development.”

The PROFIT 100 is the annual ranking which rates the top 100 Canadian companies based on the percentage of their revenue growth over a 5-year span. Produced by the business magazine PROFIT, 2008 marks the 20th edition of the ranking.

Martin Leclair, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of iWeb noted, ”iWeb has transformed itself a lot since 2002 comments In 5 years we have gone from 19 to 104 employees, from 500 square feet of web hosting facilities to more than 52 000 square feet in three datacenters, including the opening of a carrier-neutral colocation facility on Nun’s Island in May 2008. Growth management has become as important as technological management.”

Founded in 1996, iWeb offers a full line of advanced IP hosting services either through shared hosting, dedicated servers or colocation in three data centers, featuring over 52,000 square feet of floor space and the latest technological equipment. iWeb provides services in English, French and Spanish to clients in more than 130 countries.

For more information about the Profit Magazine list, please visit: www.profit100.com

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

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New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – June 11, 2008 – Shared and reseller multiple domain web hosting provider, Cirtex Hosting, is supporting earthquake rescue and recovery efforts in China, through fundraising and in-kind donations from its two hosting brands.

Both CirtexHosting and HostV are joining forces, to assist the victims of the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province, which killed nearly 70 thousand and left nearly 5 million homeless.

John Xie, President of Cirtex Corp. noted, ”The scale and scope of this tragedy are impossible to conceive. Both as a member of the business community, and more importantly, as humans, we have a moral imperative to do everything we can to assist in the rescue and recovery efforts in China. Nearly a month after the tragedy, the need for assistance keeps getting larger. Based in New York City, we know what it’s like to ask for help after a tragedy.”

Cirtex Corp. hopes to raise more than $10,000 in donations to Mercy Corps, an international relief organization serving as a leader in the disaster response effort. It has delivered 22 truckloads of critical supplies to displaced families in affected areas and continues to assess victims’ urgent needs.

CirtexHosting, the company’s shared hosting division, has donated Web hosting and development services to GracefulYouth, a nonprofit organization with more than 100 volunteers collaborating to lend financial and logistical support to relief organizations operating within China.

As part of its corporate responsibility pledge, the company will continue to evaluate additional opportunities to offer assistance to relief efforts in China and other parts of the world.

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