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As many of you know, PEER1 participated in the 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race in Kershaw, South Carolina last year. We will be participating in this event again this year at the No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose Louisiana, June 6-7.

This year, PEER1 is planning something a little different. This year, we are challenging all hosting providers in the state of Texas. Yes, you read correctly: WE WANT YOU!

Are you up to the challenge? Do you have what it takes to participate against PEER1 in the 24 Hours of Lemons race?

Join us June 5 & 6 at the No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose, Louisiana and let's find out!

For more information, check out the PEER 1 Blog - http://www.peer1.com/blog

Installatron Adds Support for Plesk Windows, Announces Control Panel API
Carlisle PA, 31 December 2008

Installatron has announced support for the Plesk Windows web hosting control panel, and a control panel integration API.

Installatron, the multi-platform auto-installer, has announced support for the Windows edition of Plesk Panel, the popular web hosting control panel developed by Parallels. Plesk Windows extends Installatron's list of internally supported control panels, which also include the Linux/FreeBSD Plesk Panel, JMBC Software's DirectAdmin, and cPanel Inc's cPanel/WHM suite.

This release also sees the inclusion of Installatron Control Panel Integration API, allowing Installatron to be integrated into any web hosting control panel software. "This feature will give companies using custom control panels the benefits of a well-developed and maintained auto-installer," said co-founder Phillip Stier. "In fact, just about any platform can use this API to add Installatron. This opens the world of auto-installing to just about everyone."

Installatron is the leading muti-platform auto-installer and auto-upgrader plugin for the cPanel/WHM, DirectAdmin, Plesk Linux, and now Plesk Windows web-hosting control panels. It was launched in 2004, and is the only true multi-platform auto-installer system.

Parallels is a leading developer of virtualization systems, and is behind both Plesk Panel and Virtuozzo; two of the leading products in web hosting. Parallels was founded in 1997 as SWsoft, and renamed to Parallels in 2007.

For more information about Installatron, please visit: http://www.installatron.com
For more information about Parallels Plesk Panel, please visit: http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/

COLUMBUS, OH (12/25/2008)—Aquarius Storage LLC (Aquarius Storage - Liquid Smooth Online Web Hosting Solutions), a new hosting company providing, shared and reseller hosting announced today it has introduced its official web hosting packages, after just recently opening it's doors to client registration in late November.

Aquarius Storage is offering shared packages in three flavors, a1, a2, and a3, starting at a price of only $5.95/month. Aquarius Storages reseller plans also come in three flavors, resellersA1, resellerA2, and resellerA3, which start at a price of $24.95/month. All packages come complete with RAID-10 protected storage, alongside of R1Softs continues backup solutions, which in short is full snapshots which occur every fifteen minutes of users data. We utilize multiple OC-12 carrier network, as Aquarius Storage take availability seriously. Aquarius Storage providers enterprise class service for for a budget class price.

"We have support engineers that can be reached 24x7 through a number of ways, including phone, live chat, and our ticket system. They’ll always be there to answer your queries and walk you through problems you might face," said Ryan Chaffin.

Operating over a highly reliable infrastructure managed by one of the most talented team of individuals and backed by a highly dependable support, Aquarius Storage welcomes you to experience its hard earned –one of the most reliable webhosts– reputation. Check out our hosting plans now or contact one of our sales representatives for further details.


To learn more about Aquarius Storaget, please visit
Aquarius Storage - Liquid Smooth Online Web Hosting Solutions

To learn about Shared hosting from Aquarius Storage, please visit
Web Hosting Packages - Aquarius Storage - Liquid Smooth Online Web Hosting Solutions

To learn about Reseller hosting from Aquarius Storage, please visit
Reseller Hosting Packages - Aquarius Storage - Liquid Smooth Online Web Hosting Solutions

About Aquarius Storage
Aquarius Storage, LLC. is a privately owned profitable business housed in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in November 2008 by Chief Executive Officer Ryan Chaffin, we are motivated by our goals to provide a reliable service, dependable support, leading technology and value for money. Today, Aquarius Storage strives to known as one of the most reliable names in the web hosting industry; We are earning this reputation by putting the customer first, always.

About R1Soft
Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a developer of Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) software. Offering scalable and high-performance products, the company’s software has quickly been recognized by data center industry leaders as the standard for Windows and Linux server data protection. R1Soft is a division of BBS Technologies, In

We are very excited to announce that a new stable build of SupportSuite, eSupport and LiveResponse (3.40.01) is now available from the members' area.

3.40.01 marks a major security milestone, closing and resolving many undisclosed security issues. We are strongly advising all of our customers to upgrade to this latest version.

Release thread and change log: http://forums.kayako.com/f3/3-40-01-...released-20574

Reminder: Kayako software requires PHP 5. Please make sure that your web server meets the minimum requirements.

Thanks,

Kayako

"Cloud Computing" for Everyone

• Cloud computing platforms e.g. Amazon EC2 are too difficult/inaccessible to the masses
• Other platforms might be accessible (e.g. Mosso) but they're too expensive
• Tsohost has created a cloud hosting platform that will allow anyone and everyone to scale their website with demand

Cloud computing has been a particularly popular buzzword for the last 12 months. It refers to computing capacity residing within a "cloud" of servers, available for a user to utilise at any time - scaling their requirements with demand, as they see fit. Popular implementations of "cloud" platforms include Amazon's EC2, GoGrid and Flexiscale amongst others. The problem with these implementations of cloud computing is that these products are comparatively inaccessible to an end-user - requiring knowledge of how to deploy and configure virtual servers, as well as knowledge of server administration and security.

Rackspace's 'Mosso' platform attempted to resolve that issue. It gives a user an interface similar to standard shared hosting but on Rackspace's cloud-infrastructure. Users just load up a website as they would with any other hosting platform and then they can get on with business, safe in the knowledge that their site will be reliably hosted by the cloud platform, and that in the even of any surge in traffic (perhaps featured on a popular website such as Digg or Slashdot) the platform their website is hosted on won't break a sweat and fall-over, like conventional shared website hosting on cPanel or similar.

The problem for a lot of people is that at $100 a month, the Mosso cloud platform is still out of their reach as a hosting solution. If you have a small personal blog which you use to write a few articles from time to time, are you going to spend $100 a month to keep it running in the event of a surge of traffic? Unlikely. A lot of people (and fledgling businesses) have to prioritise their spending, especially in such economically turbulent times.

Tsohost have attempted to address this issue by launching a cloud hosting platform aimed at everyone.
For just £9.99 a month, a user can have a hosting account hosted on a redundantly load-balanced cluster ("cloud") of servers that will scale with demand and remain lightning fast all the time.

What's more, by taking the Mosso approach - anyone familiar with a shared hosting system can now take advantage of the power of the cloud, without any knowledge of server administration, nor with a big budget.

You can find out more about the Tsohost Cloud Hosting Platform here:
http://www.tsohost.co.uk/clustered-hosting.php

About Tsohost
Tsohost, a brand of UK Webhosting Ltd was founded in 2003 as a provider of reliable, affordable internet services consisting of shared hosting, dedicated hosting, domain registration and consultancy. With an enthusiastic team and strong management the company has gone from strength to strength over the past 5 years enjoying strong organic growth. Through this and our acquisition of other companies we host in excess of 20,000 websites across our shared and dedicated hosting platforms on our UK servers.

The company remains employee owned with almost all of the shares being held by current staff who customers deal with on a day to day basis. We don't employ call centre "robots". Our business model and ethos haven't changed since the company was founded with our primary focus continuing to be on maintaining absolute customer satisfaction through sustainable pricing, proactively managed services and investment in hosting infrastructure.

CONTACT: Gabrielle Capstick, Host Department LLC, 1-866-887-4678, 1-954-252-2423, gabrielle@hostdepartment.com, http://www.hostdepartment.com/

Host Department will be Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Union City, NJ, December 19, 2008 - Host Department (www.hostdepartment.com), a leading web hosting and domain name registration provider, announced on Thursday that they are upgrading their Microsoft SQL Server to version 2005 by January 5, 2009. The upgrade will be divided into two parts - Express and standard editions.

Each SQL Server edition is specified for customers based on their hosting plans. The Express Edition will be offered to customers of Host Department's earlier plans, including the No Limit Developer Windows plans, while the Standard edition will be offered for Host Department's Premium Hosting Windows accounts.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 enables customers to included native support for managing XML data, in addition to relational data. It also added some extensions to the T-SQL language to allow embedding XQuery queries in T-SQL, DBAs management tools, and many more improvements over version 2000.

"With the upgrade, our clients can have better web hosting experience" said Ivan Seidenberg, Host Department's Operational and Technical Manager "Constantly improving our service has always been our goals each day"

Visit http://www.hostdepartment.com/ for further information.

EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS – December 17, 2008 – 040 Hosting, a web hosting company and Internet solutions provider, today launched a completely redesigned company website. The changes are the latest steps in the company’s ongoing efforts to upgrade and improve the functionality of its services in order to continue to provide the best possible online experience for its customers.


The new design offers improved navigation and clearer messaging to visitors, making shopping at the www.040hosting.eu website easier and more appealing to customers, according to company representatives. In keeping with the company’s customer-friendly reputation, the site continues to offer a clean, intuitive look and feel. Changes have also been made to the site’s navigation bars — both the top and left-hand navbars have been streamlined for a much more simplified browsing experience.

The updated look was designed to assist the company’s branding efforts and to emphasize the fact that, while 04 Hosting has been around for almost 5 years, the company still has a comprehensive vision for the future and remains a competitive player in today’s highly competitive online solutions and web hosting markets.


Arriving on the heels of other big news for 040 Hosting — including the introduction of a new Business Special Hosting Service (SH) is designed specially for businesses who require more than the standard hosting packages at a certain time. With the current volatile market situation, 040 Hosting aims to support customers who need to have the flexibility in their hosting solution to react to change faster than ever before. Whether they are looking for additional hosting for an online campaign or temporary additional storage at 1TB or more, 040 Hosting aims to satisfy their need on-demand.


All servers are setup within 1 day (often less than 4 hours setup time) with coverage of our professional infrastructure, even for a short period of time. It is the most cost-effective service in its kind, as mentioned by company representative.


‘If you’re not growing in this marketplace, you’re losing ground,’ said Patrick Sanders, owner of 040 Hosting. ‘We’re very proud to have had more than 5 years of success and growth in an extremely competitive industry, where most companies don’t last more than a few years. However, we also understand the need to continually update our products and services to keep up with a rapidly changing online marketplace ‘


‘These new changes do just that, as well as help to ensure that our online business customers have every possible advantage in an increasingly unpredictable economy,’ added Mr. Sanders. We’ve worked hard this year to improve every aspect of our business. During the first part of 2008, we’ve completely rebranded our shared and dedicated hosting services, introduced eCommerce functionality to our web design service. In addition to implementing a host of other upgrades designed to represent our commitment to continued growth and improvement in this new online marketplace.’

About 040 Hosting
One of the new quality web hosting and Internet services providers, 040 Hosting specializes in helping small businesses build an online customer base with a comprehensive range of services that includes shared hosting, dedicated hosting, web design, online marketing, eCommerce, domain name registration, and more.

October 10, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider ReliableSite (www.reliablesite.net) announced on Friday it has introduced Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting.


Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting enables customers to use the distributed services with greater flexibility and power than allowed by a sole dedicated server, while balancing server load and offering redundancy.
Using Dell and SuperMicro hardware, each cluster is limited to a maximum of 10 clients and designed to prevent the degradation of any particular service during periods of high use.
Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting plans offer full access to ASP, ASP.Net 3.5, MS SQL 2005, MS SQL 2008, PHP, and MySQL.
"Semi-dedicated clustered hosting provides our customers with the equivalent performance of a powerful dedicated server, at a fraction of the cost and without the hassle of managing a server," says Radic Davydov, owner of ReliableSite. "We handle everything, from security to software updates, so our clients can concentrate on what they do best."
Semi-Dedicated Clustered hosting starts from $63.20 per month on a Windows platform with 20GB of disk space and 100GB of monthly data transfer.
ReliableSite offers a power uptime guarantee in its New York data center, which features UPS and diesel generator backups, cooling backup with multiple redundant temperature and humidity controls, and 24-hour network uptime with a series of premium top-tier bandwidth providers.
In addition to the new clustered hosting service, ReliableSite offers shared and dedicated hosting, reseller hosting, domain registration, and SSL certificates. Asp.net hosting

Little Hocking, Ohio USA -- December 10th, 2008

McNulty Hosting announced it's re-opening with new plans and offerings. "We
have increased diskspace and bandwidth space on all hosting plans.:" said
Richard McNulty when speaking about his companies new offerings. "Our
efforts are now focused in the Hosting of web sites and not designing them."
he continued. "We have even adjusted our prices to better compete in todays
hosting market.".

In addition, McNulty Hosting has expanded their variety of services by
beginning to offer reseller web hosting and Joomla Hosting in addition to
their shared hosting offerings. The reseller offerings should enable small
hosts to make their way into the hosting market and serve their clients.
WHMCS will be offered as a free add on for their higher end reseller hosting
packages giving the reseller an easy way to bill their hosting clients..

Future plans for McNulty Hosting include the offering of VPS and dedicated
servers..

"We are dedicated to offering Great Hosting at an affordable price" says
McNulty. "It all starts with attitude. With many of the other hosting
companies you are just another number. Here at McNulty Hosting, you are a
valued and respected client! We offer friendly hosting solutions with the
highest performance to enable you to establish a presence on the net."

McNulty Hosting has also made several changes to their client support. A
24/7/365 helpdesk combined with Live Support from the web site enables their
clients to get the type of support they want and need.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8 -- Web hosting provider Pronet Hosting (http://www.pronethosting.net) has announced the release of their new Linux web hosting and Linux reseller web hosting packages. The web hosting packages feature additional space and bandwidth. In addition to the new features, Pronethosting.net has completely upgraded their server infrastructure.

The web hosting package upgrades will now offer new customers storage space starting from 100GB and bandwidth starting from 1TB. The new packages also come with a development suite that features Perl, PHP, Ruby On Rails, Python, and a script installer. The new packages will be able to cater to almost any website.

Pronethosting.net customers will feel an immediate impact on the performance of their websites. The new servers feature increased CPU speed, additional memory, and improved speed and hard drive redundancy. These improvements come at the heels of the release of the new Pronethosting.net website. The new website is more user friendly and helps new and existing customers find what they are looking for fast.

"Web hosting has changed, and users today are more dependent on their hosting services and their company network to perform vital functions," says Pronet Hosting Marketing Director Ryan Morris. "The new web hosting packages, servers, and a new and improved look and utility of the Pronethosting.net website, are more dependable and will instill confidence in our customers about their services with us."

About Pronethosting.net

Pronet Hosting 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 7 years of web hosting experience on various hosting platforms and operating systems, particularly Apache, Linux, Microsoft IIS, and Microsoft Windows Server, 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 are able to obtain friendly and respectful customer support.

Please visit us athttp://www.pronethosting.net

More SMEs with their Heads (and Data) in the Clouds?

With Microsoft's recent launch of their Azure cloud platform, which bundles their familiar software functions into an online service with your data stored remotely, cloud computing is set to become increasingly mainstream.

Xtraordinary Hosting CEO, Andrew Ogilvie says the current trend to host data on clusters of remote servers "in a cloud"; is good news for online hosts and datacentres, but you need to look into your own particular cloud quite carefully.

The concept is not new. Your data in Facebook and Hotmail has been in the clouds for years and most end users are none the wiser, beyond enjoying the ability to interact with their data remotely instead of being tied to a computer or a mobile device with limited storage.

But the lure of cutting costs is driving more corporates to store their data in a cloud rather than in their own managed facility. This is a trend that has been accelerated by well known companies like Amazon, Google or Microsoft, generating addition income streams by renting out their huge spare server capacity.

Cash-strapped SMEs were quick to realise they could save a fair amount by not owning their own servers. But a great number of so called ‘server farms’ have sprung up to serve the market, causing IT managers concern over data security and privacy issues as well as continuity of service. That’s also been an issue with hosting companies cutting corners in a rush to launch new services and charging full price for services that should perhaps still be labelled "beta test".

Andrew Ogilvie says, "Just like the sky itself, all clouds are not equal. And some clouds are more than capable of pouring rain on your parade. In the last year we have seen a number of failures in these cloud server farms. Sadly some of these well publicised failings have involved well known hosting companies where all the back-up data was stored on one massive server, meaning hundreds, if not thousands of customers were separated from their data for days as thousands of terabytes of data were copied back onto servers "

"It’s a situation that no-one using Xtraordinary Hosting will find themselves in. For a start, we don’t put our clients’ data back ups into huge storage units. We split back-up data into manageable amounts stored on regular servers. If one server fails, it only affects a few customers for a short time as much smaller chunks of data need to be restored and we have staff on-site to deal with it. We have three years experience with Xen virtualisation serving hundreds of customers, plus an eight-year established reputation for rock solid reliability and excellence in technical support to protect.

"Despite offering some of the most competitive hosting bargains – and we have recently doubled the available memory and storage on our popular packages – we continue to host on virtualised Xen servers for maximum efficiency and minimum carbon footprint. Our servers are in secure datacentres, managed by on-site staff, located in Scotland and London, giving customers a choice of geographically diverse locations for storage of data".

Now that the data is being stored online, people on the move are working from mobile devices. It’s all too easy for records of their interactions with clients to get lost .It may be a case of "out of sight, out of mind", but the integrity of data storage is crucial to business survival. Data loss to a company, while rarely immediately fatal, is often the trigger for a succession of customer service, invoicing and financial problems that eventually bring the company down. In 2002 a report by McGladrey & Pullen indicated that a company prevented from getting at its data for 10 days never fully recovers and 43% go under.

As Ogilvie says, "You wouldn’t drive a car with two wheels missing. Why risk your business data in the clouds, unless you know it is in a secure and proven facility?"
Contact: Penny Haywood Calder
Phone: +44 (0) 131 669 5190
Email: penny@phpr.co.uk
Website: http://www.xtrahost.co.uk/

Lutho, the South African based online marketing company launched a unique website wizard that will make it possible for aspiring entrepreneurs and small and medium sized business (SME) owners to get their own professional-looking website and a company-branded email address in less than two hours.

Says Hanru Nienaber, the developer of the system, “Many of the SMEs that have approached us over the years to develop websites say they feel lost and overwhelmed in the hi-tech space of website design and hosting. Not only is it difficult to find the right developer to build a quality website at a price that a startup or small business can afford, but deciding on specifications for a websites could also be a daunting task. How is a small business owner, for example, supposed to know if they need Windows or Linux hosting and how many megabytes of space they will require? The Lutho Builder takes away the complexities surrounding the process of getting a website and makes it easy, quick and fun.”

Business owners are not required to have any technical knowledge and are guided through five steps to provide the system with all the information that it needs to build a website and set up all the technical components in the background. “You can choose between a number of templates and banner images, colour schemes and other aspects to create a website that is unique and suitable for your business,” says Nienaber.

Based on the information provided, the Lutho® Builder generates a website that includes a home page, information about the company and contact details. According to him, “You also have access to a backoffice website where you can add news articles, photos, products and more to keep content on your website fresh. The best part is that you can update the articles or the website itself at any time without calling your web developer, meaning no more delays. Apart from the website, a professional-looking email address like info@yourcompany.com is also included. Using your own name in your email address on your business card gives your company so much more credibility that using a free mail or ISP-branded address.”

Small businesses will be glad to hear that the company’s website offer was designed to also take SMEs’ unique financial circumstances into account. “Cashflow is scarce for many startup, small and even medium sized businesses that often find it difficult to fork out the upfront website design fees that many developers charge for even a basic website, not to mention being bound to a long-term website hosting contract. We have therefore decided to make the website development tool available free of charge and to keep our monthly subscription fees to a minimum. Customers are allowed to cancel their subscription at any time as the idea is to build customer loyalty so that we are successful when our clients are successful. “

Clients subscribe for the website and email service at R145 (about $16) per month. The first step is to purchase a voucher number that is used to activate the website after which the subscription is renewed on a month-to-month basis. The vouchers are available online from the company’s website at http://www.lutho.com/ or from their offices.

Nienaber concludes, “We believe that this product will revolutionise the way that small businesses find their way onto the Internet and we hope that we can contribute to their and our own success by making the process of getting a quality branded website easier and more affordable."

About Lutho
More information on the company and its products can be found in the News Room on the company's website at http://www.lutho.com/.

I get this question all the time…”How come you don’t have a forum up?” I thought about this question for sometime now, and I decided to do it. I decided to open a forum that offers a friendly environment, and support for my clients at the same time. The forum will be a friendly place to chat, have a good time, and to make new friends. I also decided to offer bonuses for chatting on the forum. I’ll explain below.

One bonus would be points. I haven’t decided the amount of space and bandwidth can be earned by posting, or the amount of points needed. I will make my decision on my forum during the week.

There are many forums of various topics that will keep you posting and earning hosting in no time. You can also use your points to buy various things on the forum. From changing your display name to custom titles.

I hope you all come and join me on my forum, and help make it a great place to chat, meet friends, and help one another.

www.Fusion-Hosts.com/forum/ is the link. I hope to see you all there :)

InterNich LLC is very pleased to announce the grand opening of HostingTutorials.com. HostingTutorials.com offers the largest collection of web hosting-related tutorials (with voice), made available to end-users absolutely free. The goal is to offer an invaluable resource to the web hosting community including individuals looking to start a web site to experts wanting to open a web hosting business.

As of November 2008, HostingTutorials.com is currently serving over 500 voice tutorials to view and listen to for free.

HostingTutorials.com is produced and operated by InterNich LLC, a privately owned online media publishing company.

Mississauga, Ontario -- November 23rd, 2008

The Cube Host has expanded by offering more webspace and bandwidth all on shared hosting plans and beginning to offer reseller hosting.

Web hosting provider, The Cube Host has increased webspace and bandwidth space on all shared hosting plans. The pricing has not been increased and all current clients have received an upgrade to their hosting plans.

In addition, The Cube Host has begun to expand their variety of services by beginning to offer reseller web hosting. Being at a very affordable cost, the reseller hosting plans will enable many small hosts to easily make their way into the web hosting market and be able to provide quality service towards their clients as well.

The Cube Host also has plans in the future to add more services such as Blog Hosting, ShoutCast and VPS.

"The Cube Host will continue to grow and provide quality service to their clients. We are committed to service excellence and nothing less," says The Cube Host's President, Andre Campbell.

Jupiter, FL (PRWEB) November 18, 2008 -- In preparation for 2009 visionary web hosting provider HostNine pre-launches a new website that is focused on enhanced customer support, simplified service level agreements, and a focus on being the leader in their global hosting offering. In a competitive market HostNine completes a series of updates internally to become the definitive leader in global web hosting. HostNine's new vision for hosting includes new standardized hardware, hosting packages, geographical diverse locations, and easy to read service level agreements.



Clients now have the ability to select 1 of 10 geographical locations and include unlimited storage and bandwidth. In a market that is focused on stack and rack hosting, HostNine is also limiting the number of accounts per geographically diverse server to less than 500. Through this new product launch the unlimited hosting plans bring together reliability, scalability, and global diversity.



<< removed by request >> As HostNine prepared for this major shift in business model it has spent the last 3 months standardizing web hosting servers to a single highly available Quad Core Xeon based processor with 4GB of RAM and RAID based hard drive configuration. Ben Gabler, Operations Manager of HostNine comments, "The process allows capacity planning and the ability to provide clients with the resources they need to host dynamic applications such as blogs, content management applications, and websites that load quickly." The foundation for this standardization provides equal quality across all 10 major points of global presences provided by HostNine.



The management team at HostNine reviewed current documents and revised Service Level Agreements to be easily readable and simple to understand. Ben Gabler, Operations Manager at HostNine describe the Service Level Agreement, "Our entire management team spent a full day simplifying the language so that existing customers and new customer alike could read and understand our promise in less than 1 minute. In reviewing hundreds of Service Level Agreements, most would require a full team of attorneys to actually understand."



About HostNine
Since 2006, HostNine has spent time building a reputable customer base and building a strong product set that includes Windows Web Hosting, Linux Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting and an exclusive geographically diverse infrastructure that provides instant setup of websites in 1 of 10 international data centers. By working with major data center providers, hand selecting hardware components, and custom development of a global hosting infrastructure HostNine provides a premium web hosting solution at an affordable price. HostNine is the leader in customer service, technology, and geographically diverse web hosting services.

rDosti Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. would like to announce the major update to it's web site - www.india.hn .
The Company would like to celebrate the new web site revamp with treats to all it's clients.

All clients and their packages,have been given a free upgrade to better plans. Our clients and friends will now have an increase of 1GB storage all on their accounts,whether it be reseller or shared hosting at the same pricing that has been going on since a few months.

This basically means that where prices remain constant, the storage and bandwidth has been increased. By doing this,
we are up-ing the quality and style of our services keeping in mind that our clients deserve industry best. We do not believe
in overselling, however we do realise when lots of storage goes un-used and our clients could well indeed deserve more, for the same pricing - we will try to do what we can. As a result we have worked with our financial and operating team, and are happy to inform our clients that we will be able to provide the "Free Upgrades".

In addition to the new website and the upgrades, we would like to announce our tie up with Google to provide high quality and robust free email service to our members.

Our tie up with Socketmail Solutions lets us offer our clients and others a great way to have their own email service led by - great discounts and quality support that most companies can not provide.

We have updated our web site into a *Beta* portal that will include free access to games, social networking, shopping, softwares, cooking recipes, and much more.

The development of the new "India.Hn" under the rDosti banner will give us and our users an edge on both technology and connectivity. We hope to give our clients high quality service, satifaction and support. To add more to our offerings - our 24x7 listed cellular support line also accepts SMS (Text Message) so we can now communicate with our clients faster and quicker than before. Client's located inside the Indian sub-contitent using Airtel Cellular Services will soon be able to drop us an email and we will call them back within 24 hours - whether it be presales or support.

There has been complaints about economic slowdown and inflation (which is now leading to recession). We would like to stress that our company is not majorly affected by the on going economic events and the changes and development from our end should be an indication. We forecast good growth for Year 2009 and speculate, quite alot of development and changes in the near future. rDosti is currently hiring freelance PHP programmers as well as content writers. The company is also searching for business partners or affiliates located around the world. Interested parties may contact the Management via Phone or Email anytime.

Once again, we would like to thank the members at WebHostingTalk for their support, assistance and friendship. We would like to thank our clients and guests for their support, wishes and compliments and suggestions. Your feedback has made us stronger, and we would like to thank you all for your help! We wish you a great 2008 year end and a happy 2009 to come!

Director
rDosti Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.

Email: admin@india.hn
Tele: +91 9723450000
+91 9725550000

We are very pleased to announce a new Los Angeles,CA datacenter has been added to our locations. We are now offering the following:

Dedicated Servers
Colocation
Virtual Private Servers
Remote Backup solutions
NAS
Managed Services

If you have any questions on our new location, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Thank you

Increases disk space from 2,500 Mb to 4,500 Mb and monthly bandwidth increased from 50 GB to 65 GB for $4.95/mo.


ResellerWays, a web hosting company, today announced that they have upgraded its line of Shared hosting products & Reseller plans, including disk space and bandwidth increases, plus the ability to host unlimited websites on business accounts.


According to the company, the disk space and bandwidth on Reseller Ways hosting plans have increased by as much as 1,250%. Also Reseller Ways launched MultiWebsite – allowing customers to host unlimited domains and websites and set up e-mail accounts for each domain name. These changes come with no change in prices. Upgraded Shared Hosting plans include: Basic plan - $4.95/mo, disk space increased from 2,500 Mb to 4,500 Mb and monthly bandwidth increased from 50 GB to 65 GB. Medium plan - $7.95/mo, disk space increased from 5,000 Mb to 7,000 Mb and monthly bandwidth increased from 75 GB to 85 GB.


Resellers plans have got a new look as well. We now offer Budget Reseller Plans Become a Reseller! With reseller hosting you get access to the tool the professionals use - Web Host Manager (WHM). With WHM you can create and manage unlimited hosting accounts, plus you get full support from Reseller Ways! Also Advanced Reseller Plans Great for websites needing maximum uptime running dynamic content. And if you upgrade to any of the Advanced Reseller Plans and get a FREE copy of ClientExec Software. (open ticket after order.)


"We are 100% focused on delivering the most comprehensive web hosting solutions to our customers," says Reseller Ways President, Michael Shockley, "Our clustered server architecture allows us to continually set new standards in web hosting performance and features."

FREMONT, Calif., November 6, 2008 – 2ip (http://www.2ip.com), a shared hosting leader serving more than 310,000 Web sites since 1999, today announced the launch of its ‘Pay to Own’ sales model, allowing customers to pay a one-time fee for the Web hosting they need, without any recurring subscription costs.

The new payment model is ideal for small businesses or individuals seeking a simple, ad-free, and reliable Web presence without a continual cost. Customers can even use a free 2ip sub-domain to eliminate domain name registry fees and use 2ip’s free Web site builder tools to avoid costs associated with creating the site.

“Web sites hosted in our ‘Pay to Own’ program are designed for Web newcomers who are looking to get online without the recurring expense. With 2ip, it’s like having an electronic business card with a professional feel,” said Jimmy Tanzil, managing director of Ichthys Media LLC, 2ip’s parent company.

2ip will use high-end servers to host ‘Pay to Own’ customers. Each system is powered by Dual Quad Core processors and between 4 and 8 GB RAM. To keep hosting costs low and maximize quality, 2ip intensively uses automation and virtualization procedures to manage existing hosting accounts and provision new sign ups.

The ‘Pay to Own’ Web hosting plan is priced at $25, which allows users to host an unlimited number of domains on the account. It includes 100 MB of disk space, unlimited data transfer, and unlimited email accounts. Additional disk space is priced at one-time fees of $10 per additional 100 MB or $75 for additional $1,000 MB.

In addition to the ‘Pay to Own’ model, 2ip also offers traditional subscription-based plans, which offer more features, power, and storage allotments. Subscription-based shard hosting plans start at $3.75 monthly.

To learn more about ‘Pay to Own’ Web hosting plans from 2ip, please visit http://www.2ip.com.

About 2ip
Founded in 1999 as a free Web hosting provider, 2ip today serves more than 310,000 Web sites with affordable shard Web hosting. It offers premium subscription-based and ‘Pay to Own’ Web hosting services, starting at less than $4 per month. 2ip is a subsidiary of Ichthys Media LLC.