Future Hosting, Website Hosting Provider, Debuts Seattle VPS Hosting (Affordable cPanel Web Hosting)

Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - December 21, 2007 - Web hosting and Internet solutions company, Future Hosting, LLC, has opened an additional datacenter location for its Virtual Private Server (VPS) offerings, in Seattle, Washington.

Vik Patel, Future Hosting president and CEO noted, ”We have business customers from all over the world, and many are focused on providing their services in one or two separate locations. We feel offering a variety of geographic locations provides additional value for our customers.”

Seattle offers another geographic location with distinctive advantages to help the company target local businesses and vertical markets. Namely, Seattle VPS plans are ideal for customers in northwestern parts of the United States and southwestern Canada. The location also offers lower-latency connections to most of Asia.

The technical specifications of the new datacenter are very similar to the company’s other facilities, in both Chicago, Ill. and Dallas, Texas. All facilities feature redundant infrastructure, robust security, and 10G connections to the InterNap and Qwest backbones.

For customers requiring high availability solutions, Future Hosting offers load balancing between physically separate VPS accounts, on separate networks. The company also offers data backups in 12 hour increments.

Managed Virtual Private Server plans from Future Hosting, hosted in Dallas, Texas; Chicago, Ill.; or now Seattle, Wash., start at $34.95/monthly. Introductory plans include 200GB of monthly data transfer and 10GB of SA-SCSI disk space. Customers can choose either a cPanel- or Plesk-based management platform.

For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.biz.

Recently, the company attained exclusive SWsoft Platinum Partner status, as recognition of its commitment to the software company’s control panel and server management solutions. Allowing Future Hosting to more closely collaborate with SWsoft on the implementation of its software, the company currently uses SWsoft’s control panel and server management solutions for its shared, VPS and reseller hosting offerings.

The partnership also provides Future Hosting with larger discounts on SWsoft products and services and access to higher priority technical support, should a software issue be detected. As a Platinum Partner, Future Hosting is also invited to participate more broadly in SWsoft software beta programs, allowing customers to get a glimpse at the next generation of hosting technology before it is released to the public.

Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is privately held Internet Solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including both Dedicated Servers and Virtual Private Servers. The company has developed competitive pricing models, and offers a 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Livonia, Michigan.

To learn more about Future Hosting, please visit: www.futurehosting.biz.

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Glasgow, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - December 21, 2007 - Web hosting and managed services company, iomart group plc, has released its consolidated interim financial results for the six month period ending 30th September 2007, revealing that the group has been in line with expectations, after a first-half pre-tax loss, due to the initial development of the datacentre business.

Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart remarked, ”We are seeing considerable and growing interest in both our datacentre services and our complex hosting capability - particularly from our target market of blue-chip enterprises seeking long term solutions. These will form the core of the group’s future revenue streams, providing high margin earnings with good visibility.”

The Group posted a pre-tax loss of 435,000 pounds compared with a pre-tax profit of 30,000 pounds a year ago. Revenue fell to 9.6M pounds versus 10.9 M a year earlier. The Group sees positive market dynamics within the datacentre space, as echoed by numerous market commentators. With demand outstripping supply, prices for datacentre space are inevitably increasing.

Mr. MacSween added, ”This increasing market demand, coupled with iomart’s ability to offer the complete set of components in the hosting arena from dedicated servers through to complex managed hosting solutions and co-location space, means that the Group is well positioned to win high-value contracts with large organisations requiring significant amounts of rack space. Contracts of this kind, usually long-term, attract a premium price while offering numerous up-selling opportunities.”

The main focus of the management team, during the reporting period, has been to make the datacentres fully operational and able to deliver according to the highest industry standards. Both the London and Glasgow datacentres are fully operational and commissioning work has begun on the Nottingham and Leicester datacentres.

Mr. MacSween concluded, ”We have significantly increased our profile as a prominent player within the datacentre market, capable of offering a full end-to-end service. As a result of these developments, combined with encouraging market conditions, we are very positive regarding the long term prospects for its datacentre business. We believe that our strategy of becoming a leader in managed complex hosting, leveraging our own national infrastructure and experience will create a business with strong revenue streams, providing high margin earnings and good visibility.”

Founded in 1998, iomart is recognised as one of Europe’s largest and most established data centre facilities provider, including hosting and managed services.

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

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 21, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, is offering 4,500 free website templates to customers and resellers, covering nearly 120 different types of businesses, designed to enable non-technical building of effective websites.

Brent Oxley, Founder and President of HostGator remarked, ”These templates are free to any Website hosted by HostGator, whether on a shared or dedicated hosting plan, or through a hosting reseller. We want to make hosting domains or building websites as painless as possible, that’s why we offer the free templates. We also offer free Site Builder, one of the easiest tools available for anybody wanting to custom build a website, rather than use a template.”

The free templates cover a broad range of page designs suitable for nearly 120 different types of small and medium-sized businesses - from accountants and auto dealers, to cleaning services, consultants, martial arts studios, toy stores, women’s health clinics, and everything in between. The wide variety of templates makes it easier for resellers to attract people and businesses who want websites, but don’t have the knowledge or design abilities needed to create good looking websites.

Although it’s common for Web hosting companies to offer a variety of perks, including free or low cost Web tools, and even a limited number of templates, Mr. Oxley says the number of free templates HostGator has is far beyond the average, adding, ”I really don’t know of any other large hosting company offering this many templates. We may be setting the trend here.”

To apply the free templates, a reseller or webmaster may browse through the templates, select one or more to use, and they automatically begin downloading to the omputer. Hosting resellers and webmasters are also welcome to modify and HostGator’s templates, so long as the websites remain hosted by HostGator.

As an added feature, resellers can actually mirror HostGator’s templates pages to show to their customers. That makes accessing the templates easy, while maintaining control over who can accesss them.

Mr. Oxley concludes, ”The only restriction is that the templates can’t be sold or distributed for use on websites not hosted by us.”

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 15,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T and AboveNet. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

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

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Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - December 21, 2007 - Virtualization software company, SWsoft, has acquired Helm control panel and billing software for Windows and Bristol, U.K. based WebHost Automation Ltd., with nearly 1.5 million end users worldwide.

The acquisition adds more Windows platform expertise to SWsoft, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and strengthens its position as a provider of Windows-based automation software solutions. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Both companies are privately held.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft remarked, ”By integrating Helm into the SWsoft family of automation and virtualization solutions and partners through our Open Fusion initiative, Helm customers will be able to take advantage of a wider array of solutions and new business opportunities such as software as a service (SaaS).”

According to the company, for SWsoft, the acquisition adds a significant worldwide customer base, including strong positions in the U.K. and South America. It also extends the reach of independent software vendors (ISVs) who package their software using the Application Packaging Standard (APS) to more end users who can take advantage of their software solutions. Helm customers benefit from an increased range of automation solutions from SWsoft.

Mark Hall, Chief Operating Officer, WebHost Automation noted, ”Helm customers and partners will benefit from the depth and breadth of solutions and resources offered by SWsoft. As a profitable and rapidly growing company, SWsoft provides the stability and support required by customers investing in software infrastructure solutions.”

John Zanni, Managing Director of Worldwide Hosting for Microsoft Corp. remarked, ”The increasing demand for Windows-based solutions in the hosting industry is providing a tremendous growth opportunity for application and tool vendors. Integrating Helm into its portfolio gives SWsoft the means to reach a wider audience and provider a fuller, richer experience to its customers.”

SWsoft will maintain existing Helm development resources and continue to support Helm solutions through SWsoft’s 24×7 support centers. Over time, SWsoft will incorporate the best features of Helm with existing SWsoft products.

This effort follows 3 automation software acquisitions that SWsoft made just months earlier - Sphera, Ensim Pro and Positive Software.
Open Fusion is an SWsoft technology initiative to improve integration among a wide range of systems, third-party applications and modules, and custom and in-house solutions. The Open Fusion platform enables optimized delivery of SaaS and traditional hosting services to help ISVs and service providers take full advantage of new opportunities in the market. The APS Standard is a key element in this initiative and provides a format for software applications running on hosting platforms.

SWsoft is a global virtualization and automation software firm that helps consumers, businesses, and service providers optimize their use of technology. The company’s software is used by 700,000 customers in 125 countries. The SWsoft product line includes Virtuozzo - the leading operating system virtualization solution, Parallels - the leading desktop virtualization product, and Plesk - the leading server control panel. Founded in 1999, the company has offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more about the acquisition, please visit: www.swsoft.com/helm.

For more information about SWsoft, please visit: www.swsoft.com.

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