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Web Hosting Provider, The Planet, Restructures Affiliate Commissions

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 29, 2008 - The Planet privately held dedicated hosting company, has made enhancements to the commission structure of its affiliate program.

Registered affiliates will receive a one-time, 100 percent commission on the referred customer’s total monthly recurring order value.

James P. Treuting, Vice President of Sales and Operations with The Planet noted, ”Since our January launch, our affiliate program has seen tremendous success. Making these improvements to our already competitive commission structure is another way to thank our partners for referring customers to The Planet.”

In May, The Planet announced the addition of Internet-products company Directi, as its largest affiliate. Share-A-Sale is The Planet’s affiliate network partner. The Planet is also shortening the commission-payout waiting period for affiliates. Down from three months, affiliates will now be paid 45 days after a referred customer places an order with The Planet.

Affiliates earn money by referring customers to The Planet on a commission basis, without having to bear the costs of owning and managing the customer relationship. The Planet has optimized its Web site for affiliate-related traffic, and a dedicated team provides affiliates with marketing materials and promotions. Affiliates can also easily track their conversion statistics through a specialized administrative portal.

Registration has been designed to be easy and simple for participants:

1. Affiliates register on Planet Alpha’s affiliate program page located at www.theplanet.com/affiliates.

2. Affiliates gain access to a full-featured management portal, which provides marketing materials, product information and a personalized HTML code to embed on their site.

3. Partners place links on their sites using the marketing materials.

4. Visitors to the affiliate’s Web site click on The Planet links, and a cookie is implanted to designate the source. Concurrently, The Planet Web site integrates with the affiliate vendor to make sales.

5. Affiliates can log into the affiliate portal to monitor sales conversions.

6. Share-A-Sale issues payments to affiliate partners.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

• High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 7.6 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

To learn more about the affiliate program, please visit: www.theplanet.com/affiliates.

For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

Future Hosting, Web Hosting Company, Premieres Partner Program

Livonia, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - July 28, 2008 - Web hosting company, and Internet Solutions provider serving small to medium sized businesses internationally, Future Hosting, has debuted the launch of its new Partner Program.

Designed to enable existing customers to refer clients to the company and receive a commission for each generated sale, the program encompasses all Virtual Private Server plans and ancillary services, and provides commission payouts of the first-month revenue for each new customer.

Karthik Prabhu, Vice President of Operations at Future Hosting noted, ”Although our Partner Program takes cues from a traditional affiliate program, we have designed it to foster referrals from colleagues and businesses and generate genuine new customers. We are not looking for affiliates from SEO farms or other schemes to pull in traffic en masse.”

The Partner Program is managed internally by Future Hosting and powered through a custom-developed Web interface. If a new customer chose an entry-level cPanel Virtual Private Server, for example, their referrer would receive a commission of $39.95 - the monthly cost of the service. Only existing Future Hosting customers may enroll in the partner program. All partners are provided with unique affiliate tracking links, which they can then distribute to friends, family or Web site visitors. Each tracking link sets cookie on the end users - system, allowing Future Hosting to give credit for any sale generated as a result of each partner.

Server Doctor, developed by Future Hosting and released in February, is a revolutionary system that provides a proactive approach to maintaining Virtual Private Servers - automating everything from account provisioning to weekly security scans.

Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet Solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including both Dedicated Servers and Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality customer service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.

Future Hosting is an IT company focused primarily on web hosting and other high-tech internet solutions. Founded in 2000, the company has built a reputation for high-quality customer service including instant server reboots, on-demand OS reloads and 3-hour Service Level Agreements.

For more information about the Future Hosting Partner Program, please visit: http://futurehosting.biz/partnerprogram.htm.

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

Web Hosting Event, HostingCon 2008, Features Ping! Zine Harley Davidson Giveaway

Naugatuck, Connecticut - (The Hosting News) - July 28, 2008 - Web hosting magazine, Ping! Zine, will host its Harley Geek Giveaway, featuring a 2009 Harley Davidson Nightster Motorcycle, valued at over $12,000, at the ongoing HostingCon 2008 event.

Keith Duncan, Ping! Zine publisher noted, ”At HostingCon, we’re out to make it clear to the world that even geeks can be cool. This year’s ‘Harley Geek Giveaway’ allows key industry decision makers and technology leaders to take a chance at the motorcycle life, ditching their hybrid cars and parents’ station wagon for a warm-blooded Harley Davidson Nightster Motorcycle that roars so loud it can be heard even within the windowless walls of the nearest datacenter.”

To enter for a chance to win the grand prize, HostingCon attendees can visit Ping! Zine’s booth #525 in the exhibit hall and sign up for a free subscription to Ping! Zine’s print magazine. Each new subscriber will be given one ticket to place in the official drawing box. At 2:00PM on Wednesday, July 30, three tickets will be drawn randomly, providing three contestants with an opportunity to draw a key of their choice from a bowl of various keys. Only the correct key will unlock a padlock on a box containing the key for the 2009 Harley Davidson Nightster Motorcycle.

Co-sponsors of the giveaway include Gawkwire, DesignVAR, Host4Yourself, BobCares, The Cloud Talk, CRE Loaded, and SeeksAdmin.

Tobby Davasia, Executive Team member at Bobcares remarked, ”As Bobcares enters its fourth consecutive year at HostingCon, we’re excited to mark our presence by sponsoring the ‘Harley Geek Giveaway,’ something sure to add a little spice to this year’s show. We also invite attendees to listen to our very own Sojish Krishnan as he presents ‘Best Practices of Support Teams For Better Customer Retention’.”

Michael Valverde, CEO of CREloaded commented, ”Chain Reaction Ecommerce is thrilled to offer Web hosts with lucrative ecommerce options and, of course a chance to win a boss new hog to boot.”

Steven Clarke, CEO of SeeksAdmin explained, ”We’re proud to be sponsoring such an exciting contest, and of course wish we were riding away with the Harley. We wish everybody the best of luck.”

Evan Kamlet, Web administrator at Host4Yourself added, ”Host4Yourself is utterly thrilled to take part in the ‘Harley Geek Giveaway’ at this year’s HostingCon. We’re out to show that even geeks can live life on the wild side.”

Mario Rodriguez, Community Manager of TheCloudTalk noted, ”TheCloudTalk joins Ping! Zine to present a 2009 Harley Davidson Motorcycle. Ping! Zine always manages to bring exciting attention to the giveaways we are glad to be a part of this unique drawing. I thought only casinos gave away Harleys.”

Contestants who draw a key from the bowl but do not win the grand prize will be awarded a constellation prize valued at more than $200. Official contest rules will be available from organizers at the exhibit hall booth.

To learn more about contest co-sponsors, please visit Gawkwire (www.gawkwire.com), DesignVAR (www.DesignVAR.com), Host4Yourself (www.Host4Yourself.com), BobCares (www.bobcares.com), The Cloud Talk (www.thecloudtalk.com), CRE Loaded (www.creloaded.com), and SeeksAdmin (www.seeksadmin.com).

Founded in 2002, Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine is the longest-running and most widely read print magazine for the Web hosting industry, with over 30,000 active readers. Its audience includes web hosting consumers, industry professionals, and business leaders. Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine is a publication of the Duncan Publishing Group.

To learn more about Ping! Zine, please visit: http://pingzine.com.

Dedicated Server Storage Provider, 3PAR, Debuts Utility Management Console

Fremont, California - (The Hosting News) - July 29, 2008 - Utility storage provider, 3PAR, has released its InForm Management Console solution, a new management interface designed to provide greater visibility, control, and management of 3PAR InServ Storage Servers.

Jeffrey Hill, Senior Research Analyst, Data Management and Storage Practice at Aberdeen noted, ”Customers want storage that is easy to manage. 3PAR has developed a reputation for simple storage management. Its new InForm Management Console as well as enhancements to SMI-S are examples of 3PAR building on a strong lead in simplifying data center storage.”

The 3PAR InForm Management Console is a completely re-architected replacement for the InForm Graphical User Interface (GUI) previously used for point-and-click management of 3PAR InServ Storage Servers. The InForm Management Console includes new features to enable smarter management of all InServ models and is so easy to use that it requires only a handful of intuitive, well-supported actions for complete functionality and system administration. It also provides rich instrumentation of all physical and logical objects for one or more InServs.

Rob Frase, Senior Director, Information Technology and Data Center Services at MedeFinance healthcare analytics company remarked, ”3PAR Utility Storage is easy to manage, letting us focus on our business, not our storage. The new InForm Management Console is designed to make managing 3PAR InServs even easier.”

The new InForm Management Console includes the following features:

• Quick Filter - Easy filtering of tabular data for quick access to vital system information
• Wizards - New wizards require fewer mouse clicks to configure volumes
• 3PAR Virtual Domains Management - Complete view of all Virtual Domains including user management and details on all connected systems for consolidated control of Virtual Domains
• Charting Functions - Enhanced charting functions enabling specified objects to be graphed separately or in aggregate (where data from multiple systems can be graphed on the same chart) and offering preservation of chart settings for later use
• Data Export - Flexible export of InForm Management Console data in CSV or HTML file formats

3PAR supports SNIA’s efforts to develop SMI-S, a common, open storage management interface supported by heterogeneous networked storage devices and management applications. 3PAR has developed the discovery, monitoring, and management capabilities of the SMI-S specification. 3PAR’s latest SMI-S enhancements, which are certified by SNIA’s Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP) suite for compliance with SNIA’s SMI-S v1.1 specifications, include the following:

• Volume Provisioning - In addition to discovering and monitoring storage volumes, enables users to actively create and provision 3PAR base volumes using SMI-S clients.
• Performance Statistics - Gives users the ability to retrieve performance statistics for ports, virtual capacity, and physical capacity.
• LUN Masking and Mapping - Enables users to see which storage volumes are visible to which hosts, whether connected via Fibre Channel or iSCSI.

3PAR’s SMI-S provider has been designed to SNIA specifications to integrate with management applications from leading SMI-S client vendors including HP, Onaro and Symantec, and Tek-Tools Software.

Ryan Bonnett, IT Administrator for The Generations Network, parent company of leading online family history resource Ancestry.com added, ”3PAR’s SMI-S integration with Tek-Tools and latest enhancements provide us with simple, more comprehensive storage management capabilities. The visibility provided by Tek-Tools Profiler into our 3PAR InServ Storage Servers offers valuable information to optimize our storage investment without sacrificing performance.”

David Scott, President and CEO for 3PAR commented, ”A number of our customers have already reported 10x administrative efficiency gains from 3PAR Utility Storage - a smart, thin, and ready tiered-storage array for resilient utility computing. 3PAR’s InForm Management Console and our new enhancements to SMI-S are designed to further enhance our customers’ visibility, control, and administrative efficiency in managing their 3PAR InServs.”

Both the 3PAR Inform Management Console and the 3PAR enhancements to SMI-S are available now. 3PAR is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and SNIA Europe.

In addition, 3PAR announced enhancements to its Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) provider designed to enable heterogeneous enterprise management. 3PAR’s SMI-S provider is an open application programming interface (API) based on specifications set by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

3PAR provides utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, tightly-clustered, and dynamically-tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their rapidly changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies. 3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications.

To learn more, please visit: www.3par.com.

Data Center Expanded, by Tulip Internet Systems Provider

Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - July 29, 2008 - Internet services provider, Tulip Systems, Inc., recently completed major infrastructure upgrades, in an effort to meet the requirements of its growing client list, as well as marketplace demand.

Nino Doijashvili, CEO of Tulip Systems offered, ”’It is apparent that Data Center space in our hometown of Atlanta is quickly being absorbed. As a result, we are experiencing greater demand for our colocation capabilities. We are on top of the largest peering point in the South Eastern United States and are already operating both Tier I A and Tier II A centers here. Our new center is being launched as Tier III A. We must have this kind of infrastructure. We can now offer it to companies in need of such a high level of performance.”

Tulip Systems has dramatically expanded its operations to meet a growing demand for its services. Tulip has made a major entry into the Content Delivery market with recent partnerships with Pathfinder World Video, Black Broadcasting Network, New Tang Dynasty TV, Delantero Entertainment, and other content producers, providers as well as linear international television stations. Tulip delivers content across the internet and, more specifically, converts and delivers partner content for cellphone viewing. Tulip has created a new operating division to manage its content delivery and streaming platforms called NGCDN.

Tulip CTO George Bokuchava remarked, ”We have been working with a Set Top Box manufacturer to be able to take our internet based content delivery systems straight to the television screen without the need for a PC. This connection allows us to deliver quality as high as 1080i HD. We will then be able to offer a great variety of programming through our partnerships with content providers.”

Thomas Burling, CFO of Tulip Systems and newly appointed General Manager of ATLDC noted, ”Demand was rapidly catching up with our infrastructure’s ability to supply. With explosive growth in this marketplace, we had to expand our delivery capacity. Tulip has more than doubled the physical size of its facilities in Atlanta. Additionally, over 10 Gbit of connectivity to the internet has been added along with the latest Route Optimization equipment from Atlanta’s Internap. With The BBN, we have some major upcoming live events, including some popular college sporting events. For that you’ve got to have a great deal of bandwidth.”

Louis Lewow, VP Sales and newly appointed NGCDN division president remarked, ”This enables us to offer our partners the exact solutions they need through a brand and team specifically assembled to meet that need. Whichever Tulip brand our partners align with, they receive the same high level of customer relations that has always been the cornerstone of our company.”

Founded and Incorporated in 2000, Tulip Systems, Inc. develops simple social networking software and Broadband based webware, having expanded as a ‘one stop shop’ for Internet Services. With five operating units, each concentrating on a specific niche in the marketplace, TULIP is able to meet the needs of corporations and individuals alike.

To learn more, please visit: http://tulipsystems.com.

Dedicated Servers, Powered by Litespeed Platform, Debut at InterServer

Newark, New Jersey - (The Hosting News) - July 25, 2008 - Web solutions provider, InterServer, Inc., has released a new line of Litespeed-based dedicated servers, powered by a new web server platform, designed to offer significant performance improvements over the Apache industry standard solution.

According to the company, high traffic Web sites will see the greatest benefit from the introduction of Litespeed, as the platform handles much greater traffic while reducing overall server load. The reduction in resource consumption allows intensive applications and services to be run alongside the Litespeed on the same server.

John Quaglieri, Chief Technical Officer at InterServer remarked, ”The Litespeed Web server offers an array of key features and enhancements that have never been available with Apache, the most commonly used web server. We have seen a real value in Litespeed and have seen excellent results from clients who have already adopted the solution independently. We are rolling out Litespeed dedicated servers today in an effort to provide existing and prospective clients with a robust alternative to Apache.”

Server administrators will also enjoy Litespeed’s simple and intuitive installation process. Once installed, Litespeed immediately boosts performance - including the ability to handle more simultaneous connections and a 50% increase in PHP performance. Litespeed also comes built with protection against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, a common attack used to virtually paralyze servers. Litespeed is compatible with cPanel and DirectAdmin, and uses Apache-compatible htaccess, mod_rewrite, and httpd.conf

Litespeed dedicated servers with cPanel start at $160/monthly, which includes an Intel Core2Duo 2.66Ghz processor, 2GB DDR2 Memory, a 250GB SATA hard drive, and 2000GB of monthly data transfer.

InterServer, Inc. is a privately held web solutions provider operating since April 1999. Located in Secaucus, N.J., the company’s datacenter is less than 12 miles from New York City and Newark, New Jersey. InterServer’s network is powered by Cisco 6500 SUP720 routers connected to the Internet by paths to New York City and London.

For information about Litespeed dedicated servers from InterServer, please visit: https://interserver.net/litespeed-dedicated-server.html.

For more information about InterSever, please visit: www.interserver.net.

Hosting Provider, DataPipe, Collaborates with Sun Microsystems

Jersey City , New Jersey - (The Hosting News) - July 25, 2008 - Managed hosting and security services company, is collaborating to provide startup companies with an opportunity for competitively priced, high-performance managed hosting services, with Sun Microsystems.

Sun’s Startup EssentialsSM program, offers cost effective services to startup companies with a platform of products designed to integrate with its hosting and managed services. Members with web hosting infrastructure and services that are housed in its data center facilities and backed by quality support, according to the company, will experience value and reliability, through a range of products, including the Sun servers, Solaris 10 operating system, and storage.

Robb Allen, CEO of DataPipe noted, ”We directly service both Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley. This is a natural fit for us. Providing entrepreneurs with access to high value managed services will enable them to fast track their success.”

The new program was developed for existing software companies, with hardware, software, managed hosting services, security, reporting and patching, provided at no cost for up to 90 days, with an ISV Sandbox agreement. Also included, is a 99.5% Service Level Agreement on the testing and development infrastructure.

Juan Carlos Soto, Vice President of Global Market Development and Engineering at Sun Microsystems noted, ”Sun is excited to work with DataPipe to bring access to their world-class data centers and services in managing webscale infrastructure to next generation startups and web 2.0 companies. The Sun Startup Essentials program and our relationship with companies such as DataPipe gives startups access to vast technological and business expertise at a fraction of the cost required for such products and services.”

Recently, DataPipe secured $75 million dollars in combined credit and equity financing led by Goldman Sachs. DataPipe will immediately begin an expansion of its Somerset, New Jersey campus, which has the potential for 60,000 square feet of data center space. DataPipe is also pursuing significant expansion opportunities in London and China, according to the Company.

The Sun Startup Essentials program is designed to help eligible U.S. based startup companies get to market faster while conserving cash. The program offers its members a range of discounted Sun products and services, including its award-winning Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology, and Sun’s select StorageTek line of products, including modular disk arrays, NAS and tape storage products.

In addition to offering products and services to eligible U.S. based members, Sun also is offering free technical advice via email and access to free software such as Apache, MySQL and Perl (AMP) optimized to run on the Solaris 10 OS. Program members can also select the web hosting infrastructure from Sun partners based on Sun technologies along with services they need, in case they choose not to build and operate the infrastructure themselves. Sun develops technologies designed to power comprehensive markets, in more than 100 countries.

DataPipe has been in the managed services business since 1998, providing management of servers and applications, with predictable costs, reliable results and guaranteed service levels. DataPipe helps companies realize technology assets, enhancing ROI by enabling IT resources on demand extension. DataPipe’s Managed Security Services start with a comprehensive assessment of business security requirements, to protect hosted architectures.

To learn more about Sun’s web hosting program, please visit: www.sun.com/startupessentials.

For more information about Sun, please visit: http://sun.com.

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

Web Hosting Provider, URLJet, Debuts Bulletin Message Board Backup Service

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - (The Hosting News) - July 28, 2008 - Provider of vBulletin message board web hosting, URLJet, has launched its File Guardian Web Backup service, featuring continual hosted vBulletin message board database backups.

According to the company, with File Guardian, even busy vBulletin message boards are backed up continuously, nearly eliminating the chance of data loss in the event of a disaster. Backup restore points are stored securely in a remote facility, and each database can be recovered in a matter of minutes following a disaster or accidental data loss.

Todd Reagor, CEO of URLJet noted, ”For owners of vBulletin message boards, the most valuable asset they own is the content in their database. Since this information is changed rapidly as end users interact with the message board, it is imperative to have an up-to-the-minute backup to utilize in the event of a disaster. Without a current backup, years of posts, member lists, and other crucial data can be lost in an instant after something as minor as a hard drive failure or upgrade gone wrong.”

File Guardian, which protects millions of posts across thousands of message boards for URLJet customers, is powered by R1Soft’s CDP Server. The technology directly reads hard disk volumes at the sector level, bypassing the file system, and thereby allowing active MySQL databases to be protected without a noticeable impact on server performance or effect on database activity. With R1Soft’s True Granular Restore technology, URLJet can speed recovery time with the ability to choose to restore specific tables in a database.

URLJet provides File Guardian at no additional charge to its vBulletin hosting customers. The company offers mission-critical, world class customer support for all hosting plans and provides a free vBulletin license to every annually renewed account.

Located just north of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, URLJet has been providing performance hosting for vBulletin forums around the world since 2002. Hosting plans range from entry-level shared hosting plans to robust, fully-managed dedicated servers built for massive message boards.

To learn more about URLJet, please visit: www.urljet.com.

R1Soft Hosting Partner Program, Welcomes Opus Interactive

Portland, Oregon - (The Hosting News) - July 25, 2008 - The R1Soft Hosting Partner Program, designed as a value-added partnership opportunity to enable more effective deployment of Continuous Data Protection backup, welcomes Opus Interactive.

Opus Interactive, as a member of the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program, will receive a variety of sales and marketing resources from R1Soft, as well as priority technical support and access to new software updates before they become available to the general public. Opus Interactive will provide Continuous Data Protection as a premium value-added service to its Dedicated Hosting customers, using Windows, Linux or FreeBSD operating systems. Pricing starts at $5/monthly per protected gigabyte of data, plus an initial setup fee.

Jeremy Sherwood, Executive at Opus Interactive Business Solutions noted, ”R1Soft’s data protection solution has helped us solve several problems created by our previous system and allows us to more affordably offer a very robust solution to our Dedicated Hosting customers. We have been especially impressed by the flexibility of R1Soft’s solution and the scalability across a variety of platforms and server environments. It it’s a natural fit for our business model and we look forward to full implementation.”

Continuous Data Protection is unique in its ability to provide near-Continuous data protection that virtually eliminates the lag time between restore points. With traditional backup technology, there is a delay - hours, days or even weeks between restore points, resulting in significant data loss in the event of a disaster. But with Continuous Data Protection, data is protected around the clock. With but a minimal impact on server resources, Continuous Data Protection is an ideal solution for even busy servers.

David Wartell, Vice President of R1Soft division, BBS Technologies Inc. remarked, ”Opus Interactive is an ideal partner to implement our data protection technology. By combining its world-class infrastructure with our solution, Opus Interactive is able to deliver on its promise to offer mission-critical hosting solutions for businesses of all sizes.”

Based in Portland, Ore., Opus Interactive is a full-service Managed Services Provider (MSP), providing managed hosting solutions, colocation, and hi-cap Internet bandwidth services through its owned micro data center. The company leads in efforts surrounding data center virtualization to improve reliability and efficiency. Opus Interactive is a Microsoft Certified Partner, Microsoft Network Infrastructure Solutions Provider, and Microsoft Business Process and Integration Solutions Provider. The company also staffs a Cisco Certified Network Professional.

To learn more about Opus Interactive, please visit: www.opusinteractive.com.