Web Hosting Resource, Easy Antispam, Debuts E-Mail Protection for Domains (Web Hosting)
December 7, 2007 – 6:30 pmLas Vegas, Nevada - (The Hosting News) - December 5, 2007 - At the WebmasterWorld PubCon conference in Las Vegas, Easy Antispam debuted the immediate availability of its new DomainProtect service, designed to allow domain owners to easily and affordably provide advanced email protection services to their email users without installing any software on mail servers or client computers.
The DomainProtect service brings all the advanced email protections of Easy Antispam’s proven ServerProtect service, which protects complete mail servers, to individual domain owners. Easy Antispam’s Email Protection Services are built on the powerful antispam technology of MessageIQ by MailFoundry, recognized as one of the best antispam platforms available.
DomainProtect will protect all email users of a domain and any alias domains from spam, viruses, phishing emails and other email attacks. Sophisticated, real-time quarantine management is available to all users at no additional charge. Disaster recovery mail spooling is also included at no charge. Because there is no additional hardware or software to install, DomainProtect is the easiest antispam solution available.
DomainProtect is priced at $4.95 per month per domain for unlimited alias domains, unlimited users and up to 20,000 processed messages per month.
Easy Antispam is a service of Interjuncture Corp., a Crystal Lake, Illinois-based media and technology company. Easy Antispam’s ServerProtect service was launched in early 2005 and protects the email of thousands of companies and organizations today. Easy Antispam is a leading provider of email protection tools based on the MailFoundry antispam platform, including DomainProtect and ServerProtect services and MailFoundry hardware appliances.
To learn more about DomainProtect, please visit: www.easyantispam.com.
Overland Park, Kansas - (The Hosting News) - December 7, 2007 - Web host and online presence solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has introduced gift cards into its suite of products and services available for consumer purchase.
Clarke Caines, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Aplus.Net noted, ”We’re excited to provide consumers with an opportunity to interact with Aplus.Net on a whole new level. Internet services - such as web hosting, web design, and dedicated servers - are traditionally not easy to provide as gifts. This initiative changes that, while also providing consumers with the opportunity to introduce Aplus.Net’s award-winning products and services to family, friends, and anyone else who can benefit from gaining a dynamic and exciting online presence.”
The introduction of the gift cards is timely, coming in the midst of the holiday season. However, the company plans to offer the gift cards indefinitely, extending past the traditional holiday season in order to best facilitate the needs of all consumers throughout the entire calendar year. The gift cards are configured in increments of $20, $50 and $100.
Mr. Caines continued, ”The advantage of our gift cards, and the main appeal of them, is their lack of limitations. Recipients can use them for any of our products or services, anything available on our website are subject to reimbursement via the Aplus.Net Gift Cards. And, since they’re available year-round, their potential as gifts goes well beyond the standard holiday season timeframe.”
Aplus.Net has provided web services since the Internet’s commercial start in 1995. Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, and domain name registration, among other services. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors’ Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and PC Magazine.
To learn more about the gift cards, please visit: www.aplus.net/giftcard.html.
For more information about Aplus,Net, please visit: www.aplus.net.
Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - December 4, 2007 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has debuted the beta launch of Microsoft CardSpace integration, into its ASP.NET web hosting control panel.
Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”The Control Panel CardSpace integration serves two main purposes. First, especially with the recent introduction of .NET 3.5 hosting, we wanted to demonstrate the use of new .NET 3.x technology. Second, we wanted to give our customers the opportunity to provide feedback on CardSpace during this early stage as Microsoft works toward delivering on their vision for an Identity Metasystem.”
With the new addition, using the traditional username and password login access, customers with Internet Explorer 7 and CardSpace on their local computer can use personal Information Cards for password-free login to their hosting control panel.
Microsoft introduced Windows CardSpace with the .NET Framework 3.0 release. CardSpace replaces the traditional username and password authentication with tools that help users better manage their digital identities while shielding them from various forms of identity attacks, such as phishing or brute force password attacks. Users can maintain a set of personal digital identities in the form of visual Information Cards, which can be self-issued or issued by an identity provider.
To use the CardSpace login option, users must first log into their hosting control panel and bind their InfoCard to their account using a newly launched Information Card Binding feature. After associating their InfoCard to their account, users can use the CardSpace login.
Earlier this year, has entered into a partnership with ASP.NET web and intranet solution provider, Xigla Software. Under the new partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a 20% discount on Xigla Software .NET applications. Xigla Software users may also receive six months of free web hosting for the first year of the Base ASP.NET hosting annual plan.
Xigla is a software development company focused on providing web-based solutions for content management, customer support and live chat, banner ad tracking and e-marketing using the latest Microsoft Technologies (ASP.NET and SQL Server). Its patent pending XLA Architecture is designed to ensure capability without complexity, on web based applications.
In addition, DiscountASP.NET received the 2007 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Web Hosting, from Visual Studio Magazine. The 2007 winners, which appear in the June issue, are chosen by Visual Studio Magazine’s readers and honor excellent software and services in 22 development categories. DiscountASP.NET also received the Visual Studio Readers’ Choice Award for Best Hosting in 2005 and the Best Hosting Merit Award in 2006.
DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Windows-based shared hosting provider, focused on ASP.NET and SQL database hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified partner, DiscountASP.NET was one of the first hosts to launch a free .NET 3.5 hosting and IIS7 hosting beta program, Silverlight-compatible hosting, and ASP.NET AJAX hosting.
For more information about DiscountASP.NET, please visit: www.discountasp.net.
Sydney, Australia - (The Hosting News) - December 6, 2007 - Web applications hosting and online technology services company, HostWorks, has been chosen to host Partner4real, an online dating service aimed at the Facebook generation, to meet customer demand on its website, which exceeded 12,000 visitors a day within weeks of going live.
Hostworks is a specialist company that guarantees the online performance of some of Australia’s most successful businesses including Codan, Compass Group, Network Ten, SBS, News Digital Media, ninemsn, realestate.com.au, SEEK, Southern Cross View, Ticketek and Wotif.com.
Partner4real.com.au was established in June 2007 after Australian entrepreneurs, Chris McKay and Anthony Johnston, met by chance at a Sydney carwash. With plans to turn online dating on its head, the pair launched a new way people could search for potential partners in Australia and, during 2008, in the US and the UK.
Chris McKay, Co-founder and Managing Director of Partner4real commented, ”During the stunt, we were getting up to 12,000 visitors to the website a day.”
Aimed at 24-39 year olds, Partner4real.com.au distinguishes itself in the competitive online dating space by providing social networking tools such as a ”Lifelog” to which members upload photos and videos via their mobile phones and email, free of charge. Partner4real.com.au generated massive publicity in August when it set up Sydney’s luckiest bachelor, Paul Bardetta, in a glass house on Circular Quay, where he chose four dates a day from women who signed up online for their chance to join in the dating game.
Mr. McKay added, ”Hostworks was able to handle that demand - there were no issues. They have a very good reputation and they are the best of breed in the country at what they do. It was their managed services and the infrastructure they worked with that made them attractive as a technology partner. I’m familiar with the Hostworks data centre, their methodologies, managed service capability and their procedures. We wanted a partner which was very reliable and had the infrastructure and managed service capability to support our growth and scalability. We want to go international with the site during 2008, with Hostworks supporting it. Hostworks guarantees that we don’t lose the website during power failures or suffer unplanned downtime. It also meets our requirements for a high level of IT security.”
Hostworks provides the managed services that power Partner4real’s MySQL database and applications, including the Apache web server and Tomcat application server, running on Red Hat Linux 5.0.
Mr. McKay also indicated that Hostworks provided data communication services for Partner4real, stating that ”Hostworks’ 24X7 managed services give us a real turnkey solution. It’s a complete service they provide for the website. We don’t have to worry at all about the back end. Our strategy is to make the service absolutely bullet-proof here and then go into the US and UK. Once we are satisfied with the website as a product, and we feel it’s supporting the Australian market, then we will take it overseas in 2008 and support it from Australia with Hostworks. We have been very happy with Hostworks to date. They are not the cheapest guy in the store, but you get what you pay for. Hostworks is the best of breed in the country. Hostworks looks after the bigger players. If you want a stable environment and you want it managed correctly, we would recommend Hostworks for anyone looking to scale up and go international. Because of the fact that we want to go international, we needed to go with a company of that calibre.”
Privately held HostWorks, Inc. has provided over 500 clients with managed web hosting, web applications development and site development services since 1996. HostWorks also provides Internet Marketing Services and web application software meet business-to-business and business-to-consumer needs.
To learn more, please visit: http://hostworks.com.
San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - December 5, 2007 - Data center developer and operator, 365 Main, will join IBM in a panel discussion at the inaugural Hollywood Goes Green conference, which will take place Dec. 11-12 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
The event will address environmental issues in entertainment and related industries, including Hollywood’s role in reducing global warming. 365 Main Vice President of Marketing and Strategy Miles Kelly, along with Derek Wise, president and CEO of Global Netoptex, a 365 Main customer, will participate in an IBM-sponsored roundtable discussion of innovative technology solutions for green data centers. The 50-minute session, called “IBM Project Big Green Panel Discussion, will take place on Dec. 11 at 2:15 p.m.
In recent years, Hollywood has significantly stepped up its efforts to become more eco-friendly, and this conference will allow us to further promote environmentally responsible business practices,” said David Ng, business development manager of iHollywood Forum. Having a leader in energy efficiency like 365 Main on the IBM Project Big Green panel will help educate our attendees who are serious about going green inside the data center.
According to the Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (August 2007), data centers consumed about 60 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006, roughly 1.5% of total U.S. electricity consumption. The energy consumption of servers and data centers doubled in the past five years and is expected to almost double again in the next five years to more than 100 billion kWh costing about $7.4 billion annually. IBM estimates that under Project Big Green, a 25,000-square-foot data center should be able to achieve a 42 percent energy savings, which could equate to 7,439 tons of carbon emissions saved per year.
In May IBM announced Project Big Green, a $1 billion annual commitment to increase the level of energy efficiency in IT. The plan is designed to help IBM and its clients sharply reduce data center energy consumption, transforming the world’s business and public technology infrastructures into green data centers.
Mr. Kelly remarked, ”At 365 Main we’ve made a broad commitment to energy efficiency, so we’re extremely honored to participate in this groundbreaking event. We’re looking forward to a productive discussion about environmentally responsible data center development.”
Earlier this year 365 Main joined the Green Grid, a global nonprofit consortium of technology companies and professionals dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. The company was also recognized by PG and E for its noteworthy energy-reduction accomplishments in its founding San Francisco data center and has since made its energy best-practices available to PG and E to share with other data center providers.
In May 365 Main became the first data center developer and operator to commit to full compliance with the building certification system put forth by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), a non-profit organization of leaders from every sector of the building industry. In August the company announced the development of a new data center in Newark, Calif., the first data center west of the Mississippi to adopt USGBC standards and seek LEED-certification (Newark is approximately 35 miles southeast of San Francisco). The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings.
Other Project Big Green panelists include:
- Rich Lechner, vice president, IT optimization, IBM Systems and Technology Group
- Phil Nail, Founder and CTO, Affordable Internet Services Online Inc.
- Dave Laux, global executive, games and interactive entertainment, IBM
- Tom Burns, director, post-production infrastructure, Technicolor
- Larry Kasanoff, CEO, Threshold Animation Studios
According to the conference Web site, Hollywood Goes Green is designed for any professional with ties to the entertainment industry who wants to learn how environmental strategies will create new business opportunities. The two-day event will include a number of speakers, demos, workshops, discussions and breakout sessions. Registration information and event details can be found at www.hollywoodgoesgreen.com. For questions please contact 310-566-7745 or email zahava@ihollywoodforum.com.
365 Main Inc. develops and operates data centers, developed and certified to compliance requirements, including SAS70, and feature 24/7/365 power, cooling, connectivity and security capabilities to ensure mission-critical operations and business continuity for tenants. Hundreds of hosting, telecommunication and Fortune 1000 enterprises utilize 365 Main’s privately held services, based in San Francisco, California.
For more information about 365 Main Inc., please visit: www.365main.com.
Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - December 4, 2007 - Web hosting and Internet solutions company, Future Hosting, LLC, serving small to medium sized businesses internationally, has 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.
Charles Kowalski, Chief Operating Officer at Future Hosting remarked, ”We view SWsoft as a leading software maker in our industry, and it is an honor to reach this status with such an important partner in hosting. Many of our products and services hinge upon the stable and innovative software solutions that SWsoft has developed over the years. It has been our customers who have benefited most from the work SWsoft has done to increase usability and flexibility of hosting software solutions.”
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.
Kurt Daniel, Vice President of Marketing, SWsoft added, ”SWsoft is pleased to name Future Hosting as an SWsoft Platinum hosting partner in recognition of their significant commitment to our technology and go-to-market initiatives. As a Platinum partner, Future Hosting will continue to benefit from SWsoft’s OPEN FUSION technology initiative to advance an open hosting platform.”
Earlier this year, Future Hosting began hosting additional servers in a Chicago, Illinois datacenter, to provide increased redundancy and to better serve businesses in the Midwest. The datacenter provides optimal latency to most cities throughout the United States, and provides better connectivity to the East Coast and Midwest, as opposed to datacenters based in Dallas, Texas. Future Hosting will immediately offer its cPanel, Plesk and 32-bit OS Virtual Private Server plans at the new datacenter. Eventually, the company plans to offer Hybrid and HSPcomplete Virtual Private Server plans in Chicago. Additional geographic locations allow businesses to select a datacenter closest to them and their primary customer base, providing them with the best possible connectivity for their needs. The Chicago datacenter includes connections to various Internet backbones, including Savvis, PCCW Global, TeliaSonera, and GameRail.
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.
SWsoft is a virtualization and automation software firm with solutions designed to assist consumers, businesses, and service providers optimize technology use. The company’s software powers more than 130,000 servers and 600,000 desktops worldwide. 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 Future Hosting, please visit: www.futurehosting.biz.
To learn more about SWsoft, please visit: www.swsoft.com.
Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - December 6, 2007 - Managed dedicated and virtual private server (VPS) hosting solutions provider, WiredTree, has selected 427 LaSalle Street in Chicago, as the location for its most recent datacenter expansion.
Zac Cogswell, President of WiredTree remarked, ”After an extensive evaluation process, we selected this facility because it has the redundant infrastructure and controls in place that our mission-critical hosting requires. Not only has the facility been recently renovated, it’s located just a couple of blocks from our corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago.”
The new datacenter, which provides up to 60,000 square feet of conditioned datacenter space for WiredTree to move into immediately, is hoped to allow the company to expand its product and service offerings while still maintaining its rigid quality control standards. The new facility provides WiredTree with three 3,000 AMP 480Volt 3 Phase ComEd electrical feeds from multiple power sub-stations; three 2-megawatt electrical generators; four 500KvA UPS systems; and four 300-ton chillers. The new datacenter also provides 24×7 security staffing, including digital security cameras, a key card access system, and data tracking and recording.
Additionally, the facility has automated logic monitoring of all electrical equipment, as well as connectivity to multiple backbone providers, including Savvis, Level3, AT and T, Qwest, XO, Sprint-Nextel, Verizon, Abovenet and Cogent.
Mr. Cogswell continued, ”Our new datacenter will allow us to continue to both serve our existing client base and expand our network to additional Tier-1 providers. It’s always been our goal to provide the latest technology - whether it’s datacenter capabilities or server hardware - to meet the growing needs of our customers. This new facility is latest step in that process.”
Formed in June, 2006, WiredTree provides Fully-Managed Dedicated and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting, with customer support, a suite of service offerings, and comprehensive network design.
To learn more about WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com.
Sydney, Australia - (The Hosting News) - December 7, 2007 - Shared, reseller, dedicated and managed web hosting solutions firm, Crucial Paradigm, has released plans to market to the Australian hosting community with a newly launched division, Crucial Paradigm Australia.
The new division, will guarantee to customers that all hardware and operations of the company are physically located in Australia. The company has seen strong demand from businesses in the local market looking for such a guarantee.
Aaron Weller, Director of Crucial Paradigm noted, ”For our Australian clients, locating hardware locally offers increased speeds, lower latency, and a better peace of mind. We are excited about this launch, as our extensive research and development is finally coming to fruition. We are sincerely looking forward to developing new relationships with local businesses.”
Crucial Paradigm Australia has been in development for about a year. The company hopes to expand Australian operations in the coming months, and introduce new services, such as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) plans. Additional announcements will be made as new products and services are added.
Servers will be located in Sydney, Australia in the Equinix Datacenter. Shared hosting plans start at AUD $14.95/monthly for 1,000MB of storage space and 3,000MB of monthly data transfer. Business plans start at AUD $29.95/monthly for 1,000MB of space and 5,000MB of data transfer. All plans include 24×7 technical support and a variety of value-added features.
For more information about Crucial Paradigm, please visit: http://www.crucialp.com.
For more information about Crucial Paradigm Australia, please visit: www.crucial.com.au.
Founded in 2003, Crucial Paradigm operates in multiple locations around the world. The privately-owned, debt-free company offers a wide range of hosting solutions from Basic Web Hosting to Reseller Hosting, Virtual Dedicated Servers, Dedicated Servers and High Traffic Clusters, custom designed, based on each client’s individual requirements.
For more information about reseller hosting from Crucial Paradigm, please visit: Crucial Paradigm Australia (http://www.crucial.com.au).
To learn more about Crucial Paradigm, please visit: www.crucialp.com.
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