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Ontario, Canada - (The Hosting News) - October 9, 2008 - Web hosting and Internet services company, Web.com, Inc., has joined with Tucows, to offer personalized email and website services, targeted toward the small and medium-sized business sector.

Web.com will provide Tucows’s OpenSRS Personal Names Service, and personalized email and web addresses for those interested in showcasing their name brand for business.

Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows noted, ”As a market leader in providing online services to small and medium-sized businesses, Web.com’s selection of our Personal Names Service underscores the importance of email to customer retention for service providers. Too many service providers are content to let their users get email from Google, Yahoo or Microsoft without realizing the cost to their business. Web.com recognizes that a quality email experience with a great, personalized email address is appealing and important to keep customers happy, retention high and word-of-mouth growing.”

OpenSRS Personal Names is designed for small business owners, sole proprietors or SOHOs looking to showcase and associate their name brand with their company within the email or web address, such as amy@smith.net for their email address and amy.smith.net for the web address.

Jeff Stibel, President of Web.com remarked, ”We are always looking to make the services we offer to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) more effective. This partnership with Tucows enables us to provide SMBs with a customized email address directly related to their own name.”

Tucows is an Internet services company. Through its global network of over 9,000 service providers, its OpenSRS group provides millions of email boxes and manages over eight million domains. Tucows is an accredited registrar with ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). It holds a portfolio of approximately 150,000 domain names that are available for sale, monetized through advertising and support the wholesale Personal Names Service. The Retail division sells Tucows services to consumers and small business owners through Domain Direct, IYD (It’s Your Domain) and NetIdentity.

Web.com, formerly Interland, Inc., offers do-it-yourself and professional website design, website hosting, ecommerce, web marketing, developer hosting, and e-mail resources, since 1995. Web.com offers proprietary, point-and-click technologies and expert support professionals to ensure simplicity and ease-of-use at every step of the process. Distribution Partners include: Yellow Pages directories, broadband services, telecommunications, retail, and others. Strategic distribution partners include: R.H. Donnelley, Dex Media, EarthLink, British Telecom, Terra Lycos, Thomas Publishing, Ambassador Yellow Pages, Hawaiian Telcom, Encore Software, Office Depot, CompUSA, Amazon.com, and Monster Worldwide. Technology Partners include: Cisco, Compaq, Foundry Networks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Lycos, Macromedia, Miva, Microsoft, Network Associates, Openwave, PayPal, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Staples, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, Verizon, VERITAS, Yahoo, and WebTrends.

Web.com has been honored with the following accolades:

• Deloitte, Technology Fast 50 Winner, 2005 and 2006
• Excellence in Technology 2005 Awards - Ecommerce, SmallBusinessComputing.com
• # 12 on Deloitte’s 2004 Technology Fast 500
• #1 Web Design, Development and Services Company 2005, Atlanta Business Chronicle
• Frost and Sullivan Market Leadership Award 2003
• Who’s Who in Technology 2003 and 2004, Atlanta Business Chronicle

For more information about Tucows, please visit: http://tucowsinc.com.

To learn more about Web.com, please visit: www.web.com.

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Vancouver, British Columbia - (The Hosting News) - October 9, 2008 - Internet infrastructure and hosting solutions provider, PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc., has been chosen to enable the launch of web site development service, Sitemasher, which combines ease of use with power, for enterprise users.

Sitemasher provides a fully managed, hosted Web site solution that seamlessly integrates the web site building and publishing environment, content management system (CMS), analytics and search engine optimization (SEO), all within single platform.

Ron Moravek, CEO of Sitemasher remarked, ”When we researched hosting companies, PEER 1 was the only one that was willing to put together a customized solution that was a fit for us. They have one of the most extensive and highest performing networks in the world and are well respected for this. No one else could provide us the solution for our cloud computing that we needed, but PEER 1 stepped up and made it work. PEER 1 provides us with the ability to offer our customers scalability, reliability, and load balancing so they don’t have to worry about exceeding their limits if business is good.”

Sitemasher provides a rich, technical framework that gives businesses the tools and services to create their own data-driven web applications without programming. This unique, practical approach has enabled the company to grow quickly with more than 2,000 customers since beta-testing began in April. PEER 1’s ability to deliver a creative solution to the client’s needs mirrors Sitemasher’s own business model, and is credited by Sitemasher as being integral to its successful launch.

Sitemasher differs drastically from its competition because it doesn’t focus on one area of the Web site lifecycle, such as design, content management, or maintenance. Instead, it takes care of the entire lifecycle of a Web site, and delivers this function as a service. As a result, businesses can take control of their web presence without compromising on enterprise-level necessities.

Robert Miggins, Senior Vice President of business development for PEER 1 noted, ”As we look toward the future of the hosting industry, we see customizations, such as the solution we created for Sitemasher, becoming more prevalent. The ability to channel our powerful network to support and enable virtualization, is key for the growth of forward-thinking tech companies like Sitemasher, and helps them carve out a niche in the Web 2.0 space.”

PEER 1 is one of the only hosting companies offering all three types of web hosting services under one roof; dedicated, managed and co-location. These extensive services are supported by PEER 1’s world class, geographically diverse network, which includes 15 data centers in major cities across North America and POPs in Europe.

Before even bringing their product to market, Sitemasher has been the recipient of several awards: Red Herring finalist for top-50 Canadian IT companies, Microsoft Canada ‘Blue Sky’ Award, and a selected participant in Microsoft’s prestigious Accelerator Program.

Established in 2007, Sitemasher provides a fully managed, hosted website solution that seamlessly integrates the website building environment, content management system (CMS), analytics, and search engine optimization (SEO) - all within a single platform. Phil Calvin, chief technical officer, began developing Sitemasher in 2006. Ron Moravek, chief executive officer, joined the new corporation in August 2007 along with Curtis Terry, chief financial officer and chief operating officer for Sitemasher, both from Electronic Arts, Canada. Eric Dorgelo, vice president of development, joined the team from Rockwell. Nicole Denil joined Sitemasher from Microsoft Corporation. Eric Carlson became the sole venture capitalist and partner in December.

PEER 1 is an online IT infrastructure provider, with over 10,000 customers. PEER 1 delivers highly scalable managed hosting and co-location solutions to ensure customers’ online presence is always fast, always available. Since 1999, PEER 1 has grown to include data centers and network points of presence in 17 major cities across North America and Europe. Serving a variety of companies, PEER 1 offers solutions that grow through every stage of web commerce, regardless of company size. The company’s headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada and the stock is traded on the TSX Venture exchange under the symbol PIX.

To learn more about Sitemasher, please visit: www.sitemasher.com.

For more information about PEER 1, please visit: www.peer1.com.

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Norwalk, Connecticut - (The Hosting News) - October 9, 2008 - TMC’s Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO East 2009 will feature the Digium/Asterisk World, co-hosted by Technology Marketing Corporation and Digium, the Asterisk Company, in Miami, Florida.

Rich Tehrani, President of TMC and ITEXPO East 2009 conference chairman remarked, ”We are honored to host Digium/Asterisk World, as open source technology is such a critical driver the growth of the communications market. Mark Spencer and the Digium team are without question true pioneers and innovators. What is important to note is that by joining forces with Digium/Asterisk World, ITEXPO reinforces its position as the industry’s most valuable, major communications event worldwide.”

Entering its third year, Digium/Asterisk World at ITEXPO will be the conference that addresses ”Everything Asterisk” for business users, resellers and executive decision-makers. The event will be held February 2-4, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

All can come to Digium/Asterisk World to discover how Asterisk, the world’s most widely used open source telephony software, can save them money and allow them to create more flexible telephony solutions.

The conference will include both booth exhibition space and a Presentation Theatre on the EXPO floor. In addition, TMC and Digium will collaborate to create the conference track agenda, which will be announced in the coming months.

Mark Spencer, Founder and CTO of Digium and original creator of Asterisk noted, ”Digium has led the Asterisk revolution in telecommunications. Hosting Digium/Asterisk World at IT EXPO East 2009 will allow us to share the vision and power of Asterisk with a broad set of customers who might not be familiar with open source. By giving them their first taste of Asterisk, we empower them to not only save money but to use and create new technologies that never existed before.”

ITEXPO East 2009 is the world’s largest and most significant communications technology event, featuring more than 200 companies exhibiting on the EXPO floor and hundreds of sessions led by the industry’s most prominent thought leaders. The show helps attendees identify the issues and challenges affecting the deployment of communications technologies. It provides a comprehensive forum for evaluating the latest products and services and delivers a face-to-face networking opportunity that service providers, carriers, resellers, distributors, equipment manufacturers and IT executives from enterprise and SMB companies need to cultivate new business relationships.

Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium makes Asterisk software available to the open source community and delivers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX Software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line includes a wide range of hardware to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey solutions or to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems.

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference.

TMC has also recently launched new industry-specific Web sites: WiMAX.TMCnet.com, Cable.tmcnet.com, Robotics.tmcnet.com, Satellite.tmcnet.com, Green.tmcnet.com.

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, Internet Telephony, SIP Magazine, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is a source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 3,000 sites in the world by alexa.com, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces Internet Telephony Conference EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference.

To learn more about Digium, please visit: www.digium.com.

For more information about TMC, please visit: www.tmcnet.com.

To learn more about the event, please visit: www.itexpo.com.

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Ontario, Canada - (The Hosting News) - October 9, 2008 - Web hosting company, Cartika Hosting, has developed a new High Availability Linux (HAL) clustered hosting service, offering a range of targeted solutions, in addition to a streamlined web interface.

The new HAL services feature completely redundant clustered architecture with additional load balancing of all services within the cluster. Complimented by predictive failure analysis, Countinous Data Protection and enterprise grade Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus features.

Andrew Rouchotas, Cartika’s CEO explains that the unique aspect of HAL is that it resolves most common issues associated with shared hosting. By spreading loads over multiple nodes, HAL allows websites to burst well beyond normal CPU and RAM allocations without overloading servers. Additionally, service is more reliable as a downed server node will not impact service availability.
Mr. Rouchotas noted, ”HAL solves the problems typically associated with shared hosting by spreading services and loads across a fleet of load balanced nodes. We are able to dramatically increase the resource availability and capacity to any given website hosted. Additionally, we are able to increase reliability by building physical server redundancy into all services.”

A Pressure Release System ensures that the system will never become overloaded during periods of very large bursts by Quing request and also acts as an indicator for a requirement to add additional resources (i.e. nodes) to a given array without resulting in cluster instability.

Users get real multiple domain hosting allowing granual email, ftp, stats and web options control for each domain and DNS zone, as well as an Ajax based webmail solution powered by Roundcube. Spam is essentially eliminated with Mailfoundry Enterprise grade spam appliance integrated into users control panels and included for free with any HAL package.

HAL is a premium hosting service transcending industries, sectors and company size. With their range of services, Cartika specializes in providing small to medium sized and enterprise businesses the very best in high availability web hosting, complete with service that includes security firewalls, load balanced architecture, redundant storage arrays, continuous data protection, mail foundry anti-virus and anti-spam protection, and much more.

Mr. Rouchotas added, ”The TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) analysis for HAL is very strong for any business serious about their website performance, availability, and scalability. For $100 a month, a business can acquire high availability hosting for all of their core services. The solution is more reliable and robust then a dedicated server and solves the typical problems associated with shared hosting environments. Additional value adds as found in the redundant, end user accessible backup solution as well as the integrated Mailfoundry anti-spam/virus appliance round off this offering and positively impact a company’s TCO calculations.”
Founded in Toronto in May 2002, Cartika Inc. is an established Application Hosting utilizing advanced clustering technologies, providing advanced web hosting facilities, combined with several best of breed Open Source and Commercial Applications. Cartika caters to businesses of all sizes providing shared, reseller and dedicated hosting solutions on Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD operating systems supporting a multitude of solutions, languages and development platforms, including Coldfusion, Sharepoint, MS Exchange, CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Market differentiators include automated, multi-platform, managed clustered solutions allowing companies to scale across platforms, services and across a potentially infinite number of nodes from central control interfaces.

For more information on new High Availability Linux (HAL) hosting, please visit: www.cartikahosting.com/HAL.

To learn more about Cartika Hosting, please visit: www.cartikahosting.com.

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