Dedicated Server News – HOUSTON - The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced that Stone Bond Technologies has selected the company as the core platform for its software test bed.  Stone Bond provides customers with a variety of software solutions, including integration, workflow automation and messaging software.  In each case, Stone Bond provides mission-critical solutions that enable organizations to exchange, map, align and clean data across multiple software applications and hardware platforms so that information provides meaningful business data.

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Dedicated Web Hosting – Dallas, TX – SoftLayer Technologies, the on-demand data center service provider, is now offering a powerful but easy to use digital media file transcoding service. The service enables customers to convert their audio or video assets into formats optimized for the vast array of content delivery methods currently in use—from high definition to web to mobile. This effectively helps them extend their content’s use and reach. The service is free to use for all customers, and fully automated and accessible through SoftLayer’s proprietary customer portal

“All of our customers are dealing with delivering rich media content, whether they are publishing the content for download or just incorporating it into their end-user’s online experience,” said Nathan Day, SoftLayer’s Chief Technology Officer. “This new service not only broadens their content’s compatibility, it makes their content easier to deliver. And along with our other solutions, such as CDNLayer, we’re offering an end-to-end set of content distribution resources to all our customers.”
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Web Hosting News – CHICAGO, Illinois — Hostway Corporation, the global Web services leader, has begun accepting registrations for the .Pro top-level domain (TLD) under new rules that extend .Pro eligibility to a wider global audience. Customers who sign up for .Pro domain names now can take advantage of Hostway’s limited-time discount of $14.95 for the first year, and $34.95 for every year thereafter.

.Pro became available to professionals in 2005 under strict registration criteria that limited the domain, resulting in low registration rates. Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a broader set of rules for .Pro, making it widely available to nearly all professionals across the globe.
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Web Hosting News – Denver, CO – Leading email-hosting company, USA.NET®, has been selected by Exchange administrators and specialists as the best Microsoft® Exchange email hosting provider. Through MSExchange.org, the leading Microsoft Exchange resource site, highly qualified readers weighed the migration experience, tools, IT support, uptime and overall level of customer satisfaction of different vendors in the market in voting for USA.NET as the best in the Microsoft Exchange Hosting category. USA.NET led in this ranking by a 20% margin over the next runner up.

Doug Howard, President of USA.NET and Chief Strategy Officer of the Parent company, Perimeter eSecurity, said, “It is extremely gratifying to receive this Reader’s Choice Award from MSExchange.org because the choice is based entirely on the votes of the thousands of experienced Microsoft Exchange email administrators who visit the MSExchange.org website. It is rewarding to see that our efforts and customer focus has been recognized by users who rank our email hosting services better than any other company. We thank all of the MSExchange.org readers for their vote of confidence.”
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Hosting News – Host Color announced it launched its low cost VPS hosting plan powered by Virtuozzo Containers, is now one of the best priced entry-level virtual private servers in the industry. The web host said that VPS Start is a scalable solution that allows online business owners to further develop and grow their sites in custom web hosting environment.

The hosting company offers VPS Start with a choice of web hosting control panel between Plesk, cPanel and NextColor, its own proprietary hosting automation system. Plesk is the recommended control panel for Virtuozzo VPS by Host Color. It provides Plesk licenses to customers for only $15.95 per month.
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Web Host News – Montreal - iWeb (TSX-V : IWB), a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, inaugurated their head office on Nuns’ Island on Wednesday. In addition to becoming the workplace for 100 employees, the building houses a completely redundant IT center, which could withstand the 1998 ice storm without losing power or Internet connectivity.

“The new headquarters addresses two major objectives; to provide a high quality colocation infrastructure for our clients, and to reunite almost all of our employees by providing a unique working environment” said Eric Chouinard, President of iWeb. “until recently, iWeb’s 120 employees were spread out in our three data centers.”

“This new step in your young history reflects the energy that has marked your growth.”, pointed out Mrs. Nicole Ménard, Parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and Minister of Tourism, a point supported by Henri-François Gautrin, Parliamentary assistant to the Premier.
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Web Hosting News - Nova Scotia, Canada - DemoWolf has just announced the availability of toll-free telephone ordering from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.

You can now call DemoWolf Toll-Free from the United Kingdom (0808 101 3478), and Australia (1 800 307 165), as well the USA and Canada (1-866-905-4678). With the addition of these toll free numbers, over 80% of DemoWolf’s existing customers can now call toll free.

In addition, DemoWolf has announced that they are now taking orders by phone, instead of just via their website. Whether customers call one of their toll free numbers, or their local number (for local customers or customers in other countries not covered by a toll free number), they will be able to place their order over the phone.
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Web Hosting News – ATLANTA, GA – VIA Networks, a leading provider of managed services and dedicated hosting solutions, today announced the launch of its new fully managed Windows SharePoint Services solution in a virtualized environment. The new configuration is built around best practices for developing and deploying Microsoft SharePoint solutions on Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V. This configuration helps organizations to deploy a full Windows SharePoint Services solution in a virtualization environment, providing a flexible option for customer applications.

“We’re very excited about our new SharePoint offering on Hyper-V,” said Darin Elkins, managing director for VIA Networks. “By using best practices for Microsoft SharePoint and virtualization, we’re able to offer customers a more flexible and powerful solution for collaboration.”
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Web Hosting News – Phoenix, AZ - Brinkster announced that its 90 Day No Nonsense Money Back Guarantee will now apply to dedicated servers web hosting.  Previously the money back guarantee only applied to email and shared web hosting.  “After revamping our dedicated server lineup in June 2008 we saw a significant increase in demand.  The 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee makes Brinkster an obvious choice as we have virtually eliminated any risk for the customer,” said Jared Stauffer, President and CEO.

Brinkster’s 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is a satisfaction guarantee and states: “during the first ninety days after you purchase service with us, if you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your money minus any setup or domain name fees.”  The money back guarantee is not without its limits.  The max a customer can get back is $900 and the refund may be limited if a highly customized dedicated server setup is ordered.
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Web Hosting News – Philadelphia, PA - 1&1 Internet, the world’s largest web host by known servers, today put new momentum into the ecommerce solution market with a new line of eShop packages.
Aggressively priced from only $9.99 a month, 1&1 eShops provide powerful ecommerce functionality such as eBay integration, secure payment processing, advanced marketing tools, combined with the ease-of-use of a
1&1 package. The eShops are a great asset to SMBs and home users seeking an effective ecommerce platform with minimal costs. Furthermore, 1&1′s US hosting customers enjoy free ecommerce functionality with a basic level eZShop added to new and existing Home, Business and Developer Linux web hosting plans.
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