Web Hosting News – LONDON, UK – Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the new .tel top level domain, today announced that all free trial VIP.tel test domains have now been updated to support Profiles and now contain all of the major elements of the personal functionality available when .tel domains go live.

This new release enables people to share ‘sets’ of contact information in their domain by grouping them under Profiles. These profiles are user defined and can reflect different information according to the situation the .tel owner is in at that time. As an example, a .tel owner may set up a profile for ‘home’, ‘work’, ‘travelling’ or ‘on vacation’, all of which reflect different contact methods or priorities of contact information when someone accesses the domain. This enables the owner to quickly change the ‘status’ of his .tel domain by switching on and off and reorganizing contact information, including private contact information, with the click of a mouse or the press of a screen or button on a mobile device. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – VANCOUVER, Wash. - With only five days left until the .TEL Landrush opens to the public at 7 a.m. PST on Tuesday, Feb. 3, Dotster Inc., a leading provider of Internet business services, is strongly encouraging people to pre-register to lay claim to their one, easy-to-manage address for life.

.TEL is a new top level domain (TLD), supported by leading service provider, Telnic, that will drive communications and contact information to all devices on the Internet. By pre-registering with Dotster to apply for the first-come, first serve .TEL domains, individuals are taking a step to protect their online identity, while small business have the opportunity to take advantage of money-making opportunities. As one of the newest online information services, and one that is useful to a broad range of people and businesses, .TEL domain names are expected to go fast. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – TOKYO, JAPAN - NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced today that it has agreed with China Telecom Shanghai, a subsidiary of China Telecom Group, one of the nation’s biggest fixed and mobile phone operators, to launch the Yuanqu Data Center in Shanghai on February 2.

NTT Com also announced that the data center will introduce Global e-VLAN point of presence (POP) to provide international wide-area Ethernet service on February 2. Customers will be able to connect their servers and systems to a high-speed backbone network directly on the premises of the data center, thereby minimizing connection costs. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – Dania Beach, FL - LiquidNet, the famous web hosting services provider, announces that it has recently launched Themza.com – a new online project aimed at offering a wide variety of free templates and web design themes for PHP script-based websites such as blogs, image galleries and content management systems. New skins are being continuously added to the list of the Joomla templates, WordPress, Moodle and 4images themes currently available for download in .zip format to all the users contemplating a new personal or business website and searching for an appropriate template to accommodate its contents, as well as to those simply looking for a fresh new theme to replace their current outdated one.

Users can get acquainted with the layout and the functionalities of each particular skin by examining the demo versions provided or by simply clicking on the respective thumbnail image for a larger view. All they have to do is download the preferred template to their personal computer and then upload it to a website of their own, provided that they have already obtained an up-to-date version of the script the template in question pertains to. Users are also given the opportunity to pick an appropriate package optimized to accommodate the various free themes should they still have not found an adequate hosting service for their open source script-based website or in case they are unable to handle the whole script installation process all by themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – Gloucester, UK - Fasthosts Internet Ltd, the UK’s number one web hosting company, today reached out to IT and creative professionals and entrepreneurs with an offer that provides 6 months free reseller web hosting. The risk-free trial, worth £300, is the latest in Fasthosts’ efforts to promote reseller web hosting as an opportunity for individuals and companies to grow their income. Fasthosts’ Reseller Package enables a user to retail web solutions including hosting, domains, email and broadband, under their own brand and earn profit on the items they sell. A recent survey by Fasthosts found that 80 per cent of businesses that begin to resell web hosting in addition to their regular products or services earn a profit from the practice. Fasthosts’ 6 Months Free offer comprises an excellent opportunity to enter this growth area of IT.

In today’s challenging economy, the concept of reseller web hosting is a compelling way to develop an enterprise such as an IT or marketing related business. Fasthosts’ Reseller web hosting equips an entrepreneur with everything they need to retail own-branded web solutions (such as hosting, domains and email solutions) at prices set by themselves. Resellers can combine white-label web solutions with their own services, such as web design, programming or IT advice, to create tailored services for niche markets and so charge premium prices. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – SAN DIEGO, CA. – Pointivity, a leading application hosting and managed service provider offering enterprise level IT solutions to businesses and partners, today announced the appointment of Randy Stultz to the position of Vice President of Channel Sales.

With over 30 years of building and driving channel sales in the security, storage, and enterprise system management, Mr. Stultz brings proven leadership and skills to the organization. Most recently he served as a Channel Account Manager at Computer Associates to manage Enterprise Solution Partners. Previously he served in various sales positions for StorNet, AT&T Capital, BCC Technology, Sun Data and Xerox. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – DENVER - ViaWest, a leading provider of adaptable colocation and managed hosting solutions, today announced the availability of an enhanced virtualization product. As no stranger to virtualization, ViaWest provides customers with a solution that leverages industry proven virtualization technologies. The ViaWest Dedicated Virtualization product more efficiently utilizes hardware, allows enhanced portability of operating systems, facilitates server consolidation, and permits the high availability of server resources.

ViaWest’s launch came about as the culmination of the company’s long-term use of virtualization technology for in-house enhancements, as well as a successful pilot program started in mid 2008. ViaWest engineers have employed virtualization internally to realize the benefits of improved server resource utilization, server consolidation, as well as simplify systems management. As virtualization is an obvious progression to improving the flexibility of IT operations, many companies are looking to ViaWest to facilitate and support these growing needs. ViaWest sponsored an extensive virtualization pilot program to ensure that the product would meet complex customer requirements prior to adding it to their comprehensive Managed Services portfolio. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – Phoenix, AZ – SmarterTools Inc. and SMB SAAS Systems Inc. are proud to announce a partnership to provide SmarterMail as the preferred Windows mail server for the DotNetPanel product line, the flagship Windows hosting control panel product of SMB SAAS Systems Inc. The partnership will allow DotNetPanel customers to run SmarterMail Lite, a specially-developed version of the SmarterMail mail server software that provides unlimited email accounts and domains at no additional cost starting March 1.

“Our goal is to deliver feature-rich solutions for hosting businesses and this partnership allows us to provide an industry-leading mail server to our customers,” said Feodor Fitsner, director of DotNetPanel. “SmarterMail provides users with an industry-leading Webmail interface and is the perfect complement to DotNetPanel for hosting and hosted service providers.” Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - During the last 12 months, Go Daddy has issued more new SSL certificates than any other provider by far…taking a commanding 47 percent of all net-new SSL Certificates for 2008.

According to Netcraft Ltd., a leading industry analyst, of the more than 220,000 SSL certificates added to Web sites during 2008, Go Daddy issued more than 100,000. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – HERNDON, VA. – Parallels, a leader in virtualization and automation software, today announced the availability of Parallels Business Automation 4.4. This complete business support system is designed to address the unique needs of service providers by enabling them to focus on revenue generating tasks and service differentiation while increasing agility and increasing customer retention.

Parallels Business Automation addresses all aspects of billing for hosters, independent software vendors interested in software as a service, enterprises, ISPs, and other service providers. These organizations are able to streamline their existing operations by automating everything related to online ordering and order processing, including workflow automation, reseller management, marketing promotions & campaigns to billing, taxation, reporting and fraud detection. Read the rest of this entry »