Web Hosting News – San Carlos, CA - Cotendo, a content delivery network and innovator of software-focused CDN technologies, today announced that its Content Delivery Service is now the CDN of choice for high-traffic Web sites Conduit and Seeking Alpha. Cotendo’s emphasis on content delivery applications, whole site delivery, performance and real-time control is ideal for mid-market content providers that want advanced functionality to optimize delivery, control expenses, and respond to real-time conditions in delivering popular Web sites to global audiences.

Cotendo introduced its CDN service with an innovative Content Delivery Applications Suite in March. Highly integrated and based on patent-pending software technology, the Cotendo Suite offers unparalleled performance, real-time control and analytics, and advanced functionality, including Dynamic Site Acceleration, CDN balancing for active management of performance and delivery expense, and advanced integrated DNS services. Cotendo’s groundbreaking software approach to delivery at scale emphasizes functionality and agility, setting it apart from other more network-focused CDNs. Continue reading “Cotendo Hits the Ground Running with Two New Customers for Its Content Delivery Applications Suite” »

Web Hosting News – New York - Zrinity, a Central New York firm, recently announced that it largely surpassed its predictions for Q1, 2009. Zrinity continues on a fast growth track by adding eighteen new customers in Q1, 2009 and expects continued growth in Q2. The reason, according to Zrinity owners, is that Zrinity provides an advanced, centralized solution that enables its clients to generate more revenue at a much lower cost than prevailing alternatives.

The first generation of email marketing in the 1990s relied upon home-grown systems with limited functionality and heavy internal support costs. As the sophistication of ecommerce has increased, many companies outsourced their email programs to shared, ASP, vendors. While these shared ASPs offered improved functionality over home-grown systems, they generally operate on an expensive cost-per-use basis. As the current economic climate increases pressure on the bottom line, companies are looking to reduce both internal and external costs while continuing to expand sophistication and success of their marketing efforts. Continue reading “Corporate Budget Reductions Fuel Growth for Email Marketing System Provider” »

Businesses with online stores will be happy to hear the new Miva Merchant 5.5 software now  available with many extras features, plus enhancements to existing ones.

The new software provides users a more intuitive, easy-to-use interface, complete with a top-of-page Launchpad that makes configuring and customizing Shortcuts a breeze.

Enhancements include a simple press of the ENTER button instead of tabbing to the Go button; the ability to fully customize Customer Notification emails using tokens, entities and HTML; greatly simplified order processing, with a Create Batch button; greater ease of product and category sorting, plus the ability to quickly assign items to pages using a simple Edit function, instead of having to click on each Page template.

New features include:

Head Tag Settings to upload CSS files; Frameworks, for speedy creation of new store foundations, plus full Dreamweaver support and built-in Search Engine Optimization. Continue reading “Miva Merchant Increases Features For Online Business” »

Web Hosting News – FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Domain Registrar and Web Host AIT, Advanced Internet Technologies is currently offering two great ways to enhance online visibility and discounts during Domain Days.

AIT is offering their lowest pricing ever, when a customer transfers an existing domain(s) to AIT. The already low rates have been slashed even further by offering transfers at discounted prices. Additionally, when a new domain is ordered, the registrant can call toll free 1.877.549.2881 to acquire any new .COM domain name, this purchase will qualify the buyer to register any new .NET domain name for a limited one-time only price!

“Selecting a domain is perhaps the most important component of launching a new business and Web site. Even for established companies, buying additional domains could have great rewards from a SEO (define) perspective,” said Mark Jackson of online magazine Search Engine Watch. Continue reading “AIT’s Domain Days Savings are Back” »

Web Hosting News – Nottingham, England - With an impactful exhibition stand providing energising smoothies for visitors, it is not surprising CWCS has proved one of the most popular stands at the event.

Karl Mendez comments ‘This being our first time at the show we wanted to make an immediate impact. Our message is simple: ‘Give your hosting a boost’ by using CWCS. To illustrate the key benefits of CWCS Managed Hosting we developed a Juice Bar offering a choice of 4 energising smoothies for visitors, these included Reliability Refresh (a blend of blackcurrant, blackberry and strawberry juice) and Energizing Support (a fusion of raspberry and pineapple juice)’ Continue reading “CWCS Managed Hosting Energizes Digital Marketing and Online Business Event Internet World” »

Web Hosting News – Chicago, IL - Managed web-hosting provider SingleHop, today announced the opening of a new data center. The new space marks the hosting provider’s second data center and is part of SingleHop’s aggressive expansion. The facility has top of the line specifications in redundancy, security, connectivity, and cooling systems. The facilities’ power, UPS system, and HVAC systems are rated at a minimum of N+2, which means that for each system, there are two independent backups that ensure ongoing functionality were the original system to fail.

Some specifications of SingleHop’s new data center include:

-10,000 square feet of initial, raised-floor data center space Continue reading “SingleHop Launches New Data Center” »

Web Hosting News – Jersey City, NJ - Comodo’s new server protection software will defend nodes in enterprise networks from malicious attacks. This new safeguard joins the other Comodo branded products protecting enterprises, including security software, encryption and vulnerability scanning.

PC users who adopted Comodo’s award-winning security software at home have brought it to work with them. Recently the firm has developed products geared specifically toward enterprises, including disk encryption and server protection. Continue reading “Comodo Endpoint Security Manager Shields Vulnerable Servers” »

Web Hosting News – VANCOUVER, BC – PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a global online IT hosting provider, has partnered with Lisa Sabin-Wilson, celebrity blogger and author of “WordPress for Dummies”, to offer free premium blog templates, valued at $1,200 each, designed exclusively for PEER 1 and ServerBeach.

With an estimated 133 million blogs worldwide and growing, social networking and blogging has become the fourth most popular activity on the Internet, surpassing even e-mail.* For those looking to join the fast-growing blogging community, or just wanting to spice up current blogs, PEER 1 is offering five free custom-designed WordPress themes as a download to anyone who visits the PEER 1 Web site or the site of its dedicated hosting brand, ServerBeach. Continue reading “PEER 1 Provides Free WordPress Themes” »

Web Hosting News – Singapore — Virtualization and automation leader Parallels, is putting cloud computing at the top of the agenda in Asia by introducing its industry-uniting cloud services networking event in the region. The Parallels APAC Summit 2009 marks the expansion of Parallels’ successful annual event into Asia, where Springboard Research predicts that: “in 2009 every leading hardware, software and services vendor will have a clear cloud computing strategy. Moreover, as budgets shift from cap‐ex to op‐ex, more IT organizations will strongly consider cloud computing as an alternative software and service delivery model.” Parallels is highly active in this market, with around 1000 customers and 200 strategic partners signed in the region.

Parallels APAC Summit 2009 will take place in Singapore on September 25th, 2009 and registration is now open. Following the format of the annual US event, the Summit will feature in-depth business and product sessions with well-known Parallels speakers and industry leaders offering insights into: the industry and upcoming market trends; Parallels’ upcoming initiatives; and strategies for building a company that grows revenue, even in this challenging economic climate.

Additionally, the one-day event is aimed at giving attendees ample opportunity to visit the exhibition hall and network with potential business partners, colleagues and the Parallels team in order to forge profitable customer and partner networks. Attendees of the event will represent all interests in the APAC cloud computing market, including cloud services providers, ISVs, developers, hardware vendors and other industry players. Continue reading “Parallels Brings Cloud Computing to Asia-Pacific Region with First Parallels APAC Summit 2009” »

Web Hosting News – ANDOVER, Mass. - NaviSite (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of Enterprise Hosting and Application Services, today announced that it has expanded its suite of Business Email Services powered by Microsoft Exchange Server. These enhanced services have been designed to provide the SMB audience with the reliability, flexibility and mobility that are essential for success in today’s business climate.

NaviSite is one of the leading hosted email service providers and has a long history of providing hosted email services on the Microsoft Exchange Platform. It currently hosts over 450,000 business mailboxes for companies around the world. With a customer base that spans the small home office to the multi-location global enterprise, NaviSite provides businesses with deep expertise in hosting and managing all aspects of business information technology infrastructure including managing their business-critical email communications and office collaboration through various email hosting solutions.

One of the key highlights of NaviSite’s Business Email Services is an industry leading 100% uptime for email availability. This standardized email offering also includes larger mailboxes and a suite of complementary services, like broader wireless connectivity and email archiving features, enabling the small business to effectively communicate with full synchronization of email, contacts, and calendars between the web and desktop clients like Microsoft Outlook and Entourage. In addition, businesses are able to synchronize the same data with mobile devices like the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile powered devices, getting anytime-anywhere access. With NaviSite’s Business Email Services, small businesses have access to a level of technology once reserved for much larger companies. Continue reading “NaviSite Announces New Business Email Services Optimized for SMB” »