Web Hosting News – Philadelphia, PA - The best way for a business to go online is with help from web hosting resellers, according to new survey statistics released today. Through research conducted by Fasthosts Internet, a leading reseller web hosting provider, resellers know best when it comes to helping a small or medium business develop an online presence. Fasthosts surveyed 163 resellers to find out more about their experience as web hosts. Half of the resellers are actually considered a small business themselves and target local small and medium companies as potential customers. Interestingly enough, about 1 in 5 resellers communicate their services through online networking and more than 75 percent of resellers tailor their customer support on a case per case basis.

The latest Fasthosts survey shed light on who are today’s resellers. By far, statistics showed that the majority are small businesses who offer web solutions in addition to their established services. Totaling 50 percent of the response pool, small resellers appear to be the best resource for advice on the web (even though half of the respondents only have two to five employees). However, they are advising other SMBs in their surrounding communities with 58 percent of resellers marketing their services locally, or within 30 miles from their own address.

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Web Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO - Denim Group, an IT consultancy that develops secure software and helps organizations assess and mitigate risks with their existing software, announced today that it has entered into a Professional and Consulting Services Partner Agreement with Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the leader and specialist in hosting. Through this relationship, Denim Group will provide application security services for Rackspace and its clients. A related video may be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/n76qy7.

“For companies looking to migrate to Hosted and Cloud applications, Denim Group can help evaluate and recommend security strategies in this new business paradigm,” said John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Hosting. “Our relationship with Denim Group, allows us to extend our consulting services to provide deeper offerings in the application security services market. Denim Group has a track record of proven delivery with Rackspace, and the fact that we’re both located in San Antonio makes this relationship even more beneficial.”

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Web Hosting News – MONTREAL, QC - iWeb announced the strategic acquisition of Montreal-based managed hosting provider Netsimplify. This move brings iWeb closer to providing its own brand of managed hosting services – which represent the majority of Netsimplify’s revenues in 2008.

“Customers face an increasing complexity in managing their IT infrastructure, and many of our dedicated hosting customers have requested that iWeb provide additional services.” says Eric Chouinard, iWeb’s President and CEO. “Netsimplify’s customer-driven approach brings a lot of experience, expertise and depth, all of which are important aspects of iWeb’s services”

“This is a logical step towards both cloud computing and managed services” said Martin Leclair, iWeb co-founder and President of Products and Technology. He added that “It is also a homecoming of sorts; Netsimplify’s founder, Simon Boulet, was one of iWeb’s first employees before he left to start his own company nearly three years ago – Welcome back Simon!”.

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Web Hosting News – FAYETTEVILLE, NC - Recently, Web Hosting provider Advanced Internet Technologies added dozens of new private labeled web hosting features and plans for its Resellers to offer to their clients. From June 2008 to June 2009 AIT has seen a 300% increase in the number of Resellers making money with their new product set including email marketing, anti-spam, enterprise hosting using IBM architecture, web design templates, content management and tyBit.com search engine submission and credits. I understand Resellers because I was one starting in my garage 14 years ago and now located in a 93,000 state-of-the-art datacenter that we own outright with 210,000 customers worldwide,” said Clarence E. Briggs Founder & CEO of AIT. “We recently got back to the garage, cut wholesale costs, retooled and reconfigured our Reseller program and its success has exceeded our expectations.” Briggs claims that the key to AIT’s success has been making its Resellers successful. “Go Daddy started out as one of our Resellers,” said Briggs. “We have private-labeled hosted Microsoft’s Central SharePoint, the United Nations, Time Warner’s Hosting and many more including small, one person businesses making money from home with nothing more than an computer and Internet connection. AIT is gives it Resellers the opportunity for unrivaled success by allowing them to not only private label web hosting and domain registration, but even their own search engine through a private label version of tyBit.

Officials claim AIT’s Reseller plans deliver everything an entrepreneur needs to build their own successful reseller business starting at less than $1 a day. AIT offers over 100 free, private label products and services that can be marketed by Resellers such as, shopping carts, email marketing, credit card processing, instant portals and even web design. “The product array you can resell is staggering,” said Andrew Perkins. “And my clients don’t know AIT, only me, which allows me to add value to their specific needs.”

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Web Hosting News – ATLANTA - Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today that it is providing managed server hosting services for Mashery, a cloud-based API (Application Programming Interface) infrastructure management company.

Mashery helps customers to embrace a new distribution channel – one that lets them create thousands of new content partnerships and create an ecosystem out of which new user experiences and revenue opportunities can grow. Thousands of software-driven companies are releasing APIs in order to become Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, either as a primary or secondary line of business. Although every API is different, the infrastructure to manage them includes the same set of challenges for most providers. Adopting Mashery’s developer management and support services allows customers to focus on their core businesses rather than trying to manage the APIs themselves.

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Web Hosting News – Amsterdam – LeaseWeb, one of Europe’s largest business hosting providers based in Amsterdam, has in a six-month period increased the bandwidth capacity of its hosting network from 500 to 750 Gigabits per second. A large increase in new clients, and especially the increased use of videos on websites, are key drivers behind the strong growth in Internet traffic.

LeaseWeb’s clients use LeaseWeb’s hosting network as well as, among other things, its servers and network equipment in a data center to enable people to visit their websites. This Internet traffic has increased tremendously. LeaseWeb’s network, which includes fiber-optic links and four data centers in the Amsterdam region, extends across the world via telecom carriers and Internet exchanges.

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Web Hosting News – Portsmouth, NH – GlobalSign, Inc, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Certificate security, today announced Virgin Atlantic as the most recent major brand to migrate to its Extended Validation (EV) SSL technology to secure their public facing web site. EV SSL differs greatly from standard SSL making the browser address bar glow green, and providing visitors with visual reassurance that the site they are on is who they claim to be and that their personal information is secure.

EV SSL, perhaps the most significant advancement in how consumers view and understand security on the web, activates the glowing green address bar in the current generation of browsers including IE7 and 8, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari and gives companies a means of visibly showing they are a trusted and authentic organization operating a legitimate web site. These extra visual indicators provide a clear business differentiator for online companies taking preventative action against today’s relentless phishing attacks. The adoption of EV SSL by Virgin Atlantic clearly shows its customers their strong ongoing commitment to online safety and security. Extended Validation Certificate support is now widespread and the benefits of increased protection against online fraud and brand abuse can be recognized by the majority of Virgin Atlantic’s online visitors.

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Web Hosting News – Denver, CO - CRG West, LLC, privately held national data center company and wholly-owned subsidiary of The Carlyle Group, announced today the launch of a new brand and legal corporate identity: “CoreSite – A Carlyle Company.” The name change reflects a new customer-focused company designed to deliver the security, reliability and communications opportunities that enterprises need to compete in the global marketplace.

Established in 2001 as CRG West at One Wilshire in Los Angeles and Market Post Tower in San Jose, CoreSite wholesale data centers and colocation facilities are also now located in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Northern Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington D.C., totaling more than two million square feet of service area. The rebrand marks the successful completion of CoreSite’s migration of administrative processes to its newly-formed headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and the overhaul of company processes designed to make business easier for its customers.

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Web Hosting News – SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - AptHost Communications USA Inc. (OTCBB:RSDV), a leading provider of shared, reseller, vps and dedicated web hosting services has announced earlier today the launch of a new website.

Launched in 2001, AptHost has been providing the web hosting market with quality hosting services to meet the needs of individuals and small businesses. In early 2006, AptHost found its niche in the social media market by providing web hosting services to individuals with social media and video sharing related websites.

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Web Hosting News – FLEMINGTON, NJ. – Value Reseller, an industry leading provider of private label reseller web hosting services, today announced the acquisition of Javascript Zoom, a Javascript application that enables users to zoom in and focus closely on web site objects.

Javascript Zoom is ideal for zooming in on products and image galleries displayed on e-commerce sites and sophisticated web sites. Users simply move their cursor and a virtual lens appears and magnifies the object. Right-clicking opens an options menu that allows the user to adjust the lens size or increase the resolution. There are also advanced settings that provide viewing lenses of varying sizes and shapes.

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