Softlayer News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies today announced the appointment of Walter Z. Berger as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective in March. A seasoned finance and accounting executive, Mr. Berger will help guide and oversee the company’s continued market leadership and financial growth. He brings more than 30 years of experience to SoftLayer, including extensive operational experience as a CFO with several large, publicly held companies.

“Bringing Walter on board amplifies and extends the deep base of experience and expertise of our executive management team,” said Lance Crosby, CEO for SoftLayer. “His proven track record and leadership will be invaluable as we embark on our next phase of growth. We’re delighted to have such a high caliber executive join our team.”

Prior to joining SoftLayer Technologies, Mr. Berger was the CFO and executive vice president of Leap Wireless International Inc. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Berger served in senior management roles at CBS Corporation, including as executive vice president and chief financial officer for CBS Radio, a division of CBS Corporation. Prior to joining CBS Radio, Mr. Berger served as executive vice president and CFO and a director of Emmis Communications from 1999 to 2005. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Berger served as executive vice president and CFO of LG&E Energy Corporation and in 1997 was promoted to group president of the Energy Marketing Division, where he served until 1999. Early in his career, Mr. Berger held a number of financial and operating management roles in the manufacturing, service and energy fields. Mr. Berger began his career in audit at Arthur Andersen in 1977. Mr. Berger is a certified public accountant and holds a Bachelor of Arts in business administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. Spanning 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a global footprint of network points of presence, SoftLayer’s modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a full-featured API and sophisticated automation controlling a flexible platform that seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices, and a global network for secure, low-latency communications. With 100,000 servers under management, SoftLayer is the largest privately-held infrastructure-as-a-service provider in the world with a portfolio of 25,000 leading-edge customers from Web startups to global enterprises. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 1.866.398.7638.

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Web Hosting Reviews – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Web Hosting Directory and Review site www.FindMyHost.com released its February 2012 Editor’s Choice Awards today. Web Hosting companies strive to provide their customers with the very best service and support. We want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the hosts per category who have excelled in their field. The FindMyHost Editors’ Choice Awards are chosen based on Editor and Consumer Reviews.

Customers who wish to submit positive reviews for the current or past Web Host are free to do so by visiting the customer review section of FindMyHost.com Click here to submit a review for your Web Host and nominate them for next months Editors’ Choice awards. We would like to congratulate all web hosts and The following list of web hosting providers excelled in their field of service, congratulations to all and keep up the great work!

DEDICATED SERVERS	BUSINESS HOSTING	BLOG HOSTING
www.ReliableServers.com	www.PrestigeTechnologies.com	www.Hostgator.com
GAME SERVERS	MANAGED HOSTING	CLOUD COMPUTING
www.ZipServers.com	www.INetU.Net	www.ServersAndDomains.com
GREEN WEB HOSTING	VPS	ENTERPRISE HOSTING
www.ServInt.com	www.myhosting.com	www.Softlayer.com
SHARED HOSTING	WINDOWS HOSTING	BUDGET HOSTING
www.KVCHosting.com	www.WinHost.com	www.JustHost.com
CPANEL HOSTING	COLOCATION	RESELLER HOSTING
www.Codero.com	www.Superb.Net	www.RazorServers.com
DOMAIN REGISTRATION	E-COMMERCE	HYBRID SERVERS
www.ZipServers.com	www.BTInet.net	www.KnownHost.com

About FindMyHost
FindMyHost, Inc. is an online magazine that provides editor reviews, consumer hosting news, interviews discussion forums and more. FindMyHost.com was established in January 2001 to protect web host consumers and web developers from making the wrong choice when choosing a web host. FindMyHost.com showcases a selection of web hosting companies who have undergone their approved host program testing and provides reviews from customers. FindMyHost’s extensive website can be found at www.FindMyHost.com.

myhosting news – Toronto, ON – In partnership with Parallels and OpenSRS, myhosting.com has launched support for the industry leading Mobile Website Builder platform, goMobi. Combined with myhosting.com Website Hosting services and a .MOBI domain name registration, Business Owners and Webmasters can build a professional mobile website both quickly and easily.

The goMobi Mobile Website Builder platform includes a number of features through a WYSIWYG interface that allows customers to create a mobile version of their website easily, by adding options like Products, Contact Forms, Find Us, Reviews, Image Gallery, as well as a link to their Full Website and many more features. The goMobi Setup assistant can also automatically generate a mobile website based on an existing website, to help users and webmasters get started quickly.

With mobile web browsing becoming a more common way for users to access the internet, be it on mobile phones, iPhones, Androids and other smartphones, as well as tablets like the Apple iPad, the time to create a mobile-specific website has never been better. The goMobi Mobile Website Builder and Setup Assistant allows you to create a site with smaller screens, smartphones and tablets in mind, enabling you to more easily engage mobile website visitors with a customized browsing experience.

“With search engines like Google indicating that Mobile is an upcoming trend webmasters should be aware of, the time to jump on the bandwagon is now,” proclaimed Tim Attwood, Product Manager at myhosting.com. “Mobile users interact with search results and websites differently than desktop users, and with the mobile segment growing every day, every SMB or Website Owner should be thinking about grabbing their slice of that pie.”

By 2013 it is expected that more internet users will go online using smartphones and mobile devices than on traditional computers and laptops. And already more than half of all local searches are performed from mobile devices, with mobile searchers taking action as a result of the search results. With myhosting.com and a newly created goMobi Mobile Website, the time to take advantage of the trend is now!

For more information, please visit http://myhosting.com/mobile-website-builder.

About myhosting.com
myhosting.com is owned and managed by SoftCom Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1997, SoftCom provides reliable and cost effective Email and Web Hosting services to more than 10 million customers with support of 26 languages in 140 countries worldwide. The myhosting.com name and the logo are registered trademarks of SoftCom Inc.

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myhosting.com News – Toronto, ON – Customers of myhosting.com are now invited to participate in the new myhosting.com Hosting Affiliate Rewards program. The in-house referrals system is designed to make it easy for myhosting.com customers to benefit financially from referring friends, family, business colleagues and other users to myhosting.com web hosting, business email and VPS services.

The myhosting.com Affiliate Rewards program has been designed from the ground up to make referrals quick, easy and most importantly, financially well worth the endeavor. Users can quickly generate links they can provide to referrals as well as banners or other web media to engage their web audience looking for their own hosting services. To start, all qualified referrals provide a minimum $75 USD return!

“Our customers are already referring their friends, family and colleagues, it only makes sense to reward them for that,” sings Jeremy Lee Adams, Product Manager at myhosting.com. “We appreciate our customers business and the fact that they’re willing to recommend us means they appreciate ours. More than simply rewarding these customers, we want to promote them as one of the team!”

The web hosting business can be a mystery to many consumers lost in world of designers, programmers and computer techies. Word of mouth is any web hosts strongest asset since it helps to “part the cloud of confusion” and provide an inside understand of what makes a good web host.

Web hosting technology may be veiled in mystery, but with myhosting.com, the company doesn’t have to be.

myhosting.com already has well-established Affiliate Programs through ShareASale and Commission Junction, and this latest program is specifically designed for the average hosting customer over professional affiliates.

For more information, please visit http://affiliates.myhosting.com.

About myhosting.com
myhosting.com is owned and managed by SoftCom Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1997, SoftCom provides reliable and cost effective Email and Web Hosting services to more than 10 million customers with support of 26 languages in 140 countries worldwide. The myhosting.com name and the logo are registered trademarks of SoftCom Inc.

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What is your name and position with myhosting.com?
Chris Arnold, Product Manager at myhosting.com.

Please tell us the year established and brief history of myhosting.com?
Founded in January 1997 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, myhosting.com is continually committed to providing leading hosting services by utilizing the best available technology and services from companies such as: Microsoft Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation, MCI Canada/Verizon Business, VSNL International, Tucows Inc. and Network Solutions.

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?
Powerful custom VPS tools for building a VPS to exact requirements. Our tools provide unmatched flexibility in our market. Where most providers will force you to upgrade numerous features in steps (generally at a higher rate), our service allows you to modify individual components as need be. Our customers can individually upgrade RAM, CPU, disk space, backups to their exact needs!

What is the most challenging aspect to offering VPS Web Hosting?
One of the most challenging aspects is that customers have full control over their own container. This makes VPS difficult to support as customers really have unlimited server options available to them. myhosting.com”s dedicated VPS team is well versed in handling all requests should any arise.

What is it that makes myhosting.com a competitive company in the VPS Hosting market?
While our prices are very competitive, you won’t find a Windows VPS host around that matches us in specifications and support for the latest software out of the box (including WebMatrix and Plesk 10). Our one-stop-shop vision and commitment to providing the latest features and services really keeps us ahead of the curve.

What new features have myhosting.com added for its customers in the past year?
We’ve added out-of-the-box support for Microsoft WebMatrix and Plesk 10 in terms of software. In terms of hardware, we’ve also upgraded our Windows VPS environment to make use of SAN storage. What this means for our customers is that their VPS isn””t subject to hard disk access bottlenecks commonly found in hosted VPS environments!

What would you say is myhosting.com #1 asset to its customer base?
Our experience in the business has taught us that we have to stay on our toes. As such, you’ll see us constantly improving, updating and offering the latest features our clients expect all while retaining the flexibility to offer a wide variety of options to choose from for every hosting need.

Where do you see myhosting.com and the web hosting industry in three years?
Further into the Cloud is probably the answer you’ll get from any company that’s worth their salt. I think you’ll be seeing us venturing into Private Clouds and adding additional value to existing products through Cloud features and offerings. High availability, redundancy, and software at the core is where this business is headed.

How many customers do you currently have?
With over 50,000 web hosting customers in over 170 countries, myhosting.com continues to demonstrate an extraordinary level of value and choice to their customers.

Where are they located?
Our web servers and VPS are housed within Equinix and Earthlink Enterprise Data Centers located in Toronto, Canada and Rochester, NY, USA respectively.

What kind of backup power do you have?
myhosting.com Data centers are built with 100% power availability as a key objective. Diesel powered generators coupled with backup UPS (Uninterruptible Power System) allows myhosting.com to provide highly reliable and available hosting services.

Do you have multiple backbone connections?
By combining bundles of fiber optics with the redundant network engineering on multiple tier 1 service providers, our networks are able to create alternate routes for data transmission. This maximizes the throughput speed and capacity of each strand of fiber-optic cable. The result is a fast and reliable network connection on which our customers can rely.

What connections do you have?
Web servers are directly connected to world-class fibre optic networks which ensure that your web site experiences superior performance in a fully-redundant and secure environment.

Do you offer 24/7 support?
Our customer care center operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. No matter where you are or at what time, our unsurpassed phone, chat and email support provides you with timely and accurate resolution to your technical hosting issues.

Do you have technicians present 24/7 or 9-5 M-F?
We are staffed 24/7, 365 days of the year.

What is your average turn-around time on a support ticket?
The vast majority of all our phone calls are answered in under 2 minutes and we strive to answer all email tickets in under 1 hour.

Do you charge your clients for support? If so, please explain.
No, all support for regular day to day operation of your website, email or VPS is provided free of charge. We do offer a Professional support service for more advanced tasks that any of our clients may need assistance with.

Do you offer a money back guarantee?
We strive to help you with any issues that may arise, but we do offer a 30 day money back guarantee on all our services if no solution can be found. For more details please visit http://myhosting.com/web-hosting/30-day-money-back.aspx.

Thank you for your time and insight into myhosting.com.

Parallels News – RENTON, WA — Parallels®, the hosting and cloud services enablement leader, today officially announced its roster of highly-noted keynote speakers for Parallels Summit 2012, the leading global annual gathering of the cloud industry, scheduled from February 14-16, 2012, at the Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Parallels’ featured keynote speakers — including Guy Kawasaki, technology entrepreneur, best-selling author, and Apple’s first Chief Evangelist;Tiffani Bova, noted Gartner analyst and IT value chain and channel building expert; and Marsha Collier, online marketing, customer service and social media guru — are industry experts whose collective advice is highly sought-after for creating strategies to market IT services to small and medium businesses (SMBs).

Parallels leadership will also deliver keynote speeches – including Birger Steen, CEO, Serguei Beloussov, Executive Chairman of the Board & Chief Architect; and Jack Zubarev, President, Marketing and Alliances. These hosting industry leaders will share their insider knowledge on the seismic shift in SMB IT purchasing, and their vision for how to capitalize and profit from the new cloud landscape.

“I’m pleased to launch Parallels Summit 2012 with the opportunity to highlight our momentum, growing expertise and expanding leadership role in the cloud and hosting ecosystem,” said Birger Steen, CEO, Parallels. “It will also be my privilege to welcome to our stage three leading technology and small business experts — keynote speakers Guy Kawasaki, Tiffani Bova and Marsha Collier. Year after year, Parallels Summit is the most valuable opportunity for professionals from across the entire global cloud services ecosystem — including hosters, telcos, VARs, system integrators and ISVs — to acquire valuable insights and actionable strategies for Profiting from the Cloud.”

Parallels invites attendees to register and join the more than 1,500 industry influencers, leading technology analysts, media editors and reporters and online influentials from across the globe. From cloud service providers, hosting companies, communication service providers (CSPs) to value-added resellers (VARs) and independent software vendors (ISVs), Parallels Summit 2012 is an unrivaled opportunity to build relationships with the leading players in the cloud space, while gaining valuable strategies for selling, upselling, reselling, bundling and delivering a wide range of profitable cloud services to SMBs.

Conference attendees will also have access to go-to-market intelligence, action plans, profitability blueprints, plus technical and marketing training and product certification from Parallels and other industry experts. In addition, participants at Parallels Summit 2012 will receive a detailed overview of Parallels’ product roadmap in advance of public announcements.

Keynote speakers at Parallels Summit 2012 include:

• Guy Kawasaki, the foremost authority on technology adoption, was the original chief evangelist at Apple. In his second act, Kawasaki’s excelled at being a serial entrepreneur and networker, social media guru, best-selling author and featured columnist for American Express OPEN Forum for small business on his blog, Powering Small Business Success. In his keynote, Kawasaki will share insights from his life experiences on how to tap into the potential of customer “Enchantment” — the Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions, as chronicled in his recent book of the same title. Regardless of your company’s size or how you deliver services, Kawasaki will explore why enchanting your customers is the key for service providers (or any entrepreneur) to build a business — it’s the path to differentiate yourself in the marketplace as you earn likability and trustworthiness.
• Tiffani Bova, Vice President, Gartner Research, is a 15-year technology veteran, covering IT sales and channel strategies at the noted research firm. Bova’s area of specialization includes the development of comprehensive indirect channel programs, the impact of alternative models on the traditional channel and trends in IT distribution. She spends a significant amount of time with IT vendors at all levels that are looking to launch or enhance an existing channel program, while improving the leverage of their distribution partners and ultimately expand their global reach. Bova will provide insight for channel partners and the requirements they need and should expect from their vendor partners to be successful in today’s market. She will also discuss the development of comprehensive indirect channel programs, go-to-market sales coverage models and the impact of alternative models on the traditional hosting and ISV channels in her keynote session, “The Role of Cloud Services Marketplaces in Your Value Chain Strategy.”
• Marsha Collier, recently named by Forbes as one of the “Top Ten Most Influential Women in Social Media,” will detail the online tactics for taking customer engagement to the next level in the keynote session, “Online Strategies for Improving your Marketing and Customer Service.” As the author of more than 35 books in the Wiley “For Dummies” series and host of Computer and Technology Radio, Collier will define the art of customer service, connection, and engagement. Collier also shares her on-target insights for better leveraging the Internet for marketing and customer service on her daily blog “Marsha’s Collier’s Musings.” All attendees at Parallels Summit 2012 will receive a copy of Collier’s latest book, “The Ultimate Online Customer Service Guide”.
• Birger Steen, CEO, Parallels, will deliver a keynote entitled, “Capitalizing on the changing SMB IT landscape,” an examination of how the consumption of IT as cloud services by SMBs has become the default choice. In this session, Steen will share Parallels’ vision for the hosting and cloud industry, and also provide an update on Parallels strategy and a preview of next generation products. He will focus on how service providers can profitably continue to meet SMB customer needs as their IT spending evolves. Steen will also recognize the winners of the Parallels 2012 Partner Awards, honoring Parallels’ service provider partners across eight categories for their outstanding achievements with Parallels products, solutions and services.
• Serguei Beloussov, Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Architect, Parallels, will examine “Hosting and cloud in the year 2020.” Beloussov is a cloud expert, entrepreneur, and technical visionary who has spent the last 12 years developing software to enable cloud services. Beloussov’s keynote address will paint a picture of hosting, cloud and IT 10 years from now. Beloussov will share his vision and predictions for how today’s market trends will influence the hosting and cloud industry of the future.
• Jack Zubarev, President, Marketing & Alliances, Parallels, will present a keynote entitled, “Putting hosting and cloud services delivery all together.” Zubarev will connect the dots across the ecosystem, showing how the hosting and cloud services business model is transforming as the industry enters its next phase. He will also discuss how Parallels strategy and product roadmap will continue to deliver the highest profitability for service providers.

Attendees can also meet and interact with other leading players in the hosting industry, including key executives and technical staff from platinum and gold event sponsors Symantec, Microsoft, OpenSRS, Open-Xchange, Scality and eNom, among the over 50 event sponsors from across the entire hosting ecosystem.

A detailed agenda of planned sessions and activities is available at http://www.parallels.com/summit/2012/agenda/.
To register, and for information about training and certification sessions, please visit http://www.parallels.com/summit/2012/.

About Parallels
Parallels is a worldwide leader in hosting and cloud service enablement and desktop virtualization. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 800 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visitwww.parallels.com/sp, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ParallelsCloud and Like Us on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/ParallelsCloud.

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Codero News – Lenexa, Kan. – Codero demonstrates its commitment to customer needs by updating its network.  A leading provider of dedicated, managed, and cloud hosting, Codero recognizes their services are mission critical to their customers’ business success, which is why they are constantly making upgrades to their network.  The latest updates include an additional Tier1 bandwidth provider, increased network capacity with a 10Gbps expansion, as well as an increased 100% guaranteed network uptime.

“Our customers have told us that they ‘just want it to work,’ our network that is” says Ryan Elledge, Chief Operation Officer for Codero.  “Our network engineering team monitors our network around the clock routing traffic as necessary to make certain our customers’ servers always have access to the internet. Past experiences have shown that sometimes, despite all efforts, systems fail. When they do, we are able to learn from those experiences and put additional measures in place to avoid similar issues in the future.  Increasing our guaranteed network uptime to 100% is our way of showing our customers that we understand they can’t afford downtime and we make every effort to make that a reality.”

To bolster their existing network, Codero has increased network connectivity three fold by replacing existing Gigabit Ethernet connections with 10Gbps fiber optic connections with upstream providers.  This conversion culminates the 10Gbps expansion within the data centers that Codero began rolling out in 2011.  In additional to converting existing circuits, Codero partnered with Tier1 bandwidth provider XO Communications to increase redundancy and reduce latency for customers.

About Codero
A leading provider of optimized hosted infrastructure, Codero creates scalable environments using dedicated, managed and cloud hosting with a 100% guaranteed uptime. Codero recognizes customer needs come first, focusing on product, service and support.  They display this commitment through SAS 70 Type II secure data centers, live 24/7/365 U.S.-based support and a certified staff with international experience in the hosting business for over 15 years. Another demonstration of Codero as a customer-centric industry innovator is their customer loyalty Rewards Program—unique to the industry. For more information about Codero, please visit www.codero.com.

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Web Hosting Reviews – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Web Hosting Directory and Review site www.FindMyHost.com released its January 2012 Editor’s Choice Awards today. Web Hosting companies strive to provide their customers with the very best service and support. We want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the hosts per category who have excelled in their field. The FindMyHost Editors’ Choice Awards are chosen based on Editor and Consumer Reviews.

Customers who wish to submit positive reviews for the current or past Web Host are free to do so by visiting the customer review section of FindMyHost.com Click here to submit a review for your Web Host and nominate them for next months Editors’ Choice awards. We would like to congratulate all web hosts and The following list of web hosting providers excelled in their field of service, congratulations to all and keep up the great work!

DEDICATED SERVERS	BUSINESS HOSTING	BLOG HOSTING
www.Superb.Net	www.ReliableServers.com	www.ZipServers.com
GAME SERVERS	MANAGED HOSTING	CLOUD COMPUTING
www.Softlayer.com	www.KnownHost.com	www.BTInet.net
GREEN WEB HOSTING	VPS	ENTERPRISE HOSTING
www.Codero.com	www.ServInt.com	www.INetU.Net
SHARED HOSTING	WINDOWS HOSTING	BUDGET HOSTING
www.JustHost.com	www.PrestigeTechnologies.com	www.KVCHosting.com
CPANEL HOSTING	COLOCATION	RESELLER HOSTING
www.Codero.com	www.RazorServers.com	www.Hostgator.com

About FindMyHost
FindMyHost, Inc. is an online magazine that provides editor reviews, consumer hosting news, interviews discussion forums and more. FindMyHost.com was established in January 2001 to protect web host consumers and web developers from making the wrong choice when choosing a web host. FindMyHost.com showcases a selection of web hosting companies who have undergone their approved host program testing and provides reviews from customers. FindMyHost’s extensive website can be found at www.FindMyHost.com.

Web Hosting News - It is the happiest season of all, and that means that the KnownHost Santa is delivering a complimentary upgrade for each of its Managed VPS Services and Hybrid Servers Services customers.  On Christmas Day, December 25, the elves will once again work their magic and roll-out increases in RAM and Bandwidth for all Managed VPS Hosting Hybrid plans.

“Our customers have told us they look forward to the upgrades each year, so we have made it an annual tradition,” said Justin Sauers, CEO of KnownHost LLC.  “There is no change in price for these upgrades and we’re committed to showing our customers that we appreciate their business.”

This will be the firm’s fourth year providing these network enhancements around the holidays, supporting its goal of being the leading value-added VPS solution that provides the best service and reliability in the marketplace.

The company announced earlier this month that it expanded its VPS offerings to include a New Jersey-based datacenter.  That datacenter joins its already-established locations in Texas and California, and is the company’s third major datacenter brought online in five years.

KnownHost also released news earlier this year that it now monitors 201 physical servers, placing it as the number-one webhost among the HyperSpin rankings for reliability and uptime.  KnownHost achieves a 99.970% uptime ranking, exceeding the 99.954% benchmark that HyperSpin considers to be a reliable webhost.

The technology provider is a recipient of a 2011 Editors’ Choice Award from Web Hosting Directory and Review site, FindMyHost.com, which bases its recognition on both editor-level and consumer-level reviews.

For more information about VPS hosting, email sales@knownhost.com. 

About KnownHost LLC
KnownHost LLC is a privately-held professional web hosting company founded outside of Washington, D.C.  It offers affordable web hosting plans through packages featuring Managed Virtual Private Servers (VPSs), Managed Hybrid Servers and Managed Dedicated Servers.  The firm provides a 99.970% uptime on a base of more than 200 servers, and it operates data centers in Texas, California and New Jersey.  Visit KnownHost at knownhost.com and on Twitter and Facebook.

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Web Hosting News – McLean, VA – The Save Hosting Coalition, a consortium of businesses in the web hosting and Internet infrastructure industries, today announced it has delivered a letter from 300 leading industry executives expressing their opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The Coalition delivered the letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) and House Judiciary Committee ranking member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI).

Christian Dawson, one of the founders of the Save Hosting Coalition and Chief Operating Officer of web hosting provider ServInt (www.servint.net), said the overriding goal of the letter was to foster communication between the Internet infrastructure industry and legislators responsible for steering the bill through committee.

“As SOPA enters another day of Congressional markup, legislators need to understand that – no matter how badly flawed the bill is right now – there still is time to craft legislation that works,” Dawson said. “We strongly urge the Committee to engage with representatives from the Internet industry, so that together we can design a bill that protects intellectual property rights, while preserving America’s leadership position in the Internet economy. The industry is ready, willing and able to help. All Rep. Smith has to do is ask.”

To download a copy of the letter delivered to Congress opposing SOPA, complete with a list of signatories, please visit
http://savehosting.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SOPAletterFinal.pdf

About the Save Hosting Coalition
The Save Hosting Coalition is a consortium of leading companies in the web hosting and Internet infrastructure industries that are working together to make their expertise more readily available to American policy makers. The Coalition’s goal is to help lawmakers produce legislation that protects the rights of intellectual-property holders while protecting America’s status as a leader in the global Internet economy. More information can be found at www.savehosting.org.

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