FindMyHost.com interviews Sumeet Sabharwal, Senior Vice President of SMB Hosting at NaviSite.com.  NaviSite.com specializes in high end Linux and Windows Dedicated Server Hosting and we take a look at how its all put together to benefit the SMB in today’s market.

Please tell us the year established and brief history of NaviSite?
NaviSite was founded in 1997 and has grown to over 15 data centers, 650 employees and over $150M in revenue. Over the years NaviSite has grown both organically and through acquisitions, and has products and services that meet the needs of both enterprises and SMBs. NaviSite was already a fast growing provider of hosting services and through a 2001 merger acquired several data centers.

In 2002 NaviSite acquired Interliant, the award winning enterprise class Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes hosting provider. The 2004 acquisition of Surebridge, a top Microsoft Business Solutions provider, solidified NaviSite’s presence in the managed applications industry.

By 2007, NaviSite was a leading enterprise class host and was leveraging that experience to expand into the small and medium sized business space with the acquisition of SMB service providers like Alabanza and Jupiter Hosting. Today, NaviSite serves customers of all sizes and brings a world-class approach with the best in reliability, performance, security and service.

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?
NaviSite’s managed dedicated servers come with a level of services that are significantly more robust than those offered by competing providers in the SMB space. We pride ourselves in offering an enterprise class experience, not a product or a service. This comes with a multi-facted approach that includes dedicated account managers for single point of escalation, and a solution that is architected with enterprise class reliability and uptime and delivered from a SAS 70 Type II data center. Included with every Dedicated Server and Virtual Dedicated Server plan are essential features that provide enterprise class reliability, performance and access. As an example, every NaviSite Dedicated Server comes with two hard drives and RAID, not a unique concept but one that is essential to provide high reliability. NaviSite’s Virtual Server offerings offer unparalled flexilibty and on-demand computing capability and come bundled with all the core reliability features one can expect to run product applications including Read the rest of this entry »

FindMyHost.com interviews Lyubomir Dukov, Founder and CEO of Extreme Hosting.

Extreme Hosting specializes in offering high quality shared web hosting to the adult industry.

While many hosts shy away from the adult industry, Extreme Hosting welcomes the customers and their demands by providing robust hosting solutions at affordable pricing.

Please tell us the year established and brief history of Extreme Hosting?
Extreme Hosting was established in 2001 by a group of web hosting specialists. Being in this area for many years before that like regular customers helped us to create a successful web hosting company.

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?
We offer a totally different web hosting solution based on a custom software and customer control panel, which makes us stand before the competition.

Our web hosting solution is totally customizable dislike many standard web hosting solitions other web hosting companies offer.

What is the most challenging aspect to offering Adult Web Hosting?
The most challenging aspect in providing adult web hosting services is to maintain a true 99.99% uptime and real 24/7 support to our customers with minimal response time.

What is it that makes Extreme Hosting a competitive company in the Adult Web Hosting market?
Extreme Hosting is among the leading companies in adult web hosting market due to the fact that we use our own custom built software and control panel.

If you need to find a company that is different from all the others, that is Extreme Hosting.

What new features have Extreme Hosting added for its customers in the past year?
We are constantly developping our system and adding new features for our customers.  We were last upgrading all our servers to support the latest versions of PHP5 and MySQL. We also had a nice facelift of the control panel recently. Read the rest of this entry »

What is your name and position with The Planet?
Carl Meadows, Senior Manager, Product Marketing

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?
Our primary differentiator is the customer-centric nature of The Planet. We have built our company and product portfolio to provide customers with a wide range of options that help them design the best hosting solution for their businesses. We have experts on staff who will work with customers to identify the right IT solution, whether it’s colocation, dedicated servers, managed dedicated servers or fully managed hosting.

What is the most challenging aspect to offering Web Hosting?
As a provider of comprehensive, world-class hosting solutions, The Planet is tasked with keeping pace with new technologies to ensure our product line is always ahead of the curve. We offer the latest server lines to our customers at competitive prices.

The Internet shift toward video-rich content creates increased demands on bandwidth capacity. To accommodate this change, we’ve increased our network capacity to 130 Gbps, offering one of the industry’s fastest, most robust networks.

What is it that makes The Planet a competitive company in the Web Hosting market?
The Planet’s primary strength is the quality of our hosting infrastructure. We provide the best infrastructure among hosting providers, which includes six SAS 70 Type II certified data centers that cover more than 165,000 square feet of raised floor space and house more than 56,000 servers, backed by our 130 Gbps Tier 1 network. In addition to our infrastructure, we employ the best and the brightest in the industry who provide our customers with unmatched support.

What new features have The Planet added for its customers in the past year?
Over the last year, we have made significant additions and enhancements to our management services portfolio. We launched Northstar Managed Hosting, a comprehensive, fully managed hosting solution. We also introduced Alpha Professional Managed Dedicated Servers, a business-class service that provides first-call resolution and a one-hour hardware replacement SLA. For dedicated hosting customers, Alpha Advanced Services are also available on an a la carte basis, including server backup, monitoring, security and administration, and managed backup. Read the rest of this entry »

This week FindMyHost.com interviews Artyom at AYKsolutions.

AYKsolutions specializes in locating top quality data center locations across the US.  Providing superior Managed Dedicated Hosting is a large focus with AYKsolutions, altough it has everything from shared hosting to VPS.

We go behind the scene to provide you with insight as to why AYKsolutions can benefit your business.

Please tell us the year established and brief history of AYKsolutions?
AYKsolutions was established in the winter of 2004. Our first goal was to provide affordable, non-oversold, shared hosting services. After a year we naturally progressed to provide dedicated servers.

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?
I would like to think that we are one of the most understanding and flexible companies out there. We do not mind going out of the way to provide a service to a client that is usually not covered under our regular support plan.

What is the most challenging aspect to offering Web Hosting?
Honesty and professionalism. In the years I have been a part of the Web Hosting industry, I have witnessed many companies come and go. For the most part, their downfall was due to their inability to clearly and honestly communicate with their clients. I would like to think that AYKsolutions is the complete opposite of that. We never keep our clients in the dark and always treat them with respect. The response has been phenominal and many of the clients who signed up with us back in 2004 are still using our services.

What is it that makes AYKsolutions a competitive company in the Web Hosting market?
This goes hand in hand with the previous questions. We pride ourselves on the way we treat our customers. We are always making sure our support is up to par and that client’’s requests/issues are handled quickly and efficiently. Because of this, our client retention rate is very high and we pride ourselves on that. If a client stays with you for a long period of time, then we must be doing something right.
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This week FindMyHost.com is excited to interview Brad Litwin at A2 Hosting.

At A2 Hosting, its not hard to see they are customer oriented, so we wanted to get a closer look into the company and see what sets them apart from the rest.

Please tell us the year established and brief history of A2 Hosting?
A2 Hosting evolved from Iniquinet in 2003. We found our niche offering cutting edge technology including being one of the first hosting companies to offer PHP5.

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?
We like to call the unique features that we offer the A2 Hosting Difference. This includes 5 star-3rd party testimonials, Guru Crew support, developer friendly hosting, host-guard server monitoring, Server Rewind and more. A complete list can be found here.

What is the most challenging aspect to offering Web Hosting?
As with any technical field, it takes a perpetual effort by us to stay current and to offer the latest in web hosting technology. Our customers have come to expect the best web development tools, and we don’t plan on disappointing them.

What is it that makes A2 Hosting a competitive company in the Web Hosting market?
We are able to offer high quality hosting, but without needlessly forcing our customers to break the bank. We are not a budget provider and webmasters will pay a bit more when selecting us, but it is definitely worth it in the end. They get top-notch Guru Crew support, the best open-source technology, a 99.9% guarantee which ensures their site will be available when needed and much, much more.

What new features have A2 Hosting added for its customers in the past year?
One of our most well received features that we have rolled out over the past year is our server rewind bacup technology (http://www.a2hosting.com/services/server-rewind-data-protection). We have also added VPS hosting including the choice of Xen or OpenVZ as virtualization platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

This year, FindMyHost had the pleasure of meeting with the team at PinnacleCart at LT Pact and HostingCon.

While most online entrepreneurs have dabbled in online shopping carts, and our staff have all worked with other variations in the past.  it’s finally nice to see a well polished and if needed hosting solution available.

This week we sat down and chatted with Craig Fox, VP of Product Development & Marketing at PinnacleCart.  We wanted to get the ins and outs of the company, its product and what’s on the horizon.

Craig, thanks for joining us.  Can you tell us the brief history of Pinnacle Cart?

Pinnacle Cart was established in 2002 with the purpose of fulfilling a void in the ecommerce marketplace for a marketing driven shopping cart application.

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?

Unlike most e-Commerce applications Pinnacle Cart was designed from the ground up with three goals in mind for our feature set.

- Increase organic traffic to the user website.
- Increase the order percentage of site visitors
- Increase the average transaction amount.
. Most products on the market simply take an order; our application assists clients in driving more traffic and revenue.

What is the most challenging aspect to offering E-Commerce solutions?

Working with third-party payment and shipping vendors. This market is very dynamic and as these companies respond to both compliance issues (PCI) and the needs of their customers Read the rest of this entry »

“If you’re looking for rock solid uptime, reliable support, and affordable prices – look no further than The Planet.”

– FMH Editor

Company: The Planet
Founded: 1998
Employees: 200
Customers: 17,000
Data Centers: 2 (more being added soon)
Target Market: SME’s
More Information:  ThePlanet.com, Dedicated Marketplace, VPS Marketplace

The Planet began in 1998 with former management and technical professionals from giant NTT/Verio. Since 1998 The Planet has become one of the fastest growing Managed Hosting provider on the web, even rivaling competitor EV1.

Deloitte & Touche recently released a list of the fastest growing technology companies in Texas. The Planet placed third on the list with a growth rate of 6,611 percent over five years. In addition, The Planet claims to have been profitable since 2002, a real plus to Web Hosting consumers who are tired of finding a good home only to see it sold out to a bigger fish.
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