The new suite of managed services will officially be available to all new and existing clients.

Dale Bunten, Dir. Sales and Marketing noted, ”This marks a natural evolution for Superb Internet, as companies become increasingly dependent on the Internet to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. As a result, we are seeing heavy demand for our outsourced IT services despite the economic downturn.”

William Song, Senior Product Manager added, ”The new managed dedicated server line provides clients with enhanced security, disaster recovery, proactive monitoring, and managed firewall options. Each customer is assigned to a certified Technical Account Manager (TAM), who is responsible for understanding and maintaining the client’s infrastructure; including: identification of problem areas and pro-actively resolving them before an incident occurs. We are confident we have one of the strongest managed hosting offerings on the market.”

All Managed servers come with a 100% network uptime guarantee, 1 hour hardware replacement SLA, and Gold Level managed support by default. The services are provisioned by certified network and systems engineers 24×7, at all three company-owned datacenters.

Patrick Ahler, Dir of Business Development added, ”Working closely with such a great group of dedicated professionals has been a rewarding experience and we are confident that our clients will benefit from our rigorous attention to detail, and strict quality control and change management procedures. Our key objective is to ease the day-to-day pain associated with managing IT infrastructure, so our clients can focus on developing their business and applications.”

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. Superb’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ”Ahead of the Rest.” Superb Internet has its own data centers staffed 24x7x365 in McLean, VA, Springfield, VA, and Seattle, WA, and its headquarters office in Honolulu, HI.

To learn more, please visit: www.superbhosting.net/managed-hosting.

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Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Renton, Washington – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Division at Parallels noted, ”Parallels has been working on a number of best-of-breed ISVs over recent years to launch these offerings. We’re bringing ISVs and hosters together and helping both become more profitable.”

The comprehensive solution introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace, which enables hosters to rapidly enter the growing software-as-a-service market and provides SMBs access to a number of IT and business applications, such as e-commerce, customer relationship management, human resources, accounting, video conferencing, web content management, e-mail and more.

Parallels Partner Marketplace is a central feature of Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition control panel and lets hosters rapidly profit from the growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market by offering the most popular applications through the control panel, says the company. It further avers saying that Parallels Panel delivers access to best of breed software and services, such as Interspire’s e-mail marketing and Pinnacle Cart’s e-Commerce shopping cart. Provider Partners can easily and quickly offer SaaS offerings with no development effort of their own through the combination of the new Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition and a co-branded Parallels Partner Marketplace storefront that Parallels provides. For independent software vendors (ISVs), Parallels Partner Marketplace offers a straight-forward, cost-efficient way to reach new audiences and create new revenue streams.

Craig Fox, Founder and VP of Product Development, at Pinnacle Cart added, ”We are happy to have joined forces with Parallels Partner Marketplace. Parallels Partner Marketplace lets hosters deliver SaaS quickly and cost-effectively and simultaneously provides SMBs with the applications they need to stay competitive. Now we can easily offer our e-Commerce Shopping Cart to potentially millions of SMBs through Parallels Partner Marketplace.”

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, o company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more, please visit: www.parallels.com.

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Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, will conduct a seven-country partner roadshow targeting Parallels’ partners and other hosters, cloud services providers and ISVs.

Munich, Germany – (The Hosting News) – August 25, 2009 – Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, will conduct a seven-country partner roadshow targeting Parallels’ partners and other hosters, cloud services providers and ISVs.

The EMEA Partner Roadshow will provide attendees with insights and best practices to deploy applications and services in a hosted environment. The roadshow will also provide practical examples of how hosters can use white-label reselling to create a lucrative indirect sales channel with a wider portfolio of applications, while maintaining brand independence and client loyalty.

Johan Vansimpsen, CTO and co-founder at Network Group Europe remarked, ”Network Group is using Parallels to balance a fine-tuned approach for delivering IT resellers the best possible technology to ‘grow with the cloud’ from the start. We are committed to delivering a full-blown hosted communications platform reseller solution and with Parallels, we are now able to deploy new services five times faster, so logically we are anticipating five times more revenue. Parallels also allows Network Group systems integrators (SIs) and value added resellers (VARs) a speedy entry to market option that gives them the fastest route to customers who trust them to deliver the most flexible software and services packages at the best price points.”

White-label reselling enables hosters to resell and deliver SaaS applications including Microsoft Exchange, Windows SharePoint, Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), etc. in a hosted environment. In the SaaS model, end user customers subscribe to applications instead of purchasing them, typically on a monthly basis. In this pay-as-you go approach, SMBs are afforded an easy-to-use low-cost service.

An April 2009, study by IDC finds that growth in the SaaS market will be strong in Europe despite – and in some cases because of – the weak economic conditions. The overall SaaS market will grow from 237 million in 2004 to 6,005 million in 2013 (1). From this and other recent IDC studies, it is clear that SaaS has become accepted by the mainstream of user organizations around Europe. This will result in continued strong growth, making SaaS a rising star in a very largely depressed European software market.

Dan Germain, CTO at Cobweb Solutions remarked, ”Leveraging Parallels we were able to increase our average revenue per user, deploy new services faster and reduce operating costs. It was critical for us to find a provider able to properly support white-label services at a modular and infrastructure level, so that our partners can resell Cobweb services under their own brand. Parallels allows Cobweb and its resellers to provide multiple-vendor solutions and flexible billing and administration across its different service offerings. Parallels enables Cobweb to increase revenue from each and every customer, both now and in the future.”

White-Label Reselling lets hosters delegate service plans to their customers to resell and offer a wider array of applications, without the extended cost of infrastructure involved in creating and distributing the applications themselves. White-label resale also offers an indirect sales channel and lets resellers maintain their unique brand independence, as well as retaining client loyalty. With white-label web hosting, it is possible for anyone to run their own web hosting business, while they rent or buy the actual web server space and services from an established hosting provider. Resellers do not have to take on the huge investment that make-up a web hosting service such as web servers, network connections, data center staff, server administrators, server support technicians and web server software and system licenses.

The 2009 Parallels Partner Roadshow will be take place in: Stockholm, September 1; Amsterdam, September 3; Warsaw, September 7; Cologne, September 10; Paris, September 14; Madrid, September 17 and London, September 21. To register for any of the events, or for more information, please visit www.parallels.com/emea2009.

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 650 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more, please visit: www.parallels.com.

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Domain registration and web hosting company, LCN.com, has initiated large discounts on domain names and web hosting packages, designed exclusively for Twitter users following @LCN_com. Exclusive discounts in the form of promotion codes, such as 25% off .com domains and 50% off web hosting, will be sent directly to those who follow the LCN.com twitter profile, @LCN_com. Mark Boost, Managing Director, LCN.com Ltd, noted, ”Twitter has become a fantastic platform for companies to communicate with and listen to existing and potential customers. By offering exclusive discounts to new and existing customers through Twitter we are giving them another reason to engage with us via social networking. Providing promotion codes and discounts are not the only ways we are using Twitter to engage with our customers. Through Twitter we are seeking customer feedback which allows us to develop and tailor our products and services to give customers exactly what they want.” LCN.com has been consistently evolving to help customers grow their business and the company highlights this as one of the main reasons for its extremely high customer retention rates. Over the last 6 months LCN.com has created partnerships with leading industry brands to offer its customers over 100 pounds of free online advertising vouchers, award winning web design software, royalty free stock images, and, free email marketing credits all as part of its web hosting packages. LCN.com has been providing world class web hosting since 2000 and are one of the largest web hosting companies with 180,000 current customers and over 400,000 domain names registered since its launch in 2000.
London, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – August 25, 2009 – Domain registration and web hosting company, LCN.com, has initiated large discounts on domain names and web hosting packages, designed exclusively for Twitter users following @LCN_com.

Exclusive discounts in the form of promotion codes, such as 25% off .com domains and 50% off web hosting, will be sent directly to those who follow the LCN.com twitter profile, @LCN_com.

Mark Boost, Managing Director, LCN.com Ltd, noted, ”Twitter has become a fantastic platform for companies to communicate with and listen to existing and potential customers. By offering exclusive discounts to new and existing customers through Twitter we are giving them another reason to engage with us via social networking. Providing promotion codes and discounts are not the only ways we are using Twitter to engage with our customers. Through Twitter we are seeking customer feedback which allows us to develop and tailor our products and services to give customers exactly what they want.”

LCN.com has been consistently evolving to help customers grow their business and the company highlights this as one of the main reasons for its extremely high customer retention rates.

Over the last 6 months LCN.com has created partnerships with leading industry brands to offer its customers over 100 pounds of free online advertising vouchers, award winning web design software, royalty free stock images, and, free email marketing credits all as part of its web hosting packages.

LCN.com has been providing world class web hosting since 2000 and are one of the largest web hosting companies with 180,000 current customers and over 400,000 domain names registered since its launch in 2000.

For more information, please visit: www.LCN.com.

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Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.
Flemington, New Jersey – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.

Ali Davachi, President of Value Reseller noted, ”Customers are looking for simplicity and flexibility. In the world of web hosting where plans and prices can be confusing, we heard our customers loud and clear. Our only two advanced plans are all any web hosting business needs to succeed. The new plans are backed by the best support and features in the industry.”

The new plans coincide with a re-design and re-launch of the Value Reseller website. The All You Can Eat plan provides unlimited web sites, unlimited bandwidth and transfer, unlimited disk space and 100 free control panel accounts for only $297 per month. For a limited time only to celebrate the launch, the price is reduced to only $197 per month.

The Pay As You Go Plan is only $0.50 per GB of disk space and $4 per GB of traffic.

Both plans include:

-24 x 7 x 365 live phone support
-completely automated account creation and billing process
-guaranteed 100% uptime, guaranteed satisfaction
-full-featured control panels with sitebuilders, web-based email, blogging/forum software and more
-flexibility to offer both Linux and Windows hosting

Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners and is fully committed to helping them succeed. Value Reseller provides a private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime.

Mr. Davachi added, ”Our next-generation platform of ‘cloud hosting’ makes this possible. The era of dedicated servers is gone. Cloud hosting provides maximum flexibility, scalability and reliability for Value Reseller customers.”

For newer web hosts, Value Reseller offers a $9.95 Linux only plan and a $19.95 Windows and Linux plan.

Value Reseller, established in 1998 with facilities in Boston, MA and Jersey City, NJ, is a privately owned private label web hosting provider focused exclusively on the reseller market. Hosting services offered include shared hosting, enterprise virtualization, virtual private and dedicated servers, and are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. All of Value Reseller’s services are backed by a leading edge datacenter infrastructure and network, and supported live 24/7/365 by technicians and customer service professionals. Value Reseller features a next-generation hosting platform built on the principles of cloud computing, making it possible to guarantee 100% uptime availability. This platform is the foundation from which Value Reseller has been able to offer customers hosting for unlimited domains — one of the biggest breakthroughs in web hosting over the past 10 years. Value Reseller is committed to enabling the success of its resellers and does not participate in the retail market in competition with its partners. With a complete private label service, web developers, ISPs, design shops and Internet professionals have everything they need to build a successful hosting business or enhance their existing offerings.

To learn more about Value Reseller, please visit: www.valuereseller.com.

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Provider of managed dedicated hosting, and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services, Layered Technologies, Inc., has ranked on Inc. magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000, at the No. 622 position.
New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of managed dedicated hosting, and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services, Layered Technologies, Inc., has ranked on Inc. magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000, at the No. 622 position.

The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Consumer electronics maker Vizio, Internet giant GoDaddy, rental car service Zipcar, and beverage maker Honest Tea are among the prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

Jim Melloan, project manager of the Inc. 5000 remarked, ”Savvy trend spotters and those who invest in private companies know that the Inc. 5000 is the best place to find out about young companies that are achieving success through a wide variety of unprecedented business models, as well as older private companies that are still expanding at an impressive rate. That’s why our list is so eagerly anticipated every year.”

Layered Tech, a global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services, ranked in the top 12 percent of Inc.’s list because of its three-year growth rate of 441 percent. The Plano, Texas-based company invests heavily in R and D to add new technologies and services to remain a top 10 hosting provider globally. Layered Tech evolved from an emerging dedicated hosting company to a recognized Web hosting provider whose scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and a wide array of Internet-enabled applications.

The 2009 Inc. 5000, unveiled today on Inc.com, serves as a unique report card on the U.S. economy. Despite the ongoing recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year, with a median three-year growth rate of 126 percent. The Inc. 5000 are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding, making the list perhaps the best example of the impact private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com.

This year’s list also offers a preview of which industries are poised for growth in coming years. With an average growth rate of 667 percent, Insurance ranked as the top industry overall. Government Services was the top industry gainer with 252 companies on this year’s list, up from 135 last year. Health is the top industry by both total revenue ($22.7 billion) and total employment (156,223 jobs).

Once again, California tops the Inc. 5000 with the most companies of any state with 612. The Golden State is followed by Texas (393), New York (316), Florida (263), and Virginia (261). All 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, are represented on this year’s list.

New York boasts 371 Inc. 5000 companies, making it the top metropolitan area, followed by Washington, D.C. (317), Los Angeles (253), Atlanta (209), and Chicago (203).

Bolstered by this year’s No. 1 company, Northern Capital Insurance, Insurance emerged as the top industry, with an average growth rate of 667 percent. Other strong performers include Energy (523 percent) and Government Services (491 percent).

In total, the companies on the Inc. 5000 have created more than 1 million jobs. Health is the top employer with 156,223 jobs, followed by Business Products and Services (122,911), IT Services (89,632), Food and Beverage (86,572), and Construction (65,494).

IT Services had the most companies on this year’s list with 658, followed by Business Products and Services (502), Advertising and Marketing (398), Construction (354), and Manufacturing (342).

Topping this year’s list is Northern Capital Insurance, a Miami-based firm that is helping to revolutionize Florida’s ailing insurance industry. The company generated $95 million in revenue in 2008 and an impressive three-year growth rate of 19,812 percent.

The top woman-owned company is P3S (No. 17 overall), a San Antonio – based firm that provides IT network security and physical security services, mostly to the Defense Department. P3S, owned by Mary Ellen Trevino, recorded revenue of $13.5 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 5,898 percent. The top minority-owned company is Harley Stanfield (No. 3 overall), a Washington, D.C. – based real estate investment firm that buys existing properties, makes them energy efficient, and then resells them as investment properties. Harley Stanfield, founded by Cedric Franklin, posted revenue of $38.4 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 13,350 percent.

The Inc. 5000 posted an aggregate revenue of $214 billion in 2008, up nearly 16 percent from the previous year. The top five industries by total revenue include Health ($22.7 billion), Business Products and Services ($19.6 billion), Construction ($18.8 billion), Energy ($14.7 billion), and IT Services ($13.2 billion).

The Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2008. Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million. The top 10 percent of companies on the list comprise the Inc. 500, now in its 28th year.

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,961, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at Inc.com.

Each year, Inc. and Inc.com celebrate the remarkable achievements of today’s entrepreneurial superstars – the privately held small businesses that drive our economy. The Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony brings together members of the Inc. 5000 community, both a new class of Inc. 5000 honorees and the list’s alumni, for three days of powerful networking, inspired learning, and momentous celebration. Please join us September 23 – 25, 2009, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. For more information about the 2009 Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony, and to register, visit www.Inc5000event.com. Stay connected with Inc. Events by following @IncEvents on Twitter.

Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.LayeredTech.com.

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Web hosting services for personal, business, e-commerce, and dedicated server hosting, Lunarpages Web Hosting, is now offering up to $50 in free Facebook Ads Credits to 160,000 existing customers, as well as for all new customers.
Anaheim, California – (The Hosting News) – August 25, 2009 – Web hosting services for personal, business, e-commerce, and dedicated server hosting, Lunarpages Web Hosting, is now offering up to $50 in free Facebook Ads Credits to 160,000 existing customers, as well as for all new customers.

Amy Armitage, Director of Business Development at Lunarpages noted, ”Facebook has really become the epitome of online social marketing. If you have a presence through Facebook, it can not only boost your SEO but you can also build a following for your business, interact with customers directly, and ensure the online reputation of your company. But the big new thing Facebook is offering now is called Facebook Ads, and Lunarpages is excited to be among the first to offer them free to our customers.”

The promotion is offered in addition to the already affordably-priced hosting plans that Lunarpages Web Hosting provides; currently, there is no set expiration date.

Ms. Armitage added, ”Every new and existing web hosting customer on our Basic, Business, VPS, or Dedicated Servers gets free Facebook Ads credits. If you purchase a Basic or Business Plan, you receive $25 free credits, and if you purchase a VPS or Dedicated Server, you get $50 in free credits! These ads can push your products, services, and websites in front of potential customers on the fourth-most tracked website in the world, right on Facebook.com. That’s an offer that seriously can’t be beat.”

Lunarpages Web Hosting hosts over 160,000 customers worldwide out of three state-of-the-art data centers in California and Nevada. They are best known for their web hosting services, which start at $2.95 per month.

To learn more, please visit: www.lunarpages.com.

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Dedicated server web hosting company, Superb Internet, has officially launched its managed hosting division, having had a long history of offering high-end custom dedicated server solutions.
Honolulu, Hawaii – (The Hosting News) – August 25, 2009 – Dedicated server web hosting company, Superb Internet, has officially launched its managed hosting division, having had a long history of offering high-end custom dedicated server solutions.

The new suite of managed services will officially be available to all new and existing clients.

Dale Bunten, Dir. Sales and Marketing noted, ”This marks a natural evolution for Superb Internet, as companies become increasingly dependent on the Internet to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. As a result, we are seeing heavy demand for our outsourced IT services despite the economic downturn.”

William Song, Senior Product Manager added, ”The new managed dedicated server line provides clients with enhanced security, disaster recovery, proactive monitoring, and managed firewall options. Each customer is assigned to a certified Technical Account Manager (TAM), who is responsible for understanding and maintaining the client’s infrastructure; including: identification of problem areas and pro-actively resolving them before an incident occurs. We are confident we have one of the strongest managed hosting offerings on the market.”

All Managed servers come with a 100% network uptime guarantee, 1 hour hardware replacement SLA, and Gold Level managed support by default. The services are provisioned by certified network and systems engineers 24×7, at all three company-owned datacenters.

Patrick Ahler, Dir of Business Development added, ”Working closely with such a great group of dedicated professionals has been a rewarding experience and we are confident that our clients will benefit from our rigorous attention to detail, and strict quality control and change management procedures. Our key objective is to ease the day-to-day pain associated with managing IT infrastructure, so our clients can focus on developing their business and applications.”

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. Superb’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ”Ahead of the Rest.” Superb Internet has its own data centers staffed 24x7x365 in McLean, VA, Springfield, VA, and Seattle, WA, and its headquarters office in Honolulu, HI.

To learn more, please visit: www.superbhosting.net/managed-hosting.

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Search engine, Google, has launched new gadgets designed to leverage Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S., including ways to share content, play games and collaborate on the iGoogle page.

Mountain View, California – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Search engine, Google, has launched new gadgets designed to leverage Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S., including ways to share content, play games and collaborate on the iGoogle page.

A few examples of the new social gadgets include:

• Content Sharing – NPR enables users to browse through latest headlines across a variety of categories and share the stories that interest them with friends. With the Flixster gadget, users can rate and review movies or browse what films their friends have reviewed or found interesting. Users can now also view their friend’s favorites comics stories or post comments with the GoComics gadget.
• Games and Fun – The Scrabble and Chess gadgets enable users to play two of their favorite games with their friends or the public at large. Users can also see which of their friends has the biggest brain or immerse themselves in a New York Times Crossword where they can complete a given week’s puzzle with the help of their friends.
• Communication/tools – Users can share multiple lists with friends with the social To-do gadget. It’s easy to add and remove items, mark items done, change priorities and edit item descriptions with friends or family. The Social Photos gadget enables users to upload and share their albums from Flickr and Picasa, as well as browse their friend’s albums or top Photos.

As part of the launch, Google also introduced two new features on iGoogle called a Friends group and Updates. A Friends group is a list of friends users can create based on a subset of users’ Google Contacts to be able to interact and share social gadgets with. Updates allows users to see what their friends are up to by sharing gadgets, photos, ratings and more from the social gadgets on their iGoogle page. The new social features are completely optional and can be disabled on any social gadget if users do not want to take advantage of the new features. In addition, not all gadgets on iGoogle are social-enabled and those which are will be marked with a special icon.

iGoogle’s mission is to quickly connect users to the information that is most useful and important to them in an easy-to-use and customizable format. This is just the beginning and Google will continue to offer users more choices that enable them to create a powerful and personalized homepage. For developers and content owners, social gadgets allow more possibilities for building rich and compelling gadgets. In addition, not only can developers take advantage of iGoogle’s growing audience of users to promote their gadgets and drive additional awareness and traffic back to their websites, but they can also earn revenue from their gadgets on iGoogle by placing ads in the canvas view mode of their gadgets.

iGoogle, Google’s personalized homepage, lets users customize their internet experience, choosing the content they’re interested in seeing. Users can access weather forecasts, movie times, play games, or read the latest news, all directly from their homepage.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry’s most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google’s technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor’s Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

For a full list of highlighted social gadgets, see www.google.com/igsocial.

For more information on Google, please visit: www.google.com.

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Rackspace Offers Partner-Developed Cloud Tools
August 25, 2009 — Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting announced on Tuesday it has launched Cloud Tools, an online service for sharing tools, applications and services developed by the company’s strategic partners and independent developers for The Rackspace Cloud.

eBridge Hires Web Media Specialist as Account Manager
August 25, 2009 — Internet marketing firm eBridge Marketing Solutions has brought on board online media specialist Tom Nimchuk to serve as an account manager. 

PowerDNN Upgrades Private DotNetNuke Cloud Infrastructure
August 25, 2009 — DotNetNuke solutions provider PowerDNN has completed a major update to its hosting platform, PowerGrid, allowing enterprise customers to certifiably deploy large-scale DotNetNuke web applications across as many as 60 web servers in a private cloud configuration.

DE-CIX Expands Infrastructure at Interxion’s Frankfurt Facility
August 25, 2009 — International Internet exchange DE-CIX has extended its Internet exchange infrastructure into Interxion’s latest Frankfurt data center, Frankfurt5, which will be its fifth infrastructure location in Frankfurt.

SoftLayer Offers EVault Bare Metal Restores
August 25, 2009 — On-demand virtual data center services provider SoftLayer has begun offering EVault Bare Metal Restores, an advanced disaster recovery capability that enables customers to completely restore servers to a bare metal state after an operating system or hardware failure.

Country Musician Mom Named New Go Daddy Girl
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 — Domain registrar and web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Tuesday it has hired country singer Erin Kalin as its newest Go Daddy Girl.

Clairvest Buys 17.2% of PEER 1 Stock
August 25, 2009 — Canadian merchant bank Clairvest Group and Clairvest Equity Partners III Limited Partnership announced on Tuesday it has acquired 17.2 percent of the common shares of managed hosting provider PEER 1 Network Enterprises.

Dedicated Server Provider, Superb Internet, Premieres Managed Hosting Services

Honolulu, Hawaii – (The Hosting News) – August 25, 2009 – Dedicated server web hosting company, Superb Internet, has officially launched its managed hosting division, having had a long history of offering high-end custom dedicated server solutions.

The new suite of managed services will officially be available to all new and existing clients.

Dale Bunten, Dir. Sales and Marketing noted, ”This marks a natural evolution for Superb Internet, as companies become increasingly dependent on the Internet to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. As a result, we are seeing heavy demand for our outsourced IT services despite the economic downturn.”

William Song, Senior Product Manager added, ”The new managed dedicated server line provides clients with enhanced security, disaster recovery, proactive monitoring, and managed firewall options. Each customer is assigned to a certified Technical Account Manager (TAM), who is responsible for understanding and maintaining the client’s infrastructure; including: identification of problem areas and pro-actively resolving them before an incident occurs. We are confident we have one of the strongest managed hosting offerings on the market.”

All Managed servers come with a 100% network uptime guarantee, 1 hour hardware replacement SLA, and Gold Level managed support by default. The services are provisioned by certified network and systems engineers 24×7, at all three company-owned datacenters.

Patrick Ahler, Dir of Business Development added, ”Working closely with such a great group of dedicated professionals has been a rewarding experience and we are confident that our clients will benefit from our rigorous attention to detail, and strict quality control and change management procedures. Our key objective is to ease the day-to-day pain associated with managing IT infrastructure, so our clients can focus on developing their business and applications.”

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. Superb’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ”Ahead of the Rest.” Superb Internet has its own data centers staffed 24x7x365 in McLean, VA, Springfield, VA, and Seattle, WA, and its headquarters office in Honolulu, HI.

To learn more, please visit: www.superbhosting.net/managed-hosting.

Swedish Court Threatens Upstream ISP, Sinking P2P Site Pirate Bay
August 25, 2009 — A Swedish court has pulled the plug on file-sharing website the Pirate Bay by ordering its upstream Internet service provider, Black Internet, to cut it off or else be fined 500,000 kronor (more than $71,000).

Consonus Heads Retire, Restructures Management
August 25, 2009 — Data center solutions provider Consonus Technologies announced it is restructuring the company’s management team, following the retirement of CEO Mike Shook and executive VP of channel sales Will Shook.

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August 25, 2009 — Internet marketing firm eBridge Marketing Solutions has brought on board online media specialist Tom Nimchuk to serve as an account manager. 

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August 25, 2009 — A Swedish court has pulled the plug on file-sharing website the Pirate Bay by ordering its upstream Internet service provider, Black Internet, to cut it off or else be fined 500,000 kronor (more than $71,000).

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August 25, 2009 — Data center solutions provider Consonus Technologies announced it is restructuring the company’s management team, following the retirement of CEO Mike Shook and executive VP of channel sales Will Shook.

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August 25, 2009 — International Internet exchange DE-CIX has extended its Internet exchange infrastructure into Interxion’s latest Frankfurt data center, Frankfurt5, which will be its fifth infrastructure location in Frankfurt.

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August 25, 2009 — Telecommunications provider VeriSign announced on Tuesday it has agreed to sell its messaging business to mobile services provider Syniverse Holdings for $175 million.

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August 25, 2009 — Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting announced on Tuesday it has launched Cloud Tools, an online service for sharing tools, applications and services developed by the company’s strategic partners and independent developers for The Rackspace Cloud.

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August 25, 2009 — On-demand virtual data center services provider SoftLayer has begun offering EVault Bare Metal Restores, an advanced disaster recovery capability that enables customers to completely restore servers to a bare metal state after an operating system or hardware failure.

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August 25, 2009 — DotNetNuke solutions provider PowerDNN has completed a major update to its hosting platform, PowerGrid, allowing enterprise customers to certifiably deploy large-scale DotNetNuke web applications across as many as 60 web servers in a private cloud configuration.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 — Domain registrar and web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Tuesday it has hired country singer Erin Kalin as its newest Go Daddy Girl.

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New Video on WHIR tv- Interview with Michael Blend, CEO of eNom/EVP of Demand Media
By Larissa Primeau Today’s video features CEO of eNom, Michael Blend a.k.a Blender. Blend actually wears a few different hats, aside from being CEO of eNom he’s also EVP of Demand Media. He’s a busy guy to say the least. I had a chance to speak with Blend at the eNom booth at HostingCon 2009 and we briefly touched on various subjects. To give you a bit of a background, Demand Media purchased eNom and Blend goes on to explain why eNom is vital to the Demand Media purpose. Speaking of purpose, you should hear the staggering facts and figures he shares regarding Demand Media’s circulation and revenue. They call themselves the “Leaders in Social Media” and by making 3 billion conversations a month possible, this seems like a proclamation they can confidently claim.

New Video on WHIR tv- Interview with Emil Sayegh of Rackspace.
By Larissa Primeau Today’s video is a continuation of our HostingCon 2009 interview series. I had a chance to catch up with Emil Sayegh, GM of Cloud Computing at Rackspace and we discussed what role shared hosters will play in this ever expanding cloud computing landscape. If you are a shared hoster, Sayegh dispenses some invaluable advice.

Disaster Recovery In The Cloud
By Justin Giardina One thing I’ve noticed when working with clients is that they are adopting virtualization within their IT environments more and more – seems to me it’s a dynamic that is happening this year more than ever, even though virtualization has been around for a long time. This increased rate of adoption could be due to the slowdown in the economy, since virtualization definitely streamlines IT environments and provides a lot of other cost saving benefits (you’ve heard it before). I do think that nowadays there is more awareness and education out there. The increase in overall technical media focus is probably helping businesses achieve a better comfort level with the technology and more willingness to embrace the virtues of virtualization than in years past, whether they are going completely virtual or with a hybrid combination. But even with this increased virtualization adoption rate, I am still finding not as many businesses are truly embracing the full benefits of virtualization specifically related to disaster recovery. They “contain and consolidate” their server environment by moving their apps and operating systems to virtual machines, but are still missing out on some of the huge DR advantages. Let’s face it – virtualization coupled with some of the newer replication technologies can yield extremely cost effective disaster recovery options that once were only available to large enterprise companies. For those of you implementing virtualization within your organization, make sure you look into the myriad of disaster recovery options and benefits. With a little bit of guidance and support, your organization can have a robust back up plan for a fraction of the cost.

ICANN Brings Policy Discussion to the Great White North
By Adam Eisner Every year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is responsible for the management of the Internet’s Domain Name System, holds three international meetings around various parts of the world. What many people don’t know, however, is that ICANN also holds regional gatherings specifically for registrars in particular geographic areas. This affords registrars who otherwise may not be able to attend a meeting the opportunity to get a glimpse into the ICANN world and participate in the policy process. I was therefore very excited to hear ICANN had chosen Toronto, Canada (where Tucows, the WHIR and many hosting companies are headquartered) as the site for their 2009 North American registrar regional gathering, which took place last week. The gathering provided a great opportunity to meet a wide range of ICANN-accredited registrars I otherwise wouldn’t get to see at an ICANN meeting, including several web hosting companies.

E-Commerce Hosting and Client Management
By Rick Wilson There’s a dillema in the world of E-Commerce hosting and that’s how to deal with the clients. On the one hand an ecommerce hosting customer who actually is selling goods via his website probably has an ARPU of roughly $1,000 a year and will stay with your company 5 years or longer. Creating a client who’s worth $5,000 to a webhost over his life versus $150 or so for the life of a “traditional” web host client are like mana from heavan for a webhost (if you can get them).

Richard Davies, CEO of ElasticHosts offered, ”To date, businesses looking for the cost savings and scalability of cloud hosting have had to tackle complex user interfaces and have been limited to a handful of server sizes offered by different vendors. We have designed ElasticHosts so that it can be used by almost anyone and it allows users to configure their servers specifically to suit their requirements.”

Customers benefit from a user-friendly interface that can be managed from any desktop and allows them to create virtual servers instantly and resize their capacity immediately. ElasticHosts’ cloud servers allow customers the cost-efficiency of buying exactly the capacity they need today, with the peace of mind that they can immediately scale up. Capacity is billed on-demand by the hour, unlike traditional hosting contracts which tie customers to fixed capacity for up to two years. The servers run any PC operating system, are fully configurable and designed to accommodate all forms of web hosting. ElasticHosts offers a 100% SLA with 100x credits for downtime, and is the only Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider to offer two independent data centres in Europe, using PEER 1′s high performance 10 Gbps SuperNetwork infrastructure to support mission critical hosting needs where business continuity is vital.

Andrew Fear of Trana eCommerce Ltd, an ElasticHosts customer noted, ”I have used many other cloud and virtual server solutions in the past. I was beginning to get frustrated with these providers and had been looking for alternatives for a while. Then I found ElasticHosts and I realized that I would be able to add a lot of flexibility for no extra cost. I now have quite a few servers with ElasticHosts. We can buy exactly the capacity that we need today and then scale it when we need more, which is a huge benefit and saves a lot of money. The best thing about ElasticHosts for me though, is being able to talk technical to someone who can talk technical back – a rare thing these days.” To mark its launch, ElasticHosts is offering a free four-day trial to allow businesses to experience the power and simplicity of cloud hosting for themselves. ElasticHosts provides ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing such as batch processing, development and test, backup and disaster recovery and cloud bursting. ElasticHosts offers competitive pricing for both subscription and burst use, outstanding performance for any PC operating system, fully flexible sizing, two independent UK data centres with fast direct links to the UK/EU internet, and a 100% SLA with 100x credits for downtime.

For more information, please visit: www.elastichosts.com.

Web Hosting Provider, Layered Technologies, Ranks on 2009 Inc. 5000
Provider of managed dedicated hosting, and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services, Layered Technologies, Inc., has ranked on Inc. magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000, at the No. 622 position.
New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of managed dedicated hosting, and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services, Layered Technologies, Inc., has ranked on Inc. magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000, at the No. 622 position.

The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Consumer electronics maker Vizio, Internet giant GoDaddy, rental car service Zipcar, and beverage maker Honest Tea are among the prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

Jim Melloan, project manager of the Inc. 5000 remarked, ”Savvy trend spotters and those who invest in private companies know that the Inc. 5000 is the best place to find out about young companies that are achieving success through a wide variety of unprecedented business models, as well as older private companies that are still expanding at an impressive rate. That’s why our list is so eagerly anticipated every year.”

Layered Tech, a global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services, ranked in the top 12 percent of Inc.’s list because of its three-year growth rate of 441 percent. The Plano, Texas-based company invests heavily in R and D to add new technologies and services to remain a top 10 hosting provider globally. Layered Tech evolved from an emerging dedicated hosting company to a recognized Web hosting provider whose scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and a wide array of Internet-enabled applications.

The 2009 Inc. 5000, unveiled today on Inc.com, serves as a unique report card on the U.S. economy. Despite the ongoing recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year, with a median three-year growth rate of 126 percent. The Inc. 5000 are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding, making the list perhaps the best example of the impact private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com.

This year’s list also offers a preview of which industries are poised for growth in coming years. With an average growth rate of 667 percent, Insurance ranked as the top industry overall. Government Services was the top industry gainer with 252 companies on this year’s list, up from 135 last year. Health is the top industry by both total revenue ($22.7 billion) and total employment (156,223 jobs).

Once again, California tops the Inc. 5000 with the most companies of any state with 612. The Golden State is followed by Texas (393), New York (316), Florida (263), and Virginia (261). All 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, are represented on this year’s list.

New York boasts 371 Inc. 5000 companies, making it the top metropolitan area, followed by Washington, D.C. (317), Los Angeles (253), Atlanta (209), and Chicago (203).

Bolstered by this year’s No. 1 company, Northern Capital Insurance, Insurance emerged as the top industry, with an average growth rate of 667 percent. Other strong performers include Energy (523 percent) and Government Services (491 percent).

In total, the companies on the Inc. 5000 have created more than 1 million jobs. Health is the top employer with 156,223 jobs, followed by Business Products and Services (122,911), IT Services (89,632), Food and Beverage (86,572), and Construction (65,494).

IT Services had the most companies on this year’s list with 658, followed by Business Products and Services (502), Advertising and Marketing (398), Construction (354), and Manufacturing (342).

Topping this year’s list is Northern Capital Insurance, a Miami-based firm that is helping to revolutionize Florida’s ailing insurance industry. The company generated $95 million in revenue in 2008 and an impressive three-year growth rate of 19,812 percent.

The top woman-owned company is P3S (No. 17 overall), a San Antonio – based firm that provides IT network security and physical security services, mostly to the Defense Department. P3S, owned by Mary Ellen Trevino, recorded revenue of $13.5 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 5,898 percent. The top minority-owned company is Harley Stanfield (No. 3 overall), a Washington, D.C. – based real estate investment firm that buys existing properties, makes them energy efficient, and then resells them as investment properties. Harley Stanfield, founded by Cedric Franklin, posted revenue of $38.4 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 13,350 percent.

The Inc. 5000 posted an aggregate revenue of $214 billion in 2008, up nearly 16 percent from the previous year. The top five industries by total revenue include Health ($22.7 billion), Business Products and Services ($19.6 billion), Construction ($18.8 billion), Energy ($14.7 billion), and IT Services ($13.2 billion).

The Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2008. Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million. The top 10 percent of companies on the list comprise the Inc. 500, now in its 28th year.

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,961, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at Inc.com.

Each year, Inc. and Inc.com celebrate the remarkable achievements of today’s entrepreneurial superstars – the privately held small businesses that drive our economy. The Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony brings together members of the Inc. 5000 community, both a new class of Inc. 5000 honorees and the list’s alumni, for three days of powerful networking, inspired learning, and momentous celebration. Please join us September 23 – 25, 2009, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. For more information about the 2009 Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony, and to register, visit www.Inc5000event.com. Stay connected with Inc. Events by following @IncEvents on Twitter.

Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.LayeredTech.com.

Web Hosting, Enhanced Managed Virtual Private Servers, Premiered at WiredTree

Chicago, Illinois – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Provider of Managed Dedicated, Managed Hybrid and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting solutions, WiredTree, has restructured its Managed VPS hosting plans and moved customers up to the next-highest plan, without changing its pricing structure.

Zac Cogswell, President of WiredTree explained, ”We have invested thousands of dollars over the past few months upgrading our infrastructure to support these increased allocations to ensure our customers are receiving he best value for their money. Nearly every client will receive a memory and bandwidth upgrade and some will receive a disk space upgrade as well – and we’re doing it without raising prices.”

As part of its restructuring, WiredTree has phased out its lowest-end configuration, the VPS384 plan. It also added a new high-end configuration, the VPS1024 plan, which provides 1024MB guaranteed SLM RAM, 80GB of RAID-10 Disk Space, and 1000GB of monthly data transfer. Each existing VPS account will be leveled up a step from its current plan. For example, customers currently hosting on the VPS384 plan will be upgraded to the new VPS512 plan; customers hosting on the VPS768 plan will be upgraded to the VPS1024 plan.

In addition to plan upgrades, WiredTree has added several new features to its Managed VPS services. Namely, VPS customers now have access to the WiredTree private network, a secure, fully routed internal network that offers free data transfer between WiredTree severs. The company has also added IPMI monitoring for all VPS accounts, enabling customers to monitor the physical health of their servers remotely.

Formed in June 2006 to set a new standard for managed hosting, WiredTree provides a superior managed hosting environment through customer service, innovative network design, a unique suite of services, and the latest technological advances in server hardware. WiredTree designed a network that leverages two logically separated networks – a public Internet network and a private internal network. This modern network-within-a-network design allows the company to securely provide a wide range of value-added services for business of all sizes.

To learn more about Managed VPS from WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com/managedvps.

For more information about WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com.

ElasticHosts Web Hosting Offers Flexible, Scalable Cloud Hosting

London, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – UK based cloud provider, ElasticHosts, has launched its cloud server solutions, which are designed to provide ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing.

Richard Davies, CEO of ElasticHosts offered, ”To date, businesses looking for the cost savings and scalability of cloud hosting have had to tackle complex user interfaces and have been limited to a handful of server sizes offered by different vendors. We have designed ElasticHosts so that it can be used by almost anyone and it allows users to configure their servers specifically to suit their requirements.”

Customers benefit from a user-friendly interface that can be managed from any desktop and allows them to create virtual servers instantly and resize their capacity immediately.

ElasticHosts’ cloud servers allow customers the cost-efficiency of buying exactly the capacity they need today, with the peace of mind that they can immediately scale up. Capacity is billed on-demand by the hour, unlike traditional hosting contracts which tie customers to fixed capacity for up to two years. The servers run any PC operating system, are fully configurable and designed to accommodate all forms of web hosting. ElasticHosts offers a 100% SLA with 100x credits for downtime, and is the only Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider to offer two independent data centres in Europe, using PEER 1′s high performance 10 Gbps SuperNetwork infrastructure to support mission critical hosting needs where business continuity is vital.

Andrew Fear of Trana eCommerce Ltd, an ElasticHosts customer noted, ”I have used many other cloud and virtual server solutions in the past. I was beginning to get frustrated with these providers and had been looking for alternatives for a while. Then I found ElasticHosts and I realized that I would be able to add a lot of flexibility for no extra cost. I now have quite a few servers with ElasticHosts. We can buy exactly the capacity that we need today and then scale it when we need more, which is a huge benefit and saves a lot of money. The best thing about ElasticHosts for me though, is being able to talk technical to someone who can talk technical back – a rare thing these days.” To mark its launch, ElasticHosts is offering a free four-day trial to allow businesses to experience the power and simplicity of cloud hosting for themselves. ElasticHosts provides ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing such as batch processing, development and test, backup and disaster recovery and cloud bursting. ElasticHosts offers competitive pricing for both subscription and burst use, outstanding performance for any PC operating system, fully flexible sizing, two independent UK data centres with fast direct links to the UK/EU internet, and a 100% SLA with 100x credits for downtime.

For more information, please visit: www.elastichosts.com.

WebHost Manager Server, Joomla Hosting Tutorials Released by DemoWolf
Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, is offering a newly released series of Server Level tutorials designed to help server administrators. The initial release of Server Level tutorials includes 133 tutorials for WebHost Manager and PuTTY.
Nova Scotia, Canada – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, is offering a newly released series of Server Level tutorials designed to help server administrators. The initial release of Server Level tutorials includes 133 tutorials for WebHost Manager and PuTTY.

The new tutorials are as follows:

WebHost Manager Setup series (29 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Services series (33 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Accounts series (35 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Management series (24 tutorials) Regular Price $99.95, SALE Price: $49.95
PuTTY Enhanced series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $79.95, SALE Price: $39.95

DemoWolf is also creating a mini-bundle for those who want all the above. All 4 new Server Level series for WebHost Manager, plus the Enahnced PuTTY series for $199.95.

In addition, DemoWolf is also releasing the VOICE versions of their 84 new Joomla tutorials released last month. They are as follows:

Joomla New Setup VOICE series (20 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Admin VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New CMS VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Extensions VOICE series (18 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New End-User VOICE series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $159.95, SALE Price: $79.95
For those who want all 5 new Joomla VOICE series, all 5 new Joomla VOICE series are offered for $399.95

DemoWolf now has over 3,600 tutorials for hosting companies to choose from, including 1,500+ Voice tutorials, and tutorials in languages other than English including: French, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Brazilian-Portuguese, Czech and Bahasia-Indonesian.

DemoWolf exhibited at HostingCon in Washington, DC from August 10-12, 2009, where all the new tutorials were on display. Hosting companies who purchase these or any other DemoWolf tutorials, will have their own company logo inserted into the first and last frame of every tutorial, providing the host with a custom branded flash tutorial support solution to offer to their customers.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.

Reseller Web Hosting Firm. Value Reseller, Debuts Pay As You Go Plans

Flemington, New Jersey – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.

Ali Davachi, President of Value Reseller noted, ”Customers are looking for simplicity and flexibility. In the world of web hosting where plans and prices can be confusing, we heard our customers loud and clear. Our only two advanced plans are all any web hosting business needs to succeed. The new plans are backed by the best support and features in the industry.”

The new plans coincide with a re-design and re-launch of the Value Reseller website. The All You Can Eat plan provides unlimited web sites, unlimited bandwidth and transfer, unlimited disk space and 100 free control panel accounts for only $297 per month. For a limited time only to celebrate the launch, the price is reduced to only $197 per month.

The Pay As You Go Plan is only $0.50 per GB of disk space and $4 per GB of traffic.

Both plans include:

-24 x 7 x 365 live phone support
-completely automated account creation and billing process
-guaranteed 100% uptime, guaranteed satisfaction
-full-featured control panels with sitebuilders, web-based email, blogging/forum software and more
-flexibility to offer both Linux and Windows hosting

Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners and is fully committed to helping them succeed. Value Reseller provides a private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime.

Mr. Davachi added, ”Our next-generation platform of ‘cloud hosting’ makes this possible. The era of dedicated servers is gone. Cloud hosting provides maximum flexibility, scalability and reliability for Value Reseller customers.”

For newer web hosts, Value Reseller offers a $9.95 Linux only plan and a $19.95 Windows and Linux plan.

Value Reseller, established in 1998 with facilities in Boston, MA and Jersey City, NJ, is a privately owned private label web hosting provider focused exclusively on the reseller market. Hosting services offered include shared hosting, enterprise virtualization, virtual private and dedicated servers, and are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. All of Value Reseller’s services are backed by a leading edge datacenter infrastructure and network, and supported live 24/7/365 by technicians and customer service professionals. Value Reseller features a next-generation hosting platform built on the principles of cloud computing, making it possible to guarantee 100% uptime availability. This platform is the foundation from which Value Reseller has been able to offer customers hosting for unlimited domains — one of the biggest breakthroughs in web hosting over the past 10 years. Value Reseller is committed to enabling the success of its resellers and does not participate in the retail market in competition with its partners. With a complete private label service, web developers, ISPs, design shops and Internet professionals have everything they need to build a successful hosting business or enhance their existing offerings.

To learn more about Value Reseller, please visit: www.valuereseller.com.

WebHost Manager Server, Joomla Hosting Tutorials Released by DemoWolf

Nova Scotia, Canada – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, is offering a newly released series of Server Level tutorials designed to help server administrators. The initial release of Server Level tutorials includes 133 tutorials for WebHost Manager and PuTTY.

The new tutorials are as follows:

WebHost Manager Setup series (29 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Services series (33 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Accounts series (35 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Management series (24 tutorials) Regular Price $99.95, SALE Price: $49.95
PuTTY Enhanced series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $79.95, SALE Price: $39.95

DemoWolf is also creating a mini-bundle for those who want all the above. All 4 new Server Level series for WebHost Manager, plus the Enahnced PuTTY series for $199.95.

In addition, DemoWolf is also releasing the VOICE versions of their 84 new Joomla tutorials released last month. They are as follows:

Joomla New Setup VOICE series (20 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Admin VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New CMS VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Extensions VOICE series (18 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New End-User VOICE series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $159.95, SALE Price: $79.95
For those who want all 5 new Joomla VOICE series, all 5 new Joomla VOICE series are offered for $399.95

DemoWolf now has over 3,600 tutorials for hosting companies to choose from, including 1,500+ Voice tutorials, and tutorials in languages other than English including: French, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Brazilian-Portuguese, Czech and Bahasia-Indonesian.

DemoWolf exhibited at HostingCon in Washington, DC from August 10-12, 2009, where all the new tutorials were on display. Hosting companies who purchase these or any other DemoWolf tutorials, will have their own company logo inserted into the first and last frame of every tutorial, providing the host with a custom branded flash tutorial support solution to offer to their customers.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.

Parallels Web Hosting Server Virtualization, Releases Panel 10 Public Beta
Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Renton, Washington – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Division at Parallels noted, ”Parallels has been working on a number of best-of-breed ISVs over recent years to launch these offerings. We’re bringing ISVs and hosters together and helping both become more profitable.”

The comprehensive solution introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace, which enables hosters to rapidly enter the growing software-as-a-service market and provides SMBs access to a number of IT and business applications, such as e-commerce, customer relationship management, human resources, accounting, video conferencing, web content management, e-mail and more.

Parallels Partner Marketplace is a central feature of Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition control panel and lets hosters rapidly profit from the growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market by offering the most popular applications through the control panel, says the company. It further avers saying that Parallels Panel delivers access to best of breed software and services, such as Interspire’s e-mail marketing and Pinnacle Cart’s e-Commerce shopping cart. Provider Partners can easily and quickly offer SaaS offerings with no development effort of their own through the combination of the new Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition and a co-branded Parallels Partner Marketplace storefront that Parallels provides. For independent software vendors (ISVs), Parallels Partner Marketplace offers a straight-forward, cost-efficient way to reach new audiences and create new revenue streams.

Craig Fox, Founder and VP of Product Development, at Pinnacle Cart added, ”We are happy to have joined forces with Parallels Partner Marketplace. Parallels Partner Marketplace lets hosters deliver SaaS quickly and cost-effectively and simultaneously provides SMBs with the applications they need to stay competitive. Now we can easily offer our e-Commerce Shopping Cart to potentially millions of SMBs through Parallels Partner Marketplace.”

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, o company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Reseller Web Hosting Firm. Value Reseller, Debuts Pay As You Go Plans
Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.
Flemington, New Jersey – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.

Ali Davachi, President of Value Reseller noted, ”Customers are looking for simplicity and flexibility. In the world of web hosting where plans and prices can be confusing, we heard our customers loud and clear. Our only two advanced plans are all any web hosting business needs to succeed. The new plans are backed by the best support and features in the industry.”

The new plans coincide with a re-design and re-launch of the Value Reseller website. The All You Can Eat plan provides unlimited web sites, unlimited bandwidth and transfer, unlimited disk space and 100 free control panel accounts for only $297 per month. For a limited time only to celebrate the launch, the price is reduced to only $197 per month.

The Pay As You Go Plan is only $0.50 per GB of disk space and $4 per GB of traffic.

Both plans include:

-24 x 7 x 365 live phone support
-completely automated account creation and billing process
-guaranteed 100% uptime, guaranteed satisfaction
-full-featured control panels with sitebuilders, web-based email, blogging/forum software and more
-flexibility to offer both Linux and Windows hosting

Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners and is fully committed to helping them succeed. Value Reseller provides a private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime.

Mr. Davachi added, ”Our next-generation platform of ‘cloud hosting’ makes this possible. The era of dedicated servers is gone. Cloud hosting provides maximum flexibility, scalability and reliability for Value Reseller customers.”

For newer web hosts, Value Reseller offers a $9.95 Linux only plan and a $19.95 Windows and Linux plan.

Value Reseller, established in 1998 with facilities in Boston, MA and Jersey City, NJ, is a privately owned private label web hosting provider focused exclusively on the reseller market. Hosting services offered include shared hosting, enterprise virtualization, virtual private and dedicated servers, and are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. All of Value Reseller’s services are backed by a leading edge datacenter infrastructure and network, and supported live 24/7/365 by technicians and customer service professionals. Value Reseller features a next-generation hosting platform built on the principles of cloud computing, making it possible to guarantee 100% uptime availability. This platform is the foundation from which Value Reseller has been able to offer customers hosting for unlimited domains — one of the biggest breakthroughs in web hosting over the past 10 years. Value Reseller is committed to enabling the success of its resellers and does not participate in the retail market in competition with its partners. With a complete private label service, web developers, ISPs, design shops and Internet professionals have everything they need to build a successful hosting business or enhance their existing offerings.

To learn more about Value Reseller, please visit: www.valuereseller.com.

Web Hosting, Enhanced Managed Virtual Private Servers, Premiered at WiredTree
Provider of Managed Dedicated, Managed Hybrid and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting solutions, WiredTree, has restructured its Managed VPS hosting plans and moved customers up to the next-highest plan, without changing its pricing structure.
Chicago, Illinois – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Provider of Managed Dedicated, Managed Hybrid and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting solutions, WiredTree, has restructured its Managed VPS hosting plans and moved customers up to the next-highest plan, without changing its pricing structure.

Zac Cogswell, President of WiredTree explained, ”We have invested thousands of dollars over the past few months upgrading our infrastructure to support these increased allocations to ensure our customers are receiving he best value for their money. Nearly every client will receive a memory and bandwidth upgrade and some will receive a disk space upgrade as well – and we’re doing it without raising prices.”

As part of its restructuring, WiredTree has phased out its lowest-end configuration, the VPS384 plan. It also added a new high-end configuration, the VPS1024 plan, which provides 1024MB guaranteed SLM RAM, 80GB of RAID-10 Disk Space, and 1000GB of monthly data transfer. Each existing VPS account will be leveled up a step from its current plan. For example, customers currently hosting on the VPS384 plan will be upgraded to the new VPS512 plan; customers hosting on the VPS768 plan will be upgraded to the VPS1024 plan.

In addition to plan upgrades, WiredTree has added several new features to its Managed VPS services. Namely, VPS customers now have access to the WiredTree private network, a secure, fully routed internal network that offers free data transfer between WiredTree severs. The company has also added IPMI monitoring for all VPS accounts, enabling customers to monitor the physical health of their servers remotely.

Formed in June 2006 to set a new standard for managed hosting, WiredTree provides a superior managed hosting environment through customer service, innovative network design, a unique suite of services, and the latest technological advances in server hardware. WiredTree designed a network that leverages two logically separated networks – a public Internet network and a private internal network. This modern network-within-a-network design allows the company to securely provide a wide range of value-added services for business of all sizes.

To learn more about Managed VPS from WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com/managedvps.

For more information about WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com.

Parallels Web Hosting Server Virtualization, Releases Panel 10 Public Beta

Renton, Washington – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Division at Parallels noted, ”Parallels has been working on a number of best-of-breed ISVs over recent years to launch these offerings. We’re bringing ISVs and hosters together and helping both become more profitable.”

The comprehensive solution introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace, which enables hosters to rapidly enter the growing software-as-a-service market and provides SMBs access to a number of IT and business applications, such as e-commerce, customer relationship management, human resources, accounting, video conferencing, web content management, e-mail and more.

Parallels Partner Marketplace is a central feature of Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition control panel and lets hosters rapidly profit from the growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market by offering the most popular applications through the control panel, says the company. It further avers saying that Parallels Panel delivers access to best of breed software and services, such as Interspire’s e-mail marketing and Pinnacle Cart’s e-Commerce shopping cart. Provider Partners can easily and quickly offer SaaS offerings with no development effort of their own through the combination of the new Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition and a co-branded Parallels Partner Marketplace storefront that Parallels provides. For independent software vendors (ISVs), Parallels Partner Marketplace offers a straight-forward, cost-efficient way to reach new audiences and create new revenue streams.

Craig Fox, Founder and VP of Product Development, at Pinnacle Cart added, ”We are happy to have joined forces with Parallels Partner Marketplace. Parallels Partner Marketplace lets hosters deliver SaaS quickly and cost-effectively and simultaneously provides SMBs with the applications they need to stay competitive. Now we can easily offer our e-Commerce Shopping Cart to potentially millions of SMBs through Parallels Partner Marketplace.”

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, o company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Web Hosting Shared Services of Host The Best, Placed with Enotch Technologies

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Enotch Technologies will handle the shared hosting services of Host The Best, in order to enable the web hosting firm to focus exclusively on proving software solutions for other Web hosting providers.

Andy Candelario, director of business development for Host The Best remarked, ”For nearly five years, Host The Best has been a leader in both eeb hosting and software development, but the increasing growth of our software business has made it difficult for us to maintain the level of brand clarity we need. We’re confident that we will be able to maintain Host The Best’s position as an innovative, dynamic provider of software solutions.”

Host The Best offers nearly two dozen software products, in addition to providing custom software development services. By spinning off the hosting division, Host The Best is able to more directly work with other Web hosting providers in developing and implementing software solutions to solve key business challenges. The company is currently developing several software modules that interface with the WHMCS billing system and provide greater functionality for administrators.

Existing Web hosting customers will now be served under the Enotch Technologies brand. The company does not have any immediate plans to make changes to the hosting infrastructure or standard hosting plan configurations. Enotch Technologies / Enotch Networks currently provide shared hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and reseller services.

Founded in 2004, Host The Best develops and deploys innovative software solutions for Web hosting providers and Internet users. Its popular products include HTB eMail Protector, HTB Online Storage, HTB Monitoring script, and HTB Site Monitor. Host The Best is based in New York City, New York.

To learn more, please visit: www.hostthebest.com.

Web Hosting Provider, Layered Technologies, Ranks on 2009 Inc. 5000

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of managed dedicated hosting, and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services, Layered Technologies, Inc., has ranked on Inc. magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000, at the No. 622 position.

The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Consumer electronics maker Vizio, Internet giant GoDaddy, rental car service Zipcar, and beverage maker Honest Tea are among the prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

Jim Melloan, project manager of the Inc. 5000 remarked, ”Savvy trend spotters and those who invest in private companies know that the Inc. 5000 is the best place to find out about young companies that are achieving success through a wide variety of unprecedented business models, as well as older private companies that are still expanding at an impressive rate. That’s why our list is so eagerly anticipated every year.”

Layered Tech, a global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services, ranked in the top 12 percent of Inc.’s list because of its three-year growth rate of 441 percent. The Plano, Texas-based company invests heavily in R and D to add new technologies and services to remain a top 10 hosting provider globally. Layered Tech evolved from an emerging dedicated hosting company to a recognized Web hosting provider whose scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and a wide array of Internet-enabled applications.

The 2009 Inc. 5000, unveiled today on Inc.com, serves as a unique report card on the U.S. economy. Despite the ongoing recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year, with a median three-year growth rate of 126 percent. The Inc. 5000 are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding, making the list perhaps the best example of the impact private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com.

This year’s list also offers a preview of which industries are poised for growth in coming years. With an average growth rate of 667 percent, Insurance ranked as the top industry overall. Government Services was the top industry gainer with 252 companies on this year’s list, up from 135 last year. Health is the top industry by both total revenue ($22.7 billion) and total employment (156,223 jobs).

Once again, California tops the Inc. 5000 with the most companies of any state with 612. The Golden State is followed by Texas (393), New York (316), Florida (263), and Virginia (261). All 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, are represented on this year’s list.

New York boasts 371 Inc. 5000 companies, making it the top metropolitan area, followed by Washington, D.C. (317), Los Angeles (253), Atlanta (209), and Chicago (203).

Bolstered by this year’s No. 1 company, Northern Capital Insurance, Insurance emerged as the top industry, with an average growth rate of 667 percent. Other strong performers include Energy (523 percent) and Government Services (491 percent).

In total, the companies on the Inc. 5000 have created more than 1 million jobs. Health is the top employer with 156,223 jobs, followed by Business Products and Services (122,911), IT Services (89,632), Food and Beverage (86,572), and Construction (65,494).

IT Services had the most companies on this year’s list with 658, followed by Business Products and Services (502), Advertising and Marketing (398), Construction (354), and Manufacturing (342).

Topping this year’s list is Northern Capital Insurance, a Miami-based firm that is helping to revolutionize Florida’s ailing insurance industry. The company generated $95 million in revenue in 2008 and an impressive three-year growth rate of 19,812 percent.

The top woman-owned company is P3S (No. 17 overall), a San Antonio – based firm that provides IT network security and physical security services, mostly to the Defense Department. P3S, owned by Mary Ellen Trevino, recorded revenue of $13.5 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 5,898 percent. The top minority-owned company is Harley Stanfield (No. 3 overall), a Washington, D.C. – based real estate investment firm that buys existing properties, makes them energy efficient, and then resells them as investment properties. Harley Stanfield, founded by Cedric Franklin, posted revenue of $38.4 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 13,350 percent.

The Inc. 5000 posted an aggregate revenue of $214 billion in 2008, up nearly 16 percent from the previous year. The top five industries by total revenue include Health ($22.7 billion), Business Products and Services ($19.6 billion), Construction ($18.8 billion), Energy ($14.7 billion), and IT Services ($13.2 billion).

The Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2008. Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million. The top 10 percent of companies on the list comprise the Inc. 500, now in its 28th year.

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,961, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at Inc.com.

Each year, Inc. and Inc.com celebrate the remarkable achievements of today’s entrepreneurial superstars – the privately held small businesses that drive our economy. The Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony brings together members of the Inc. 5000 community, both a new class of Inc. 5000 honorees and the list’s alumni, for three days of powerful networking, inspired learning, and momentous celebration. Please join us September 23 – 25, 2009, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. For more information about the 2009 Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony, and to register, visit www.Inc5000event.com. Stay connected with Inc. Events by following @IncEvents on Twitter.

Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.LayeredTech.com.

Web Hosting Shared Services of Host The Best, Placed with Enotch Technologies
Enotch Technologies will handle the shared hosting services of Host The Best, in order to enable the web hosting firm to focus exclusively on proving software solutions for other Web hosting providers.
New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Enotch Technologies will handle the shared hosting services of Host The Best, in order to enable the web hosting firm to focus exclusively on proving software solutions for other Web hosting providers.

Andy Candelario, director of business development for Host The Best remarked, ”For nearly five years, Host The Best has been a leader in both eeb hosting and software development, but the increasing growth of our software business has made it difficult for us to maintain the level of brand clarity we need. We’re confident that we will be able to maintain Host The Best’s position as an innovative, dynamic provider of software solutions.”

Host The Best offers nearly two dozen software products, in addition to providing custom software development services. By spinning off the hosting division, Host The Best is able to more directly work with other Web hosting providers in developing and implementing software solutions to solve key business challenges. The company is currently developing several software modules that interface with the WHMCS billing system and provide greater functionality for administrators.

Existing Web hosting customers will now be served under the Enotch Technologies brand. The company does not have any immediate plans to make changes to the hosting infrastructure or standard hosting plan configurations. Enotch Technologies / Enotch Networks currently provide shared hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and reseller services.

Founded in 2004, Host The Best develops and deploys innovative software solutions for Web hosting providers and Internet users. Its popular products include HTB eMail Protector, HTB Online Storage, HTB Monitoring script, and HTB Site Monitor. Host The Best is based in New York City, New York.

To learn more, please visit: www.hostthebest.com.

The new tutorials are as follows:

WebHost Manager Setup series (29 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Services series (33 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Accounts series (35 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Management series (24 tutorials) Regular Price $99.95, SALE Price: $49.95
PuTTY Enhanced series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $79.95, SALE Price: $39.95

DemoWolf is also creating a mini-bundle for those who want all the above. All 4 new Server Level series for WebHost Manager, plus the Enahnced PuTTY series for $199.95.

In addition, DemoWolf is also releasing the VOICE versions of their 84 new Joomla tutorials released last month. They are as follows:

Joomla New Setup VOICE series (20 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Admin VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New CMS VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Extensions VOICE series (18 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New End-User VOICE series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $159.95, SALE Price: $79.95
For those who want all 5 new Joomla VOICE series, all 5 new Joomla VOICE series are offered for $399.95

DemoWolf now has over 3,600 tutorials for hosting companies to choose from, including 1,500+ Voice tutorials, and tutorials in languages other than English including: French, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Brazilian-Portuguese, Czech and Bahasia-Indonesian.

DemoWolf exhibited at HostingCon in Washington, DC from August 10-12, 2009, where all the new tutorials were on display. Hosting companies who purchase these or any other DemoWolf tutorials, will have their own company logo inserted into the first and last frame of every tutorial, providing the host with a custom branded flash tutorial support solution to offer to their customers.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.

ElasticHosts Web Hosting Offers Flexible, Scalable Cloud Hosting
UK based cloud provider, ElasticHosts, has launched its cloud server solutions, which are designed to provide ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing.
London, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – UK based cloud provider, ElasticHosts, has launched its cloud server solutions, which are designed to provide ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing.

Richard Davies, CEO of ElasticHosts offered, ”To date, businesses looking for the cost savings and scalability of cloud hosting have had to tackle complex user interfaces and have been limited to a handful of server sizes offered by different vendors. We have designed ElasticHosts so that it can be used by almost anyone and it allows users to configure their servers specifically to suit their requirements.”

Customers benefit from a user-friendly interface that can be managed from any desktop and allows them to create virtual servers instantly and resize their capacity immediately. ElasticHosts’ cloud servers allow customers the cost-efficiency of buying exactly the capacity they need today, with the peace of mind that they can immediately scale up. Capacity is billed on-demand by the hour, unlike traditional hosting contracts which tie customers to fixed capacity for up to two years. The servers run any PC operating system, are fully configurable and designed to accommodate all forms of web hosting. ElasticHosts offers a 100% SLA with 100x credits for downtime, and is the only Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider to offer two independent data centres in Europe, using PEER 1′s high performance 10 Gbps SuperNetwork infrastructure to support mission critical hosting needs where business continuity is vital.

Andrew Fear of Trana eCommerce Ltd, an ElasticHosts customer noted, ”I have used many other cloud and virtual server solutions in the past. I was beginning to get frustrated with these providers and had been looking for alternatives for a while. Then I found ElasticHosts and I realized that I would be able to add a lot of flexibility for no extra cost. I now have quite a few servers with ElasticHosts. We can buy exactly the capacity that we need today and then scale it when we need more, which is a huge benefit and saves a lot of money. The best thing about ElasticHosts for me though, is being able to talk technical to someone who can talk technical back – a rare thing these days.” To mark its launch, ElasticHosts is offering a free four-day trial to allow businesses to experience the power and simplicity of cloud hosting for themselves. ElasticHosts provides ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing such as batch processing, development and test, backup and disaster recovery and cloud bursting. ElasticHosts offers competitive pricing for both subscription and burst use, outstanding performance for any PC operating system, fully flexible sizing, two independent UK data centres with fast direct links to the UK/EU internet, and a 100% SLA with 100x credits for downtime.

For more information, please visit: www.elastichosts.com.

Web Hosting Shared Services of Host The Best, Placed with Enotch Technologies
Enotch Technologies will handle the shared hosting services of Host The Best, in order to enable the web hosting firm to focus exclusively on proving software solutions for other Web hosting providers.
New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Enotch Technologies will handle the shared hosting services of Host The Best, in order to enable the web hosting firm to focus exclusively on proving software solutions for other Web hosting providers.

Andy Candelario, director of business development for Host The Best remarked, ”For nearly five years, Host The Best has been a leader in both eeb hosting and software development, but the increasing growth of our software business has made it difficult for us to maintain the level of brand clarity we need. We’re confident that we will be able to maintain Host The Best’s position as an innovative, dynamic provider of software solutions.”

Host The Best offers nearly two dozen software products, in addition to providing custom software development services. By spinning off the hosting division, Host The Best is able to more directly work with other Web hosting providers in developing and implementing software solutions to solve key business challenges. The company is currently developing several software modules that interface with the WHMCS billing system and provide greater functionality for administrators.

Existing Web hosting customers will now be served under the Enotch Technologies brand. The company does not have any immediate plans to make changes to the hosting infrastructure or standard hosting plan configurations. Enotch Technologies / Enotch Networks currently provide shared hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and reseller services.

Founded in 2004, Host The Best develops and deploys innovative software solutions for Web hosting providers and Internet users. Its popular products include HTB eMail Protector, HTB Online Storage, HTB Monitoring script, and HTB Site Monitor. Host The Best is based in New York City, New York.

To learn more, please visit: www.hostthebest.com.

ICANN Brings Policy Discussion to the Great White North
By Adam Eisner Every year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is responsible for the management of the Internet’s Domain Name System, holds three international meetings around various parts of the world. What many people don’t know, however, is that ICANN also holds regional gatherings specifically for registrars in particular geographic areas. This affords registrars who otherwise may not be able to attend a meeting the opportunity to get a glimpse into the ICANN world and participate in the policy process. I was therefore very excited to hear ICANN had chosen Toronto, Canada (where Tucows, the WHIR and many hosting companies are headquartered) as the site for their 2009 North American registrar regional gathering, which took place last week. The gathering provided a great opportunity to meet a wide range of ICANN-accredited registrars I otherwise wouldn’t get to see at an ICANN meeting, including several web hosting companies.

New Video on WHIR tv- Interview with Terrence Bush of Layered Tech
By Larissa Primeau HostingCon 2009 was a great success and I’m happy to report that WHIRtv was able to talk to a lot of exhibitors and attendees. Over the course of the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting interviews with various companies from around the globe. I’ll as well be putting together a video highlighting some of the after hours events and a short video where interviewees shared with me what they would be doing if the Internet didn’t exist. Some of the answers might surprise you. The first video to kick off our HostingCon ’09 series features Terrence Bush, COO at Layered Tech. Bush was a really interesting interview and explained how they recently expanded offerings on Astro and some other news that you’ll hear first on WHIR tv. Stay tuned for many more videos from HostingCon 2009. In the meantime, check our editorial coverage of the event here.

DomainTools gets a facelift
Serious remodeling has been underway at DomainTools. Here at DomainTools we are in the midst of a major site redesign project and we wanted to share the beginnings of the new and improved “DomainTools” site with you starting today. The first item most readers of this blog will notice is the new login screen. This necessary, but [...]

Serious remodeling has been underway at DomainTools.

Here at DomainTools we are in the midst of a major site redesign project and we wanted to share the beginnings of the new and improved “DomainTools” site with you starting today.

The first item most readers of this blog will notice is the new login screen. This necessary, but usually blase page, received a serious renovation, with a lot of thought on the small details that help you quickly find your way past the login and on to the parts of the site you care most about – the product and services and your account.

New users will also find a greatly-improved process of setting up a new account. Visitors will find improved explanations of membership levels, inline product descriptions, and a clear, discrete flow from decision to sign-up.

The biggest change is our member’s new home page. The old home page was certainly colorful, but it wasn’t all that helpful except to exercise your scroll-wheel finger. Rather than display the majority of account details on a single page, the new member account page is tabular and organized by related items carefully constructed to keep things on one page for most resolutions. Simply tab to the section you’re interested in to drill down to further details, make changes to your account, and review historical information. You’ll also find a new section under the “Messages” tab that will let us send important information and updates to our customers directly. A red flag will indicate when a new message is available to review. Watch for updates to DomainTools in this section!

We realized early in the design phase of this remodel that two items were critically important: improve performance AND user-experience for our customers. A few of the performance improvements implemented were detailed in an earlier post and we continue our efforts in that area as well. When delving into the user-experience modifications, we identified a need to provide customers easy access to information. There now exists a dedicated panel always visible in the My Account section with a simple, clear list and direct path to services used and reports ordered.

Stay tuned for more upgrades that will bring our customers systems that are easier to use, exciting new products and services and lots of performance enhancements.

Parallels Web Hosting Server Virtualization, Releases Panel 10 Public Beta
Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Renton, Washington – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Division at Parallels noted, ”Parallels has been working on a number of best-of-breed ISVs over recent years to launch these offerings. We’re bringing ISVs and hosters together and helping both become more profitable.”

The comprehensive solution introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace, which enables hosters to rapidly enter the growing software-as-a-service market and provides SMBs access to a number of IT and business applications, such as e-commerce, customer relationship management, human resources, accounting, video conferencing, web content management, e-mail and more.

Parallels Partner Marketplace is a central feature of Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition control panel and lets hosters rapidly profit from the growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market by offering the most popular applications through the control panel, says the company. It further avers saying that Parallels Panel delivers access to best of breed software and services, such as Interspire’s e-mail marketing and Pinnacle Cart’s e-Commerce shopping cart. Provider Partners can easily and quickly offer SaaS offerings with no development effort of their own through the combination of the new Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition and a co-branded Parallels Partner Marketplace storefront that Parallels provides. For independent software vendors (ISVs), Parallels Partner Marketplace offers a straight-forward, cost-efficient way to reach new audiences and create new revenue streams.

Craig Fox, Founder and VP of Product Development, at Pinnacle Cart added, ”We are happy to have joined forces with Parallels Partner Marketplace. Parallels Partner Marketplace lets hosters deliver SaaS quickly and cost-effectively and simultaneously provides SMBs with the applications they need to stay competitive. Now we can easily offer our e-Commerce Shopping Cart to potentially millions of SMBs through Parallels Partner Marketplace.”

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, o company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more, please visit: www.parallels.com.

E-Commerce Hosting and Client Management
By Rick Wilson There’s a dillema in the world of E-Commerce hosting and that’s how to deal with the clients. On the one hand an ecommerce hosting customer who actually is selling goods via his website probably has an ARPU of roughly $1,000 a year and will stay with your company 5 years or longer. Creating a client who’s worth $5,000 to a webhost over his life versus $150 or so for the life of a “traditional” web host client are like mana from heavan for a webhost (if you can get them).

Google Search Engine Releases New Social Gadgets, Features, for iGoogle
Search engine, Google, has launched new gadgets designed to leverage Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S., including ways to share content, play games and collaborate on the iGoogle page.

Mountain View, California – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Search engine, Google, has launched new gadgets designed to leverage Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S., including ways to share content, play games and collaborate on the iGoogle page.

A few examples of the new social gadgets include:

• Content Sharing – NPR enables users to browse through latest headlines across a variety of categories and share the stories that interest them with friends. With the Flixster gadget, users can rate and review movies or browse what films their friends have reviewed or found interesting. Users can now also view their friend’s favorites comics stories or post comments with the GoComics gadget.
• Games and Fun – The Scrabble and Chess gadgets enable users to play two of their favorite games with their friends or the public at large. Users can also see which of their friends has the biggest brain or immerse themselves in a New York Times Crossword where they can complete a given week’s puzzle with the help of their friends.
• Communication/tools – Users can share multiple lists with friends with the social To-do gadget. It’s easy to add and remove items, mark items done, change priorities and edit item descriptions with friends or family. The Social Photos gadget enables users to upload and share their albums from Flickr and Picasa, as well as browse their friend’s albums or top Photos.

As part of the launch, Google also introduced two new features on iGoogle called a Friends group and Updates. A Friends group is a list of friends users can create based on a subset of users’ Google Contacts to be able to interact and share social gadgets with. Updates allows users to see what their friends are up to by sharing gadgets, photos, ratings and more from the social gadgets on their iGoogle page. The new social features are completely optional and can be disabled on any social gadget if users do not want to take advantage of the new features. In addition, not all gadgets on iGoogle are social-enabled and those which are will be marked with a special icon.

iGoogle’s mission is to quickly connect users to the information that is most useful and important to them in an easy-to-use and customizable format. This is just the beginning and Google will continue to offer users more choices that enable them to create a powerful and personalized homepage. For developers and content owners, social gadgets allow more possibilities for building rich and compelling gadgets. In addition, not only can developers take advantage of iGoogle’s growing audience of users to promote their gadgets and drive additional awareness and traffic back to their websites, but they can also earn revenue from their gadgets on iGoogle by placing ads in the canvas view mode of their gadgets.

iGoogle, Google’s personalized homepage, lets users customize their internet experience, choosing the content they’re interested in seeing. Users can access weather forecasts, movie times, play games, or read the latest news, all directly from their homepage.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry’s most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google’s technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor’s Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

For a full list of highlighted social gadgets, see www.google.com/igsocial.

For more information on Google, please visit: www.google.com.

Reseller Web Hosting Firm. Value Reseller, Debuts Pay As You Go Plans
Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.
Flemington, New Jersey – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.

Ali Davachi, President of Value Reseller noted, ”Customers are looking for simplicity and flexibility. In the world of web hosting where plans and prices can be confusing, we heard our customers loud and clear. Our only two advanced plans are all any web hosting business needs to succeed. The new plans are backed by the best support and features in the industry.”

The new plans coincide with a re-design and re-launch of the Value Reseller website. The All You Can Eat plan provides unlimited web sites, unlimited bandwidth and transfer, unlimited disk space and 100 free control panel accounts for only $297 per month. For a limited time only to celebrate the launch, the price is reduced to only $197 per month.

The Pay As You Go Plan is only $0.50 per GB of disk space and $4 per GB of traffic.

Both plans include:

-24 x 7 x 365 live phone support
-completely automated account creation and billing process
-guaranteed 100% uptime, guaranteed satisfaction
-full-featured control panels with sitebuilders, web-based email, blogging/forum software and more
-flexibility to offer both Linux and Windows hosting

Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners and is fully committed to helping them succeed. Value Reseller provides a private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime.

Mr. Davachi added, ”Our next-generation platform of ‘cloud hosting’ makes this possible. The era of dedicated servers is gone. Cloud hosting provides maximum flexibility, scalability and reliability for Value Reseller customers.”

For newer web hosts, Value Reseller offers a $9.95 Linux only plan and a $19.95 Windows and Linux plan.

Value Reseller, established in 1998 with facilities in Boston, MA and Jersey City, NJ, is a privately owned private label web hosting provider focused exclusively on the reseller market. Hosting services offered include shared hosting, enterprise virtualization, virtual private and dedicated servers, and are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. All of Value Reseller’s services are backed by a leading edge datacenter infrastructure and network, and supported live 24/7/365 by technicians and customer service professionals. Value Reseller features a next-generation hosting platform built on the principles of cloud computing, making it possible to guarantee 100% uptime availability. This platform is the foundation from which Value Reseller has been able to offer customers hosting for unlimited domains — one of the biggest breakthroughs in web hosting over the past 10 years. Value Reseller is committed to enabling the success of its resellers and does not participate in the retail market in competition with its partners. With a complete private label service, web developers, ISPs, design shops and Internet professionals have everything they need to build a successful hosting business or enhance their existing offerings.

To learn more about Value Reseller, please visit: www.valuereseller.com.

And the winner is…
By WHIR Happenings I wanted to introduce the winner of the Mimo Touch Screen Monitor we gave away at HostingCon 2009. Some of you may have heard about our unfortunate incident on Twitter but I will not recount it here. Roland Osborne a co-founder of Olark is the lucky winner. He attended HostingCon for the first time this year to meet with providers in the Web Hosting community that might be interested in Olark as a solution for their end customers.

New Video on WHIR tv- Interview with Chris Sheridan, VP of Sales at eNom
By Larissa Primeau As promised, today’s video features Chris Sheridan, VP sales at eNom. Sheridan enthusiastically goes into great detail about eNom’s recent announcements, specifically their launching of rich content. With such, they hope to deliver more services to resellers, but I’ll let Chris go into more detail about that. ENom is focused on being faster, something that seems to be paying dividends. ENom was acquired by Demand Media, a company focused on quality of content. They’re now bringing that model into their business and pushing it down to their reseller channels. Sheridan has big plans for the company and is confident in their long-term success. Having spoken to Sheridan, I can honestly say that eNom appears to be an exciting company with a promising future. His enthusiasm is infectious and I look forward to hearing more from eNom in the future. Thanks for watching the video and stay tuned next week for more footage from HostingCon 2009.

Flemington, New Jersey – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.

Ali Davachi, President of Value Reseller noted, ”Customers are looking for simplicity and flexibility. In the world of web hosting where plans and prices can be confusing, we heard our customers loud and clear. Our only two advanced plans are all any web hosting business needs to succeed. The new plans are backed by the best support and features in the industry.”

The new plans coincide with a re-design and re-launch of the Value Reseller website. The All You Can Eat plan provides unlimited web sites, unlimited bandwidth and transfer, unlimited disk space and 100 free control panel accounts for only $297 per month. For a limited time only to celebrate the launch, the price is reduced to only $197 per month.

The Pay As You Go Plan is only $0.50 per GB of disk space and $4 per GB of traffic.

Both plans include:

-24 x 7 x 365 live phone support
-completely automated account creation and billing process
-guaranteed 100% uptime, guaranteed satisfaction
-full-featured control panels with sitebuilders, web-based email, blogging/forum software and more
-flexibility to offer both Linux and Windows hosting

Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners and is fully committed to helping them succeed. Value Reseller provides a private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime.

Mr. Davachi added, ”Our next-generation platform of ‘cloud hosting’ makes this possible. The era of dedicated servers is gone. Cloud hosting provides maximum flexibility, scalability and reliability for Value Reseller customers.”

For newer web hosts, Value Reseller offers a $9.95 Linux only plan and a $19.95 Windows and Linux plan.

Value Reseller, established in 1998 with facilities in Boston, MA and Jersey City, NJ, is a privately owned private label web hosting provider focused exclusively on the reseller market. Hosting services offered include shared hosting, enterprise virtualization, virtual private and dedicated servers, and are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. All of Value Reseller’s services are backed by a leading edge datacenter infrastructure and network, and supported live 24/7/365 by technicians and customer service professionals. Value Reseller features a next-generation hosting platform built on the principles of cloud computing, making it possible to guarantee 100% uptime availability. This platform is the foundation from which Value Reseller has been able to offer customers hosting for unlimited domains — one of the biggest breakthroughs in web hosting over the past 10 years. Value Reseller is committed to enabling the success of its resellers and does not participate in the retail market in competition with its partners. With a complete private label service, web developers, ISPs, design shops and Internet professionals have everything they need to build a successful hosting business or enhance their existing offerings.

To learn more about Value Reseller, please visit: www.valuereseller.com.

Web Hosting and Data Center Customers, Offered SoftLayer, VeriSign SSL

Mountain View, California – (The Hosting News) – August 18, 2009 – SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., provider of global, on-demand data center and hosting services, and VeriSign, Inc., provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, have formed a partnership to bring the entire line of VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates to SoftLayer customers.

Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign noted, ”Businesses of every size need a fully automated SSL solution that delivers complete access, control, security and scalability. This partnership with SoftLayer enables thousands of businesses to manage a range of SSL protections within the management console they use every day. We’re proud to partner with SoftLayer, and we look forward to delivering world-class security solutions to SoftLayer customers for years to come.”

In expanding its security offerings, SoftLayer will also carry Extended Validation (EV) SSL solutions and SSL Certificates from GeoTrust, another VeriSign brand. The alliance enables SoftLayer to deliver VeriSign and GeoTrust SSL protection to customers of all sizes. To simplify SSL deployment and management for its customers, SoftLayer will integrate SSL security into its innovative management console.

VeriSign EV SSL Certificates offer a proven safeguard against phishing scams that lure unsuspecting consumers to sites that can appear almost identical to genuine Web pages. Identity thieves use these fraudulent pages to capture credit card numbers, passwords and other valuable personal information. When visiting sites protected by VeriSign EV SSL, Internet users using high security browsers see a green address bar. The green bar tells consumers they have reached a web site whose authenticity has been certified by VeriSign. An EV SSL Certificate triggers visual cues beyond the green address bar, including a new field that contains the name of the organization that owns the site and in some cases the name of the security provider that issued the certificate.

George Karidis, chief strategy officer at SoftLayer remarked, ”Everything SoftLayer does, from hosting to data storage to security, centers on connecting our customers with the best, most reliable technology, and that’s what VeriSign brings to our security portfolio. SSL security is critical to managed hosting and enterprise application hosting. With this range of SSL options – from VeriSign SSL and GeoTrust SSL up to state-of-the-art VeriSign EV SSL protection – our customers can protect themselves and everyone who visits their web sites or uses their hosted applications. And with VeriSign, that protection comes from the most trusted SSL authority on the web.”

As the most respected and trusted SSL authority on the web, VeriSign is the EV SSL Certificate provider of choice for more than 12,000 Internet domain names, representing 74 percent of the entire EV SSL Certificate market worldwide. In fact, over 95 percent of the Fortune 500 and 96 of the world’s 100 largest SSL-using banks secure their sites with SSL Certificates from VeriSign.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, Texas; Seattle, Wash.; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

VeriSign, Inc. is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. Billions of times each day, VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world engage in communications and commerce with confidence.

To learn more about VeriSign, please visit: www.verisign.com.

For more about VeriSign EV SSL, please visit: www.verisign.com/EV-SSL.

To learn more information about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Web Hosting Shared Services of Host The Best, Placed with Enotch Technologies

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Enotch Technologies will handle the shared hosting services of Host The Best, in order to enable the web hosting firm to focus exclusively on proving software solutions for other Web hosting providers.

Andy Candelario, director of business development for Host The Best remarked, ”For nearly five years, Host The Best has been a leader in both eeb hosting and software development, but the increasing growth of our software business has made it difficult for us to maintain the level of brand clarity we need. We’re confident that we will be able to maintain Host The Best’s position as an innovative, dynamic provider of software solutions.”

Host The Best offers nearly two dozen software products, in addition to providing custom software development services. By spinning off the hosting division, Host The Best is able to more directly work with other Web hosting providers in developing and implementing software solutions to solve key business challenges. The company is currently developing several software modules that interface with the WHMCS billing system and provide greater functionality for administrators.

Existing Web hosting customers will now be served under the Enotch Technologies brand. The company does not have any immediate plans to make changes to the hosting infrastructure or standard hosting plan configurations. Enotch Technologies / Enotch Networks currently provide shared hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and reseller services.

Founded in 2004, Host The Best develops and deploys innovative software solutions for Web hosting providers and Internet users. Its popular products include HTB eMail Protector, HTB Online Storage, HTB Monitoring script, and HTB Site Monitor. Host The Best is based in New York City, New York.

To learn more, please visit: www.hostthebest.com.

Parallels Web Hosting Server Virtualization, Releases Panel 10 Public Beta

Renton, Washington – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Division at Parallels noted, ”Parallels has been working on a number of best-of-breed ISVs over recent years to launch these offerings. We’re bringing ISVs and hosters together and helping both become more profitable.”

The comprehensive solution introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace, which enables hosters to rapidly enter the growing software-as-a-service market and provides SMBs access to a number of IT and business applications, such as e-commerce, customer relationship management, human resources, accounting, video conferencing, web content management, e-mail and more.

Parallels Partner Marketplace is a central feature of Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition control panel and lets hosters rapidly profit from the growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market by offering the most popular applications through the control panel, says the company. It further avers saying that Parallels Panel delivers access to best of breed software and services, such as Interspire’s e-mail marketing and Pinnacle Cart’s e-Commerce shopping cart. Provider Partners can easily and quickly offer SaaS offerings with no development effort of their own through the combination of the new Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition and a co-branded Parallels Partner Marketplace storefront that Parallels provides. For independent software vendors (ISVs), Parallels Partner Marketplace offers a straight-forward, cost-efficient way to reach new audiences and create new revenue streams.

Craig Fox, Founder and VP of Product Development, at Pinnacle Cart added, ”We are happy to have joined forces with Parallels Partner Marketplace. Parallels Partner Marketplace lets hosters deliver SaaS quickly and cost-effectively and simultaneously provides SMBs with the applications they need to stay competitive. Now we can easily offer our e-Commerce Shopping Cart to potentially millions of SMBs through Parallels Partner Marketplace.”

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, o company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Google Search Engine Releases New Social Gadgets, Features, for iGoogle

Mountain View, California – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Search engine, Google, has launched new gadgets designed to leverage Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S., including ways to share content, play games and collaborate on the iGoogle page.

A few examples of the new social gadgets include:

• Content Sharing – NPR enables users to browse through latest headlines across a variety of categories and share the stories that interest them with friends. With the Flixster gadget, users can rate and review movies or browse what films their friends have reviewed or found interesting. Users can now also view their friend’s favorites comics stories or post comments with the GoComics gadget.
• Games and Fun – The Scrabble and Chess gadgets enable users to play two of their favorite games with their friends or the public at large. Users can also see which of their friends has the biggest brain or immerse themselves in a New York Times Crossword where they can complete a given week’s puzzle with the help of their friends.
• Communication/tools – Users can share multiple lists with friends with the social To-do gadget. It’s easy to add and remove items, mark items done, change priorities and edit item descriptions with friends or family. The Social Photos gadget enables users to upload and share their albums from Flickr and Picasa, as well as browse their friend’s albums or top Photos.

As part of the launch, Google also introduced two new features on iGoogle called a Friends group and Updates. A Friends group is a list of friends users can create based on a subset of users’ Google Contacts to be able to interact and share social gadgets with. Updates allows users to see what their friends are up to by sharing gadgets, photos, ratings and more from the social gadgets on their iGoogle page. The new social features are completely optional and can be disabled on any social gadget if users do not want to take advantage of the new features. In addition, not all gadgets on iGoogle are social-enabled and those which are will be marked with a special icon.

iGoogle’s mission is to quickly connect users to the information that is most useful and important to them in an easy-to-use and customizable format. This is just the beginning and Google will continue to offer users more choices that enable them to create a powerful and personalized homepage. For developers and content owners, social gadgets allow more possibilities for building rich and compelling gadgets. In addition, not only can developers take advantage of iGoogle’s growing audience of users to promote their gadgets and drive additional awareness and traffic back to their websites, but they can also earn revenue from their gadgets on iGoogle by placing ads in the canvas view mode of their gadgets.

iGoogle, Google’s personalized homepage, lets users customize their internet experience, choosing the content they’re interested in seeing. Users can access weather forecasts, movie times, play games, or read the latest news, all directly from their homepage.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry’s most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google’s technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor’s Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

For a full list of highlighted social gadgets, see www.google.com/igsocial.

For more information on Google, please visit: www.google.com.

ElasticHosts Web Hosting Offers Flexible, Scalable Cloud Hosting

London, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – UK based cloud provider, ElasticHosts, has launched its cloud server solutions, which are designed to provide ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing.

Richard Davies, CEO of ElasticHosts offered, ”To date, businesses looking for the cost savings and scalability of cloud hosting have had to tackle complex user interfaces and have been limited to a handful of server sizes offered by different vendors. We have designed ElasticHosts so that it can be used by almost anyone and it allows users to configure their servers specifically to suit their requirements.”

Customers benefit from a user-friendly interface that can be managed from any desktop and allows them to create virtual servers instantly and resize their capacity immediately.

ElasticHosts’ cloud servers allow customers the cost-efficiency of buying exactly the capacity they need today, with the peace of mind that they can immediately scale up. Capacity is billed on-demand by the hour, unlike traditional hosting contracts which tie customers to fixed capacity for up to two years. The servers run any PC operating system, are fully configurable and designed to accommodate all forms of web hosting. ElasticHosts offers a 100% SLA with 100x credits for downtime, and is the only Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider to offer two independent data centres in Europe, using PEER 1′s high performance 10 Gbps SuperNetwork infrastructure to support mission critical hosting needs where business continuity is vital.

Andrew Fear of Trana eCommerce Ltd, an ElasticHosts customer noted, ”I have used many other cloud and virtual server solutions in the past. I was beginning to get frustrated with these providers and had been looking for alternatives for a while. Then I found ElasticHosts and I realized that I would be able to add a lot of flexibility for no extra cost. I now have quite a few servers with ElasticHosts. We can buy exactly the capacity that we need today and then scale it when we need more, which is a huge benefit and saves a lot of money. The best thing about ElasticHosts for me though, is being able to talk technical to someone who can talk technical back – a rare thing these days.” To mark its launch, ElasticHosts is offering a free four-day trial to allow businesses to experience the power and simplicity of cloud hosting for themselves. ElasticHosts provides ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing such as batch processing, development and test, backup and disaster recovery and cloud bursting. ElasticHosts offers competitive pricing for both subscription and burst use, outstanding performance for any PC operating system, fully flexible sizing, two independent UK data centres with fast direct links to the UK/EU internet, and a 100% SLA with 100x credits for downtime.

For more information, please visit: www.elastichosts.com.

Web Hosting, Enhanced Managed Virtual Private Servers, Premiered at WiredTree

Chicago, Illinois – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Provider of Managed Dedicated, Managed Hybrid and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting solutions, WiredTree, has restructured its Managed VPS hosting plans and moved customers up to the next-highest plan, without changing its pricing structure.

Zac Cogswell, President of WiredTree explained, ”We have invested thousands of dollars over the past few months upgrading our infrastructure to support these increased allocations to ensure our customers are receiving he best value for their money. Nearly every client will receive a memory and bandwidth upgrade and some will receive a disk space upgrade as well – and we’re doing it without raising prices.”

As part of its restructuring, WiredTree has phased out its lowest-end configuration, the VPS384 plan. It also added a new high-end configuration, the VPS1024 plan, which provides 1024MB guaranteed SLM RAM, 80GB of RAID-10 Disk Space, and 1000GB of monthly data transfer. Each existing VPS account will be leveled up a step from its current plan. For example, customers currently hosting on the VPS384 plan will be upgraded to the new VPS512 plan; customers hosting on the VPS768 plan will be upgraded to the VPS1024 plan.

In addition to plan upgrades, WiredTree has added several new features to its Managed VPS services. Namely, VPS customers now have access to the WiredTree private network, a secure, fully routed internal network that offers free data transfer between WiredTree severs. The company has also added IPMI monitoring for all VPS accounts, enabling customers to monitor the physical health of their servers remotely.

Formed in June 2006 to set a new standard for managed hosting, WiredTree provides a superior managed hosting environment through customer service, innovative network design, a unique suite of services, and the latest technological advances in server hardware. WiredTree designed a network that leverages two logically separated networks – a public Internet network and a private internal network. This modern network-within-a-network design allows the company to securely provide a wide range of value-added services for business of all sizes.

To learn more about Managed VPS from WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com/managedvps.

For more information about WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com.

HostDime Web Hosting Firm, Certified Under U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor

Orlando, Florida – (The Hosting News) – August 18, 2009 – Managed hosting services firm, HostDime, has been certified under the United States-European Union Safe Harbor framework, which enables U.S. companies to comply with the E.U Data Protection Directive.

Michael Kahn, vice president of operations at HostDime remarked, ”Our abuse and security team spends numerous hours each day contributing to several security organizations to lend our hand in and maintaining a clean online community. Privacy and account security is something that is of utmost importance to our organization, and Safe Harbor is an excellent framework to follow for trade and privacy principles. We are eager to implement practices in our business in order to better serve the global hosting market.”

The U.S. Department of Commerce developed the Safe Harbor framework to bridge differences between U.S. and E.U. privacy law, and it is intended prevent accidental information disclosure by organizations that store customer data. The program is voluntary.

HostDime and its international divisions serve a large number of clients located in the European Union, and voluntarily compliance with the Safe Harbor framework enables the company to better serve these clients.

As part of the self-certification process, HostDime modified its privacy policy to adhere to Safe Harbor’s 7 key principles. Detailed guidance on these principles is available at www.export.gov/safeharbor/eg_main_018236.asp.

HostDime’s Safe Harbor certification may be viewed online at http://web.ita.doc.gov/safeharbor/SHList.nsf/f6cff20f4d3b8a3185256966006f7cde/e11df88c992e1a1f852575fd0065ee70?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,hostdime.

HostDime is a privately owned, leading website hosting provider offering reliable, secure managed hosting services that cater to a range of clients, from entry-level to enterprise-level operations. HostDime owns and operates its own data center in Orlando, Fla. With a client base of more than 700,000 hosted domains on 3,000 servers, HostDime presently ranks among the top 50 biggest web hosting companies in the world.

To learn more, please visit: www.hostdime.com.

WebHost Manager Server, Joomla Hosting Tutorials Released by DemoWolf

Nova Scotia, Canada – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, is offering a newly released series of Server Level tutorials designed to help server administrators. The initial release of Server Level tutorials includes 133 tutorials for WebHost Manager and PuTTY.

The new tutorials are as follows:

WebHost Manager Setup series (29 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Services series (33 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Accounts series (35 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Management series (24 tutorials) Regular Price $99.95, SALE Price: $49.95
PuTTY Enhanced series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $79.95, SALE Price: $39.95

DemoWolf is also creating a mini-bundle for those who want all the above. All 4 new Server Level series for WebHost Manager, plus the Enahnced PuTTY series for $199.95.

In addition, DemoWolf is also releasing the VOICE versions of their 84 new Joomla tutorials released last month. They are as follows:

Joomla New Setup VOICE series (20 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Admin VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New CMS VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Extensions VOICE series (18 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New End-User VOICE series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $159.95, SALE Price: $79.95
For those who want all 5 new Joomla VOICE series, all 5 new Joomla VOICE series are offered for $399.95

DemoWolf now has over 3,600 tutorials for hosting companies to choose from, including 1,500+ Voice tutorials, and tutorials in languages other than English including: French, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Brazilian-Portuguese, Czech and Bahasia-Indonesian.

DemoWolf exhibited at HostingCon in Washington, DC from August 10-12, 2009, where all the new tutorials were on display. Hosting companies who purchase these or any other DemoWolf tutorials, will have their own company logo inserted into the first and last frame of every tutorial, providing the host with a custom branded flash tutorial support solution to offer to their customers.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.

Web Hosting Provider, Layered Technologies, Ranks on 2009 Inc. 5000

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of managed dedicated hosting, and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services, Layered Technologies, Inc., has ranked on Inc. magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000, at the No. 622 position.

The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Consumer electronics maker Vizio, Internet giant GoDaddy, rental car service Zipcar, and beverage maker Honest Tea are among the prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

Jim Melloan, project manager of the Inc. 5000 remarked, ”Savvy trend spotters and those who invest in private companies know that the Inc. 5000 is the best place to find out about young companies that are achieving success through a wide variety of unprecedented business models, as well as older private companies that are still expanding at an impressive rate. That’s why our list is so eagerly anticipated every year.”

Layered Tech, a global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services, ranked in the top 12 percent of Inc.’s list because of its three-year growth rate of 441 percent. The Plano, Texas-based company invests heavily in R and D to add new technologies and services to remain a top 10 hosting provider globally. Layered Tech evolved from an emerging dedicated hosting company to a recognized Web hosting provider whose scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and a wide array of Internet-enabled applications.

The 2009 Inc. 5000, unveiled today on Inc.com, serves as a unique report card on the U.S. economy. Despite the ongoing recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year, with a median three-year growth rate of 126 percent. The Inc. 5000 are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding, making the list perhaps the best example of the impact private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com.

This year’s list also offers a preview of which industries are poised for growth in coming years. With an average growth rate of 667 percent, Insurance ranked as the top industry overall. Government Services was the top industry gainer with 252 companies on this year’s list, up from 135 last year. Health is the top industry by both total revenue ($22.7 billion) and total employment (156,223 jobs).

Once again, California tops the Inc. 5000 with the most companies of any state with 612. The Golden State is followed by Texas (393), New York (316), Florida (263), and Virginia (261). All 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, are represented on this year’s list.

New York boasts 371 Inc. 5000 companies, making it the top metropolitan area, followed by Washington, D.C. (317), Los Angeles (253), Atlanta (209), and Chicago (203).

Bolstered by this year’s No. 1 company, Northern Capital Insurance, Insurance emerged as the top industry, with an average growth rate of 667 percent. Other strong performers include Energy (523 percent) and Government Services (491 percent).

In total, the companies on the Inc. 5000 have created more than 1 million jobs. Health is the top employer with 156,223 jobs, followed by Business Products and Services (122,911), IT Services (89,632), Food and Beverage (86,572), and Construction (65,494).

IT Services had the most companies on this year’s list with 658, followed by Business Products and Services (502), Advertising and Marketing (398), Construction (354), and Manufacturing (342).

Topping this year’s list is Northern Capital Insurance, a Miami-based firm that is helping to revolutionize Florida’s ailing insurance industry. The company generated $95 million in revenue in 2008 and an impressive three-year growth rate of 19,812 percent.

The top woman-owned company is P3S (No. 17 overall), a San Antonio – based firm that provides IT network security and physical security services, mostly to the Defense Department. P3S, owned by Mary Ellen Trevino, recorded revenue of $13.5 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 5,898 percent. The top minority-owned company is Harley Stanfield (No. 3 overall), a Washington, D.C. – based real estate investment firm that buys existing properties, makes them energy efficient, and then resells them as investment properties. Harley Stanfield, founded by Cedric Franklin, posted revenue of $38.4 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 13,350 percent.

The Inc. 5000 posted an aggregate revenue of $214 billion in 2008, up nearly 16 percent from the previous year. The top five industries by total revenue include Health ($22.7 billion), Business Products and Services ($19.6 billion), Construction ($18.8 billion), Energy ($14.7 billion), and IT Services ($13.2 billion).

The Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2008. Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million. The top 10 percent of companies on the list comprise the Inc. 500, now in its 28th year.

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,961, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at Inc.com.

Each year, Inc. and Inc.com celebrate the remarkable achievements of today’s entrepreneurial superstars – the privately held small businesses that drive our economy. The Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony brings together members of the Inc. 5000 community, both a new class of Inc. 5000 honorees and the list’s alumni, for three days of powerful networking, inspired learning, and momentous celebration. Please join us September 23 – 25, 2009, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. For more information about the 2009 Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony, and to register, visit www.Inc5000event.com. Stay connected with Inc. Events by following @IncEvents on Twitter.

Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.LayeredTech.com.

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By Joshua Beil Parallels recently conducted a survey of its certified Partners and I wanted to share one of the most interesting findings. Of the 85 Hosters that participated in the study, 74% indicated they expect VPS hosting revenues to increase over the next 12 months with only 4% predicting a decrease. This compares 69% expecting an increase in Dedicated hosting with 13% expecting a decrease. For Shared hosting, 57% expect an increase and 12% expect a decrease. In short, VPS hosting is expected to be the primary revenue driver among traditional hosting plans over the next year.

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By Larissa Primeau As promised, today’s video features Chris Sheridan, VP sales at eNom. Sheridan enthusiastically goes into great detail about eNom’s recent announcements, specifically their launching of rich content. With such, they hope to deliver more services to resellers, but I’ll let Chris go into more detail about that. ENom is focused on being faster, something that seems to be paying dividends. ENom was acquired by Demand Media, a company focused on quality of content. They’re now bringing that model into their business and pushing it down to their reseller channels. Sheridan has big plans for the company and is confident in their long-term success. Having spoken to Sheridan, I can honestly say that eNom appears to be an exciting company with a promising future. His enthusiasm is infectious and I look forward to hearing more from eNom in the future. Thanks for watching the video and stay tuned next week for more footage from HostingCon 2009.

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By Larissa Primeau HostingCon 2009 was a great success and I’m happy to report that WHIRtv was able to talk to a lot of exhibitors and attendees. Over the course of the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting interviews with various companies from around the globe. I’ll as well be putting together a video highlighting some of the after hours events and a short video where interviewees shared with me what they would be doing if the Internet didn’t exist. Some of the answers might surprise you. The first video to kick off our HostingCon ’09 series features Terrence Bush, COO at Layered Tech. Bush was a really interesting interview and explained how they recently expanded offerings on Astro and some other news that you’ll hear first on WHIR tv. Stay tuned for many more videos from HostingCon 2009. In the meantime, check our editorial coverage of the event here.

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By Justin Giardina One thing I’ve noticed when working with clients is that they are adopting virtualization within their IT environments more and more – seems to me it’s a dynamic that is happening this year more than ever, even though virtualization has been around for a long time. This increased rate of adoption could be due to the slowdown in the economy, since virtualization definitely streamlines IT environments and provides a lot of other cost saving benefits (you’ve heard it before). I do think that nowadays there is more awareness and education out there. The increase in overall technical media focus is probably helping businesses achieve a better comfort level with the technology and more willingness to embrace the virtues of virtualization than in years past, whether they are going completely virtual or with a hybrid combination. But even with this increased virtualization adoption rate, I am still finding not as many businesses are truly embracing the full benefits of virtualization specifically related to disaster recovery. They “contain and consolidate” their server environment by moving their apps and operating systems to virtual machines, but are still missing out on some of the huge DR advantages. Let’s face it – virtualization coupled with some of the newer replication technologies can yield extremely cost effective disaster recovery options that once were only available to large enterprise companies. For those of you implementing virtualization within your organization, make sure you look into the myriad of disaster recovery options and benefits. With a little bit of guidance and support, your organization can have a robust back up plan for a fraction of the cost.

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By Larissa Primeau Today’s video features CEO of eNom, Michael Blend a.k.a Blender. Blend actually wears a few different hats, aside from being CEO of eNom he’s also EVP of Demand Media. He’s a busy guy to say the least. I had a chance to speak with Blend at the eNom booth at HostingCon 2009 and we briefly touched on various subjects. To give you a bit of a background, Demand Media purchased eNom and Blend goes on to explain why eNom is vital to the Demand Media purpose. Speaking of purpose, you should hear the staggering facts and figures he shares regarding Demand Media’s circulation and revenue. They call themselves the “Leaders in Social Media” and by making 3 billion conversations a month possible, this seems like a proclamation they can confidently claim.

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By Tom Millitzer And the Winner goes out to NCC, for the “Best Presentation Graphics At HostingCon 2009″ for “Dissecting a Web Host Company Acquisition” (download PowerPoint). I would like to thank the academy for this imaginary award. The trouble with slides and taking notes is that it leaves out those bulky words of the presenter as well as audience comments. Hopefully this blog (You have to download the PowerPoint to make any sense of this blog) will fill in various gaps, provide direction and most important the general observations and battle plans put forth by the audience which had great experience in the hosting acquisition game.

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By Jason Remillard As reported previously on my thewhir.com blog posting there seems to be a growing debate about the true ‘value’ of the PCI/DSS standard. Indeed, I’ve been following a rather large thread on linkedin.com as well that is discussing the value of PCI in regards to the recent Network Solutions, Inc. disclosure that they were malwared for several months!

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By WHIR Happenings I wanted to introduce the winner of the Mimo Touch Screen Monitor we gave away at HostingCon 2009. Some of you may have heard about our unfortunate incident on Twitter but I will not recount it here. Roland Osborne a co-founder of Olark is the lucky winner. He attended HostingCon for the first time this year to meet with providers in the Web Hosting community that might be interested in Olark as a solution for their end customers.

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Nexcess To Launch Magento SIP Reseller Plan
August 21, 2009 — Web hosting service provider Nexcess.Net has announced an upcoming expansion of its popular e-commerce web hosting plan based around open-source e-commerce platform Magento.

Justice Dept. Approves Oracle’s Purchase of Sun
August 21, 2009 — The US Department of Justice has approved Oracle’s plan to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, bringing the database provider one step closer to becoming a major contendor in the data center and cloud computing sectors.

As Heat Rises in France, Equinix Facility Suffers Cooling Outage
August 21, 2009 — As France continues to face a heat wave, a Paris-area Equinix data center has suffered a Wednesday night cooling outage, leaving some customer services offline for hours, according to a Data Center Knowledge report.

Yahoo to Set Up Cloud Data Center in Taiwan
August 21, 2009 — Search engine provider Yahoo announced on Thursday it will set up a cloud computing data center in Taiwan.

Buildtelligence Acquires SEOCompany.com
August 21, 2009 — Internet marketing and SEO firm Buildtelligence Web Solutions announced last week it has acquired SEO provider SEOCompany for an undisclosed sum and has already launched a new site.

Easyspace Launches New Range of Dedicated Servers
August 21, 2009 — UK domain name and web hosting provider Easyspace has launched a new line of dedicated server packages following the introduction of faster processors and more storage, as well as being housed within one of five data centers owned and managed by Easyspace.

Symantec Names the 100 “Dirtiest” Websites of the Summer
August 21, 2009 — In an effort to determine which sites are safe to visit, security, storage and systems management solutions provider Symantec has identified the “Dirtiest websites of Summer 2009,” a list of the 100 most threatening sites that try to deceive visitors, steal their information or crash their computer.

Teraco Adds Carrier to Johannesburg Data Center
August 21, 2009 — South African colocation provider Teraco announced this week that it has added physical network provider Dark Fibre Africa to its Johannesburg data center.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup
August 21, 2009 — There were a number of web hosting sales and promos in the third week of August including Lunarpages’ addition of Facebook ad credits to its hosting plans and Globin’s free lifetime web hosting plan. Also, Exabytes announced additional promotions tied to Malaysia’s anniversary, and ConnectReseller had continues to discount its domain names.

DomainTools gets a facelift
Serious remodeling has been underway at DomainTools. Here at DomainTools we are in the midst of a major site redesign project and we wanted to share the beginnings of the new and improved “DomainTools” site with you starting today. The first item most readers of this blog will notice is the new login screen. This necessary, but [...]

Serious remodeling has been underway at DomainTools.

Here at DomainTools we are in the midst of a major site redesign project and we wanted to share the beginnings of the new and improved “DomainTools” site with you starting today.

The first item most readers of this blog will notice is the new login screen. This necessary, but usually blase page, received a serious renovation, with a lot of thought on the small details that help you quickly find your way past the login and on to the parts of the site you care most about – the product and services and your account.

New users will also find a greatly-improved process of setting up a new account. Visitors will find improved explanations of membership levels, inline product descriptions, and a clear, discrete flow from decision to sign-up.

The biggest change is our member’s new home page. The old home page was certainly colorful, but it wasn’t all that helpful except to exercise your scroll-wheel finger. Rather than display the majority of account details on a single page, the new member account page is tabular and organized by related items carefully constructed to keep things on one page for most resolutions. Simply tab to the section you’re interested in to drill down to further details, make changes to your account, and review historical information. You’ll also find a new section under the “Messages” tab that will let us send important information and updates to our customers directly. A red flag will indicate when a new message is available to review. Watch for updates to DomainTools in this section!

We realized early in the design phase of this remodel that two items were critically important: improve performance AND user-experience for our customers. A few of the performance improvements implemented were detailed in an earlier post and we continue our efforts in that area as well. When delving into the user-experience modifications, we identified a need to provide customers easy access to information. There now exists a dedicated panel always visible in the My Account section with a simple, clear list and direct path to services used and reports ordered.

Stay tuned for more upgrades that will bring our customers systems that are easier to use, exciting new products and services and lots of performance enhancements.

Web Hosting Provider, Layered Technologies, Ranks on 2009 Inc. 5000

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of managed dedicated hosting, and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services, Layered Technologies, Inc., has ranked on Inc. magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000, at the No. 622 position.

The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Consumer electronics maker Vizio, Internet giant GoDaddy, rental car service Zipcar, and beverage maker Honest Tea are among the prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

Jim Melloan, project manager of the Inc. 5000 remarked, ”Savvy trend spotters and those who invest in private companies know that the Inc. 5000 is the best place to find out about young companies that are achieving success through a wide variety of unprecedented business models, as well as older private companies that are still expanding at an impressive rate. That’s why our list is so eagerly anticipated every year.”

Layered Tech, a global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services, ranked in the top 12 percent of Inc.’s list because of its three-year growth rate of 441 percent. The Plano, Texas-based company invests heavily in R and D to add new technologies and services to remain a top 10 hosting provider globally. Layered Tech evolved from an emerging dedicated hosting company to a recognized Web hosting provider whose scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and a wide array of Internet-enabled applications.

The 2009 Inc. 5000, unveiled today on Inc.com, serves as a unique report card on the U.S. economy. Despite the ongoing recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year, with a median three-year growth rate of 126 percent. The Inc. 5000 are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding, making the list perhaps the best example of the impact private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com.

This year’s list also offers a preview of which industries are poised for growth in coming years. With an average growth rate of 667 percent, Insurance ranked as the top industry overall. Government Services was the top industry gainer with 252 companies on this year’s list, up from 135 last year. Health is the top industry by both total revenue ($22.7 billion) and total employment (156,223 jobs).

Once again, California tops the Inc. 5000 with the most companies of any state with 612. The Golden State is followed by Texas (393), New York (316), Florida (263), and Virginia (261). All 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, are represented on this year’s list.

New York boasts 371 Inc. 5000 companies, making it the top metropolitan area, followed by Washington, D.C. (317), Los Angeles (253), Atlanta (209), and Chicago (203).

Bolstered by this year’s No. 1 company, Northern Capital Insurance, Insurance emerged as the top industry, with an average growth rate of 667 percent. Other strong performers include Energy (523 percent) and Government Services (491 percent).

In total, the companies on the Inc. 5000 have created more than 1 million jobs. Health is the top employer with 156,223 jobs, followed by Business Products and Services (122,911), IT Services (89,632), Food and Beverage (86,572), and Construction (65,494).

IT Services had the most companies on this year’s list with 658, followed by Business Products and Services (502), Advertising and Marketing (398), Construction (354), and Manufacturing (342).

Topping this year’s list is Northern Capital Insurance, a Miami-based firm that is helping to revolutionize Florida’s ailing insurance industry. The company generated $95 million in revenue in 2008 and an impressive three-year growth rate of 19,812 percent.

The top woman-owned company is P3S (No. 17 overall), a San Antonio – based firm that provides IT network security and physical security services, mostly to the Defense Department. P3S, owned by Mary Ellen Trevino, recorded revenue of $13.5 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 5,898 percent. The top minority-owned company is Harley Stanfield (No. 3 overall), a Washington, D.C. – based real estate investment firm that buys existing properties, makes them energy efficient, and then resells them as investment properties. Harley Stanfield, founded by Cedric Franklin, posted revenue of $38.4 million in 2008 and a three-year growth rate of 13,350 percent.

The Inc. 5000 posted an aggregate revenue of $214 billion in 2008, up nearly 16 percent from the previous year. The top five industries by total revenue include Health ($22.7 billion), Business Products and Services ($19.6 billion), Construction ($18.8 billion), Energy ($14.7 billion), and IT Services ($13.2 billion).

The Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2008. Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million. The top 10 percent of companies on the list comprise the Inc. 500, now in its 28th year.

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,961, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at Inc.com.

Each year, Inc. and Inc.com celebrate the remarkable achievements of today’s entrepreneurial superstars – the privately held small businesses that drive our economy. The Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony brings together members of the Inc. 5000 community, both a new class of Inc. 5000 honorees and the list’s alumni, for three days of powerful networking, inspired learning, and momentous celebration. Please join us September 23 – 25, 2009, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. For more information about the 2009 Inc. 500|5000 Conference and Awards Ceremony, and to register, visit www.Inc5000event.com. Stay connected with Inc. Events by following @IncEvents on Twitter.

Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and Web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.LayeredTech.com.

Justice Dept. Approves Oracle’s Purchase of Sun
August 21, 2009 — The US Department of Justice has approved Oracle’s plan to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, bringing the database provider one step closer to becoming a major contendor in the data center and cloud computing sectors.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup
August 21, 2009 — There were a number of web hosting sales and promos in the third week of August including Lunarpages’ addition of Facebook ad credits to its hosting plans and Globin’s free lifetime web hosting plan. Also, Exabytes announced additional promotions tied to Malaysia’s anniversary, and ConnectReseller had continues to discount its domain names.

Buildtelligence Acquires SEOCompany.com
August 21, 2009 — Internet marketing and SEO firm Buildtelligence Web Solutions announced last week it has acquired SEO provider SEOCompany for an undisclosed sum and has already launched a new site.

HostDime Web Hosting Firm, Certified Under U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor

Orlando, Florida – (The Hosting News) – August 18, 2009 – Managed hosting services firm, HostDime, has been certified under the United States-European Union Safe Harbor framework, which enables U.S. companies to comply with the E.U Data Protection Directive.

Michael Kahn, vice president of operations at HostDime remarked, ”Our abuse and security team spends numerous hours each day contributing to several security organizations to lend our hand in and maintaining a clean online community. Privacy and account security is something that is of utmost importance to our organization, and Safe Harbor is an excellent framework to follow for trade and privacy principles. We are eager to implement practices in our business in order to better serve the global hosting market.”

The U.S. Department of Commerce developed the Safe Harbor framework to bridge differences between U.S. and E.U. privacy law, and it is intended prevent accidental information disclosure by organizations that store customer data. The program is voluntary.

HostDime and its international divisions serve a large number of clients located in the European Union, and voluntarily compliance with the Safe Harbor framework enables the company to better serve these clients.

As part of the self-certification process, HostDime modified its privacy policy to adhere to Safe Harbor’s 7 key principles. Detailed guidance on these principles is available at www.export.gov/safeharbor/eg_main_018236.asp.

HostDime’s Safe Harbor certification may be viewed online at http://web.ita.doc.gov/safeharbor/SHList.nsf/f6cff20f4d3b8a3185256966006f7cde/e11df88c992e1a1f852575fd0065ee70?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,hostdime.

HostDime is a privately owned, leading website hosting provider offering reliable, secure managed hosting services that cater to a range of clients, from entry-level to enterprise-level operations. HostDime owns and operates its own data center in Orlando, Fla. With a client base of more than 700,000 hosted domains on 3,000 servers, HostDime presently ranks among the top 50 biggest web hosting companies in the world.

To learn more, please visit: www.hostdime.com.

WebHost Manager Server, Joomla Hosting Tutorials Released by DemoWolf

Nova Scotia, Canada – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, is offering a newly released series of Server Level tutorials designed to help server administrators. The initial release of Server Level tutorials includes 133 tutorials for WebHost Manager and PuTTY.

The new tutorials are as follows:

WebHost Manager Setup series (29 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Services series (33 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Accounts series (35 tutorials) Regular Price $119.95, SALE Price: $59.95
WebHost Manager Management series (24 tutorials) Regular Price $99.95, SALE Price: $49.95
PuTTY Enhanced series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $79.95, SALE Price: $39.95

DemoWolf is also creating a mini-bundle for those who want all the above. All 4 new Server Level series for WebHost Manager, plus the Enahnced PuTTY series for $199.95.

In addition, DemoWolf is also releasing the VOICE versions of their 84 new Joomla tutorials released last month. They are as follows:

Joomla New Setup VOICE series (20 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Admin VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New CMS VOICE series (17 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New Extensions VOICE series (18 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95
Joomla New End-User VOICE series (12 tutorials) Regular Price $159.95, SALE Price: $79.95
For those who want all 5 new Joomla VOICE series, all 5 new Joomla VOICE series are offered for $399.95

DemoWolf now has over 3,600 tutorials for hosting companies to choose from, including 1,500+ Voice tutorials, and tutorials in languages other than English including: French, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Brazilian-Portuguese, Czech and Bahasia-Indonesian.

DemoWolf exhibited at HostingCon in Washington, DC from August 10-12, 2009, where all the new tutorials were on display. Hosting companies who purchase these or any other DemoWolf tutorials, will have their own company logo inserted into the first and last frame of every tutorial, providing the host with a custom branded flash tutorial support solution to offer to their customers.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.

Reseller Web Hosting Firm. Value Reseller, Debuts Pay As You Go Plans

Flemington, New Jersey – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.

Ali Davachi, President of Value Reseller noted, ”Customers are looking for simplicity and flexibility. In the world of web hosting where plans and prices can be confusing, we heard our customers loud and clear. Our only two advanced plans are all any web hosting business needs to succeed. The new plans are backed by the best support and features in the industry.”

The new plans coincide with a re-design and re-launch of the Value Reseller website. The All You Can Eat plan provides unlimited web sites, unlimited bandwidth and transfer, unlimited disk space and 100 free control panel accounts for only $297 per month. For a limited time only to celebrate the launch, the price is reduced to only $197 per month.

The Pay As You Go Plan is only $0.50 per GB of disk space and $4 per GB of traffic.

Both plans include:

-24 x 7 x 365 live phone support
-completely automated account creation and billing process
-guaranteed 100% uptime, guaranteed satisfaction
-full-featured control panels with sitebuilders, web-based email, blogging/forum software and more
-flexibility to offer both Linux and Windows hosting

Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners and is fully committed to helping them succeed. Value Reseller provides a private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime.

Mr. Davachi added, ”Our next-generation platform of ‘cloud hosting’ makes this possible. The era of dedicated servers is gone. Cloud hosting provides maximum flexibility, scalability and reliability for Value Reseller customers.”

For newer web hosts, Value Reseller offers a $9.95 Linux only plan and a $19.95 Windows and Linux plan.

Value Reseller, established in 1998 with facilities in Boston, MA and Jersey City, NJ, is a privately owned private label web hosting provider focused exclusively on the reseller market. Hosting services offered include shared hosting, enterprise virtualization, virtual private and dedicated servers, and are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. All of Value Reseller’s services are backed by a leading edge datacenter infrastructure and network, and supported live 24/7/365 by technicians and customer service professionals. Value Reseller features a next-generation hosting platform built on the principles of cloud computing, making it possible to guarantee 100% uptime availability. This platform is the foundation from which Value Reseller has been able to offer customers hosting for unlimited domains — one of the biggest breakthroughs in web hosting over the past 10 years. Value Reseller is committed to enabling the success of its resellers and does not participate in the retail market in competition with its partners. With a complete private label service, web developers, ISPs, design shops and Internet professionals have everything they need to build a successful hosting business or enhance their existing offerings.

To learn more about Value Reseller, please visit: www.valuereseller.com.

As Heat Rises in France, Equinix Facility Suffers Cooling Outage
August 21, 2009 — As France continues to face a heat wave, a Paris-area Equinix data center has suffered a Wednesday night cooling outage, leaving some customer services offline for hours, according to a Data Center Knowledge report.

Parallels Web Hosting Server Virtualization, Releases Panel 10 Public Beta

Renton, Washington – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has released its Panel 10 SMB Edition, which, along with and Parallels Partner Marketplace, is designed to enable hosters to quickly and easily deliver commercial SaaS offerings in the cloud.

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Division at Parallels noted, ”Parallels has been working on a number of best-of-breed ISVs over recent years to launch these offerings. We’re bringing ISVs and hosters together and helping both become more profitable.”

The comprehensive solution introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace, which enables hosters to rapidly enter the growing software-as-a-service market and provides SMBs access to a number of IT and business applications, such as e-commerce, customer relationship management, human resources, accounting, video conferencing, web content management, e-mail and more.

Parallels Partner Marketplace is a central feature of Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition control panel and lets hosters rapidly profit from the growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market by offering the most popular applications through the control panel, says the company. It further avers saying that Parallels Panel delivers access to best of breed software and services, such as Interspire’s e-mail marketing and Pinnacle Cart’s e-Commerce shopping cart. Provider Partners can easily and quickly offer SaaS offerings with no development effort of their own through the combination of the new Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition and a co-branded Parallels Partner Marketplace storefront that Parallels provides. For independent software vendors (ISVs), Parallels Partner Marketplace offers a straight-forward, cost-efficient way to reach new audiences and create new revenue streams.

Craig Fox, Founder and VP of Product Development, at Pinnacle Cart added, ”We are happy to have joined forces with Parallels Partner Marketplace. Parallels Partner Marketplace lets hosters deliver SaaS quickly and cost-effectively and simultaneously provides SMBs with the applications they need to stay competitive. Now we can easily offer our e-Commerce Shopping Cart to potentially millions of SMBs through Parallels Partner Marketplace.”

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, o company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Web Hosting Shared Services of Host The Best, Placed with Enotch Technologies

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Enotch Technologies will handle the shared hosting services of Host The Best, in order to enable the web hosting firm to focus exclusively on proving software solutions for other Web hosting providers.

Andy Candelario, director of business development for Host The Best remarked, ”For nearly five years, Host The Best has been a leader in both eeb hosting and software development, but the increasing growth of our software business has made it difficult for us to maintain the level of brand clarity we need. We’re confident that we will be able to maintain Host The Best’s position as an innovative, dynamic provider of software solutions.”

Host The Best offers nearly two dozen software products, in addition to providing custom software development services. By spinning off the hosting division, Host The Best is able to more directly work with other Web hosting providers in developing and implementing software solutions to solve key business challenges. The company is currently developing several software modules that interface with the WHMCS billing system and provide greater functionality for administrators.

Existing Web hosting customers will now be served under the Enotch Technologies brand. The company does not have any immediate plans to make changes to the hosting infrastructure or standard hosting plan configurations. Enotch Technologies / Enotch Networks currently provide shared hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and reseller services.

Founded in 2004, Host The Best develops and deploys innovative software solutions for Web hosting providers and Internet users. Its popular products include HTB eMail Protector, HTB Online Storage, HTB Monitoring script, and HTB Site Monitor. Host The Best is based in New York City, New York.

To learn more, please visit: www.hostthebest.com.

Web Hosting, Enhanced Managed Virtual Private Servers, Premiered at WiredTree

Chicago, Illinois – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2009 – Provider of Managed Dedicated, Managed Hybrid and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting solutions, WiredTree, has restructured its Managed VPS hosting plans and moved customers up to the next-highest plan, without changing its pricing structure.

Zac Cogswell, President of WiredTree explained, ”We have invested thousands of dollars over the past few months upgrading our infrastructure to support these increased allocations to ensure our customers are receiving he best value for their money. Nearly every client will receive a memory and bandwidth upgrade and some will receive a disk space upgrade as well – and we’re doing it without raising prices.”

As part of its restructuring, WiredTree has phased out its lowest-end configuration, the VPS384 plan. It also added a new high-end configuration, the VPS1024 plan, which provides 1024MB guaranteed SLM RAM, 80GB of RAID-10 Disk Space, and 1000GB of monthly data transfer. Each existing VPS account will be leveled up a step from its current plan. For example, customers currently hosting on the VPS384 plan will be upgraded to the new VPS512 plan; customers hosting on the VPS768 plan will be upgraded to the VPS1024 plan.

In addition to plan upgrades, WiredTree has added several new features to its Managed VPS services. Namely, VPS customers now have access to the WiredTree private network, a secure, fully routed internal network that offers free data transfer between WiredTree severs. The company has also added IPMI monitoring for all VPS accounts, enabling customers to monitor the physical health of their servers remotely.

Formed in June 2006 to set a new standard for managed hosting, WiredTree provides a superior managed hosting environment through customer service, innovative network design, a unique suite of services, and the latest technological advances in server hardware. WiredTree designed a network that leverages two logically separated networks – a public Internet network and a private internal network. This modern network-within-a-network design allows the company to securely provide a wide range of value-added services for business of all sizes.

To learn more about Managed VPS from WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com/managedvps.

For more information about WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com.

Teraco Adds Carrier to Johannesburg Data Center
August 21, 2009 — South African colocation provider Teraco announced this week that it has added physical network provider Dark Fibre Africa to its Johannesburg data center.

Web Hosting Data Centers from Fortune, Participate in PG&E Energy Program

San Jose, California – (The Hosting News) – August 18, 2009 – Premium wholesale data center space for corporate customers provider, Fortune Data Centers, has instituted energy efficiency measures as part of the company’s participation in PG and E’s High Tech Energy Efficiency program.

John Sheputis, CEO of Fortune Data Centers noted, ”We are firmly committed to energy efficiency while minimizing our impact on the environment, which is exemplified in our San Jose facility. And, a big priority is reducing costs for our customers. Our data center is one of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centers in Silicon Valley and allows us to pass along significant cost savings to our customers.”

It is estimated that the new efficiency measures will save 10,448,592 Kilowatts per year – equivalent to powering 1,500 homes annually or the reduction of 4,200 tons of CO2, as calculated by PG and E.

PG and E’s High Tech Energy Efficiency program provides technical services and analysis of energy efficiency measures to companies like Fortune Data Centers. The California utility offers incentives for a broad portfolio of technologies, including virtualization/consolidation, massive array of idle disks (MAID) data storage systems, high efficiency power conditioning and delivery equipment, PC network management software, and strategies for lowering air conditioning energy use and costs.

An independent engineering firm analyzed the design documents for Fortune’s flagship data center project in San Jose, then provided Fortune and PG and E estimates of energy savings. Fortune Data Centers received an incentive award of over $900,000 from PG and E to partially offset the premium costs of the energy efficiency design improvements which Fortune implemented.

Fortune Data Centers reconstructed a former clean room facility and built it into a highly efficient data center with an exceptional Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.37 – far superior to the industry average PUE of 2.0, and better than the EPA’s 2011 target PUE of 1.45 for state-of-the-art enterprise-class data centers. To achieve such a rating, Fortune Data Centers invested in highly-efficient infrastructure components, selecting critical components such as Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs) based on their energy efficiency ratings.

Mechanical improvements included Fortune’s redesigning the cooling system to minimize the power required for air distribution. Rather than use a traditional raised floor, Fortune elected to supply cold air from an overhead plenum to take advantage of the natural density of cold air and the buoyancy of hot air. Other steps included changing the coils in the air handlers to improve energy efficiency.

Mark Bramfitt, principal program manager for high tech programs for PG and E added, ”PG and E commends Fortune Data Centers for renovating its existing facility into a world class energy-efficient data center. For more than 30 years, PG and E has worked with our customers to help them become more energy efficient and save money. We are proud to have provided technical assistance and financial incentives to support Fortune’s commitment to energy efficiency.”

Fortune Data Centers was founded to create a class of industrial grade data centers for corporate clients seeking a cost-effective alternative to the prospect of in-house development and facility management. Fortune’s San Jose facility is designed to provide best in class reliability and total value for large scale deployments of mission critical applications. The property meets or exceeds the toughest industry standards for data centers-in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. Fortune is a privately held company, founded in 2006.

To learn more about Fortune Data Centers, please visit: www.fortunedatacenters.com.

Nexcess To Launch Magento SIP Reseller Plan
August 21, 2009 — Web hosting service provider Nexcess.Net has announced an upcoming expansion of its popular e-commerce web hosting plan based around open-source e-commerce platform Magento.

Symantec Names the 100 “Dirtiest” Websites of the Summer
August 21, 2009 — In an effort to determine which sites are safe to visit, security, storage and systems management solutions provider Symantec has identified the “Dirtiest websites of Summer 2009,” a list of the 100 most threatening sites that try to deceive visitors, steal their information or crash their computer.

Web Hosting and Data Center Customers, Offered SoftLayer, VeriSign SSL

Mountain View, California – (The Hosting News) – August 18, 2009 – SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., provider of global, on-demand data center and hosting services, and VeriSign, Inc., provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, have formed a partnership to bring the entire line of VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates to SoftLayer customers.

Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign noted, ”Businesses of every size need a fully automated SSL solution that delivers complete access, control, security and scalability. This partnership with SoftLayer enables thousands of businesses to manage a range of SSL protections within the management console they use every day. We’re proud to partner with SoftLayer, and we look forward to delivering world-class security solutions to SoftLayer customers for years to come.”

In expanding its security offerings, SoftLayer will also carry Extended Validation (EV) SSL solutions and SSL Certificates from GeoTrust, another VeriSign brand. The alliance enables SoftLayer to deliver VeriSign and GeoTrust SSL protection to customers of all sizes. To simplify SSL deployment and management for its customers, SoftLayer will integrate SSL security into its innovative management console.

VeriSign EV SSL Certificates offer a proven safeguard against phishing scams that lure unsuspecting consumers to sites that can appear almost identical to genuine Web pages. Identity thieves use these fraudulent pages to capture credit card numbers, passwords and other valuable personal information. When visiting sites protected by VeriSign EV SSL, Internet users using high security browsers see a green address bar. The green bar tells consumers they have reached a web site whose authenticity has been certified by VeriSign. An EV SSL Certificate triggers visual cues beyond the green address bar, including a new field that contains the name of the organization that owns the site and in some cases the name of the security provider that issued the certificate.

George Karidis, chief strategy officer at SoftLayer remarked, ”Everything SoftLayer does, from hosting to data storage to security, centers on connecting our customers with the best, most reliable technology, and that’s what VeriSign brings to our security portfolio. SSL security is critical to managed hosting and enterprise application hosting. With this range of SSL options – from VeriSign SSL and GeoTrust SSL up to state-of-the-art VeriSign EV SSL protection – our customers can protect themselves and everyone who visits their web sites or uses their hosted applications. And with VeriSign, that protection comes from the most trusted SSL authority on the web.”

As the most respected and trusted SSL authority on the web, VeriSign is the EV SSL Certificate provider of choice for more than 12,000 Internet domain names, representing 74 percent of the entire EV SSL Certificate market worldwide. In fact, over 95 percent of the Fortune 500 and 96 of the world’s 100 largest SSL-using banks secure their sites with SSL Certificates from VeriSign.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, Texas; Seattle, Wash.; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

VeriSign, Inc. is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. Billions of times each day, VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world engage in communications and commerce with confidence.

To learn more about VeriSign, please visit: www.verisign.com.

For more about VeriSign EV SSL, please visit: www.verisign.com/EV-SSL.

To learn more information about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Google Search Engine Releases New Social Gadgets, Features, for iGoogle

Mountain View, California – (The Hosting News) – August 20, 2009 – Search engine, Google, has launched new gadgets designed to leverage Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S., including ways to share content, play games and collaborate on the iGoogle page.

A few examples of the new social gadgets include:

• Content Sharing – NPR enables users to browse through latest headlines across a variety of categories and share the stories that interest them with friends. With the Flixster gadget, users can rate and review movies or browse what films their friends have reviewed or found interesting. Users can now also view their friend’s favorites comics stories or post comments with the GoComics gadget.
• Games and Fun – The Scrabble and Chess gadgets enable users to play two of their favorite games with their friends or the public at large. Users can also see which of their friends has the biggest brain or immerse themselves in a New York Times Crossword where they can complete a given week’s puzzle with the help of their friends.
• Communication/tools – Users can share multiple lists with friends with the social To-do gadget. It’s easy to add and remove items, mark items done, change priorities and edit item descriptions with friends or family. The Social Photos gadget enables users to upload and share their albums from Flickr and Picasa, as well as browse their friend’s albums or top Photos.

As part of the launch, Google also introduced two new features on iGoogle called a Friends group and Updates. A Friends group is a list of friends users can create based on a subset of users’ Google Contacts to be able to interact and share social gadgets with. Updates allows users to see what their friends are up to by sharing gadgets, photos, ratings and more from the social gadgets on their iGoogle page. The new social features are completely optional and can be disabled on any social gadget if users do not want to take advantage of the new features. In addition, not all gadgets on iGoogle are social-enabled and those which are will be marked with a special icon.

iGoogle’s mission is to quickly connect users to the information that is most useful and important to them in an easy-to-use and customizable format. This is just the beginning and Google will continue to offer users more choices that enable them to create a powerful and personalized homepage. For developers and content owners, social gadgets allow more possibilities for building rich and compelling gadgets. In addition, not only can developers take advantage of iGoogle’s growing audience of users to promote their gadgets and drive additional awareness and traffic back to their websites, but they can also earn revenue from their gadgets on iGoogle by placing ads in the canvas view mode of their gadgets.

iGoogle, Google’s personalized homepage, lets users customize their internet experience, choosing the content they’re interested in seeing. Users can access weather forecasts, movie times, play games, or read the latest news, all directly from their homepage.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry’s most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google’s technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor’s Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

For a full list of highlighted social gadgets, see www.google.com/igsocial.

For more information on Google, please visit: www.google.com.