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Carlisle, Pennsylvania - (The Hosting News) - October 8, 2008 - Web hosting control panel facilitator, Installatron, has released a new global importer tool,
designed for installs created with Fantastico, Application Vault and CPAddon Scripts.

In addition, by extension, the tool installs applications created with CPSkins Auto-Installer Pro, and CPSkins PSA-Installer Pro.

Rowan Crawford, co-founder of Installatron noted, ”This tool will allow web-hosting providers to quickly and easily migrate to Installatron without interrupting their user’s existing installed software.”

According to Mr. Rowan, the release of the converter tool coincides with the public availability of a free ’single-domain,’ edition of Installatron, which ”provides full functionality on the first domain Installatron installs a script on, and replaces the old three-day demonstration license we used to have for testing. This free edition is installed in a minute, and can be upgraded to the unlimited-domains edition seamlessly with the simple purchase of a license.”

Installatron is a web script auto-installer and auto-upgrader plugin for the cPanel/WHM, DirectAdmin, and Plesk Linux web-hosting control panels. It was launched in 2004, and is the only true multi-platform auto-installer system.

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

Honolulu, Hawaii - (The Hosting News) - October 8, 2008 - Data center provider, PHASE 2 International, has appointed a new Vice President of Sales. Mike Peterson comes to PHASE 2 with nearly 25 years of sales executive experience in Fortune 100 companies, including IBM and Cisco Systems.

Kevin Doherty, CEO of PHASE 2 noted, ”We’ve been expanding our sales team in an effort to service the continuing demand for - and success of - our SaaS offerings. Mike is charged with building and managing a global sales presence. It’s truly a testament to our continuing success that we are able to recruit executives with his pedigree.”

Mr. Peterson joins PHASE 2 with a wealth of experience gained over the past 24 years in technology sales. He has built and managed sales organizations in excess of $150M. A high-achieving sales, channel management and marketing leader, his talents in opening markets, managing a geographically dispersed sales force and closing business are well-demonstrated. His experience-building years took him from technical consultative account management to executive management with three Fortune 100 tech companies and a leading privately held tech company.

Mr. Peterson added, ”Having worked in large, Fortune 100 company environments as well as in smaller technology startups, I have built a good overall understanding of what works and doesn’t work - both for a sales team and for the customer. I am thrilled to join a company with the energy and innovation that PHASE 2 demonstrates. It’s going to be great to move this company to the next level as we expand markets and cross borders.”

PHASE 2’s SaaS application solutions include its ShareCAD Pro, a powerful centralized platform based on Microsoft SharePoint for contractors, architects and manufacturers; and a host of other applications that it provides to customers on a central server-based ‘pay as you go’ basis. Offering use of Microsoft’s SharePoint, Exchange, Project Server, CRM, Office Communicator and Team Foundation Server, as well as PHASE 2’s own ShareMeeting, the low total cost of ownership incorporated in PHASE 2’s SaaS model allows customers to benefit from a broader range of products than they could otherwise consider.

PHASE 2 International delivers affordable and scalable access to high-end business software applications via a Software as a Service - SaaS - model. Ideal for businesses of all sizes, and especially practical for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the hosted applications available through PHASE 2 currently include Microsoft SharePoint, ‘Exchange,’ Project Server, CRM and Office Communicator along with PHASE2’s ShareMeeting and award-winning ShareCAD Pro. All of PHASE 2’s business applications are delivered across the web to enable on-demand access to corporate information whenever and wherever in the world the user happens to be. PHASE 2’s SaaS solutions ensure a scalable and secure IT foundation that provides scalability for future requirements, automatic data back-up, along with the most reliable, state-of-the-art infrastructure that removes the burden and risks of hosting solutions internally.

PHASE 2, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, and operates a secure, state-of-the-art data center.

To learn more, please visit: www.Phase2.com.

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - October 7, 2008 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has introduced Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 on its Windows 2008 hosting platform.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ”Delivering on our goal to provide customers with maximum control over their hosting environment, we now offer a powerful URL Rewrite feature on our Windows 2008 hosting platform. We are sure that this feature will be a popular tool, especially in enabling search engine friendly URLs for dynamic applications.”

The URL Rewrite Module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for manipulating requested URLs before they are processed by the web server. This module can make rewriting decisions based on server variables and HTTP headers, and can also handle logic that use regular expressions. In addition, the new module can perform redirects, send custom responses, and abort requests.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, DiscountASP.NET is an innovative global leader in Microsoft Windows hosting. DiscountASP.NET is one of the first hosts to offer Windows 2008 shared hosting, SQL 2008 hosting, and was voted Best ASP.NET Hosting Service in the asp.netPRO Magazine 2008 Readers’ Choice poll for four consecutive years. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting in the US and UK.

For more information about DiscountASP.NET, please visit: www.discountasp.net.

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 7, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has added Global Server Load Balancing to its portfolio of on-demand data center solutions.

Providing customers with a highly redundant fail-over solution that also helps decrease the distance between content and its final destination, the solution is designed to improve service reliability and content delivery.

Jacob Linscott, Director of Information Systems at SoftLayer noted, ”This is the power of our seamless infrastructure and geographic diversity intertwined. Regardless of their size or business, any of our customers can use it to improve their availability and performance. We are proud to continually find more ways to leverage our unique advantages to create industry-leading, enterprise-class services.”

The Global Server Load Balancing service stores content and applications in a cluster of servers distributed across SoftLayer’s data center locations in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. Hardware load balancers constantly monitor the clustered servers’ health. When a load balancer receives a request for content, it uses advanced algorithms to choose and direct the request to the healthiest server in the best location relative to where the content will be delivered.

Businesses that host applications and services can use SoftLayer’s Global Server Load Balancing service to gain higher:

• Scalability - new servers can be added to clusters as content demands increase
• Availability - user requests are always routed to an available server
• Predictability - critical applications will remain available for user requests

The new service starts at $99.00 per month and includes service for 1 domain name and up to 8 web servers. It is fully manageable through SoftLayer’s industry-leading Customer Portal and API, and online order form. It joins additional SoftLayer services that utilize the company’s geographically diverse infrastructure, including the recently announced, geographically redundant Anycast DNS service.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA and Washington DC. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry’s first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

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

Ann Arbor, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - October 7, 2008 - Web hosting provider, A2 Hosting, has debuted the launch of its FutureServe Green Hosting, designed to protect and improve ecological conditions for current and future generations.

A2 Hosting applies a number of global protection practices in everyday actions. According to the company, FutureServe isn’t just about providing carbon neutral hosting solutions to help the fight against global warming and climate change.

FutureServe Green Hosting can be broken down into three distinct, but interrelated divisions. These divisions are:

• A2 Hosting’s Carbon Offsets
• Employee Eco Protection Practices
• Hosting Equipment Energy Reduction

In association with the United State’s leading carbon reduction and offset organization, Carbonfund.org, A2 Hosting is strongly committed to offsetting its server emissions. The objective of its Carbon offsets is to balance its web servers’ release of carbon dioxide by using a combination of products, practices and resources that save an equivalent (and likely additional) amount of CO2.

Carbon offsets allow A2 Hosting to take responsibility and to mitigate CO2 emissions from everyday business activities. Besides daily green friendly practices, A2 Hosting carbon offsets are further established by supporting renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation projects via its support of Carbonfund.org. Its partnership with Carbonfund.org allows them to promote the continued development of clean, renewable domestic sources of energy and help reduce CO2 emissions on not just a local scale, but globally as well. Employee Eco Protection Practices A2 Hosting employs a number of everyday environmentally friendly practices.

The company also strives to search for additional ways to pitch in to reduce its carbon footprint. A few examples of its daily green friendly practices include the use of reusable office supplies, telecommuting practices and recycling older equipment. Further details can be found below: Reusable office supplies - the company has eliminated Styrofoam and plastic office waste at its headquarters.

A2 Hosting encourages employees to use thermoses, mugs and reusable drinking containers rather than disposable containers.

Its office also uses towels as opposed to paper towels. Telecommuting A2 Hosting has various telecommuting practices to reduce vehicle emissions caused by daily commutes by employees to its office. The company recycles its retired computers by using them as internal servers, dedicated servers for clients with lower resource requirements and by reselling them to the public instead of discarding them.

Hosting Equipment Energy Reduction Offsetting emissions and its daily eco friendly actions are two of the three divisions of FutureServe. The third division centers on A2 Hosting’s efforts to use energy efficient web hosting equipment. The company’s use of Low Voltage Xeon Processors, Power Efficient DDR2 Memory and Power Saving Hard Drives are three energy reducing practices. Low Voltage Xeon Processors A2 Hosting utilizes Xeon Processors, known for their energy efficiency thanks in part to their cooling design.

The company’s Low Volatage Xeon processors offer 3 times higher performance per watt compared to older, more inefficient CPUs. Power Efficient DDR2 Memory A2 Hosting pays particular attention to server memory power consumption as memory consumes around 15% of data center energy. A2 Hosting’s servers utilize DDR2 Memory. DDR2 uses 1.5 volt power consumption technology, an ultimate power reducing solution. Power Saving Hard Drives Our power saving hard drives consume 40% less power and 4-5 less watts than competing hard drives.

Customers also experience faster system readiness during re-boots because less current is used during start up.

Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, A2 Hosting, Inc. is a web hosting company focused on satisfying customers’ needs. A2 Hosting Linux web hosting features include server backup technology, Server Rewind, as well as services such as Guru Crew Hosting Support, with a 99.9% Uptime guarantee.

For more information about A2 Hosting, please visit: www.a2hosting.com.

Vancouver, Washington - (The Hosting News) - October 7, 2008 - Eartthlink’s New Edge Networks’ online gateway for customers and partners, has received a value award from global research and growth consulting firm, Frost and Sullivan.

Lynda Stadtmueller, senior research analyst for business communications services at Stratecast, a division of Frost and Sullivan remarked, ”New Edge Networks’ MyEdge portal stands out for its ease of use and array of innovative features and tools that anticipate customer needs. The MyEdge portal is an outstanding communications and collaboration tool that offers significant value to customers by allowing them greater control over their distributed networks and their New Edge Networks accounts. New Edge Networks has identified its portal as a strategic initiative, and continually solicits and acts on feedback from customers and partners to improve the customer experience.”

Each year, Frost and Sullivan presents its customer value award for business customer portals to the company that has best demonstrated the ability to serve its customer base with more innovative e-servicing strategies than competing vendors. New Edge Networks will receive its award during a banquet on Dec. 3 in San Antonio.

In presenting the 2008 North American Customer Value Award for best business portal for large and distributed enterprises, Frost and Sullivan noted that New Edge Networks’ portal offers customers one-stop access to an online portfolio of ordering, billing, trouble ticketing, network performance and collaboration tools. Frost and Sullivan reviewed and assessed online portals offered by seven leading national communications providers based on predetermined criteria. Researchers also conducted interviews with business users.

Greg Griffiths, Vice President of marketing for New Edge Networks noted, ”This award is an affirmation of the strategic importance New Edge Networks places on a portal that delights. This is one of seven tenets we track for measuring customer satisfaction. A highly functional customer-facing portal is essential for both our customers and our company to drive efficiency, cost savings and customer satisfaction.”

In addition to the basic portal capabilities such as role-based permissions, bill viewing, ordering, trouble reporting and ticketing, and network performance management functions, New Edge Networks’ MyEdge portal also demonstrates ‘best-in-class’ characteristics that aide in maximizing efficiency. Among these are: — A mapping feature powered by Google Maps that provides both high-level network visibility and the ability to click on each location for detailed site data — Track routers and customer premises equipment returns — Site installation monitoring — Real time access to technician notes — Live chat with network operation center technicians. A copy of the Frost and Sullivan’s award description, measurement and selection criteria is available at www.newedgenetworks.com/frost/mns.

New Edge Networks, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a wholly owned subsidiary of EarthLink Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK). New Edge Networks builds and manages private networks for businesses and communications providers. Through its nationwide backbone network with almost 900 switches and Internet routers, New Edge Networks uses any blend of network and access technologies (MPLS, frame relay, ATM, xDSL, cable, wireless, and satellite) for providing high-speed connections at any business address in the United States. Network options include any combination of access, network management functions, and on-site installation services.

For more information about New Edge Networks, please visit: www.newedgenetworks.com.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - October 6, 2008 - International business hosting services firm, LeaseWeb, has appointed the co-founder of INHOPE, the European Association of Internet Hotlines,Alex de Joode, as its Security Officer. As Security Officer, Mr. de Joode will engage in combating […]

Winston, Salem - (The Hosting News) - October 6, 2008 - SolidSpace today announced its enhanced core service offering and unveils a new website to reflect its shift toward providing Managed Services and other IT services via the Internet.

Jim Capps, President and CEO, SolidSpace, LLC remarked, ”SolidSpace has always focused on offering scalable IT solutions backed by unwavering technical support. By enhancing our core service offering we can meet the needs of an every changing IT services industry more quickly and efficiently. Remote IT services make data center level expertise available to businesses of all sizes, allowing them to optimize IT budgets and become more competitive.”

SolidSpace’s new website showcases the recent additions to their Managed Services line, along with a fresh clean style, user-friendly navigation and enhanced customer center. The website’s redesign puts critical decision making information at visitor’s figure tips, such as a new Frequently Asked Questions section, site search field and case studies.

As more businesses begin to develop operating strategies around hosted applications and Software as a Service models, SolidSpace’s new line of Availability Monitoring, Server Health Check and Remote Managed Services provides small to mid-size businesses the tools to affordably maintain these networks and applications.

Andrea Rice, Chief Operating Officer, SolidSpace, LLC remarked, ”The new website not only shares our expanded focus on innovative hosted and remote IT solutions but it also gives visitors a sense of the people who make SolidSpace an awarding winning company for its technical support and mid-size business IT solutions. Our customer center upgrades make a busy system administrator’s daily tasks easier by providing online support request and remote server access, which is just the beginning of many more advances to come.”

With further IT service innovations already in the planning, SolidSpace will continue aligning itself as a partner to technology driven businesses, making unwavering technical support and scalable, cost effective IT solutions its paramount focus.

SolidSpace, LLC is a provider of IT hosting and network solutions, enabling small to mid-size businesses to benefit from Enterprise Level IT services economically. SolidSpace’s solutions provide onsite and remote IT services, website, application, and database hosting, managed services, collocation and broadband services. SolidSpace, LLC is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC and is a portfolio company of SilkRoad Equity LLC.

SilkRoad Equity is a private investment firm founded by Andrew J. ”Flip” Filipowski and Matthew Roszak. SilkRoad Equity targets investments in the areas of technology, life sciences, media and entertainment and real estate, and is comprised of a portfolio of companies that includes: Cryo-Cell International, House of Blues, InterAct911, Mastro Auctions, MissionMode Solutions, onramp Branding, Pendulab, Primo Water, Rakote, SilkRoad technology, SolidSpace, TrueSystems and Vion Mobile.

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

San Mateo, California - (The Hosting News) - October 6, 2008 - Through the Etelos Marketplace, Exadel has two applications, with Exadel Fiji and Exadel dVision. Exadel is a provider of Web 2.0-based enterprise solutions and professional services and brings two of its more innovative solutions to the Marketplace.

Donna Burke, Vice President of Marketing at Exadel noted, ”Our web applications can be deployed into an enterprise to help with data access, better decision making and simplified processes. Distributing our applications through the Etelos Marketplace makes it easier for us to be innovative and provide quality applications to businesses.”

The Etelos Marketplace provides application developers and application consumers together, making the distribution, consumption and use of web-based applications more streamlined.

Exadel’s offerings serve important market needs. Exadel’s Fiji provides application developers with a natural and simple way to introduce the richness and capabilities of Adobe Flex into applications developed using the popular JSF framework. Exadel dVision is a quick-to-deploy, web-based data browser that provides business users direct access to data stored in disparate enterprise data sources. dVision allows users to create spreadsheets with real-time collaborative data to improve the decision-making process for organizations.

Danny Kolke, Founder and CTO of Etelos remarked, ”The Etelos Marketplace is designed to give application developers the peace of mind that their applications are being distributed and consumed, which allows them to focus on innovation and solving business problems. Exadel is providing quality applications that benefit businesses of any size.”

Etelos provides on-demand browser-based applications on the hosting environment that you choose. Etelos technology for developing and deploying on-demand applications is revolutionizing the world of software distribution. The Etelos Marketplace gives developers an easy way to license, distribute and host their applications, and businesses a wide selection of fully customizable, on-demand applications. Etelos, Etelos CRM, Etelos Projects, and Etelos Marketplace are trademarks of Etelos, Inc.; other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Exadel Inc. is the leading provider of innovative Web 2.0 application software and professional services that help organizations deploy the rich Internet applications they need to claim leadership in their markets. The company specializes in delivering fast, scalable and cost-effective solutions that leverage a global sourcing model and Open Source technologies to reduce application lifecycle costs and improve overall productivity. Exadel also offers a comprehensive suite of enterprise information access solutions that makes the next generation of collective business intelligence software as collaborative and easy to use as the web.

Founded in 1998, Exadel is privately owned with headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area and development offices located in New York, Chicago, Minsk, Moscow and Ukraine.

To learn more about Etelos, please visit www.etelos.com.

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

Reading, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - October 6, 2008 - Managed dedicated hosting provider, DediPower, celebrates its 10th anniversary, with customers ranging in size from growing Internet businesses to large, well-established multinational organizations.

Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower noted, ”It is exciting to see DediPower the strength and size it is today. Throughout the years many people have played a part in the success of DediPower, we would not be the company we are today without their contributions. We believe that DediPower has set the standard against which hosting providers are measured. What sets us apart from the rest is our people and how the customer is at the heart of everything we do.”

With origins in web development, founders, its founders, Craig Martin, Spencer Tarring and Russell Champion, identified the growing need for reliable and effective web hosting solutions for their clients in the late 90’s. This exciting market opportunity changed the direction of the company that today is focused on delivering dedicated hosting solutions in its two UK enterprise class data centers.

Hosting is a dynamic and ever changing sector in IT upon which DediPower has had a significant impact through delivering consistently high levels of customer satisfaction combined with a deep understanding of the underlying technology as it has evolved. Awarded ‘best managed host honors by Top Hosts, DediPower has grown organically through its customer centric approach to business.

DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting Partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self-funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK.

For further information, please visit: www.dedipower.com.