Archive for April 2008
ASP.net hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has received asp.netPRO Magazine’s 2008 Best ASP.NET Hosting Service Award for the fourth consecutive year. The readers of the magazine decided the winner of this year, considering over 20 categories such as Best IDE, Best Forum Application and Best Hosting Services. The company is thankful to asp.netPRO magazine’s readers and expresses that it is proud to win this title and get credit for its good job.
asp.netPRO provides information for the ASP.NET developers. It helps software programmers building, distributing and running dynamic web applications. Its magazine and website are two big instruments to convey the information. DiscountASP.NET, a shared hosting provider, has been specializing on ASP.NET and SQL database hosting. It’s a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and one of the first hosts to offer Windows 2008 hosting, and .NET 3.5 hosting supporting LINQ and ASP.NET AJAX hosting. Last month, DiscountASP.NET started to integrate Microsoft Windows 2008 Hosting with its hosting infrastructure. The company agreed to partnership with Telerik a short time ago.

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Shared hosting provider SoftLayer declared that it’s sponsoring eMazing Guitar Hero 3 contest that will take place in Wildflower! Music and Art Festival in Richardson, Texas between May 16 and May 18. About 60,000 participants will compete for a trip to Rocklahoma, which is a 4-day rock concert featuring Guitar Hero 3 game’s artists.
Softlayer has been providing eMazing with necessary hosting services for online game tournaments and other activities. The company expresses that the sponsorship is a result of the close relationship between both companies and it is happy to support such an event where the company shows that it has got more than just offering reliable services on powering online gaming industry.

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Peer 1, a dedicated hosting provider, declared the release of the second episode of “Growing Pains,” which is a part of the company’s “We Get It” campaign. The second episode will play first at Interlop, Las Vegas between April 29 and May 1. People who watches this episode can make their own video sharing their own hosting growing pains, attempts and struggles in creating their businesses’ online presences. Then, they just need to upload it and wait to be selected.
The most creative and original video will be awarded with 12 months of managed dedicated hosting services for free (worth $6,500), an Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch 2.5 GHz Laptop (worth $2,500 US), and a Sony HD Camcorder HDRSR10 (worth $1,000 US). Peer 1’s We Get It campaign started in December 2007. The idea behind is to show the experiences of web hosting customers.

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Hostopia, a leading web services provider for small to medium businesses declared that Luxomovera, Uplinkearth operator, agreed to sell its customer assets. According to the agreement, Uplinkearth’s 12,500 business customers will be transferred to Hostopia. Hostopia announces that it will provide these customers under Uplinkearth brand. The company decides to provide managed dedicated services under the name Uplinkearth. The migration to Hostopia’s unified operating platform plans to be completed by June 30.
Uplinkearth has been offering web hosting, website design and online marketing services since 1997. The company’s servers contain more than 30,000 websites in 190 countries worldwide. On the other side, Hostopia has been focusing on communication services. It has customers such as telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars resell web services that they buy from Hostopia under their own brand names to small-medium businesses.

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Dedicated hosting provider Peak 10 announced that it will continue serving Cedar Fair Entertainment Company with managed services. The renewal of the service has been reported on Monday. Cedar Fair expressed that it’s been satisfied with the service of Peak 10 indicating that the company keeps improving its databases and building a reliable and safe environment for Cedar Fair to increase revenue, lower costs and maximize internal resources for clients. At the same time, it takes advantage of the Peak 10’s database location to keep critical information technology assets close to the business.Peak 10’s datacenter in Charlotte, North Carolina is situated close to one of Cedar Fair’s parks. 
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iWeb, a shared and dedicated hosting provider declared that it will support Shutdown Day 2008. Shutdown Day is a candidate of one of the biggest global experiments ever attempted on the Internet. This Quebec based non-profit organization tries to get as many people as possible not to use their computers on May 3 for the whole day. Shutdown Day’s goal is to find out how many participants they can get together, figure out a number and observe the consequences of this project.
On this special day, iWeb will keep its web hosting services on and make sure that everything works properly. The company is aware of the purpose of the project and happy to do what it can even though there is a clear contradiction between the company’s business idea and Shutdown’s project idea.

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Level 3 Communications , a colocation hosting provider, declared that its global streaming platform is enabled with Adobe Flash Media Server 3. The company operates one of the biggest communications and Internet backbones in the world, focusing on providing premier services over one of the world’s most advanced, IP-optimized networks. The company provides international communication solutions to a wide range of enterprise, wholesale, and content customers connecting, 180 markets in 18 countries.
Level 3’s customers will benefit this collaboration, meeting their increasing demands for advanced communications solutions. Working together with Adobe titles Level 3 as Adobe Premier Authorized Flash Video Streaming Service Partner. The customers may enjoy distributing content using CDN and Streaming services. Embedding Adobe Flash Media Server 3 technology into the company’s CDN services, it plans to start providing HD streaming service integrated with Adobe’s Flash Media Server 3 at the end of April.

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FFMPEG provider company Infrenion.com declared that new customers who joins reseller, VPS and shared hosting plans will receive 50% discount on their first payment. The company provides affordable webhosting solutions for small to medium size businesses, government, and non-profit organizations. It also offers FFMPEG hosting, dedicated hosting, domain names, affordable RapidSSL certificates, etc.
Inferion’s shared, reseller and VPS plans include free installation for Phpmotion, Clipshare, Dolphin,
Vshare, Attachmax, Rayzz, Phpfox, AlstraSoft VideoShare, OsTube, SocialMedia; moreover common used scripts to start a website just like Youtube, DailyMotion, MySpace Videos… The company expresses that its hosting has 24/7 support and 99.9% uptime guarantee and free account transfer.
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Yellow Fiber a shared hosting provider announced that it has chosen Reldata’s 9240 unified storage solutions to support managed high-end clusters for online businesses and web infrastructures. The company aims to help its customers to boost their businesses providing the necessary solutions.
Selecting Reldata 9240 unified storage gateway, Yellowfiber will have benefit deliver feature of multiple file systems, each of up to eight exabytes in size. It expresses that earlier storage pools were connected to different machines in the same cluster. Now, gateway’s storage is virtualized into a single pool and virtual volumes can be diveded for each file system, mirrored and resized while systems are operating.

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Barak Hosting, a VPS, dedicated and shared hosting provider, presents its reseller program. This profitable and easy to start Web Hosting Reseller Program will help customers to have their own hosting companies. Under their own brand, customers can build their own client database providing all levels of website hosting, SSL certificates, online business shop carts, search engine optimization, custom nameservers for their domains and etc. Barak Hosting will support them with its skillful and experienced employees.
There are four different programs that can be chosen: Mercury Reseller Program, Gemini Reseller Program, Apollo Reseller Program, Complete Reseller Program. All the programs have 30-day money back guarantee and free migration service. For further details check out http://barakhosting.com/resellers.html

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