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1&1, one of the largest shared hosting providers in Europe, has joined the Open Source Business Foundation. Open source technology is now an important feature of its plan. OSBF is a Nuremberg, Germany based network of open source developers with more than 120 members.
The company expresses that its success in business relates to open source developments from the beginning. More than 90% of the over 3 million websites hosted by the company are hosted on open source technology. The company runs operations on more than 40,000 Linux servers and has more than 400 open source developers. 1&1 points out that its own advancements get redistributed into the online community.
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Shared hosting provider CrystalTech Inc. declared that it has adopted SmarterTools’ new customer support software SmarterTrack. This new software features a robust Help Desk, Ticket System, Live Chat, Cost Analysis, Data Mining, Knowledge Base, and Reporting software applications.
The company states that it has become one of the first Windows hosting companies that have integrated SmarterTrack into their customer service and support system. It adds that it is able to provide customer service through one panel whereas they have to deal with separate solutions for ticket system, help desk, and live chat as they have had before. SmartTrack helps the company making customer service easier to more than 107,000 Domains and 70,000 customers.
SmarterTrack provides fast, flexible, stabile and reliable solutions for hosting and technology companies. It can be added on a VPS, dedicated or shared servers. The easily adaptive character of the software gives from small to large sized organizations the ability to install and use it on most of the platforms.
SmarterTools Inc., established in 2003, is a information-management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona. SmarterTools creates a Windows Mail Server, Web Log Analytics reporting tool, and Customer Service Software applications that automates the daily IT operations of businesses and hosting environments worldwide. Additional information about SmarterTools Inc. and the SmarterTools product line is available at the Company Web site.
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United Hoster declared that it chooses to use Parallels Automation software to provide email and collaboration services based on hosted Microsoft Exchange and hosted Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services. This unified platform to manage shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated servers, enables small to medium-sized businesses accessing to solutions that were reserved for large enterprises.
Hosted Microsoft Exchange and hosted Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services support staff with access to company’s data such as email, calendaring, contacts and projects that maintains internal and external communication much more efficient and flexible.
The company highlights that Parallels Automation software provides hosting solutions through a multi-layer control panel with integrated billing, which allows United Hoster automating all operations such as online ordering, provisioning, billing and reporting.
Dedicated hosting and VPS hosting plans feature the Parallels Plesk Control Panel. Customer can enjoy benefits from immediate access to the latest software applications with safe data back-up.
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Shared hosting provider SoftLayer declared that it has launched CDNLAyer, which is a content Delivery Network. The company states that CDNLayer runs optimizations on content delivery, which helps increasing speed and reliability.
Basically, through multiple, geographically diverse server nodes CDNLayer runs software that organizes, stores, and streams web content. The content gets sent to the end-user from the geographically closest node instead of the main host server. This shortens the distance the data streams keeping it away from high online traffic, and decreasing retrieval time. CDNLayer features tools for improved management that enables user to make money of its content easily.
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Hostopia, shared and dedicated hosting provider, announced that it had added a private labeled Fax-to-Email service that telecoms and broadband companies can sell to their own small business customers. Fax-to-email services allows users to send or receive fax messages on their computers via email tools. This way, users get rid of fax machines and their expenses
The company avers that Fax-to-email is a highly demanded business service that has an annual growth of over 25 percent according to a study published by Davidson Consulting. The company adds that its wholesale customers such as telecoms and other service providers are willing to offer these services to their SME customers.
Hostopia recommends a price starting at $9.99 per month, which allows for 300 sent or received pages. It adds that the customer can choose the service’s brand and sell as a standalone service or as part of a bundle of services, such as web hosting and business email. Customer can directly pay to the telecom or to a referral model where Hostopia performs the billing and customer support.
Hostopia has been realizing strategic acquisitions in the past few weeks. Last week, it bought Tucows’ hosting customer assets, including approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity and ItsYourDomain customer accounts. In march, it bought Luxomovera’s customer assets, adding another 12,500 small business customers to Hostopia’s unified web services platform.
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Small to mid-sized business management products provider MYOB declared that it will begin providing domain registration, email hosting and shared hosting services. After it acquired Australian web hosting provider Ilisys in March, it was expected that MYOB would shift into the software as a services market. However, MYOB looks like to choose to go with the web hosting and domain registration space for now. The company considers this progress as a natural evolution of MYOB’s business.
Web hosting services are priced for $29.95 a month, email hosting services for $14.95 a month and domain registration for $35 for two years.
More than 700,000 businesses and 10,000 accounting practices worldwide have been benefiting from accounting software, payroll software and real-time business management products that MYOB offers. It aims to help businesses improving their online presence and making profit by integrating back office business management systems with small business websites.
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HostPapa, a shared hosting provider, declared that now on plans provide unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space. Industry’s overall conditions have had an important effect on the company’s decision.
The company’s hosting plan costs $5.95 month when you sign up for three years, $6.95 a month when you sign up for two years and $7.95 a month when you sign up for one year. The customers get 30 days money back guarantee. Other featured include a free domain name for life, Soholaunch site builder software, $25 Yahoo! credit, $50 Microsoft adCenter credit, free shopping carts and blogs, PHP, CGI, emails and all other exclusives.
HostPapa is a privately-owned hosting company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They claim to have a solid foundation to provide hosting solutions for small to medium sized businesses that are looking for reliable, simple and cost-effective service. The company provides web hosting, domain registration and web design services since 2005.
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Powweb, shared hosting provider, declared that Stretch Your Tax Rebate Check takes a 50% off the one plan. The plan is priced for $3.88 a month when you sign up for one year.
The plan’s features include 1,500GB storage, 15,000GB bandwidth, free domain, host unlimited domains, MySQL, PHP, CGI,SSL, FTP, Stats, Point&Click Site Builder, $80 in Yahoo & Google Ads Credits, E-Commerce included, FrontPage/Dreamweaver ready. The company also mention 30 days money back for customer satisfaction.
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Frontpages Web Hosting Network, a shared hosting provider, announced that it has launched its brand new product: Total Care Support, which is an extension to its management services’ menu. This offering is an opportunity for dedicated hosting customers to have access to better management. Total Care supports 24/7 hardware monitoring and alerting. Moreover, on monthly basis, it notifies crucial hardware occurrences that consists of disk space, CPU and memory. Other features include controlled patching. Within 72 hours of release, the system applies critical security patches. Standard patches get applied within 14 days or when the customer request it.
The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner since January, offering hosted applications including SharePoint, MOSS, Exchange, CRM, SQL Server, in addition to its dedicated servers. MOSS 2007 offering has been introduced by the company in late April. For details: Frontpages announces MOSS 2007
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Planet Online, a shared hosting provider, declared that it has acquired SeeMoreSearch.com, which offers SEO services for businesses. Planet Online highlighted that it immediately start offering search engine optimization services in addition to its domain and web hosting services.
The company expresses that SEO services are inevitable to get more traffic to your website, which means more success in business. It adds that SeeMoreSearch’s experience on SEO will be a great advantage for the company to provide their clients with better options and services. Possible discounts and SEO services bundles are on the way.
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