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Proving the old proverb about March, "in like a lion, out like a lamb," the final week of March has been rather quiet in terms of sales and promotions, with a few exceptions. ResellerClub has chosen this week to cap off its birthday promotion, WebhostGIANT announced a half-off promotion, and Host Department is offering 20 off its shared hosting for Easter. ResellerClub Announces "Big Birthday Bash" On Wednesday, one of the world's largest registrars, ResellerClub (www.resellerclub.com), announced the start of its annual "Big Birthday Bash" promotion, running through the month of March until the 15th of April. Celebrating its third birthday, ResellerClub is offering .in domains for $3.99, .tel for $9.99, .mobi for $6.99, and .biz for $3.99 annually.

The week ending April 9, 2009 was a diverse week in the world of web hosting offerings, with promotions ranging from Hivelocity using its Twitter feed for announcing giveaways, to LogicBoxes packaging free software with its platform, to Fasthosts giving away a free .co.uk domain with every .com purchase.

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If you have no idea what you are doing in regards to web design, directing cyber traffic to your website or anything else that is technical, you will want a web host that has accessible tech support. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week is optimal as servers are known to go down at any time. For "full service" users, you can still expect affordable web hosting; however, it still may be a bit more than what an experienced web user pays with another company where only support via email or IM is available.

While promising one crore laptops to students, the party said in its IT and telecom vision document released last week, it would spend Rs 10,000 cr on buying top-of-the-line laptops with open source software. The party also plans to allow unrestricted internet telephony.

There have been a number of web hosting promos this week aimed at companies that are upping their online presence (such as the VPS and dedicated hosting offers from ServerChoice and Host Color) as well as those intending to make their online debut (such as the shared hosting deals from Evohosting and IntelWeb.biz).

We take a regular look through new job postings on our associated site Web Hosting Jobs (www.webhostingjobs.com) and post a summary here in the WHIR news section incorporating some of the newest openings. Lithium Technologies (Emeryville, California) Last week, Lithium Technologies (www.lithium.com), a company that develops solutions for building online communities, posted two openings - a demand generation manager (a marketing position), and a chief systems architect. Both jobs are located in Emeryville, California. The company posted a third listing for an online moderator, which would be handled remotely.

If you have no idea what you are doing in regards to web design, directing cyber traffic to your website or anything else that is technical, you will want a web host that has accessible tech support. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week is optimal as servers are known to go down at any time. For "full service" users, you can still expect affordable web hosting; however, it still may be a bit more than what an experienced web user pays with another company where only support via email or IM is available.

Hostway Corporation, the global Web services leader, launched its Hybrid Exchange email platform this week. Now all new customer accounts will automatically be placed on this platform at no extra charge, allowing them to mix and match email plans for the perfect fit. "Using proprietary routing technology, we've done away with the all-or-nothing approach to hosted Exchange," said John Lee, senior vice president of small business hosting."Hostway's new Hybrid Exchange helps bridge the gap between traditional POP3/IMAP and hosted Exchange email. The synergy of our new platform will allow our customers to create their own email solutions."

Network Solutions (www.networksolutions.com) and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (www.nfte.com) have named Newark, NJ high school student, Daliswan Morgan, 16, the winner of the national NFTE/Network Solutions Web Site Challenge. NFTE is a non-profit organization that provides entrepreneurship education to young people from low-income communities. In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Network Solutions and NFTE partnered to promote entrepreneurship among urban youth by inviting NFTE students and alumni to design websites in support of their business plans using Network Solutions' Web Site Starter Package.

UK web hosting provider eUKhost (www.eukhost.com) announced last week it has launched a new range of Windows virtual private servers powered by Microsoft's latest virtualization platform, Hyper-V.

IT industry events organizer Plum Communications announced on Wednesday it is hosting the IT industry conference and exhibition, IT360 (www.it360.ca), held on April 8 at the south building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto.

Easyspace, one the largest web hosting providers in the UK, has this week added a new range of low cost, feature rich, shopping cart solutions to its product portfolio. With the ability to accept payments via a number of the most popular methods already built in (including Paypal and Worldpay), as well as exporting options allowing you to easily list your products on sites such as ebay, Google Base and Kelkoo as well as on your own site, the new eCommerce solution from Easyspace offers an intuitive way for users to start or improve their business online.