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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.

A Taliban website used a US-based host for over a year to boast of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan before the deception was uncovered and the account was pulled out, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Houston-based web-hosting outfit said it simply rented cyberspace to the account holder and had no clue about its Taliban connections

After taking credit for a deadly March 25 attack on coalition forces, a Taliban website claiming to be the voice of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" was found to be hosted by Texas web host The Planet (www.theplanet.com).

Web hosting provider IntelWeb.biz is taking a shot at the low cost web site market. Following the trend behind Yahoo's free SMB hosting and Google's free blog hosting, IntelWeb is offering hosting packages from $3 per year to $25.

Dana wrote to the Gripe Line with a tale of woe regarding a Web hosting company. "I administer the Web site of a hair salon in Manhattan," she explained. "One year ago, the salon's domain name registrar - Mapname.com - demanded $80-per-domain renewal for the two domain names the previous site administrator had let lapse. The company claimed that the domain renewal itself was $7.95, and that the balance of the $80 was a 'late fee.'

ServInt web hosting provider, has released a major upgrade with the intent to set new industry performance standards, in connection with increases in guaranteed RAM, bandwidth and disk space.

Technology services division of Newtek Business Services, Inc., Newtek Technology Services, is now capable of taking international payments through a partnership with Payvision, a leading international payment solution provider for the card-not-present marketplace.

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Jason Waxman, General Manager of High Density Computing at Intel remarked, "Intel collaborated with SoftLayer to offer leading-edge technology for on-demand data center services and technology innovation to its customers. We are pleased that Intel's next generation microarchitecture in the Xeon 5500 series servers will provide breakthrough virtualization performance and enterprise class features to meet SoftLayer's growing industry demand."

HostSearch.com provides unbiased information about web hosting providers and the web hosting industry. The site maintains the largest database of information about web hosts available and continually upgrades its service to ensure the information it provides meets the requirements of its visitors. The latest HostSearch version is a complete overhaul of the site, incorporating an entirely CSS-structured design that offers an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that guides visitors to the information they are looking for.

Webland AG, a web hosting company, today announced that it has successfully launched the CM4all WebsiteCreator for its business and residential customers

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.

The first and most important option when managing multiple domains is to decide whether or not to do so with the same web site host. Most web site hosts include in their packages a feature that would allow several sites on one account, or allow each individual sites to be managed and operated under separate accounts.

Q Point Technology (www.qpointtech.com) has selected The Planet's (www.theplanet.com) new Storage Cloud service as the platform for its TrueSafe (www.truesafe.net) software infrastructure, which lets service providers offer their own online backup service. According to on-demand IT hosting provider, the Planet, which made the announcement Monday, Q Point Technology is the latest company to use its Storage Cloud, delivering its easy-to-use backup platform TrueSafe on The Planet's highly scalable, on-demand cloud storage service. TrueSafe is available through a Software-as-a-Service subscription model, letting any service provider immediately offer a branded backup service to their customers to preserve and protect server, laptop and workstation data off-site.

EyeWide Hotel Internet Marketing Services, a company providing web hosting, construction, development and Search Engine Optimization of web pages, launched the brand new internet site of Kalypso Hotel in Plakias, Crete. Welcome to the land of the legends in Plakias Rethymno Crete - Kalypso Hotel: According to the myth, Zeus, father of the gods of Olympus, chose the island of Crete for his "human" residence. Taking the form of a white bull, he abducted his beloved Europe and hid her in the marvellous beach of Preveli and its nearby palm grove before consecrating her into a goddess. Later on, Odysseus, hero of Troy and the one who imagined the Trojan Horse, on his return journey from Troy was captured by the magnificence of the landscape and the beauty of the mythical queen Kalypso. He spent seven whole years in the area before continuing his return journey.

Host Color said to web hosting media that it now runs a series of web hosting coupons and instant rebates which gives its new customers a good opportunity to cut their annual costs for IT hosting and data storage with 10% to 15%.

ASPHostCentral.com, a premier provider in advanced Windows and ASP.NET hosting service, proudly announces the availability of Oxite blog engine product in all our servers environment. This unique opportunity is provided to all our new and existing customers and the cost to host Oxite project on our environment is priced at $4.99/month only. For more details about this product, please visit our Oxite Blog Engine product page at http://www.asphostcentral.com

cPanel is pleased to announce the first member of the cPanel Exclusive Partner Program. Global Net Access LLC. (GNAX) has been a cPanel Partner NOC for over 5 years and has shown a commitment to excellence within the webhosting industry. As a next step, they have joined the cPanel Exclusive Partner Program which means they have chosen cPanel as their exclusive webhosting automation software vendor.

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced its new 'Lowest Price on The Planet' promotion, the most aggressive offer in its history. To encourage companies using other hosting organizations to consider The Planet, the process is simple: bring an invoice from a competitor, and The Planet will beat the offer on price, with an equivalent configuration for either self-managed dedicated or fully managed hosting. Also included in the promotion is one month of free hosting, free migration assistance with relocation from a competitor, and a free month of monitoring with reaction, one of its Alpha Advanced Services offerings.

If you have made the decision to switch from your expensive web host to a cheaper web host to host your website, you may be a bit overwhelmed over the thousands of cheap web hosting providers available on the internet. When choosing a web host, you will want to make sure that the provider is reliable, continues to update the server hardware and software, and has excellent customer service. You should also check the customer testimonials.