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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.'

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.

"Web hosting is a rapidly changing technology. What that is available today will be in some other form tomorrow. Staying updated with the technologies of web hosting is an uphill task. With the introduction of Webhosting-Blog you don't have to climb uphill for knowing the updates in the web hosting world. All the updates, reviews and comparisons of the different web hosting plans will be available right in your finger tips", says Mr. Radu Antohi of Webhosting-Blog.com.

Web hosting automation can be described as the process of automating server management tasks. With the popularity of shared hosting, cut throat competition in the hosting industry and bargain basement prices, automation is not just a convenience, but a necessity to stay competitive in the market.

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."

ServInt, a pioneering provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced it has completed the largest-ever upgrade of its entire line of Virtual Private Server (VPS) services and is offering the upgraded packages without a price increase. ServInt also has upgraded all of its existing VPS customers at no additional cost. ServInt VPS services are ideally suited for small and medium-size, web-based companies that demand a web-hosting service managed by experienced professionals

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

Apps4Rent LLC, a Microsoft Gold Partner and a leading provider of hosted Exchange, SharePoint and other applications, today announced value price plans for Microsoft Hyper-V hosting services. Apps4Rent's Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) plans offer the Web hosting industry's best value to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) and resellers who are looking for alternatives to dedicated or virtual private servers (VPS).

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.

Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy.com, recently participated in the St. Petersburg, Florida Honda Grand Prix, for the third season in a row, sponsoring Danica Patrick. Ms. Patrick is the IndyCar Series' most popular driver. She was recently featured in Sports Illustrated's famous Swimsuit Edition for the second consecutive year. She also made history last year as the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race after taking the checkered flag in Motegi, Japan.

Web hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has upgraded and extended its free Sandbox Hosting for developers, to allow for use of the next-generation web application utilizing Microsoft Web Deployment Tool RC1.

Web host PPN Hosting has increased the bandwidth available through its plans, it was reported recently. We've increased our plans BW from a measly 10, 20 and 50GB to a whopping 100, 200, and 500GB, suggested a company statement.

Managed hosting provider iland Internet Solutions (www.iland.com) announced on Tuesday it has selected AboveNet (www.above.net) as one of its top two Tier1 IP providers to connect the iland Virtual Data Centers, located in Los Angeles, Boston, Reston, Virginia and Dallas. AboveNet has provided iland with additional 4 Gbps IP network connectivity for each of its virtual data centers, providing iland and its customers with further redundancy, flexibility and cost effectiveness. "We continue to invest in our network construction to offer a broad array of high-bandwidth fiber optic connectivity solutions," says MaryBeth Nance, executive director of business development and marketing at AboveNet. "We provide reliability and scalability to meet iland's highest requirements for data center connectivity, IT virtualization, and consolidation and optimization services. By delivering a bundled, managed solution to iland within all four of its virtual data center markets, we also help control iland's network operating costs while enabling fast and scalable deployments."

Exabytes Network Pte. Ltd., a Malaysian web hosting company, today announced that it has just launched their 8th Anniversary promotion in conjunction to their 8th birthday celebration.

Once you've chosen a domain name, and completed your registration for it, you'll need to start learning about different ways and places to host your site. For example, a lot of people at the moment are starting to use shared, rather then dedicated, hosting. As with many other Internet based services, there are both pros and cons to engaging and utilizing a shared web hosting service.

Go Daddy, the world's dominant Web hosting domain registrar, and dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet address, today announced the availability of Instant Mobilizer at GoDaddy.com.

Ontario, Canada - Tigersites, a rapidly growing web hosting provider announced today that it will be providing a $50 discount on its web hosting plan in an effort to provide relief during these hard economic times. "We know there are a lot of businesses out there that are struggling to make ends meet and we want to do something to help," said TJ, a sales representative of Tigersites. "We want our customers to know that we are all in this together and hope that by providing a discount, they won't be stressed out about their web hosting bill" concluded TJ.

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.