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Web hosting provider Webfusion (www.webfusion.com) announced on Friday that it has partnered with affiliate marketing solution provider Commission Junction (www.cj.com) to introduce a new affiliate marketing program

Web hosting and managed IT services provider MaximumASP has added disaster recovery to its suite of offerings, it was reported recently. According to the company, the new service "provides off-site real time data replication with automatic failover" for maximum safeguard of customer data.

Web host SiteGround, recognized as one of the leaders in blogging and Open Source script hosting, has launched its own company blog, it was reported recently. According to the company, the blog will "open new opportunities for a closer interaction" with its customers and "provide ideas for further improvement" to its customer services.

Web host HostDime has opened a new customer support facility in Orlando, Florida, USA, it was announced recently. The company, a provider of "secure managed hosting services that cater to a range of clients" is moving into "1,500 square feet of Class A office space" on the campus of the University of Central Florida (UCF). The move comes as a response to the company's growing customer support activity and increased support staff.

TurnKey Internet today introduced free web site migration services for qualified new dedicated server customers. The company is among the first in the industry to do so.

Verio Inc., the leading provider in delivering online business solutions to SMBs worldwide, including web hosting, application hosting and Software as a Service (SaaS), today announced at the viaVerio Partner Summit the launch of a stimulus package to help current and prospective partners grow their business and secure new customers. At a time when many companies are experiencing serious decline and hosting vendors are eliminating partner resources all together, Verio continues to invest in its channel partners to help them grow their business in 2009 and beyond.

India's premier web hosting company, SpeedHost.in, now offers one of the most economical website hosting package in the market. The new Starter Plan, prized at Rs 600 a year only, offers 100 MB of disc space, 1 GB bandwidth per month, a sub domain, 5 email ids, CGI, PHP, MySQL and other features including the control panel access.

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the immediate availability of Dell servers powered by Intel's next-generation processor technology featuring its Nehalem microarchitecture. The new server, packaged as the Dual Xeon 5530, is based on the Dell PowerEdge R710 platform and features 6GB of RAM with the option of either a 250GB SATA or 146GB SAS hard drive. As an added benefit, The Planet includes 80GB of Network Backup and Alpha Server Monitoring with each Dual Xeon 5530 purchase at no charge.

UK VPS hosting and Dedicated Server specialist, (www.ServerChoice.com), has announced a new offer to allow customers to switch from any shared hosting package to Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting with no risk. The company will offer the first three months on any VPS hosting product for free, in addition to free setup on all VPS accounts.

ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has expanded its Open Control Panel API with the addition of APIs for DNS management. The new DNS management API is part of DiscountASP.NET's Open Control Panel Initiative, whose goal is to provide customers with maximum control over their hosting presence management.

UK web hosting provider Webhosting.uk.com (www.webhosting.uk.com) announced on Monday that it has launched new shared and reseller web hosting products based on the Windows Server 2008 platform. The server 2008 platform first launched in early 2008 to much fanfare within the hosting community, as Microsoft built many features into the platform - and the Internet Information Server 7 module - with web hosting operations in mind.

Make the Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager application delivery platform more accessible to the application development community, Zeus has launched a new ZXTM Development License and a ZXTM Plugin for the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (www.eclipse.org), which makes it easier for developers to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications on the Zeus platform.

In today's economy, every business is trying to do more with less. The trick is cutting corners without sacrificing quality, especially when it comes to customer service. Go Daddy, the world's dominant Web hosting domain registrar, is now offering a new software solution to help businesses develop stronger customer relations - at a fraction of the cost they once had to invest.

"We Are Toast." So warns Gartner Blog Network member Neil MacDonald in a recent post about the current trend in malware. Rather than attacking operating systems, cybercrooks are increasingly going after vulnerabilities in Web applications.

123-reg celebrates the landmark hosting of over two million domain names with the addition of the latest extension innovation, .tel, to its large range of Top Level Domains (TLDs). .tel is a completely new type of domain name providing a one-stop-platform for all types of contact data, accessible globally from any device connected to the internet. 123-reg customers can utilise a .tel domain to promote any other domain by including links to e-shops, blogs, photo galleries, online communities and more.

Pride Hosting (www.hostwithpride.com), a new UK web host specialising in affordable ecommerce and professional web hosting, has launched today, offering 20GB of diskspace, unlimited bandwidth, the ability to host unlimited domain names and email accounts, 60 free software applications, and a free domain name, all for £7.95 (or about $11.50) a month, as well as the chance to win a free Nintendo Wii.

Shared, Reseller, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting solutions provider, Surpass Hosting, has introduced its Developer hosting plan, including over a dozen development frameworks and a wide variety of key tools designed specifically for web developers. Kayla Fleming, vice president of sales, Surpass Hosting remarked, "The Developer Plan is based on a new server architecture that is more pliable for the typical developer and offers many more options for advanced web development, including the cornerstone of the plan, Surpass Hosting Developer Tools

I saw an article this morning in the Wall Street Journal that I just had to comment on. According to the news coverage, "Workers at a French factory of U.S industrial conglomerate 3M Co. were holding their boss captive on Wednesday to protest planned layoffs, in the latest sign of growing public anger at rising unemployment in France.

The company explains that ServInt's new Dedicated Server offering, introduced earlier this year, provides web and application hosting for established e-commerce sites, resellers and mid-size companies seeking manageability and high value. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides scalability to underpin this offering by facilitating easy movement of server content from one hardware environment to another with little downtime. The technology does this by enabling users to simultaneously run multiple execution environments called "containers" on a single physical server and OS installation. Customized management tools in the product reduce ServInt's management burden, allowing the hosting provider to re-focus on sales and customer support without the worry of managing co-location space, power, cooling and hardware support.

Rack-Soft announced today the general availability of 4PSA VoipNow 2, a Unified Communications software system that integrates a powerful IP PBX, supporting voice, video, presence, and faxing with instant messaging capabilities. The new VoipNow 2 targets Internet Telephony service providers and web hosting providers that want to increase their revenues by offering value added unified communications services to their customers.