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

Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has included Q Point Technology's new Storage Cloud solution in its portfolio. Based in Mountain View, California, Q Point Technology develops TrueSafe software infrastructure that enables service providers, such as IT managed services providers (MSPs), to offer their own online backup service.

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 Kalypso Cretan Village is situated at Plakias, 31 kms south of Rethymnon and 115 kms of Heraklion Airport. The Hotel is located in the grandiose environment of a small isolated gulf. It lies in 50.000 sq meters full of gardens and hanging rocks and has been created with respect to nature beauty and keeping the traditional Cretan style.

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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.

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."

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.

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.

Google has launched Google Ventures, a new venture capital fund that will invest in innovative startup companies, including health care, IT, consumer Internet products and biotechnology firms, Healthcare IT News reports. Rich Miner - co-founder of Android, a mobile platforms company acquired by Google in 2005 - and Bill Maris, who founded Web hosting pioneer Burlee.com, will serve as Google Ventures' managing partners. Miner and Maris, wrote on the Google Blog, "This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies." They added, "Economically, times are tough, but great ideas come when they will. If anything, we think the current downturn is an ideal time to invest in nascent companies that have the chance to be the 'next big thing,

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."

Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, will participate in the Web 2.0 Expo, scheduled for March 31 - April 3 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. The company will showcase its IT infrastructure solutions at booth 723, as well as give away a Flip Video MinoHD camcorder. Expected to draw nearly 8,000 attendees, the Web 2.0 Expo is the industry's leading conference and trade show for those who mold the 'next-generation' web, including designers.

Web Hosting News - LOS ANGELES, CA - InMotion Hosting, Inc. one of the fastest growing business web hosting providers in the U.S., announced today the opening of a new data center near Washington, D.C. Along with their data center located in Los Angeles, CA, this additional data center dramatically reduces the time it takes for clients to perform functions such as the sending and receiving of email and the uploading of web pages and other online content. 3rd party performance tests report an up to 6x improvement in speed when accessing websites from locations within one of InMotion Hosting's Max Speed Zones.

The provider of quality VPS Hosting (http://www.hostcolor.com/vps) Host Color said to web hosting media that it has increased the features of all Virtual Private Servers. The web host also announced that it has launched a coupon - VPS2009 - that offers 1 free service month with all virtual private servers. The coupon is valid until April 30 2009.

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.

Members of the web hosting community are set to benefit from an expanded version of Google Services for Websites, according to the Official Google Enterprise Blog. A new version of the access provider program will feature Google Site Search, as well as Custom Search and AdSense. Google Site Search enables website owners to customise their search options and utilise flexible branding, according to the search engine

Dalabelos is a family run, model eco-tourism complex built within the confines of a working estate located in the Prefecture of Rethymno, east of the town of Rethymno and surrounded by the villages of Panormo in the north and Angeliana in the south with easy access to the national road. The ten units of Dalabelos each about 25 sq. m. are situated amongst the 8 acres of olive trees, vineyards and aromatic plants with breathtaking views over the Cretan landscape and the Cretan Archipelago.