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In what is believed to be an industry first for professional web design, ScaleUp Solutions announced today that they, for a limited time only, will provide one-year Free Web Hosting and Free Domain Registration for new web design customers. With this new special, customers can now obtain a professional and custom designed website at a very affordable and all-inclusive rate.

Haunted Voices has long served the paranormal community as a website for education, research methods and forums and more. Haunted Voices Radio began broadcasting several years ago, offering paranormal education and information via web broadcasts. Now the two have merged into one large, paranormal website, to provide the public with the best in research, education, talk radio, forums, chat and more.

Kate Craig-Wood, MD of Web and IT hosting company, Memset and recent NatWest Everywoman of the Year winner is calling on technology companies to look at who costs the most before making redundancies.

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 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.

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.

Rack-Soft is sponsoring the largest European web hosting event, WebHostingDay 2009 that will take place in Bruehl, Germany, between 18 and 20 March 2009.

We are constantly putting ourselves in our clients' position and keep in mind that servers are only hardware. We must provide an added-value that sets us aside from the competition. This is where the difference of other providers is clearly demonstrated, we are very confident that a solid backup solution will continue to provide that trust and value clients are used to with our product portfolio," said Gerardo Sandoval, CEO and General Manager for Private IP Service, parent company of Iguana Hosting.

Counteracting a negative by-product of shipping highly-sensitive equipment, on-demand data center and hosting services provider SoftLayer Technologies (www.softlayer.com) has been awarded a certificate from Metro Foam Recycling for recycling more than 12,000 pounds (more than six tons) of foam material in 2008

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the addition of two new Cisco firewalls to its product catalog. The new firewalls enhance server performance and security for the company's dedicated server hosting and virtual and private rack customers.

Web host Host Color (http://www.hostcolor.com), a global provider of quality web hosting services announced that it has opened its annual St. Patricks Day promotional campaign. As a part of it the provider offers 25% instant rebate on all web hosting service plans. However Host Color's VPS customers get even more - 1 free service month.

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.

Iguana Hosting, a leading provider of hosting services throughout Latin America, announced today that they will offer R1Soft Continuous Data Protection. (CDP) for Linux and Windows to more than 35,000 clients as a solid backup solution in order to provide maximum uptime and easy access to mission-critical data.

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.

HostSold has launched services for those buying and selling web hosting businesses. With HostSold's services, people looking to sell their web hosting company can sign up to have their "for sale" listing anonymously distributed to HostSold's large list of users interested in purchasing web hosting companies.

Web hosting provider, Spiderhost, has entered into a partnership with Smart City, for Spiderhost's expertise in hosting solutions. Spiderhost will fully manage all web hosting and e-mail activity for Smart City's 1,000-plus hosting clients.

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.

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

"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.

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