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Internet services company, Netcraft, has named Acens, Hosting 4 Less, ReliableServers.com and Swishmail as the most reliable hosting company sites in March 2009, with each site failing to respond to only two of the requests made by Netcraft's performance collectors

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.

There are many new web hosts every single day, and they all want to have their minds put at ease when it comes to security for their sites. Any new website or online business is subject to being invaded by hackers looking to steal valuable information like account numbers, invoice records, personal data and other usable information. The best way for a merchant to ensure a protected site is to have the best security software working hand-in-hand with comprehensive daily security practices

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."

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.

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%.

Web hosting industry flash tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has developed and released new "Demo Pages" Display options, for its flash tutorial portfolio, to enable faster deployment. DemoWolf is also currently offering all tutorials at 50% off, as well as "bundles" of tutorial series for even greater savings. Sale prices end April 30, 2009.

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

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.

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.

"Oxite is an open source, web standards compliant, blog engine built on ASP.NET MVC. Oxite supports all the features we consider essential to a blog engine, including the MetaWebLog API (to allow you to use LiveWriter or similar tools to add/edit your posts), trackbacks, pingbacks, Sitemaps (for search engines), RSS and ATOM feeds (at the site, blog, tag and post level … plus feeds of all new comments… great for the site owner), tags, integrated search, web based admin features (including editing posts, your site settings, etc.), email subscriptions for new comments, basic support to publish 'pages' (non-blog content) and more," said Tom Heinrich, General Manager of ASPHostCentral.

The three most reliable hosting websites over the past month have been named in a recent release from Netcraft. Acens, Hosting 4 Less, ReliableServers.com and Swishmail were the winners in the new survey.

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.