Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-06 – Host Color web hosting provider,announced a promotional offer on Extended Validation (EV) Green Bar SSL certificates. Host Color says that it gives site owners who purchase single-domain Essential SSL certificate, a free upgrade to Comodo Green Bar EV SSL

“Host Color is a trusted Comodo Partner and we appreciate a lot the opportunity to offer our customers a free upgrade to EV SSL. Thanks to Comodo they can use “Green Bar”, a feature exclusive to EV SSL, to reassure website visitors that they browse and transmit information through a verified and secured Internet site,” says Martin Andreev, VP of Operations of Host Color.

It articulates that it now provides its customers who need to get Green Bar Extended Validation (EV) SSL with the opportunity to get an EV SSL and to save $320/year. Now anyone who signs up for the standard single-domain “Essential SSL” digital certificate, priced at $39/year can get a free upgrade to EV SSL. The company partners with Comodo, a provider of digital security products to provide its website hosting customers with high quality SSL certificates.

The company explains that Extended Validation SSL (EV SSL) certificate, also popular as “Green Bar”, is the highest assurance digital certificate available online. It offers 2048-bit, next generation encryption and is compatible with 99.3% of web browsers, including all Mozilla, Internet Explorer and Safari versions. The regular price of Green Bar SSL is $359/year, but now its customers can purchase “Essential SSL” for $39/year and to request a free upgrade to EV SSL.

According to it, after a purchase of an “Essential SSL” certificate, its customer will be given a free update to Extended Validation Green Bar (EV) SSL. The only thing the SSL owner should do is to login to the new account. The free upgrade to Extended Validation certificate works for 1 and 2 year subscription periods. Any order for “Essential SSL” certificate will be valid and the company’s customers can use this type of SSL certificate if for any reason they cannot qualify to get issued an Extended Validation “Green Bar” SSL.

Source: www.webhosting.info

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-27 – Server Complete, LLC a web hosting provider is pleased to announce their partnership with SmarterTools, Inc., effective July 1. A web hosting provider and technologies company, Server Complete offers Linux and Windows VPS  and dedicated web hosting with a specialty in virtualization. SmarterTools builds information technology management software applications to support businesses.

SmarterTools continues to make great strides in the Windows software market with SmarterMail (an Exchange-level Windows mail server), SmarterTrack (a powerful help desk application), and SmarterStats (comprehensive Web log analytics and SEO software). By partnering with SmarterTools, Server Complete is able to offer their customers valuable SmarterTools software products with their Windows packages at no charge.

“The partnership with SmarterTools is going to greatly benefit our customers by providing them with enterprise grade software for use on their Windows services without the large cost normally associated with such,” says Daniel Stephens, Server Complete CEO. “We are constantly looking for ways to offer a better value to our customers, and this partnership with SmarterTools could not be better at doing so.”

Server Complete operates a custom client management system that includes numerous extras for all customers, including redundant DNS hosting, server status monitoring, and out-of-band terminal access. Server Complete Windows hosting customers can now add the SmarterTools bundle to the Server Complete list of extras.

About SmarterTools Inc.
Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona. SmarterTools builds a Windows mail server, customer service software, and Web log analytics and SEO software that simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in over 100 countries. Additional information about SmarterTools Inc. and the SmarterTools product line is available at www.smartertools.com.

About Server Complete, LLC
Server Complete, LLC is a privately held technologies company founded in 2008 and based in Jacksonville, Florida. Operating out of numerous data centers across the United States, their flagship and most popular facility is located in Atlanta, Georgia. They offer expertise in virtualized services, dedicated servers, and offsite backup services. In addition, the Server Complete support team boasts an average response time of under five minutes (live averages can be seen at www.servercomplete.com/about), and they are staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Lunarpages Web Hosting provider and Miva Merchant e-commerce solutions provider has partnered now. With this partnership Lunarpages is providing Miva Merchant 5.5 shopping cart software, the software is added as an add-on for Lunarpages web hosting plans.

According to Miva announcement, all Lunarpages customers can now add Miva Merchant 5.5 to its dedicated, VPS and shared web hosting plans for a price of $19.95 /mo, plus a setup fee of $75, This can be a saving of about $700 per year. The package contain an online credit card processing also that will be added to Lunarpages hosting plan which are using Miva Merchant 5.5.

Lunarpages business development director Amy Armitage said “Lunarpages Business, VPS, and Dedicated Hosting plans assist so many customers in getting their own e-commerce storefronts up, but we wanted to give our clients yet another amazing way to push their stores to the next level,”  he also added “So when Miva Merchant expressed interest in a partnership, we jumped on board very quickly.”

“Miva Merchant 5.5 is literally the world’s best e-commerce storefront software. With Miva Merchant, you can design your perfect shopping cart, integrate it with your website, and even offer credit card processing right on your check out page! It’s an unbeatable offer.”

Lunarpages customers using this shopping cart which is completely flexible and customizable will enjoy its power and its unique needs, according to the announcement.  Miva Merchant 5.5 shopping cart software is deployed on more than 200,000 online storefronts worldwide.

VEXXHOST Web Hosting still offering the cheap web hosting plan of Summer Sale.

Host Color web hosting provider team announced at least a 25% discount rebate to all of its customers, they said, while other web hosting providers increases their prices because of the financial crises, they are decreasing the prices to make it more easier to their clients.

The promotional code “THANKYOU2008″ which will expire on November 30, 2008 will give an instant discount to existing and new customers on any web hosting plan. This code will lower the shared web hosting plan to $26.91 per year ( $2.24 per month). The CMS Web Hosting Plan will cost only $44.91/year ($3.74 per month).

Speaking about virtual private server, the effect of this promotion is huge also; the Virtuozzo VPS Power (1024 MB RAM, 50 GB HDD and 350 GB monthly transfer) will cost only $52.46/month for the first month. For the next month and then the standard price of $69.95 per month will apply.

The dedicated server clients have a share also; as Dedicated Start plan, the first month will cost only $74.25per month. Customers in Europe who need a dedicated hosting have their on share of this discount also, Host Color’s Thanksgiving promotion will make the price of Euro 1 Dedicated Server (Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz machine with 1GB RAM and 320 GB HDD) goes to €74.25 on sign up. Then the standard price of €99/month will apply.

GoDaddy a domain registrar and web hosting Solution Company now holds about 20.5% share of the SSL certificates market, which is really significant on its own, and what makes it impressive is considering Go Daddy began offering SSL certificates about four years ago. Its different than other SSL certificates providers is that Go Daddy achieved this success with only organic growth which means, it was not artificially cultivated with acquisitions or mergers.

SSL certificates (Secure Sockets Layer Certificates) are important layers when it comes to protect information online that is so sensitive.

Bob Parsons, Go Daddy CEO and Founder said “Our market share has grown so fast for one simple reason,” he also added “Our SSL Certs have all the functionality our higher-priced competitors offer – but at a fraction of the cost! Think about it, if you can get the identical product for a much lower price, backed by world-class support, why wouldn’t you? That’s why we have grown, month after month after month.”

In the August Netcraft report, Go Daddy got the largest growth for SSL, they gained 8,693 SSL Certificates. Go Daddy is also a leader for Web hosting hosted with SSL Certificates, and they are the world’s second largest SSL provider.

Mike Prettejohn, Director of analyst firm Netcraft Ltd. said “Go Daddy has increased its SSL market share every single month since June 2007,” also he added “In the space of just one year, Go Daddy’s SSL certificates have grown by more than 80 percent.”

SSL Certs is the technique to enable the browser of end user and the web hosting server to make a secure, encrypted connection as this is the standard way for protecting sensitive information from identity theft, tampering and hacking. As an example, Businesses rely on SSL Certificates to stop hackers from entering credit card information while clients do shopping and online transactions.

About Go Daddy:
Go Daddy domain registrar and web hosting provider is a leading company for services that enable businesses and individuals to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy is the provider of a big variety of domain name registration plans and Web site hosting and design plans, it is also provide a variety of on-demand services. These include services like Domains by Proxy private registration, SSL Certificates, blog templates, ecommerce Web site hosting and blog software, online photo hosting and podcast packages. Go Daddy has about 30 million domain names under management.

VEXXHOST has announced in an email that was sent to its clients that it has started offering near CDP protection to all of its shared & reseller web hosting accounts.  They are using a backup system powered by R1soft’s near CDP technology which allowed them to have backups of all of the shared/reseller web hosting accounts.  This new feature comes in with no increased fees and a promise from vexxhost to never raise its prices.

At the moment, their clients data is protected and backed up every 3 hours, which means everyday at 12AM, 3AM, 6AM, 9AM, 12PM, 3PM, 6PM, 9PM.  Also, they can restore a backup up to 24 hours ago which means that if they need to restore a backup at 12AM, they have 8 backups taken at a span of 3 hours for the whole day, so instead of losing a whole day’s work, they would only can lose 3 hours maximum.  VEXXHOST has also mentioned that they take daily backups for all accounts.

This backup service is the best and only in class, no other shared & reseller web hosting provider is yet able to provide a backup service every 3 hours. They also backup the MySQL databases in a way where they are temporarily locked and there is no possibility of the database becoming corrupt or the backup itself, this maximizes security and decreases any possibility of a corrupted backup.

VEXXHOST, a web hosting provider that has been constantly advancing and evolving with technology still continues to have one of the best web hosting offers.  With their shared web hosting plans starting at $2.55 per month, they continue to be one of the best budget providers with a premium offering because of their redundant systems, networks and services.

EasyCGI web hosting provider announced that they now provide a form-based password protection for all Windows 2008 products hosting.

This option enables customizable forms authentication for any website, providing greater online security. The Windows Server 2008 password protection is offered as a free option for customers.

Customizable forms authentication enables users to selectively restrict access to particular areas. When an unauthenticated visitor lands on a restricted page, they are automatically re-directed to a login form or a registration page.

Password protection is an important feature when it comes to administration pages, image gallery, account page and other online applications and resources. Easy GGI says the solution enables developers to customize their own forms authentication solution.

Microsoft’s Windows Server version 2008 with IIS 7.0 offers a more easily configured forms authentication model than older versions. It can be configured at any level of a customer’s website, protecting any type of resource from unauthorized access, without making any changes to the site’s existing content. This advanced solution can be easily administered in the customer’s Easy CGI hosting control panel.

“This provides an optimal, flexible development environment for our customers, which has always been a priority for us,” says Easy CGI president Dan Richfield. “Where many other providers still only offer solutions with no method of customization, and often cannot secure all content equally, Easy CGI offers a cutting-edge, fully customizable Forms Authentication solution for all of its Windows 2008 customers.”

Easy CGI web hosting is offering now five Linux VPS plans. These virtual private server hosting plans offer a range of disk space, bandwidth and memory, also offer higher access to CPU time by reducing the number of VPS clients on the servers.

Easy CGI web hosting, a well-known hosting company which was offering Windows Server hosting only is now has a full range of five VPS (virtual private server) plans for clients who need Linux system. These plans are nearly the same of those offered to its Windows system. Easy CGI range of Linux virtual private server plans can satisfy nearly any VPS hosting need – starting from  small businesses ending to big corporations.

“Although we are a Windows Web hosting provider,” Dan Richfield President of Easy CGI said “we pride ourselves on flexibility and our ability to deliver what customers want. There’s a definite market out there for Linux-based hosting and we are one of the few hosting companies offering dedicated VPS on both Windows and Linux platforms.”

All five these plans guarantee a small number of VPS for each server, which gives each customer a bigger share of CPU time, disk space and RAM.

Easy CGI web hosting is a leading Windows Web hosting company since 2001, they provide value web hosting and customer support. The VPS plans that they offer are flexible, easy-to-use, and have step-by-step instructions with huge knowledge base.

Hacker-Proof Incentive Program offers the resellers a good revenue opportunity also a better way to drive visitors to e-Merchants for higher conversion.

COMODO, an Internet security provider, introduced Hacker-Proof Reseller Incentive Program which aimed on highlighting its channel to partners and show the value of Hacker-Proof to online e-Merchants and the good new revenue opportunity for resellers. This program rewards qualifying resellers a special way of pricing and a one free year of Hacker-Proof, this show partners the value of this great service. COMODO also declared that this program offer is a part of COMODO’s partner program which is designed to give partners an extensive applications and solutions to help online merchants in his requirement to create secure and trusted transactions.

COMODO also stated that about 50% of online buyers do not trust e-Tailors or trust them a little. To decrease this growing trust gap, COMODO has launched COMODO Hacker-Proof, This e-Merchant service drives visitor with a better conversion by showing that the websites have been tested and meets the stringent security standards. Also COMODO says the websites which pass COMODO’s vulnerability scans and are certified as “free of security gaps” can display the Hacker-Proof trust logo. Also, the Hacker-Proof trust logo has a patent-pending and proprietary technology to facilitate significant brand integrity because the website’s certificate is visible and verifiable with the customer’s interaction.

COMODO SSL certificates provider also promises to give this superior service for free until the e-Merchant feels at least a 5% increase in website sell conversion rates which providing a compelling return on investment by using this solution.

Web hosting provider Aplus a leading company in internet solutions and web hosting provider made big changes to its web site which leads to new feel and look, the changes also cover improvements in navigation and layout.

The new web site is put in a way to show a greatly modified navigation to clients and also updating the Aplus.Net site image.

Gabriel Murphy the President and CEO of Aplus.Net  web hosting said “We worked hard to come up with a dynamic and customer-friendly design that reflects the fact that, although our emphasis and our expertise are still firmly based upon helping small businesses succeed online, we’re also entering into an exciting new era for Aplus.Net and our more than 90,000 customers,”.

The new website shows a modernized look and feel but it stayed consistent with the Aplus brand. The colors and Aplus.Net’s logo also remains the same.