Fayetteville, North Carolina - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2009 - Web hosting company, AIT, has launched its Enterprise Dedicated Server Hosting Plan at extremely cost effective prices, to assist businesses in a challenging economy.
Sean McCoy, SVP-Sales and Marketing for AIT remarked, ''It is the best deal in the industry boasting state-of-the-art features and service and coupled with thousands of dollars in savings.''
The current recession requires creative marketing solutions and a reality check on the core costs incurred in operating a business. From now until May 15, 2009 AIT is cuttings its price by $1,400.00 annually for a 60% reduction over its monthly Enterprise I Hosting payment plan. Clients receive a Production Class Server that uses 50% less power than most dedicated servers and it comes with a 250GB Hard Drive, 2 GB of Ram, and a 2.4 GHz Processor. Customers must call 1-800-878-4084 to take advantage of this special offer located at AIT-Promotions. If used properly, clients may be eligible for tax credits under the current stimulus plan with respect to green initiatives and technology.
Mary White in her American Small Business Blog: 3 Cost Cutting Tips for Frugal Small Business Owners noted, ''No matter what kind of business you operate, it's a good idea to take stock of your spending practices to see if there are some areas you can easily cut costs from your operating expenses. After all, when you own your own business, saving money on expenses is just as important as continuing to identify and secure new sources of revenue. Even the most frugal entrepreneur may find some areas where he or she can trim a few dollars from the budget here and there when evaluating spending practices closely enough.''
The AIT Enterprise Hosting platform not only saves businesses money, it helps them make money with a free scalable web store called M-Cartfree scalable web store called M-Cart that is included with the plan. The robust processing horsepower of the Enterprise plan also supports the email marketing tools that are needed most by traditional brick and mortar retailers in this tough economic climate.
A market research study conducted by Epsilon, found that the benefits of permission-based email marketing campaigns have a significant impact on purchasing behavior and consumer loyalty in the bricks and mortar world. The reports says that 57% of consumers feel they have a more positive impression of companies when they receive email from them, and 50% said they're more likely to buy products from companies who send them email, whether their purchases are online or at a place of business.
AIT is also bundling its Email Marketer PRO with web hosting. This powerful marketing platform is browser-based email marketing with built-in auto-responders, list management, receive and read receipts along with lots of other features that businesses can use every day to create, send and track profitable email campaigns - either for themselves or for their clients. Businesses that sign up for an annual plan save 40% on the monthly software subscription price.
Robert Timmons from Timmons Interactive Advertising commented, ''I've tried it and love it. The GUI management interfaces is second to none and allows me to see what works and what does not. I know who, when and from where my prospects come with this application.''
Cross-channel marketing is essential, given the mobility of consumers and the variety of platforms they use to gather product information and connect with businesses; via voice, and Internet advertising networks. The tyBit Unified search engine an AIT affiliated company, offers both web and mobile web based search engine advertising that delivers text, audio and video content to mobile web enabled devices. This click fraud free interactive advertising platform increases an advertiser's ROI by eliminating artificial traffic and delivering real visitors interested in the business owners products and services regardless of their location. tyBit recently received a Tucows' 5 star rating.
Automated telemarketing services were once the province of large corporations but now tyVoice auto-telemarketing delivers this powerful customer relationship management vehicle to any business. It is simple, inexpensive and efficient allowing businesses to upload phone numbers and deliver a pre-recorded message with options to press to connect to an operator or sales rep. When used in conjunction with online advertising and email marketing efforts this fully private labeled delivery system is yet another low cost, high return marketing option. tyVoice is perfect for businesses, schools, non-profit organizations, political campaigns, event planners, and of course direct marketers.
AIT offers; Web Hosting, Domain Name Registration, Web Design, Email Services, Technical Training, Enterprise Network Solutions, AIT has Managed Dedicated Servers, for both Windows and Linux Server Environments. AIT is customer-centric and committed to providing excellent, ongoing service to help your business grow, improve and profit. We exist to deliver value and performance to our customers - everything else is secondary. Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc., home to over 210,000 customers that include Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. Founded in 1996 AIT has grown into a multimillion-dollar web hosting and technology company, from its humble beginnings in a garage to its current 93,000 SF headquarters. Small businesses to larger clients like Time Warner, Microsoft, Newsweek, U.S. Federal Government, PC World, United Nations, Business Week, the State of North Carolina, Department of Defense, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Pizza Hut, GOODYEAR, Smart Money, Discover Radio, and many more have benefited from AIT's products and services.
AIT has achieved 13 straight years of sustained profitability and been named 2 times to The Inc. 500 list of fast growing firms, 3 times to the Deloitte Touch Fast 500 list, and NC Entrepreneur Firm of the Year. AIT enables businesses and empowers entrepreneurs through powerful technical and marketing solutions, which are unique, user friendly, and unmatched in performance throughout the industry.
To learn more, please visit: www.ait.com/promotions.
San Diego, California - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2009 - Regional datacenter operator and global provider of Internet-based hosting services, CariNet, has released its new 'Virtual Private Datacenter,' or 'VPD,' line of services, powered by the award-winning 3Tera AppLogic cloud computing platform.
Mark Ortenzi, President, CariNet, Inc. noted, ''As an Internet-based services company, we strive to ensure we're utilizing the latest technologies for manageability, high availability, and scalability to remain competitive and meet our rapidly growing customer demand. The AppLogic platform enables CariNet to cut application development time, lower server and administration costs, improve service reliability via its high-availability architecture, as well as improve the performance and growth potential of the CariNet network. In the end, our customers are the true beneficiaries of our system, which is always our primary goal.''
Leveraging the power of grid technology, CariNet is adding new levels of scalability, reliability and cost effectiveness to its vast set of hosting solutions. Targeted for companies that offer software-as-a-service (SaaS), virtual worlds and other online applications, Virtual Private Datacenters from CariNet eliminate the need for colocation, private racks and managed services by enabling customers to assemble, deploy and manage Internet-scale infrastructure and applications using only a Web browser.
Bert Armijo, SVP sales, marketing and product management, 3Tera, Inc. remarked, ''We are impressed with CariNet's dedication to customer success and ability to build new technology solutions. It is exciting to see new hosting partners embracing AppLogic to offer Virtual Private Datacenters to fundamentally change the way people build and operate Internet-scale infrastructure.''
CariNet Virtual Private Datacenters enable developers to focus on building new application functionality to reduce time to market rather than endlessly configuring hardware, installing software, moving data or porting code to new systems. The new offering eliminates the need for capital investment associated with colocation, private racks and managed services by enabling subscribers to assemble, deploy and manage Internet-scale infrastructure and applications, bringing new levels of reliability, redundancy and cost-efficiency to the traditional hosting solutions.
John Davidson, CTO, CariNet, Inc. noted, ''CariNet's clients are a diverse group of technologists who demand 100 percent uptime and the ability to scale any business model to stay competitive. Using AppLogic, an entire N-tier application or service can be packaged into a logical entity and managed as a single system. This approach also makes it possible to assemble, deploy, monitor, control and troubleshoot applications visually in a browser.''
Mr. Ortenzi added, ''As a company that has designed and built several datacenters over the last ten years, it is critical for growth and stability to have the same redundant capabilities on the cloud platform that we have built in the physical side of our facilities. We have the ability to diversify the AppLogic platform throughout multiple facilities that are supported by different Core Routing, Power feeds, and backup generators, allowing unmatchable redundancy. No other product except AppLogic in the market today can support the abilities that are needed by CariNet's demands.''
Available immediately, CariNet's Virtual Private Datacenter packages start at 2-node, four CPU-core systems with 8GB RAM, 1TB Storage and 1Gbps Uplink, Gigabit Switch, 32 IP's, Private VLan, access to the AppLogic Editor and the 3Tera Control Shell. Pricing starts at $1,000 per month for an entry platform.
CariNet, Inc. is a global Internet-solutions provider at the forefront of server technology. Founded in 1997 as a regional ISP, CariNet now maintains corporate offices in two countries and supports a growing customer base spanning more than 100 countries around the world. Currently owning and operating datacenters that they have designed and built over the last 10 years, CariNet actively populates these facilities with their proprietary S-Pod server design. As the exclusive hosting provider with a Premier Membership in the Intel Channel Partner Program, CariNet is able to consistently deliver 'Better Servers and Better Service.'
3Tera, Inc. is the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of online applications. Winner of the Host Review's 'Best SaaS Provider' and 'Best Cloud Computing Service' Annual Web Hosting Awards for 2008 and named one of the 'Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008' by Linux Magazine, 3Tera offers 'AppLogic', the first commercially available cloud computing platform that completely removes the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. Available both for building in-house private clouds and as a platform for cloud computing services, AppLogic allows IT professionals to develop and deploy online applications in minutes, instead of weeks, using only a browser to manage and scale on demand fully distributed systems and deliver security and business continuity for all applications, while fully controlling their cloud computing environment.
To learn more about CariNet, Inc., please visit: www.cari.net.
For more details about the offer, please visit: www.cari.net/grid-hosting-vpd.html.
To learn more about 3Tera, Inc., please visit: www.3tera.com.
Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2009 - Provider of IP communications and data center solutions for enterprise organizations, INX Inc., has received a $330,000 contract to deliver its Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service for the IT environment of Heat and Control.
Wen Chang, CIO of Heat and Control remarked, ''After analyzing the cost involved in providing an internal DR solution, it was quickly evident that the economics of INX's hosted service were far more favorable. In fact, we saved enough money by virtualizing our production environment to much more than offset INX monthly fees for hosting our DR service, and INX handles all of the disaster recovery management on a 24 X 7 basis. An additional advantage of a hosted solution is that we further help reduce carbon emissions by not having equipment dedicated to disaster recovery that does nothing but consume power unless we are testing or in use in the unlikely event of a disaster.''
Heat and Control, Inc. is one of the world's leading manufacturers of food processing and packaging equipment. Headquartered in Hayward, California, Heat and Control serves its customers with easily accessible sales, manufacturing and product support services from local offices around the world. Heat and Control originally engaged INX to virtualize its production data center in Hayward along with four of its larger remote facilities. Virtualizing its data centers enabled Heat and Control to obtain high availability for its production servers without requiring expensive clustering software. Establishing a formal disaster recovery solution was the logical next step.
Heat and Control considered hosting its own DR solution in one of its own remote data centers, but the cost of equipping and managing the facility was higher than INX's outsourcing option. Heat and Control consequently turned to INX's Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service(R) (VRS) in order to provide a DR service based upon its VMware virtualization environment.
Steve Kaplan, Vice President of Data Center Virtualization for INX added, ''Heat and Control was one of the charter users of our server recycling program. They donated scores of repurposed servers that we in turn provided to charities. We estimate that by virtualizing 60 servers in their primary data center, Heat and Control eliminated 300 tons of annual CO2 emissions, and will save over $50,000 in annual energy costs alone.''
The disaster recovery system that INX designed will replicate the Heat and Control datacenter through the Internet - not only stored data, but the servers themselves which are now 'virtual' servers using VMware's virtualization software. INX utilized technologies from Data Domain and esXpress to accomplish very efficient replication. INX's VRS also includes virtual desktops so that in the event of a disaster, Heat and Control employees can access their desktops, applications and data from anywhere they can get to a browser.
Mark Hilz, President of INX commented, ''Our Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service(R) is hosted out of a Class IV rated data center in Northern California and includes top quality equipment and software. By always maintaining adequate resources to cover a disaster in any particular geographic region, we are able to leverage our resources for our clients across the country. This means that we can provide a fully managed service for less money than our clients would need to spend just on collocation facilities and equipment.''
INX Inc. is a U.S. provider of IP communications and data center solutions for enterprise organizations. We offer a suite of advanced technology solutions focused around the entire life-cycle of enterprise IP network communications and data center infrastructure. Our services are centered on the design, implementation and support of network infrastructure, including routing and switching, wireless, security, unified communications, and data center solutions such as storage and server virtualization. Customers include enterprise organizations such as corporations, as well as federal, state and local governmental agencies.
To learn more, please visit: www.inxi.com.
Alberta, Canada - (The Hosting News) - April 30, 2009 - Web hosting solutions provider, SkGold Hosting, has transitioned its advanced hosting plan to its new Unlimited Plan, offering unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited web sites.
The name of the Unlimited Hosting Plan speaks for itself. With this service, users receive unlimited: disk space, bandwidth, MySQL databases, FTP accounts, e-mail accounts, mailing lists, auto responders and much more. Users can host unlimited domains, sub-domains, addon and parked domains, all in one account. In addition, the Unlimited Plan supports many other useful Web hosting features including PHP-5, FrontPage, streaming audio and video, shared and private SSL, and others. SkGold's Unlimited Plan also includes various industry recognized Web site and Ftp statistic programs such as AWStats, Webalizer, Error Logs, Latest Visitors and more.
Sergey Krongold, CEO and founder of SkGold Hosting remarked, ''Our goal at SkGold Hosting is to create the most reliable and affordable web hosting service possible. I can confidently say that by launching our Unlimited Hosting Plan we are one step closer to achieving this goal.''
SkGold Hosting is a Calgary-based Canadian Web Hosting company. Founded in 2003, the company is a division of SkGold Marketing Ltd., which provides Internet marketing services such as Web design, Web hosting and SEO (search engine optimization) for individuals and small- and medium-sized businesses.
For more information on SkGold Hosting and its new Unlimited Plan for Web hosting solutions, please visit: www.skgoldhosting.com/hostingplans.htm.
Orlando, Florida - (The Hosting News) - April 29, 2009 - Shared, Reseller, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting solutions firm, Surpass Hosting, has introduced United Kingdom hosting services, designed for European customers seeking reduced latency and greater accessibility.
Kayla Fleming, vice president of sales, Surpass Hosting remarked, ''With such a broad range of customers, it is important for our team to continually reevaluate how we can best serve the constantly-evolving hosting market. In recent months, we have noticed increasing demand from Europe-based customers seeking to host their sites on Europe-based servers, without sacrificing the affordability and flexibility Surpass Hosting offers in the United States. Based on these demand conditions, it makes sense for us to offer a similar service in Europe.''
With servers physically located at the BlueSquare private data facility near London, Surpass Hosting will be able to serve a wider variety of prospective customers and satisfy increasing demand from its existing Europe-based customers. The UK-based services will offer greater redundancy, increased bandwidth, and fewer network hops to web users throughout Europe and Asia.
Hosting plans in the UK will be similar to United States-based plans, but will be priced marginally higher to account for greater operating costs in the new market. The Power UK shared hosting plan, which includes 500GB of disk space and unmetered bandwidth, starts as low as $8 (about £5.4) per month. As of today's launch, there are four shared hosting plans available for the UK market.
In the coming months, Surpass Hosting hopes to offer similar services in Brazil, New Zealand, Mexico, and Malaysia.
Known for its strong and vibrant user community of 30,000, Surpass Hosting is a leading provider of Shared, Reseller, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting solutions. It offers world class customer support, open and frequent customer communication, as well as highly competitive hosting plan configurations. Surpass Hosting utilizes Level3 and TW Telecom to provide network connectivity.
To learn more about United Kingdom hosting from Surpass Hosting, please visit: www.surpasshosting.com/hosting-uk-solutions.php.
To learn more about Surpass Hosting, please visit: www.surpasshosting.com.
Grand Rapids, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - April 29, 2009 - Web Host Boot Camp welcomes media partners Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine and The Web Host Industry Review, as it prepares for this summer's first-ever virtual conference for the web hosting industry.
In addition, CDGcommerce has been named as a Platinum Sponsor, the most exclusive and privileged sponsorship opportunity available.
Zachary McClung, president of Web Host Boot Camp remarked, ''We developed Web Host Boot Camp to offer easy access to the industry's leading decision-makers, experts, and vendors. CDGcommerce plays a key role in the web hosting industry and adds important value and recognition to our conference. Today's Platinum Sponsorship has enabled us keep admission free for attendees and attract a wider portfolio of hosting professionals.''
As Platinum Sponsor, CDGcommerce will benefit from extensive visibility during the unique conference, including sitewide advertising, a booth in the virtual exhibit hall, and the opportunity to address conference attendees in a special education session led by Chris West, CDGcommerce CEO. West's session is entitled ''Internet Payments 101: Implementing Online Payments, Anti-Fraud Strategies and PCI Compliance.''
Mr. West added, ''Our company is pleased to be the Platinum Sponsor for Web Host Boot Camp. We are strong supporters of Web Host Boot Camp's mission to educate the Web hosting community and to give new hosting entrepreneurs the vital training and insight they need to be successful in this rapidly evolving marketplace. Even in these challenging economic times, we believe the future has never been brighter for the hosting industry and we strongly encourage anyone who is interested in pursuing a business in this industry to attend this unique conference.''
Founded in 1998, CDGcommerce provides a full range of merchant payment processing services for internet and brick-and-mortar businesses. CDGcommerce is profitable, debt-free, and rapidly growing - all despite the global economic downturn.
Web Host Boot Camp offers a truly virtual experience. Attendees have access to vendors, sponsors, exhibit booths, and other web hosting enthusiasts through their web browsers, without spending time and money on travel. Virtual conferences are gaining appeal across a variety of industries as businesses look to reduce nonessential costs.
Web Host Boot Camp is the first-ever virtual conference exclusively for web hosting companies, hosting resellers, web designers, and anyone who wants to build a successful web hosting firm. Established by business consultant Zachary McClung, president of McClung Consulting, Web Host Boot Camp has everything a physical conference would have except the high expense of traveling, room, and board. Web Host Boot Camp is free to attend. Sponsorships and exhibit booths are available and are limited in number.
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities for Web Host Boot Camp, please visit: www.webhostbootcamp.net/Sponsors.php.
For more information about attending Web Host Boot Camp, please visit: www.webhostbootcamp.net/Attendees.php.
To learn more about Web Host Boot Camp, please visit: www.webhostbootcamp.net.
For more about CDGcommerce, please visit: www.cdgcommerce.com.
London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - April 29, 2009 -
VPS hosting and Dedicated Server specialist, ServerChoice.com, has revealed a new offer to allow customers to switch from any shared hosting package to Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting with no risk.
The company will offer the first three months on any VPS hosting product for free, in addition to free setup on all VPS accounts.
Mark Boost, ServerChoice Managing Director remarked, ''Our VPS solutions provide an invaluable balance between complete dedicated web hosting control and affordable shared hosting-like pricing. By offering a 3 month free trial period we are giving customers the opportunity to gauge for themselves the advantages of running their own virtual server with absolutely no obligation to buy.''
ServerChoice offers a range of VPS packages on the three month free trial. The Virtual Server products are available via Windows or Linux based operating systems and offer up to 25GB disk space and a guaranteed 448MB RAM. In times of low server load, users will find they can burst above this limit.
Mr. Boost added, ''We are so confident that customers will become lifetime ServerChoice customers that we see this three month free trial as a way of thanking clients for their loyalty in advance.''
ServerChoice has stated that the 3 month free trial offer is available to new customers who sign up to any VPS package before the end of April.
ServerChoice is one of the UK's fastest growing server specialists offering a huge range of affordable and reliable hosting solutions. All servers run on state-of-the-art industry software/hardware to provide the best server performance possible.
For more information about ServerChoice or to learn more about the VPS hosting three month free trial, please visit: www.serverchoice.com.
Cambridge, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - April 29, 2009 - A new reseller partnership with Xtraordinary Hosting has been unveiled at Zeus Technology, the only software-based application traffic management software provider.
The Zeus Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program will enable Xtraordinary Hosting to offer Zeus' ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) software on a monthly basis.
Andrew Ogilvie, CEO, Xtraordinary Hosting explained, ''The Zeus SPLA program offers an industry leading solution to meet the need for enhanced application speeds, high-availability and scalability that many of our customers are requesting. Our clients will benefit from a sophisticated layer-7 load balancing solution with a cost-effective monthly rental and the reassurance of Zeus' strong technical pedigree.''
As more organizations host their applications online, demand is growing for service providers to deliver application acceleration and delivery solutions that go beyond the capabilities of many of the existing hardware based solutions.
Paul Brennan, Chairman and CEO of Zeus Technology added, ''In today's growing and highly competitive Web hosting market, we understand the importance of our service provider customers being able to add new services to their end users quickly and easily, with a flexible cost structure. We are pleased to be partnering with Xtraordinary Hosting, who will be able to offer a SPLA program that provides their customers a reliable, fault tolerant service whilst generating additional revenue.''
Zeus Technology provides software that enables businesses to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services. Implementing a Zeus software solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to their web-enabled applications, ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure. Coupled with the ability to deploy new online services very quickly, Zeus will help provide the competitive advantage your business needs. As the only software application traffic management solution available, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; physical, virtual or cloud. Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as AMD, Dell, Egenera, HP, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm and VMware. Zeus powers over one million website infrastructures across the world including, Rapattoni, Business Financial Publishing, iLike, Rodgers Townsend, BT, China Telecom, NASA, PLAY.COM, STA Travel, and VNU.
Founded in 2001 with a mission to enhance service standards for SME customers in the UK hosting industry the company operates its own multi-homed network (AS30827), a member of LINX plus direct connections to Tier-1 networks. The company is an innovative early adopter in niche technology areas to help customers gain and retain competitive advantage. Current examples include Xen virtualisation and hosting for Atlassian Wiki and JIRA, Zimbra collaboration suite and open source Magento Ecommerce. At Xtraordinary Hosting reliability is derived from rigorous evaluation of suppliers: bandwidth, datacentres, network equipment, servers, software and infrastructure.
To learn more about the Zeus SPLA program, please visit: www.zeus.com/spla.
For more information about Zeus Technology, please visit: www.zeus.com.
To learn more about Xtraordinary Hosting, please visit: www.xtrahost.co.uk.
San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - April 28, 2009 - Privately held Colocation and Managed Infrastructure Services firm, UnitedLayer, Inc., on the heels of a highly profitable Q1 2009, has added three new executives to its management team.
Albert Ahdoot, with more than 12 years managerial and consulting experience in the information technology industry, has been named director of business development for UnitedLayer. In this capacity, Ahdoot will lead all sales efforts in both online and offline market segments. Prior to joining UnitedLayer, Albert served as vice president of sales and marketing for Colocation America, where he helped secure a favorable acquisition through robust sales growth. Ahdoot received his bachelor's of arts degree in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his master's degree in Bio-Technology from New York University.
Arman Khalili, CEO of UnitedLayer remarked, ''Albert is an enormous asset to the UnitedLayer team. His experience, knowledge and foresight of the web hosting and managed infrastructure spaces enable our management team to make better-informed and well-reasoned decisions.''
Armin Khalili, brother of CEO Arman Khalili, has been named director of sales and business development. Armin has more than 20 years experience as a manger, and has held a variety of senior positions in sales, business development, and marketing. He has served in Fortune 500 companies, including Samsung, ARM, General Electric and Altera.
Arman Khalili added, ''Armin is a Silicon Valley veteran and brings to the table seasoned business relationships and invaluable experience. After seven years of courtship, I have finally persuaded my brother to join our team.''
Tom Washington, with more than six years experience working with ISPs and datacenters, has been named director of managed services and product development. Washington's career highlights include managing, scaling, and implementing complex managed hosting solutions -- from one to over one hundred node deployments. His specialties include both Windows and Linux hosting as well as service development.
Arman Khalili remarked, ''Tom's background in sales, data center technology, and service development makes him an ideal executive to join our management team. Our company is built atop service and innovation, and these themes are emblematic of Tom's entire career.''
Founded in 2001, UnitedLayer offers a suite of IP Transport, Colocation, and Managed Solutions. It operates a nationwide MPLS/IP network consisting of three data centers and ten routing/peering nodes.
UnitedLayer, Inc. is a North American Colocation and Internet infrastructure services firm. It offers IP transit, colocation and managed infrastructure services in multiple datacenters strategically located throughout North America. UnitedLayer's mission is to empower businesses of all sizes to make smarter decisions with the infrastructure needed to start, build, scale and optimize their online presence.
For additional information, please visit: www.unitedlayer.com.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - (The Hosting News) - April 28, 2009 - Provider of shared and reseller hosting services, Drift2 Web Services, Inc., has acquired Baltimore, Maryland based Utaria.net, also a provider of shared hosting.
Greg Pruitt, CEO of Drift2 Web Services, Inc. remarked, ''Utaria.net has offered valuable and quality hosting services successfully for the last six years. With our acquisition, we intend to introduce a level of service for Utaria.net customers that offers more personalized customer support and access to a more robust collection of features.''
The Utaria.net brand will be discontinued once the migration is complete and all customers are informed of the change. The acquisition is hoped to enable Drift2 to serve a broader variety of shared hosting clients and grow at a faster pace. Both Utaria.net and Drift2 currently utilize the H-Sphere control panel to provision and manage shared hosting accounts, making the integration of the two companies virtually seamless. Drift2 plans to integrate all existing Utaria.net customers into its primary server cluster and ultimately manage all customers under the Drift2 brand.
Serving customers for more than six years, Utaria.net originally started in Duluth, Minnesota before being acquired by a Baltimore-based owner. It currently operates hosting servers in multiple datacenters and serves customers from eight countries.
Shared web hosting plans from Drift2 start at just $4.95 per month for personal hosting and range to $49.95 per month for corporate hosting packages.
Since April 2003, Drift2 has provided award-winning shared and reseller hosting services to businesses and individuals in the United States and abroad. It currently supports the Linux platform and operates an H-Sphere powered cluster.
To learn more about Drift2, please visit: www.drift2.com.
For more about Utaria.net, please visit: www.utaria.net.
