Jul 10, 20100

Newtek Integrates Microsoft’s Web App Gallery

Categories: Web Hosting News

Newtek Web Hosting, the technology services division of Newtek Business Services, Inc., yesterday announced that it has added the Microsoft Web Application Gallery to the list of tools available within the WebControlCenter, their account management application. The company mentions that the Web App Gallery is included for all shared hosting plans hosted on the Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 platform and provides users with easy installation of over twenty popular PHP and ASP.NET-based web applications.

It articulates that Microsoft’s Web App Gallery includes widely used blogging platforms, content management systems, photo galleries, tools, and forum software. And with a 1-click, or near 1-click, installation process for all included apps, users can quickly and easily install the applications of their choice and have them online and fully operational within a few short minutes.

The company avers that its Web App Gallery tool is included free on all new ASP.NET and ColdFusion 9 hosting plans, which are both hosted on Microsoft’s latest web platform, Windows Server 2008. It adds that some of the applications included in the Web App Gallery, and supported by the company, includes WordPress, DotNetNuke Community Edition, Acquia Drupal, Umbraco CMS, phpBB, and Gallery Server Pro to name a few.

“Seeing the huge benefits of giving our customers an easier way to deploy widely used applications, our phenomenal Development Team placed a great deal of time and resources into building out the Web App Gallery tool within the WebControlCenter,” said Bob Cichon, President of Newtek Technology Services. “It not only saves time and makes things easier for designers and developers, but it adds significant value for hosting resellers using our environment for their own clientele.”

Source : web-hosting-top.com

Jul 4, 20100

SingleHop Announces Turn-key Reseller Cloud Hosting Platform

Categories: Web Hosting News

SingleHop, Inc., one of the fastest-growing providers of dedicated servers and complex web hosting solutions, announced the launch of the world’s first cloud hosting reseller system, which will be sold under their Tandem reseller brand.

The Chicago-based web hosting company has quickly achieved a dominant position in the dedicated and complex hosting business by offering innovative solutions for end-users and resellers. In 2008, SingleHop introduced LEAP, an advanced control panel, designed to give customers complete control over their infrastructure. Earlier this year, SingleHop launched the highly successful Tandem Reseller system, which offers resellers enhanced control, greater sales potential, and higher margins.

“Tandem revolutionized the reseller market,” said SingleHop President and CEO Zak Boca. “It was the first to offer the end-user a fully white-labeled control panel. Tandem also gained notoriety amongst web hosters by providing unlimited SSL certificates, among other exclusive offers.” Both systems, LEAP and Tandem, have also been extended to various additional platforms, including the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Firefox toolbar, and various widgets, making SingleHop a leader in providing complementary tools that expand on the amount of control the end-user has.

With the launch of the Cascade Platform, SingleHop will again redefine the reseller experience by offering the world’s first turn-key cloud reseller system, available under the Tandem Reseller program, with all of the usual perks, including end-user control panels in over 15 languages. Cascade will allow resellers to seamlessly create and manage virtual machines via LEAP, and then have the ability to sell them with fully customized control panels for the end-user through Tandem.

“Adoption of cloud computing technologies by hosting providers has not yet hit a tipping point, because we feel hosting companies haven’t had the necessary components to easily bring a product to market,” Boca said. “We feel that our unique combination of technologies, LEAP, Tandem, and Cascade will change the landscape, and will further enable adoption of cloud computing in the hosting world.”

The cloud hosting reseller system will be launching July 17th around the time of the industry’s annual convention, HostingCon. SingleHop executives are scheduled to speak during two exclusive sessions, July 19th and 20th at 3 pm. Monday’s event is focused on “Reselling the Cloud,” while Tuesday’s is focused on mobile server and cloud management technologies. Entrance is limited to HostingCon participants and media.

About HostingCon

HostingCon is a premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry. This year’s event will take place July 19-21 at the Austin Convention Center, Texas. Around 1,500 Internet professionals from 30 countries are expected to attend the show, which is celebrating its 6th anniversary.

About SingleHop

SingleHop, Inc. is a full-service managed dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective, dedicated servers. The company was founded by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites from around the world. The cornerstone of SingleHop’s managed hosting is the a la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full array of transparent management services designed and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise.

For more information, or to request a complimentary media invite to the sessions, please contact Dan Salcedo at PR@singlehop.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Source : pr-canada.net

Jul 2, 20100

Stabroek News website in the clear-GoogleStabroek News website in the clear-Google

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Internet search giant Google says that the Stabroek News website has not hosted malicious software over the last 90 days and that it “is not currently listed as suspicious.”

Google said that over the last 90 days the website www.stabroeknews.com “appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s)” and that it was “listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.”   This had resulted in the internet search giant temporarily issuing a security advisory listing the Stabroek News website as “suspicious” for several hours on Saturday.  However, full access to the website was restored at 9 pm on Saturday.

Stabroek News technical staffer Kester Clarke said that on Friday one of the newspaper company’s web servers was targeted by an unknown attacker. The attack was first observed at 11 pm, and the attacker was able to serve malicious software to visitors on the website on 7 of its pages.  According to Clarke, at about 2:30 am on Saturday “the malicious software was removed from the server and the weakness plugged by our technical staff along with the assistance of our Web Host.”  The problem, Clarke explained, was solved using an automated system.  He said too that efforts are ongoing to prevent such problems from recurring.

By the time the problem was fixed, Clarke said that Google’s Search Advisory had already scanned the infected pages and had begun notifying users of Mozilla Firefox as well as visitors arriving through search engine results that the Stabroek News website might be harmful to their computer. However, during this time, persons using Internet Explorer had no difficulty in accessing the Stabroek News website, Clarke pointed out.

Google in their latest diagnostic test of the website said that the last time suspicious content was found was on Saturday. It said too that “of the 360 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 7 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent.” The last time Google visited the site was on Monday.

Clarke explained that the malicious software was linked back to the website dhfyjrud321.com  which was established sometime on Friday.  It is unclear whether this site was created locally, but Clarke said that this was a possibility.

An article appeared in last Sunday’s Guyana Chronicle captioned “Google warns against visiting Stabroek News website; paper sorting problem out with Google”. The article quoted one Michael Jebbs, a security adviser at Google Inc, as saying that “the company had launched an investigation into the operations of Stabroek News after receiving complaints from a U.S Internet Spyware watchdog and dozens of users in the United States alleging that Stabroek News has been installing spyware and malicious software onto the computers of visitors to their website.”

The Guyana Chronicle has to date not carried a follow-up story clarifying that the problem had been solved and was not attributable to SN.

Meanwhile, Clarke said that prior to Friday there had been two complaints from visitors to the Stabroek News website about them receiving spyware after visiting but that these were investigated and proven to be false. He said on both occasions, the spyware had come from other sites that the persons had visited.

SN Editor-in-Chief Anand Persaud said Guyana Publications Inc. will do whatever is necessary to further bolster the security of the website. He said the website is patronized by thousands every day both here and in the diaspora. He added that on a regular basis there are attempts to attack the website but these have been repulsed by the multi-layered security protecting the website and its servers.  He said that since the Saturday incident website traffic has returned to normal.

Source : stabroeknews.com

Jul 1, 20100

ResellerChoice Announces Annual Independence Day Sale

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ResellerChoice, a white label Microsoft Windows solution provider, today announced discounts on Windows virtual servers and Windows reseller hosting during the month of July in celebration of Independence Day. The company says that the month long sale will include 25% off all window web hosting accounts (promotional code: “July4th”) and 10% off all Hyper-V Virtual Servers and Dedicated Servers (promotional code: “fireworks”). It adds that the promotion is valid for all new customers.

Rob Conley of ResellerChoice noted, ”At ResellerChoice our goal is to provide a feature rich windows hosting solution and fast professional support with guaranteed uptimes and hardware you can count on. Celebrating July 4th by cutting prices back 25% is a great way for new clients on board and experience our advanced hosting services at a discount price.”

Source : web-hosting-top.com

Jul 1, 20100

Mindraven – Creator of the UBB Forum Software now offering a variety of Hosting Plans

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Mindraven has been creating forum software since 1997 which is in use on thousands of websites. On June 1, 2010 they’ve expanded their services to include a variety of full web hosting plans. Plans include full control panel access, discounts on UBB Licenses as well as free access to the company Members Area to download future versions of the UBB software.

Mindraven CEO, Rick Baker said “It was only natural to expand our services and offer hosting to our customers since we can specialize in forum hosting to allow them to focus on growing their community and not having to worry about the hosting side of things.”
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Mindraven, originally founded as Wired Community Software in 1997, is a technology company specializing in forum software, web hosting and IT Consulting..

Source : prlog.org

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