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Web Hosting Provider, The Planet, Premieres Migration Promotion

Wit Hosting — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:36:52 +0000

Houston, Texas - Web Hosting News - January 6, 2009 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has released a new promotion, including a free month of service, coupled with free customized migration assistance from its Advanced Services team.

The Planet’s Advanced Services experts will assess the customer’s environment and develop a customized migration plan that includes a ‘migration checklist’ detailing IP address changes, DNS redirection and control panel reconfiguration, among others. The month of free service is good for the new customer’s entire hosting solution. It includes any type of dedicated servers, private or virtual racks, and add-on products such as storage and data protection, firewalls and load balancers.

Douglas J. Erwin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at The Planet remarked, ”In today’s difficult economic climate, customers have expressed concerns about the quality and long-term viability of their hosting providers, particularly with their entire business resting in the hands of companies that could collapse under financial pressure. We’ve recently announced both a $45 million credit facility and a new 86,000 square foot data center that will open in May to accommodate our colocation and complex systems businesses. We are well positioned to provide the increasing demand we are experiencing for new and existing services. Backed by our world-class data centers and network, we have a well-earned reputation as the best company for one-stop IT infrastructure shopping for the small- and medium-sized business.”

Ultimately, The Planet’s goal is to provide:

High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 25,000 small and medium size businesses and 14.1 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24×7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution, with the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network.

To qualify for the offer, new customers must present a recent invoice from a competing hosting provider. For more information, please visit the Web site at the following address:
www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/server-specials/?id=MG090101.

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more about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

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Web Hosting Application Security Upgraded, at FireHost

Wit Hosting — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:36:51 +0000

Dallas, Texas - Web Hosting News - Jauary 6, 2009 - Managed hosting provider and online backup company, FireHost, Inc., are making available an enterprise-level secure hosting solution, designed for SMBs, including best practices, policies, hardware and software.

Chris Drake, Founder of FireHost remarked, ”While we believe developers should secure their websites and applications as much as possible, it’s not reality. That’s why we made it our responsibility to inspect every kilobyte of traffic to and from our customers’ sites and enforce policies as needed for our customers and their site visitors’ protection.”

Within the last year, Internet security threats have completely changed their style. In the past, port vulnerabilities and services exposure were the biggest concerns. Firewalls solved those holes by simply blocking access to all unused ports. Now, the biggest vulnerability utilizes port 80 and 443. These ports can’t be blocked as port 80 is required for non-SSL website traffic and port 443 is require for sites with SSL. Hackers are attacking websites from the website themselves and companies without application security are having theirs and
their customers sensitive data stolen and sold on the black market.

In addition to data theft, the most common attack is SQL Injections. According to security vendor Sophos, 16,000 new websites are hit by the attacks every day. Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, .NET, classic ASP, shopping carts, Community Server, PHPBB websites have all been hit with SQL Injections. FireHost’s Blog (www.fireblog.com) has a video available to see the impact of a SQL Injection that affected BusinessWeek’s website.

FireHost protects their customers from SQL Injections, Cross Site Scripting, Path Traversal, Bad User Agents, DOS attacks, and more. Customers receive automated reports for their protected websites and applications from all the allowed and blocked traffic. Application protection is available for both Managed Shared Hosting customers and Managed Dedicated Server customers.

FireHost also provides continuous website vulnerability monitoring from within the FireHost network ensuring the site is getting tested without protection. All vulnerability testing is done in a manner that’s non-destructive to websites and databases.

Ken Richardson, Security Engineer at FireHost remarked. ”The only true way to test vulnerabilities is to attack the website from within the security zone. Doing this provides our clients the piece of mind that we’re finding their websites’ weaknesses.”

For qualified businesses who are concerned that their website is vulnerable, FireHost provides a Hacker Report for no charge.

FireHost, Inc. is based in Dallas, Texas and focuses on delivering enterprise quality fast and secure managed web hosting to SMBs. Specializing in website security and high traffic needs, FireHost’s engineers ensure all customers are not only protected but that their website or web application is delivered as fast as possible.

To learn more, please visit: www.firehost.com.

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Sun Microsystems, Web Hosting Provider, Heads International Research Consortium

Wit Hosting — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:36:49 +0000

Santa Clara, California - Web Hosting News - Jauary 6, 2009 - Technology firm and web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc., is leading a research consortium of global efforts to solve accessibility challenges for devices from cell phones to desktops and web applications.

The group of over 20 other companies and organizations, aims to help define new approaches and solutions for building accessibility support into future information and communication technologies. Funded by a grant awarded by the European Commission,the AEGIS Project is based on the Sun-led proposal and technical architecture. A key component of the AEGIS Project is that it will leverage open source technologies wherever possible.

Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris, AEGIS Project Coordinator and Research Director at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas explained, ”The accessibility challenges of the new generations of desktop, web, and mobile technologies require new approaches - ones in which accessibility is designed in from the start, rather than bolted on as an afterthought. The AEGIS project, with its holistic approach starting with developer tools on through to the platforms the accessible applications run on - and with the end-user validation provided by the disability organization members of the AEGIS consortium - is the most promising and thorough approach to accessibility we have seen in decades.”

The AEGIS (open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards) Project participants include: Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (project coordinator), the ACE Centre Advisory Trust, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre of the University of Toronto, AOL, Blue Point IT Solutions S.R.L., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the University of Cambridge, Conncept Swiss, Czech Technical University in Prague, European Platform for Rehabilitation, Femtio Procent Data AB, Vodafone Spain Foundation, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, ONCE Foundation, P50, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Research In Motion Limited (RIM), Royal National Institute of Blind People, SingularLogic S.A., Sahlgrenska University Hospital - DART and Sun Microsystems. Advising the AEGIS project is a distinguished scientific advisory board comprised of worldwide leaders in the field of accessibility.

Jeet Kaul, senior vice president of the Client Software Group at Sun offered, ”Every second of every day that passes, the number of new mobile devices and web sites grows at an astounding rate - with much of that growth bringing accessibility problems for people with disabilities. By building support for accessibility into the next generation of rich internet application frameworks and mobile devices, we can help ensure that people with disabilities can participate in the digital age. Sun is pleased to be leading the AEGIS Project and bringing our expertise in open source and accessibility technology to this important initiative.”

Richard Orme, Head of Accessibility, RNIB noted, ”E-inclusion in the Information Society is of paramount importance. It is imperative that we close the digital divide in this ever evolving world. RNIB is committed to participating in projects that will bring about positive change in the lives of blind and partially sighted people. We’re excited to be part of the AEGIS project, working with developers, companies and organizations to bring about wholesale improvements in accessibility to ICT solutions. RNIB fully supports the endeavour of improving accessibility from the ground up, building accessibly features into developer tools and ratifying the outcomes through end user testing.”

Tom Wlodkowski, Director of Accessibility at AOL commented, ”AOL is excited to participate in such a dynamic consortium by contributing solutions that advance accessibility of rich Internet applications. As a pioneer in the web accessibility space, AOL has recently deployed a keyboard-friendly web mail application that aligns functionality with widely used software e-mail clients. We’re pleased that Sun recognized our commitment to the disability audience as they assembled this innovative project.”

The AEGIS Project will involve research and prototypes that address a broad range of disabilities including: vision impairment, hearing impairment, physical impairment, and a range of cognitive/developmental disabilities. The participants plan to address accessibility challenges across three key areas: open source desktop computing, Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and mobile devices; with a multitude of research and development goals within each of these areas. In addressing these challenges, the AEGIS Project will leverage the pervasiveness of Java (TM) technology across desktops, the web, and mobile devices. Java is one of the world’s most popular software platforms and is present on more than 800 million desktop computers and over 2.2 billion mobile phones worldwide.

Sun Microsystems develops technologies utilized in more than 100 countries and on the web.

To learn more information on the AEGIS Project, please visit: www.aegis-project.eu.

For more about Sun’s Startup Essentials program, visit: www.sun.com/startups.

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Web Hosting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Instituted, at Host Department

Wit Hosting — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:36:48 +0000

Union City, New Jersey - Web Hosting News - January 6, 2009 - Web hosting provider, Host Department, has debuted the launch of its upgraded Microsoft SQL Server to version 2005, which is divided into Express and standard editions.

Ivan Seidenberg, Operational and Technical Manager at Host Department noted, ”With the upgrade, our clients can have better web hosting experience. Constantly improving our service has always been our goals each day.”

The SQL Server editions are designed to be specified for customers, based on hosting plans. The Express Edition is offered to customers of its earlier plans, including the No Limit Developer Windows plans. The Standard edition is designed for Premium Hosting Windows customers.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is designed to enable customers to access native support for managing XML data, in addition to relational data. It also added some extensions to the T-SQL language to allow embedding XQuery queries in T-SQL, DBAs management tools, and many more improvements over version 2000.

Established in 1997, Host Department is based in Fremont, CA with data centers located in Fremont and Santa Clara, CA. Host Department emphasizes service to individuals, small/medium sized businesses (SMBs), and large corporations, in order to facilitate e-commerce and allow for focus on core competencies. The company currently serves customers worldwide with reseller, premium, specialty and free web hosting, and domain name registration services supported by 24/7 support. The company also offers web design and development services, as well as search engine submission.

To learn more, please visit: www.hostdepartment.com.

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Verizon Web Hosting Provider, Expands Global Government Network

Wit Hosting — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:36:47 +0000

Basking Ridge, New Jersey - Web Hosting News - January 6, 2009 - Web host and Internet solutions firm, Verizon Business, has expanded and improved its global networks, with enhanced speed, availability, diversity and resiliency for business and government customers, on a worldwide basis.

Fred Briggs, executive vice president, network operations and technology, for Verizon Business explained, ”Our reputation of achieving some of the highest standards of network performance is strengthened each year through the shrewd strategies and innovative technologies we successfully implement. ”The Verizon global network is the foundation for offering solutions that help organizations better achieve their missions. Our global customers know they can depend on us to serve their needs by delivering reliability, scalability, capacity and speed, year after year.”

The investments were part of the approximately $17 billion Verizon Communications planned to spend this year building, operating and integrating one of the most advanced, reliable and broadband-capable wireless and wireline networks in the world.

Leadership in Undersea-Cable Meshing

Two years after launching its Atlantic network mesh, the company continued its leadership in undersea-cable meshing by completing a seven-way diverse transpacific mesh in September - adding nodes in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea to the existing nodes in Japan. A network mesh provides multiple alternate paths for rerouting traffic in the event of a network interruption.

The Asia-Pacific mesh increases network availability, reducing provisioning intervals from three weeks to one week and lowering latency (the time it takes for a packet of data to get from one designated point to another) up to 15 percent from the U.S. to Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The company also completed the first phase of its North America mesh this year, deploying 22 new mesh nodes in the U.S. and expanding its network into Canada, with new nodes located in Toronto and Montreal.

In May, Verizon Business joined 16 companies in a consortium to build the undersea cable system called Europe India Gateway (EIG). Connecting Europe, the Middle East and India, the 14,000-kilometer (9,000 miles) cable system is expected to be completed in 2010. The EIG will provide Verizon Business customers a second diverse landing in France, where the company will operate the landing station that connects to the Verizon Business ultra long haul (ULH) network in Europe.

During the third quarter, Verizon Business announced it would be the first to market with the Trans-Pacific Express (TPE), the submarine cable network that connects the United States with mainland China. The cable already carries 40 percent of all Verizon Business transpacific Private IP traffic.

Built directly between the U.S. and mainland China, South Korea and Taiwan, TPE operates at a capacity of 3.2 terabits per second (Tbps). This 18,000-kilometer (11,000 miles) cable system has 80 wavelengths per fiber, the highest wave density, or capacity, of any similar distance submarine cable in the world.

This year also saw Verizon Business adding 12 new markets in four countries on its Private IP network, with network expansion into Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Pakistan and Iceland. In addition, the company also added diversity with new Private IP nodes in Taipei, Seoul and Shanghai, as well as a one in Dubai in partnership with du, the United Arab Emirates integrated telecommunications service provider.

Expanded Global Capabilities

Verizon Business also completed extensive network expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. The company built backbone links to several major Asian hubs and added another node in Shanghai for diversity. Partnering with China Telecom, the company expanded its network in China and, for the second year in a row, China Telecom awarded Verizon Business its Most Valued Partner award.

In January, the company received a license to offer international and national long-distance services in India and, six months later, launched its Private IP service there. In a joint venture with the Videocon Group, Verizon Business completed deploying its Private IP network in five cities (Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad) and looks toward expanding both coverage and service in India.

Early in the year, the company also expanded its Private IP service in Mexico with new nodes in Mexico City and Monterrey.

ULH and CPA Strategies Continue

In 2004, Verizon Business was the first major communications service provider to announce deployment of an extensive ULH network in the U.S. ULH improves network performance and efficiency while enabling quicker network restoration and provisioning.

This year, the company continued expansion, adding more than 8,000 km (5,000 miles) in the U.S., bringing the total U.S. ULH network to 58,300 km (36,000 miles). Globally, the company launched 155 km (100 miles) in Japan in 2008, adding to its already existing global presence in Europe where the company has 3,100 km (1,900 miles).

Continuing to deploy its converged packet architecture (CPA), Verizon Business added 18 new cities in seven countries, including Mexico, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada and Poland. This brings the total Verizon Business CPA presence to 76 cities in 24 countries.

CPA enables convergence of all services onto a single packet access connection via a simple Ethernet interface, allowing customers to take advantage of their existing network equipment while quickly adding incremental services.

Most Connected Internet Backbone for 10th Consecutive Year

In September, for the 10th consecutive year, TeleGeography recognized Verizon Business as the world’s most connected Internet backbone. Using autonomous systems (AS) connectivity as its measure, TeleGeography found that Verizon Business has the greatest number of AS connections of any public IP network in the world. The autonomous system ranking is a measure of the connectedness of an IP network to the rest of the public Internet. The AS ranking demonstrates the closeness of the network to the rest of the Internet via the number of ‘hops’ (segments on network routes) data must take to reach its destination.

During 2008, the company continued pushing 100G (gigabit) technology closer to commercial deployment by participating in two key 100G trials. In September, Verizon and Nokia Siemens Networks set a new distance record of 1,040 km (650 miles) for 100G optical transmission across field fiber. A month later, Verizon and Nortel announced the results of a trial that achieved better tolerance for signal distortion than standard 10G transmission. Verizon Business also continued to expand its IP backbone with 40G capabilities.

Mr. Briggs concluded, ”We continue to invest in global network expansion and in innovative technologies that give our customers a competitive edge - whether it’s on the other side of the world or close to home.”

Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), is a global leader in communications and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise with the world’s most connected IP network to deliver award-winning communications, IT, information security and network solutions. We securely connect today’s extended enterprises of widespread and mobile customers, partners, suppliers and employees - enabling them to increase productivity and efficiency and help preserve the environment. Verizon Business serves many of the world’s largest businesses and governments - including 96 percent of the Fortune 1000 and thousands of government agencies and educational institutions and its network technologies services to accelerate business.

To learn more, please visit: www.verizonbusiness.com.

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Dedicated Server Provider, 3FN, Finalizes Backbone Enhancements

Wit Hosting — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:37:08 +0000

San Jose, California - Web Hosting News - January 5, 2009 - Dedicated server, colocation and shared web hosting company, 3FN.Net, Triple Fiber Network, has completed the enhancement of its European backbone, upgrading major web hosting network equipment within all European key cities.

The company has achieved considerable improvement of IP network connectivity performance, by installing highly reliable network equipment. 3FN has provided its web hosting customers with fully resilient network, for faster and more reliable web hosting services for all our European customers. The company maintains that its development strategy also embraces further backbone upgrades all over the world.

The priorities of further backbone upgrades will be determined by the demand of its web hosting customers. The company’s main aspiration is to make web hosting services available with a top level of quality from every spot on a globe. Thus, in the near future, all of its web hosting services will be upgraded and enhanced, even if there is no obvious need present.

Dean McToner, 3FN official representative remarked, ”We are happy to announce such an upgrade as it means faster and more reliable web hosting services for all our European customers. Our development strategy also embraces further backbone upgrades all over the world. The priorities of further backbone upgrades will be determined by the demand of our web hosting customers. Being a world leading web hosting provider, our company’s main aspiration is to make our web hosting services available with a top level of quality from every spot on a globe. Thus, in near future all our web hosting services will be upgraded and enhanced even if there is no need in it; all upgrades are implemented in order to power our customers with unprecedented quality of web hosting.”

As new better network equipment appears on a web hosting market 3FN immediately implements it in its entire web hosting network. Although, the web hosting company utilizes only best and proven equipment as this is a guarantee of high performable and reliable web hosting. This upgrade combining with recent improvements allow 3FN’s web hosting customers to benefit from the outstanding backbone providing premium web hosting.

As the requirements for better IP connectivity grow in order to provide web hosting with outmost quality the company has made this upgrade. Such an upgrade of European web hosting backbone is a long term investment that will bring much more advantages with web hosting services by 3FN. All European customers will now experience the best and fast IP connectivity performance of the whole network.

In December, 3FN enhanced services, with hardware monitoring and replacement service upgrades. Triple Fiber Network announced the major improvement of hardware monitoring and replacement services, to significantly enhance web hosting services. The web hosting company constantly improves hardware monitoring and replacement services in order to achieve maximum reliability and efficiency of its web hosting.

The improvement of web hosting hardware monitoring and replacement services allows to perform any replacements or upgrades immediately providing web hosting with the flawless functioning and maximum possible uptime of all web hosting services. Due to recent improvement web hosting by 3FN remains stable and persistent. In case of malfunctioning within any web hosting service broken server part: central processor, power unit, RAM, or HDD, is replaced by a new one immediately. In addition, the servers can be upgraded instantly if that is required by web hosting customers. As the result such web hosting powered with 24/7/365 monitoring and replacement services becomes a perfect web hosting solution suiting any web hosting requirements. 3FN utilizes the best and most proven hardware as well as hardware monitoring and replacement approaches in all its datacenters, therefore, achieving maximum reliability and stability of its web hosting services.

The US based provider of dedicated servers, shared hosting and collocation hosting services, Triple Fiber Network, 3FN, Inc. is best known for the quality excellence and high reliability of all hosting services provided on a global basis. Triple Fiber Network has a flawless reputation of reliable hosting provider, providing the high-quality and efficiency of all dedicated hosting services within last 10 years. Since that time the company has created one of the most biggest and powerful network of dedicated servers with main datacenter located in Silicon Valley. The Headquarters are located in San Jose, California, the company has also established offices in UK, India, Ukraine and EU. Triple Fiber Network has founded the subdivision called 3FN Marketing - an online pay per click advertising network and webmaster affiliate program. 3FN Marketing offers optimized targeted pay per click advertising for those who want to promote their websites or products and generous revenue shares up to 95% for webmasters. The company provides customers with 24/7/365 support via the toll-free telephone, online chat and ticket system.

To learn more, please visit: www.3fn.net.

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Data Center Debuts, at Fulcrum Database Marketing Solutions

Wit Hosting — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:37:07 +0000

New York, New York - Web Hosting News - January 5, 2009 - The opening of an additional data center, to provide increased processing capacity, as well as further redundancy and failover capabilities, has been debuted by Fulcrum database marketing solutions.

David King, CEO of Fulcrum noted, ”Fulcrum’s solutions deliver gains in both revenue and profits, which has led to rapid growth in the number of client databases we manage, particularly in the current economy. This additional center will give us more flexibility and processing power, plus enhance our disaster recovery and redundancy capabilities.”

In addition to managing enterprise data warehouses and large-scale marketing databases, Fulcrum provides advanced analytics and customer management technology that enable companies to market to their customers more effectively. The databases and applications require high-availability, high-capacity technology platforms. The new center, which has been in the planning stages for several months, was originally conceived as a disaster recovery site. However, due to the company’s growth, the new facility will be a hot site and provide both redundant processing and failover capabilities. The facility is expected to be operational in early 2009.

Fulcrum services leading businesses to increase and accelerate the profitability of marketing programs. Fulcrum offers a fully integrated database marketing solution, from building and managing rich, multi-channel databases, to predictive and segmentation modeling, using its advanced analytical tools, and executing customer-centric marketing. Fulcrum is headquartered in New York City with its major operational center in Fairfield, CT.

To learn more, please visit: www.fulcrum.com.

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Web Hosting Widget Delivery Platform, Launched by MIVA Direct

Wit Hosting — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:37:07 +0000

New York, New York - Web Hosting News - January 5, 2008 - Toolbar, homepage and content division of digital media and advertising company, MIVA, Inc., has released the beta version of its free ALOT Desktop software application.

Designed to enable widget display directly on desktops, without open browser windows, users can choose from a range of different widgets which may be customized and added to desktops. The widgets include an online radio player, news headlines, weather and celebrity gossip. It is intended that with future releases of the product, users will be able to access any widget from MIVA Direct’s rapidly expanding online widget portfolio, ALOT Buttons.

Peter Corrao, President and CEO of MIVA explained, ”Our objective with ALOT is to create an integrated widget platform that users can interact with across a variety of different touch points. We believe that adding increased integration through the launch of products like ALOT Desktop not only enhances user experience, but also provides a valuable platform for brand and direct response advertisers to reach potential customers.”

The ALOT brand was launched by MIVA Direct in Q4 2007 and is designed to ‘Make the Internet Easy’ by aggregating ‘best of the web’ content within widgets that can be displayed across toolbars, homepages and now desktops. ALOT’s toolbar and homepage products come pre-configured across 40 different categories, enabling MIVA Direct to build up niche vertical audiences. The ALOT music and recipe toolbars, for example, currently have over 900,000 and 500,000 users respectively.

The beta release of ALOT Desktop follows the October launch of MIVA Direct’s new, fully customizable toolbar and homepage products, ALOT Toolbar and ALOT Home. Together, ALOT’s toolbar and homepage products generate over 110 million searches each month1. According to an October 2008 report from Razorfish, 55% of ”connected consumers” - people with broadband who use social networks and digital media - use widgets on their desktops with some frequency, and 62% use them on personalized homepages and social networking sites.

MIVA Direct operates a portfolio of consumer websites, interest-specific toolbars and personalized homepages. MIVA Direct’s millions of active toolbars span a range of niche sectors including jokes, music, recipes and horoscopes and offer consumers search functionality in addition to one-click access to tailored content. MIVA Direct is owned by MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIVA - News).

MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIVA - News) is a global digital media company with a mission to deliver valuable digital audiences to advertisers. MIVA has two focuses to its business: owning and operating a growing portfolio of consumer destination sites and interest-specific toolbars, through its MIVA Direct division; and running a third-party contextual Pay-Per-Click ad network focused on key vertical sectors, through its MIVA Media division. MIVA, Inc. operates across North America and Europe.

To learn more, please visit: www.alot.com.

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Web Hosting Bailout Program, Instituted at Liberty Center One

Wit Hosting — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:37:06 +0000

Royal Oak, Michigan - Web Hosting News - January 5, 2009 -
Web hosting company, Liberty Center One, has introduced its new Hosting Bailout Program, in an effort to assist Michigan businesses, by providing qualified companies with free migration, set-up and server rack space.

Rex Smith, President of Liberty Center One explained, ”As times get tougher, older data centers are faced with financial pressures that sometimes result in a reduction in their maintenance spending, thus harming redundancy and impacting uptime. Many older data centers simply do not have the infrastructure to accommodate modern servers’ power and cooling requirements.”

The program is available through the end of January, 2009 and is designed to address the urgent needs of companies facing tough economic choices, power outages, and network outages and who are seeking cost-cutting alternatives while maintaining top service levels and keeping their critical business systems up and running. Liberty Center One has maintained 100.0% uptime since opening, while other local businesses and data centers have suffered downtime for various power, network and other critical service interruptions.

Other customers who will benefit from the program are hosting customers who are presently located in data centers that have experienced service interruptions. Customers interested in the program can call 248-802-8844 and ask about the bailout.

Mr. Smith added, ”Liberty has had 100% uptime since going online early in 2008 and we continue to invest in our systems and practices to maintain this record of uninterrupted services to our customers. We’re not shooting for five nines. We’re providing continuous service with no downtime.”

Under the Hosting Bailout Program, Liberty is providing free emergency migration assistance to qualified customers needing to relocate their servers. Liberty has already migrated hundreds of web sites, servers, and colocation customers to its state-of-the-art 20,000 square foot data center in Royal Oak, MI.

Liberty’s design makes it one of the highest power density data centers in the mid-west with multiple layers of redundancy throughout its power, networking and security architecture. Every system has N+1 or higher redundancy enabling Liberty to maintain its record of 100% uptime. Liberty offers all modern networking solutions through multiple regional and national carriers with diverse paths and diverse entries.

Liberty Center One is a new breed of data center located in Royal Oak, MI. Liberty can host any customer solution regardless of space, power, networking, or bandwidth requirements. Liberty offers a full range of technology solutions, including fully managed, colocated, virtual, dedicated and shared hosting services. With its high power density architecture, Liberty can deliver more than 200 watts of fully redundant power per square foot to keep modern, high density computing equipment running without interruption. On-site IT hotel space is also available for short and long-term lease or for hot-spot disaster recovery services. Contact Liberty Center One by calling 248-802-8844.

To learn more, please visit: www.libertycenterone.com.

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Web Hosting Green Data Center at EvoSwitch, Increases Energy Savings

Wit Hosting — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:12:31 +0000

Noord-Holland, Amsterdam - Web Hosting News - December 23, 2008 - Data center provider, EvoSwitch, has reduced the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of its facilities, from 1.8 to 1.6.

The above power reduction resulted in a 20 percent increase in energy saving - from 20 to 40 percent - compared to a traditional data center.

The ultimate goal of EvoSwitch is to achieve an energy saving of 70 to 80 percent. The extra 20 percent saving in energy consumption is largely the result of further investments in low-energy equipment and control systems. The expansion of the data center in 2008 also contributed to the improved PUE.

The first phase of EvoSwitch (2,000 m2) is already fully occupied by equipment from customers. This phase was completed in April 2007. Part of the second phase (2,000 m2 extra) is also almost fully used. The second phase was completed shortly before the summer of 2008 and required an additional investment of 9 million Euros. When the next phases are completed, EvoSwitch will have a potential floor area capacity of more than 9,000 m2.

Laurens Rosenthal, Innovation Director of EvoSwitch noted, ”The extra energy saving is in line with what we calculated beforehand. An average PUE of 1.6 is low, but the new design of the next phases enables us to achieve an even lower PUE. After completion of the next phases a PUE of 1.2 to 1.3 is a very realistic objective. According to our calculations, an energy saving will be realised in the new phase, in phase 3, of 70 to 80 percent compared to a traditional data center.”

A PUE of 1.2 to 1.3 is very low and proves that EvoSwitch is a leading data center innovator. Rosenthal: It means that you need only 20 to 30 percent extra power to manage the data centre infrastructure, whereas in traditional data centres 80 to 120 percent extra power is quite common nowadays. There are even excesses in the market of 3.0, which means that 200 percent extra energy is required.

Mr. Rosenthal added, ”The energy savings are used by EvoSwitch to finance the current and new investments in green technologies, but also to offer customers affordable energy prices. Building a green data center is more expensive than a traditional data center, but this does not affect our customers. We use the savings for further investments in green technology. Our customers also do not have to pay anything extra for our CO2 compensation, in which we invest together with the Climate Neutral Group. At EvoSwitch, companies are also better protected against high energy charges. Because of our investments in green technology and our long-term energy purchasing strategy, we can keep energy costs controllable and predictable for our customers. The environmentally friendly design of the EvoSwitch data center was the result of expert advice from TNO and the innovative work of our own dedicated design team. It enabled us to offer an energy-low concept at the opening of the data center in April 2007, among other things based on Free Cooling (using the outside temperature), Cold Corridors (separating warm and cold air flows) and UPS technology with Delta Conversion.”

EvoSwitch is now putting the final touches to a new design that will improve the PUE even further. Rosenthal: This will result in lower capital costs and operating costs and will benefit both the environment and the customers of EvoSwitch.

Mr. Rosenthal continued, ”There are many suppliers on the market who claim to operate ‘green’. The only thing that counts in a data center, however, is the Power Usage Effectiveness. A data centre may buy green power, but that does not make it energy-low. A data centre may install Cold Corridors, but that does not necessarily result in the best possible energy saving. The PUE of a data centre is the key figure that shows how green a data center actually is. Recently, the Green Grid, of which we are a member, decided to use the term Data Center infrastructure Effectiveness (DCiE) as well. The lower the PUE or the higher the DCiE, the more successful the concept of a green data center. How this is achieved is a matter of making the right choices from the various available green technologies. We now aim to realise a PUE of 1.2 to 1.3 in the new data center designs.”

EvoSwitch is a carrier-neutral, green data Center (CO2-neutral). The data center is located in the Amsterdam region, has good connections and a spacious floor area of more than 9,000 m2. EvoSwitch is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified. To customers this means that their IT infrastructure within EvoSwitch is protected according to the highest standards. The data center has a total capacity of 20 Megawatt. This power capacity enables EvoSwitch to guarantee customers that there is always enough energy available. EvoSwitch operates fully climate-neutral. In cooperation with the Climate Neutral Group the data center invests in worldwide projects to restore the CO2 balance in the atmosphere.

For more information about Climate Neutral Group, please visit: www.climateneutralgroup.com.

To learn more about The Green Fan Partner Programme, please visit: www.thegreenfan.com.

For more about EvoSwitch, please visit: www.evoswitch.com.

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