06/05/2006 Hosting Industry News Briefing

Here’s your hosting industry briefing for 06/05/2006

EasySpace Offers 40+ Templates

EasySpace, a hosting provider in the UK, announced that they are now offering their customers 40+ templates to make site creation even easier. According to the company, “Rapidsite is one of a range of services offered by Easyspace. It allows users to quickly create functional websites without technical skills or programming knowledge. The system is template based. The templates provide a number of designs and color schemes users can choose from. Users can then quickly populate sites with text and upload pictures to develop their site. The introduction of 44 new templates means Rapidsite users now have more options from which to choose from.”

The company, which has been in business for 10 years, will soon be offering another 50 templates for their customers.

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Active24 Sponsors Youth Charity

In other UK hosting news, Active24, a provider of hosting solutions, announced that they are supporting a youth inclusion project run by YouthWorks, this summer. According to YouthWorks, “The Active 24 Five-a-side challenge, targeted at some of London’s most disadvantaged young people. The football tournament will mirror the format of the World Cup, enabling 32 teams from across the London borough of Lambeth to participate for free.”

“Our aim is to bring awareness about the possibilities offered by the Internet and open people’s minds about the creation of Web sites and topical issues such as virus and emails” says Patrick McCarthy, commercial director of Active 24. “I am really excited about this football challenge and I hope the young people taking part really enjoy the tournament.”

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ONet Launches Affiliate Program

ONet, a provider of hosting services, has announced that they are now offering an affiliate program for their customers. According to the company, revenues can be as high as $150 per sale.

“We have noticed a large percentage of our new clients are being referred to us from current customers, and we felt we wanted to give something back as a thank you,” says Sindre Moe, director and founder of ONET Hosting Solutions. “We believe our affiliate program is one of the most rewarding in the Web hosting industry today, and it is not even required to have a hosting account with us to utilize the program.”

In addition to this news, Onet also announced their “2006 Summer Sale,” that offers 10GB of disk space, 150GB monthly transfer and a free domain, at $6.95 per month. Customers with existing domain names will receive a 12-month extension when they transfer an existing domain.

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ExaBytes Launches Affiliate Program

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FiberRacks Partners with ServerGenius

FiberRacks, a provider of hosting solutions, announced that they have partnered with ServerGenius to provide support services for their customers. ServerGenius is a company that specializes in high-end Unix support and server administration.

“As a hosting company we want to offer the best possible service to our customers. That is also why we only work with state of the art technologies,” says Dennis Bruin, CEO of FiberRacks. “We used to do the server monitoring ourselves, but with the recent growth of our client base we wanted to add just that little bit of extra service. ServerGenius is the best partner for this extra service.”

FiberRacks also announced several new hosting plans that offer “1600GB to 3200GB of bandwidth, proactive ping and HTTP monitoring, 24-hours live support and free setup.”

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