Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – August 27, 2009 – Web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated server company, HostGator.com, has ranked as the 239th fastest-growing privately owned company in the country on the Inc. 5000 list for 2009.

The 2009 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, for profit, independent (not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies), and have had at least $200,000 in revenue from 2005, and at least $2 million in 2008.

HostGator’s revenue grew by over 896% during the measured period. In 2005, the Houston-based company saw revenues of $3.4 million–while in 2008, HostGator generated $34.2 million in annual revenue.

In addition to being ranked #239 overall, HostGator was ranked #6 out of all businesses in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area of Texas, and #20 in HostGator’s category of Business Products and Services across the country.

In 2008, HostGator was ranked #21 overall, on Inc. 5000’s list with 2007’s revenue of $18.7 million. Jay Weissman, Affiliate Director for HostGator.com remarked, ”Although we were ranked at 239 overall versus last year’s rank of 21, we’ve nearly doubled our revenue from 2007 to 2008 to $34.2 million. And we have seen substantial growth in every service we offer.”

Chad Bean, CMO of HostGator.com noted, ”A big portion of our growth has definitely come from small to medium-sized businesses understanding the value in having their own web site to be competitive in today’s marketplace. Individuals are also able to utilize our services to generate extra income from online advertising and promotion.”

While unemployment in the U.S. rose to 9.4% in July of 2009 from 5.7% in July of 2008 (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics), HostGator has been able to add over 100 new positions for highly skilled technicians and systems’ administrators from its growth.

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HostGator is a leading provider of web hosting including shared hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers. The company provides hosting for over 2.2 million websites and supports more than 50,000 resellers worldwide with 24/7 technical support and state-of-the-art web hosting tools including free billing software for resellers and access to over 4,500 high quality free web templates.

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

Aliso Viejo, California – (The Hosting News) – August 27, 2009 – Web hosting and cloud computing technology and utility services provider, 3Tera, welcomes technology luminary and Silicon Valley veteran for over 30 years, Bill Coleman.

Mr. Coleman will provide strategic insight and guidance to 3Tera’s management team as it positions the company to further pursue the enterprise and service provider markets.

Mr. Coleman noted, ”I firmly believe that 3Tera’s cloud computing technology and vision will drive fundamental change to the next generation of information technology. I am excited to be a part of this and share my views and expertise, helping 3Tera position itself best to lead the cloud adoption in the enterprise.”

Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera, Inc. remarked, ”Having Bill Coleman join our advisory board is a testimony to how much 3Tera has accomplished. Bill’s insights into large scale corporate IT while at Sun and BEA will be extremely valuable to us we continue to be lead of the cloud computing market.. We are thrilled to be working with him and seek his advice.”

Bill Coleman has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Most recently he was founder and CEO of Cassatt Corporation, software provider helping make data centers more efficient and agile, recently acquired by CA.

Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.

3Tera, Inc. is the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of online applications. Named ”Cool Vendor in IT operations, 2008” by Gartner Group, 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.

For more information, visit www.3tera.com

Scottsdale, Arizona – (The Hosting News) – August 27, 2009 – Web hosting and domain registrar, Go Daddy’s Brad Keselowski, has once again, won the NASCAR Nationwide, with the No. 88 Chevrolet at Carfax 250 at the International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.

Mr. Keselowski took the lead out of nowhere in the last turn of the race, charging ahead of Brian Vickers and Kyle Busch. In his last pit stop, Mr. Keselowski took only two tires, which some say was instrumental in the dramatic NASCAR win.

Brad Keselowski said in Victory Lane, ”This GoDaddy.com Chevrolet was awesome. I had ‘em. I knew it….I’m speechless.”

Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons helped design the No.88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets, noting, ”Brad has driven some tremendous races already this season in the No. 88 Go Daddy car — he’s fast, he’s driven and he’s fun to watch.”

This is Mr. Keselowski’s third Nationwide Series win this season in the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet. Keselowski is part of the JR Motorsports team and mentored by one of NASCAR’s greats, fellow Go Daddy spokesman Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Go Daddy also sponsors Mr. Keselowski this season in seven Sprint Cup Series races, in which he drives the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets.

Go Daddy’s foray into racing sponsorships started in 2006 with IndyCar’s Danica Patrick. The Go Daddy Girl is IndyCar’s most popular driver. She made history last season as the first woman ever to win in the IndyCar Series. In February, she made history with GoDaddy.com for starring in this year’s Most Watched Super Bowl commercial, according to TiVo. GoDaddy.com finishes first when it comes to helping people and businesses get online easily and affordably.

Go Daddy is the world’s dominant web hosting domain registrar and is renowned for its industry-best 24/7 customer service. To see more about Go Daddy’s NASCAR cars and drivers, click here.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. Products include SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 34 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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

Inverness, California – (The Hosting News) – August 27, 2009 – Web hosting and domain registration provider, ResellerClub, is operating its Mega Bargains Month for all new as well as existing resellers, offering discounts across all its products and services portfolio.

The promotion slated to end on 3rd September 2009 had been conceptualized 3 years ago, and has been running successfully ever since.
Some of the deals that this time’s Mega Bargains Month has thrown open to its resellers are – the newly launched unlimited Web hosting product at a phenomenally low price of $2.49, gTLDs for as low as $7.89. Even thawte Digital certificates are available at $24 along with the lowest rates on all other products and services.

Bhavin Turakhia, CEO, ResellerClub remarked, ”The Mega Bargains Month has always been an exciting time for our resellers as well as for us. It ensures huge profit margins for all our resellers and a definite opportunity to increase their clientele. This year, with a host of new product launches as well as a continuous string of promotions, we’re expecting our best Mega Bargains Month performance till date.”

ResellerClub boasts of the most comprehensive Product Portfolio including Domain Registration, advanced Web and Email Hosting, Live Chat services, Ecommerce modules, and Website Builder, among other tools, available at the most economical pricing existing today. They also provide complete business process automation and a powerful Promo Engine that allows resellers to introduce and pass on promotions, discounts, and special packages, to their sub-resellers and customers.

ResellerClub, a Directi Group Business, is one of the largest private label web solutions providers in the world and an industry leader in providing end-to-end automation to domain resellers, web hosts, Web designers, and other Web service companies. We provide the most comprehensive product portfolio at the most competitive prices. We currently provide our products and services and power the back end infrastructure and software of thousands of web hosts worldwide.

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

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – August 26, 2009 – Web hosting virtual data center services provider, SoftLayer, has begun offering EVault Bare Metal Restores (BMR), as an advanced disaster recovery capability.

Designed to enable customers to completely restore servers to a bare metal state after an operating system or hardware failure, servers are restored to the latest system image safely stored in a secure SoftLayer repository.

Andrew Maten, Director of IT Systems at SoftLayer remarked, ”Everything we offer is about giving our customers more flexibility, confidence, and control. EVault BMR is a powerful, no-nonsense tool for getting systems back up quickly without losing data or functionality.”

EVault BMR is available for Microsoft Windows systems with SoftLayer’s standard EVault offering. For only $20/month it provides a wide range of benefits, including the capability to:

• Restore systems to a select point-in-time
• Restore systems from image or file-based backups
• Restore systems from EVault backups
• Launch recovery transactions to restore data without a bootable system

The solution provides a more efficient and more reliable alternative to manual restores, and can be used in conjunction with regular backups as well as for data migration. System administrators can choose to execute full system restores or to restore individual files. As with all SoftLayer services, EVault BMR can be ordered and setup through the SoftLayer Customer Portal.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

For more information, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Scottsdale, Arizona – (The Hosting News) – August 26, 2009 – GoDaddy.com web hosting and domain registrar, helped boost the bottom line for the Arizona Humane Society Telethon by matching every single contribution made on the Internet.

The Scottsdale-based domain name registrar and web hosting provider also doubled its own donation with a $100,000 check delivered by none other than Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons’ dogs Max and Chief.

This is the fourth consecutive year Go Daddy delivered big for Arizona animals and in these rough economic times, when donations are more difficult to secure, Go Daddy was happy to help make a difference as the title sponsor. Total money raised in the annual telethon yesterday was more than $328,000.

Go Daddy also helped on the technical side behind the scenes, and on camera many Go Daddy employees answered telephone calls during the live broadcast. The move that really stole the show though was the company’s check delivery method, performed in GoDaddy-esque style… no, not by a Go Daddy Girl, but by the ‘Go Daddy’ dogs.

Max and Chief are Parsons’ dogs and have become regulars for the telethon’s big finish. Bob Parsons, Founder and CEO of GoDaddy noted, ”Max and Chief learn a new trick for each telethon,” referring to how Chief pulled Max in a Go Daddy chariot to deliver the $100,000 check to end the live telethon. Mr. Parsons added, ”Max and Chief even went ‘green’ this year using a chariot instead of the Go Daddy motorized car.”

Whether delivered by Border Terriers or more conventional methods, Go Daddy is continuing to make a difference in the Valley of the Sun with its charitable donations. As many companies are scaling back philanthropic donations due to the economy, Go Daddy is stepping up its charity efforts.

Guy Collison, executive director of the Arizona Humane Society remarked, ”It’s amazing to see that every year Go Daddy has been involved with the telethon they not only meet but exceed our expectations. Go Daddy keeps the telethon’s online components running smoothly and helps organize online contributions. To top it off they doubled their donation this year.”

Thousands of sick, injured and homeless animals across the state will have their lives saved or improved with the money raised through the telethon. The annual charity event not only raises much needed money for these animals, but also provides low-cost spay and neuter services and educational programs, including how to better care for pets, fight animal cruelty and adopt a pet.

Go Daddy’s philanthropic works support a wide variety of charitable and community organizations dedicated to such causes as domestic violence, child abuse, disabled children, teenage homelessness, Parkinson’s research, breast cancer and more. Go Daddy donated $1.7MM to charitable causes last year and is on pace to break its own record for 2009.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 36 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn more about the Arizona Humane Society, please visit: www.AZHumane.org.

For more about Go Daddy, please visit: www.GoDaddy.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – August 26, 2009 – Provider of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Windows and Linux, R1Soft, has introduced the Mini-Elite Hosting License, offering cost savings for web hosting providers to utilize CDP technology to grow businesses.

David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies, Inc. noted, ”Mini-Elite represents the first time we’ve ever opened the door to providing capacity for such a large number of backups for a low monthly fee. For new customers, we’re creating an opportunity to take advantage of our high-performance data protection technologies without making a large initial investment or committing to a certain number of servers. It’s a virtually unlimited revenue-generating opportunity for web hosts.”

Available only through the end of September, the Mini-Elite Hosting License provides a flat-rate subscription access to CDP backup technology, enabling Web hosts to sell backup services to potentially thousands of customers with no incremental software costs. For just $2,995 per month, with no major up-front expenditures required, Mini-Elite offers unlimited CDP Servers, up to 1,000 CDP agents, and free API access.

Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a developer of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) software. Offering scalable and high-performance products, the company’s software has quickly been recognized by data center industry leaders as the standard for Windows and Linux server data protection. R1Soft CDP currently protects more than 100,000 servers worldwide. R1Soft is a division of BBS Technologies, Inc.

To take advantage of the Mini-Elite savings and to learn more about R1Soft, please visit: www.r1soft.com/promotions/r1soft-mini-elite-hosting-license.

Orlando, Florida – (The Hosting News) – August 26, 2009 – Managed hosting services provider, HostDime, has completed construction of a new data and network operations center in Brazil, greatly expanding the hosting capacity of the company’s local division, HostDime Brazil.

Emmanuel Vivar, CEO of HostDime offered, ”Brazil has a population of over 200 million and is one of the fastest growing online countries in the world. While 80% of Brazilian websites are hosted out of the country due to lower costs, the completion of this facility is key to converting that 80% into a major source of growth for our Brazilian division. By hosting sites locally, latency can be reduced to under 75ms, compared to the more than 150ms latency for websites hosted on U.S.-based servers.”

When HostDime opened its international division in Brazil nearly three years ago, there were no plans to open a data center facility locally. However, rapidly rising demand for locally-hosted services in Brazil has made the move necessary, and will enable HostDime Brazil to boast a comparative advantage in terms of both reduced costs and greater accessibility. Its current client base of over 5,000 clients just from the Brazil division also has been creating a demand for local servers, and with more than 200% growth per year in the division, this facility expansion will propel further growth.

The new 5,000 square foot data center is located in the equivalent of Class-A office space, down the hall from HostDime Brazil’s business office in the same complex. The data center suite is fully supported by an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and generator to minimize service disruption in the event of a power-grid failure. HostDime originally selected Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil, to host its operations due to the city’s record as natural-disaster-free, with no hurricanes or earthquakes in its history. It is also the easternmost city in the Americas and is often cited as the second greenest city in the world. The data center is also one of the very few in the northern part of Brazil, helping businesses to host outside the saturated southern part of Brazil like Sao Paulo.

HostDime is a privately owned, leading website hosting provider offering reliable, secure managed hosting services that cater to a range of clients, from entry-level to enterprise-level operations. HostDime owns and operates its own data center in Orlando, Fla. With a client base of more than 700,000 hosted domains on 3,000 servers, HostDime presently ranks among the top 50 biggest web hosting companies in the world.

To learn more about HostDime, please visit: www.hostdime.com.

For more about HostDime Brazil, please visit: www.hostdime.com.br.

Honolulu, Hawaii – (The Hosting News) – August 25, 2009 – Dedicated server web hosting company, Superb Internet, has officially launched its managed hosting division, having had a long history of offering high-end custom dedicated server solutions.

The new suite of managed services will officially be available to all new and existing clients.

Dale Bunten, Dir. Sales and Marketing noted, ”This marks a natural evolution for Superb Internet, as companies become increasingly dependent on the Internet to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. As a result, we are seeing heavy demand for our outsourced IT services despite the economic downturn.”

William Song, Senior Product Manager added, ”The new managed dedicated server line provides clients with enhanced security, disaster recovery, proactive monitoring, and managed firewall options. Each customer is assigned to a certified Technical Account Manager (TAM), who is responsible for understanding and maintaining the client’s infrastructure; including: identification of problem areas and pro-actively resolving them before an incident occurs. We are confident we have one of the strongest managed hosting offerings on the market.”

All Managed servers come with a 100% network uptime guarantee, 1 hour hardware replacement SLA, and Gold Level managed support by default. The services are provisioned by certified network and systems engineers 24×7, at all three company-owned datacenters.

Patrick Ahler, Dir of Business Development added, ”Working closely with such a great group of dedicated professionals has been a rewarding experience and we are confident that our clients will benefit from our rigorous attention to detail, and strict quality control and change management procedures. Our key objective is to ease the day-to-day pain associated with managing IT infrastructure, so our clients can focus on developing their business and applications.”

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. Superb’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ”Ahead of the Rest.” Superb Internet has its own data centers staffed 24×7x365 in McLean, VA, Springfield, VA, and Seattle, WA, and its headquarters office in Honolulu, HI.

To learn more, please visit: www.superbhosting.net/managed-hosting.

Anaheim, California – (The Hosting News) – August 25, 2009 – Web hosting services for personal, business, e-commerce, and dedicated server hosting, Lunarpages Web Hosting, is now offering up to $50 in free Facebook Ads Credits to 160,000 existing customers, as well as for all new customers.

Amy Armitage, Director of Business Development at Lunarpages noted, ”Facebook has really become the epitome of online social marketing. If you have a presence through Facebook, it can not only boost your SEO but you can also build a following for your business, interact with customers directly, and ensure the online reputation of your company. But the big new thing Facebook is offering now is called Facebook Ads, and Lunarpages is excited to be among the first to offer them free to our customers.”

The promotion is offered in addition to the already affordably-priced hosting plans that Lunarpages Web Hosting provides; currently, there is no set expiration date.

Ms. Armitage added, ”Every new and existing web hosting customer on our Basic, Business, VPS, or Dedicated Servers gets free Facebook Ads credits. If you purchase a Basic or Business Plan, you receive $25 free credits, and if you purchase a VPS or Dedicated Server, you get $50 in free credits! These ads can push your products, services, and websites in front of potential customers on the fourth-most tracked website in the world, right on Facebook.com. That’s an offer that seriously can’t be beat.”

Lunarpages Web Hosting hosts over 160,000 customers worldwide out of three state-of-the-art data centers in California and Nevada. They are best known for their web hosting services, which start at $2.95 per month.

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