Lunarpages Web Hosting, provider of affordable and reliable website solutions for personal users, bloggers, and small to enterprise businesses, announced today a new addition to their web hosting plans – a software and services bundle valued at $775. This software and webmaster services bundle is completely free to all new and existing Lunarpages customers!

Lunarpages has partnered with ten successful companies to offer solutions that will please every customer. They are giving away free with every hosting account full registered versions of Parallels Workstation, WinSettings, an award winning Windows security software from FileStream that helps you gain maximum performance from your PC; Photo TurboBackup, a very popular backup software also from FileStream, which easily backs up your photos and saves them in various formats; two editions of The Logo Creator’s logo design software; 2 months free with RatePoint; 3 months free subscription to Visitorville, the website statistics program that’s Sims meets stats; 15 DNS level accounts from Gafana to offer 100% accurate spam and virus protection; DMXReady’s Contact Us Manager to update your contact forms effortlessly from anywhere in the world; 3 months free of SiteScout; $100 free advertising from LinkWorth; $20 free advertising from BidVertiser!

“We’ve chosen to partner with some of the biggest and best companies in the world, and this is just the beginning!” said Amy Armitage, Director of Lunarpages Business Development. “In the coming months, we will be adding more, so stay tuned!”

“Lunarpages again demonstrates their leadership position in the hosting industry”, said Soeren von Varchmin, VP of SaaS at Parallels. “We’re pleased to partner with Lunarpages to offer users Parallels’ industry-leading desktop virtualization products such as Parallels Desktop for Mac and Parallels Workstation”

“I’ve been an entirely satisfied customer of Lunarpages for years, and know firsthand how great their service and support is,” said founder and self-appointed Mayor of Visitorville, Robert Savage. “It was only natural that I would want to partner with such a great organization. This is going to be wonderful!”

“In working with Lunarpages, I’ve learned that they are a fantastic company run by genuine people who truly care about their customers,” said found of Gafana, Gabriel Afana. “Our offer includes our 100% accurate spam solution, virus protection, consolidation of multiple email addresses into one place, public calendar with txt message and telephone reminders, auto-updating address book, media storage/sharing, and much more. This package is valued at $125 but in staying true to their commitment to their customers, Lunarpages has arranged to have this service provided for free.”

“We are extremely excited to have Lunarpages join us as a partner!” said Tom Serani, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, RatePoint. “Lunarpages’ commitment to offering the RatePoint offering is another clear sign that merchants are looking for powerful customer feedback solutions and additional ways to connect with their customers.”

“I think it says a lot about a company that actively seeks for additional value to extend to their customers,” said CEO of LinkWorth, Ron Wikcer. “For customers, after finding the perfect hosting company, the next logical step is marketing your site. LinkWorth has agreed to help all Lunarpages customers get off to the right start with a $100 advertising credit.”

“It was a pleasure partnering with Lunarpages and we are thrilled to offer their customers their first boost of traffic for free using the BidVertiser $20 advertising credit”, said Shahar Jacobi, CEO of BidVertiser. “Best of all, this credit does not require any initial deposit. Setting up a website is not enough and you have to drive targeted traffic to it – Lunarpages now gives their customers a way to do it for free.”

Lunarpages is currently offering their award-winning Basic Hosting Plan for $4.95/month, which includes Free Domain Name, Unlimited Emails, Ecommerce & Blog Software, and more. Add that intense discount to this new software bundle worth over $775 and you have a web hosting value that cannot be beat.

“I’ve been online selling my software since 1998 and had countless hosting providers over the past 10 years,” said CEO and Founder of The Logo Creator, Marc Sylvester. “All of them lacked certain things I wanted and specific things I needed. I was lucky enough to finally find Lunarpages, where they provide incredible customer support, easy to use back end tools, and my hosting plan is the fastest I’ve ever had. What I really like about them is their personal touch to everything. I’m proud to offer my software to all Lunarpages members. We’re all family – and it really feels that way.”

For more information on this new software bundle available exclusively from Lunarpages, visit http://www.lunarpages.com/free-bonus.php

About Lunarpages Web Hosting: Lunarpages Web Hosting, based in California and serving over 150,000 customers in over 200 countries, offers affordable, award-winning Linux and Windows personal, small business, VPS and dedicated Web Hosting Solution.. Lunarpages has the staff, patience and high service levels expected to assist their webmaster community to easily and quickly build and maintain a website that is customized to their individual needs. They are consistently rated the most dependable, responsive, and recommended web host.

For more information please visit http://www.lunarpages.com

Blacknight, a Parallels Gold Partner, is offering four VPS service plans for the Linux and Windows platforms. Each level – Starter, Basic, Standard and Enterprise – is managed through Parallels System Automation and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels noted, ”We are pleased that Blacknight chose Parallels solutions to power its new VPS offerings and bring the benefits of virtualization to its customers in Ireland. Parallels software gives Blacknight the flexibility and control to meet the needs of their customers, both large and small, and provides an open platform that will allow Blacknight to add new services and take advantages of emerging opportunities like software as a service.”

The new Blacknight VPS offerings are provisioned and managed through Parallels Virtuozzo Containers operating system (OS) virtualization software and Parallels Automation datacenter solution. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers enables Blacknight to simultaneously run multiple execution environments called ‘containers’ on a single physical server and a single OS. Administrators can install any application, server software or OS component. Parallels Automation allows Blacknight to more efficiently manage the VPS infrastructure and scale to add new services such as shared hosting, SaaS, and Hosted Exchange.

Michele Neylon, Blacknight Solutions remarked, ”By partnering with Parallels, Blacknight is able to bring innovative virtualization technologies to the Irish market. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers and Parallels Automation are ‘best-of-breed’ solutions that will give our customers the control and flexibility of a dedicated server at a fraction of the price.”

Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd is a 100 percent Irish-owned company specializing in serving the hosting and colocation needs of businesses, both large and small. Its servers are based in Ireland’s leading datacenters: The Data Electronics Group in Clondalkin, Dublin and Interxion, also in Dublin. By partnering with innovative companies, like Parallels and Comodo, Blacknight brings best-of-breed technologies to the Irish market, while maintaining an aggressive pricing model. Blacknight Solutions are members of the IIA, ISPAI, RIPE, INEX and Nominet.

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

For more information about Blackknight, please visit: www.blacknightvps.com.

To learn more about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Mike Hapner, Director of product development for Spatial Networks noted, ”Due to the robustness of our hosted applications and the sensitivity of certain data, we needed absolute assurance that our IT infrastructure is highly reliable and kept private and secure for our customers. Thanks to Peak 10’s virtualization solutions, we can now have confidence that our customers’ application data has the security, scalability, and high availability that they require. Our partnership with Peak 10 enables us to focus more on growing and developing our business.”

Peak 10 will supply Spatial Networks with a complete virtual platform out of its state-of-the-art Louisville, Kentucky data center as well as a ‘hot site’ in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Spatial Networks is a software development company that excels in leveraging geography to solve everyday business issues for a multitude of industries worldwide. The company boasts years of geographic information systems (GIS) experience combined with the development of proprietary data collection techniques and patent-pending software that allows companies to gain new insights and develop improved business practices.

Geodexy is Spatial Networks’ newest Web-based application. It allows users in any industry the ability to collect location-sensitive data via any Windows Mobile-enabled device. This breakthrough technology offers a cost-effective solution that eliminates complex training and support as well as the potential for lost data from human error. Peak 10’s virtualization solutions allow Spatial Networks to offer Geodexy as a Web-based product without running the risk of customer latency.

Debra Curtiss, Vice President and general manager of Peak 10 Tampa remarked, ”We feel that a mutual partnership with our customers is the only way to maintain a solid business relationship and we are excited to welcome Spatial Networks to Peak 10. We listened to their needs and worked with them to develop a custom virtual environment that aligned with their requirements and goals for Geodexy, including SAS70 Type II compliance. Spatial Networks focus on customer security and availability is much like our own, which is why this partnership works so well.”

Peak 10’s world-class data centers are staffed by skilled engineers and support personnel to ensure the security, integrity and availability of its customers’ technology infrastructure 24×7x365. Peak 10’s reputation for outstanding, personal customer service, technical competence and extreme reliability in crisis situations has helped the organization grow dramatically over the past eight years. Peak 10 especially takes pride in its unmatched service philosophy. Peak 10 customers enjoy the accessibility of a local provider and the security of a geographically diverse organization; the personal relationship of a small company and the resources of a large organization; the expertise and performance of a national player and the trust and attention of a local partner.

Peak 10 is the leading independent data center operator and managed services provider delivering scalable, economical and reliable solutions for hosting and managing complex information technology infrastructure. The company owns and operates twelve data centers in nine key markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va. It combines its facilities and portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies including LendingTree, Rivals.com, Global Knowledge, Pergo, Churchill Downs, The Fresh Market and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Peak 10 is SAS 70 Type II compliant and helps companies meet the requirements of various regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, PCI and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA).

To learn more, please visit: www.peak10.com.

The terms of the deal provide a high-availability, data center solution comprised of both dedicated and enterprise virtual servers at their data centre to host carsguide.com.au’s recently upgraded website and mission critical applications.

Marcus Verrall, Head of Technology, carsguide.com.au, News Digital Media noted, ”There is increasing pressure for digital media companies to deliver more relevant and innovative opportunities for marketers to communicate with their audiences. We also need to ensure a feature rich and highly responsive user experience with rapid scalability to cope with increased traffic.”

The Macquarie Hosting data centre was chosen by carsguide.com.au for its proven experience with digital media companies as well as its specialization in the design and implementation of complex managed-virtualised hosting environments. Previously, carsguide.com.au’s website and mission-critical applications were hosted partly in-house and partly with an external third-party on dedicated servers.

Carsguide.com.au carries more than 80,000 classified listings. New data indexing software was implemented in March to improve search functionality for customers and deliver more targeted opportunities for marketers. To support these upgrades carsguide.com.au needed to improve the scalability of its site to cope with increases in search volume and time on site.

Mr. Verrall added, ”Macquarie Hosting quickly understood our specific business needs and provided scalable data centre solutions with a rapid provisioning cycle. The data centre team’s deep understanding of the challenges associated with enterprise virtualised servers was a key factor in our decision to partner with Macquarie Hosting. The clear engagement and provisioning process gave us confidence that they can meet our infrastructure needs both now and in the future.”

Spread across multiple virtual hosts, carsguide.com.au’s mission-critical applications and content will be housed in Macquarie Hosting’s ISO and DSD Gateway certified data centre, the Intellicentre. The data centre provides a high-availability network infrastructure with redundant firewalls, load balancing, switches and Internet ports provide low latency and security. High-speed tape backup and SAN storage services provide added redundancy.

The carsguide.com.au virtualised environment in the Macquarie Hosting data centre was designed and implemented in less than six weeks, half the standard implementation time for virtualised environments. Fast delivery was essential to ensure the support and scalable infrastructure in the data centre was in place to manage increased traffic to carsguide.com.au following the launch of its improved search functionality.

Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director, Hosting, Macquarie Telecom remarked, ”We are in the midst of a significant boom in the digital media industry as marketers, advertisers and corporations turn to key players in this space to provide an innovative and cost-effective medium to communicate with their audiences. These customers need specialised dedicated managed hosting and virtualisation data centre solutions delivered by business partners that understand and can meet the 24/7 demands that the web dictates.”

carsguide.com.au is News Digital Media’s national digital automotive brand featuring comprehensive news and reviews from Australia’s leading motoring experts. Additionally, carsguide.com.au provides road tests, motoring tools and a marketplace for online classifieds. The site carries more than 76,000 listings. carsguide.com.au is also available on mobile phone with carsguide.mobi.

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, provides Dedicated Hosting for Australian businesses. Its services include highly skilled professionals, with increased flexibility, accessible secure scalable infrastructure and guaranteed service levels for mission critical online applications with a dedicated hosting solution. Online applications with guaranteed uptime, reliability and scalability, as well as security management, is offered for server environment and infrastructure. Managed dedicated hosting solutions are provided with an IT infrastructure including a fully in-sourced accredited managed data centre.

Its dedicated managed hosting and secure data centre facility, the Intellicentre, is certified to the highest local and international security standards including ISO 27001 and DSD Gateway. This helps organisations confidently address security concerns associated with corporate governance, privacy regulations and audit requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

Macquarie Hosting also provides SAN/NAS storage management, accredited security and comprehensive monitoring and management for organizations including Fairfax Business Media, Haymarket Media, Showbiz.com.au and WebJet.

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

INetU will be managing virtual servers for clients running Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux. Virtualization technology offers a myriad of benefits for the clients of managed hosting including simplified server migration, backup and restoration through snapshot technology and the ability to maximize investments in hardware. INetU chose Citrix XenServer after extensive research and testing.

Dev Chanchani, President and CEO of INetU noted, ”We selected Citrix XenServer for a variety of factors. Some of those factors included strong Industry support from Microsoft and HP, along with impressive benchmarks and appealing management features. We feel strongly about the benefits virtualization brings within a managed hosting environment. Our support of virtualized environments allows our clients and prospects to start taking advantages of virtualization. For example, clients can quickly deploy additional servers to increase scalability or quickly migrate their virtualized servers to newer hardware without the hassle of reconfiguring a new server setting by setting.”

INetU includes the same in-depth and experienced level of management and support within a virtualized environment that comes with the traditional dedicated environment. INetU offers its own unique consultative approach to all virtualized and dedicated managed hosting clients with services such as capacity planning, system architecture consulting, trend analysis, and recommendations to help clients efficiently and successfully run their business critical web applications.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is an application delivery infrastructure, with over 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 7,680 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.

INetU (pronounced I Net You) is a managed hosting provider located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. INetU manages Internet servers belonging to customers focused on doing business over the web and endeavors to ensure that each client’s web servers run smoothly 24 hours day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. INetU’s clients include Microsoft, Infosys, Raymond James Financial, DreamWorks SKG, Sure Fit, Harriet Carter, KidsPeace and Writing.Com. INetU has won service awards from every major web hosting portal on the Internet, works with all of the popular web applications and operates web sites that require anywhere from a single server to highly visited ones that utilize many servers working in unison for maximum performance.

For more information about the new virtualization offering, please visit: www.inetu.net/virtualization.

To learm more, please visit: www.inetu.net.

Because of the size of the Dutch hosting provider LeaseWeb, the zaplive.tv went live in April 2008. Everyone can easily make his own programme or even his own web-tv via the portal, all for free.

Companies, institutions and private persons can stream concerts, parties, reports on hobbies or sport events, even press conferences, only using a webcam or camera and a computer with Internet connection. zaplive.tv not only is live but also interactive. Users can communicate via live chat and rate single broadcasts as well as commenting on them.

As an Internet start-up, zaplive.tv hopes to generate enough Internet traffic to attract advertisers within a year. Christian Steiger, Technical Director and Co-Founder of zaplive.tv explained, ”Our earning model depends on the Internet traffic we generate. And it started off well. We had a lot of interest from viewers in the first weeks. One point surely was our programme including performances of top ten bands. We had the finals of German premier league basketball and real Hollywood stars on the red carpet. And one user was streaming live from one of the biggest electronic parties in Germany with DJ-Sets from some of the world’s best DJs.”

The size of the hosting provider and the quality of its network are important success factors for zaplive. Mr. Steiger continued, ”The network uptime is extremely important for live streaming. We have chosen LeaseWeb because they are a very large hosting company having a lot of available bandwidth. At the moment, LeaseWeb’s hosting capacity even exceeds 200 Gigabits per second. That’s a lot. LeaseWeb enables us to grow fast because they always maintain adequate over-capacity also.”

zaplive definitely needs bandwidth because streaming is extremely bandwidth-intensive. Mr. Steiger added, ”You consume a lot more hosting bandwidth with streaming than if you only offer video-on-demand. And we use flash streaming, which means that we need even more hosting bandwidth on a relative scale. I expect that we will be consuming 2 Gigabits per second of bandwidth within a year, so we need significant hosting capacity from LeaseWeb.”

LeaseWeb offers zaplive.tv a Dell-based server infrastructure that is located at EvoSwitch, a CO2-neutral data centre based in the region of Amsterdam (www.evoswitch.com). The associated network infrastructure is fully Cisco based. LeaseWeb engineers handle the implementation and management of the hosting solution.

Mr. Steiger offered, ”Because we are based in Germany, a very practical aspect is that we can put our trust in the knowledge of their engineers. They helped us set up our streaming service. Fortunately, we do not have to travel to the Netherlands for the implementation and management.”

In the future, zaplive expects to be able to deploy the portal’s streaming design broader for companies that want to broadcast live images on their own website.

Mr. Steiger concluded, ”Naturally we first need to turn the existing portal to success, then we expect to be able to serve companies outside the portal as well. Companies that want to use zaplive’s streaming hosting design for their business, but wish to give their Internet broadcasts their own look and feel.”

zaplive is a multilingual portal for live streaming, based in Germany. Companies, institutions and private persons can use the streaming platform for a live and global broadcast of their events, such as concerts, parties, hobby reports, sport reports or press conferences. Users only need a camcorder or webcam and computer with Internet connection. The streaming technology, on which the platform is based, ensures that the live images can be displayed via the Internet. zaplive started in April 2008 after four months of hard work to take the platform into production.

LeaseWeb is an international supplier of hosting products and services that specializes in both Microsoft and Linux, and focuses primarily on the professional market. The company is among the top 20 hosting providers in the world and provides services such as web hosting, dedicated hosting, colocated hosting, VPS and streaming, as well as technical support. LeaseWeb owns a first-class Cisco-powered network offering a bandwidth of over 210 Gbps, which extends across five data centers in the Amsterdam region via the major telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is also present on Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna , Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb now manages 11,000 servers. Its customers include Starbucks, Hyves, Telegraaf Media Groep, Koninklijke Joh. Ensched, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AVRO, Direct Wonen, and University.

For more information about zaplive, please visit: www.zaplive.tv.

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

Alex Gontcharov, Executive Director of Rusonyx noted, ”The Russian software development industry is rapidly growing and is a key constituent in software development worldwide. By partnering with Comodo, we will help Russian software developers get their Code Signing Certificates legally, quickly and conveniently by providing Russian-speaking operational support and validation.”

With Code Signing Certificates, users are protected from maliciously modified code and from hackers that corrupt the code during the download process, as these tactics are often used to steal sensitive user information.

The Internet has become the main distribution channel for software vendors around the world. At the same time, the dangers involved in downloading a product from the Internet have increased. When a user downloads a product via the Internet, they often risk acquiring malicious code that includes spyware, viruses, and Trojans. These programs can damage valid programs, destroy data and allow hackers access to a user’s personal information.

Software developers can obtain from Rusonyx a Code Signing Certificate for their executable code after going through a stringent application and verification process designed by Comodo. Code Signing Certificates provide key features and include:

• Digitally signed – 32-bit or 64-bit Portable Executable (.exe, .ocx, .dll or other) or .cab files
• Ensures authenticity – assures users that they know where the code came from
• Ensures integrity – verifies that code has not been tampered with since publication
• Microsoft Authenticode – industry standard coupled with trusted Comodo infrastructure
• Vista compatible – Code Signing Certificates are supported by all versions of Vista

Customers who download digitally signed Active X controls, dynamic link libraries, .cab files, HTML content or other code from a verified publisher’s site can be confident that code comes from its author and hasn’t been altered or corrupted since it was created and signed.

Code Signing Certificates, through the use of digital signatures, enables software developers to include information about themselves and their code so end users can be confident that code really comes from the programmer and has not been altered or corrupted since it was created and signed. If the code has been tampered with, the digital signature will not be valid and will alert customers that the code has been altered and is not trustworthy.

Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO and Chief Security Architect of Comodo remarked, ”Comodo’s partnership with Rusonyx is important as Russia is an ever-growing center of innovative programming development. With this increase, comes an increased need to ensure the validity and security of their code. This partnership will help programmers rapidly receive recognition for quality, valid code, and helps promote trusted, safe online communications.”

Comodo Code Signing Certificates are available immediately and are priced at 4100 Rubles per year. Comodo Code Signing Certificates can be used to sign 32 and 64 Bit files including .exe, .dll, .class, .msi, .ocx (ActiveX) and JAR files. These certificates are supported by all versions of Vista.

Rusonyx is one of Russia’s leading Web Hosting Service providers for Small to Medium Enterprises (SME). The RUSONYX.RU world-class, fully automated infrastructure is built on the RTComm nation-wide broadband backbone (30 GBps, over 130 cities) and offers SMEs secure, reliable and comprehensive VPS, dedicated and shared web hosting solutions.

Rusonyxis is Russia’s first web and email hosting provider to use revolutionary and fully automated web hosting platform powered by Parallel’s Business Automation solution and Virtuozzo technology to provide virtualized hosting services for customers. With over 16000 customers’ domains for over 3500 corporate clients, Rusonyx provides the highest level of technical expertise, strategic thinking and hands-on skills. Caring for the customers’ needs and requirements, the company offers high quality services and 24X7 technical support.

The Comodo companies provide the infrastructure that is essential in enabling e-merchants, other Internet-connected companies, software companies, and individual consumers to interact and conduct business via the Internet safely and securely. The Comodo companies offer PKI SSL, Code Signing, Content Verification and E-Mail Certificates; award winning PC security software; vulnerability scanning services for PCI Compliance; secure e-mail and fax services.

Continual innovation, a core competence in PKI, and a commitment to reversing the growth of Internet-crime distinguish the Comodo companies as vital players in the Internet’s ongoing development. Comodo secures and authenticates online transactions and communications for over 200,000 business customers and 3,000,000 users of our desktop security products.

For more information about Rusonyx, please visit: www.rusonyx.ru.

To learn more about n Comodo, please visit: www.comodo.com.

DediPower is providing all the managed hosting requirements for newsecondarycurriculum.org. In order to support the introduction and rollout of a new secondary school curriculum the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) funded the CfBT Education Trust to produce and manage an interactive support website. This will enable thousands of teachers to register, access and download information on the new curriculum that is being rolled out, including video case study downloads of schools that are already implementing the new curriculum. The site also allows teachers to plan their own curriculum requirements online via a number of interactive tools whilst also delivering a library of material to support best practice and links to valuable information and source materials.

Martin Bulmer, Head of Digital Media, Oculus noted, ”This was a challenging project involving multiple stakeholders, complex requirements and a substantial amount of content. We needed to have the very best suppliers working with us to ensure its success. In terms of our managed hosting requirements we needed a partner who could provide scalability, the ability to handle rapid and sharp increases in site traffic, ‘always on’ dependability, and the very highest levels of security. DediPower delivered on all of these requirements.”

CfBT worked closely with a large number of teaching associations to provide content and advice. The site, launched in March 2008, is already extensively used, having achieved over 6,000 teacher registrations.

Mr. Bulmer added, ”We selected DediPower because it is focused on data centre efficiencies, deliver service excellence and have the depth of technical skills and knowledge that we require. This, coupled with their outstanding track record of working on mission critical online initiatives, made them the natural choice for Oculus to provide all of our managed hosting requirements.”

DediPower’s Managed Hosting provides enterprises with business server solutions delivering custom built high-specification dedicated servers. This is underpinned by a world-class hosting infrastructure that has been designed to ensure the highest levels of network uptime, availability, flexibility and security. Focused on delivering support with passion, DediPower offers one of the best service level agreements in the industry today and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner.

Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower commented, ”It is exciting to be a critical provider in a major government education initiative with Oculus and being selected to deliver the managed hosting requirements for this value added support service for teaching professionals. The power of the internet today enables faster access to information in a rapidly changing world, with information at your fingertips. It is great to be at the heart of such initiatives.”

DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting Partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self-funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK.

For further information, please visit: www.dedipower.com

William Platnick, Director of Managed Services, ActiveHost noted, ”We see our VPS offering as a hybrid service between shared and dedicated hosting, providing better security, isolation and management capabilities than traditional hosting solutions at a more attractive price. It is a great offering for small and mid-sized businesses that want control of their server, but can’t afford a dedicated server package.”

The new offering will be delivered by the newly created ActiveVPS division of ActiveHost. ActiveHost is using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Plesk Control Panel and Parallels Business Automation software to provide its customers with a complete platform to manage their own VPS resources and billing account information. ActiveVPS managed hosting plans are available with pre-configured software solutions including the Parallels Plesk Control Panel for server management, SmarterTools software for business productivity, and Acronis TrueImage for server backup.

Due to rising energy costs, ActiveHost has seen increasing demand by large enterprises for economical servers to use in development and test environments. Many businesses are bearing the strain by decreasing technical staff and capacity in their corporate datacenters. As a result, ActiveVPS expects more businesses will turn to service providers for the speed, safety and security of hosted VPS services.

Kurt Daniel, Senior Vice President of marketing and online, Parallels remarked, ”ActiveHost provides service and support that exceed customer expectations and we are pleased they chose Parallels products to launch their new ActiveVPS services. Parallels Open Platform and industry-leading virtualization and automation technology deliver unbeatable performance and ensure lower management costs and higher overall return on investment.”

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is the world’s leading operating system (OS) virtualization solution. On a single physical server and single OS installation, it enables users to run workloads in multiple, simultaneously running execution environments called ”containers.” Compared to other virtualization technologies, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers offers the highest levels of density, performance and manageability.

The Parallels Open Platform enables hosting with Parallels virtualization and automation technology that can be integrated with a wide range of third-party applications and systems. The Application Packaging Standard (APS), a key element of the platform, is used by ISVs and service providers to integrate applications, which can be offered to the more than 10 million businesses and individuals that use Parallels products.

ActiveHost was established in 1996 as one of the first companies to focus on Microsoft Windows-based web hosting. ActiveHost’s customer base quickly grew to several thousand shared hosting customers. Over its 12 year history, ActiveHost has grown its service lines to include co-location, dedicated servers, domain registration, e-commerce, and web marketing services. ActiveHost owns and operates its own internal network and systems from a datacenter in Albany, N.Y., which is located on the Internet backbone, to ensure high performance levels.

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

For more information about ActiveHost, please visit www.activehost.com.

To learn more about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Eric Mandel, CEO of BlackMesh noted, ”We selected R1Soft because of their ability to provide cost effective features and performance that fit our business and customer needs. By providing a stable, scalable backup solution, R1Soft helps BlackMesh implement a companywide offering that gives an added level of protection to our business and our customers.”

BlackMesh currently uses R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection technology on both its Linux and Windows servers. The company also uses R1Soft’s MySQL add-on, allowing live database protection and selective restoration in individual cells through True Granular restoration.

In addition to leveraging R1Soft’s solutions, as a member of R1Soft’s Hosting Partner Program, BlackMesh can take advantage of an array of marketing resources and sales tools from R1Soft. It also receives priority technical support and volume licensing discounts.

David Wartell, Vice Present of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies remarked, ”Our Hosting Partner Program allows BlackMesh to leverage our data protection products in the mission-critical hosting market. As a partner, we will work with BlackMesh to maximize the company’s managed solutions and services, thereby increasing IT reliability and customer satisfaction.”

Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Herndon, Va., BlackMesh is a provider of information technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. BlackMesh specializes in the design, deployment, and administration of managed hosting and managed services in both off-site and on-site locations. Combining powerful, high-performance technologies with world-class service and support, BlackMesh provides its customers with the tools they need to lower costs, accelerate growth, increase agility, and improve efficiency.

Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a provider of disk-based backup solutions. The company’s customer list includes some of the world’s largest hosting providers. R1soft products provide Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for over 85,000 mission-critical Linux and Windows servers worldwide. In November, 2007 R1Soft was acquired by BBS Technologies, Inc.

To learn more about BlackMesh, please visit: www.blackmesh.com.

For more information about R1Soft and Continuous Data Protection, please visit: www.r1soft.com.