Hostopia develops, manages, and distributes Internet applications used by small and medium sized businesses, including web site hosting, managed email, ecommerce, and other online business applications. Hostopia sells its services on a wholesale basis to communications services providers such as telecommunications and cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars, and web hosting companies who, in turn, resell Hostopia's services under their own brand to small-medium sized business customers.

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Wichita, Kansas - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 9, 2006 - Independent provider of objective performance solutions firm, RealMetrics, LLC, has debuted Email hosting as its latest category of online performance metrics. RealMetrics has previously focused on web hosting, including Shared Hosting and VPS Hosting performance metrics.

RealMetrics establishes actual accounts with online service providers and then conducts over 110,000 systematic tests per day to generate detailed performance data. The tests for web hosting include uptime, web speed, disk speed, CPU speed, and technical support response times. For the new Email Hosting category, the tests include uptime, email delivery reliability, email delivery latency, and technical support response times.

Kent Johnson, Chief Technology Officer at RealMetrics remarked, ''All of the metrics should be considered when evaluating email hosting providers. The Uptime Metric measures the availability of each provider's POP3 and SMTP servers. The Email Delivery Reliability Metric measures if emails are properly delivered by each provider and the Email Delivery Latency Metric measures how quickly each provider delivers emails. Finally, the Technical Support Responsiveness Metric measures how quickly each provider responds to technical support questions. We conduct these tests from multiple locations across the U.S. to ensure accurate results.''

John Capo with Tuffmail.com commented, ''Managing a professional email system is a mission critical operation in today's business world. Tuffmail.com customers have high expectations, and our goal is to not only meet but to exceed those expectations. The RealMetrics performance monitoring process is a great tool for consumers to use in their decision making process.''

RealMetrics, is an independent provider of objective performance metrics, designed to enable Internet businesses to make more informed technology selection decisions. RealMetrics conducts over 110,000 tests per day and is rapidly becoming the trusted source for fact-based performance, reliability and customer service metrics.

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Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 9, 2006 - Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has unveiled its newly redesigned website, including a new logo/branding, new shopping cart system, new Live Chat system and revamped customer Forums.

Coinciding with the new website launch is the announcement of dramatically reduced pricing on most tutorial series, all tutorial series are marked down to sell quickly, particularly the Voice tutorials. Prices have been slashed by as much as 45% off the Voice tutorials, making them affordable for even the smallest hosting companies. The new prices will be in effect for the month of October 2006 only.

DemoWolf now has Live Chat available as another means of communicating with their visitors and customers. In addition, the DemoWolf Forums have also been redesigned, but not just in looks. Many forums have been consolidated, and new forums created, as DemoWolf gears up for the release of new products and applications.

DemoWolf now has over 600 tutorials for the web hosting industry, covering many aspects of web hosting that end users commonly have troubles with. The tutorials included for CPanel, feature 5 different skins, WebHost Manager, Helm, Direct Admin, Plesk 8 for Linux, Plesk for Windows, Email, FTP, and several DNS and domain name tutorial series. DemoWolf also has several tutorial series with voice/audio narration, with 18 different voices to choose from, with accents including North American, British, Australian and French Canadian. Currently in production and to be released shortly, are tutorials for H-Sphere and EnsimPRO. DemoWolf is an Internet services company based in Halifax, NS, Canada. Specializing in providing ''professional quality'' branded tutorials for the web hosting industry, DemoWolf also provides custom tutorials for many other online applications.

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El Segundo, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 9, 2006 - Publisher of user-generated and original content, PureVideo Networks, has released its first utility, called PureVideo Search. Still in beta, according to the company, the utility is the Internet's first meta search engine for video.

Combining the accuracy of a crawl-based search, with the timeliness of a feed-based search, PureVideo Networks' proprietary analysis determines rankings, displaying each result with an associated thumbnail image and a link to view the video at the respective publisher site.

The operator of popular video sites StupidVideos.com (comedy) and GrindTV.com (action sports), with PureVideo Search, has allowed access to more than 35 charts presenting some of the most popular videos on the top sites, concerning music, sports, comedy, viral videos, entertainment, and news. The sites include MySpace, Rolling Stone, AOL Music, ESPN, Fox Sports, Comedy Central, YouTube, Break.com, CNN, BusinessWeek, and others. The charts provide users with comprehensive coverage on hot topics and the chance for serendipitous discovery.

Greg Morrow, President and Co-founder of PureVideo Networks explained, ''We quickly learned that users would devour and create more video content than any one site could categorize or publish. Existing options for discovering video or searching for specific footage are simply not that good. We've taken the best ideas of Web search coupled with the best ideas we've learned as a video publisher, to create this very user-friendly search engine.''

Erik Hawkins, CEO and Co-founder of PureVideo Networks added, ''Our strategy has been to leverage the best of two emerging online video business models - video utility and video publishing. Utilities, especially free ones, are powerful traffic aggregators, while published and programmed media destinations retain consumers and generate revenue. By combining the two, we've opened the gateway for traffic while maintaining our ability to offer value to our audience and our big brand advertising partners.''

Both GrindTV.com and StupidVideos.com will take advantage of the PureVideo Search engine to help power broader web search returns for their combined six million unique users. PureVideo Search will also provide PureVideo Networks with important trend data about broadband video consumption. It is anticipated that the reporting will help drive future strategic thinking around content, product, and business development, as well as investment in future content verticals and utilities.

Based in El Segundo, CA, PureVideo Networks is a publisher of user-generated and original content, dedicated to the promotion of video and the people who produce it. Funded by Softbank Capital, the Company owns and operates video websites StupidVideos.com and GrindTV.com, which stream a combined 60 million videos to six million unique visitors a month. Announced in October as part of a wider strategy to offer PureVideo Networks' back-end technology to the public, according to the company, it launched the Internet's first meta search engine for video, , PureVideo Search

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Intermedia.NET's hosted Exchange service, which starts at $9.95 per mailbox per month, provides companies with Microsoft Exchange 2003, the world's most popular business messaging platform. The Exchange 2003 environment allows for advanced messaging, employee access to company address books and contact managers, public folders and file sharing, company calendar for group scheduling, task assignment and management, and Outlook Web access. Intermedia.NET also supports wireless messaging through BlackBerry, GoodLink and Microsoft ActiveSync. The company offers a wide variety of Exchange hosting and web hosting plans, from the smallest businesses with three users and upwards, to substantial mid-sized organizations. Intermedia.NET hosted Exchange plans start at $9.95 per month for each user.

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