News: Web Hosting Provider, Aplus.Net, Achieves Number One Netcraft Placement
Overland Park, Kansas - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 9, 2008 - Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has been honored with the number one spot on the Netcraft list, for the month of June, 2008.
This ranking marks the company's placement as the most reliable hosting company web site, following its second place ranking last month. Aplus.Net is a division of Abacus America, Inc., and has been offering internet services for more than 10 years. APlus.Net offers dedicated servers, web hosting, web design, marketing and is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar. The company has more than 200,000 customers and more than 6,000 dedicated server customers.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.
In March, Aplus.Net awarded for the third time since March 2007, in the number 1 spot on the TopHosts list. Additionally, the company has experienced a continuous presence in the Top 5 ranks of the TopHosts Top 25 Web Hosts for more than four years.
Amanda Rusich, Director of Marketing at Aplus.Net, was also named Employee of the Month by TopHosts in the March newsletter.
TopHosts chooses its Top 25 web hosts on a monthly basis, sorting through ''numerous applications from hosting companies,'' putting each company though ''rigorous production testing.'' TopHosts combines this research with user feedback of the hundreds of thousands of webmasters that visit TopHosts.com on a regular basis to determine what hosting companies are named as the industry's best each month.
In addition to the TopHosts award, Aplus.Net was also named among Topseos.com's Top 5 Best Search Engine Marketing Hosts, marking its fourth consecutive month in that company's Top 5. According to TopSeos.com, the listings are based on quality of services, pricing, innovation, customer and technical support, and overall efficiency and performance.
Both of Aplus.Net's data centers offer high-quality Intel and AMD processors as well as Unix, Linux, and Windows servers to optimize flexibility and performance. Server areas also have restricted access, and are monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Reflecting the company's concern with the rise of identity theft and on-site burglaries, both facilities are fully protected against flood, fire, and criminal invasion.
Aplus.Net has provided web services since the Internet's commercial start in 1995. Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers award-winning services that include web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, domain name registration, and much more. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors' Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and PC Magazine.
For more information about Aplus.Net, please visit: www.aplus.net.
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Vienna, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 9, 2008 - Vertical search services for publishers firm, Convera Corporation, has signed a contract with specialized news and information publisher BNA, to build a vertical search engine for Human Resources professionals.
Vertical search sites, toolbars and widgets, aggregating and presenting the most authoritative Web content, are increasingly being seen by business publishers as a way of extending their brands into the essential workflow of their online communities. BNA's community of users will benefit from being able to use such tools alongside BNA's expert news and analysis services. Convera and BNA are both members of the Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA).
Convera manages the vertical search sites of a growing number of specialist publishers around the world. Convera is a provider of vertical search services for publishers. Convera is designed to enable publishers to generate additional revenue by creating customized search applications for specialist audiences under their own brand. Convera vertical search applications can combine publisher proprietary content with an editorially vetted best of the web for specific professional audiences, providing an authoritative and comprehensive search experience. Many of the world's largest publishers are working with Convera to accelerate their e-publishing strategies, meet growing online revenue goals and build loyal online professional communities.
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News: Web Hosting Event, HostingCon 2008, to Feature CM4all Solution Debut
Cologne, Germany - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 8, 2008 - Web hosting software solution firm, CM4all, will unveil new releases of the CM4all WebsiteCreator Consumer and Business Editions, at the upcoming HostingCon 2008 in Chicago.
Robert Schovenberg, CEO of CM4all noted, ''As the Internet continues to advance at rapid speeds, we are proud that our suite of WebsiteCreator products leads the way in terms of operation and output as well as setting the direction that value added features and enhancements need to follow for maximum profitability. This allows our partners and their customers to fully take advantage of the latest and most scalable technology currently available in the industry.''
The software will be available to web hosting companies, MSOs, ISPs, and telcos for licensing, customization and installation this fall. The new release of the CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition allows enterprises to operate multiple sales and marketing outlets by integrating Amazon(R) aStores as well as eBay Stores, RSS Feeds and Podcasts into the page styles. It is also designed to empower customers to embed external information via the integration of a custom i-frame application. A revised context-sensitive help system further improves the usability of the software.
Other highlights of the improved Business and Consumer Editions are new and enhanced template designs. The new templates include more business and consumer topics, larger logos and more expansive photo areas. For greater customization and better Search Engine Optimization, templates are available with photo backgrounds and with non-rendered text navigation (CSS style) to fully utilize the page's keywords.
The Consumer Edition of the CM4all WebsiteCreator also received social networking enhancements including tagging functionality with a proprietary tag cloud in the Community Media Album and Multi-Author Blog. The event planning tool has been enhanced and simplified to offer both private and public RSVP styles. In this way, website visitors can directly send invitation requests to the event organizer by using the event planning feature on the published website, while still keeping control in the hands of the website owner. The convenience and usability of the Getting Started Wizard has been integrated directly into the WebsiteCreator leading to a streamlined and faster process of creating pages.
Cornel Schnietz, CTO of CM4all added, ''We aim to make the new features we launch available in today's current formats such as HTML, .mobi and W3C Accessibility. CM4all Technology is based on XML and XSLT for data and template description so we can serve multiple output format websites from a single software source. We therefore anticipate a very good response from our worldwide partners when we deploy the latest generation of enhancements.''
CM4all will be showcasing all of their latest product offerings at booth #517 at HostingCon 2008. The convention will take place on July 28 - 30, 2008 at the historic Navy Pier in Chicago. Appointments with a CM4all sales representative during the convention can be scheduled at www.cm4all.com.
HostingCon is the definitive conference and tradeshow for the hosted services industry. Hosted services professionals around the world gather to learn more about the industry, network with their peers and vendors, and help grow their business.
With over 3 million paying customers worldwide, CM4all is a leading developer of Web-based applications for the Internet. CM4all software is currently being distributed worldwide via leading telcos, MSOs, ISPs and web hosting companies, like Endurance International Group Inc., Hostway, Deutsche Telekom AG, Terra Networks S.A., Tiscali S.p.A., Swisscom AG, Verio Inc., NTT Communications, and 1 and 1 Internet AG.
CM4all's technology is based on a high-speed XML application server and is operated on an ASP model. The company's core product is the most popular online website creation software CM4all WebsiteCreator, which is adapted for and licensed to individual OEM partners and is available in 15+ different languages.
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News: Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, Presents at Microsoft Event
Wakefield, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 8, 2008 - The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), was recently invited to present ''Generating Leads with Practical Search Engine Marketing,'' in a session at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Texas.
Designed to provide strategy and best practices in SEO and PPC, the session was featured for attendees at the annual business-growth opportunity networking conference.
This year's conference, is being held in Houston, Texas, through July 10. Cindy Turrietta, a contributing author for two of SEMPO Institute's online courses, and Katie Donovan, SEMPO Institute's Business Development Manager, will highlight the current marketing environment that benefits small, medium and large companies with search engine marketing strategies. The session will blend strategy with best practices to ensure attendees have the ability to act on what they learn. ''Generating Leads with Practical Search Engine Marketing'' will be presented on Thursday July 10th from 1:30 PM 2:30 PM Central Time in Grand Ballroom B at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Over the past few months, SEMPO Institute and Microsoft Worldwide Partners have been working on new instructional tools for partners. This session is the first to be rolled out. Search Engine Marketing is a critical business tool for our partners, states Jennifer Siddall, Microsoft Senior Marketing Manager Worldwide Partner Marketing. We anticipate great business benefits for our partners as they further incorporate SEO and PPC into their marketing efforts.
SEMPO Institute is a non-profit, online career development organization, whose purpose is to educate and train professionals in the growing field of search engine marketing. Supported by SEMPO, SEMPO Institute's courses are developed by experts in search marketing and then peer-reviewed for accuracy and best practices. Since its'first'course in January, 2007, SEMPO Institute has educated more than 800 individuals in search marketing. SEMPO Institute's courses are available to SEMPO members and the general public.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device.
For more information about SEMPO, please visit: www.sempo.org.
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News: Web Hosting Provider, Sun Microsystems, Recognized as Best Place to Work
San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 7, 2008 - Web hosting and solutions company, Sun Microsystems, has attained the 14th position on Computerworld's 100 Best Places to Work in IT 2008.
The U.S survey highlights companies that offer their IT staffs the best benefits, competitive salaries, opportunities for training and advancement, as well as interesting project work and a flexible and diverse work environment.
Following Sun's recognition on the Computerworld list, the company has released its new GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited solution.
GlassFish is one of the leading open source application servers in the industry today with more than seven million downloads since its release in May 2005. MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world.
GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited is a new offering from Sun - designed to help customers significantly reduce the costs of deploying and managing database and application server software.
Proprietary software vendors often charge their customers pricing 'penalties' if users want to deploy the software on multi-CPU, multi-core hardware and the latest virtualization technologies (in addition to the traditional software licensing costs their customers already pay)
Uusually, then, the prices increase. For example, as this CRN article points out, Oracle recently hiked prices between 10 and 20 percent (or more) for many of its core software products.
With GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited, customers eliminate proprietary pricing constraints, and gain the flexibility to deploy the latest innovations, for a flat annual subscription - without having to count servers, CPUs, cores or virtual machines.
GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited pricing starts at $65,000 USD a year for an unlimited number of servers across a customer's entire organization (for companies with fewer than 1,000 employees). Pricing is tiered by employee size for larger companies.
Sun develops technologies designed to power some of the world's most comprehensive markets, in more than 100 countries.
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