Hosting Images Service Quadruples
Date: Tuesday, May 16 @ 11:32:13 EDT
Topic: News Related to the Web Hosting Industry


San Jose, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 16, 2006 - Free image hosting provider, ImageShack Corp., has introduced the ImageShack Toolbar, a software package that integrates interface within the end-user desktop.

The company also announced it has quadrupled its image serving capacity by extending its server cluster to San Jose and Los Angeles, and is now in its 10th consecutive quarter of profitability.

According to the company, the ImageShack Toolbar allows users to share their digital still pictures on the websites of interest without having to take a separate step of uploading the pictures first. After installing the ImageShack Toolbar, users gain the ability to drag-and-drop digital still pictures from their hard drives directly into the posting fields of popular social networking sites such as MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal.com, and infinitely many other HTML compatible portals, forums, and message boards.

The ImageShack Toolbar includes various patent pending features, such as the ability to:

  • Access to ImageShack image sharing and hosting tools from any webpage;
  • Upload and share one or many images with one click;
  • Resize images to many popular image resolutions;
  • Share images by dragging and dropping one or many images from your local hard drive to any blog.
Jack Levin, Co-Founder and Executive Officer of ImageShack, formerly, an early Google Global Infrastructure Engineer offered, '''The ImageShack Toolbar simplifies access to ImageShack's best image sharing tools from any web page on the Internet. It's like having ImageShack always with you no matter where you go. Additionally, the drag and drop image sharing capability no longer forces users to juggle between browser windows.''

To accommodate its rapid user growth, ImageShack has quadrupled its storage and bandwidth capacity by expanding its point of presence to San Jose and Los Angeles.

Alexander Levin, Executive Officer, Co-Founder and brother of Jack Levin added, ''California is a very important region for ImageShack. Seventy five percent of our users are now able to access ImageShack within 0.5 seconds or less. We will continue to invest and scale our infrastructure to provide the best image hosting and sharing experience for all of ImageShack's loyal users.''

ImageShack's server super-cluster is located in 6 geographically diverse areas of North America. At peak times, ImageShack serves over 100,000 concurrent user requests, making it the most popular digital content delivery platform in its market. ImageShack provides unlimited storage space and bandwidth to all of its users free of charge.

Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, ImageShack endeavors to provide a digital image hosting and sharing experience. ImageShack reports that it has become one of the Internet's top 100 most popular websites by user reach according to all of the major ranking services, with 10 million daily visitors, 3 million daily digital image uploads and 1.2 billion image downloads daily.

To learn more about ImageShack's Toolbar, please visit: http://toolbar.imageshack.us/.

For more information about ImageShack, please visit: www.imageshack.us.





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