Resellerspanel.com (www.resellerspanel.com), a reseller hosting provider, which allows everyone to resell web hosting and domain names without any investments, announced on July 26 the availability of a new multi-language option in beta mode in its web hosting control panel. Besides English, German and Spanish, the resellers and their customers can now choose to manage their hosting accounts in French, Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian. The new multi-language option of Resellerspanel.com’s web hosting control panel will be in beta mode from three to six months.
NetNation (www.netnation.com), a Canada-based managed hosting and Web hosting provider, announced on June 6 its expansion into a new state-of-the-art data center in Austin, Texas. This move will give NetNation the opportunity to provide its US customers with extremely low ping times from Coast to Coast and to Central and South America. The new data center is monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by building security. An engineering response team is always available to ensure the highest uptime rates possible. It boasts 60,000 square feet of space, and multiple and redundant direct OC-12 (622Mbit/s) links that scale to OC-48 (2.5 Gbit/s) to the backbone hubs.
The Internet services provider America Online (www.aol.com) announced on June 6 that it has launched a free Web-based e-mail service (http://mail.aol.com). The mail program will provide users with 2GB of storage, as well as an anti-virus and spam component. AOL’s rivals Google and Yahoo offer free e-mail services with about 2.3GB and 1GB of storage, respectively.
The Web hosting provider Hostway UK (www.hostway.co.uk) announced on June 6 the results of its recent report that shows that over 50 percent of UK’s SMEs could be in danger of breaching the 1998 Data Protection Act. The report surveyed 121 UK SMEs and showed that although 94 percent of the respondents understood the importance of IT security in compliance with the Data Protection Act, 59 percent were still at risk from non-compliance because of the security risks associated with poor server configuration. Additionally, 59 percent of businesses said they were using default configurations when setting up servers, while nearly 47 percent of SMEs admitted to not regularly auditing the services they have running on their servers.
The data center operator and co-location provider Switch and Data (www.switchanddata.com) announced on June 6 that the cost-per-click advertising provider Kanoodle (www.kanoodle.com) has expanded its presence in Switch and Data’s data center in Buffalo, New York.
The data center operator and managed services provider Peak 10 (www.peak10.com) announced on June 6 that it has completed a successful review of its emergency management plan, ensuring that the company will maintain consistency during and after a hurricane or other natural disaster. The review, which was completed on June 1 at all five of Peak 10's data centers, ensured four key areas in the event of a disaster: to provide a secure facility, to ensure each data center is fully monitored and managed 24 hours a day, access to multiple Tier-1 Internet service providers from each Peak 10 data center, and connectivity from facility-to-facility via Peak 10's private OC-n network.
SustainableMarketing.com (www.sustainablemarketing.com) announced on June 6 that it has launched an environmentally friendly wind-powered Web hosting service. The company's servers, based in data centers in New Jersey and Texas, are powered by wind energy purchased through Krystal Planet (www.krystal-planet.com).
The Web hosting automation software developer SWsoft (www.sw-soft.com) announced on June 6 at the HostingCon2005 conference (www.hostingcon.com) that it has released version 2.0 of SiteBuilder, an application for building websites. The latest version includes various new features designed for hosting service providers, administrators and end users.
The payment solutions provider EuroConex (www.euroconex.com) announced on June 6 that the Web hosting provider Novara.ie (www.novara.ie) has become the first Irish company to implement 3D Secure, its new payment processing service. 3D Secure is an authentication method that allows the merchant to authenticate the cardholder with the issuer and association.
The research and analysis firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) announced on June 3 that the Web hosting providers Hostway (www.hostway.com) and Energis (www.energis.com) had the most reliable company websites in May. Hostway was the most reliable site for the second consecutive month. Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com), DataPipe (www.datapipe.com) and InetU (www.inetu.net) were the third, fourth and fifth most reliable sites.
