Christian Dawson, one of the founders of the Save Hosting Coalition and Chief Operating Officer of web hosting provider ServInt (www.servint.net), said the overriding goal of the letter was to foster communication between the Internet infrastructure industry and legislators responsible for steering the bill through committee.

“As SOPA enters another day of Congressional markup, legislators need to understand that – no matter how badly flawed the bill is right now – there still is time to craft legislation that works,” Dawson said.  “We strongly urge the Committee to engage with representatives from the Internet industry, so that together we can design a bill that protects intellectual property rights, while preserving America’s leadership position in the Internet economy.  The industry is ready, willing and able to help.  All Rep. Smith has to do is ask.”

To download a copy of the letter delivered to Congress opposing SOPA, complete with a list of signatories, please visit
http://savehosting.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SOPAletterFinal.pdf.

About the Save Hosting Coalition

The Save Hosting Coalition is a consortium of leading companies in the web hosting and Internet infrastructure industries that are working together to make their expertise more readily available to American policy makers.  The Coalition’s goal is to help lawmakers produce legislation that protects the rights of intellectual-property holders while protecting America’s status as a leader in the global Internet economy.  More information can be found at www.savehosting.org.

This Christmas Season, AWG offers an additional 20% off on our three Web Hosting and all four of our Sitebuilder Packages. That’s almost 45% in total savings. The Web Hosting solutions included in this offer are: the Starter Package; the Advanced/Small Business Package and the Jackpot Package. Individuals or businesses that are looking to jumpstart the New Year with an amazing website could also avail of the additional discount available for our Sitebuilder Packages: the Economy Package, the Blue Package, the Red Package and the Gold Star Package.

This savings that can add up to 45% is part of the company’s commitment to providing affordable yet web hosting solutions and other web-related services. It aims to encourage aspiring entrepreneurs and existing companies to promote and develop a website that will provide valuable information and resources to the public.

As stated by Mr. Rob Jackson, CEO/Founder of the Action Web Group: “Pricing plays a very important role and companies are always looking for different ways to save.” This special offer for the Holiday Season runs from December 19-31, 2011.

Sign up now and enjoy quality service at an affordable price. For more information regarding this special offer, please visit the AWG website.

The event, expected to draw more than 300 representatives from web hosting companies, telecoms and other SaaS providers will be held again at the KölnSKY tower. Featured speakers for the free event include keynotes by Tier 1 Research analyst, Daniel Beazer, and Open-Xchange CEO, Rafael Laguna.

Breakout sessions are divided into two tracks focused on: business issues, such as growing profitability and improving customer loyalty; along with a technical track that addresses deployment best practices and integration with existing infrastructure.

“These days, collaboration also means wrapping in social network communications, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing and Twitter so users have access at their office, home and on the road,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. “This event brings together a constituency laser-focused on profitably delivering cloud email and collaboration to their customers.”

For more information and free registration, go to www.open-xchange.com/en/partner/summit-2011.html.

Open-Xchange integrates email, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing. Appointments and team meetings can be scheduled efficiently with team calendars. Using shared folders, team members get access to all important documents, tasks, appointments and contacts. Central storage of documents prevents duplicated work and reduces the amount of email traffic. Cutting-edge social network integration enables aggregation of email and contact information from external mail services and social networks.

Open-Xchange’s unique Social OX features give users the ability to consolidate any kind of existing webmail accounts — for example from Google and Yahoo — into a folder in Open-Xchange so they can be managed more easily. Plus, contact details from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Xing can be added automatically to the Open-Xchange address book — giving users easy access to the latest contact information within their personal network. Also, users can merge their calendar and address books from Google into Open-Xchange.

With more than 24 million users, Open-Xchange is the world’s leading technology supplier of hosted groupware. SaaS partners include 1&1 Internet, STRATO, Network Solutions, Versatel, Dotster, Surftown and Hostpoint.

About Open-Xchange

For more than a decade, Open-Xchange has been delivering innovative, cost effective, open source collaboration alternatives for email, calendar, contacts and document management. The company is a pioneer in SaaS and now a leading email and groupware cloud application, which provides integration with social and business networks, as well as mobile access. Open-Xchange is used by the largest web host providers in the world, as well as on-premises by some 3,500 businesses, governments and educational institutions. Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y. For more information, please visit www.open-xchange.com.

Open-Xchange Announces Summit

http://www.liquidweb.com/whatsnew/index.php/liquid-web-sponsors-the-perl-5-core-maintenance-fund/

Liquid Web has developed much of its software using perl and continues to do so. The programming language serves as an integral tool for the continued development of the company’s existing systems such as its billing, support and monitoring programs.

Liquid Web Founder and CEO, Matthew Hill, speaks on the importance of the Perl Community:

–“Giving back to the Perl community is something we’ve been interested in for some time. As Liquid Web continues to expand and grow, we find the need for more developers proficient in perl grows in kind. Supporting Perl’s continued excellence ensures that important programs that have proven invaluable to Liquid Web’s success will continue to perform to our specific needs. ”

Karen Pauley, President of the Perl foundation, was delighted with the news of the donation. “This investment in Perl’s future from Liquid Web will go a long way to help maintain the viability of Perl 5 as a platform for the many businesses that depend upon it and will deliver a positive impact upon the entire Perl community,” stated Pauley upon hearing of the donation. The Perl Foundation is encouraged with success stories such as that of Liquid Web and other companies that have been built on the programming language’s strong foundation and is excited to continue moving forward with them.

For more information on LiquidWeb, please visit: http://www.LiquidWeb.com

Liquid Web Donates to the Perl Foundation

Every year, the Inc.’s business magazine features the 5000 fastest-growing businesses in America. Over the past 3 years, Inc. reports that the total sum of all companies on their list to have created 370,592 new jobs, in what Inc. has referred to as “The Engines of the Economy”. The list ranks companies in relation to the growth that the organization has endured over a 3-year time period.

“We’re very excited to have made the Inc. 5000 list once again this year,” commented Chris Wells, President & CEO of Nexcess, “As we prepare for the launch of our second data center while listed #1297 by the Inc. Magazine list, it’s sometimes hard to believe that only a decade ago we were a small garage web hosting operation.”

Following a 3-year growth of 223% as recorded by the Inc. 5000, Nexcess continues to expand with a second data center that is planned to open in Southfield, Michigan in Q4, 2011. Over the 3 years that contributed to the 2011 Inc. 5000 listing, Nexcess has taken on 24 new employees, and has continued to bring forward new products, expansions, and innovations. In 2011, this has already included a clustered Magento hosting solution, CDN services, and the introduction of web hosting in the United Kingdom.

More information on Nexcess’ place in the Inc. 5000 list can be found a thttp://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/nexcessnet.

About Nexcess:

Nexcess is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based managed hosting company founded in 2000, with wholly-owned data centers located in Dearborn, and Southfield, Michigan (opening Q4/2011). Nexcess offers a variety of hosting services ranging from entry-level packages to specially-catered clustered/complex configurations, with an emphasis on mission-critical hosting for high-profile and eCommerce sites. For more information, visit http://www.nexcess.net or call +1.866.639.2377.

Nexcess Web Hosting Makes the 2011 Inc. 5000

“We are thrilled to be able to offer our hosting customers this top of the line control panel,” said Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer Relations for CFDynamics. “This will be a partnership that will ultimately benefit our hosting customers in a big way.”

With WebsitePanel, web site management is easily accomplished, along with FTP accounts, databases and other resources, all from a single place. Website Panel is supported by Microsoft and was built exclusively for a Windows platform.

“WebsitePanel has hundreds of installable hosting applications that are simple to use,” said Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer Relations for CFDynamics. “Just a few clicks of the mouse and you are up and running.”

WebsitePanel is an ideal solution for:

• Developers managing their own or customer servers and web sites.
• Providers offering Windows hosting services.
• Individuals managing their dedicated or virtual Windows servers.

This partnership will be finalized soon and will be available to CFDynamics’ business hosting customers within the next 3 months.

CFDynamics has business hosting customers across the globe and knows the standards that developers have come to expect in a web hosting company. They are known as leaders for providing reliable and powerful hosting.

CFDynamics balances all of their servers to provide ideal efficiency, reliability, and performance. They feature a state-of-the-art data center, 24/7 network monitoring, and a variety of hosting plans that cater to each business’s needs.

For more information about CFDynamics, please visit, http://www.cfdynamics.com.

About CFDynamics:

CFDynamics has been hosting websites for almost two decades and prides itself on being a customer-oriented Web host, specializing in PHP, .NET and ColdFusion. CFDynamics combines years of development and expertise with excellent customer service to provide individuals, small businesses and large corporations with budget-friendly dedicated and shared web hosting solutions.

CFDynamics Partners with WebsitePanel

This completely revamped Netzonehost.com customer hosting panel helps the users to easily control their accounts and their domains. The new control panel is designed to make file management and domain management easy. This control panel now has advanced domain manager with easy to use controls. Users will be able to have complete control of their domains. Domain parking and domain redirects are made easy through this domain control panel.

Users need not have to complain anymore about long loading times. The interface loads much faster now using Ajax controls. The security features too have been enhanced greatly with this new domain control panel. Users that need assistance in using the new domain control panel will find exhaustive help section which includes videos and highly explanatory, easy to follow tutorials. Users will find the help section highly useful as they can get all the help they need in just few clicks.

Netzonehost.com emerges once again as the industry leader with its unmatched technology innovation. While Netzonehost.com offers the best web hosting solutions, they keep all their services very competitively priced. They offer cheap web hosting services without compromising on the quality of the services.

Netzonehost.com enjoys very good reputation in the web hosting industry. They have over 25,000 customers across the globe. It uses the most advanced servers and it has two data centers placed in the US and the UK. Netzonehost.com customers return to this company whenever they need hosting services as this company guarantees an uptime of 99.9%. Their premium quality web hosting services come with 30 day money back guarantee making this company all the more desirable. This hosting company is also known for its highly dependable customer service. They offer 24/7 customer support using highly knowledgeable customer support executives. For more information please visit http://www.netzonehost.com.

Netzonehost.com Revamps Its Web Hosting Control Panel

1. Video Conferencing

It is no secret that businesses and individuals are cutting back on travel expenses. There is no better product than video conferencing for keeping businesses in touch. With video conferencing usage growing by 15% year after year, there is no better time to incorporate this product into your web hosting offerings.

While there are hundreds if not even thousands of video conferencing companies to choose from, my preferred provider is Voxwire. They offer private labeling to resellers, allowing them to share in the monthly revenue stream from their clients. If Voxwire and its reseller program doesn’t do it for you, there are other providers like WebEx and GoToMeeting that provide reseller/affiliate programs as well.

2. Merchant Accounts

If you are not helping your clients find a merchant account you are losing out on thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of dollars in revenue each month. Like video conferencing, many merchant account providers offer a referral revenue stream. Companies like www.cdgcommerce.com provide you with up to 30% in referral fees. You never know when you might have a $100k account buying $7.95/month hosting that needs a merchant account for its brick and mortar business or online store. Merchant accounts are effortless to sell and you could make more in commissions each month then what the hosting account is bringing in.

3. Search Engine Optimization / Search Engine Marketing

Everyone wants to increase traffic to their website. If you do not have traffic, you aren’t making money. Let’s face it, the years of “if you build it, they will come” are long gone. You could start off by offering a basic SEO / SEM solution like the I Need Hits reseller program; you could find a freelancer who will work on a flat fee per month; or you can go into a partnership agreement with a marketing agency like eBridge Marketing Solutions. You could even offer all three! When most basic SEO packages start out at $19.95 and the premium agencies charge tens of thousands of dollars, this could lead to a large chunk of change in your pocket each month.

4. Software as a Service (SaaS) Ecommerce Solutions

I know you probably think that every customer wants to do it themselves when it comes to their website. The truth is, the majority DO NOT. The majority of businesses and individuals starting out in ecommerce want a simple and easy solution. They want to be up and selling in 5 minutes. Why do you think eBay has done so well? If you leave your clients to try and figure out ecommerce themselves, there is a good chance they will get frustrated and give up. This is lost revenue for you. If you were partnered with a company like Volusion, TurnKey Commerce or Shopify you could successfully refer them to your ecommerce solutions partner and take up to a whopping 25% of revenue share to the bank. With the average SaaS shopping cart solution starting around $30, you make your $7.50 for life without even having to provide technical support. When you are handing off the customer to the SaaS provider make sure to offer them the great deals you have on merchant accounts so you can add another 30% in profit to your bottom line each month. If you do not, the big boys will be happy to do it for you.

5. Web Design

Just like Search Engine Optimization services, web design can be sold in many forms. You have the turnkey template solution provided by a 3^rd party; these charge you a setup fee plus a monthly fee. This can work out well in the budget hosting market. Then you have the option of bringing in a freelancer to do your client’s projects. The freelancer charges you a one-time fee and you charge the client. Then there is the private partner design studio product option. Here you outsource the design to a design studio like www.studio1337.com for premium design services. Web design runs from just under $100/month for budget design services to anywhere from $1,000.00 to $5,000.00 for premium design services. With the average commission worth 20%, you could add an extra $25.00/month to your bottom line or a nice $250.00 to $1,000.00 one-time commission.

The most important piece of information that every web hosting provider should understand is: YOU HOLD THE POWER. Web hosting companies tend to have massive amounts of clients due to the low price of the service and the size of the market. Use your client base to generate extra revenue for yourself by providing them with the products and services they already need. With these five simple up-sells you can take a $7.95/month account and turn it into a $150.00/month account with very little effort. Just remember, for every product or service you do not offer to your client you’re sending revenue into someone else’s wallet.

Author Bio

Established by business consultant Zachary McClung, Web Host Summit is a radical new online media firm focusing on the web hosting industry. After pioneering the first-ever virtual conference exclusively for the web hosting industry, the company has launched a variety of initiatives designed to create dynamic, affordable educational opportunities for professionals at web hosting companies, hosting resellers, web designers, and anyone who wants to build a successful web hosting firm. Read more articles like the one featured today at www.webhostsummit.com.

Based in Roubaix in northern France, OVH is a leader in telecom and Internet services. According to data from analyst firm Netcraft, OVH ranks first in Internet hosting in France with 400,000 customers and is the second largest web hosting company in Europe. After an initial deployment of an Infinera network and another optical vendor’s network between Paris and Roubaix in 2006, OVH has decided to go forward with Infinera as its provider of optical networks. OVH is using Infinera to connect its peering points in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Frankfurt. For a graphical representation of the traffic on the OVH network, see http://weathermap.ovh.net. OVH is now planning a further major expansion into the U.S. market.

OVH chose Infinera’s solution for its widely recognized ease of operation and network management, including a powerful GMPLS control plane for enabling intelligent, automated network discovery, service provisioning, and service recovery. Infinera’s solution enables OVH to deploy a scalable, highly flexible and highly resilient optical infrastructure for its core business, and easily manage its lifecycle with Infinera’s end-to-end network management solution, Infinera Management Suite (IMS).

“Initially, we were attracted by the ease of installation and the speed of installation of the Infinera network,” commented Octave Klaba, founder and president of OVH. “Later on, we appreciated the flexibility of the Infinera network, its reliability, and the speed with which we could add capacity to the network.

“For us, these Infinera features deliver clear benefits to our business,” Klaba explained. “Our customers want us to guarantee network quality, low latency and quick access to their websites, and we get that with our Infinera backbone. These features are critical in several customer segments, including, for example, online gaming. We have had no major incident on our network in four years of working with Infinera and we therefore have confidence in their technology as the platform for our entire network.”

OVH’s aim is to deploy its network as close as possible to its customers so as to maintain the shortest link between its servers and the end-user. OVH has designed its network with a high-availability architecture, and Infinera’s GMPLS capability supports that architecture with re-routing of traffic in case of network issues to guarantee network reliability and uptime. OVH is planning to open two new data centers by the first half of next year, including one in Strasbourg in eastern France to provide connections to eastern Europe, and one in either the south of France or Spain to provide connectivity to customers in southern Europe. Today OVH operates 80,000 servers, with plans to increase that to 100,000 by the first half of next year.

“OVH is a highly entrepreneurial, technological innovator playing a leading role in making Internet services more accessible to millions of people, and we are delighted to support them with a pan-European Infinera network,” said Infinera CEO Tom Fallon.

Powered by Infinera’s large-scale photonic integrated circuits, the Infinera DTN combines high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service intelligence in a single platform.

OVH Selects Infinera for International Expansion