Web hosting provider and Internet Service Provider (ISP) Zen Internet (http://www.zenwebhosting.com), who won the ‘Best Business ISP’ award in February 2006, has announced it is offering new customers a trial of its Linux web hosting packages for only 1 British Pence. The UK-based company will maintain this promotion until 16th May 2006 and it applies to its full range of Linux packages - from the “Bronze” package aimed at individuals, to its “Reseller” offering.

“This promotion provides the ideal opportunity for us to demonstrate the confidence we have in our product set. Our shared Linux packages provide complete value for money and are affordable to both businesses and home users alike. In a marketplace where barriers to entry are low, even for the more established providers it is important to constantly exceed customer expectations and provide continued value for money,” explained James Steel, Hosting Product Manager.

Zen Internet launched its shared Linux range back in November 2005 and each plan features the cPanel control panel. Other features include email solution with anti-virus protection, a web site statistics package, site design wizards, FTP and database management.

- Web hosting company, Hostway, advises general domain registration in order to protect brand identity rather than risk losing domain names to other companies or cybersquatters.

Hostway releases this advisory after the land rush for the new .eu domain name on April 7, 2006 at 11am in London. Neil Barton, Director of Hostway explained, ''The .eu land rush has now begun, and registration for the .eu domain name is now open to all individuals and companies, regardless of whether or not they have a valid claim to it. It’s crucial that companies realise just how important it is to register for their .eu domain name if they wish to take advantage of this opportunity now or in the future.'

Mr. Barton continued, ''As the largest top-level domain name release for several years, companies are faced with both an opportunity and a challenge - anyone who hasn’t yet registered shouldn’t waste any more time - acquiring a .eu address is as easy as picking up the phone. The cost is minimal especially when you compare it to the cost of not registering. Companies who don’t register for their domain name are effectively gambling with their brand identity, and they could be risking expensive and unnecessary cybersquatting cases.''

A recent survey from Hostway found that the new .eu domain name is set to be as big as .com. According to the survey, nearly two thirds of businesses (64%) feel that the new domain name will be important to their business operations in Europe. The .eu domain name is available to all of the twenty five nations, and the 450 million people that make up the European community.

Mr. Barton concluded, ''People do need to beware of unofficial vendors offering registrations as they could miss out, or be ripped off. This is a great opportunity for people to establish their presence as a pan-European entity, but as with any transaction online, people need to make sure that the supplier on the other end is authentic.''

Hostway Corporation provides web hosting services with eight locations in the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Korea, and Australia with managed hosting services such simple shared plans, to complete dedicated server and VPS solutions to now over 350,000 customers worldwide.

To learn more Hostway, please visit www.hostway.com.

A new, free, web hosting service is now available to Q151.com users.According to the company, with no limits on disk space or bandwidth, Q151.com says it already has 200 new users and uniquely company places no ads on user Websites.In a statement published at the service’s release, the company said: ''We are not currently placing ads on user sites, and we really hope we won't have to. However, if our bandwidth and storage costs grow, and we cannot compensate for these costs with advertising on our homepage, we will start placing ads on user pages. However, these will be animated GIF banners (468x60) on the top and bottom of the pages only. And likely, these would only be placed on the bottom of each page. But again, this is only if our costs skyrocket at some point in the future. As of right now, we are not planning to place ads on user sites. We absolutely refuse to place pop-up ads, Flash ads, and the like - we do not want to become like Tripod or GeoCities, where there are more ads than anything else.''

Q151.com is developing version 2 of its service, which will include additional advanced features, such as a website builder, email accounts, MySQL databases, and more.

To learn more, please visit: www.q151.com.