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SiteGround Giving Away Web Hosting Holiday Gift Certificates
Web host SiteGround announced it's providing more than $3.5 million in gift certificates to customers for the upcoming holidays, with each receiving $100 going toward anyone in need of an online presence
November 29, 2006 – (TopHosts News Brief) – Web host SiteGround is greeting customers for Christmas with more than $3,500,000 in gifts certificates.
Each SiteGround customer will be given $100 in the form of 5 gift certificates, providing an original Christmas present for 5 people who want a new online presence.
“The Christmas Holidays are the perfect time to make something special for the important people in your life,” Lilyana Yakimova, Marketing Manager of SiteGround.com, said in a company press release. “The gift certificates that could be easily shared with the closest people are our way to add to the Christmas Spirit of our customers.”
SiteGround customers may use the certificates themselves or send them to their family and friends as original gifts. The present allows one to purchase a hosting account with a $20 discount and gives them the opportunity to easily create a new website or transfer an existing one to SiteGround.
For more information visit http://www.siteground.com .
Web Hosting Provider, Doreo, Deploys Network Backup Solution
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - ( Cheap Web Hosting Directory ) - November 17, 2006 - Shared and reseller hosting services company, Doreo Hosting, has deployed a backup solution on its network, in conjunction with Houston-based Righteous Software. There are no additional charges for utilizing the backups, and all customer data, regardless of the hosting plan, will be backed up.
According to the company, Doreo is one of the first hosts internationally utilizing the new technology, which allows nearly continuous data backups of all customer accounts. Previously relying upon a backup solution that required entire accounts to be backed up, the new solution allows for back up only of disk-sectors that have been changed, a feature allowing more frequent backups to me made.
Frank Feingold, President of Doreo Hosting remarked, ''The cardinal goal in backing up our clients' data is to offer a true layer of security for everybody - even us. Hard drives fail, scripts break, and sometimes customers just go 'oops' and delete the wrong file. We need a solid solution that will allow us, and our customers, to quickly recover from these situations.''
Backups will be kept on three separate schedules. Hourly backups will be taken with 14 day retention, and both weekly and monthly backups with 8 week retention. Customers will be able to restore files from any previous backup.
Mr. Feingold continued, ''I'm confident our customers will be just as thrilled about these backups as we are. For our customers, it's very reassuring to know their data is absolutely safe - a reassurance most hosts can't offer. I think that will be a big draw for Doreo.''
Founded in 2002, Doreo Hosting is a provider of shared and reseller web hosting services, in addition to Sitebuilder-based web design services. The company's servers are housed in the Equinix datacenter in Chicago, Illinois, and have access to over 15GB of network bandwidth capacity.
To learn more about web hosting plans from Doreo Hosting, please visit: www.doreo.com/hosting .
For more information about Doreo Hosting, please visit: www.doreo.com .
Web Hosting Industry Veteran, Isabel Wang, Joins 3Tera Advisory Board
Aliso Viejo, California - ( The Hosting News ) - November 22, 2006 - Utility computing solutions firm, 3Tera, Inc., has appointed 10-year hosting industry veteran and influencer, Isabel Wang, to its advisory board, where she will lend her expertise to strategic initiatives such as product positioning.
Vlad Miloushev, President and CEO of 3Tera, Inc. remarked, ''Isabel is a thought leader who is widely respected in the Internet hosting industry. She will help us understand even better the needs and priorities of hosting providers as they move to serving Web 2.0 and SaaS customers. Her expertise in Internet infrastructure will be an asset to 3Tera as we continue to provide enabling grid technology to the web hosting market and position for rapid growth.''
Ms. Wang added, ''Having spent six years running a web-based business and three years working within a hosting company, I've experienced a wide variety of web hosting related challenges from both sides of the table. When I came across 3Tera, I immediately knew it's the next big thing. Problems ranging from hardware failure to scaling a growing web site simply become irrelevant on an AppLogic grid. I'm really excited to work with 3Tera's team in making this technology a market success.''
Isabel Wang joins other distinguished advisors on 3Tera's advisory board including Thomas Burniece, CEO of iVivity and a storage industry veteran; Ismael Ghalimi, CEO of Intalio and organizer of the Office 2.0 conference; Rich Freyberg, former CIO of Schwab Capital Markets; Richie Lary, a renowned storage industry expert and architect of VAX Clusters; Sam Pullara, VP of Technology Strategy at Yahoo!; and Ross Schibler, senior director at Cisco Systems, entrepreneur and founder of TopSpin and Rapid City.
Ms. Wang has been working in the Internet infrastructure market for nearly 10 years. She is the author of the popular ''Isabel Says'' blog, http://www.isabelwang.com, where she writes on the convergence of Web 2.0 and web hosting. She is a freelance writer/consultant and also writes a blog for The Web Hosting Industry Review magazine http://www.thewhir.com/blogs/isabel-wang. Formerly, she was the editor and publisher of Web Hosting Magazine where she covered the rise and fall of early web hosting pioneers. Ms. Wang also served as vice president of Communications at EV1Servers where she focused on the dedicated servers business. Prior to her position at EV1Servers, she co-founded ISPcheck, a company providing banner ads to early web hosting providers. Ms. Wang attended MIT and majored in political science.
3Tera, Inc. provides grid and utility computing solutions designed to simplify the deployment, operation and scaling of online services. The company's AppLogic grid operating system was developed to allow web hosting providers to offer true utility computing that enables anyone with a browser and basic IT skills to operate dozens of servers, and hundreds of online applications, without owning and operating hardware infrastructure. 3Tera is a privately-held company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California with R and D facilities in Silicon Valley, Israel and Eastern Europe.
To learn more, please visit: www.3tera.com .