Hosting Industry Daily Briefing for 02/21/2006

Here’s our hosting industry news daily briefing for Tuesday, February 21, 2006.

Interland.com announced today that they will be completing the change of their corporate name to Web.com. The first announcement of the change came earlier this year, when the company acquired Web.com and its hosting assets.

According to the CEO of Interland, Jeff Stibel, “The Web.com name embraces everything in a brand that offers Web services to both small businesses and consumers. From a business perspective, we feel the name change will enable powerful new marketing, business development and sales opportunities. While we intend to leverage the Interland name as it is well known within the technical community, we will focus on making Web.com the standard for creating a powerful Web presence.”

It’s never easy to change your corporate identity, particularly when you have created a presence that is so well known in the industry. It will be interesting to watch the change and see how it affects the company formerly known as Interland. The change will also affect Interland’s stock ticker name, which is now WWWW.

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Gearworx Announces Updates to Their Corporate Site

Gearworx.com launched their updated web site today, which combines their shared hosting and managed hosting services into one location.

William Gregorian, the CEO of Gearworx stated today, “Till now, we have not been as good about telling our clients new and existing about the benefits of these implementations. I’m pleased to say that this new Web site will allow us to fill that gap because it presents all the great features of our services in an easy to understand manner.”

This is an improvement and should help Gearworx serve their customers and improve their sales.

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Rackspace Signs Deal with JBoss

A new partnership between Rackspace, a well-known provider of managed hosting services and JBoss, an open source developer was announced today. The partnership will produce a new managed Linux hosting solution that will be sold under the name, â€œIntensive Hosting for Linux – JBoss Edition.â€

Tom Cooper, the Vice President of JBoss stated today, “Intensive Hosting – JBoss Edition is the optimal product offering for organizations seeking to take advantage of Java EE but lacking the resources to effectively deploy and maintain a robust Java EE infrastructure.â€

This will be the only official JBoss certified hosting solution and will provide customers with specific monitoring, administration and support services for companies that are currently using Java EE.

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Resellerspanel Announces New cPanel Reseller Hosting Program

Resellerspanel.com, a hosting company built for re-sellers, announced today that they are now offering four new hosting plans for resellers. According to Resellerspanel, the new hosting plans range from 5 to 15 gigs of disk space and offer 50 to 150 gigs of monthly data transfer.

Kalin Blaskoff, the CEO of Resellerspanel stated today, “Resellerspanel.com’s cPanel reseller hosting program is a completely risk-free enterprise as it offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, that its prices are very well balanced and correspond to the plans’ features and properties, that the program offers several Gb of free disk space for the main reseller account, so that resellers can host their sites for free without the need to recourse to their reseller accounts’ resources and thus lower their profits, and that with the launch of the cPanel reseller hosting program.â€

These plans will include Fantastico for all domains hosted under the plan and range from $25 to $65 per month.

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