Netfirms Hosts Pixir

The online free image editor, PIXIR (www.pixir.com ) has chosen Netfirms, a Canadian company, to be their official host for their website. Pixir utilizes their online technology in over ten languages worldwide for any user to sign up and start using them. Initially, Pixir had a single server, but they were unprepared for the onslaught of traffic. Since then, they chose the Enterprise Cloud technology that is offered by Netfirms (www.netfirms.com) to handle their hosting environment.

Mosso Limelight Synergy

Mosso, one of the pioneers of utilizing current cload technologies within the mass hosting market has now incorporated, successfully, mind you, content delivery services from limelightnetworks.com With the addition of Limelight, Mosso will be able to strengthen their brand by creating a limitless form of hosting data plus accelerated data transfer times to end user computers all over the world. The robustness of the original Cloud hosting has now become a worldwide factor in delivering its customers content with very little possibility of failure.

Ratepoint Implementing Multiple Language

Most hosting companies these days, especially American based are very uni-lingual aside from the third party control panel that they have incorporated into their system. That's about as far as they go with reference to multi-linigual support, if you consider that support. those that have in-house development of a control panel, you can forget about multi-languages as this would be too much in the way of development for them even if it only requires some translation. In order to circumvent this and offer a broader more realistic approach to support, Ratepoint is now integrating LIVE multi-language support. These three ADDITIONAL languages are German, Spanish and French which gives an opportunity to some international customers that price, security and integrity are far more advanced than their local companies respectively. Historically, technological pricing in North America are much cheaper than their international counterparts, but the major barrier was language. Some made efforts to appreciate the cheaper pricing, but found it difficult to do anything beyond that factor. Now, this bridge has been crossed and Ratepoint hopes to increase their corporate base by not only offring a unique solution within the hosting industry, but to also broaden their target market to international hosting companies.

ThePlanet.Com Slashing Prices!

One of the more successful dedicated hosting companies out there, ThePlanet.com has cut prices by as much as 50% from their high end line and made more power available to the mass market. Not only packages, but parts as well, like raid cards, hard drives, ram etc. Their DX 2.8 dedicated package was once $259/month, but now it's being offered at a mere $125/month and the DX 3.2 down to $135, from $299. Take a look at their price cuts for data services handled by r1soft software. take advantage of the sale while it lasts.

No More Exchange Set up Fees for 123together.com

123together.com, a hosting company located in Massachusetts has completely deleted all set up fees for their Hosted Exchange lines of services. This includes both shared and dedicated avenues which is intended to decrease overhead and stabilize any possibility of downturn in the current market situation.

Serverpronto Reacts to Slumping Economy

As the economy descends into the financial abyss, Serverpronto, a dedicated server company revamps its entire line of dedicated servers to reflect demand in hopes to maintain growth, but at a much lower rate to satisfy fears of consumers about affordability and the business growth of the smallguy. You will be able to take advantage of this price decrease for a starting price of $29.95. Not bad for a starter package.

Bad Economy? Peer1 Says No Way!

In this slumping economy, I guess not everyone is feeling it. Managed Service provider, Peer1 reports a growth rate of a whopping 12.1% to $23.5 million from $21 million last quarter. By consolidating costs and merging all services to their in-house solutions, plus some improvements to customer service, they were able to improve revenue and profits. Though the economy will definitely affect new sales, Peer1 does what it needs to do with what it has now which ultimately strengthens the company.

Green.ch - Best Host 2008 by Netcraft

After Netcraft calculated the top one million busiest websites worldwide, it moved onto the top hosting company with the best response times. Normally, you would assume, that this only belonged to the big boys, but toppling Rackspace and NYI.net. Green.ch has come ut ahead of the pack, answering EVERY request made by Netcraft for the entire month of October. Any company can buy loads of bandwidth for massive connectivity redundancy, but software and hardware also play a role. Green.ch uses F5 BIG-IP hardware for load balancing and clustering, while implementing a Windows 2003 environment. A company of 70,000 customers and in a small country, green.ch has done quite a respectable job!