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The packages to include additional features with support for currently available custom templates.

A2 Hosting, a web hosting provider, announced the release of its brand new Virtual Private Server hosting packages with an array of new and innovative features. The announcement comes in conjunction with company’s continuing initiative of remaining on the leading edge of the web hosting industry by maintaining their developer friendly environment that offers the latest versions of the hosting software.

The company states that it’s VPS hosting is powered by OpenVZ, ensuring that all allocated hosting space will always be readily available. Each package is powered by HyperVM Control Panel for superior hosting control. Further it states that in addition to the range of features included, each VPS package is compatible with the most popular Linux distributions including Debian, CentOS, Fedora. Gentoo, Slackware, openSUSE, Ubuntu. Every VPS hosting customer also has the choice of custom OS templates.

According to CEO Bryan Muthig, “Our new VPS Hosting packages will enable us to attract hosting customers that need more space, power and flexibility than traditional shared hosting packages have to offer, but also need a more affordable alternative to managed dedicated hosting.”

The second facility to add an additional 7,600 sq. feet of raised floor space and provide solutions to customers located in Charlotte, South Carolina, and nationwide.

Hosted Solutions, a data center and managed services provider, today announced the addition of its second Enterprise Data Center in the Charlotte market to support the company’s continued growth. The new facility will add an additional 7,600 square feet of raised floor space, increasing Hosted Solutions’ data center capabilities to serve clients.

The new uptown facility will provide a full range of secure colocation, managed hosting, performance monitoring and management, data backup and storage, security, and disaster recovery solutions to customers located in Charlotte, South Carolina, and nationwide.  

“We are very excited to announce the opening of our second Charlotte data center,” said Rich Lee, founder and CEO of Hosted Solutions. “The Charlotte team has worked tirelessly to position Hosted Solutions as a leader in this marketplace, and we are proud of our continued success. The opening of Charlotte’s second data center is a testament of Hosted Solutions commitment to grow strategically in our current markets while giving our customers the personal relationship of a small company and the resources of an enterprise organization. Hosted Solutions is dedicated to delivering the highest standard of infrastructure, security, and performance to small, medium, and large businesses throughout the United States.”

Company to pay an additional $1,000 to the affiliate member who generates the largest volume of referrals.The Planet, a privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced that it is expanding its partner offerings with the addition of a new affiliate program. The company is providing incentives for those interested in hosting to earn commissions simply by making referrals to them.The company construed that their affiliate program provides competitive commission rates, which enables their affiliate partners to earn money without having to bear the costs of owning and managing the customer relationship. The participants will have access to a dedicated affiliate team focused on making them effective with promotions, marketing materials and a specialized website optimized for affiliate referred traffic. An administrative portal designed exclusively for affiliate partners tracks statistics, including traffic, conversion rates and payouts that are available at any hour of the day.

In conjunction with the new program, company also announced a celebratory kick-off promotion for the new program. For the month of February, it will pay an additional $1,000 to the affiliate member who generates the largest volume of referrals. And $250 has been designated as a bonus to the member who refers the month’s largest single transaction.

“For all the same reasons that have lead to The Planet’s installed base of 22,000 customers and our hosting more than 3.1 million Web sites, we are confident our customers and affiliate partners will make money by referring prospects to us,” said James P. Treuting, vice president of sales and operations with The Planet. “Word-of-mouth is one of our strongest avenues for acquiring new business, so our affiliate program is another way we’d like to thank our customers for the favor.”

The new plan allows multiple websites to be hosted for $3.33 a month.

AIT, a web hosting provider, announced the launch of a new line of VPS & Enterprise Servers. These new plans allow for multiple websites to be hosted for $3.33 a month. Each account benefits from no setup fees and flexible billing terms. Features include twenty four hour toll free support, free web site builder, dozens of website templates, and a free shopping cart system. Every plan is equipped with huge volumes of data transfer ranging from a low end of 7,000 GB to Unlimited. The offering is topped off with a storage ability of 600 GB for small business VPS and 2 x 160 GB drives for the Enterprise class. It states that it has also included many marketing tools to assist any size business gain exposure while benefiting from an industrial strength infrastructure.

The company also states that its each Virtual Private Server has its own IP Address, Domain Name, and Web Server with complete logs and configuration files, FTP Server, POP Server, and SMTP Gateway. In addition, it further avers that their VPS solution offers up the ability to create virtual domain web hosts, virtual e-mail accounts, and virtual FTP logins along with a variety of other features all under one plan.

“Most providers only offer virtual hosting, which is merely one simple feature of the VPS. A real VPS is not simply a virtually hosted site on a web server we control; we give clients ‘virtual root’ access.  They will see directories such as ‘dev’, ‘usr’, ‘bin’, etc.   In the ‘etc’ directory, they will find their own ‘passwd’, ‘aliases’, and ’sendmail.cf’ files’ which in turn allows them limitless flexibility to add as many POP accounts, aliases, and autoresponders they want. With AIT Virtual Servers, customers will also find an entire ‘usr/local/etc/httpd’ directory structure, including their own ‘httpd.conf’, ’srm.conf’, ‘access.conf’ files, their own logs and ‘cgi-bin’,” said Mike Roberts, CIO of AIT. “We have developed this technology over 12 years and in terms of value, our prices are the absolute lowest in the industry,” said Sean McCoy Chief Marketing Officer.

“To assist with the marketing and sales of any business, we are offering all new AIT hosting accounts thousands of dollars in advertising credits on the tyBit search engine and on our affiliate web properties,” said Kitti Jo Finch, General Manager of tyBit, Inc. “It’s just a great deal, you get tons of disk space, tons of features and benefits most of which can be resold under your own private label if you decide to take the Entrepreneurial road… but the big thing is value.”

Creating a website can and should be a fun and profitable endeavor. If done correctly, the entire process of establishing your web presence can be done in as little as 48 hours. In this article, I will establish some basic guidelines any newbie webmaster will want to know in order to make this process as smooth as possible.

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