Los Angeles-based Globat.com(R), the world-leader in Performance Web Hosting(TM), today announced that the company is happy to see that Internet 'Pixel King' Alex Tew and his now world-famous MillionDollarHomepage.com is only 1,000 pixels away from achieving his mission to become the first pixel millionaire on the Internet. The young British student and entrepreneur founded MillionDollarHomepage.com just over 4 months ago with the goal to sell pixels of his homepage space to advertisers for a dollar each to fund his university education. Globat.com was one of the very first major supporters of Alex's idea and the investment has paid off for the firm multifold.

A six-month investigation into 'pay-per- click' programs by Kessler International has revealed shocking results.

Best 10 Web Hosting, a shared web hosting directory, announced the creation of a new section called 'Responsible & Honest Hosts'. Hosting companies in offering discounted services, free periods of service and other promotional services to college and university students and professors as well as to nonprofit organizations or initiatives will be featured in this section.

GlobalWebBrands announced the formation of three new business units in place of the current Consumer Services and Business Services units. The new units, namely, Web Hosting, Web Services, and Telecom units will enable the company to focus on increased operational efficiency.

Exabytes announced that it has upgraded its Linux hosting plan, increasing webspace and bandwidth while reducing the price. It has also added a multiple-domain feature to the plan.

Covad and Verizon have announced an agreed settlement that 'resolves all pending litigation and disputes' between them. Covad has entered into business agreements with Verizon and MCI, which is in the final stages of merger with Verizon, that lay the foundation of a'new, positive relationship' with Verizon.

Interland has announced the acquisition of Web Internet, LLC (Web.com) and Web Service Company, Inc for $4.8 million. Included in the assets are the domain name Web.com, web hosting business, accredited registrar business and trademark rights. Current Web.com CEO, Will Pemble, will join Interland as an Executive Vice President.

C I Host has upgraded its email servers to provide 1 GB storage space per account. This upgrade, with other recent tools to keep email free of spam, phishing mails and viruses, makes W:Mail an 'efficient, safe and productive business tool'.

WebHostingBuzz.com has launched the Intense Web Site Hosting solution, designed with the power user in mind. Only thirty-five Intense Hosting accounts are placed per Dual xeon or Dual Opteron server, ensuring that all clients on the server get full access to the available resources. Servers are carefully optimized for performance applications such as high traffic sites, large MySQL based sites and scripting heavy sites.

As part of a seasonal promotion celebrating the holiday period, EnCirca announced that it will offer free web hosting for all '.pro' domain names. Targeted professionals for the '.pro' domain include architects, financial analysts and planners, dentists, educators, lawyers, human resource experts, and insurance agents.

UK-based web hosting provider Nicnames ahs revamped its web site, applying modern coding techniques. The new, improved web site will 'reflect the improvement and new product offerings of the Nicnames service'.

Web hosting company GoDaddy.com has announced that its web-based email will provide greater email security to protect users from unauthorized interception. Go Daddy's email service 'not only provides an envelope, but it also adds a chain and padlock' to email in the form of its secure certificate and Rijndael encryption.

CBeyond Inc., a web hosting and managed service provider of VoIP communications, has announced the achievement of two important milestones - its 20,000th small business customer and its four billionth minute of VoIP traffic since its network's inception in early 2001.

Alienware has announced the release of its new Alienware Hivemind 5520 5U rack server. Powered by dual Intel Xeon processors with dual-core technology and with 3TB of hard drive storage and up to 16GB of memory, the Hivemind 5520 is 'an extremely powerful, reliable solution for databases, storage area networks, web hosting, multiple workloads, or other large-scale applications'.

IntraISP, LLC, a business management software developer, announced that it has entered into a License Agreement with Irish Broadband for its flagship IntraISP software platform release 6.0, a comprehensive billing & business management portal for ISP, WISP, Web Hosting, and VoIP providers.

iWeb Group Inc., a provider of web hosting services either through shared hosting, dedicated servers or collocation in its own data center, announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2005. Its consolidated revenue is up by 88% and gross profit is up by 95% from the same period last year.

SYS-CON Media today launched a new Web Hosting news and content site at webhosting.sys-con.com. The new SYS-CON portal will be the central news and information resource for global Web Hosting solution providers and their customers. WebHosting.sys-con.com will publish breaking news stories from the wires, exclusive interviews with leading hosting companies, as well as case studies and success stories from the Web Hosting industry.

Jim Collins is the new CEO of Affinity Internet. Collins, under whose leadership Affinity eveolved from a web hosting provider to a full-service web-based services firm, brings more than 14 years of experience in the technology, telecommunications and service markets to the post.

Web Hosting provider, AIT, has launched two new multi-server configurations called 'Six Paks'. These offerings provide 'a complex-style solution without the complexity or the price tag'.

ServerPlex Networks has launched a subsidiary called ServerPlex Onsite, which will dispatch certified technicians to homes and businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area for onsite technical assistance. ServerPlex Onsite offers a number of specialized services, including multimedia device networking and installation, connectivity troubleshooting and configuration, wireless and wired networking, and hardware servicing and installation.

Web hosting provider WSXHosting.com has introduced ten new hosting plans, ranging from 500MB bandwidth, 5GB disk space to 25000MB bandwidth, 400GB disk space. The new plans offer additional options like an IP Address and SSH access.

US shared web hosting provider Host Color has released version 2 of its proprietary hosting control panel, NextColor. The latest version offers a number of unique features, such as choice between PHP 5 and 4, a large set of pre-installed applications and advanced database management, apart from greater flexibility as far as skins and localization support are concerned.

Seamless Wi-Fi, Inc. announced the launch of Alpha Internet, Inc., a web hosting services provider. Alpha Internet will enable it to better facilitate its Phenom secure communication services.

Dedicated Servers from a $99 'Value Series' to the newest Dual Xeon 3.2ghz SATA RAID servers are among the variety of services offered to customers by EV1Servers.net The company also says that it offers a full line of upgrades and add-on solutions.

With hosting customers across the globe, CFDynamics says, 'we know the standards that developers have come to expect in a host. We have come to be known as a leader for providing reliable and powerful hosting.' CFDynamics also has developed a resellers program 'to benefit anyone with multiple accounts. Whether the accounts are for you or a friend, our resellers program is a great way to save money,' the company says.

CrystalTech has made the once complicated process of ordering and implementing SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificates remarkably easy, the company says. Customers can now use the Certificate Management tool, found within CrystalTech's proprietary Control Center to create and process Certificate Signing Requests.

Resellerspanel.com has launched a cPanel reseller hosting program, which offers four plans, perfect for those who wish to sell hosting to their own customers. Resellerspanel.com (www.resellerspanel.com), the only company in the Linux-based web hosting business offering a free reseller hosting program, announces the launch of its cPanel program, which offers four reseller plans, perfect for those who wish to sell hosting to their own customers, the company says.

Since 2000, I've had the good fortune of working with over 15,000 EV1Servers customers, including enterprise managers and small business owners, software developers and multi-player gamers, content providers and community forum operators.

'Not very many Web hosting services can boast a presence in a Tier 1 data center,' said Gabriel Wong of WebAppCabaret.com. 'Our Tier 1 data center is part of the global Internet backbone, with privately owned multi-gigabit US and European networks. They are, in essence, the Internet. The backbone is comprised of private, redundant, optical, world-wide OC-48 with total transit capacity of 32 GIGABITS per second.'

Enterprise Web and application hosting provider WebAppCabaret has announced that it is offering same-day setup and free setup on some of its Java J2EE Ready Managed dedicated servers. In addition, WebAppCabaret will be offering the second month free for some of these same Managed dedicated servers for a limited time.

4Java.ca is challenging all US and Canadian based web hosting companies to donate all new account sign up fees collected during the month of September 2005 towards the relief efforts for Katrina Disaster in United States. Companies are asked to make donations to the organization of their choice, provided 100% of funds will be used towards the disaster relief efforts.

Since 2000, I've had the good fortune of working with over 15,000 EV1Servers customers, including enterprise managers and small business owners, software developers and multi-player gamers, content providers and community forum operators. Ongoing interactions with these dedicated Web server users have helped shape our direction. I would like to think that we have also contributed to our customers' success. Many of them have expanded from one single server to dozens - or even hundreds - during the course of our partnership. I have often heard that Web hosting is a commodity business in which three factors - pricing, bandwidth and disk space - are all-important.

For those of you not keeping track, I wrote an editorial last April about finding a CF hosting company and promised more information the following month. As you may have noticed, it never came. Why? Because when I outlined Part 2, I realized I could easily write Part 3, Part 4, and so on, because it's such a large topic, with many different angles and countless points to consider.

(June 18, 2003) - Microsoft has released three offerings for Web developers to make it easy to create data-driven Web sites and Web applications: an update to the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix, the release of the ASP.NET Starter Kits, and a resource to easily find ASP.NET Web hosting companies.

(August 20, 2002) - Over the next three years, Web services and small to mid-sized hosting providers will be the driving force behind explosive growth in the service provider industry, which is expected to reach over $18 billion in the U.S. by 2007, concludes a market analysis study conducted by SWsoft, Inc., a server technology company. In the 18-month study, SWsoft combined survey data, statistical analysis, and in-depth interviews of hundreds of service providers, customers and enterprises to analyze and forecast the Web hosting industry.