Web Hosting Tutorial Firm, DemoWolf, Overhauls Pricing Structure

Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has initiated an overhaul of its pricing structure. Tutorials of all kind are being offered at substantially reduced rates, discounted at up to 80 percent from former costs.

DemoWolf has gone through its entire inventory of tutorials and lowered regular and sale prices on all of its offerings. Not only have they continued its ”50% off” sale pricing, but they have lowered all of their regular prices.

The company has also updated its Savings Bundles to reflect all the new tutorials released in the last several months. In the last year, DemoWolf has doubled the number of tutorials available in its inventory, from 1,900 in August 2008, to over 3,600 as of now. New savings bundles are available at: http://www.demowolf.com/bundle-and-save.php. Voice tutorials are available at 75% discounts at http://www.demowolf.com/bundle-and-save.php.

The main changes include:
- New tab system for Standard vs Voice tutorials – the list only includes either voice or non-voice tutorials, rather than both. Tab back and forth between them to see what is needed.

- New sub-tab system for languages – Now only the English tutorials are displayed initially, with all other languages available by clicking the appropriate language tabs, for easy navigation between English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Brazilian, Russian, Czech or Bahasia tutorials.
- New ”Watch Now” buttons for every series, tied into a Nested-Floatbox system of viewing tutorials.
- Quick indicators letting you know if a tutorial series is also available in a Voice version, or in other languages.
- Regular and Sale pricing is more clearly labeled, as are the ”Buy Now” buttons.
- New sub-categories of tutorials to make tutorial series easier to locate.

Following is a list of the new tutorials released just in the last 2 months. All tutorials can be viewed from the new Hosting Tutorials page:

WHM 11 Setup series (29 demos)
WHM 11 Services series (33 demos)
WHM 11 Accounts series (35 demos)
WHM 11 Management series (24 demos)
Joomla New Setup VOICE series (20 demos)
Joomla New Admin VOICE series (17 demos)
Joomla New CMS VOICE series (17 demos)
Joomla New Extensions VOICE series (18 demos)
Joomla New End-user VOICE series (12 demos)
cPanel 11 x3 end-user FRENCH series (31 demos)
Horde FRENCH series (11 demos)
SquirrelMail FRENCH series (10 demos)
RoundCube FRENCH series (10 demos)
Fantastico FRENCH series (47 demos)
Drupal FRENCH series (14 demos)
Gallery FRENCH series (11 demos)
WHMCS 4 End-user series (10 demos)
WHMCS 4 Setup series (22 demos)
WHMCS 4 Management series (14 demos)

DemoWolf produces tutorials for the web hosting industry. The tutorials included for CPanel, feature 5 different skins, Direct Admin, Email, FTP, H-Sphere, Helm, phpMyAdmin, Plesk 8 for Linux, Plesk for Windows, SeverCP, SmarterMail, Virtuozzo, WebHost Manager,and several DNS domain name tutorials.and several DNS and domain name tutorial series. DemoWolf also has several tutorial series with voice and audio narration, including different voices and accents to choose from. DemoWolf is an Internet services company based in Halifax, NS, Canada. Specializing in providing ”professional quality” branded tutorials for the web hosting industry, DemoWolf also provides custom tutorials for many other online applications.

Posted by Admin on September 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Dedicated Server Web Hosting Firm, Green Geeks, Recognized by EPA

The Green Geeks firm has purchased green power and will join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership.

Green Geeks, LLC is purchasing more than 48,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, which is enough green power to meet 300 percent of the organizations purchased electricity use. Green Geeks, LLC is buying renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a leading national supplier of green power products.

Trey Gardner, CEO of Green Geeks explained, ”This is a huge honor and we are proud to be recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We’ve always been diligent and we’ve worked hard to make Green Geeks the most eco friendly company we could be. When the EPA contacted us we were pleased to find out that companies like ours could get the support of the EPA through their Green Power Partner Program. We look forward to working with the EPA and their Program to further the cause for more companies to go green.”

Green power is electricity that is generated from environmentally preferable renewable resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro. These resources generate electricity with a net zero increase in carbon dioxide emissions, while offering a superior environmental profile compared to traditional power generation sources. Green power purchases also support the development of new renewable energy generation sources nationwide.

Kathleen Hogan, Director of the Climate Protection Partnerships Division at EPA noted, ”EPA is pleased to welcome Green Geeks to the Green Power Partnership. We applaud their commitment to using green power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

According to the U.S. EPA, Green Geek’s green power purchase of more than 48,000 (kWh) is equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of more than 6 passenger vehicles per year, or is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 5 average American homes annually.

Green Geeks LLC provides shared, reseller and dedicated server web hosting as well as domain name registration and domain management. Green Geeks has offices in Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles and they service customers in over 40 countries World Wide. Since the start of operations Green Geeks has been an eco-friendly web host with 300% green energy purchases.

Founded in 1998 and based in Portland, Ore., Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit that engages market forces and ingenuity to help people address our most pressing energy and water issues. Through sales of carbon offsets, BEF supports renewable energy development and education and long-term watershed restoration. Bonneville Environmental Foundation recently established a subsidiary, BEF Renewable Incorporated, to initiate innovative renewable energy projects and partner with tax-exempt entities, such as schools, cities, tribal governments and other nonprofits, to help them develop renewable energy projects.

The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. The Partnership currently has more than 1,100 Partner organizations voluntarily purchasing billions of kilowatt-hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, small and medium sized businesses, local, state, and federal governments, and colleges and universities.

Posted by Admin on September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
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Web Hosting Software Firm, Ensim, Enables Largest OCS Deployment

Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Unify, is providing provisioning and management for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), accelerating the deployment for customers of over 150,000 seats.

Described as currently the largest single OCS installation in North America, in less than 90 days, Ensim’s OCS Manager solved all the major provisioning and management requirements that had delayed the deployment of over 150,000 seats of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.

Scott Young, vice president of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation noted, ”Deployment of OCS 2007 often proves challenging for regulated organizations due to complex user entitlement policies. By deploying Ensim Unify, our customer was able to solve its OCS provisioning and management challenges in less than 90 days, while enforcing the security and compliance policies required for its users. The effectiveness and scalability of Ensim Unify speaks for itself in this case, given the size of the OCS deployment it enabled.”

A number of provisioning obstacles had stopped the customer from gaining the benefits of OCS. These obstacles included support for complex IT security and compliance policies, such as multiple provisioning workflows for different types of employees, multi-level help desk support, and minimizing the burden on IT caused by the manual update process. Ensim delivered a provisioning and management solution that integrated with the customer’s existing directory infrastructure and provisioning policies and supported different provisioning workflows, while automating the hundreds of daily manual updates. It also enabled delegated administration to support multi-level help desk operations, while offering full audit and reporting for these processes.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition is a complete, role-based access management solution that can be deployed just for OCS or across the entire unified communications (UC) infrastructure including email, VoIP, conferencing, collaboration, and instant messaging. Ensim’s OCS Manager enables businesses to realize the promise of unified communications without the pain of manual user provisioning and burdensome management. OCS Manager works with existing ID management solutions to allow organizations to take full advantage of all the new OCS 2007 features without imposing a burden on IT.

Key features of Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition OCS Manager include:

  • Ability to Integrate with Complex Provisioning Policies
  • Support for Multiple Provisioning Workflows
  • Automated Maintenance of Daily Manual Updates
  • Full Multi-level Help Desk Support
  • Detailed System Activity and Transaction Logging

David J. Wippich, chairman and CEO at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”The ROI associated with deploying unified communications is significant, but many organizations are stuck at deployment or take on burdensome management tasks after deployment. Ensim Unify enables quick deployment, automation of maintenance tasks, and interoperability that leverages existing investments and policies that can be extended to UC apps like OCS.”

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access management software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim has over two million users under management and is Microsoft Gold Certified.

Posted by Admin on September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
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Web Hosting Firm, LCN.com, Engages Twitter Discount Campaign.

August 25, 2009 – Domain registration and web hosting company, LCN.com, has initiated large discounts on domain names and web hosting packages, designed exclusively for Twitter users following @LCN_com.

Exclusive discounts in the form of promotion codes, such as 25% off .com domains and 50% off web hosting, will be sent directly to those who follow the LCN.com twitter profile, @LCN_com.

Mark Boost, Managing Director, LCN.com Ltd, noted, ”Twitter has become a fantastic platform for companies to communicate with and listen to existing and potential customers. By offering exclusive discounts to new and existing customers through Twitter we are giving them another reason to engage with us via social networking. Providing promotion codes and discounts are not the only ways we are using Twitter to engage with our customers. Through Twitter we are seeking customer feedback which allows us to develop and tailor our products and services to give customers exactly what they want.”

LCN.com has been consistently evolving to help customers grow their business and the company highlights this as one of the main reasons for its extremely high customer retention rates.

Over the last 6 months LCN.com has created partnerships with leading industry brands to offer its customers over 100 pounds of free online advertising vouchers, award winning web design software, royalty free stock images, and, free email marketing credits all as part of its web hosting packages.

LCN.com has been providing world class web hosting since 2000 and are one of the largest web hosting companies with 180,000 current customers and over 400,000 domain names registered since its launch in 2000.

Posted by Admin on August 26th, 2009 | No Comments
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Reseller Web Hosting Firm. Value Reseller, Debuts Pay As You Go Plans

Provider of private label reseller web hosting services, Value Reseller, has launched new plans for experienced and newer web hosts. The plans have been simplified to provide complete flexibility for all budgets, with Pay As You Go and All You Can Eat plans.

Ali Davachi, President of Value Reseller noted, ”Customers are looking for simplicity and flexibility. In the world of web hosting where plans and prices can be confusing, we heard our customers loud and clear. Our only two advanced plans are all any web hosting business needs to succeed. The new plans are backed by the best support and features in the industry.”

The new plans coincide with a re-design and re-launch of the Value Reseller website. The All You Can Eat plan provides unlimited web sites, unlimited bandwidth and transfer, unlimited disk space and 100 free control panel accounts for only $297 per month. For a limited time only to celebrate the launch, the price is reduced to only $197 per month.

The Pay As You Go Plan is only $0.50 per GB of disk space and $4 per GB of traffic.

Both plans include:

-24 x 7 x 365 live phone support
-completely automated account creation and billing process
-guaranteed 100% uptime, guaranteed satisfaction
-full-featured control panels with sitebuilders, web-based email, blogging/forum software and more
-flexibility to offer both Linux and Windows hosting

Value Reseller does not compete at the retail level against its partners and is fully committed to helping them succeed. Value Reseller provides a private label reseller hosting solution to web designers, developers and smaller hosting companies. Reseller partners get access to a world class hosting operation with a cloud-based infrastructure that is guaranteed to deliver 100% uptime.

Mr. Davachi added, ”Our next-generation platform of ‘cloud hosting’ makes this possible. The era of dedicated servers is gone. Cloud hosting provides maximum flexibility, scalability and reliability for Value Reseller customers.”

For newer web hosts, Value Reseller offers a $9.95 Linux only plan and a $19.95 Windows and Linux plan.

Value Reseller, established in 1998 with facilities in Boston, MA and Jersey City, NJ, is a privately owned private label web hosting provider focused exclusively on the reseller market. Hosting services offered include shared hosting, enterprise virtualization, virtual private and dedicated servers, and are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. All of Value Reseller’s services are backed by a leading edge datacenter infrastructure and network, and supported live 24/7/365 by technicians and customer service professionals. Value Reseller features a next-generation hosting platform built on the principles of cloud computing, making it possible to guarantee 100% uptime availability. This platform is the foundation from which Value Reseller has been able to offer customers hosting for unlimited domains — one of the biggest breakthroughs in web hosting over the past 10 years. Value Reseller is committed to enabling the success of its resellers and does not participate in the retail market in competition with its partners. With a complete private label service, web developers, ISPs, design shops and Internet professionals have everything they need to build a successful hosting business or enhance their existing offerings.

Posted by Admin on August 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
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Web Hosting Firm, CrystalTech, to Host Beta Version of Adobe ColdFusion 9

The web hosting division of Newtek Technology Services, CrystalTech Web Hosting, will host the beta version of Adobe ColdFusion 9.CrystalTech hosts over 100,000 domain names and serves developers and customers in more than 100 countries around the world.

 

Bob Cichon, President of CrystalTech explained, ”We’ve been a strong and vocal supporter of the ColdFusion environment for more than a decade. Our customer communities around the world will be excited to download the beta of ColdFusion 9 as it can help them increase developer productivity, integrate with complex enterprise environments and deliver rich and interactive experiences for their users.”

CrystalTech’s ColdFusion developer community will not only have the opportunity to be among the first to experience ColdFusion 9 as a hosted platform, but will be able to do so in a full-featured, live production environment, providing them a significant voice in finessing the system as it prepares for a full launch.

Adam Lehman, product manager at Adobe added, ”Partnering with web hosting companies like CrystalTech and Newtek Technology Services is important to the success of ColdFusion developer adoption. With ColdFusion 9, Adobe is focused on building an easier path for developers and IT professionals to create rich user interfaces for their enterprise applications and to integrate across their existing technologies.”

ColdFusion 9 delivers some exciting and significant new capabilities. Highlights include improved application performance with more granular control over code, templates and applications. In addition, Adobe is rolling out a powerful new integrated development environment, Adobe® ColdFusion Builder. Deeply integrated with ColdFusion 9, ColdFusion Builder offers a robust tool for developers hoping for more ease and efficiency in developing and managing applications.

CrystalTech is offering the full-featured beta version free during the beta phase, and is featuring the platform on Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEWT), Newtek Technology Services is a premier provider of web technology solutions to the small- to medium-sized business market, providing services to customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations.

Newtek’s Technology service lines include:

CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.: An industry leading provider of Microsoft Windows web hosting since 1997, CrystalTech offers shared, dedicated, and VPS hosting plans, along with domain registrations, SSL certificates, and online shopping cart tools.

Data Backup, Storage, and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval solutions designed to meet the specific regulatory and compliance needs of any business.

Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a direct distributor of a wide range of business services and financial products to the small- to medium-sized business market under the Newtek brand. Since 1999, Newtek has helped small- and medium-sized business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools needed to manage and grow their businesses, and to compete effectively in today’s marketplace. Newtek provides one or more of its services to over 91,000 business accounts, and has positioned the Newtek brand as a one-stop-shop provider of business services to the small- and medium-sized business market. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, there are over 26.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.

In addition to Newtek Technology Services, Newtek’s business service lines include:

Electronic Payment Processing: Electronic solutions to accept non-cash payments, including credit and debit cards, check conversion, remote deposit capture, ACH processing, and electronic gift and loyalty card programs.

Business Lending: Broad array of lending products including SBA 7(a), conventional commercial real estate and SBA 504 loans, business lines of credit, and business credit cards.

Insurance Services: Commercial and personal lines of insurance, including health and employee benefits in all 50 states, working with over 40 insurance carriers.

Accounts Receivable Financing: Receivable purchasing and financing services.

Payroll – Complete payroll management and processing services.

Posted by Admin on August 9th, 2009 | No Comments
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Web Hosting Firm, IPOWER, Develops Green Practices Site

Web hosting services for individuals and small businesses, IPOWER, has unveiled a 100% carbon neutral web site featuring a newly designed layout, in order to provide easier access to its tools, services and offerings.

IPOWER has streamlined site navigation, with a single row, hover-over menu at the top of the screen, and a mini-sitemap in the expanded footer section.

Jen Merry, Marketing Manager at IPOWER remarked, ”We wanted to improve the customer experience and provide our Web hosting customers and site visitors with the most efficient site possible, so, we’ve removed the clutter and simplified the navigation. Not only is our staff environmentally conscious, but many of our customers are, as well. We wanted to give them an opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint by hosting their sites on servers powered completely by wind energy.”

Another notable feature is the revamped FileManager tool, which allows customers to upload and manage site files and directories in a more user-friendly interface. A number of FileManager features have been revised for improved usability.

Not only is the new site design more efficient, but the energy powering the site is more efficient; IPOWER announced that all offices and data centers are now powered by 100% wind energy! IPOWER is offsetting all electricity use with wind-generated Renewable Energy Certificates, which prevent the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year.

IPOWER is celebrating these exciting improvements and changes with the entire IPOWER community.

Jen Merry added, ”To show our customers, the force behind our success, how much we appreciate their continued support, we are offering additional hosting plans at a discounted price.” The Member Loyalty Plan includes all of the features of the IPOWER Pro Plan, at a savings of over 15%.

Founded in 2001, IPOWER has established itself as a leader in the Web hosting industry, providing a comprehensive suite of online services for individuals and small businesses worldwide. IPOWER’s custom control panel, vDeck, offers access to more than 200 tools and services, providing customers the widest selection of Web-hosting applications available.

Posted by Admin on August 9th, 2009 | No Comments
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