LeaseWeb, Releases Extensive Support Upgrade.

Dedicated hosting provider, LeaseWeb, has made significant upgrades for its Support Department over the past six months in response to signs that the customer support experience could be improved.

Rolph Haspers, Operations Director of LeaseWeb remarked, ”Various developments caused our Support Department to become somewhat overburdened at the end of 2008.In Q4 2008, LeaseWeb experienced a tremendous growth spurt that had repercussions on the Support Department. This department was facing extra difficulties due to the unfortunate lack of engineers at that time, and the fact that it had too many lower qualified engineers. Also, we are traditionally a highly technology-oriented company, which is not always conducive to customer-friendliness and which became more apparent during this stressful period.”

The most recent semi-annual customer survey held among more than 1,300 customers showed that the measures are having a positive effect. The upgrade of LeaseWeb’s Support Department included the hiring of 20 more highly qualified engineers and the improvement of the terms of employment. In addition, all support engineers completed a series of communications training courses to improve their ability to operate in a more customer-friendly manner. These measures have resulted in an impressive 20% increase in the number of fully satisfied customers over the past six months.

More than six months ago, immediately after the disappointing support results from the previous customer survey, both short-term and long-term measures were implemented in order to provide the customers with renewed confidence in a positive support experience. Haspers: The survey results confirmed our gut feeling and we immediately took action. Our short-term measures included the temporary hiring of additional Support staff, partly from the UK. These highly experienced employees were able to relieve some of the pressure and provide effective support to less experienced staff.

For the longer term, LeaseWeb immediately started looking for more highly qualified engineers in an effort to expand its Support Department with additional permanent staff. Haspers: This expansion process is still continuing, although the current staffing of the department already has significantly improved the ability to handle peak loads. This positive effect is clearly reflected in the most recent semi-annual customer survey. In addition, six months ago, we immediately decided to relieve the burden on the Support Department in a structural manner through additional investments in automation, among other areas, and by unlinking the provisioning process, i.e. the process of making servers and other hardware available. That should also help to lighten the work load of the department and improve the quality of support.

Many of LeaseWeb’s customers are Internet professionals or specialists such as system integrators, Web developers and application developers who resell LeaseWeb’s hosting services and integrate them into a total solution. As a result of this particular customer focus, customers have a relatively extensive knowledge of hosting. Support nonetheless remains vital. Haspers: Hosting has become a commodity for these companies. They have some knowledge of hosting, but they want to have the ability to fully concentrate on the services they provide in addition to LeaseWeb’s basic hosting products. In that sense, support remains vital for them.

Are there any other needs when it comes to support? Haspers: The customer survey confirms that we are on the right track and that our quality improvement operation has been successful, but we want to optimize our support to an even further extent. Our focus for the coming six months is to further improve the response and resolution times for issues. In addition, we are continuously working on expanding our engineers’ knowledge, e.g. through additional certification processes, in order to take the customers technical support experience to yet a higher level.

LeaseWeb is an international provider of hosting solutions that is primarily geared towards the professional market. The company is among the top-20 hosting providers worldwide and its services include server virtualization, dedicated servers, collocation, streaming, webhosting, and domain name registration. LeaseWeb is the proprietor of a first-class network that offers a bandwidth of more than 750 Gbps, spanning four data centers in the Amsterdam region via major telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is also present via Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Londen, Frankfurt, New York, Brussel, Kopenhagen, Parijs, Budapest, Boekarest, Warschau, Praag, Bratislava, Milaan, Wenen, Stockholm, Oslo, Zuumlrich and Madrid. This way, LeaseWeb enables companies around the world to create and continue their online presence in a simple and affordable manner. Since its founding in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb has expanded its network to include more than 22,000 servers. LeaseWeb’s clients include Royal Joh. Ensched OGD, 123Video, Jaap.nl, Relatieplanet, MijnAlbum, Starbucks, Hyves, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Twenga, Direct Wonen, Heineken, Wikipedia, and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

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Web Hosting Provider, MaximumASP, Develops New Windows Shared Hosting Platform

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a provider of Windows-based hosting and managed IT services, MaximumASP, will soon release a new shared windows hosting platform.

According to the company, MaxESP will be the first highly available completely PCI compliant (web + data) Microsoft ASP.NET shared web hosting platform. The MaxESP core focus is to cater to all aspects of the application life cycle. Customers can quickly upgrade the standard plan and make their application load balanced and more robust with 1 mouse click. Introductory accounts will be available in October free of charge for 30 days and just $49 a month after the trial period.

Besides the usual features of a hosting solution like email, SQL databases, SAN-supported storage, free backups, etc., the MaxESP elastic shared platform adds an SSL VPN service free of charge, PCI compliance at a shared price point, and on-demand application-aware load balancing and simultaneous application instances without forcing customers to rewrite their code.

As a leading Windows-based hosting provider, MaximumASP keeps up with the latest developments in Microsoft technologies while continually seeking customer feedback.

Matt Griffin, product manager at MaxESP explained, ”Windows Server 2008 R2, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and Application Request Routing, which is an IIS extension, offers tremendous benefits to both our company and our customers in our new shared hosting platform.”

MaxESP is a highly scalable, cost-effective hosting solution that makes it easier for customers to manage their applications. In a shared-hosting architecture, multiple customers use the same physical server. These environments have traditionally been difficult to manage as they grow to include thousands of customers and applications, the MaxESP solution makes it easier for MaximumASP to support a rapidly expanding customer base.

With both its current offerings and MaxESP, MaximumASP simplified the administration of shared hosting for its IT staff. Dominic Foster, CTO of MaximumASP added, ”With Application Request Routing on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, we’ve created a rock-solid platform that’s scalable to any level and takes care of all the headaches normally associated with shared hosting.”

John Zanni, general manager of the Worldwide Software plus Services Industry in the Microsoft Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp. offered, ”With Application Request Routing from Microsoft, hosting providers can offer elastic scalability, optimized resource utilization and reduced management costs to their customers in a simple process. MaximumASP, as our Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year, continues to innovate and demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies with its MaxESP platform.”

Additionally, MaximumASP takes advantage of the ability of ARR to manage multiple server farms and to manage and monitor all configuration settings through easy-to-use tools including IIS Remote Management.

Mr. Griffin added, ”ARR sits on top of a common, or shared, configuration system provided by IIS, which makes it very easy for us to develop custom modules or apply custom provisioning that plugs into the rest of our IT pipeline. We can use this to support billing, track customers, scale up or down, or add capacity for on-demand products that we want to roll out.”

MaximumASP can quickly provision highly available and scalable server farms and expand customers’ self-service options. Multiple layers of load balancing, enterprise SAN storage and redundant server farms will support high-performance requirements. The result will be better service for hosting customers and savings of up to U.S. $166,000 a year for MaximumASP in labor and hardware costs.

Mr. Foster continued, ”We are very excited about MaxESP as well as the IIS 7.5 architecture and anxious for more customer feedback on how it simplifies management of hosted sites and Web applications. MaximumASP continues to lead the hosting industry by giving our customers a competitive edge and enabling them to be first-to-market with new solutions.”

Created in IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 MaxESP has many exciting new features:

  • Easily create and control your applications in IIS 7.5 using IIS Remote Management
  • Highly available shared hosting with application aware load balancing
  • Need more power? No problem. Add instances of your application to seamlessly scale capacity
  • Decrease the number of nodes when not operating at peak times – or allocate to other website(s)
  • Customizable scalability right at your fingertips

MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Windows-based hosting services. MaximumASP was named by Microsoft as its 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year. The company currently hosts more than 50,000 domains for customers in over 120 countries. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for Microsoft developers seeking a robust hosting platform for mission-critical web applications.

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a provider of Windows-based hosting and managed IT services, MaximumASP, will soon release a new shared windows hosting platform.

According to the company, MaxESP will be the first highly available completely PCI compliant (web + data) Microsoft ASP.NET shared web hosting platform. The MaxESP core focus is to cater to all aspects of the application life cycle. Customers can quickly upgrade the standard plan and make their application load balanced and more robust with 1 mouse click. Introductory accounts will be available in October free of charge for 30 days and just $49 a month after the trial period.

Besides the usual features of a hosting solution like email, SQL databases, SAN-supported storage, free backups, etc., the MaxESP elastic shared platform adds an SSL VPN service free of charge, PCI compliance at a shared price point, and on-demand application-aware load balancing and simultaneous application instances without forcing customers to rewrite their code.

As a leading Windows-based hosting provider, MaximumASP keeps up with the latest developments in Microsoft technologies while continually seeking customer feedback.

Matt Griffin, product manager at MaxESP explained, ”Windows Server 2008 R2, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and Application Request Routing, which is an IIS extension, offers tremendous benefits to both our company and our customers in our new shared hosting platform.”

MaxESP is a highly scalable, cost-effective hosting solution that makes it easier for customers to manage their applications. In a shared-hosting architecture, multiple customers use the same physical server. These environments have traditionally been difficult to manage as they grow to include thousands of customers and applications, the MaxESP solution makes it easier for MaximumASP to support a rapidly expanding customer base.

With both its current offerings and MaxESP, MaximumASP simplified the administration of shared hosting for its IT staff. Dominic Foster, CTO of MaximumASP added, ”With Application Request Routing on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, we’ve created a rock-solid platform that’s scalable to any level and takes care of all the headaches normally associated with shared hosting.”

John Zanni, general manager of the Worldwide Software plus Services Industry in the Microsoft Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp. offered, ”With Application Request Routing from Microsoft, hosting providers can offer elastic scalability, optimized resource utilization and reduced management costs to their customers in a simple process. MaximumASP, as our Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year, continues to innovate and demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies with its MaxESP platform.”

Additionally, MaximumASP takes advantage of the ability of ARR to manage multiple server farms and to manage and monitor all configuration settings through easy-to-use tools including IIS Remote Management.

Mr. Griffin added, ”ARR sits on top of a common, or shared, configuration system provided by IIS, which makes it very easy for us to develop custom modules or apply custom provisioning that plugs into the rest of our IT pipeline. We can use this to support billing, track customers, scale up or down, or add capacity for on-demand products that we want to roll out.”

MaximumASP can quickly provision highly available and scalable server farms and expand customers’ self-service options. Multiple layers of load balancing, enterprise SAN storage and redundant server farms will support high-performance requirements. The result will be better service for hosting customers and savings of up to U.S. $166,000 a year for MaximumASP in labor and hardware costs.

Mr. Foster continued, ”We are very excited about MaxESP as well as the IIS 7.5 architecture and anxious for more customer feedback on how it simplifies management of hosted sites and Web applications. MaximumASP continues to lead the hosting industry by giving our customers a competitive edge and enabling them to be first-to-market with new solutions.”

Created in IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 MaxESP has many exciting new features:

  • Easily create and control your applications in IIS 7.5 using IIS Remote Management
  • Highly available shared hosting with application aware load balancing
  • Need more power? No problem. Add instances of your application to seamlessly scale capacity
  • Decrease the number of nodes when not operating at peak times – or allocate to other website(s)
  • Customizable scalability right at your fingertips

MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Windows-based hosting services. MaximumASP was named by Microsoft as its 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year. The company currently hosts more than 50,000 domains for customers in over 120 countries. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for Microsoft developers seeking a robust hosting platform for mission-critical web applications.

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Crucial Paradigm, Web Hosting Provider, Debuts Australian Division

Shared, Reseller, Dedicated, VPS, Cloud, and Managed Web hosting solutions provider, Crucial Paradigm, has launched a new corporate website for its Australian division.

The web site has been overhauled, having been in development for nearly a year, marks a major improvement over the previous design. It now features an integrated corporate blog, customer forums, and interactive tutorials. The new site also offers more intuitive navigation and a greater depth of information about the company’s products and services.

Ijan Kruizinga, director of Crucial Paradigm remarked, ”Our Australian division is in a period of tremendous growth and change. By making our lower-end VPS solutions more competitive and feature-rich, and adding additional high-end solutions to our line of services, we are able to remain a market leader within Australia and serve a broader variety of customers throughout Asia.”

Crucial Paradigm also introduced changes to its Australia-based Virtual Private Servers, which now boast significantly increased monthly data transfer. Starting at $39 per month, entry-level Windows VPS now offer 20GB of monthly transfer, and starting at just $15 per month, entry-level Linux VPS plans now offer 10GB of monthly transfer. Although Crucial Paradigm increased data transfer by more than 50 percent and added other features, customer costs were not raised.

Crucial Paradigm has also added a new VPS plan in its 6-8 Core series. The plan offers 23GB of RAM and starts at $2,352.00 monthly on Linux and $2,655.00 monthly on Windows.

In the coming months, Crucial Paradigm Australia plans to expand its affiliate program and introduce a variety of Cloud Appliances based on SugarCRM, Zimbra Mail, Joomla, Drupal and others. Additional announcements will be made as details are available.

Crucial Paradigm was the first Web hosting company in Australia to offer Windows 2008 Virtual Private Servers. It currently manages more than 450 Dedicated Servers for customers in over 30 countries through its US and Australian operations.

Founded in 2003, Crucial Paradigm operates in multiple locations around the world. The privately-owned, debt-free company offers a wide range of hosting solutions from Basic Web Hosting to Reseller Hosting, Virtual Dedicated Servers, Dedicated Servers and High Traffic Clusters. The company prides itself on building custom Web hosting solutions based on each client’s individual requirements.

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UK2, Earns Recognition, for Consecutive Three Months

Web hosting firm, UK2, has been voted 2nd place in the Top 25 most popular web hosting companies on Web Host Directory UK.

The award which is based on the number of votes a company receives and the amount of times their profile has been viewed each month was won by UK2 in June, July and now August 2009.

Martin Baker, Managing Director at UK2 remarked, ”At UK2 we are constantly thinking of ways to add value to our customers. This is why we regularly launch innovative products, unbeatable offers and invest in UK based support for our customers. It is very rewarding to see that customers are responding positively to our efforts, and I am very pleased that we have been voted one of the most popular web hosting companies for three months in a row.”

Web Host Directory established in 1997 is a brand of Serchen Interactive and a market leader in the hosting industry providing free resources and information for customers researching web hosts online.

UK2 is one of the biggest and most innovative web hosting companies in the UK with a comprehensive range of domain name registration, web hosting, e-commerce, reseller, dedicated server and cloud hosting solutions. UK2 specializes in making it easy, cheap, and quick for any consumer, small or large business to have the online presence they need.

UK2 is also a part of the UK-2 Group, a large web hosting organization made up of over 10 web hosting companies such as VI.net, VPS.net, Midphase.com and more. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centers and is committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support.

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Layered Tech Ranks Second on 2009 Tech Titans Fast Tech List

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has ranked second on the 2009 Tech Titans Fast Tech Five-Year Listing by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), the largest technology trade organization in Texas. The Tech Titans Fast Tech Award annually recognizes the fastest-growing technology companies in the DFW Metroplex, based on percentage of revenue growth during five-year or one-year periods.

Layered Tech ranked ahead of several other leading technology companies in North Texas, a result of the company’s explosive growth since 2004. To qualify for the ranking, companies must own proprietary technology; Layered Tech possesses a fully automated Web hosting platform called Astro that dramatically accelerates the availability and provisioning of servers for customers and channel partners alike.

“Layered Tech is proud to achieve such a high ranking on this prestigious annual list, which features many prominent DFW-area technology providers. The entire Layered Tech team has worked tirelessly to advance our services and offerings and become a leading global Web hosting provider, and being ranked second on the Tech Titan Fast Tech Five-Year List is a testament to our success,” said Layered Tech Founder and President Todd Abrams. “Layered Tech strives to meet and exceed customer needs, and our strategic business decisions and technological advancements have allowed us to achieve this goal. Our double-digit growth rate reflects the value that customers receive from Layered Tech and the flexible solutions we provide.”

The ranking of the 2009 five-year and one-year list was announced at the annual Tech Titans/Fast Tech Awards Gala Event on Aug. 28, 2009 at the Renaissance Hotel Dallas-Richardson in Richardson, Texas. As a winner in the five-year growth category, Layered Tech is eligible for the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, which recognizes the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the U.S. and Canada.

“The Tech Titans/Fast Tech Awards provide the premier recognition of fast-growing, highly innovative companies that contribute to the vibrancy of the North Texas economy and make our region an exciting place to live and work,” said Cindi Keith, partner/technology marketing industry leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and co-chair of the MTBC’s Tech Titans steering committee. “We look forward to showcasing the true leaders in our industry and celebrating their hard work and creativity.”

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Web Hosting Data Center Services Provider, SoftLayer, Premieres EVault Backup.

Web hosting virtual data center services provider, SoftLayer, has begun offering EVault Bare Metal Restores (BMR), as an advanced disaster recovery capability.

Designed to enable customers to completely restore servers to a bare metal state after an operating system or hardware failure, servers are restored to the latest system image safely stored in a secure SoftLayer repository.

Andrew Maten, Director of IT Systems at SoftLayer remarked, ”Everything we offer is about giving our customers more flexibility, confidence, and control. EVault BMR is a powerful, no-nonsense tool for getting systems back up quickly without losing data or functionality.”

EVault BMR is available for Microsoft Windows systems with SoftLayer’s standard EVault offering. For only $20/month it provides a wide range of benefits, including the capability to:

  • Restore systems to a select point-in-time
  • Restore systems from image or file-based backups
  • Restore systems from EVault backups
  • Launch recovery transactions to restore data without a bootable system

The solution provides a more efficient and more reliable alternative to manual restores, and can be used in conjunction with regular backups as well as for data migration. System administrators can choose to execute full system restores or to restore individual files. As with all SoftLayer services, EVault BMR can be ordered and setup through the SoftLayer Customer Portal.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

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Web Hosting Reseller Providers Offered Mini-Elite Hosting License, by R1Soft.

Provider of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Windows and Linux, R1Soft, has introduced the Mini-Elite Hosting License, offering cost savings for web hosting providers to utilize CDP technology to grow businesses.

David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies, Inc. noted, ”Mini-Elite represents the first time we’ve ever opened the door to providing capacity for such a large number of backups for a low monthly fee. For new customers, we’re creating an opportunity to take advantage of our high-performance data protection technologies without making a large initial investment or committing to a certain number of servers. It’s a virtually unlimited revenue-generating opportunity for web hosts.”

Available only through the end of September, the Mini-Elite Hosting License provides a flat-rate subscription access to CDP backup technology, enabling Web hosts to sell backup services to potentially thousands of customers with no incremental software costs. For just $2,995 per month, with no major up-front expenditures required, Mini-Elite offers unlimited CDP Servers, up to 1,000 CDP agents, and free API access.

Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a developer of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) software. Offering scalable and high-performance products, the company’s software has quickly been recognized by data center industry leaders as the standard for Windows and Linux server data protection. R1Soft CDP currently protects more than 100,000 servers worldwide. R1Soft is a division of BBS Technologies, Inc.

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Web Hosting Services Provider, Applied Innovations, Deploys Raxco PerfectDisk 10

Applied Innovations Corporation has chosen Raxco Software’s PerfectDisk 10 for the disk defragmentation needs of its critical server infrastructure and its clients.

Applied Innovations provides ASP.Net hosting and web hosting services on the Windows Server platform to thousands of small- and medium-size businesses worldwide.

Jess Coburn, chief executive officer at Applied Innovations explained, “High availability for our managed infrastructure of Web, email, SQL and application servers that are used by our clients is critical, and PerfectDisk 10 helps us provide it. It’s imperative that all of our services have low latency and high performance, in addition to high availability, and in all our testing, PerfectDisk excelled. I/O was reduced on all servers, particularly on our SQL and email servers, where query times and email processing and delivery, respectfully, improved dramatically. These improvements allowed us to better utilize our existing infrastructure before having to deploy additional resources. We are also providing PerfectDisk as a managed option for our dedicated and Virtual Private Server (VPS) clients.”

Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Applied Innovations is a Microsoft Gold Certified Web hosting provider specializing in ASP.Net Hosting and Windows Web hosting. Since 1999, Applied Innovations has hosted thousands of domains for small to medium sized businesses internationally, offering world-class service and support at affordable and competitive prices.

Joe Abusamra, vice president of operations at Raxco Software noted, “We’re extremely happy to be partnering with Applied Innovations for the defragmentation needs of its infrastructure and its clients. Applied Innovations’ dedication to the highest quality, standards and customer service match those of PerfectDisk, and we are excited to enter into this mutually beneficial partnership.”

Raxco Software has been helping large enterprises, small businesses, and consumers with their PC and computer performance and resource management needs for over 30 years. Its PerfectDisk 10 is certified by Microsoft for Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. PerfectDisk products have a long history of winning the industry’s highest awards, most notably its perfect 5-star review from CNET Download, winner of the Windows IT Pro Readers’ Choice Awards for Defragmentation Utility and Storage Management Tools, Redmond Magazine’s Best of the Best Award, and PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award. Raxco’s PerfectSpeed is the industry’s first all-in-one automated PC performance suite for Windows. Raxco also produces optimization software, for HP’s OpenVMS operating system.

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LeaseWeb, Web Hosting Capability Expands, for Twenga.

One of Europe’s largest hosting providers, LeaseWeb, has supported the growth of its client, global online shopping search engine, Twenga, with its expansion from 100 to 300 servers in the past year.

Cedric Anes, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Twenga remarked, ”In one year, the number of web pages scanned by our crawler doubled from 100 million to 200 million. This rapid growth put very high demands on our server capability. We were able to rely on LeaseWeb’s large hosting capacity to scale up rapidly. LeaseWeb’s ability to add servers at any time was a crucial factor in our rapid growth.”

This strong growth in server capability was driven by the success of Twenga’s 13 web sites, including the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Russia, the United States and Australia. Twenga is a global price comparison and shopping search engine. The company was founded in 2006.

In March 2008, Twenga received about 11 million visits per month and indexed 30,000 e-retailers. One year later, by March 2009, these numbers had grown to 22 million visits and 60,000 e-retailers. Twenga’s product offering also grew significantly, from 70 million to more than 130 million products.

Twenga’s server expansion was designed primarily to meet the increasing demands of its crawler, the TwengaBot. This proprietary web bot technology scans 200 millions Web pages every day. It uses some 200 out of Twenga’s 300 servers.

LeaseWeb delivers a dedicated, Linux-based hosting solution that uses LeaseWeb’s global hosting network to Twenga. The solution currently encompasses 300 servers, distributed by LeaseWeb over a series of 19 inch racks in CO2 neutral data center EvoSwitch. Twenga’s server infrastructure, as installed at LeaseWeb, includes crawler servers, search servers, web servers and database servers. The hosting solution also incorporates Cisco networking equipment, such as switches, firewalls and load balancers.

The hosting solution was designed by Twenga’s engineers in collaboration with LeaseWeb’s engineers. The latter also provide 24×7 installation, management and knowledge-intensive support services.

Twenga, the new-generation search engine, is designed to allow millions of shoppers throughout the world to find what they want, at the best price, from the online shop of their choice.

Thanks to its proprietary technology, Twenga automatically gathers offers from online retailers and displays them in one searchable interface. As a result, Twenga has the most comprehensive listing of online shops.

Its search results are objective and not biased by commercial relationships. Founded in 2006 by Bastien Duclaux and Cedric Anes, Twenga is headquartered in Paris, France; its 13 sites, including the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Russia, the United States and Australia, display more than 130 million offers from over 60,000 online shops. In March 2009, Twenga sites received over 22 million visits.

LeaseWeb is an international provider of hosting solutions that focuses on the business market.

The company is listed on the global top 20 of hosting providers and offers services such as virtualization, dedicated servers, colocation, streaming, web hosting and domain name registration. LeaseWeb owns a first rate network with a bandwidth exceeding 500 Gbps and expands via the main telecom carriers across 4 data centers in the Amsterdam area. LeaseWeb also has a presence in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid via Internet exchanges.

As a result, LeaseWeb enables companies worldwide to create and maintain their online presence in an easy and cost efficient manner. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb currently manages over 20,000 servers. LeaseWeb’s clients include Starbucks, Royal Joh. Enschede, Kaspersky Lab, WIGE MEDIA AG, 123Video.nl, zaplive.tv, OGD, Relatieplanet.nl, MyAlbum.com and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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iWeb, Join’s the Top 20 Placement.

Provider of Internet hosting service and IT infrastructure, iWeb, has been ranked 8th on the annual listing of the top 300 Canadian Technology companies for Canada’s top 20 movers and shakers in the 2009 Branham300.

With its 59% increase in revenue in 2008, iWeb’s overall ranking has improved by 33 positions, moving it up to 162nd, from 195th in the 2008 ranking. Overcoming increasing economic pressures, the Canadian ICT elite collectively generating $75.97 billion in revenue, an 18 per cent growth from the previous year’s total.

Eric Chouinard, President and CEO of iWeb noted, ”We are very excited to be recognized as one of Canada’s top IT companies this year again, we are particularly pleased to be ranked among the companies having experienced the biggest growth over the past 12 months. iWeb’s 59% growth compares well to the 22% average growth rate for companies appearing on the 2009 Branham300.”

The Montreal-based company was ranked in the ICT Hardware and Infrastructure category. iWeb, who recently announced a 92% increase in first quarter revenues, is a finalist for an OCTAS award in May, and has recently announced that it has reached the 10,000 dedicated server mark. Since becoming a public company in 2004, iWeb has been steadily growing to become one of Canada’s largest IP hosting firms.

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT Infrastructure, with three secure data centers in Montreal. Since 2004, the company’s compounded annual growth rate has been above 75%, making it one of Canada’s 100 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine.

Founded in 1996 in Montreal, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues from abroad and employs over 170 full-time employees. providing Dedicated Server Hosting, Colocation and Web Hosting services to more than 20,000 customers in 150 countries. iWeb’s shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V : IWB).

Branham Group Inc. is a strategic marketing consulting firm servicing the global information technology marketplace. Branham Group assists information technology companies and related institutions in achieving market success through its custom consulting services (Planning, Marketing, and Partnering), and through its multi-client research projects (eHealth, Outsourcing, and Wireless). Branham annually produces a listing of the top information technology companies in Canada.

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