Daily Archives: February 2, 2011

Titan Internet Limited, a leading UK managed server hosting company and certified Microsoft Partner, has today announced the launch of a range of four hosting packages especially designed to support WebMatrix.

WebMatrix is the latest all–inclusive web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything needed for easy website development. It gives end users the ability to create and publish websites using open source web applications, built-in web templates or basic self coding.

Titan was selected as one of Microsoft’s exclusive group of launch partners and is one of the few hosting companies to offer specialist packages for the software. Each Titan WebMatrix package has been afforded ‘Spotlight’ status by Microsoft, which guarantees that each one has been created and released using Microsoft best practice guidelines.

Titan’s four packages allow customers to easily match their hosting requirements to suit both their WebMatrix publishing tools and their budget. Prices start at £50.00 per annum for the Starter package and rise to £500.00 per annum for the Enterprise hosting pack. Once a customer is ready to publish their web content, they simply select Titan as their web host. To celebrate the launch of WebMatrix, Titan is offering a discount of 30 per cent for every new package sold until the end of February 2011.

Lee Christie, Director, Titan, stated: “We are delighted to be offering these specially designed packages to support the launch of WebMatrix. Publishing content is just one half of the story. Ensuring that it is easily found, loads quickly, is secure and is always available is the other half. Which is why each Titan WebMatrix package is deployed on fast servers, and includes secure hardware firewalling, 24 x 7 server monitoring, daily backups and premium bandwidth as standard. We also have a full team of Microsoft Certified Professionals on hand to ensure that our customers are fully supported at all times.”

Businesses offered chance to win a £3,500 Professional Website with Easyspace Web Design
Easyspace, one of the UK’s leading domain name and web hosting companies, is offering a lucky business the chance to win a brand new £3,500 website in its 2011 Ugly Website Competition.

Entrants are asked to give an honest appraisal of their current website and submit reasons as to why they believe their current website is ugly!

Entries must be received by the 22nd February 2011, and a winning entry will be selected by the Easyspace web design team and announced on 1st March. 10 runners up will receive a 25% discount voucher which can be redeemed against Easyspace web and design services.

Sarah Haran, Managing Director Easyspace, says “Easyspace has been helping customers with web hosting and website design for over 10 years. During that time we have helped a wide variety of businesses succeed online, creating and hosting beautiful websites that meet our customers’ demands.”

“Easyspace is a full service web hosting company. Our mission is to help businesses realise their full potential on the web – which is why we are offering this prize of a fantastic creative website redesign”

Details of the competition and entry form can be found at: http://www.easyspace.com/design_competition

Following a successful pilot project, U.K.-based managed cloud services company iomart Group will migrate over 300,000 customer e-mail accounts to the Open-Xchange e-mail and collaboration platform, providing end users with a more feature-rich service. In addition, iomart’s customers will be able to upgrade to advanced groupware features and mobility support in Open-Xchange – providing the company with additional value-added services.

iomart Group is one of the U.K.‘s largest providers of managed hosting and cloud services. Serving every level of business from SME (small- and medium enterprise) to large corporate , trading through its iomart Hosting, Easyspace, RapidSwitch and Titan Internet brands, the Group currently manages hosting services for more than 300,000 customers daily. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

Open-Xchange integrates e-mail, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing, along with cutting-edge social network integration. By adding the Open-Xchange mobility support option, users can receive push e-mail and synchronization of contacts, calendar and other information from their Open-Xchange account to their smartphones, including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile and others.

Open-Xchange’s unique “Social OX” features give users the ability to consolidate any kind of existing webmail accounts — for example from Google and Yahoo — into a folder in Open-Xchange so they can be managed more easily. Plus, contact details from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Xing can be added automatically to the Open-Xchange address book — giving users easy access to the latest contact information within their personal network. Also, users can now integrate messaging feeds from Twitter and Facebook and merge their calendar and address books from Google into Open-Xchange, as well.

“Service providers of every type are realizing the opportunity to provide their customers with value-added services on top of e-mail as an additional revenue source,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. “We worked closely with iomart on a pilot project and expect a rapid rollout to their customer base.”

“We view information technology delivery as a service, with on–demand, cloud-based systems able to scale to meet the needs of users with those users paying for the flexible capacity they use,” said Bill Strain, chief technology officer, iomart Group. “Offering Open-Xchange collaboration services is very much in line with our strategy of focusing on delivering services from within every layer of the cloud-based hosting model, from the core infrastructure service layer to the complex application hosting layer.”

“In our pilot, we were impressed with the ease in which Open-Xchange integrated in our own infrastructure and with its deployment capabilities. The groupware is rich in features and enables us to offer our customers a totally flexible, affordable model allowing feature choice on an individual basis.”

About Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions and government authorities. The company provides on-premises versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider’s existing infrastructure, such as authentication, provisioning, billing and e-mail storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.

Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y.

FireHost, Inc., is giving customers a front row seat to view and understand how the company blocks website attacks. The new Security View feature is part of FireHost’s customer portal, and it allows customers to see blocked attacks against their websites and applications. Hacks can be seen by specific type, date, and originating region. The Security View feature is available for no charge to their customers and demonstrates FireHost’s commitment to total transparency and superior security.

“We are so confident in our ability to block cybercrime that we’re opening the curtain and inviting our customers to see how well we protect their websites,” said Chris Drake, CEO and founder of FireHost. “Most companies don’t realize how many attackers attempt to breach their websites and applications on a daily basis. Security View exposes the reality of cybercrime and lets our customers know we’re really looking out for them.”

Security View gives customers the option to see topical information about the blocked attacks, such as the specific kind of attack and its origin. This level of awareness will help businesses position themselves publicly as security-conscious organizations.

I moved to FireHost after my website was hacked and my reputation was compromised. Security View has helped me realize my website was incredibly unsafe with my other host. I had no idea these vulnerabilities existed; Security View has really opened my eyes and reassured me that FireHost can block hackers,” said Karl Swedeberg, founder of LearningJQuery.com.

Currently within the customer portal, clients can access real-time server metrics, including storage usage, backups, processor performance, memory usage, bandwidth consumption and more by hour, day, week, month and year. In addition, FireHost has provided customers the ability to reboot and shutdown/startup their Secure Servers as needed without contacting a support engineer. This level of visibility and control helps clients anticipate how their Web and data base applications will perform under a variety of operating conditions.

The idea that all Web applications deserve security, transparency and superior performance is a foundational principle of FireHost. Through virtualization, the secure hosting provider is able to deliver this luxury to more businesses, regardless of size and budget. FireHost is now one of the fastest growing secure Web hosts with a stellar reputation for offering managed hosting to Ecommerce, SaaS, healthcare IT, and security companies.

About FireHost, Inc.

FireHost, Inc. is a Dallas, Texas-based secure managed hosting company that delivers Web hosting solutions to Ecommerce, SaaS, healthcare IT, and security companies. Specializing in protecting websites with compliance and high traffic needs, FireHost makes hacker awareness, management and prevention a standard part of every hosting plan. Advanced security combined with a comprehensive portfolio of hosting solutions helps FireHost protect companies of all sizes from threats to their websites, Web applications, and other valuable data.

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Advanced IP Scanner 2.0 is a fast, robust and easy-to-use free network scanner for Windows. In a matter of seconds, this utility not only pings and scans all computers on a network, but also provides easy access to their various resources such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and shared folders. This latest version employs a new scanning method based on ARP to deliver more complete and in-depth scanning results. In addition, the new version enables users to take various advanced actions on their networked computers:

– Shutting down one or all computers in a single operation.
– Waking one or a group of machines remotely using “Wake-On-LAN” functionality.
– Identifying remote machines equipped with Radmin Server and gaining instant access to them.

The simple but rich new user interface and more robust features make this updated version of the scanner an essential tool for IT professionals. Developed originally as an application to extend Radmin’s remote control functionality, Advanced IP Scanner has proven itself one of the best free utilities available and has gained popularity with more than 10 million users.

10 Meg download.

Download the Advanced IP Scanner 2.0 freeware at http://www.radmin.com/download/ipscan20.msi.