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Plesk is one of the most widely used control panels currently available, and along with cPanel is a contender for the best control panel on the market. As Plesk also provides cost efficiency benefits to hosting providers, it is being offered increasingly as a default control panel solution by many web hosting services.  Unlike it’s top competitor cPanel, Plesk is completely compatible with both the Windows and Linux operating systems, broadening the spectrum of what control panels are capable of in terms of compatibility.  Aside from being compatible with the two major operating systems, Plesk is also suitable for virtually any type of server environment, including dedicated, shared and virtual private hosting services.

Plesk and Shared Hosting

Due to it’s multi-level user interface, Plesk is a suitable administrative tool for shared hosting users.   Plesk simplifies the task of managing multiple domains through a fully customizable interface specially designed for detailed hosting tasks. Even novice users with no technical training have the ability to  manage and create user accounts on their server.  Plesk also allows webmasters to manage their  domains without needing the support of a server administrator, ultimately saving support costs for the web hosting provider. Plesk’s simplicity and power offers benefits to both the end user and the web hosting provider, providing administrative tools for small and complex tasks alike.

Plesk and VPS Hosting

Plesk is also being used increasingly in the virtual private server environment, due to it’s compact size combined with it’s comprehensive functionality and efficacy. One of the most beneficial features of Plesk for the virtual server user is that it can be used with a third-party software called Virtuozzo.  Virtuozzo lets administrators make use of the templates and interfaces of several control panel’s simultaneously, giving Plesk users the ability to benefit from other control panel features outside of the Plesk software. This software combination is a priceless advantage on a virtual platform such as VPS. Using Plesk with Virtuozzo has been proven to increase the investment returns of web hosting service providers while also accommodating the needs of the end user.

Plesk and Dedicated Hosting

Plesk’s modular design and RPM installation gives dedicated hosting providers the ability to offer an effective administrative tool to the more technical savvy group as well. Plesk is also a very expandable software that can be modified using various third-party applications, making it perfect for users with plenty of dedicated server space and innovation. Webmasters have access to a particularly interesting  feature known as XML-API, an integrated interface that fully automates the overseeing process, while also facilitating the use of the various third-party applications. Integrated software development kits such as XML-API and other back-end utilities gives end-users and hosting providers the ability to  enhance their products and services using Plesk.

Whether you have a dedicated or shared server, Plesk offers advantageous features that can greatly increase the productivity of your online business. The compatibility of Plesk with multiple operating systems and server environments has made it a top contender for the best control panel available.

(The Hosting News) - Debian 5, openSUSE 11.1 and Fedora Core 11 are Canadian VPS firm Cirrus’s latest Linux operating system distributions. Now firmly established itself as a leader in VPS hosting, Cirrus Tech continues to offer both new and existing clients with the latest Linux operating systems supported on their Virtuozzo VPS hosting platform.

With the aim of providing clients with the freedom to choose exactly the web hosting solution they require, Cirrus Tech is constantly updating their hosting plans to achieve this goal. Currently, Cirrus Tech offers a range of VPS hosting plans in both Windows and Linux operating systems. Clients are able to purchase multiple VPS with different operating systems under a single account. “We’ve seen many of our clients subscribe to more than one VPS, and it is often the case that they opt for different operating systems among their VPS subscriptions,” says Cirrus Tech CEO, Mr. Ehsan Mirdamadi.

With the addition of Debian 5, openSUSE 11.1, and Fedora Core 11, Cirrus Tech adds to their already extensive Linux offerings, which includes Ubuntu 8.04, CentOS 4 & 5, Debian 4, and Fedora Core 8. Clients don’t have to compromise when choosing the OS of their choice. Cirrus Tech clients not only have the ability to choose between a wide range of operating systems, but they can choose from a number of VPS hosting plans that include dedicated resources, Canadian IPs, and optional Plesk Control Panel.

Cirrus Tech Expands Linux Program Catalog is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) - Debian 5, openSUSE 11.1 and Fedora Core 11 are Canadian VPS firm Cirrus’s latest Linux operating system distributions. Now firmly established itself as a leader in VPS hosting, Cirrus Tech continues to offer both new and existing clients with the latest Linux operating systems supported on their Virtuozzo VPS hosting platform.

With the aim of providing clients with the freedom to choose exactly the web hosting solution they require, Cirrus Tech is constantly updating their hosting plans to achieve this goal. Currently, Cirrus Tech offers a range of VPS hosting plans in both Windows and Linux operating systems. Clients are able to purchase multiple VPS with different operating systems under a single account. “We’ve seen many of our clients subscribe to more than one VPS, and it is often the case that they opt for different operating systems among their VPS subscriptions,” says Cirrus Tech CEO, Mr. Ehsan Mirdamadi.

With the addition of Debian 5, openSUSE 11.1, and Fedora Core 11, Cirrus Tech adds to their already extensive Linux offerings, which includes Ubuntu 8.04, CentOS 4 & 5, Debian 4, and Fedora Core 8. Clients don’t have to compromise when choosing the OS of their choice. Cirrus Tech clients not only have the ability to choose between a wide range of operating systems, but they can choose from a number of VPS hosting plans that include dedicated resources, Canadian IPs, and optional Plesk Control Panel.

Cirrus Tech Expands Linux Program Catalog is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) - Debian 5, openSUSE 11.1 and Fedora Core 11 are Canadian VPS firm Cirrus’s latest Linux operating system distributions. Now firmly established itself as a leader in VPS hosting, Cirrus Tech continues to offer both new and existing clients with the latest Linux operating systems supported on their Virtuozzo VPS hosting platform.

With the aim of providing clients with the freedom to choose exactly the web hosting solution they require, Cirrus Tech is constantly updating their hosting plans to achieve this goal. Currently, Cirrus Tech offers a range of VPS hosting plans in both Windows and Linux operating systems. Clients are able to purchase multiple VPS with different operating systems under a single account. “We’ve seen many of our clients subscribe to more than one VPS, and it is often the case that they opt for different operating systems among their VPS subscriptions,” says Cirrus Tech CEO, Mr. Ehsan Mirdamadi.

With the addition of Debian 5, openSUSE 11.1, and Fedora Core 11, Cirrus Tech adds to their already extensive Linux offerings, which includes Ubuntu 8.04, CentOS 4 & 5, Debian 4, and Fedora Core 8. Clients don’t have to compromise when choosing the OS of their choice. Cirrus Tech clients not only have the ability to choose between a wide range of operating systems, but they can choose from a number of VPS hosting plans that include dedicated resources, Canadian IPs, and optional Plesk Control Panel.

Cirrus Tech Expands Linux Program Catalog is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 21, 2009 – Provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting, HostGator.com LLC, has entered into a partnership with SmarterTools Inc., to provide a new line of web hosting software for its Windows dedicated server portfolio.

The software includes SmarterMail 5.x, a cost-effective Windows mail server; SmarterStats 4.x, a robust and comprehensive Web log analytics tool; and SmarterTrack 4.x, a complete customer service software solution. This bundle of three applications is valued at approximately $750 and will be included with every Windows dedicated server at no extra cost.

Jeff Hardy, vice president of business operations for SmarterTools noted, ”SmarterTools is excited by our partnership with HostGator. HostGator has a reputation for providing reliable Web hosting and quality service, and we are proud that they trust our products to continue to deliver value to their Windows hosting customers.”

SmarerMail is the cost-effective Microsoft Exchange alternative, bringing enterprise-level functionality to businesses, ISPs, and Web hosting environments. With features like detailed reporting, events/notifications, throttling, email archiving, intrusion detection/prevention, advanced synchronization, and out-of-the-box antispam and antivirus, HostGator customers will be able to enjoy an effective and user-friendly mail server application.

SmarterStats is a complete Web log analytics solution that supports various log file types, including Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache, on Windows and Linux operating systems. In addition, SmarterStats provides detailed Web site statistics for both small and enterprise-level businesses while reducing disk space utilization by 85%.

Brent Oxley, CEO and founder of HostGator added, ”At HostGator, we’ve always prided ourselves on giving our customers additional value for their money. Our partnership with SmarterTools is going to give our Windows hosting customers just that – a wide variety of high quality features and services that they would have a much more difficult time getting elsewhere.”

SmarterTrack is a powerful help desk application built for tracking, managing, and reporting on customer service and communications, including sales and support issues. Features include a Ticket system, Live Chat, WhosOn, branding and language support, cost analysis, data mining, reporting, surveys, and a Knowledge Base.

Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology-management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona.  SmarterTools builds a Windows mail server, customer service software, and a web log analytics reporting tool that simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in over 100 countries.

HostGator.com, LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated Web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 5,000 servers under management. The over one million domains hosted by HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world’s Internet traffic.

For additional information about SmarterTools Inc. and the SmarterTools product line, please visit: www.smartertools.com.

To learn more about HostGator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 21, 2009 – Provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting, HostGator.com LLC, has entered into a partnership with SmarterTools Inc., to provide a new line of web hosting software for its Windows dedicated server portfolio.

The software includes SmarterMail 5.x, a cost-effective Windows mail server; SmarterStats 4.x, a robust and comprehensive Web log analytics tool; and SmarterTrack 4.x, a complete customer service software solution. This bundle of three applications is valued at approximately $750 and will be included with every Windows dedicated server at no extra cost.

Jeff Hardy, vice president of business operations for SmarterTools noted, ”SmarterTools is excited by our partnership with HostGator. HostGator has a reputation for providing reliable Web hosting and quality service, and we are proud that they trust our products to continue to deliver value to their Windows hosting customers.”

SmarerMail is the cost-effective Microsoft Exchange alternative, bringing enterprise-level functionality to businesses, ISPs, and Web hosting environments. With features like detailed reporting, events/notifications, throttling, email archiving, intrusion detection/prevention, advanced synchronization, and out-of-the-box antispam and antivirus, HostGator customers will be able to enjoy an effective and user-friendly mail server application.

SmarterStats is a complete Web log analytics solution that supports various log file types, including Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache, on Windows and Linux operating systems. In addition, SmarterStats provides detailed Web site statistics for both small and enterprise-level businesses while reducing disk space utilization by 85%.

Brent Oxley, CEO and founder of HostGator added, ”At HostGator, we’ve always prided ourselves on giving our customers additional value for their money. Our partnership with SmarterTools is going to give our Windows hosting customers just that – a wide variety of high quality features and services that they would have a much more difficult time getting elsewhere.”

SmarterTrack is a powerful help desk application built for tracking, managing, and reporting on customer service and communications, including sales and support issues. Features include a Ticket system, Live Chat, WhosOn, branding and language support, cost analysis, data mining, reporting, surveys, and a Knowledge Base.

Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology-management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona.  SmarterTools builds a Windows mail server, customer service software, and a web log analytics reporting tool that simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in over 100 countries.

HostGator.com, LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated Web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 5,000 servers under management. The over one million domains hosted by HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world’s Internet traffic.

For additional information about SmarterTools Inc. and the SmarterTools product line, please visit: www.smartertools.com.

To learn more about HostGator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.

Chicago, Illinois – (The Hosting News) – March 14, 2009 –
Provider of USA based web hosting services, Neosurge Web Solutions, is offering its Virtual Private Server/Virtual Dedicated Server (VPS/VDS) solutions, with the flexibility and power of dedicated hosting at the pricing of shared virtual hosting.

Brian Easley, a Neosurge representative remarked, ”We’re providing impressive speed and reliability features built into our Virtual Private Server platform at prices less then many shared virtual hosting providers. Our VPS customers are offered a wide selection of Linux Operating Systems (various 32 and 64 bit versions of CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and Ubuntu Linux distributions) and control panels like Cpanel, DirectAdmin and LxAdmin/Kloxo. Even with prices as low as $6.95/mo we’re able to offer extremely powerful computing power due to recent advances in CPU computing power, RAM/Disk capabilities and networking capacities.”

Neosurge Virtual Private Servers include instant setup, root access, full control panel, OS choice, ability to reinstall OS, reboot control, system recovery tools, full DNS management, backups, dedicated IP address(es), dedicated ram, quad core CPU, and hardware RAID 10 all at rock bottom pricing with instant activation.

Neosurge is a provider of web hosting services with clients in every major continent, and has been in operation since 2002. The company provides a wide portfolio of services including web hosting, dedicated servers, reseller hosting, colocation, streaming and bandwidth services.

To learn more, please visit: www.neosurge.com/vps_hosting.php.

Chicago, Illinois – (The Hosting News) – March 14, 2009 –
Provider of USA based web hosting services, Neosurge Web Solutions, is offering its Virtual Private Server/Virtual Dedicated Server (VPS/VDS) solutions, with the flexibility and power of dedicated hosting at the pricing of shared virtual hosting.

Brian Easley, a Neosurge representative remarked, ”We’re providing impressive speed and reliability features built into our Virtual Private Server platform at prices less then many shared virtual hosting providers. Our VPS customers are offered a wide selection of Linux Operating Systems (various 32 and 64 bit versions of CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and Ubuntu Linux distributions) and control panels like Cpanel, DirectAdmin and LxAdmin/Kloxo. Even with prices as low as $6.95/mo we’re able to offer extremely powerful computing power due to recent advances in CPU computing power, RAM/Disk capabilities and networking capacities.”

Neosurge Virtual Private Servers include instant setup, root access, full control panel, OS choice, ability to reinstall OS, reboot control, system recovery tools, full DNS management, backups, dedicated IP address(es), dedicated ram, quad core CPU, and hardware RAID 10 all at rock bottom pricing with instant activation.

Neosurge is a provider of web hosting services with clients in every major continent, and has been in operation since 2002. The company provides a wide portfolio of services including web hosting, dedicated servers, reseller hosting, colocation, streaming and bandwidth services.

To learn more, please visit: www.neosurge.com/vps_hosting.php.