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(The Hosting News) – IHOST is now bundling a no-cost DNN shopping cart module from Smith Consulting, Inc. into all DNN hosting accounts.

The Smith Cart DNN Module allows web store customers to select and pay for items, enter coupon or discount codes, and create self-service accounts they can log into to track order status, view invoices, and more.  

“We’ve added the outstanding Smith Cart DNN Module to all DotNetNuke hosting accounts as a way of making web entrepreneurship less painful,” IHOST, LLC CEO Slavic Kozyuk said. “We’re excited to offer SmithCart product to our customers, it will certainly only add to the value.”

The DNN shopping cart, pre-installed by IHOST, requires no initial setup. In addition to standard cart features, Smith Cart DNN Module offers helpful product management and tax-handling features, plus recurring billing options and shipping-and-handling calculation.

“IHOST has a proud history of attaching valuable options and features to our reliable DNN hosting services,” Kozyuk said. “With this no-cost e-commerce bundle, we’re continuing that tradition. We’re grateful to our partners at Smith Consulting Inc. for helping us bring greater value to our customers.” The Smith Cart DNN Module is available now to all new and current IHOST clients.

Cart Features: Product management, recurring billing support, shipping and handling calculation, tax handling, multiple payment methods and gateways, checkout, coupons and discounts, affiliate tracking support, marketing assistance, customer self-service, store and order administration. For more information about IHOST’s hosting plans, visit http://www.ihostasp.net.

About IHOST, LLC
Since 2004, IHOST has hinged its business strategy on the success of the DotNetNuke platform. Its goal is to deliver the best DNN hosting and customer service at reasonable rates. IHOST is an active participant in the DotNetNuke community and continues to deliver affordable, up-to-date DNN hosting solutions to the web.

IHOST Offers Free DNN Shopping Cart with Hosting Accounts

(The Hosting News) – IHOST is now bundling a no-cost DNN shopping cart module from Smith Consulting, Inc. into all DNN hosting accounts.

The Smith Cart DNN Module allows web store customers to select and pay for items, enter coupon or discount codes, and create self-service accounts they can log into to track order status, view invoices, and more.  

“We’ve added the outstanding Smith Cart DNN Module to all DotNetNuke hosting accounts as a way of making web entrepreneurship less painful,” IHOST, LLC CEO Slavic Kozyuk said. “We’re excited to offer SmithCart product to our customers, it will certainly only add to the value.”

The DNN shopping cart, pre-installed by IHOST, requires no initial setup. In addition to standard cart features, Smith Cart DNN Module offers helpful product management and tax-handling features, plus recurring billing options and shipping-and-handling calculation.

“IHOST has a proud history of attaching valuable options and features to our reliable DNN hosting services,” Kozyuk said. “With this no-cost e-commerce bundle, we’re continuing that tradition. We’re grateful to our partners at Smith Consulting Inc. for helping us bring greater value to our customers.” The Smith Cart DNN Module is available now to all new and current IHOST clients.

Cart Features: Product management, recurring billing support, shipping and handling calculation, tax handling, multiple payment methods and gateways, checkout, coupons and discounts, affiliate tracking support, marketing assistance, customer self-service, store and order administration. For more information about IHOST’s hosting plans, visit http://www.ihostasp.net.

About IHOST, LLC
Since 2004, IHOST has hinged its business strategy on the success of the DotNetNuke platform. Its goal is to deliver the best DNN hosting and customer service at reasonable rates. IHOST is an active participant in the DotNetNuke community and continues to deliver affordable, up-to-date DNN hosting solutions to the web.

IHOST Offers Free DNN Shopping Cart with Hosting Accounts

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand – but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”

Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ”We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We’ll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.”

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand – but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”

Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ”We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We’ll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.”

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.

Thinking of registering a domain with the hot keywords “web hosting?” Sure you are. I can read your mind. Well, I was bored today and thought I’d search and see what web hosting domains were available. So, to start my quest, I visited Godaddy and typed in webhosting .com into the search…

Looks like I’m about 15 years too late on that one. Some clever soul reserved webhosting.com back in January 1993 when I was in the fetal stages of Internet growth. Can’t say I’m surprised. If you are, I’ve got some .info’s over in Iceland that I’d like to sell you:). Have you noticed that just about any occurence of the word webhosting + any valuable keyword has been registered by domainers, SEO’s or individual businesses?

But what I really wanted to see was what results the Godaddy domain suggestion tool would offer as alternatives. Here’s what came up:

Is this sad or what?

Some of the premium domain names aren’t that bad but look how expensive they are!

The additional domains, those at regular prices, are the worst of the crop, wouldn’t you say? I mean, who wants to start a web site called “Web Hosting Store” or “Net Life Hosting.” Also, maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem strange to have the word online and hosting together in the same domain name?

So what’s a web hosting sitebuilder to do? I know you’re out there so please speak up and liberate us from the prospect of buying a bad domain.