GeoTrust Campaign Aims to Extend Lead in Low-Cost SSL Market

by admin on November 5, 2010

In an effort to defend its place among the leaders in the market for low cost sockets insurance certificates layer, GeoTrust (www.geotrust.com), the division’s digital certificate computer security firm Symantec (www. symantec.com), SSL has cut prices in half and launched an aggressive campaign to attract new customers from competitors such as SSL Web host Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com).

According to GeoTrust, the new “Who’s your daddy now?” Campaign allows Go Daddy customers can trade in the Go Daddy SSL certificates for the equivalent of GeoTrust SSL certificates at no cost.

In addition, customers of other providers of certified competency can take advantage of GeoTrust SSL certificates to half its former price, when its SSL certificate renewal. QuickSSL Premium Domain validated protection, for example, what starts at $ 149 per certificate.

“We are alerting Go Daddy customers can now take advantage of reliable protection worldwide trusted SSL certificates from GeoTrust, with trade in the process that is exceptionally easy and profitable insurmountable,” said GeoTrust senior product marketing Jeff Barto in a statement. “With our new low prices, GeoTrust is doing a great thing even better.”

According to Netcraft Alexa index for September, GeoTrust secured 20.6 percent of the domains unique among over 1 million sites visited. The VeriSign (www.verisign.com), the brand followed with 17.9 percent of all unique domains and Go Daddy was third with a share of 15.6 percent.

However, Go Daddy has led global growth in SSL certificate for 22 of the last 24 months, as reported by Netcraft. After entering the market for SSL certificates in March 2004, Go Daddy has grown steadily since, as the company puts it, “pure organic growth,” meaning that the adoption was not forced through mergers or acquisitions.

“Go Daddy entered the SSL space for the same reason he became a registrar of domain names and web hosting provider,” said the official Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons. “We saw an opportunity for customers to receive a better product and exceptional service at a price much lower.”

This site SSL certificate has become a disputed area recently, given the Symantec acquisition of VeriSign Security Operations earlier this year.

ServInt to Give Clients Early Access to WordPress Security, Backup Service

by admin on November 5, 2010

Managed web hosting company ServInt (www.servint.net) will be a launch partner for VaultPress (www.vaultpress.com), backup and security analysis next most popular blog service and platform WordPress website (www . wordpress.org), which powers more than 30 million blogs and sites.

Founded in 2005, Automattic (www.automattic.com) created the popular web host, WordPress.com (www.wordpress.com), based on the draft WordPress open source, which is a contributor. Automattic is designing VaultPress be a warranty and backup service, providing real-time, continuous monitoring and backup of almost all aspects of installing a WordPress user.

According to the announcement ServInt Friday, Automattic has given VaultPress “Golden Ticket Machine”, allowing the company to beat the beta access codes ServInt customers running WordPress, giving them access to the highly anticipated advanced security and backup service security.

“Safe and frequent backups are essential to the success of any web based business,” said ServInt founder and CEO Reed Caldwell said in a statement. “For the thousands of WordPress bloggers in our network, the powerful combination of ServInt, a system of free daily backup and complete redundancy VaultPress data to create the best of the blog is possible, security and backup solution .

ServInt also reported that customers who are Gold tickets will have access to certain long-term discounts VaultPress.

In terms of security, exploration VaultPress WordPress installations to quickly identify potential security vulnerabilities. It also offers a set of features designed to help WordPress users to make better use of its software and the server.

In addition to providing multiple layers of security and recovery of files, VaultPress also offers analytics to help bloggers understand their workflow and a concierge service for the restoration of the site as necessary.

ServInt is expected to offer VaultPress Golden Tickets to all WordPress users on your network. VaultPress users industry-leading deployment ServInt, system backup the entire server will have 12 points to recovery for your server and website, as well as the benefit of two experienced support team.

“ServInt is a natural choice for us to work with,” said user Automattic vice president Paul Kim growth. “VaultPress is designed to give people who trust their WordPress sites for your business needs the peace that comes with rock solid security and backup. It is part of the most advanced technology available today for WordPress and we are very pleased to be available by WordPress ServInt customers. “

DDoS Attack Could be to Blame for Intuit Web Hosting Outage

November 5, 2010

Intuit (www.intuit.com), an online services company specializing in enterprise management solutions, financial and business tax, are the sites that use their hosting services were inaccessible for several hours Thursday, according to a company representative. According to a CNET report, a customer service representative suggested that the interruption may have involved a denial of service attack, [...]

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NetConnect Plans Acquisition of Infrastructure Management Firm Ensim

November 4, 2010

Provider of online collaboration solutions NetConnect (www.netconnect.com) has reached a preliminary agreement to buy infrastructure management software developer Ensim Corporation (www.ensim.com), in what is expected to make offers Cloud computing is concerned with the need to manage software and services for large enterprises and service providers. According to the announcement Wednesday Ensim, Ensim NetConnect and [...]

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CCBill Launches New Website and Client Administration Tool

November 4, 2010

Tempe, AZ – CCBill, a global e-commerce solutions provider, today announced the launch of a newly redesigned website and a redesigned customer portal administration. Both entities have online update navigation flows, user features, and others to promote usability. “We wanted to make things simpler and more focused on the benefits to our current customers and [...]

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Fedora 14 Evolves Leading-Edge Open Source Technologies in Free Distribution

November 4, 2010

RALEIGH, NC – The Fedora Project Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and supported open source collaboration by the community, today announced the availability of Fedora 14, the latest version of its open source distribution of free system performance. The Fedora Project has been the advancement of free software and open source with a new [...]

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Steadfast Shared Hosting Plans Sold To Fluid Network

November 4, 2010

There have been plenty of rumors about a major Internet hosting company sign, which is selling its shared hosting operations. This came into force in late October 2010. Firm has decided to sell your shared hosting service Hosting fluid. Many people are concerned about the selling questionable, because they have come to expect great service [...]

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DemoWolf Adds Search Capabilities to Web Hosting Tutorial Viewer

November 4, 2010

DemoWolf (www.demowolf.com), which provides web hosting tutorials, has updated its tutorial Viewer with powerful search capabilities, improved coaching experience to end users.According to the announcement on Thursday DemoWolf, web hosting customers can add this functionality to your web tutorial on their website as part of the tutorial Viewer, which is available at no additional cost [...]

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Webfusion Launches Unlimited Shared Hosting Plan

November 4, 2010

Web Webfusion host the UK (www.webfusion.com) is now offering its customers in the U.S. and Canada, unlimited hosting plan offers unlimited web space traffic and email accounts, along with a free domain com. For $ 6.99 per month. Webfusion according to the announcement on Thursday, has relaunched its shared web hosting packages to give hosting [...]

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IT Services Firm Cbeyond Buys Web Host MaximumASP for $40M

November 4, 2010

Servics IT provider Cbeyond (www.cbeyond.com) said Thursday it has acquired the web hosting provider MaximumASP tag (www.maximumasp.com) and its affiliated companies and outstanding shares of Communications Aretta. The combined purchase is $ 40 million that includes $ 33 million was paid at closing and the balance up to 17.5 percent of the purchase price along [...]

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Infinitely Virtual Launches hMailServer – New Email Hosting Service

November 3, 2010

LOS ANGELES – Infinitely virtual, a rapidly growing provider of high quality and affordable virtual server technology, is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of a new e-mail hosting basic plan on Windows using hMailServer. hMailServer provides all important functions needed to run a mail server, and supports open standards POP3 mail, SMTP and IMAP4, [...]

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Telx Forms Strategic Alliance With Interxion

November 3, 2010

New York, NY – Telx ®, a leading networking provider and strategic placement of the North American markets, announced today that it has signed a strategic alliance with Interxion, a leading European provider of neutral colocation services center operator data. The transatlantic alliance will provide a smooth migration path to industry-leading, rich connectivity, colocation facilities, [...]

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Leading Green Power Supplier Partners with Dotster.com

November 3, 2010

Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a leading supplier of renewable energy in the nation, company announced a global alliance with top 10 web hosting, Dotster.com, to compensate the more than 150% of the energy used by their hosting servers web. Dotster is supporting the creation of clean, renewable energy enough wind to power their websites 4,400,000. BEF [...]

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