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Parallels announced a collaboration to offer with Yola Web Business Builder - powered by Yola. The partnership with Yola and its integrated technology and SiteWit Ecwid partners, will enable Parallels partners to sell an integrated set of web presence services.

"Web Business Builder gives our channel partners has proven platform, fully integrated with Parallels Plesk Automation and they can brand as their own. It gives their SME customers the ease of development and integrated features they need to build their online business, "said Alex Danyluk, Vice President, Alliances, Parallels .

highlights the key features of the solution include :.

• Advanced style designer would give users the ability to highly customize the appearance of websites professional making an apparatus
• Customizing Web sites as a premium service.
• fully enabled social integration of a mobile website media and publishing with supporting e- commerce.
• SEO tracking tools with the use of keywords and traffic reports.
• website analysis tools and integrated marketing
• AdWord purchase by SEM Analytics, which would optimize marketing campaigns and reduces the cost per click of an SMB - powered by SiteWit ..
• fully integrated e-commerce advanced tools - powered by Ecwid
• End-to-end e-commerce with inventory management, order tracking, integrated tax calculations and shipment in real time

"Yola is part .. a group of SaaS web presence services has been a disruptive force on the consumer market for web hosting, "said Liam Eagle analyst, 451 Research . "Not only do these services have raised the bar for the manufacturer's website capabilities, but they greatly influence user expectations for web presence services. As a result, we have seen a revenue growth in the web presence of businesses in recent years that far exceeds the average for shared web hosting, and large external investment in space over the last year. "

Yola was founded in Cape Town, South Africa in 07. These days, there are more than 10 million users Yola and about 60 employees working in offices in San Francisco and Cape Town. Sitebuilder company is available in six languages ​​:. English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish

"This exciting partnership allows us to further leverage the investment in our Private Label program and reach thousands of service providers who use Parallels to automate their businesses, "said Trevor Harries-Jones, CEO, Yola . "The Business Builder Web offers help Parallels partners generate new revenue and lower churn by providing an easy to use set of tools for SMEs to create professional Web sites that attract new customers and lead online sales, advance the mission of Yola taking business online. "

WordPress web hosting provider, WP Engine, based in Austin, Texas, officially launched on the EMEA market. Located within Second Home, the latest innovation hub in the heart of Tech City, the company has ambitious plans to expand rapidly and settle as a leading light in the London tech scene.

Founded in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Jason Cohen, WP Engine has established itself as a force in the WordPress web hosting market with its content management SaaS platform . In addition to providing a basis for growth, the new London office enable the company to better serve its customers and partners with the number of over 3000 existing European.

Fabio Torlini was appointed in October 2014 MD lead WP Engine in the region. Torlini previously held various management positions at Rackspace where he helped grow the UK the presence of 10 of the organization to more than 1,000 employees -. Experience he hopes to bring to WP Engine

"Helping ambitious organizations to achieve rapid growth has always been a passion of mine to join WP Engine to boost sales and business success EMEA's really exciting, "said Fabio Torlini . "WP Engine is a compelling proposition with unparalleled customer service. Our goal is to create an environment that helps organizations to create compelling content, put first their customers and help them succeed. This year is the key to WP Engine, and we look forward to starting our travel growth. "

The WordPress platform

Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in San Francisco, California, San Antonio, Texas, and now also in London, UK.

"WordPress has experienced phenomenal growth as the CMS of choice," said Heather Brunner, CEO, WP Engine.

"Organizations can no longer treat their site as a simple broadcast information tool," said Heather Brunner, CEO, WP Engine . "There must be a platform without increasing evolving constantly to allow meaningful engagement with customers and users. - Brands have become publishers over the past four years, WordPress has experienced phenomenal growth as the CMS of choice for brands and agencies looking to make this diffuser change to the editor. WP Engine specializes in helping organizations exploit the WordPress platform to create, incur exciting sites, focused on content and stay ahead of the digital curve. our new London office is a highly strategic move and a basic part of our expansion in EMEA. "

Media Temple, a company based in Los Angeles providing web and cloud hosting solutions for web designers, developers and creative agencies, announced the appointment of Rod Stoddard in the role of President. Born and raised in Silicon Valley and a technician veteran Los Angeles, Mr. Stoddard brings 17 years of experience in IT, cloud computing and e-commerce industries to the company.

Stoddard previously served as president of Martindale-Hubbell, a marketing provider and web hosting services for legal professionals, and president of US Search, a leading online providers of America's people search.

"I am delighted to build on the success of Media Temple and create new opportunities to meet the accommodation needs of our customers," said Rod Stoddard, president of Media Temple.

"We are very pleased to welcome Rod to Media Temple management team," said Jason Heath, CFO of Media Temple . "His extensive experience and proven cost-effective scaling of the leading companies combined with his deep understanding of B2B customers will be instrumental in leading the growth of Media Temple in the US and internationally. "

Stoddard, who holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, began his technical career in the department of business development of the CNET news consumer technology website.

"I am honored to have the opportunity to work with a talented team and a respected brand," said Rod Stoddard . "It is very exciting to be part of a company which has always demonstrated its commitment to providing superior solutions and user experience for 16 years. I look forward to building on the success of Media Temple and create new opportunities to meet the needs of hosting our customers so they can focus on the transformation of their great ideas into thriving businesses. "

dedicated employees with 230 based in the United States, the Temple provides media solutions hosting more than 125,000 people and businesses in 100 countries web. The solutions of the company include one click WordPress installs , virtual servers, domain registration, business applications and other cloud hosting services.

ZhuJi91, a Hong Kong web hosting provider, offering both shared and VPS services Linux and Windows hosting, has integrated its web hosting packages shared with SSD service.

to provide a better experience for its web hosting shared hosting users ZhuJi91 has integrated all its joint plans web hosting service with an SSD . In addition to SSD service ZhuJi91 each shared web hosting plan comes with many other features, including unlimited bandwidth, databases and domains.

In addition, at least 1 GB of disk space is included in each plan. Regarding control panels, Windows web hosting plans are featured with WebSitePanel while Linux packages are integrated with cPanel.

ZhuJi91 uses a Hong Kong data center is equipped with Dell over 100 quality servers, UPS, N + 1 power, diesel generators and 24 × 7 monitoring. The web hosting provider would be able to provide 99.9% and the loading speed "extremely fast" in mainland China.

Eleven2, a web hosting provider located in Los Angeles, announced the launch of its SSD shared hosting. The new shared web hosting plans are up to 1000% faster than standard hard disk accommodation, according Eleven2.

Eleven2 uses 12GB / s RAID cards with Avago Samsung Enterprise SSDs for their new website hosting packages.

To ensure you never slow speeds, and reliability is at its maximum, Eleven2 configured their network in a RAID10, and use Over-Provisioning. The drive sequential read speeds exceed 1000 MB / s.

SSD hosting Eleven2 is optimized for dynamic applications . When using a dynamic application like WordPress, users will see the biggest gains on SSD hosting. Most of today's popular scripts are heavy database users. database queries are quick reads and data writes, which is where the brilliance of SSD. Faster reads and writes results in faster page load times.

Eleven2 specializes in virtual servers, dedicated servers, cloud hosting, reseller hosting, shared web hosting, and domain name registration services. The company has more than 100,000 hosted websites, while its servers are located in the US, UK and Asia.

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), one of the largest web hosting providers in the world dedicated to small companies, has appointed Steven Aldrich as Chief product Officer. Previously senior vice president of the society of Enterprise Applications, Mr. Aldrich lead the overall product strategy and development through hosting GoDaddy, Presence and Commerce and Business Applications group in the newly created CPO position.

In her new role, Steven Aldrich will focus on the delivery of sublime experience for existing customers and identify new products and web hosting services to expand the impact of GoDaddy on small businesses' success.

"I am delighted to take on this new position and extend my work with the incredible team of engineers and experts from GoDaddy products," said Steven Aldrich . "with over 13 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy manages one of the largest platforms in the world for small businesses and we are in a unique position to offer the next generation of cloud-based products that enable people to realize their dreams. "

" GoDaddy is uniquely positioned to deliver the next generation of cloud-based products that enable people to achieve their dreams, "said Steven Aldrich, new product manager for GoDaddy (CPO).

Aldrich joined GoDaddy July 2012 as senior vice president of enterprise applications, where he has since led the introduction of several cornerstone products Microsoft Office 365 GoDaddy and GoDaddy Email marketing .

Before joining the web hosting provider, Mr. Aldrich spent over a decade Intuit , where his teams have delivered a number of offers for small businesses, including financial management, payments, web sites, customer management and point of sale solutions. Aldrich also has the small business experience as founder of an online business that simplified shopping for insurance. Steven earned a M.B.A. Stanford and a B.A. in physics from the University of North Carolina.

"The Steven's passion for developing advanced products that help small businesses succeed is extraordinary," said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving . "He looks every experience through the lens of a small business owner and has incredible empathy for the challenges they face. Steven will play a leading role as GoDaddy continues to improve and expand its range of integrated products that allow people to start easily, grow with confidence and operate their own successful business. "

Multacom, a shared web host providing Los Angeles-based, dedicated servers, VPN and shared web hosting solutions, announced that all of its data centers at 707 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, including its most recent location data center, successfully completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination.

The scope of the review covered Multacom colocation services as they relate to the principles of SOC 2 security and availability . The review was completed by Brightline CPAs & Associates, Inc., a company which is a CPA firm, PCI under general license Qualified Security Assessor, an ISO certification body and a FedRAMP 3PAO.

The review is an independent assessment of the effectiveness of safety-related controls Multacom and availability in its web hosting operations and adherence to the principles of trust service SOC 2 which are modeled around four areas: policies, communications, procedures and monitoring . Each principle has criteria and controls that must be met to demonstrate specifically defined compliance. These reports are for stakeholders of an organization need to understand the internal controls in place regarding security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.

"We felt it was very important to make a credible outside source to assess our standards," said Kiarash Jahangiri, CEO of Multacom . "The rigorous evaluation by an accredited third party provides our stakeholders with the objective information they need to understand our operational systems and infrastructure. They can now do their own due diligence and refer to this report to confirm that we meet their own internal needs and requirements for security and availability. "

Type 2 SOC 2 Review

SOC 2 reports are an alternative to SOC 1 (SSAE 16) specifically for organizations that hold and store information for customers, such as data centers and managed services. type 2 report is more involved than type 1 and consists of an examination over a period of time by a CPA license firm assessing the adequacy of the design and operating effectiveness of controls and systems in place, as well as tests and provide evidence of how the controls are used and implemented.

safety is assessed based on system protection against unauthorized access or unauthorized use, while availability is considered based on the system is available as stipulated in the agreement the organization with customers. Some of the commitments of the web hosting provider Multacom include onsite security and technical support 24 hours a day, an access control system at several levels and a 100% network and power availability. Multacom end SOC 2 Type 2 examination of their data centers each year.

1 & 1, one of the largest web hosting providers in the world, offer a wide range of SSL certificates powered by Symantec, meeting the needs of its customers for encryption. 1 & 1 will also offer a number of high-end security solutions with levels of increasingly strong validation of a website, protection and confidence joints.

In March 2016, Symantec announced plans to help secure all legitimate websites and web application in 2018. encryption Symantec Everywhere program would give providers Web hosting a single platform to offer one of the most comprehensive security portfolios of their clients.

As one of the first hosting providers to participate in the Symantec Encryption Everywhere program in Germany, 1 & 1 is to help ensure 19 million domain names on the Internet. Furthermore, 1 & 1 also supports its customers in the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Canada and Mexico better protecting their websites as well.

"We are excited to partner with Symantec to provide our customers with comprehensive security solutions and trusted Symantec Web sites," said Robert Hoffmann, CEO 1 & 1 Internet SE . "the Internet has fundamentally changed the way we live, and we must continually find ways to protect our data. Thus, cooperation with Symantec allows us to join forces for a safer Internet by protecting considerably more websites than is the case today. "

Symantec Website Security provides security for Web sites, data and applications with SSL / TLS certificate management, vulnerability assessment, WAF / DDoS, malware, etc.

"with only 3% of the encrypted tape today, it is essential that our partners such as 1 & 1 take the lead in educating their customers about the choices security and make it easier to do the right thing, "said Roxane Divol, senior vice president and general manager of security at Symantec Website . "When we launched Encryption Across the purpose of changing the game for Internet security, 1 & 1 immediately saw the value in partnership and moved quickly to integrate security solutions to a Symantec Web site in their portfolio. I am delighted to give them for the work they do to help secure their customers. "

European web hosting provider, HostForLIFE.eu, headquartered in Manchester, UK, with a representative office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands has used its gold partner status with Microsoft to launch its latest 2.1.0 Magento hosting support.

HostForLIFE.eu supports Magento Hosting 2.1.0 on their latest Windows Server and this service is available for all new customers Web hosting. Magento is an open source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 08. The Magento package has been updated to version 2.1.0, and HostForLIFE.eu servers are now optimized for this updated package while ensuring Magento 2.1.0 performance.

HostForLIFE.eu hosts its servers in data centers in Amsterdam, London, Paris and Seattle (United States). The company provides on-demand hosting solutions including shared hosting, reseller hosting, cloud, dedicated servers, and IT-as-a-Service for customers of all sizes.

Managed hosting Web hosting provider Edge is doing well in the hosting market and plans to expand the headquarters of the business in downtown Baltimore.

"growing demand for managing cloud hosting, CDN, and PCI compliant hosting business and HIPAA continues to drive our growth," said Michael Altman, Chief Operating Officer Edge Web Hosting Inc . "the additional office space will accommodate the expected 30% -. 40% increase in staff over the next 12 months"

Backbone Upgrade

expanding seat Edge will allow top teams to more effectively scale as the company continues to grow. Over the past two years, Edge has almost doubled the size of its workforce. The company currently has a number of openings for software developers, DBA, implementation engineers, systems engineers and clouds.

completed last month aboard some improvements to the basic Internet connectivity to its two data centers in Baltimore. Edge managed cloud and managed customers dedicated hosting can now enjoy increased throughput, reduced latency and improved reliability through high-speed network of carriers connected via multiple 10 Gbps Edge geographically diverse up-links .

Comlink has aquired the IP network assets of the City of Macomb, Michigan.

Acquisition of optic fiber network 350-mile of the city of Macomb, Michigan, will grow comlinks IP network in total, more than 800 miles of road in the greater Detroit area. The City of Macomb originally built its IP network to provide high-speed connectivity among all schools in the region.

Comlink add the 350-mile network to IP network already expansive 5,500 mile serves business customers in the state of Michigan.

"adding the city of Macomb facility greatly enhances our ability to serve business customers in Macomb and throughout the Greater Detroit area," said John Summersett, chief operating Comlink .

fiber Michigan Network

With the data centers that host clients resident in more than 100 countries comlink is a service provider cloud hosting, dedicated hosting, virtual private servers, storage and colocation connected on all private, protected Ethernet backbone with bandwidths up to 100GB.

rapid expansion of IP network is comlink based in Michigan and extends throughout the Midwest. The ISP also provides services such as Optical Wave, Ethernet, DS1, DS3, OCx and DSL . Furthermore Comlink provides a range of voice services, such as PRI, SIP, Long Distance, Conferencing and Hosted VoIP.

eUKhost Ltd., a web hosting provider based in Leeds, UK, with the presence in the data center in the UK in Maidenhead and Milton Keynes Disaster Recovery, set up as a service (DRaaS) on its cloud Platform Enlight.

as disaster recovery as a service is based on a cloud computing architecture, the solution is ideal for small businesses and organizations where the cost of DR solution is a concern

DRaaS on Enlight Cloud comes with some unique characteristics could offer advantages over traditional DR configurations :.

• cost savings, the DR facility is fully used and therefore entirely paid only in the event of a disaster.
• Authorizes aggressive goals of recovery time (RTO).
• stringent recovery point (RPO) can be adjusted to provide minimum or no data loss.
• flexibility in terms of cost and usefulness.

"Man SMEs lack the budget to their own disaster recovery site, but still need a solution that is equally responsive and resilient as their main site," said M .. Robert King, the CEO of eUKhost . "in the highly competitive scenario today, even SMEs need to be operational after a disaster just as quickly as any business organization that their companies rely also on online presence. Unfortunately, most conventional DR services are unaffordable for them as they come to be very expensive because they require exactly the same hardware configuration to the DR and the main site. This effectively means that investment in the DR site is equivalent to the main site. "

Launched in 01, eUKhost Ltd offer a range of services, including shared web hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private servers (VPS), cloud hosting and dedicated servers. The company has more than 1,0 servers housed in two data center facilities in the UK, serving over 35,000 clients.

AHosting, a managed web hosting provider with facilities in Orlando, FL, Detroit, MI, and Charlotte, North Carolina, has announced the introduction of a low cost optimized FFmpeg web hosting plans.

new web hosting plans are a complete solution for video sharing sites and deployment of advanced streaming and include 35GB of storage, 1TB of bandwidth, and cPanel control panel.

FFmpeg, which is the basis on which web video sharing hosting plans AHosting of are built, is a powerful and popular suite of open source tools for video conversion and streaming. FFmpeg supports all formats that are most commonly used for video on the web, including Flash, HTML5, H.264, OGG, and MPEG-4 .

Video Web Hosting Plans

to ensure easy deployment of video sharing sites, video hosting plans include web AHosting one click installation with a wide range of video sharing scripts. Among the video sharing scripts available for immediate installation are VIMP, PHPMotion, ClipBucket, CumulusClips and ClipShare . Each of these scripts provides a content management system designed specifically for the management of video, robust user management features, and the conversion fast and reliable video streaming.

solutions since 02 AHosting implemented for web reseller hosting, multiple IP hosting, dedicated servers and VPS hosting. "When we thought about expanding our hosting plans to provide specialized accommodations, it was clear to us that the video sharing sites needed market disruption and innovation," said Daniel Page director of business development at AHosting, Inc. . "To raise the bar in the web hosting video industry, we use our optimized infrastructure to provide unbeatable value and convenience to customers who want to enjoy the growth in popularity of video sharing."

Following the recent acquisition of Host Europe Group Telefónica Germany online services, the web hosting company acquired DomainFactory for an undisclosed consideration. The acquisition adds another German brand to brand Web hosting portfolio, including also the UK-based businesses 123-reg and reseller hosting Heart Internet provider Host Europe.

DomainFactory currently manages 1.1 million domains and serves approximately 173,000 customers - mainly in small and medium enterprises and private professional market segments. The completion of the transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals

This acquisition further strengthens the presence and capabilities in the German mass web hosting market of Host Europe Group -. Now with nearly 400 000 clients and manages more than 2 million domains

German Web hosting

In a joint statement Sara Marburg and Jochen Tuchbreiter, founders of DomainFactory said.. "in collaboration with our first-class team, we have established the first German hosting company by joining forces with Host Europe we will be perfectly positioned to benefit from the continued growth of strong market. There is a great strategic and cultural fit between Host Europe Group and DomainFactory. Together we can provide a broader range of solutions for the benefit of our customers. "

"This is our second acquisition in recent months," said Thomas Vollrath, CEO of Host Europe Group . "This is consistent with our strategy of consolidation of market accommodation very fragmented in Europe. Under the leadership of the two founders, Sara Marburg and Jochen Tuchbreiter, DomainFactory benefited from good growth and developed a solid reputation for high quality service and customer service that makes it a perfect fit with Host Europe Group ".

Brian Modansky, former artistic director and founding member of HostGator is now co -founder and president of a remarkable new initiative within the web hosting industry, WebHosting.coop. The new hosting platform launches to provide seamless solutions and web-based community for individuals and businesses.

Based on the idea that the best way to benefit users by the evolution of cooperative enterprise technology, this new non-profit organization would ensure the shared hosting with quality emphasis on participation member . Headquartered in Austin, TX, WebHosting.coop member services worldwide.

collaboration via an online software called Mayor , members have the opportunity to submit, vote and communicate the key issues that directly affect the management of the cooperative. In addition, members will have the opportunity to participate in scheduled events, consider the reports of transparency, take online training courses, and communicate with other members who share the same physical resources.

cost transparency and member flat

Because transparency is one of the basic principles of WebHosting.coop, anyone who needs web hosting can become a member for a fixed annual rate. For $ 100 per year , members receive a shared disk space and bandwidth, and unlimited sub domains, email accounts, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. Additional services offered by shared hosting WebHosting.coop include domain names, secure SSL certificates, and IP addresses. Members will also benefit from a guarantee of 99.9% uptime, 24/7 live technical support, and a thriving online community.

All websites WebHosting.coop members will be in Level 3 gateway Datacenters while their account management, backups and redundancy will be in the Rackspace Cloud.

address shared common hosting issues

"We should not be limited by the means of our past," said the co-founder Brian Modansky.

WebHosting.coop has taken steps to solve several common problems within the industry shared hosting, including oversold servers , inadequate safeguards, lack of redundancy server and ad placement useless. The coop solves these problems by reducing the number of users for each shared server data backup members every other day, ensuring redundant DNS and multi-regional e-mail, and will only advertise up-sells that members vote in.

In addition to providing a transparent and reliable shared hosting solution, WebHosting.coop also plans to educate members on how to build a website by using freely available open source software . According to co-founder Brian Modansky "We should not be limited by the means of our past but should rather focus on the positive and innovative solutions through the sharing of ideas and with the cooperation of digital community. "

Web hosting provider Bluehost, with its sister companies HostGator and iPage, announced the integration of MOJO market, a destination where users can buy the latest website templates, plugins, logos and scripts of some of the most popular open source applications such as WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, Concrete 5 and Drupal.

As the web hosting providers Bluehost, iPage and HostGator, MOJO market is part of Endurance International Group. The applications platform was acquired by Endurance in 2012. Bluehost has completed the integration of MOJO market while Endurance expects integration with iPage to begin next week, with HostGator follows shortly after.

Benefits for SMEs

"We believe that the MOJO market will transform the way small business owners leverage their presence on the Web, "said CEO Endurance International Group, Hari Ravichandran.

MOJO market, it would be easy for hosting customers to improve the appearance and functionality of their websites , carts, blogs and other aspects of their presence on the web. "It can be difficult to find and install important software, plugins and themes you need for your website," said Dan Handy, CEO of Bluehost . "MOJO market helps you find what you need and install it on your website with a single click."

structure MOJO offer benefits to both buyers and sellers . Buyers will be able to browse through curated products built by designers and professional developers, and then purchase and install anything from a complete website template to an e-commerce platform with a single click. Sellers, on the other hand, will be able to release their products in a million potential users of the network.

"As we move into the world of cloud computing, embedded environments become more important to our subscribers," said Endurance International Group CEO, Hari Ravichandran . "We believe that the MOJO market will transform the way small business owners leverage their web presence. Small business owners will now be able to make changes in the website themes and functionality to accommodate seasonality in a snap. "

WordPress web hosting provider, WP Engine, based in Austin, Texas announced a $ 15 million investment from North Bridge Growth Equity. The investment will be used to accelerate global growth with the introduction of new product innovations through the hosting platform WordPress WP Engine.

Founded in 2010, WP Engine currently powers tens of thousands of websites and applications created with the WordPress platform. WordPress platform optimized web hosting WP Engine serves organizations ranging from large companies and major media to SMEs, companies and bloggers who need speed, security, performance and reliability of their family WordPress deployments.

"We are delighted to join the North Bridge WP Engine team," said Heather Brunner, CEO of WP Engine . "While we continue to experience hyper-growth as a company, this investment will allow us to accelerate our innovation platform and offer a market leading customer experience. Our goal is nothing less that deliver the best customer experience for WordPress management market. "

the growing demand for the company

More than 36 million unique visitors interact with a customer WP Engine every day on digital properties covering retail, media and financial services. In 2013, the WordPress web hosting specialist has expanded its management team in response to the growing demand of companies, most recently appointing former Bazaarvoice COO Heather Brunner as CEO in October 2013.

"We are delighted to work with WP Engine team as they build the next great platform company to the front lines of the digital customer interaction," said Matthew Blodgett, a general partner at North Bridge Growth Equity and the new member of the Board of Directors WP Engine . "WP Engine has what it takes to win. - A powerful vision, a strong technology and experienced management team with a track record of success in collaboration with their customers and the WordPress community, WP Engine is the building of a new Quick content management race, safe and reliable. "