Friday, February 11, 2005

Brinkster Announces New Referral Program

Brinkster, a popular web hosting company that grew to fame by offering free web hosting without ads, today announced a new referral program that offers 10% commission (cash) or three times that amount in web hosting credit.

The program also includes a unique feature that allows customers to forego their commission and pass it on as a 10% discount to the people they refer.

With the new referral program, Brinkster customers now have an added incentive to refer their friends. “Repeat and referred customers have long been a strong component of our business and we are very excited about the value this adds to our service, “says Jared Stauffer, President and CEO of Brinkster.

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Thursday, Feb 10, 2005

Web.com Selects SWsoft's PEM Data Center Hosting Automation Platform

Leading Domain Registrar and Hosting Provider Migrating to Comprehensive Windows and Linux Web and Application Hosting Solution

Today, SWsoft, the established leader in hosting automation and server virtualization software, announced that Web.com, an ICANN-accredited registrar and Web hosting company, has purchased and begun migration to SWsoft's PEM data center automation platform. Web.com will maximize the capabilities of PEM to offer a full range of integrated services including: shared hosting for Linux/Unix and Windows, VPS hosting, game server hosting, Microsoft Exchange hosting, and more.

"We made the move to SWsoft's PEM to align our infrastructure with our plans of integrating and centralizing our entire domain registration, Web and application hosting offerings," said Will Pemble, CEO, Web.com. "We have evaluated several solutions and adopted some, but those solutions came up short when it came to meeting our diverse needs. From domain registration to Web hosting to email hosting, DNS management, website promotion and more, SWsoft has created the most comprehensive integrated package of services available."

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Wednesday, Feb 9, 2005

MSN Outage Caused by Data Center Issue

February 9, 2005 -- According to reports, software giant Microsoft (microsoft.com) said late Tuesday that the outage suffered by its instant messaging service MSN earlier in the day was the result of an isolated data center problem.

According to comments by Microsoft, the outage began on Monday evening and affected a "significant" number of users. MSN representatives confirmed the problem was fixed by approximately 5:00 p.m. pacific standard time on Tuesday.

The outage came just days after the W32/Bropia worm hit the MSN service. But Microsoft said the most recent downtime was not related to the worm in any way.

According to some estimates, MSN has 145 million users worldwide.