Jim Collins is the new CEO of Affinity Internet. Collins, under whose leadership Affinity eveolved from a web hosting provider to a full-service web-based services firm, brings more than 14 years of experience in the technology, telecommunications and service markets to the post.

Web Hosting provider, AIT, has launched two new multi-server configurations called 'Six Paks'. These offerings provide 'a complex-style solution without the complexity or the price tag'.

ServerPlex Networks has launched a subsidiary called ServerPlex Onsite, which will dispatch certified technicians to homes and businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area for onsite technical assistance. ServerPlex Onsite offers a number of specialized services, including multimedia device networking and installation, connectivity troubleshooting and configuration, wireless and wired networking, and hardware servicing and installation.

Web hosting provider WSXHosting.com has introduced ten new hosting plans, ranging from 500MB bandwidth, 5GB disk space to 25000MB bandwidth, 400GB disk space. The new plans offer additional options like an IP Address and SSH access.

US shared web hosting provider Host Color has released version 2 of its proprietary hosting control panel, NextColor. The latest version offers a number of unique features, such as choice between PHP 5 and 4, a large set of pre-installed applications and advanced database management, apart from greater flexibility as far as skins and localization support are concerned.

Seamless Wi-Fi, Inc. announced the launch of Alpha Internet, Inc., a web hosting services provider. Alpha Internet will enable it to better facilitate its Phenom secure communication services.

Dedicated Servers from a $99 'Value Series' to the newest Dual Xeon 3.2ghz SATA RAID servers are among the variety of services offered to customers by EV1Servers.net The company also says that it offers a full line of upgrades and add-on solutions.

With hosting customers across the globe, CFDynamics says, 'we know the standards that developers have come to expect in a host. We have come to be known as a leader for providing reliable and powerful hosting.' CFDynamics also has developed a resellers program 'to benefit anyone with multiple accounts. Whether the accounts are for you or a friend, our resellers program is a great way to save money,' the company says.

CrystalTech has made the once complicated process of ordering and implementing SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificates remarkably easy, the company says. Customers can now use the Certificate Management tool, found within CrystalTech's proprietary Control Center to create and process Certificate Signing Requests.

Resellerspanel.com has launched a cPanel reseller hosting program, which offers four plans, perfect for those who wish to sell hosting to their own customers. Resellerspanel.com (www.resellerspanel.com), the only company in the Linux-based web hosting business offering a free reseller hosting program, announces the launch of its cPanel program, which offers four reseller plans, perfect for those who wish to sell hosting to their own customers, the company says.

Since 2000, I've had the good fortune of working with over 15,000 EV1Servers customers, including enterprise managers and small business owners, software developers and multi-player gamers, content providers and community forum operators.

'Not very many Web hosting services can boast a presence in a Tier 1 data center,' said Gabriel Wong of WebAppCabaret.com. 'Our Tier 1 data center is part of the global Internet backbone, with privately owned multi-gigabit US and European networks. They are, in essence, the Internet. The backbone is comprised of private, redundant, optical, world-wide OC-48 with total transit capacity of 32 GIGABITS per second.'

Enterprise Web and application hosting provider WebAppCabaret has announced that it is offering same-day setup and free setup on some of its Java J2EE Ready Managed dedicated servers. In addition, WebAppCabaret will be offering the second month free for some of these same Managed dedicated servers for a limited time.

4Java.ca is challenging all US and Canadian based web hosting companies to donate all new account sign up fees collected during the month of September 2005 towards the relief efforts for Katrina Disaster in United States. Companies are asked to make donations to the organization of their choice, provided 100% of funds will be used towards the disaster relief efforts.

Since 2000, I've had the good fortune of working with over 15,000 EV1Servers customers, including enterprise managers and small business owners, software developers and multi-player gamers, content providers and community forum operators. Ongoing interactions with these dedicated Web server users have helped shape our direction. I would like to think that we have also contributed to our customers' success. Many of them have expanded from one single server to dozens - or even hundreds - during the course of our partnership. I have often heard that Web hosting is a commodity business in which three factors - pricing, bandwidth and disk space - are all-important.

For those of you not keeping track, I wrote an editorial last April about finding a CF hosting company and promised more information the following month. As you may have noticed, it never came. Why? Because when I outlined Part 2, I realized I could easily write Part 3, Part 4, and so on, because it's such a large topic, with many different angles and countless points to consider.

(June 18, 2003) - Microsoft has released three offerings for Web developers to make it easy to create data-driven Web sites and Web applications: an update to the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix, the release of the ASP.NET Starter Kits, and a resource to easily find ASP.NET Web hosting companies.

(August 20, 2002) - Over the next three years, Web services and small to mid-sized hosting providers will be the driving force behind explosive growth in the service provider industry, which is expected to reach over $18 billion in the U.S. by 2007, concludes a market analysis study conducted by SWsoft, Inc., a server technology company. In the 18-month study, SWsoft combined survey data, statistical analysis, and in-depth interviews of hundreds of service providers, customers and enterprises to analyze and forecast the Web hosting industry.