Web hosting provider Host Depot has joined the RatePoint (http://www.ratepoint.com) partner program, it was announced yesterday. The partnership with RatePoint will provide Host Depot customers with access to the RatePoint Consumer Approval Program, an interactive consumer feedback and quality assurance platform.

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Web hosting provider Flux Services, Inc. (http://www.ultrawebsitehosting.com) has launched a new hosting plan called Ultra UX, it was announced yesterday. The Ultra Ux allows users to host an unlimited number of websites through a single hosting account for a set monthly fee. Features of the plan include site builder, website template package, Dual-Core Intel Xeon Servers, 150 GBs of disk space and 5TBs of monthly transfer. Live support is also available.

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Covad Communications Inc., a San Jose-based Web host and integrated voice and data communications provider, announced that it is extending its line sharing agreement with AT&T.

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IDigitalNet, a Web host based in Taiwan, announced that is will offer discounted prices on domain name renewal.
The offer is valid until October 15th and extends to all its products and services. The cost for renewal has been reduced to $7.99. The price covers all .net and .com domain names and is also extended to all other major gTLD’s.
The discount is being offered in a bid to get customers to maintain their domains with the Web host.

Web hosting solutions and ISP company, EarthLink Business Solutions, a division of EarthLink Inc., has confirmed a preliminary agreement for SK Telecom to fund as much as $270 Million in a Helio joint venture.

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Hivelocity, a web hosting company, today announced that it has reached Gold Partner status with SWsoft, a server virtualization and automation solutions provider, by offering SWsoft Plesk and Virtuozzo hosting solutions as part of its dedicated server offerings. Currently, the company has several thousand servers online with plans to launch thousands more that include both Plesk and Virtuozzo in several new highly-competitive customer offerings.

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Los Angeles-based performance web hosting company, Globat.com, has acquired virtually all of the assets of California-based web hosting company, CompleteHostingSolutions.com. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Secure Computing Corporation has unveiled the latest version of Web Washer gateway security solution.

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Irish Web host, SpiralHosting.com has relaunched its Customer Support Center.

It is part of the company’s on-going redevelopment plan. The new center aims to deal with technical, billing and sales inquiries in a more efficient manner.

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Web hosting provider The Planet (http://www.theplanet.com) has announced the launch of several new servers and load balancers, it was announced yesterday. The company has added mid-range, high-performance and Ready-To-Go servers to its product portfolio and improved its private rack offerings with the availability of Foundry’s new ServerIron Global Server Load Balancer products.

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