Joel Daly, COO of Hosting.com remarked, ”By operating five datacenters from coast to coast, we provide our clients with unparalleled solution and service options. Our business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) enhancements will provide clients with cost-effective means to achieve and test true disaster recovery and fault tolerance.”

Company owners Art Zeile and Joel Daly have operated three successful high-tech firms, all headquartered in Denver, including InFlow, Inc., sold to Sungard in 2005.

The demand for secure, reliable colocation space in Denver continues to outpace availability. Art Zeile, Hosting.com CEO, commented, ”We are excited to serve a very large need in Denver with this new datacenter. Colocation space with our high level of service and support is absent from downtown. We will grow aggressively over the next 24 months through a national platform of managed and secure services; we are excited that Denver is at the center of our growth.”

Hosting.com will occupy a historic Ford Model T factory retrofitted to their specifications for the expansion. The location takes advantage of a strong network topology, multiple power grids, and close proximity to fully redundant fiber feeds from Tier 1 providers. The datacenter will incorporate Hosting.com Smart Design Standards and provide up to 10 Gb/sec of redundant connectivity for bandwidth routing optimization as well as 200 watts/sq ft of power and cooling. It will be the only datacenter of its kind in downtown Denver.

In addition to hosting and colocation services, the new facility will support Hosting.com’s new cloud hosting platforms, Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Private. Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; and San Francisco, CA. Hosting.com’s cloud and virtualization solutions coupled with a geographically dispersed datacenter network allows their clients to take full advantage of their services for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery solutions for their web enabled businesses and technology infrastructure.

Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the Web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers, content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.

For more information on colocation space for custom-build or suite-arrangement options, please visit: https://secure.hosting.com/platform/data-centers/tour.aspx.

To learn more about Hosting.com, please visit: www.hosting.com.

In addition to Windows Server 2008, Layered Tech offers the broadest range of high-performance, secure Linux and Unix operating systems in the industry, so customers leveraging the speed and flexibility of Astro can choose the OS that best meets their needs and provision the server almost instantaneously.

Terrance Bush, COO and CIO of Layered Tech remarked, ”By adding Windows Server 2008 to our rapid deployment server offerings, customers can stay current with the latest offerings from Microsoft, explore new features with the .NET product offering and leverage a rich web server environment that is more robust and feature-driven than previous versions of IIS. We continue to evaluate the latest and greatest server technologies to determine what will best meet our customers’ needs and support their business goals. We’re excited to make Windows Server 2008 available within our rapid deployment service offering, provide our customers a wide variety of robust operating system options, and deliver powerful servers in less than two hours after selection.”

With Windows Server 2008, customers can develop, deliver and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within their organizations. Astro displays server inventory in real-time and enables near instantaneous server provisioning so Layered Tech customers can easily configure their server, complete the purchase and have it available for use within 90 minutes.

The Windows Server 2008 editions currently available via Astro include:

• Data Center Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications on medium and large servers;
• Standard Edition: the most robust Windows Server operating system to date due to its increased reliability, flexibility and control;
• Enterprise Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications.

Through Astro, customers can quickly customize their rapid deployment servers with a wide range of offerings, including the option to deploy IIS, Plesk Control Panel, Virtual Firewall Solutions and DEFCON bundled managed services. And with Encompass, Layered Tech’s centralized client management portal, customers can manage their account, request support, reboot servers and access other critical information such as bandwidth graphs, alerts and notifications.

Layered Tech launched Astro in January 2009 in its DataBank data center located in Dallas and continues to broaden the autonomous platform so customers can take advantage of additional services within minutes, not hours or even days. It plans to expand Astro into its Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Chicago facilities in the near future. Customers can access Astro and buy servers directly through Layered Tech’s web site and with an open API created by Layered Tech, partners can display inventory and coordinate sales in real-time from their own Web sites.

Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.LayeredTech.com.

CoreLink is providing Lunarpages with high density power and cooling facilities to support the mission-critical web hosting applications that are requiring more processing power to meet the demand of their end-users.

George Natzic, Chief Operating Officer of Lunarpages remarked, ”We selected CoreLink Datacenters because of their high level of expertise in the area of high density datacenter and disaster recovery solutions. Our ability to create and deliver secure, reliable and available solutions is the cornerstone of our offering. We sought a partner that has extensive experience and understands the importance of the volume and depth of services we provide for our clients.”

Geoff Hampson, CEO of CoreLink added, ”Lunarpages provides a high level of service to their end-users, requiring power densities at a minimum of 200 wsf. Working with Lunarpages we developed a strategy to provide a solution that met Lunarpages’ needs, including modular scalability and flexibility to maximize efficiency. Their position as a premier provider of web hosting services is fully supported by CoreLink Datacenters with absolute security and guaranteed availability. We are excited to be working with Lunarpages. This contract demonstrates our commitment to building relationships with our customers based on their needs today and into the future.”

Founded in 1998, Lunarpages is a leading provider of affordable, shared and dedicated Web hosting services worldwide. The privately held company is recognized for its unparalleled customer service, reliability, and quality that helps meet the diverse needs of its more than 150,000 sites. Lunarpages also gives back to the community by offering free web hosting for qualified schools.

Founded in 2007 CoreLink Data Centers offer state-of-the-art facilities, colocation services and the management of mission-critical business applications for high bandwidth networks. The company brings together the best in colocation and reliable network solutions to provide a high quality service for day-to-day network requirements, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. CoreLink’s datacenters are located in Las Vegas, Nevada, Phoenix, Arizona, and Seattle, Washington.

For additional information regarding CoreLink locations, please visit: www.corelink.com.

To learn more about Lunarpages, please visit: www.lunarpages.com.

Sean Kaine of Network Solutions remarked, ”The World Wide Web is moving beyond .com. As new top level domains are being added, the .US domain name extension remains a popular alternative for domain name registrations.”

After the original .com, .net and .org domain name extensions, .US is one of the most popular among United States individuals. The .US domain name is useful in signifying that a business is American owned and operated, as well as for companies for whom the business name .com domain name extension is taken by another organization.

Surrounding the July 4th celebration of Independence Day in the US, Network Solutions will have a banner on their Web site storefront offering access to the $9.99 .US domain name promotion.

Mr. Kaine added, ”Registering a .US domain is just as easy as before. But this discount offers added incentive.”

Network Solutions is a provider of web solutions and domain name registration services, offers a full range of web-related services, including web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions is privately owned by General Atlantic a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great management and build exceptional businesses worldwide.

For more information, please visit: www.networksolutions.com.

Jamie Edwards, operations manager at Kayako stated, ”Kayako has a long established presence in the web hosting and internet service provider community, supplying customer service and live engagement software solutions to providers of all kinds and sizes. We are very excited to be sponsoring the Web Host Boot Camp 2009 virtual conference, a first of its kind for this industry.”

Kayako is a Platinum Sponsor of this summer’s Web Host Boot Camp virtual conference, offering three turn-key, online support desk software solutions: SupportSuite, eSupport, and LiveResponse. The solutions offer an array of help desk management and live chat functionality.

Conference attendees are able to receive 10 percent off Kayako Support Suite, eSupport, and Live Response hosted, leased, or owned licenses. To receive the promotion, customers simply enter the ”WHBC09” coupon code during purchase.

Zachary McClung, president of Web Host Boot Camp added, ”Web Host Boot Camp is a key gathering place for industry professionals, and our attendees derive real value from the opportunity to learn more about new products and services and interact with the industry’s leading vendors. Kayako’s involvement in this summer’s virtual conference is exciting and substantive.”

Unlike traditional conferences, Web Host Boot Camp is exclusively web-based, offering attendees access to high-profile speakers and exciting vendors - all without leaving their desk. Speakers at the inaugural Web Host Boot Camp have included marketing strategist Hartland Ross, hosting industry veteran Kayla Fleming, marketing consultant Douglas Hanna, and many more.

Web Host Boot Camp is the first-ever virtual conference exclusively for web hosting companies, hosting resellers, web designers, and anyone who wants to build a successful web hosting firm. Established by business consultant Zachary McClung, Web Host Boot Camp has everything a physical conference would have except the high expense of traveling, room, and board. Web Host Boot Camp is free to attend. Sponsorships and exhibit booths are available and are limited in number.

To learn more about sponsorship opportunities for future Web Host Boot Camp events, please visit: www.webhostbootcamp.net/sponsors.php.

Octavio Diaz, COO of ServerPront remarked, ”We started this company by listening to customers and that commitment is as strong as ever today. That’s why we’re excited about being on Twitter, because it gives us an unprecedented opportunity to interact with and learn from our customers.”

Twitter has nearly 14 million users in the United States alone, according to a recent survey done by Nielsen Online. Members of Twitter can follow friends, family members, and businesses to keep track of what they are doing, to ask them questions or send them direct messages, and to keep their followers updated on what they are doing.

To further provide service to their customers and Twitter followers, ServerPronto will be regularly tweeting special offers which will save customers money on various ServerPronto hosting packages and mail server packages.

ServerPronto also has added an email the CEO form allowing website visitors to quickly communicate with the CEO with any questions or concerns. Just visit www.serverpronto.com/asktheceo.php to get started.

Mr. Diaz explained, ”It’s all part of ServerPronto’s continuing mission to be as open and accessible to clients as possible.” Every email written to the CEO will be read by him personally.

ServerPronto is part of the ‘Pronto family’ of companies with MailPronto and ColoPronto which have been leading a low-cost revolution in the hosting industry since 2003. Following in those footsteps, ServerPronto is breaking the price barrier for dedicated hosting in secured and reinforced Data Centers with redundant power, lightning fast fiber connections, and 24X7X365 support from a staff with more than 10 years experience building and maintaining servers and computer networks.

Anyone interested in following ServerPronto on Twitter can find them at: www.twitter.com/serverpronto.

To learn more, please visit: www.serverpronto.com.

The Professional and Consulting Services Partner Agreement between the companies details that Denim Group will provide application security services for Rackspace and its clients.

John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Hosting remarked, ”For companies looking to migrate to Hosted and Cloud applications, Denim Group can help evaluate and recommend security strategies in this new business paradigmOur relationship with Denim Group, allows us to extend our consulting services to provide deeper offerings in the application security services market. Denim Group has a track record of proven delivery with Rackspace, and the fact that we’re both located in San Antonio makes this relationship even more beneficial.”

As part of the relationship, Denim Group will conduct code reviews, deliver secure software development training, and evaluate software development strategies for Rackspace clients.

Dan Cornell, Prinicpal of Denim Group added, ”We are pleased to join forces with Rackspace in providing additional support in this area. Hosted and Cloud computing have certain risks, making security more important than ever. By teaming with Rackspace, customers can now have a more complete set of service options in order to secure their custom software.”

Denim Group develops secure software, helps organizations assess and mitigate risk with existing software, and provides training on best practices in software security. Denim Group has worked with a range of Fortune 500 companies and public sector organizations, bringing a focused software development approach to the world of software security. The Company provides clients with secure .NET and Java development services remediates serious software flaws in existing application portfolios. Denim Group also identifies vulnerabilities and quantifies risks that vulnerable applications represent through assessments, code reviews, and application-focused penetration testing. Training complements Denim Group’s development and testing services by helping organizations build an internal competency in secure software development and testing through a combined classroom instruction and e-Learning approach.

Denim Group is a strong contributor to the larger application security community, and has been involved with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) since shortly after its inception. Additionally, Denim Group was ranked 1101 in Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America in 2008.

As a global leader and specialist in hosting, Rackspace Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry’s best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support, furthering the company’s mission to be one of the world’s greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 43 on the list. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).

For more information about Denim Group, please visit: www.denimgroup.com.

To learn more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

From its inception in 2001, AptHost has been providing the web hosting market with quality hosting services to meet the needs of individuals and small businesses. In early 2006, AptHost found its niche in the social media market by providing web hosting services to individuals with social media and video sharing related websites.

Cody McLain, President of AptHost explained, ”The launch of our new website is a landmark achievement for us as we continue to grow rapidly in the hosting community. Our new website is the first step as we begin to increase advertising and improve our internal infrastructure which will ultimately allow us to serve more clients and keep our existing clients happy.”

AptHost plans to focus on rapid development in the upcoming months with plans to open a new office in Bellevue, WA and a planned increase of US based employees to support an influx of new customers. Recently AptHost moved all of its shared, reseller and vps hosting servers to ThePlanet.com after forming an exclusive partnership. The move has increased AptHost’s reliability and uptime with the cooperation of ThePlanet Internet Services.

Mr. McLain added, ”Since the company was recently acquired by RSDV, myself and our new management team has been focusing on providing the highest quality of hosting services and with the improvements we plan to implement before the end of the year, I believe we can become known as one of the highest quality Hosting providers on the market.”

With the addition of AptHost’s new website, customers can enter in coupon code "SUMMER" which will give 25% off any initial order, no matter what billing cycle is selected.

Founded in 2001, AptHost.com started its enterprise on the web in early 2003. Since then, AptHost.com has been a provider of Linux-based web hosting services for Personal, Small, and Medium Sized businesses. AptHost is owned by RSDV.

Founded in 2004, Rancho is a US Public Company with ticker symbol RSDV. RSDV is a diversified development company based in Madera, CA.

For more information about RSDV, please visit: www.rsdv.net.

To learn more, please visit: www.apthost.com.

A large increase in new clients, and especially the increased use of videos on websites, are key drivers behind the strong growth in Internet traffic.

LeaseWeb’s clients use LeaseWeb’s hosting network as well as, among other things, its servers and network equipment in a data center to enable people to visit their websites. This Internet traffic has increased tremendously. LeaseWeb’s network, which includes fiber-optic links and four data centers in the Amsterdam region, extends across the world via telecom carriers and Internet exchanges.

Con Zwinkels, managing director of LeaseWeb explained, ”We have recently seen a strong increased in the use of streaming video in Web environments. Video is a key factor in the growth of Internet traffic handled by our network. In addition, we’re seeing a continuous flow of new clients from the Netherlands, but particularly from other countries, who have come to appreciate LeaseWeb’s qualities and competitive price-quality ratio. To give you an idea, we are currently managing approximately 22,000 servers and we’re adding about 300 servers each month. This growth is significant.”

The network capacity of 750 Gbps is twice the amount of bandwidth that clients actually use. The actual amount of Internet traffic is currently about 375 Gbps. The web page at http://noc.Leaseweb.com has a graph showing the latest developments in LeaseWeb’s daily Internet traffic.

Mr. Zwinkels added, ”Maintaining ample bandwidth is a conscious choice. Our double bandwidth capacity is one of the main reasons why companies with rapidly expanding web environments choose LeaseWeb. Exactly one year ago, LeaseWeb’s hosting network bandwidth capacity was 210 Gbps. That was already significant, certainly compared to the capacity offered by the average hosting provider in the Netherlands. I would not have predicted that we would reach 750 Gbps this soon.”

Bulk users of bandwidth within LeaseWeb’s network include the websites of 123Video (www.123video.nl), Garage TV of Belgium (www.gargetv.be), product comparison site Twenga (www.twenga.com), the German broadcasting company WIGE Media AG (www.wige.de), Turkish media giant (www.haber7.com), and the websites from Turkish companies like Akilli.tv, Turkticaret.net, Tescilet.net-Kurtlarvadisi.com, Internethaber.com, and Super Muzik.

LeaseWeb is an international provider of hosting solutions that is primarily geared towards the professional market. The company is among the top-20 hosting providers worldwide and its services include server virtualization, dedicated servers, collocation, streaming, webhosting, and domain name registration. LeaseWeb is the proprietor of a first-class network that offers a bandwidth of more than 750 Gbps, spanning four data centers in the Amsterdam region via major telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is also present via Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid. This way, LeaseWeb enables companies around the world to create and continue their online presence in a simple and affordable manner. Since its founding in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb has expanded its network to include more than 22,000 servers. LeaseWeb’s clients include Royal Joh. Ensched, OGD, 123Video, Jaap.nl, Relatieplanet, MijnAlbum, Starbucks, Hyves, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Twenga, Direct Wonen, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and Unive.

To learn more, please visit: www.leaseweb.com.

”Behavioral Advertising: Industry Practices and Consumer Expectations” included Ms. Toth outlining Yahoo!’s comprehensive approach to online privacy while offering suggestions for how industry can continue to innovate in a way that aligns with government’s efforts. In setting the stage for her testimony, Ms. Toth, an eleven-year Yahoo! veteran and one of the very first dedicated privacy professionals at an online company, stated ”quite simply, my job is about making sure Yahoo! earns and maintains our users’ trust each and every day.”

Yahoo! recently announced the industry’s leading data retention policy - one that is more privacy-protective than its competitors’ policies, both in terms of scope of data covered and time the web log data is held in identifiable form. Under the new policy Yahoo! will retain the vast majority of its web log data in identifiable form for only 90 days with limited exceptions to help fight fraud, preserve systems security, and meet legal obligations.

When describing Yahoo!’s approach to privacy, Ms. Toth stated, ”Our business depends almost entirely on the trust of our users. At Yahoo!, our approach to privacy couples front-end transparency, meaningful choice, and user education with back-end protections for data that limit how much information and how long personal identifiers are maintained.”

Ms. Toth also spent time outlining Yahoo!’s industry-leading, interest-based advertising offerings, as well as the mechanisms the company offers to help users manage their online experiences.

Ms. Toth added, ”Just as our users value the relevant content we provide, we take a similar approach in the way we deliver advertising. Put simply, customized advertising helps consumers save time and energy since they are more likely to find what they are looking for when we’ve anticipated what they are most interested in.”

In terms of the mechanisms available, Ms. Toth pointed out that every user has access to the Yahoo! Privacy Center, a central location for information about Yahoo!’s privacy practices. A link to the Privacy Center can be found on virtually all of the pages across the Yahoo! family of web sites. The Privacy Center was redesigned in 2008 to improve navigation and provide information on special topics related to Internet privacy. One of the centerpieces of the Privacy Center is the ”opt-out” page, a place where users can easily find and exercise their choice to decline interest-based advertising.

Ms. Toth continued, ”The more our users know about our privacy protection efforts, the more effective those efforts are. Beginning last spring, Yahoo! launched an extensive user education campaign that explained the company’s approach to privacy, customization of services and the tools Yahoo! provides to customers, such as the opt-out, so that they may shape their Internet experience.”

Ms. Toth concluded, ”Experience has taught me that most advances in online consumer protection are driven by industry initiatives and an imperative to protect our users. As Congress considers its role in helping protect consumer privacy online, Yahoo! hopes that legislators will consider an approach that enables providers to keep pace not only with technological advances but with consumer demands and expectations as well.”

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

To learn more, please visit: www.yahoo.com.