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London, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – June 11, 2009 – Provider of high performance trading network solutions, 7ticks, has chosen to partner with European operator of carrier-neutral data centers, Interxion, for equipment housing and connectivity in the Interxion London City data center.

Scott Caudell, CTO and Managing Partner of 7ticks explained, ”We aim to provide the lowest latency connections in the industry, and our partnership with Interxion is an important factor in achieving these goals. Interxion’s London facility provides world-class infrastructure, is located inside the City, and already contains a significant number of capital markets participants. In such a dynamic environment, our customers can improve performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.”

7ticks’ presence will leverage Interxion’s high-specification infrastructure and fast-growing capital markets and exchanges community to facilitate ultra-low latency connectivity and networking services for their financial services customers.

7ticks trading clients appreciate the fact that electronic and algorithmic trading has become a world of thousands of moving parts, and typically, the more technically capable a trading firm, the more value they derive from 7ticks’ technological capabilities and insight.

To fully capitalize on opportunities in the world of electronic trading, 7ticks customers have leveraged the benefits of physically locating near financial exchanges, creating drastic reductions in latency between client servers and the exchanges. 7ticks has built proximity POP’s for many leading exchanges, and whenever possible, co-locates in the same building as the exchange presence, running direct cross-connects into the 7ticks network infrastructure.

Interxion’s data centers provide a highly secure physical location with advanced infrastructure for mission-critical applications. High-density power configurations from 5 kW up to 30 kW are available as standard, with industry-leading Quality of Service levels and availability and 24×7 secure access to equipment.

Greg McCulloch, Interxion UK MD added, ”7ticks has built an excellent reputation for delivering high performance low latency solutions for its customers, and we are delighted to have them on board. We look forward to building our relationship with them as we realise the full potential of Interxion’s London City data center as a leading financial hub.”

7ticks is headquartered in Chicago, where the company pioneered managed proximity colocation services for Chicago`s electronically traded products and exchanges. The 7ticks team provides electronic trading infrastructure design, procurement, installation, and hosting services that are enhanced by ongoing management, support, and monitoring solutions. Proprietary trading groups, clearing firms, global investment banks, brokers, market makers, hedge funds, and independent software vendors (ISV`s) choose 7ticks for industry leading network performance, reliability, monitoring insight, and cost savings.

Interxion is a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centers. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 24 carrier-neutral data centers located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion’s data centers offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks.

To learn more about 7ticks, please visit: www.7ticks.com.

For more information about Interxion, please visit: www.interxion.com

Orlando, Florida – (The Hosting News) – June 11, 2009 – Provider of Shared, Reseller, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting solutions with over 30,000 customers, Surpass Hosting, has launched its SSL security promotion, offering 256-bit SSL certificates for only $20 per year.

Kayla Fleming, vice president of sales, Surpass Hosting remarked, ”The benefits of maintaining current and valid SSL certificates are far reaching and integral to the security of online merchants and other sites handling private data. By offering low-cost, installed SSL certificates, we are able to encourage our customers to adopt this important layer of security without the typical hassle and expense.”

Designed for online merchants and websites handling potentially sensitive information, the RapidSSL certificates add a layer of security and trust to online transactions. SSL certificates work by authenticating SSL-connections, proving that the website is the legitimate recipient of sensitive data. 256-bit SSL certificates offer the industry standard in security protection.

Surpass Hosting technicians will install and configure certificates at no additional charge for existing hosting customers. For customers who do not use the company for hosting services, technicians will provide guidance instruction on installation. In order to utilize the certificates, Surpass Hosting customers are required to have a dedicated IP address (to which the certificate is assigned). Dedicated IP addresses are available for subscription separately.

Ms. Fleming added, ”These certificates are for absolutely anyone who wants to work with a great, reputable company willing to help them out. We’re leveraging our impeccable customer service.”

Customers following Surpass Hosting on Twitter get an additional $5 off the yearly fee. To receive the discount, customers simply enter their Twitter username into the comments box during the order process. The discount will be multiplied by the number of years for which the SSL certificate is purchased.

Surpass Hosting offers a wide variety of hosting options. Its most popular, shared hosting, starts as low as $4 per month. All shared hosting plans are powered by servers with Quad-Core technology and housed in the company’s private Orlando, Fla. data center. The 12,000 square feet data facility offers more than 32 gigabits of network backbone capacity and is constructed with concrete masonry perimeter walls capable of resisting Category 5 storms.

Known for its strong and vibrant user community of 30,000, Surpass Hosting is a leading provider of Shared, Reseller, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting solutions. It offers world class customer support, open and frequent customer communication, as well as highly competitive hosting plan configurations. Surpass Hosting utilizes Level3 and TW Telecom to provide network connectivity.

To learn more about Surpass Hosting’s SSL certificate promotion, please visit: www.surpasshosting.com/ssl/.

For more about Surpass Hosting, please visit: www.surpasshosting.com.

Lake Forest, California – (The Hosting News) – June 11, 2009 – Payment Card Industry (PCI) all-in-one solution, YesPCI, has partnered with ControlScan, provider of PCI compliance and security solutions, in a new partnership enabling YesPCI to more thoroughly meet all PCI compliance and security needs for online merchants.

ControlScan will provide YesPCI merchants with full-service PCI scanning and security services. ControlScan is certified to provide compliance for the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS), a required standard for merchants accepting credit card transactions on their websites.

Jason Taylor, executive director at YesPCI remarked, ”In partnering with ControlScan, we are able to deliver a truly all-in-one hosting and payment processing solution for online merchants. By leveraging our enterprise-level infrastructure and ControlScan’s expertise in PCI compliance, our customers benefit from a fully-managed, integrated, and certified secure hosting environment. We’re resolving the unnecessary anxiety faced by online merchants.”

YesPCI merchants will have access to ControlScan’s full-service PCI solution, which includes a Self Assessment Questionnaire tool, on-demand security scanning and access to ControlScan’s merchant portal. Merchants can also take advantage of ControlScan’s security certification seals, which typically help e-merchants realize an increase in online sales and a decrease in shopping cart abandonment.

David Koziol, director of sales at ControlScan noted, ”This partnership allows YesPCI to complement its hosting and processing services with ControlScan’s PCI compliance solutions to help their merchants comply with the standards and help protect their customers’ personal information.”

Launched in 2009, YesPCI provides an all-in-one solution for online merchants, providing dedicated hosting, merchant processing, and payment security compliance. YesPCI is a joint venture between Colocation America Corporation, a provider of colocation services, and Total Apps, Inc., a provider of business merchant services.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, ControlScan provides Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and security solutions designed exclusively for small- to medium-sized e-commerce and retail merchants, which make up 98% of all merchants. ControlScan provides easy-to-use web-based security solutions and a personal level of service that make it easy and cost-effective for these businesses to analyze, remediate and validate compliance. The company’s core offerings are complemented by a number of value-added products that help merchants maintain a high security posture and market their achievements to shoppers, most notably Breach Protection insurance and Verified Secure security seals. ControlScan is the solution of choice for small merchants because it offers security solutions that are built specifically with the small merchant in mind, a personal level of service and the best results.

To learn more about YesPCI, please visit: www.YesPCI.com.

For more information about ControlScan, please visit: www.controlscan.com

Southampton, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – June 11, 2009 –
Web hosted businesses are offered new value, with PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc.’s 30% cost-saving guarantee, through a new offer from the UK hosting services firm.

PEER 1 recently launched its managed hosting operations in the UK and is using the power of its global SuperNetwork through 21 POPs and 16 data centres worldwide to deliver cost-savings of up to 30% for hosting customers. Terms of the 30% cost-saving guarantee include switching from an equivalent hosting package on proof of invoice from another provider and switching to a 24-month contract with PEER1. Hosting customers can choose to engage either the ValuePro Hosting Bundle or 30% cost-saving guarantee from PEER 1 UK.

The offer includes a free consultation with a PEER 1 Solutions Engineer to review the customer’s current hosting plan and a one-hour consultation with a migration expert to provide planning and analysis if needed. To take-up the offer, which is available until the end of June 2009, hosting customers should call 0800 840 7490 and present a recent invoice from their current hosting provider.

Dominic Monkhouse, UK MD at PEER 1 remarked, ”PEER 1 does hosting differently – we don’t believe customers should be locked into expensive contracts with server capacity they don’t need and SLAs that offer no protection against downtime. For many web businesses, hosting uses over half of their operating IT cost; cutting this back by 30% delivers a serious saving through a straightforward switchover. We’re more than happy to put our service where our mouth is. PEER 1 is able to make efficiency savings through green servers, we own our own content delivery network and through our extensive peering agreements worldwide, we can offer customers the best terms for hosting in the industry, backed up with our standard 100% uptime guarantee.”

PEER 1 in the UK is also offering a ‘ValuePro Hosting Bundle’ including FirstCall Support, SAN backup, vulnerability scans, 100% network uptime SLA and access to the high performance SuperNetwork – all for 179 pounds per month. The ValuePro bundle is designed to take the complexity out of running an online business and provide peace of mind that security, availability and reliability are taken care of.

PEER 1 currently has over 500 customers in EMEA and revenue in excess of 3milllion pounds making it one of Europe’s largest IT hosting providers. The company offers managed hosting through PEER 1 and dedicated hosting through, ServerBeach, which is billed as ”by geeks, for geeks.”

PEER 1 believes in the limitless opportunity of the Internet, and the business growth potential it provides for its more than 10,000 customers. As a global online IT hosting provider, PEER 1 offers a reliable high performance Internet network supporting scalable managed hosting, dedicated hosting through the ServerBeach brand, and co-location solutions. Backed by its 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support, PEER 1 ensures customers online presence is always fast, always available. Since 1999, PEER 1 has grown to include 16 state-of-the-art data centres and points-of-presence throughout North America and Europe. The company’s headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered in Southampton, UK. PEER 1 shares are traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX.

To learn more, please visit: www.peer1.com or www.peer1hosting.co.uk.

Orlando, Florida – (The Hosting News) – June 10, 2009 – Provider of managed hosting services, HostDime, is offering an e-commerce security promotion offering 256bit yearly SSL certificates for $20. Individuals need not be existing HostDime customers to take advantage of the special.

Emmanuel Vivar, CEO of HostDime explained, ”HostDime has always taken the position that as a web hosting provider, it is our role to entice our clients to adopt and deploy industry standard security solutions. By providing SSL certificates as part of this promotion, we hope our customers will recognize that implementing this type of security can be affordable and painless. Many think SSL certificates are reserved solely for online stores, but SSL certificates are utilized far beyond the shopping cart – from personal browser security to secure email signatures, SSL offers vital protection.”

SSL Certificates offer a variety of security benefits for websites handling potentially sensitive transactions and private data, such as credit card numbers or contact information. 256-bit encryption represents the industry standard of encryption for security certificates.

HostDime’s technicians will install purchased SSL certificates for customers at no additional charge. Technicians will even provide free guidance to individuals taking advantage of the promotional pricing who are not HostDime web hosting customers.

Twitter users who follow HostDime receive an additional $5 off the $20 price, by simply entering their Twitter username into the comments section of the order at checkout. The $5 discount is multiplied by the number of years for which the certificate is purchased. (A five-year certificate would receive $25 off).

To utilize SSL, each enabled domain is required to be issued a dedicated IP address. HostDime offers dedicated IP addresses for $4.00 per month for shared hosting, $3.00 per month for reseller hosting, and $2.00/month for dedicated server clients.

HostDime is a privately owned, leading website hosting provider offering reliable, secure managed hosting services that cater to a range of clients, from entry-level to enterprise-level operations. HostDime owns and operates its own data center in Orlando, Fla. With a client base of more than 700,000 hosted domains on 3,000 servers, HostDime presently ranks among the top 50 biggest web hosting companies in the world.

To learn more about the special promotion, please visit: www.hostdime.com/specials/ssl.

For more information about HostDime, please visit: www.hostdime.com.