RatePoint Accounts Permanently Closing on February 02, 2012
RatePoint Accounts Permanently Closing on February 02, 2012. Following is the notifications that sent out to their users:
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Important Message Regarding Discontinuation of RatePoint Services
RatePoint customers, partners, and friends:
As some of you may know, RatePoint’s assets and technologies are currently being acquired. Unfortunately this means that all RatePoint accounts will soon be closed. Effective February 2, 2012, all RatePoint services, including Reputation Management, Email Marketing, Surveys, and Product Reviews will be discontinued. Your ability to access your RatePoint account will end at this time.
However, we are happy to suggest a viable alternative to RatePoint. For customers that want to continue using a good reputation management platform, we highly recommend Customer Lobby. We’ve arranged for them to waive the activation fee, provide discounted rates, and import existing reviews for any RatePoint user! Please read this article, call 866-718-9549, or contact ratepointtransfer@customerlobby.com for more info.
We recommend removing all RatePoint widgets, buttons, seals, and signup boxes from your website as soon as possible, along with any links to any ratepoint.com sites. If you have any data you’d like to retrieve from your RatePoint account — such as contacts, business reviews, or product reviews — you should do that on or before the morning of February 2 at the very latest. After that time, you will be unable to retrieve your information.
For more information, feel free to email support@ratepoint.com or see the help articles below:
- How do I export my contacts?
- How do I export my Business Reviews?
- How do I export my Product Reviews?
- I’m a RatePoint partner. How does this effect me?
- I prepaid annually for RatePoint; what do I do?
Thanks for your support; we wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
RatePoint, Inc.
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SoftLayer and The Planet Begin Merged Operations
Dallas—November 16, 2010—SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, and The Planet® today began merged operations under the SoftLayer name.
The transaction merging the companies was completed on November 9, creating the largest hosting services provider in the world. The new SoftLayer brings customers the full-range of infrastructure as a service from one source, with fully-automated solutions and innovation, greater technical expertise, expanded geographic diversity, and higher customer value through increased economies of scale. Details include:
76,000+ deployed servers
10 data centers
24,000+ customer accounts in 110+ countries
More than 1,500G of total connectivity
“Our first priority over the last few months has been to create the most seamless transition possible for our customers,” said Lance Crosby, continuing Chief Executive Officer of SoftLayer. “We’re operating as one company, but the only differences customers should notice will be the opportunities they have as we offer more options to more people, with even more value. All products and services continue to be provided, supported, and managed as before.”
Existing Planet accounts and services remain unchanged and accessible through the same control portals that Planet customers have used previously. In addition, the company has greatly integrated the SoftLayer and Planet portals to provide an easier transition for all customers. Legacy Planet customers can log into the SoftLayer Customer Portal with their Planet username and password, access information about their systems on either platform from within either portal, and move between both portals without signing in and out.
New products and services will only be offered on the SoftLayer platform, where the company will consolidate its offerings over time to leverage its advantages in automation and advanced networking architecture. However, legacy Planet customers will not be required to migrate their services, allowing them to decide when such a transition makes the best sense for their individual goals and needs.
“With our merged size, strategic advantages, and market position, we are ready to bring even more changes to the industry than either of us could have alone,” said George Karidis, SoftLayer Chief Strategy Officer, who is also serving as Chief Integration Officer. “We’ve worked hard to get ready for this day. I’m proud and, frankly, impressed by how far we are toward full integration. We’re hitting the ground running, already at a point that many merged companies don’t reach for months.”
SoftLayer’s new executive team brings together leaders from both companies: Mr. Crosby; Mr. Karidis; Tom Blair, Senior Vice President, Sales; Nathan Day, Chief Scientist; Sam Fleitman, Chief Operating Officer; Suzy Fulton, General Counsel; Mike Jones, Chief Financial Officer; and Duke Skarda, Chief Technology Officer.
DH Capital served as exclusive financial advisor to SoftLayer in connection with the merger transaction.
About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer is the innovation leader in on-demand web hosting and data center services. As the largest hosting company in the world, SoftLayer lets customers create dedicated, cloud, or seamless hybrid computing environments, leveraging the company’s world-class data center facilities in Dallas, Houston, Seattle, and Washington D.C., and network Points of Presence nationwide. SoftLayer integrates and automates all elements of its platform, empowering enterprises of any size with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading Customer Portal and Open API. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638.
Source: http://www.softlayer.com/press/release/501/softlayer-and-the-planet-begin-merged-operations
The Planet is now SoftLayer
LovingTech forum for Sale – BIG PROFITS TO BE MADE
Ryan (current administrator of LovingTech.net) wishes to step down as admin and therefore sell LovingTech. Forum has around 40000 posts and 5500 threads. There are 2000+ registered members in the forum. You can bid at Flippa:
$1426 REV – 40,000 POSTS! Bespoke Webmaster / Tech Forums BIG PROFITS TO BE MADE
More details about LovingTech:
[1] Google PageRank: 3
[2] Alexa Rank: 170,575
[3] Links in Google: 42
[4] Links in Yahoo: 12,607
[5] Listed in DMOZ directory
[6] Claimed Traffic: Page Views Per Month – 40000, Unique Per Month – 10000
Why this forum is a great opportunity?
- Financially rewarding topic/subject
- Fantastic content, rich niche
How will the site make money?
- Adverts sold on a per-forum basis
- “Sticky thread” advertisements
- Contextual advertising
- Text links
Sticky threads are forum threads that the user has paid a fixed price per month to have their thread sticky.
Imagine a marketplace where everyone will go out of their neck to get best coverage and thus pay extra. Unfortunately LovingTech never looked for advertisers as it was a non-profit site, but they privately asked LovingTech to which it made sense to cover any costs we had. Please refer to the main revenue section.
You can place your bid at Flippa
cPanel for Windows – cPanel Enkompass
cPanel, the leading Web hosting control panel software provider, has released their beta product Enkompass for Windows Server 2008. Enkompass installs on one IIS7 Server and reaches out to host web sites on multiple web servers, mail servers and database servers and we can add servers easily to expand our capacity.
cPanel is planning to provide almost all features which are currently available in cPanel/WHM. They have not committed however. Below are the expected features of Enkompass:
Administrator/Reseller Interface Features:
[1] Server configuration
- Admin Password
- Tweak Settings
- Manage Servers
[2] Support
- Support Center
[3] Reseller
- Reseller Center
- Show Reseller Accounts
[4] Languages
- Clone/Create a New Language
- Upload a Language File
- Download/Delete a Language File
[5] Backup
- Configure Backup
- Restore Backups
[6] Account information
- List Accounts
- List Parked Domains
- List Subdomains
[7] Account functions
- Create a New Account
- Modify an Account
- Password Modification
- Quota Modification
- Suspend Unsuspend Accounts
- Terminate an Account
- Restart Users Websites
[8] Multi – Account Functions
- Modify/Upgrade Multiple Accounts
- Terminate Multiple Accounts
[9] Plans
- Add Plans
- Edit/Delete Plans
- Copy plans
[10] DNS Functions
- Add DNS Zone
- Delete a Zone
- Edit MX entry
- Park a Domain
[11] MySQL Services
- Change a MySQL User Password
- Check/Repair a Database
[12] MS SQL Services
- Change a MS SQL User Password
- Repair a MS SQL Database
[13] IP Functions
- Add a New IP Address
- Show IP Address Usage
- Show/Delete current IPs
- Add Reserved IPs
- Edit/Delete Reserved IPs
[14] System Health
- Current CPU Usage
- Current Disk Usage
- Current Running Processes
[15] Themes
- Clone Theme
[16] cPanel
- Modify WHM News
[17] Server SSL / TLS
- Generate/Request a SSL Certificate
- Install a SSL Certificate
- Activate a SSL Certificate
- Manage FTP Bindings
End user features:
[1] Preferences
- Getting Started Wizard
- Change User Password
- Update Contact Info
- Change Language
- Branding Editor
- Change Style
- Shortcuts
[2] Mail
- Submit a Support Request
- Email Accounts
- Log into Webmail
- Mail Forwarders
- Auto Responders
- Default Address
- Mailing Lists
- MX Entry
[3] Files
- Restore System Backups
- User Backups
- File Manager
- Disk Space Usage
- FTP Accounts
[4] Logs
- Latest Visitors
[5] Security
- Password Protect Directories
- IP Deny Manager
- SSL/TLS Manager
[6] Domains
- Sub Domains
- Addoon Domains
- Parked Domains
- Redirect Pages
[7] Databases
- Create MySQL Database
- Manage MySQL User
- Create MS SQL Database
- Manage MS SQL Users
[8] Advanced
- MIME Types
- Error Pages
- Directory Browsing
- Network Tools
- WebHost Manager
- Restart Websites
For more details, you may visit this article.
Kailash Aghera
SmarterMail 6.x released
Smartertools has released Smartermail 6.x with some new features. Smartermail is widely used mail server software in web hosting field. Some the features of Smartermail 6 are:
- SmarterMail 6.x provides businesses and hosting environments with powerful enterprise-level features and collaboration tools, including:
- Smartphone synchronization through Exchange ActiveSync, SyncML, and SmarterMail Sync technologies
- 97% antispam out-of-the-box that delivers comprehensive protection from spam and phishing messages
- Advanced Outlook synchronization and collaboration
- Robust antivirus out-of-the-box that prevents costly downtime
- Detailed reporting at the server, domain, and mailbox levels to provide insight into mail server performance
- Events and notifications that help simplify and automate tasks
- Advanced message archiving compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA regulations
- Leading Web-based interface for administrators and users
You can download free edition from Here
eNom Launches RichContent Website Service
ICANN accredited registrar, Enom Inc. announced, in a presentation at HostingCon, that it has launched its new RichContent service, a subscription service designed to provide website operators with article, blog and video content to supplement their existing site content.
The service, available as a reseller service to resellers of eNom’s web hosting and domain registration services, as well as to hosting providers that don’t resell eNom’s other services, provides website operators with access to an enormous base of content that can be inserted into their own sites via a selection of widgets.
The objective of the service, says Sheridan, is to enable hosting providers to offer their customers a means of better engaging visitors to their sites, creating more successful projects among hosting customers.
“If we do our job right,” says Sheridan, “this is so easy and such a good end user experience that, basically, the compelling content will drive enough end user engagement that I want to start seeing a lift on hosting renewals.”
For more details on Enom RichContent, follow this link.
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