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RatePoint Accounts Permanently Closing on February 02, 2012

Kailash — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:06:41 +0000

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:

Thanks for your support; we wish you all the best.

Sincerely,
RatePoint, Inc.
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Yahoo! 360° is closing on July 13, 2009

SoftLayer and The Planet Begin Merged Operations

Kailash — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:16:31 +0000

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

Kailash — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:06:12 +0000

GI Partners announced the completion of the merger of its portfolio companies SoftLayer Technologies, the innovative on-demand data services provider, and The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting.

The merger creates the largest private hosting and cloud services provider in the world. Its 24,000 customers in 110 countries will be served by 13 facilities across the United States and Europe that house 76,000 servers under management. The newly combined company will operate under the SoftLayer brand and offer a complete range of solutions, including dedicated and managed hosting, cloud services (including hybrid environments), and colocation. This breadth of offerings, combined with SoftLayer’s advanced networking and automation, will provide customers with new levels of scalability and innovation. Organizations of all sizes, from independent developers to large enterprises, will gain considerable operational value from the flexibility and global infrastructure of the combined company.

This combination represents continued activity by GI Partners in the rapidly-evolving internet infrastructure industry. In August of 2010, GI Partners purchased all of the equity in SoftLayer in partnership with the SoftLayer management team. Since 2006, GI has owned a controlling interest in The Planet. The firm has made several related investments, most notably Digital Realty Trust in 2002, The Telx Group in 2006, and ViaWest in 2010.

Due to GI’s existing ownership positions in SoftLayer and The Planet, the management teams have had significant time to prepare for the transition. “SoftLayer and The Planet come together with a shared and deep commitment to innovation, to excellence, to our teams, and to meeting customers’ needs like no one else,” said Lance Crosby, who will continue as SoftLayer’s Chief Executive Officer. “Those values will continue to guide the new SoftLayer, as we make the transition as seamless — and advantageous — as possible for customers, employees, and all stakeholders.”

Richard Magnuson, Executive Managing Director of GI Partners, said, “The combination of these two powerful platforms creates a global leader with improved scale, accelerated innovation, broader product offerings, complementary strengths, and unparalleled management depth. As active investors in the industry, we look forward to working with Lance and his team to build an even stronger company in the future.”

The debt financing for the transaction, which provides SoftLayer with substantial liquidity to fund growth, was arranged by a syndicate led by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and RBC Capital Markets, and includes Societe Generale and Bank of America Merrill Lynch as Co-Documentation Agents.

About SoftLayer

Founded in 2005, SoftLayer provides global, on-demand datacenter and hosting services from facilities across the U.S. We leverage best-in-class connectivity and technology to innovate industry-leading, fully automated solutions that empower enterprises with complete access, control, security, and scalability. With this insightful strategy and our peerless technical execution, we have created the truly virtual data center—and made traditional hosting and managed/unmanaged services obsolete. For more information, visit www.softlayer.com.

About The Planet

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small and medium–sized businesses and 12 million web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Essential Managed Services, ManagedHosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world–class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

About GI Partners

Established in 2001, GI Partners is a leading private investment firm that focuses on control-oriented investments in asset-backed businesses and properties located in North America and Western Europe. The firm is active in a number of key sectors, including asset-backed IT services, specialty healthcare and education, leisure, commercial real estate, hospitality, retail and financial services. Since inception, the firm has secured $4 billion of capital commitments from recognized institutional private equity and real estate investors in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. It is currently investing from GI Partners Fund III. For more information, please visit www.gipartners.com.

Source: http://www.softlayer.com/press/release/481/gi-partners-announces-completion-of-merger-between-softlayer-and-the-planet-

LovingTech forum for Sale – BIG PROFITS TO BE MADE

Kailash — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:06:35 +0000

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

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cPanel for Windows – cPanel Enkompass

Kailash — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:53:21 +0000

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

Kailash — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:19:36 +0000

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

Kailash — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:12:12 +0000

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.

Yahoo GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009

Kailash — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:12:59 +0000

Yahoo GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009. Today, I have received following email from them:

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Dear Yahoo! UK & Ireland GeoCities customer,

We’re writing to let you know that Yahoo! UK & Ireland GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009.

We have enjoyed hosting web sites created by Yahoo! users all over the world, and we’re proud of the community you’ve built. However, we have decided to focus on helping our customers explore and build relationships online in other ways.

On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files.

What You Need to Do
If you’re no longer using your web site, you don’t need to do a thing, but if you’d like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you’ve posted online, you need to act now by downloading your files to your own computer.

To quickly download your published files and images, visit your GeoCities web site, right-click on each page, and choose Save Page As… from the menu that appears. Choose a location on your computer to save your files, then click OK or Save to save the HTML and images associated with your page. Learn more about downloading your files.

With your pages and images saved offline, you can re-create your site with any hosting provider you like, such as BT Web Hosting.

Please be aware that after October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and will not be recoverable. If you’d like to save your files, you must download them now.

Another Way to Connect Online
As a Yahoo! customer, you can now use your Yahoo! profile as a central point to manage your identity, activities, and interests across Yahoo! and make it easy to connect and share with the people who matter to you most.

You can get started anytime by adding your picture and other personal details, then invite friends and family to connect — even start your own blog. You’ll be able to follow the online activities of your connections across Yahoo!.

Setting up your profile is easy, and it’s free! Visit your profile now.

Don’t Wait
We encourage you to save your files now. If you need assistance, please visit the help centre.

We want to thank you for being a GeoCities customer, and hope you continue to enjoy our other Yahoo! UK & Ireland services.

Best regards,

The Yahoo! UK & Ireland GeoCities team
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Fortunately, I do not have any important data on it but if you are using Yahoo GeoCities, you will need to download all your pages and images before they close this service.

Kailash

Yahoo! 360° is closing on July 13, 2009

Kailash — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:56:30 +0000

You might have received the following email in your inbox if you are using Yahoo! 360°:
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Dear Yahoo! 360° customer,

On July 13, 2009, Yahoo! 360° will be closing and your new profile on Yahoo! will become the place where you connect with the people who matter to you most. With only fourteen days remaining, it’s important for you to save any information you’d like to keep, and begin transferring your blog to your new profile. Anything not saved from your Yahoo! 360° account before July 13, 2009, will no longer be accessible. Here are some details to guide you through the transition.

What you need to move to your new profile
Your 360° information will not be automatically transferred to your new profile on Yahoo!. To move your profile photo, nickname, and any personal status messages, you’ll need to first save or download them before July 13, 2009. Once you’ve saved this information, you can later upload it to your new profile. Be sure to head over to your new profile soon so you can make it look just the way you want.

What to do with your blog
Be sure to take your blog with you as part of this transition process. To help, we’ve built a blogging tool for you in your new profile on Yahoo!. We’ve made the move easy; it takes just one click to take your posts with you. If you’d prefer to take your blog to a different website instead, you can download an archive of your posts and transfer them to your new blog space. Click here to read more about your blogging options.

Some content will not be supported in your new profile
Please note that your new profile will not allow mature content. Also, you will not be able to take the following with you to your new profile: your 360° inbox, testimonials, friend categories, local reviews, RSS feeds, tags, or custom theme. If you want to retain any of this material, we strongly recommend that you return to your pages and download it before July 13, 2009.

Your privacy settings are retained
Your privacy is important to us. Both your new profile and your blog contents will be set to “private”. This means unless you change the setting, you will be the only one able to see your profile.

To help you through this transition, we’ve compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions and resources here.

Thank you for using Yahoo! 360°. We look forward to seeing you in your new profile on Yahoo!.

The Yahoo! Profile Team
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Yes, Yahoo is going to close Yahoo 360 service from July 13, 2009 onwards. If you have any information on Yahoo 360 then make sure to save or download your existing 360 information before this date to keep from losing it.

Kailash

Microsoft may buy Yahoo search business

Kevin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:18:36 +0000

Software major Microsoft is in discussions to buy the online search business of Yahoo for about $20 billion, media report says. A few months back, Yahoo had spurned a takeover bid from Microsoft worth more than $47 billion.

“Software giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion . The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo. But there is no intention of Microsoft tabling another takeover bid for the web giant, after its aborted $47.5-billion offer this summer,”

The Sunday Times has reported. According to the report, it is thought that Jonathan Miller, ex-chairman and chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media, have been lined up to lead the new management team. “Senior directors at Microsoft and Yahoo are understood to have agreed the broad terms of a deal, but there is no guarantee that it will succeed,” the publication said in a report published online on Sunday.

The Sunday Times said that under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5billion facility to the Miller and Levinsohn management team. The duo would raise an additional $5-billion from external investors.

This cash would be used to buy convertible preference shares and warrants which would give it a holding in excess of 30 per cent of Yahoo, the report noted. “The external investors would also have the right to appoint three of Yahoo’s 11 board directors. The talks with Yahoo involve Microsoft obtaining a 10-year operating agreement to manage the search business. It would also receive a two-year call option to buy the search business for $20 billion. That would leave Yahoo to run its own e-mail, messaging, and content service,” The Sunday Times reported.

The report added that it is expected that the operating agreement would boost Yahoo’s income by as much as $2 billion per annum. Interestingly, the Microsoft buyout offer had valued Yahoo shares at $33 per piece and ever since the scrip has plunged to below nine dollars.

The takeover bid was mainly opposed by Yahoo’s chief executive Jerry Yang, who earlier this month announced his decision to step down from the post but would remain a part of the company. Further, Yang, who is also the co-founder, had been pinning hopes on an advertising deal with Google but the deal fell through mainly due to regulatory concerns.

Even though Microsoft and Yahoo remain profitable, both companies are way behind Google on the web. “Over half the $40-billion plus online-advertising market comes from internet-search ads, and analysts estimate Google has about 77 per cent of spending compared with Yahoo’s 18 per cent and Microsoft’s five per cent,” the report said.

Original Source: business-standard.com

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