(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Proving the old proverb about March, "in like a lion, out like a lamb," the final week of March has been rather quiet in terms of sales and promotions, with a few exceptions. ResellerClub has chosen this week to cap off its birthday promotion, WebhostGIANT announced a half-off promotion, and Host Department is offering 20 off its shared hosting for Easter.
ResellerClub Announces "Big Birthday Bash"
On Wednesday, one of the world's largest registrars, ResellerClub (www.resellerclub.com), announced the start of its annual "Big Birthday Bash" promotion, running through the month of March until the 15th of April. Celebrating its third birthday, ResellerClub is offering .in domains for $3.99, .tel for $9.99, .mobi for $6.99, and .biz for $3.99 annually.
Host Department Offers 20 Percent-Off Shared Hosting for Easter
Web hosting and domain name registrar Host Department (www.hostdepartment.com) is offering a 20 percent discount on all its shared hosting plans for Easter, giving customers cheaper access to robust web hosting environment running on Quad-core Intel Xeon Blade-servers backed up with an Acronis disaster recovery system, and a multi-tiered OC48 network backbone.
Those buying "Premium Hosting" or "No Limit" hosting plans can access the deal using coupon code "EASTER09". Furthermore, No Limit plan subscribers will get web hosting accounts with no limit features including unlimited storage, bandwidth, domains, sub-domains, e-mail accounts, MySQL databases, sub-FTP accounts, and dedicated IPs, starting at only $3.95 per month.
WebhostGIANT Announces Limited Time 50 Percent Off Web Hosting
Web hosting provider WebhostGIANT (www.webhostgiant.com) is offering 50% off on all web hosting plans for a limited time, with its "Cheap Hosting Economy Plan," which starts at $2.79 and "Multiple Domain Hosting," which starts at $4.59 per month. Both packages, according to the company, offer a wide variety of features, and come complete with free setup, unlimited web space, bandwidth, email accounts and subdomains.
Pride Hosting Runs Draw For A Nintendo Wii
Launching this week, Pride Hosting (www.hostwithpride.com) is offering website visitors the chance to win a free Nintendo Wii. A new UK web host specialising in affordable ecommerce and professional web hosting, Pride Hosting offers 20GB of disk space, unlimited bandwidth, the ability to host unlimited domain names and email accounts, 60 free software applications, and a free domain name, all for £7.95 (or about $11.50) a month.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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