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SWsoft Partners With Fotolia
May 24, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Server virtualization and automation software provider SWsoft (swsoft.com) announced on Wednesday it has signed a strategic partnership with Fotolia (fotolia.com), a public marketplace for royalty-free stock images. The agreement will enable SWsoft hosting providers to resell Fotolia's database of more than 600,000 inexpensive, royalty free stock images and illustrations.
"Most Web sites and blogs need images and with Fotolia's unique technology and service provider business model, we aim to provide a solution at a very attractive price point," says Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft. "Now, with our special arrangement with Fotolia, hosting service providers can come to us directly to offer literally hundreds of thousands of high quality images at bargain prices to their end customers."
Fotolia offers rapidly growing databases of royalty-free images, photos and illustrations. Users can purchase images to be used as long and as often as they wish for Web site illustrating, digital advertising, blogs, newsletters, print campaigns, package designs, or printing on T-shirts and mugs. This is made possible with a standard royalty-free license with prices starting at $1.00 per image.
Web hosting providers can receive additional discounts and promotional opportunities through SWsoft, adding royalty free images and illustrations to their hosting businesses. 1&1 Internet is currently generating additional revenue by using Fotolia's royalty free image service.
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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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