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Mirapoint Partners with Blackboard October 3, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Secure messaging solutions provider Mirapoint (mirapoint.com) and education industry software and service provider Blackboard (blackboard.com) announced on Monday that they have partnered to provide a hosted email service to K-12 schools, colleges and universities. The Mirapoint-Blackboard partnership provides a full-featured email and calendar system for both students and faculty. This new offering enables academic institutions to maintain ownership of messages, control of data storage and is free of advertising. Additionally, the offering provides round-the-clock email appliance and network management by a hosting team that guarantees availability service level agreements. "As opportunities for e-Learning continue to grow, Blackboard technology is providing new ways for faculty and students to teach and learn, as well as more effectively communicate and collaborate," says Barry Ariko, CEO of Mirapoint. "We are pleased to work with Blackboard to provide a secure, scalable email solution that offers all members of the education community a great deal of flexibility without having to maintain or manage the system." The Mirapoint-Blackboard hosted email solution offers single sign-on with the Blackboard Academic Suite, which is used by millions of people to access course materials and collaborate with peers and faculty online. Nearly 450 clients have their Blackboard e-Learning programs hosted by Blackboard.
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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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