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March 18, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Advanced Communications (advcomm.net), a developer of Windows hosting automation software, announced on Thursday that it has signed a strategic agreement with SmarterTools (smartertools.com), a developer of Internet related software. Under the terms of the deal, users of Advanced Communications' flagship Hosting Controller control panel will receive a free SmarterMail and SmarterStats product license. The company said the products complement each other and give Web hosts access to important Web hosting components.
"We are committed to providing our users with a complete out-of-the-box solution for Web hosting automation, eliminating the guesswork and frustration of mixing and matching disparate applications," says Syed Nauman Hashmi, CEO of Advanced Communication. "SmarterTool's SmarterStats and SmarterMail Suite and Hosting Controller jointly support the entire Web hosting workflow, from provisioning to powerful mail and stats services, thus giving the most cost effective solution to the Web hosting industry."
SmarterMail is an email management solution. SmarterStats is a log analysis package for individual users and small to medium-sized businesses.
"Our goal is to provide high quality products for a very reasonable price to the Web hosting industry," says Steve Roth, sales director of SmarterTools, Inc. "By integrating our two products, we are working together to realize the full promise of cost effective hosting solution for the Web hosting industry."
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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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