May 13, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Netfirms (netfirms.com) announced earlier this week that it has upgraded its hosting plans and launched Netfirms Picture Pro, a Web-based service that allows users to build their own online photo gallery with capacity of up to 5,000 photos.
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“As feature-rich shopping carts, photo galleries, discussion boards and blogs are becoming very popular among our customers, we’ve upgraded both Web space and monthly bandwidth to support the growing demand,” says Thomas Savundra, president of Netfirms. “Our unique load-balanced, clustered hosting platform lets us guarantee these incredible specs to all of our customers at such low prices.”
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According to the Toronto-based company, the upgrades include increases of up to 500 percent for disc space and monthly data transfer allotments. The Small Business Advantage Plan, priced at $9.95 per month, comes with 1 GB of disc space and 50 GB of monthly data transfer; the Big Business Plan, priced at $14.95/month, comes with 2000 MB of disc space and 100 GB of data transfer; and Personal Plus Plan comes with 250 MB of disc space and 5 GB of data transfer.
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Netfirms also announced the addition of a number of new tools to its control panel.
