November 9, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Wholesale Web hosting provider Hostopia (hostopia.com) announced on Tuesday that it has been selected by to provide fully managed private label Web hosting and email services for the small business customers of telecommunications carrier TelCove (telcove.com).
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“We are delighted to gain TelCove as a private label partner,” says Franc Nemanic, president of Hostopia. “They are a leading provider of business communications services with exceptional market coverage in the Eastern United States. We expect them to be a powerful source of revenue from the region.”
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Under the agreement, TelCove migrated its existing Web hosting customers to Hostopia’s platform. TelCove brings with it thousands of small business Web sites and tens of thousands of business email accounts, the company said.
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“We chose Hostopia to deliver our business hosting and email for two reasons: they have the latest product features to drive our growth and reduce customer churn, and their expertise in operating the platform offloads valuable resources we’d prefer to deploy elsewhere,” says Craig Drinkhall, senior vice president of product development and engineering at TelCove. “It’s a superior business model that allows us to succeed in hosting while focusing attention on our core business.”
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Drinkhall said TelCove has already implemented spam and virus filtering for its business email users and plans to roll out other value-added features such as e-commerce store applications.
