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According to Via Net.Works USA, the out-of-the-box solution is a fully automated solution that provides support for all business functions including account creation and provisioning, inventory and account management, billing and trouble ticketing.
"A customer can come into a site, buy a product and the technology automatically captures credit card information, provisions the Web site, and sends a welcome letter," says Patrick Gaul, managing director of VIA USA. "Reseller Freedom offers a more robust platform for clients who trying to grow with limited staff and limited budgets."
The solution allows resellers to create and maintain their own products while customizing the system to maintain their own look and feel.
"We wanted to provide our customers with a solution that offers maximum flexibility with minimal initial investment. We want customer's income growth to consistently outpace their costs from day one. The new program delivers on that promise," says Gaul. "We are very excited about this offering."
Via Net.Works announcement today follows last week's unveiling of a line of discount dedicated servers, in addition to search engine optimization and press room services.
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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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