myhosting.com
gives free Linux accounts with all Windows® shared-hosting
accounts [April 1, 2004]
Toronto,
Ontario --- April 1, 2004, myhosting.com, a leading
global provider of affordable and superior web and application
hosting services and a brand of SoftCom Technology Consulting
Inc., announces a dramatic departure from pure Windows®
hosting by launching a new blended hosting environment,
providing shared-hosting customers both a Windows®
and Linux account within a single plan.
“The demand for Linux tools and
application support has been growing rapidly and can’t
be ignored,” says Tony Yustein, CEO of SoftCom
Technology Consulting Inc. “We still stand behind
and support the Windows platform but we must listen
to our customers. And they tell us that applications
drive their choice of hosting provider, not the Operating
System.”
In response to this demand, myhosting has created a
unique, hybrid hosting package based on their original
Windows offering. Customers who sign up for their regular
shared-hosting plans get full Windows application support
including features like the popular Microsoft® SQL
database and FrontPage®, in addition to a separate,
native Linux account in which they can run popular Linux
scripts and tools like PHP, PERL and MySQL. myhosting.com
will not charge any additional fees for this Linux account.
In response to the growing popularity
of Linux hosting, Microsoft has been actively promoting
their .NET initiative, a new programming platform that
gives greater flexibility and programming power to Microsoft
developers, who are expected to produce the next generation
of applications and tools for the internet.
“myhosting.com remains committed
to the .NET initiative and firmly believes the future
of application hosting will come from Microsoft,”
says Michael Carr, Vice-President of SoftCom. “However
today we recognize that the open-source community has
produced some great tools and we want to make sure our
customers can use them. With our new blended accounts
they now have the choice to run both accounts simultaneously
at no extra cost.”
About myhosting.com
myhosting.com is a provider of superior and affordable
hosting services to customers in over 140 countries.
Founded in January 1997 and based in Toronto, Canada,
myhosting.com is committed to providing extraordinary
value and choice to their customers. In addition to
myhosting.com, SoftCom owns and operates the premier
web-based email retrieval system - mail2web.com. Both
myhosting® and mail2web® are registered trademarks
and brands of SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.
Contact:
John Carthy
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.
416-957-7419
johnc@softcom.biz |
