Hostopia
Unveils All-New Plans for 2005 [February 14,
2005]
Enhanced
Suite of Wholesale Services Helps ISPs Compete in SME
Hosting
February
14, 2005, Fort Lauderdale, USA - Today Hostopia announced
several new applications and enhancements across its
broad range of private labeled wholesale web hosting
and managed email services. Sequential launch dates
throughout the first quarter will automatically distribute
all enhancements to Hostopia’s base of 280 private
label partners via its ASP-distribution model.
Service
providers who offer hosting and email services to their
small business customers will become far more competitive
with the Hostopia platform, asserts Franc Nemanic, Hostopia’s
president. Our ASP-distribution model allows us to instantly
deploy all of these new applications and enhancements
across our entire user base of 280 partners, who in
turn serve over 150,000 hosted sites, 500,000 domains
and over 1.5 million email accounts.
Hostopia’s
new plans will offer a 500% increase in disk storage
and a doubling of email storage effective February 1.
New wholesale price points are being introduced that
will offer advanced Windows services such as ASP.net
in a lower cost hosting plan that can be competitively
retailed at $19.99 per month with strong margins to
the Hostopia partner. All-new applications will be bundled
across the majority of Hostopia wholesale plans commencing
February. 1,000 fully developed web site templates will
allow any small business or web developer to instantly
create or modify specialized business sites organized
by vertical industry. The templates will function with
any site building tool such as Front Page or Macromedia’s
Dreamweaver. Also launching in February is a EasyLiveChat,
a turnkey business chat application for small business
that allows any web site owner to instantly implement
online chat agents in their company to better serve
or sell to customers and prospects via their website.
Rick
Petersen, CEO of Peak Internet, one of Hostopia’s
newest partners comments, ”We built a very successful
web hosting and business email service over the years,
but the competitive pace to constantly upgrade our offering
is intense and demands capital. Hostopia’s private
label offering and constant feature improvement program
showed us that we could deliver highly profitable services
to our customers that automatically benefit every one
of our end users instantly. Hostopia’s new plans
for 2005 are available to us at a fraction of the effort
and cost it would have required to develop them ourselves.”
Nemanic
adds, “Web hosting has recently experienced severe
commoditization in the marketplace as disk space and
bandwidth is literally given away by most providers.
Hostopia’s strategy is to equip our partners with
adequate disk space but also to bundle value added services
such as ASP, chat and site templates to maintain revenue,
margins and customer satisfaction.”
Detailed
information about Hostopia’s new plans, applications
and features can be found at Hostopia (www.hostopia.com).
A growing inventory of site templates can be viewed
directly at TemplateDemo (www.templatedemo.com).
About
Hostopia
Hostopia provides private-branded hosting, email and
e-commerce solutions to Telco’s, ISPs, cable companies,
domain registrars, and other Web Service Providers.
Hostopia’s automated provisioning and support
platforms enable service providers to increase their
hosting revenues and profits while delivering a superior
feature set to their end-user business customers. Hostopia’s
WebhostOS is a breakthrough technology that creates
a single system for managing “UNIX/Windows”
applications. Its clustered server environment allows
enterprises to benefit from sophisticated hosting features
normally associated with high-cost,
non-redundant dedicated servers at “shared hosting”
prices. For more information about the company, visit
www.hostopia.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Frank N emanic
President
Hostopia.com Inc.
1 866 467 8674 ext. 7208
president@hostopia.com |
