Hostopia Launches Expanded
Hosting For SOHO [28th
October 2003]
New plans expand service provider
revenues and markets
Ft. Lauderdale – Hostopia.com
Inc. announced the immediate availability of an expanded
line of small business hosting plans targeting the small
office and home office consumer (SOHO). Available exclusively
via its network of private labeled partner/distributors,
the SOHO line covers suggested retail price points for
monthly hosting as low as $3.99 per month and still
generate superior margins for hosting service providers.
“End-user demand for hosting and
email services has transformed over the last year with
majority and late adopters flooding into the market.
These users are both price sensitive and technology-averse,”
explains Paul D. Engels, vice president, marketing for
Hostopia. “SOHO plans present extreme ease-of-use
at compelling entry level price points for even the
most casual of businesses,” he adds.
Hostopia’s SOHO line is anchored
by four new plans: “Personal Basic;” “SOHO
Basic;” SOHO Plus;” and “SOHO Email/Forward.”
The wholesale cost for Personal Basic is $1.77 per user
per month. Most Hostopia partners enjoy further volume
discounts enhancing margins even further. The service
offers generous disc space allotments and numerous value
added applications such as EasySiteWizard 5.0, Hostopia’s
site creation editor featuring 10,000 license-paid high
quality images.
“Our research into the SOHO market
confirmed that lack of a web site prevented most buyers
from purchasing hosting services. Including a powerful
site creation tool in the SOHO plans was essential to
removing a critical buyer’s objection,”
explains Engels.
Hostopia reports that market trials
of lower cost plans in recent months uncovered a large,
untapped market. Large service providers such as cable
companies and broadband ISPs have legacy customer bases
of residential consumers who have latent demand for
hosting services. Market prices above $15 per month
do not meet the needs of these users. Smaller service
providers are also able to compete on an even footing
with SOHO plans according to Hostopia.
Hostopia further announced new, reduced
tier one support prices for SOHO plans so service providers
can offload costly support. The turnkey offering from
Hostopia allows any provider to launch SOHO plans immediately
with little to no financial risk.
About Hostopia
Hostopia provides private-branded hosting,
email and e-commerce solutions to telcos, 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, yet at “shared hosting” prices.
The company has won numerous industry awards including
“Editors Choice for best hosting reseller opportunity,
2002” by Hosting World Magazine and "Best
Private Label" Web Hosting Company by Web Hosting
Magazine. Hostopia currently serves over 250 Web Hosting
companies, making it one of the fastest growing wholesale
web hosting companies in the world with offices in Ft.
Lauderdale, U.S.A. and Toronto, Canada.
For more information, please contact:
Franc Nemanic
President
Hostopia.com Inc.
1 866 HOSTOPIA
president@hostopia.com
Website: www.hostopia.com
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