The most popular use of this patch is to send web site visitors to their nearest web server. Suppose you have a site called www.example555.com with two web servers: one in the US and one in England. You can use this patch in order for visitors from Europe to connect to the server in England and all other visitors to the server in the US. This is just one example of its usage. There are probably many others. More
December 20, 2007 After announcing plans to re-brand last week, Web hosting software maker SWsoft (swsoft.com) made another big announcement this week, reporting that it had acquired WebHost Automation, developer of the Helm control panel and billing software for Windows.
The acquisition follows similar purchases made by SWsoft earlier this year of control panel companies Sphera, Ensim Pro and Positive Software. Read More
This email is to notify you that there have been some significant changes concerning licensing with the Plesk control panel that you are using. Swsoft changed it’s name this year to Parallels and with that came a radical increase in pricing. This pricing increase is across the board from their retail prices to their contract prices with even their biggest clients.
You are currently using a dedicated server with unlimited domains in Plesk and this currently costs $25/mo. The same license is now going to cost $69.99/mo if you are to stay on this unlimited domain license. We are not marking this license cost up at all so we really are not able to lower it at all.
We have always felt that Plesk was an inferior control panel for many reasons. Parallels is also a very difficult company to work with as you can imagine with this new price increase of almost 200%! In order to accommodate our clients, we are going to keep our relationship with Parallels but we cannot offer any discount off of the pricing that we are getting from them. These pricing changes will be effective as of the 31st of this month and there are few options that you can do:
Search engine giant Google (google.com) said on Thursday that it fixed the technical issue that caused the search engine’s web application hosting service to go offline several hours this week.
The company also launched on Thursday its new paid service plans for its Website Optimizer, an online application that enables users to test a site’s content for its ability to attract visitors.