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Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, HostGator, is offering 4,500 free website templates to customers and resellers, covering nearly 120 different types of businesses, designed to enable non-technical building of effective websites.

Brent Oxley, Founder and President of HostGator remarked, ”These templates are free to any Website hosted by HostGator, whether on a shared or dedicated hosting plan, or through a hosting reseller. We want to make hosting domains or building websites as painless as possible, that’s why we offer the free templates. We also offer free Site Builder, one of the easiest tools available for anybody wanting to custom build a website, rather than use a template.”

The free templates cover a broad range of page designs suitable for nearly 120 different types of small and medium-sized businesses – from accountants and auto dealers, to cleaning services, consultants, martial arts studios, toy stores, women’s health clinics, and everything in between. The wide variety of templates makes it easier for resellers to attract people and businesses who want websites, but don’t have the knowledge or design abilities needed to create good looking websites.

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With great excitement, we are proud to announce HostICan has upgraded their VPS web hosting plans.

The HostICan VPS-Rage hosting plan, which runs cPanel/WHM, will increase from 30GB of hard disk space to 45GB.

Meanwhile, the HostICan VPS-Extreme plan will increase from 60GB to 90GB, which HostICan says will make it one of the largest VPS plans on the market.

While shared hosting services have been upgrading their hosting plans, sometimes with extravagant claims that cannot be supported, the VPS market has been quite stagnant in its approach to value,” says Denis Motova, affiliate and operations manager for HostICan. “With our upgraded plans, our new customers can enjoy more memory and hard drive storage, while paying less for both.

HostICan has been awarded number 1 cPanel VPS web host for 2007 by VPS Account.

HostICan is rated #1 by us for 100% uptime for October and November. Save $50 by using our special HostICan coupon.

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Ruby on Rails 2.0.1 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that’s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish. They have even taken a fair bit of cruft out of Ruby on Rails to make the whole package more coherent and lean.

Some of the new Ruby on Rails features include:

• Action Pack: Resources
• Action Pack: Multiview
• Action Pack: Record identification
• Action Pack: HTTP Loving
• Action Pack: Security
• Action Pack: Exception handling
• Action Pack: Cookie store sessions
• Action Pack: New request profiler
• Action Pack: Miscellaneous
• Active Record: Performance
• Active Record: Sexy migrations
• Active Record: Foxy fixtures
• Active Record: XML in, JSON out
• Active Record: Shedding some weight
• Active Record: with_scope with a dash of syntactic vinegar
• ActionWebService out, ActiveResource in
• ActiveSupport
• Action Mailer
• Rails: The debugger is back
• Rails: Clean up your environment
• Rails: Easier plugin order
• And hundreds upon hundreds of other improvements

Learn more about all of the Ruby on Rails 2.0 features highlighted above by visiting the Ruby on Rails news post.

British web hosting company, UK2, has launched multiple special offers to celebrate the holidays, including 3 free domain names with its Plus Web Hosting, as well as a Buy a Server and Give a Goat offering. In addition, the company is sponsoring a special Christmas Competition to win an Apple MacBook Pro laptop computer.

Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of UK2 noted, ”These Christmas special offers provide something for everyone. We believe that they are very attractive to our customers and spread the festive spirit. Our competition is fun and will has some wonderful prizes, the free domains add a little extra sparkle to our best selling web hosting package, and with our Buy a Server, Give a Goat promotion we can give something back to communities that are much less fortunate than ourselves.”

Instead of just getting 1 FREE Domain Name with an annual contract on UK2’s Plus web hosting package, the company is offering 3 free domain names. The Plus web hosting package is UK2’s best selling web hosting package and includes the following features:

• 15,000MB Webspace
• 750GB of monthly bandwidth
• Over 100 POP Email accounts
• 30 pounds worth of Google Adwords vouchers
• Cpanel 11
• 25 website sharing domains
• 5 SQL databases

UK2 has teamed up with World Vision to give a goat to African villages every time a customer buys a Gold or Platinum server or a quarterly or annual Bronze or Silver server during December 2007. The offer is part of the World Vision alternative gifts campaign and the goats are given to villages in Africa where they will make a real difference providing essential farming tools and milk to villagers.

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 We just received a notification that midPhase has been acquired by UK-2. The message is below:

This is an important e-mail that is part of our commitment to be as transparent as possible to our clients.

Hello, my name is Zak Boca, and along with my partner, Dan, I co-founded midPhase in 2003. When we started, we had no idea what midPhase would become… We never expected that the business would grow as quickly as it did — but it did, and as time went on more and more businesses, bloggers, e-commerce sites, and other websites trusted midPhase. This all brings me to the reason I am writing you. Several months ago we made the hard decision to sell part of our business, specifically our Linux and Windows Shared Hosting and Virtual Private Server businesses to be able to focus on our other businesses. After passing several offers that may have been disruptive to our clients, due to server-migration plans, or migrations to new platforms or new servers which would require disruptive down-time and problems, and for other reasons, we are proud to announce that we found another company in the industry with similar beliefs and goals as midPhase.

With the hard part aside, we are proud to announce that as of December 20th, midPhase has joined the UK-2 Group of companies. You can read the press release here if you are interested:

http://www.midphase.com/uk2/pr.pdf (in PDF format.)

Here is the important part:
We want to make it clear that UK2 likes what we have here, and they do not plan to make changes. They want to keep the servers in the same place, and on the same control panel, and supported by the same technicians. UK2 is committed to providing top-notch service, and as a result the technicians and management that will still be at the company. We want to point out that Dan and I will be leaving midPhase entirely within the next couple of months. But, I want to stress that this is the only major change — everything else, all other staff and employees will stay in place and UK-2 has worked hard with us during the planning of this process to ensure that there are no disruptions to your service.

Some facts about UK2:
UK-2 Group has been a major player in the British and European hosting industry since the late nineties, and provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many customers through a family of hosting brands. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centers and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support.  UK-2 Group recently expanded into the American hosting market after acquiring clients from US host Stargate.   The acquisition of midPhase further contributes to these international expansion plans and is an exciting and important step for all at UK2.

We tried to cover as much as we could here, but we did create a more detailed FAQ web-site about this deal and some more specifics. We ask that you please check our FAQ web-site before calling or E-mailing us. As you can imagine, we re about to get a lot of E-mails. You can find our FAQ site here:

http://www.midphase.com/uk2/faq.php

This came with absolutely no warning what-so-ever. What do you think of this news?

Host Color has added new control management system to its shared web hosting plans. The latest version of Drupal CMS is available and easy to install with Host Color’s preinstalled PowerTools software package for four of their web hosting plans.

Drupal is easy to customize powerful PHP/MySQL based Open Source CMS. It allows web administrators or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Drupal is one of the most flexible and easy to use control management systems. A website owner do not need any programming knowledge to turn a Drupal based website into a forum, FAQ, blog, wiki or other type of website. The new application is available with Midi, Max, Mega and Multi web hosting plans and our PowerTools package. The PowerTools package allows customers to install applications with one click from the control panel of their web hosting account.

Host Color works hard to power their hosting plans with user friendly PowerTools and features so a person do not need to be computer specialist or web professional to use Host Color services and to create a good website. Drupal is fantastic way to start your online business or personal internet presence. The software is easily customizable and has a lot of themes and features which makes their preinstalled script package – PowerTools even more attractive.

Host Color recently added two new social tools such as Wiki software and social networking Pligg CMS to its shared web hosting plans.

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