The HELIOS iPad Document Hub publishing platform is a scalable, secure, and powerful client/server solution for building unrestricted apps, and for unlimited publishing of content without any charge per app, content or use. Customers can securely host all content on their own server to be synchronized to app users on Apple iPad or iPhone.

“We talked to customers, integrators and vendors. everyone wants to develop their own iPad solutions to publish documents and media files,” explained Helmut Tschemernjak, President and founder of HELIOS Software.

“Businesses don’t want to be locked into a single vendor’s publishing and hosting platform or to be limited in app features.” According to Tschemernjak, “Customers want to “own” their apps entirely without any restrictions or foreign copyright notices.”

for this reason, the complete app source code will be available as a foundation to encourage custom app development, with the benefit of huge development savings and faster time to market. The iPad Document Hub publishing platform has no dependency on vendor hosting, and is free of any annual charges.

Details and further benefits will be presented in daily drupa seminars in the HELIOS booth, Hall 09/D04. Register for the “iPad Document Hub” seminars on the HELIOS web site. Attendees are also welcome to discuss their needs and feedback with HELIOS at drupa.

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HELIOS UB2 Unbreakable Server Solutions deliver mission critical server solutions to enterprise, government, university, and prepress sites. WebShare, EtherShare, and PCShare provide integrated cross-platform networking for Mac, Windows and Web clients, with advanced file and print server features, and easy remote server administration. HELIOS ImageServer, PDF HandShake and PrintPreview bring high efficiency and advanced capabilities to design, prepress and printing operations.

HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Mac OS X, IBM AIX, Linux, Oracle Solaris, and Windows systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Mac, Windows, Web and UNIX-based clients.

Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS also works with many strategic partners that incorporate HELIOS server software to provide powerful third-party archive, asset management and workflow solutions.

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HELIOS Software GmbH Germany Helmut Tschemernjak, +49-5131-709320 Fax +49 5131-709325 E-mail: mktg (at) helios.de helios.com or U.S.A. Thomas Hallinan, 209-827-2760 mktg (at) helios.de or WORLDVIEW Bill Gram-Reefer, 925-323-3169 reefer (at) worldviewpr.com

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A research, or a sting operation, conducted by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society in October 2011 — a few months after the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules were notified — revealed some inherent flaws in the guidelines laid down by the Indian government. the results of the study made news, particularly after Union Minister for IT, Kapil Sibal, asked Internet companies and Web service providers to screen content.

The study revealed that companies were only too eager to comply with take-down notices or requests, in order to avoid further hassles, particularly legal ones.

Rishab Dara, a researcher who was part of this ‘sting’, pointed out that unless the content was commercial, or had potential commercial interest, companies preferred to err on the side of caution.

Addressing an audience at a panel discussion, titled ‘Resisting Internet censorship: strategies for furthering freedom of expression in India’, held at the Bangalore International Centre, mr. Dara pointed out that search engines did not invest enough resources to check how valid the claims were, before taking down over 2,000 URLs related to a random complaint or take-down notice sent by them. his study underlined the need for debate and discussion on the intermediary guidelines, locating this in the larger context of freedom on the Web.

The discussion, organised by the Centre for Internet and Society, was moderated by the former journalist and academic, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. the audience and the panel comprised a diverse lot: from students, netizens and academics to those who were directly involved in the business of publishing content or hosting Web content. While a substantial part of the discussion dealt with the legal aspects of the notified rules, and how it may contradict the constitutional rights of citizens, a section of the debate also delved into whether the Web as a medium needed to be policed at all.

If panellist Mahesh Murthy, Chief Executive Officer of Pinstorm, argued vociferously for unfettered freedom on the Web and accused the government of being threatened by movements such as the anti-corruption campaign led by Anna Hazare (which he said was largely mobilised on the Web), another panellist Na. Vijayshankar, Cyber Law College, who claimed he was among those instrumental in bringing down the pornographic cartoon portal Savitabhabhi.com, argued that though these rules need to be withdrawn, there are “boundaries” to what can be posted and said on the Web.

Another section of the audience brought up the issues of hate speech on the Web, and pointed out that in some cases there was a need to pin liability on those who generate content that incites hatred.

Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Centre for Law and Policy Research, pointed out that currently the way the issue was being played out in court, the discourse was more about companies.

“the debate is not about users today. Companies are trying to duck liabilities, rather than deal with substantive issues of free speech,” he said, pointing to the complexities in locating liability for content.

Speaking from the publisher’s perspective, B.G. Mahesh, OneIndia.in, an online news and entertainment portal, spoke of specific cases where his portal had been targeted by the Chennai Cybercrime cell for hosting a news story (syndicated from a news agency) that was declared defamatory. “We took it down, but there was no answer from them when we asked for an explanation,” he said, adding that in such cases there is tremendous pressure and harassment from authorities, leaving publishers with no choice but to comply.

Though the IT intermediary rules were notified in April 2011, the issue made headlines when Union Minister for Information and Communication Technology Kapil Sibal asked private companies or Web service providers to pre-screen content, a statement which he later withdrew.

Also discussed in detail were the complexities posed by a medium like the World Wide Web, and what were the reasonable restrictions to free speech on the Web. does one need a separate legal dispensation to deal with this medium, mr. Thakurta asked. While emphasising that the solution does not lie in “knee-jerk reactions”, such as the rules that have been proposed, he pointed out that the bid to control flow of information was a simple manifestation of the utter helplessness and inability of the government — and governments worldwide — to control the Web. be it in West Bengal, where a professor is held for sharing a cartoon, or with the Union government that beckons corporates to pre-screen the Web, these acts are a manifestation of a “combination of arrogance and stupidity”, he said.

Subsequently, in February, Rajya Sabha member from Kerala, P. Rajeeve, moved a statutory motion in the Rajya Sabha seeking that these guidelines be annulled on the grounds that it allowed intermediaries protection from legal liability in return for trading away freedom of expression of users.

In the Parliamentary session that will start next week, this is likely to come up for discussion, and across the country, rights activists are mobilising support and lobbying with legislators to garner support for this annulment.

European web hosting company Host Europe Group announced on Wednesday it has acquired Mesh Digital, which develops the back-end technology for domain registration. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed in the press release.

The move aligns with Host Europe’s overall acquisition strategy in which the company acquires hosting-related properties that possess an invaluable technology it can deploy in its own offerings.

The strategy is similar to that of printing company Deluxe which acquired Hostopia in 2008 for its portfolio of hosting services so it could extend the offerings to its small and medium-business customers.

Over the past five years, Host Europe has acquired several companies, including Spanish web host and domain registrar RedCoruna, Nottingham-based hosting provider Heart Internet, virtualization provider vanager, and European telecommunications provider Freedom4 Communications. Host Europe’s two biggest brands are 123-reg and Webfusion.

These acquisitions have allowed Host Europe to expand its market presence and customer base throughout Europe to the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain.

The acquisition is also a natural progression for Host Europe and Mesh Digital, which have been working closely together for several years with Mesh Digital providing back-end domain registration and value-added services for the Host Europe Group.

In addition to strengthening its domain management portfolio and platform, Mesh Digital will Host Europe Group as it expands internationally.

Mesh Digital operates two major domain brands including its reseller offering, Domainmonster, and its wholesale offering, Domainbox.

Host Europe Group will be able to centralize its domain operations and benefit from fast integrations with a vast network of domain registries and value add suppliers that Domainbox already supports.

At the same time, Mesh Digital customers will now have access to a larger selection of competitive products and services including VPS, dedicated servers and advanced email solutions.

“We have worked closely with the Mesh Digital team for some time now and the two companies’ share a similar vision, passion and commitment to our customers,” said Thomas Vollrath, CEO of the Host Europe Group. “We took the strategic decision to acquire Mesh because the company is very well respected in the industry, and is renowned for its cutting-edge innovation. What’s more, being able to offer platforms such as Domainbox.com across our group puts us in an increasingly competitive position, and means we can offer a far greater range of products to our customers. our combined businesses are a natural fit, providing complementary products and services that help to strengthen the buying power for Host Europe Group overall.”

Talk back: have you recently purchased a hosting-related company for the purpose of acquiring its technology? do you see a value to this strategic approach? Let us know in the comments section.

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What do we need pay attention to?

When we consider something "budget" we should always remember the golden rule "you get what you pay". Indeed, because it will cost money to prepare all stuff, we really should have some basic knowledge of the market and understand how much we need to pay for a quality server we need. They hosting provider will never do something non-profitable. It's normal to see a super cheap server plan with outdated haredware setup. In case we're dealing with some doubtable service, it's recommended to use a third party software to test out the server performance.

Another point would be the server connection capacity. just imagine about a home server, how much work can it do? So the datacenter specs are pretty essential beside pricing. Generally, it's recommended to search our server provider from the well known datacenter companies such as Softlayer, Dallas etc. If you have never heard of the name, there's always some testing tools available to check about their connectivities.

Which company is offering budget dedicated server service?

The server hardwares are more and more cheap and there's some part decrease from service pricing, however most quality server plans are still expensive. Here's a list of several popular budget dedicated server providers

BrandsDirectSpaceBurstNETCoolhandleVolumeDriveHostgatorPricing$79/mo$69/mo$59.95/mo$34.95/mo$74/moHard Disk2x160GB250GB2x160GB250GB2x250GBBandwidth20TB/mo5TB/mo2TB8TB10TBRAM2GB2GB2GB2GB2GBCPU SpecsIntel Pentium D 820 2 x 2.8GHzXeon 3050 / E6500 DUAL CORE 2.13GHZ Intel 3.0GHz Core2 DuoAMD Athlon X2 4200+ (2 cores)Intel Xeon 3450 (Quad Core)Port Speed1gbps100mbps100mbps100mbps100mbpsOfficial Sitedirectspace.netburst.netcoolhandle.comvolumedrive.comhostgator.com

Note: the hostgator $74/mo server is only applied to windows dedicated server plans, the original price is $174/mo and they're currently running promotion which is $100 off.

How do we think about the budget dedicated server list?

The server providers in the list are well known to many web masters and web design companies. their service be able to support most web application requirements with the least limitation. Also, further upgrade is available to all server plans so it's almost risk free to deal with.

Let’s look at the most important features of CPanel in greater detail

1. Site statistics

CPanel provides AWstats to monitor your website’s performance. This software displays the number of visits and hits your site receives on a daily, weekly and yearly basis. AWstats shows you where your traffic is coming from e.g. countries, external links, browsers and search engines. It also tracks the keywords people are entering into the search engines to find your web pages. Monitoring your site statistics helps you to observe which traffic strategies attract the most visitors.

2. E-mail management

Your hosting control panel enables you to create and manage e-mail accounts. Here are some of the features associated with e-mail management:

• Spam assassin: install software to filter out spam e-mails from e-mail accounts
• Webmail manager: enables access to your e-mail accounts from a web-based control panel
• Auto responders: enables automatic messages to be sent back to the sender
• E-mail forwarders: enables a copy of all the e-mail from one e-mail account to be sent to another
• E-mail domain forwarders: allows forwarding of e-mail from one domain to another
• Create and manage email accounts associated with your domain name

3. File management

This allows you to create backups and transfer website files to the server using FTP (file transfer protocol).

• File backups: use the backup Wizard to download your entire website (files, databases, e-mail accounts) to a zipped file on your computer. It enables you to restore your files with one click.
• File manager: use this feature FTP or File Transfer Protocol) to transfer the website files on your computer to the server. Make sure all your files are uploaded to the public.html folder on the server. This occurs live within your browser so your uploaded files will appear immediately on the web.

4. Install MySQL databases

• Databases: these are needed for the installation of software such as WordPress, Joomla, scripts, etc.
• phpMyAdmin: this is a great tool for managing your databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes, users, permissions and so on).

5. Software installation

• Fantastico: enables easy installation of software that includes: blogs, forums, content management systems (CMS), e-commerce shopping carts, image galleries, mailing lists, polls, surveys, site builders and scripts. Your specific Web hosting plan may not have all these features enabled so check with your web host before utilizing them.

6. Domain management

• Parked domains: this is where you park one domain on top of another. For example if you register 2 domains for the same business you can direct both to the same web address by parking one on top of the other.
• Subdomains: this allows you to create another website in the subdirectory (or folder) of your current one.
• Redirects: enables you to redirect one web page to another. For example if you have a web page with a long URL you can redirect it to one that has a short, easy to remember URL.

7. Security

• Password protection: this allows you to limit access to a particular folder on your website by allocating a username and password. only those people who have the login information will be able to access that folder.

The reason that CPanel is widely used and very popular with web hosting companies is that it’s a quick and easy system for managing your website.

Like many other VPN services such as AnchorFree’s HotSpot Shield Elite and Private WiFi from Private Communications, TorVPN is based on the open source OpenVPN software. By installing OpenVPN and signing up for TorVPN servicer, users get all of the following: OpenVPN and PPTP VPN servers to encrypt all network traffic leaving the computer, an SSH server to establish secure connection with other servers, a SOCKS proxy to use the browser to establish a VPN connection, and a Tor proxy to connect to other Tor relays. Users can also create a direct peer-to-peer connection over a VPN tunnel.

TorVPN can run on any platform that can run OpenVPN, including Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android. there are several guides available on the TorVPN site for using the built-in PPTP protocol on Windows systems, but the documentation recommends OpenVPN for better compatibility and security. there are also instructions for using Tunnelblick, an OpenVPN implementation for the Mac OS X and iOS.

TorVPN FeaturesUsers connecting to the TorVPN service get a brand-new IP address to mask their original location. Anyone trying to look up the address gets the IP address and location of the service in Hungary. All the traffic passing through the tunnel is encrypted using OpenVPN.

TorVPN is available for free for up to one GB. Users who expect to use up more than one GB of network traffic need to pay for a plan with higher traffic caps. The caps are measured separately for sending and receiving data, and kick in when either one hits the quota.  The cheapest paid account is for five GB a month for three Euros ($3.95); rates can go up to 100 GB for 30 Euros ($40).

Paying customers can have up to three VPN accounts, increase their traffic quota, and have unlimited access to certain classes of websites, such as social networking and file sharing, and get a different IP address assigned. The tiers also offer unlimited access to certain types of sites. for example, paying for “Social” (three Euros) gives users on TorVPN unlimited access to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Gmail, on top of their traffic quota. The “Data” tier provides unlimited access to file hosting providers Rapidshare and Hotfile, as well as Hungarian storage provider Data.hu.

The distinction between “Social” sites and “data” sites is a little confusing. when I am surfing the Web, I don’t track whether I’ve checked Gmail and Twitter, or if I was browsing other sites.

Unlike other VPN services, such as Hotspot Shield or PrivateWiFi, I didn’t see a way to get a quick feedback on how much traffic I’ve sent and received on the tunnel, making it harder to track my usage.

For this review, I looked at the free service, which gives me one VPN account, a traffic quota of just one GB over a month, with filters that block access to “high-risk sites” such as eBay, Paypal, and other SMTP services.

Like other VPN servers, TorVPN collects user statistics to know the amount of data being transferred (used towards determining traffic quotas) but promises no logging or monitoring. The statistics are also used to detect instances of abuse, such as if someone was flooding a server in a denial of service attack using the service.

Getting StartedI selected a username and a password on the TorVPN Website. A valid email address is required to validate the account. Once I had an account, I downloaded an OpenVPN installer (a link is provided on the page) and set up the software on a Windows 7 laptop. The site links to several guides and step-by-step instructions for setting up the VPN client on other platforms, including Mac OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS. after completing the OpenVPN installation, I downloaded a configuration file from my account page on the TorVPN Website and saved it inside OpenVPN’s config directory on my computer.

I started the OpenVPN client as an administrator and was prompted with a password dialog box. I entered the username and password I had created, and I was immediately connected to the VPN tunnel. when I checked my IP address, I found out that I had been assigned one in Hungary. The reverse DNS for my new IP address was vpn.torvpn.com.

According to the TorVPN documentation, I have to use the “run as an Administrator” option for the OpenVPN client in order to let the TorVPN configuration file change the routing settings.

?JaguarPC continues to be a leading web host, with great web hosting services ranging from affordable shared hosting plans to professional VPS hosting solutions,? says Greg Landis, CEO at JaguarPC. ?Our success is the result of consistently excellent hardware performance, along with dependable customer support. To deliver both of those things, we rely on the great people at the heart of our business. To maintain the standards of service that JaguarPC has become known for, we need more people to join our team.?

Representing a significant investment in the continued growth of the company, JaguarPC?s recruitment of technical support representatives will help to ensure that the hardware and software customers rely on works efficiently. the key responsibilities of this role include proactive server monitoring to guarantee stability and reliability across every web hosting plan, migrating new customers to JaguarPC?s range of hosting solutions, and providing technical support to customers in need of assistance.

Applicants are expected to have an in-depth understanding of how web hosting services work, with experience in installing and using Apache, MySQL, Exim, cPanel & WHM, and Linux. in addition, knowledge of shell scripting and the software required to deploy VPS hosting plans would be an advantage to applicants looking to work for a fast-growing web hosting company. Additionally, JaguarPC is determined to find new team members who can combine their technical expertise with the ability to deliver this insight as excellent customer service to web hosting customers around the world.

?Essentially, our technical support representatives carry out routine administration on servers, as well as more complex, technical tasks as specific situations dictate,? says Landis. ?The people we recruit will be the people who really know web hosting servers inside-out and are willing to learn additional skills under the guidance of other team members. But hardware performance and software configuration is only one-half of JaguarPC?s offerings, and that is why it is important that our technical team can also work with customers to keep support standards high.?

Over the years, JaguarPC has become renowned for its customer support and service capabilities, offering help, advice, and assistance, 24/7/365. Whether customers have a technical issue or questions surrounding billing, it is important that the right help is always on-hand. Rather than letting the increased demand from new customers stretch the existing customer service team, JaguarPC plans to employ additional customer service representatives to work with web hosting users, whatever the nature of their inquiry. It is through this combination of the right technical staff and the best customer service staff that JaguarPC is able to provide customers with the service that they deserve.

?Servers, hardware, and software are all important things, but it?s the people that really make JaguarPC special,? says Landis. ?This includes our customers and our team. we believe that if we have the best staff, and the happiest staff, we will have the best web hosting services and the happiest customers in the industry. we are determined to find the best people for these new positions at JaguarPC and reward them with competitive compensation, paid vacation, as well as reward programs and bonuses.?

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Published: may 7, 2012

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

you can find a million places that offer you cloudy instances of Windows or Linux operating systems on X86 servers running out there on the Internet, but finding similarly cloudy slices of Power-based machinery sporting the OS/400 or IBM i operating systems can be a challenge. especially if you don’t want to make long-term commitments and only want to buy a relatively small slice of a machine. but this week at the COMMON midrange trade show, Abacus Solutions is throwing its data center in the ring with its i in the Cloud offering.

Yeah, it would be better if they could call it iCloud, but there are a number of people arguing over who has the trademark on that name and Apple has usurped iCloud (much as it did iOS) and has $100 billion in cash and big-time lawyers that want to get some of it. I know what you are thinking, but i in the Sky would have brought out the lawyers from the Alan Parsons Project, and probably CBS, too. So i in the Cloud it is.

Abacus has its roots in the secondhand market, peddling iSeries and pSeries iron back in the day and its affiliated company still does peddle such iron, giving Abacus access to relatively inexpensive and still technologically sound Power6 and Power6+ gear that is abundant on the market these days. according to Patrick Schutz, director of managed services and support at the company, about five years ago some customers buying backup machines for disaster recovery and high availability clustering asked if the reseller wouldn’t mind hosting the gear, and so it built a data center expressly for this purpose, offering HA as a service. it now has 50 customers using this service. The company also offers third party hardware support and has over 200 customers paying it, rather than IBM, to babysit their Power Systems iron and keep it humming along.

The hosted HA/DR offering has been refined over the years, and now Abacus is ready to reach for the clouds, offering slices of Power6 machines with a minimum commitment at a very low price for customers to either do development upon or to actually run production applications.

The i in the Cloud offering lets customers buy a slice of a 16-way Power6 with memory and disk. This particular box is sliced into 15 logical partitions, each with 1,000 CPWs of raw performance, 4GB of main memory, and 1 TB of disk capacity (917 GB of it is usable by OS/400 or IBM i). you can pick which operating system version and release Abacus throws onto the partition, including i5/OS V5R4 and V5R4M5 (also sometimes called IBM i 5.4 and 5.4.5 by big Blue these days) as well as the more recent IBM i 6.1 and 7.1. The cloudy i slice includes 9×5 tech support, weekly backups, and 1.5Mb/sec network access into the slice with an encrypted virtual private network (VPN) link. if you want to get started, you either send Abacus a tape or you can upload your applications and data over the VPN if that works better. The whole shebang costs $500 per month per 1,000 CPW slice, with a minimum 90-day commitment.

“When we brainstormed about this, we originally thought it would be for development environments,” says Schutz. “But we have been pleasantly surprised by the number of customers who want to move production IBM i environments to the cloud.”

At the moment, Abacus has 40 customers running on its cloudy infrastructure with over 75 total LPARs, and the numbers are growing fast, says Schutz. Most of the customers are in the United States, but there are a few in Canada and a number overseas. one customer, in Colombia, was looking at buying a slice of a Power 595 from IBM’s Global Services behemoth in Bogota decided instead to host its 400 JDE users on the Abacus cloud using a 10 Mbit/sec network link. and guess what? The users don’t know the machine driving their apps is sitting in Georgia. (Shhhh. Don’t tell them.)

Since Abacus is just ramping up production on the i in the Cloud product, it is restricting customers to two logical partitions on the cloud until they get their feet wet a little. After they get used to using it for a while, Abacus is happy to customize a solution for them. one early customer needed more oomph but not as much storage and is running three IBM i slices and only 917 GB of disk, for instance.

The Abacus Marietta, Georgia data center, fronted by its tech team: Christian Hilton, data center and support business manager; Patrick Schutz, director of managed services and support; Scott Johnson, iSeries senior account executive; and Josh Osborne, iSeries solution engineer.

Aside from offering IBM i and Power System slices on its cloud, another thing that makes Abacus distinct from Amazon is that it has people with deep skills running its operations in its two data centers (the primary is in Atlanta and the secondary is in Marietta on the outskirts of town). “Our average response time for tech support is under ten minutes,” says Schutz. “We are people, not some faceless cloud giant. we are big enough to matter and small enough to care.”

Abacus has over 75 people in total working at the company, including 25 engineers and 25 sales people. The IBM i tech team has eight dedicated people, and they are expert at all the new technologies.

“We’ve been using Virtual I/O Server and SANs for three years now, and it is old hat to us,” says Josh Osborne, iSeries solution engineer at Abacus. “This allows us to deliver hosting and cloud at an even lower cost because of the resource sharing it enables on Power Systems.” VIOS and SANs are exactly the things, of course, that are alien to most i5/OS and IBM i shops, who load a tape into a machine, use local disk, and don’t generally virtualize too much.

While the new Flex System converged chassis and server nodes and the PureSystems setups that IBM announced several weeks ago are interesting and quite possibly will be the foundation of future IBM i clouds, Abacus things that they are overkill for many IBM i shops.

“We thing the average customer will look at PureSystems and think it will be too much for them to bite off,” says Schutz. “And then they will look to the cloud.”

And Abacus will be there, ready to take that call.

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Web hosting company SeekDotNet announced on Monday it has launched its ASP.NET 4.5 hosting plans, which includes Visual Studio 11 and many features and advancement from the earlier version.

Microsoft recently released the 4.5 beta version of its ASP.NET technology, which offers many advancements over the previous version including greater compatibility, garbage collection and higher performance.

Though ASP.NET 4.5 is still in beta version and only gives limited support, users can still use it to test its performance for new or existing code.

The portable libraries enables users to create managed assemblies that can be referenced and run without modification on a different platforms, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Silverlight, XBOX 360 and .NET.

Portable libraries existed previously as an add-in to Visual Studio 2010, and are now included as part of Visual Studio 11.

SeekDotNet.com offers several hosting packages, from shared hosting, semi-dedicated server hosting, dedicated server hosting and VPS hosting which all are supported with ASP.NET hosting and .NET Framework 4.5.

All of its hosting packages are hosted on Windows 2008 Server and IIS 7, other ASP.NET versions are still available on its service list, such as ASP.NET 4.0, ASP.NET 3.5 Hosting and ASP.NET 2.0 Hosting.

SeekDotNet.com says it is continuously improving on its ASP.NET hosting and SQL hosting offerings by introducing new .NET technologies, ASP/.NET components, management tools and business partnerships.

Talk Back: Are you currently offering ASP.NET web hosting packages? Are you considering upgrading to ASP.NET 4.5 once it is officially launched? Let us know in the comments section.

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