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New Reseller Hosting Banners

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

We happy to provide our affiliates with an all-new line of reseller hosting banners. These banners are available immediately in our Affiliate Management area.

Size: 728×90

Size: 468×60

Size: 234×60

Size: 125×125

Size: 120×60

Size: 88×31

Size: 120×600

Size: 160×600

New Web Hosting Plans

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

We’re happy to announce our all-new shared hosting plans. We recently decided to re-evaluate our shared hosting products and decided to not only rename them but add a Basic hosting plan to the list for users that are just starting out and looking to start their first website. Listed below you will find all four of the shared hosting plans that we are now offering.

Basic
2,500MB Space
50GB Bandwidth
Unlimited Sub Domains
Unlimited Email Accounts
Free Site Builder

Cost: $3.95

Standard
5,000MB Space
75GB Bandwidth
Host Unlimited Domains
Free Site Builder
Free Domain Name

Cost: $6.95

Advanced
7,500MB Space
150GB Bandwidth
Host Unlimited Domains
Free Site Builder
Free Domain Name

Cost: $9.95

Professional
10,000MB Space
225GB Bandwidth
Host Unlimited Domains
Free Site Builder
Free Domain Name

Cost: $14.95

The new plans can be found on our website at www.hostnine.com/web-hosting/ and are available immediately.

If you have any questions about these new packages please feel free to contact us at anytime.

Fantastico Exploit Discovered

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Earlier this week we were notified about an exploit in Fantastico allowing remote file inclusion. This affected any server in the world running cPanel and Fantastico. While we quickly had our own patch applied to prevent the exploit on our servers, Fantastico has released an emergency upgrade which resolved all of the discovered security holes found in their software.

This upgrade was completed automatically on all of our servers so there is nothing to worry about. As always we’re on top of server security and just wanted everyone to rest assured that there is nothing to worry about with this reported exploit.

More information on this exploit can be found at: http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3459

New Site Builder Software

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Due to the issues our clients have on a continued basis with publishing, and having to access the site builder outside of cPanel we’re highly considering offering the RV Site Builder (made by RVSkin). This Site Builder can be accessed directly through cPanel and there is no hassle of adding users, publish settings, etc. Just simply click on the icon, build your site, and save!

Please check the demo below as we’re very interested in what our customers have to say since you and your clients will be the ones using it on a day to day basis.

The demo can be found at: http://www.rvsitebuilder.com/index.php/rvsitebuilder/demo/

HostNine, ModernBill’s Fastest Growing Hosting Partner, to Present Best Practices at ModernBill Workshop

Friday, March 9th, 2007

HostNine, a Florida web hosting provider, is ModernBill’s fastest growing partner. The two companies enable web designers and web developers to easily expand their businesses by reselling web hosting services to customers. HostNine and ModernBill will co-present successful web hosting reseller strategies at ModernBill’s annual workshop.

West Palm Beach, FL (PRWEB) March 9, 2007 — ModernBill (http://www.modernbill.com) is now the billing platform of choice for over 12,000 technology companies worldwide. VP of Sales Jonathan McCarrick says hosting partners have been instrumental in reaching this milestone. In particular, he names West Palm Beach, Florida based HostNine (http://www.hostnine.com) as ModernBill’s fastest growing reseller.

HostNine offers an all-inclusive “Business-in-a-Box” for web hosting startups. It includes a merchant account, a domain reseller account, cPanel/WebHost Manager, site builder software, and ModernBill’s billing software for $19.95. In addition, HostNine’s support staff are available 24/7 by phone, live chat, instant messenger and email. HostNine even helps resellers migrate customer websites at no cost. According to Operations Manager Ben Gabler, “we’re here to make launching and growing your hosting business a hassle-free experience.” He says his service is especially popular among web designers and developers who see web hosting as a synergistic add-on.

On April 5, 2007, Gabler will present HostNine’s experience at ModernBill’s 3rd annual Administrators Workshop in Louisville, KY. Gabler, a web hosting industry veteran, says he will share his 9 strategies for reseller success. At the top of his list are creating an easy-to-buy solution, and offering multiple channels for customer communication. To register for the event, please visit http://www.modernbill.com/events.php.

About HostNine
West Palm Beach, FL-based HostNine is an industry leader in reseller hosting. The company helps web designers, developers and other technology service providers extend their capabilities, and empowers web hosting startups to quickly launch and grow their web hosting businesses. For more information, please visit hostnine.com.

About ModernBill
ModernBill is the flagship product of Louisville, KY-based ModernGigabyte. The company offers turnkey financial solutions for web hosting providers. Its fully integrated suite of products include ModernBill, the ModernAuthorize merchant account service, the FraudGuardian order verification service, and the ModernDNS domain reseller service. As of March 2007, ModernBill is the billing platform of choice for over 12,000 companies worldwide. For more information, please visit moderngigabyte.com.

HostNine is ModernBill’s Fastest Growing Partner!

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Just want to share the great news with everyone. ModernBill says HostNine is their fastest growing partner! A copy of the press release we sent out is below We’d like to thank you, our customers, for your support. We really appreciate your business!! By the way, I will be speaking at ModernBill’s Administrator Workshop in Louisville next month. If you’re in the area, please join us!

HostNine, ModernBill’s Fastest Growing Hosting Partner, to Present Reseller Best Practices at ModernBill Workshop

March 8, 2007 | West Palm Beach, FL: ModernBill (http://www.modernbill.com) is now the billing platform of choice for over 12,000 technology companies worldwide. VP of Sales Jonathan
McCarrick says hosting partners have been instrumental in reaching this milestone. In particular, he names West Palm Beach, Florida based HostNine (http://www.hostnine.com) as ModernBill’s fastest growing reseller.

HostNine offers an all-inclusive “Business-in-a-Box” for web hosting startups. It includes a merchant account, a domain reseller account, cPanel/WebHost Manager, site builder software, and ModernBill’s billing software for $19.95. In addition, HostNine’s support staff are available 24/7 by phone, live chat, instant messenger and email. HostNine even helps resellers migrate customer websites at no cost. According to Operations Manager Ben Gabler, “we’re here to make launching and growing your hosting business a hassle-free experience.” He says his service is especially popular among web designers and developers who see web hosting as a synergistic add-on.

On April 5, 2007, Gabler will present HostNine’s experience at ModernBill’s 3rd annual Administrators Workshop in Louisville, KY. Gabler, a web hosting industry veteran, says he will share his 9 strategies for reseller success. At the top of his list are creating an easy-to-buy solution, and offering multiple channels for customer communication. To register for the event, please visit http://www.modernbill.com/events.php.

About HostNine
West Palm Beach, FL-based HostNine is an industry leader in reseller hosting. The company helps web designers, developers and other technology service providers extend their capabilities, and empowers web hosting startups to quickly launch and grow their web hosting
businesses. For more information, please visit http://www.hostnine.com.

About ModernBill
ModernBill is the flagship product of Louisville, KY-based ModernGigabyte. The company offers turnkey financial solutions for web hosting providers. Its fully integrated suite of products include
ModernBill, the ModernAuthorize merchant account service, the FraudGuardian order verification service, and the ModernDNS domain reseller service. As of March 2007, ModernBill is the billing platform of choice for over 12,000 companies worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.moderngigabyte.com.

WIN an XBOX 360!

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007


The guys over at Webhostingunleashed.com are currently giving away an Xbox 360 with a wireless control and hard drive.

How do you enter? Simply submit a review for HostNine at http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/rank.php?filter=hostnine&host=3403 and you will automatically be entered to win!

For more information on this contest please see:

http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/blog/wina-xbox360.html

NEW PHP Management Feature

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

We’re very happy to announce the launch our all-new php management section of cPanel. This new area will be added to all HostNine servers over the next few hours and will make managing PHP settings much easier for you and your customers.

Listed below you will find some screen-shots but basically what it does is allows you to easily choose the PHP settings you would like for your website such as which version of PHP to use, register_globals, memory_limit, and max_upload_limit.

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cPanel PHP Management Screen-shot

This new feature will take those settings and apply them directly to your .htaccess file making it easier than ever to manage each domain’s individial PHP settings.