Web Hosting Provider Host Color Integrates Dynamic Support for PHP4 & PHP5 in Control Panel

Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) January 23, 2006

Host Color (http://www.hostcolor.com), a US shared web hosting provider, has announced it has integrated a dynamic support for PHP 4 and PHP 5 scripting in its new NextColor hostingControl Panel. The company’s customers can choose whichever version of PHP their site should use through a special section in their control panel. This new feature is important for web developers. Although scripts written in the PHP web programming language should run on both versions 4 and 5, some programs have special requirements for either of them.

“We are a company that listens very carefully to what its customers say. That’s why after being approached by numerous customers asking specifically for PHP 4 or PHP 5 hosting, we decided to add this new feature in our control panel. Together with the improved SSH capability that we have added to our NextColor control panel, we feel that our hosting has some unique features and is a powerful medium for web developers.” says Host Color’s Executive Director Vesselin Drangajov.

PHP version 5 was officially released in July 2004 and since then it has marked a major re-design of the language due to the e Zend Engine 2.0 processing core. Also this version of the language has far wider object-orientated capabilities than its predecessors. Web hosting companies are usually slow to adopt new technologies, due to the investment and the extra software work required to ensure compatibility between versions. Host Color’s chief software developer Venelin Mihaylov however, reminds that Host Color was one of the first web hosting companies to begin offering PHP 5 more than a year ago. According to Mr. Mihaylov the new switching capability is an example of Host Color’s policy to produce software and service that empowers the end user.

Hos Color has recently announced it made available the popular PhpMyVisites to its customers. The web stats software is one of the pre-installed tools the company offers.

The hosting company also started a webmaster contest in January. It has invited authors of articles related to website industry to create their own accounts in the company’s web hosting forum (http://forum.hostcolor.com) and to post their work in the section “Resource Toolbox”. The best ten Articles chosen by votes of the Host Color Forum members will be awarded with publications in Yahoo and Google news, as well as distribution within the Host Color’s partners’ networks that include more than 1,000,000 pages recognized by Search Engines.

The web host said it will reward prizes to the top 3 rated articles. Their authors will get 12 months of free web hosting service (Domain Max Pack) that includes all the advanced features that the web hosting company offers to its customers. Host Color will not require the copyright over the articles so their authors will be still able to sell, publish or distribute them elsewhere without any limitations. The web host just needs the authors’ permission to post and distribute their articles without changes.

About Host Color

Host Color LLC (http://www.hostcolor.com) is a US web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It has been operating on the hosting market since 2000. The company hosts thousands of personal and business Web sites. Host Color LLC offers web hosting services in US and European data centers. The hosting company provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe (http://www.hostcoloreurope.com) web site.

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Web Hosting Company Host Color Offers Free Website Marketing Consultation

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 9, 2006

The shared web hosting provider Host Color (http://www.hostcolor.com) announced it provides “free web site optimization” as a part of its August promotional offer – “Web Site Marketing Consultation”. The service is available to Host Color’s Mega and Multi Domain customers. It’s priced at $ 49 one time fee, but company’s customers are now entitled to get the service for free.

The consultation includes: Meta Tags Optimization, Link Popularity Analysis, Keyword Optimization and advice on how to market a web site.

Those who want to take advantage of the free service need to fill in the form that can be found on Host Color’s Optimization Page (http://www.hostcolor.com/optimization.php) after their sign-up for Mega or Multi Domain plans on regular annual or 24 month contact, or after the completion of their account renewal.

“Every successful online business receives a lot of targeted visitors from search engines. That’s why we identify the search engines that are important for your web site. Our team finds out the keywords that are relevant for your business and prepares your site for better indexing from search engine. We analyze your content, search engine position and check your site popularity. As a result we can offer an effective methods to boost your online visibility,” said Alexander Avramov, a Customer Service Manager of Host color LLC.

According to the web host, its marketing consultants will save time and much money to all web site owners who want to receive free advice on web site marketing.

Host Color will make the promotion available to its European customers as well. Everyone who signs up or decides to renew its Advanced or Business hosting plan through Host Color Europe (http://www.hostcoloreurope.com) will also be able to benefit from the web site marketing consultation!

The web hosting company has recently announced that it lowered the price of its premier Multi Domain web hosting plan from $ 14.99 per month to $ 9.99 per month. The discount is available with 24 month contracts. The Multi Domain plan allows company’s customers to host 10 different web sites in one hosting account. Host Color has also cut off the price of the same hosting plan for 12 month contracts.

About Host Color

Host Color LLC (http://www.hostcolor.com) is a U.S. web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It hosts its customers web sites is data centers in South Bend, Indiana and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Company offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. It provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe (http://www.hostcoloreurope.com) web site.

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Web Hosting Company Host Color Offers Security Advice To Webmasters

Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) December 15, 2005

Host Color LLC (http://www.hostcolor.com), a US shared web hosting company has released in its hosting support forums ( http://forum.hostcolor.com ) a number of articles on the basics of webmaster security. The company wants to raise awareness among novice webmasters of the main measures they have to take to make their sites secure. The company has been alarmed by the growth in SPAM and other hacker attacks it has observed.

Host Color has published basic guidelines on securing PHP and Perl applications. The hosting company security specialists also underline how important it is that all web applications are updated regularly.

“Our company has always placed a strong emphasis on security. The main program that we face however is that many webmasters do not realize that they need to think about all security implications when they install software on their accounts. A recent problem that we faced for example is that many of the ‘Contact us’ scripts that our customers install are vulnerable and can be used as open-relays by spammers. This causes serious problem for the servers since it can turn them into sources of spam. We have added detailed instructions on how this can be avoided. We have also give simple examples of what code and SQL injection are and how those can be stopped as well,” says Stoyan Marinov, Host Color’s Security Specialist.

Host Color also advises its web hosting customers to subscribe to the security bulletins of the open-source software that we use such as phpBB, Joomla or osCommerce. If all updates are applied in time then the security of open-source application can live up to a high standard.

On the whole the problems that Host Color describes are not critical the company’s hosting servers since their software is regularly updated. Problems with a site’s security however can lead to defacing of customer’s websites and leakage of information. “Host Color is committed to helping our customers build a viable and functional web presence. That is why our support and system administration teams work closely together on all such problems,” assures Stoyan Marinov.

The hosting company has recently announced a Christmas promotion on web hosting services. It includes 6 free months of service and free domain name with every Max or Mega hosting plan. Non-profit organizations and academics receive an additional 15% discount on sign-up.

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Host Color Europe to Promote .EU Business

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 29, 2007

Host Color (http://www.hostcolor.com), a global shared web hosting

provider announced today it launches a promotional campaign for .EU

domain name. The campaign aims to help European consumers and small

businesses to better understand the possibilities of using the .EU name.

The web host adds .EU domain registration as a free add-on for two of its European hosting plans – Advanced and Business. The registration is available at company’s European web site (http://www.hostcolor.eu) – Host Color Europe.

The company said that its promotional campaign for .EU domain will start at the same time as EURid’s “.Eu Awareness Campaign” but will be extended until the end of September 2007.

“Recent surveys showed that almost 2.465,000 .EU names have been registered after the domain’s sunrise period announced by the European registry last year,” says Host Color Marketing Director Alexander Avramov. “Although the number of the new .EU domains rises month by month, the European businesses are still not active enough on promoting dot-EU and the websites based on the European name,” adds Mr. Avramov.

According to the surveys 18% of the Europeans have their own domain name and only 2 percent of those names are under .EU extension.

“Host Color values its presence on any web hosting market around the world but supporting process of building the .EU identity is more than business for our company. It is something we appreciate very much,” said the Host Color’s executive.

According to Host Color the .EU awareness is still poor among the residents of European Union. Only 66 percent of the Internet users know that the .EU domain exists and that they are eligible to register their own. Only 30% of the Europeans who already have their .EU domains are using it to do business.

About Host Color:

Host Color LLC (http://www.hostcolor.com) is a U.S. web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It hosts its customers web sites is data centers in South Bend, Indiana and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Company offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. It

provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe http://www.hostcolor.eu) web site and Managed Servers through its new web site Host Color Servers (http://www.hostcolorservers.com).

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Web Hosting Company Host Color Adds Free .EU Domain To Multi Plan

(PRWEB) May 8, 2006

Host Color launched earlier this month a Multi Domain web hosting plan, allowing its customers to host 10 different websites in one web hosting account. The plan comes with 10 GB space and 200 GB monthly transfer. Site owners can share data and services between ten different websites. Additional space and bandwidth are also available at low cost.

“We hope that opening .EU domain for public registration to EU citizens will globalize the European web hosting service market which now is still divided by national borders. Host Color LLC pays significant attention to the European market. We hope it becomes more competitive and more web hosts are encouraged to step over the national borders and to start providing web hosting services across Europe” says Host Color’s Customer Care Manager Alexander Avramov.

Besides the .EU domain promotion, Host Color also offers one free month to everyone who joins with a 6 month subscription. The web hosting provider announced it will keep the bonus month when customers renew their service.

Host Color’s executives claim their company has strong market positions in providing reliable budget and shared web hosting services. “Serving thousands of personal and small business customers and securing reliable support and personalized service is what we have been doing for 5 years ago. We took a certain risk by establishing .EU hosting service at time when most Europeans preferred to use web hosts based in their own countries.”, says company’s Customer Care manager.

Company’s business analysts say that development of the European Enion dot-com economy will receive massive boost from .EU domain launch. Registered EU domains are now more than 1.5 million, a number which already surpassed the active .biz extensions.

Host Color says the company is focused in providing value added website and business tools to hosting customers instead of increasing space and bandwidth limits to ridiculous numbers.

“It is very clear that no one can host even 100 web sites per server if they allow every single customer to use for example 15 GB space and 500 GB monthly transfer. An industry leading server providers such as EV1 offered a dedicated server with 500 GB monthly transfer rate in 2003. Now many shared hosts claim they provide their shared hosting customers with the same amount of data transfer. They know know the only chance to provide the service offered is to hope that customers would never require it” adds Stoyan Marinov, Host Color’s system engineer.

Host Color’s message to partners and competitors is that providing a hosting service by hoping no one would fully use it is definitely not a viable service policy for any well-established company.

About Host Color

Host Color LLC (http://www.hostcolor.com) is a US web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It has been operating on the hosting market since 2000. The company hosts thousands of personal and business Web sites. Host Color LLC offers web hosting services in US and European data centers. The hosting company provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe (http://www.hostcoloreurope.com) web site.

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Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) November 9, 2005

Host Color (hostcolor.com) has launched its new WebSite Builder software. The software is developed by Host Color programmers using open source components such as the TinyMCE html editor. Customers with Host Color hosting accounts will be able to use the online tool to create a functional Website in minutes.

The idea of the WebSite Builder is to enable people with little or no technical expertise to publish their Website without the need of any additional software. The Builder lets users choose colors, fonts and basic layout for their site. Users can enter content for different sections of their site through an online WYSIWYG editor.

Once the site content is ready the Website is uploaded automatically. The published version of the Website is saved automatically so later customers can return to the Builder and edit and re-arrange their content.

“When creating our software we have been aiming at maximum ease-of-use, functionality and flexibility. We aim to provide tools for customers of all backgrounds and experience. This new offer is mainly for novice users and we are sure they will find it useful. Host Color however also offers many advanced tools such as pre-installed Mambo Content Management System, WorldPress Blog software and phpBB Forum. We are now in a stage of very rapid development and customers can expect much more quality tools for their online presence before the end of the year,” says Host Color’s Executive Director Vesselin Drangajov.

The hosting company has also announced that it extents its .CA and .US domain registration promotion until December 31 2005.

About Host Color

Host Color has been operating on the hosting market since 2000. Company hosts thousands of personal and business web sites. Most of our clients are from the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and EU countries. Host Color runs it’s own equipment, servers and cabinets, located in data centers in United States and Europe. US data center is located in South Bend, Indiana.

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