Contact:
Irwin Greenstein
Plesk, Inc.
703/815-5670
NEW PLESK COMMERCE ALLIANCE DRAWS ON INDUSTRY LEADERS TO STREAMLINE APPLICATION INTEGRATION FOR HOSTING PROVIDERS
Plesk Server Administrator Formally Supported by Register.com, GeoTrust, Miva, Urchin, EMUMAIL, Rodopi, NetStores, TopLine and Other Software Leaders
CHANTILLY, Virginia,
June 24, 2002 — Plesk™, Inc., the market
leader in automated Web hosting software, announced today the Plesk Commerce
Alliance, a program that streamlines the integration of value-added
applications and services for the Plesk Server Administrator™ (PSA), which is
the number-one platform used by the hosting industry to automate the management
of service plans for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs).
Formation of the Plesk Commerce Alliance arose from the increasing
demand by the hosting industry for interaction between the several hundred
thousand PSA customers and the army of application developers that enhance Web
hosting through PSA integration.
The mission of the Plesk Commerce Alliance is to accelerate
time-to-revenue for hosting providers through a clearing house of information
that details the simple integration process between PSA and compatible,
value-added applications and services such as those for billing, security,
email, analytics, ecommerce and domain registration. Click on www.plesk.com/html/partners/PCA/index.htm to
access the Plesk Commerce Alliance home page.
“Our advanced technology, unsurpassed customer support and global
presence has enabled Plesk to enjoy far-reaching support across all quarters of
the hosting industry,” said George Pappas, president and CEO of Plesk. “The Plesk Commerce Alliance takes our
industry leadership further, by formalizing the relationships that have
contributed to the success of our hosting provider customers through an
inventory of applications that increase their profitability, differentiation
and growth.”
The Plesk Commerce Alliance
The Plesk Commerce Alliance adheres to the guiding principle that the
hosting industry is the cornerstone of a successful Internet economy in which
hosting providers, their channel partners and their domain-owner customers can
increase profitability through efficiency, differentiation and world-class
technical support. Benefits to
software companies that join the Plesk Commerce Alliance include:
·
Joint marketing
initiatives with Plesk and other Plesk Commerce Alliance members.
·
Access to Plesk’s
global customer base.
·
Lead generation.
·
Tighter integration
with PSA.
·
Pre-release products
for evaluation.
·
Improved technical
cooperation.
Industry software innovators who have joined the Plesk Commerce
Alliance as Charter Members include:
·
AutomatedShops.com,
Inc.
provides ShopZone®, an established leader in cost- effective ecommerce software
solutions for SMBs. ShopZone is
PSA 2.5-ready, and can be added to any Plesk hosting account today with no
messy server installation or maintenance.
The ease-of-use and flexibility of ShopZone allows merchants to quickly
build highly customized, cutting-edge, commerce-enabled sites that grow with
their business. ShopZone goes far
beyond simple ecommerce add-ons to provide a complete solution with rapid
offline development, Web-site preview, comprehensive online reporting and
administration tools. (www.automatedshops.com)
·
CyLynx,
Inc. is
a global provider of outsourced support for Web-hosting companies. CyLynx offers Plesk users total 24x7
relief from their end-user support responsibilities via email, live chat, and
phone. Customer inquiries will be
handled by CyLynx's expert support engineers, who are trained and experienced
in Web hosting, customer support, and PSA. (www.cylynx.com)
·
EMUMAIL (pronounced
"ee-mew-mail") provides feature-rich Webmail software solutions that
simplify email management and administration. The company’s Webmail software, which enables easy access to
POP and IMAP email from any Web browser, is used by over seven million end
users, running on servers at business enterprises of all sizes, ISPs, ASPs, and
over 60 colleges and universities worldwide. Products and services include EMU Webmail, an enterprise
engine for all email applications; EMU MollyMail, http://www.mollymail.com,
a subscription Webmail service for use with any existing POP or IMAP accounts;
and SMTP.com, http://www.smtp.com, an offsite email
relay service. (www.emumail.com)
·
Incognito Software, Inc. is a leading developer of sophisticated
IP and DNS software. Incognito's
DNS Commander solutions provide multi-platform, scalable DNS servers that offer
a more manageable and secure alternative to BIND. Incognito's IP Commander solutions are designed for the
self-installation of devices such as cable and DSL modems, providing
auto-configuration capabilities to broadband service providers. Incognito's award-winning IP and DNS
management product line provides Fortune 1000 companies, hosts, and broadband
service providers with powerful and
secure infrastructure management solutions. Incognito’s DNS Commander Hosting Edition is a fully
automated DNS management system designed to integrate with existing networks to
allow hosting companies' customers to manage their domains in real-time. Combining a secure, high-performance
DNS engine with powerful management capabilities ensures that DNS Commander
Hosting Edition solves the most pressing customer service issues facing hosting
companies today: delivering unique, best-of-breed hosting services while
reducing customer turnover. (www.incognito.com)
·
Miva Corp. provides
the leading ecommerce platform for channels that target SMBs. Over 1,000 hosting companies including
DellHost™, Interland, Online Marketing, Hostway, CIHost, and XO Communications
bundle the Miva platform of scripting, storefront applications and marketing
services with their web hosting to deliver complete e-commerce solutions to
SMBs. No other ecommerce platform
company offers the ease of browser-based point and click, deep-down
customizability and the reach to deliver integrated marketing services. (www.miva.com)
·
NetStores, a world
leader in ecommerce Application Service Providing and Point of Sale ecommerce
solutions, has provided ecommerce services to Web professionals and businesses
worldwide since 1995. The
NetStores ecommerce solution provides everything needed to establish ecommerce
on Web sites – quickly and efficiently.
NetStores ebusiness solutions for merchants and easy tools for Web
designers simplify adding the NetStores ecommerce solution to their existing
Website. NetStores’ ecommerce
solution, now Pay Pal compatible, provides shopping cart, search engine, back-office,
multi-currency, and secure ordering to any hosted Website. Web designers, builders, and merchants
can quickly build a complete ecommerce solution with no additional software,
integrate their current Website with the NetStores solution, and instantly
create an ecommerce-enabled ordering solution for their Website. From a few, hundreds, to thousands of
items can be quickly added to any Web page anywhere. NetStores partnerships with major software publishers
provide free Website design application ecommerce tools for any Web design
program, including: Adobe® GoLive®, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft®
FrontPage® and NetObjects Fusion.
(www.netstores.com)
·
Topline
Ventures, Inc.’s SiteBuilder Service is based on the industry’s number-one
site-creation platform from Trellix Corporation. Trellix is the leading choice among the world’s largest
hosting companies and now Topline has made it affordable for SMB hosting
operations. SiteBuilder makes it
easy for the company’s customers to create and maintain their own Web sites
from any browser then publish them back to their servers. Topline is always invisible to the
end-customer’s customers, and SiteBuilder is fully private labeled. The SiteBuilder Service is fully
integrated with Plesk’s PSA. (www.toplineventures.com)
·
Urchin Software Corporation is a leading Internet software development firm based in San Diego,
California. The company’s flagship
product, Urchin 4, is a Web-traffic reporting system that delivers information
on a wide range of visitation parameters in a manner that is coherent and
meaningful to anyone with a Website.
Urchin is in use by many of the top corporate and government
organizations on the Internet, such as NTT/Verio, SBC, Opsware, Cable &
Wireless, EarthLink, NASA, Honda, the NHL, the National Institutes of Health,
the Department of Defense, and thousands of others. (www.urchin.com)
Charter Members of the Plesk Commerce Alliance will subsequently be
joined by other industry leaders that provide innovative, value-added solutions
to the hosting industry. The
ongoing growth of the Plesk Commerce Alliance will continue to advance PSA as
the dominant Web hosting automation platform.
Plesk Server Administrator
PSA substantially reduces the support requirements for Web hosting
providers and enterprise users.
PSA liberates technical support staff from the tedium of manual tasks
and instead allows them to focus on more important, value-added services that
increase customer acquisition and retention. PSA has been
architected to provide a full range of Web hosting automation benefits
throughout the reseller channel and to the ultimate enterprise user.
About Plesk, Inc.
Plesk, Inc. develops, markets and supports software that simplifies and
automates the full range of server configuration and management tasks required
for Web hosting. Using
point-and-click user interfaces presented through standard Web browsers, Plesk
Server Administrator enables non-technical customers and Web hosting companies
to manage their own domains, and
Web hosting companies and their service resellers to deliver better and faster
customer support at lower cost. In
less than two years, Plesk software has earned the enthusiastic praise and loyalty
of hundreds of Web hosting companies and thousands of their customers. HostingTech Magazine in November 2001
wrote “In the load test, there was no discernable difference in performance
during heavy CPU usage times.
Speed and simplicity are why Plesk has perhaps the best selling of all
the control panels.” For more
information about Plesk, visit www.plesk.com
or call (888) 209-8900.
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