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Certified Hosting Uses New How To Videos To Connect With Customers

Certified Hosting, the leading specialist in shared hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated server hosting services, announced today the launch of exciting new video content available at certifiedhosting.com. With a friendly, informative style designed to make the basics of web hosting easier to understand, Certified Hosting’s new videos help to put a face to this rapidly growing hosting company.

“The truth is that the web hosting industry can at times be a little cold and uninviting,” says Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting. “That’s not what we are about. At Certified Hosting, we are real people who love getting to know our customers, whether we are helping them get started with their hosting or just hearing about the success they have had online. Our latest video, available now, explains the basics of getting your web hosting service online and acts as an introduction so that every potential customer knows we are friendly people and always willing to help.”

Although almost everybody can identify the major benefits of establishing a web presence online, the realities of implementing a professional, attractive and easy to navigate website can be overwhelming to those with no prior knowledge of web hosting services. In addition to the difficulty of choosing between different types of hosting such as dedicated server hosting or VPS web hosting plans, businesses need to choose and register a useful domain, link this domain to their hosting plan, and then launch actual content onto their server. Certified Hosting’s latest video, ‘How To Create A Website In 5 Steps,’ is delivered by Kacy Carlsen herself, with a friendly, humorous approach that helps to engage the audience and make learning the basics of setting up a website an enjoyable experience.

“There are so many options out there,” says Carlsen. “Not only are there a lot of web hosting service providers, but also each of those website hosts offer different things. It’s too much to expect that potential customers should have to research the definitions to our in-house jargon that only a geek like me will understand. So what we’ve done is to explain, in real terms, what buttons need to be hit in order to get a site up and running. Then, once customers have begun to grasp the basics, I’m hoping they’ll take advantage of our new Ask Kacy feature to keep developing a good relationship with Certified Hosting.”

In addition to the informative video guide to setting up a website hosting plan, Certified Hosting also now offers an informal question and answer service, called Ask Kacy. By completing a short online form, current and potential customers can get in direct contact with Certified Hosting’s co-founder and CEO to ask a question on just about any subject. The new video blog (VLog) works alongside over 200 existing video tutorials to provide a more comprehensive overview of what Certified Hosting does and how the company works. In the first video of the series, Carlsen outlines the recruitment process of technical support staff, identifying the key traits that lead to the creation of a helpful team to respond to online chat, ticketed support, or phone calls. Carlsen hopes that the introduction of Ask Kacy will make Certified Hosting’s customer service division even more impressive.

“I like getting great service when I make a purchase,” says Carlsen. “But the Internet can be a very anonymous place, and some web hosting services use this as an excuse to hide in an office and leave customers to fend for themselves. In a physical store, face to face interaction makes helping customers easier. Our continued focus on video guides, video tutorials, and video responses to questions helps us to mimic that intimacy and achieve the best customer service in the business.”

In the years since the company was first founded, Certified Hosting has seen rapid growth, becoming the leading provider of web hosting and reseller hosting services – largely thanks to outstanding customer service. Now, despite the sheer volume of customers who have chosen Certified Hosting for their website, Carlsen and her team are finding new ways to maintain that sense of care and assistance.

About Certified Hosting

Certified Hosting was established in 1999 as a Southern California based unlimited web hostingcompany to provide shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed dedicated servers to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and individuals throughout the world. Recognizing that each client has unique goals, Certified Hosting tailors hosting services to meet specific needs including individualized services available for clients in many different specific industries such as unlimited ffmpeg hosting, flash hosting, wordpress hosting, dolphin hosting, elgg hosting, magento, joomla, drupal, and php motion hosting, among many other technologies available for webmasters and business owners.

For more information about Certified Hosting, visit http://certifiedhosting.com/.

Certified Hosting Announces Free CloudFlare Hosting Features
Certified Hosting, a leading web hosting provider offering shared web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated server hosting plans, announced today the introduction of CloudFlare functionality through all shared hosting and reseller hosting services. The service, which is fully integrated with Certified Hosting’s existing cPanel web hosting setup, improves website performance and security for a better, safer, and more dependable end-user experience.

“We have been in discussions with CloudFlare for a while now, and we have worked hard to bring this incredible new technology to our customers,” says Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting. “With the click of a button on their existing cPanel installation, our shared hosting and reseller hosting customers can now provide a faster, more responsive service to their end-users, without worrying about downtime or threats to their security.”

Launched just over a year ago, CloudFlare was initially developed with a focus on securing websites and protecting them against a range of potentially crippling online attacks. Developers Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn began creating a “firewall in the cloud” where visitor traffic passes through one of 13 data centers before it reaches your website. Here, traffic can be monitored, and in the event of a traffic spike, CloudFlare automatically checks for signs of spamming, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and bot crawling. Most distinctively, since the CloudFlare servers act as proxies to numerous websites, the CloudFlare security system actively learns from attacks and grows progressively more intelligent over time. As a result, Certified Hosting users who opt for CloudFlare functionality can be confident that their website is robustly defended at all times.

“CloudFlare takes security off of the list of things our users have to manage for themselves,” explains Carlsen. “After selecting a security level for their website, our shared web hosting users can let CloudFlare manage their security with no further input required. Even better, in the event that a web hosting server does become overloaded with disruptive traffic, the CloudFlare system automatically calls upon a cached version of the website from one of the distributed cloud servers. Our customers can be completely assured that their website is available to end-users consistently, and is always performing at its best.”

The cloud-based distributed nature of CloudFlare does not only impact website security – Certified Hosting customers will also notice significant improvements to the speed and performance of their website. Usually, when an end-user logs on to a page, the content must be transmitted from one static server to their home computer. Potentially, this requires traffic to be routed around the entire world. When using CloudFlare, a mirrored version of the website can be accessed on the CloudFlare server that is geographically nearest to the user. As a result, page loading times decrease dramatically and customers are able to view website content or place orders quicker than ever before.

“We are pleased to add Certified Hosting as a partner,” says Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of CloudFlare. “Certified Hosting has integrated CloudFlare into their control panel, making it simple to offer improved website performance and security to all of their customers.”

“CloudFlare makes accessing websites lightning-fast, while also making sites more secure,” says Carlsen. “But I guess the thing I like most about CloudFlare is that it works perfectly, without requiring our customers to learn a completely new system. At Certified Hosting, we are always looking for new ways to give our customers better service on their unlimited web hosting plans, without introducing complexity.”

As Certified Hosting has grown, the company’s commitment to improving its flagship unlimited hosting services has always remained at the forefront. Now, with the addition of easy-to-deploy CloudFlare functionality, every customer can enjoy new and improved features at no extra cost.

For more information on Certified Hosting and CloudFlare hosting services, visit certifiedhosting.com.

About Certified Hosting

Certified Hosting was established in 1999 as a Southern California-based unlimited web hosting company to provide shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed dedicated servers to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and individuals throughout the world. Recognizing that each client has unique goals, Certified Hosting tailors hosting services to meet the individualized service needs of clients in many specific industries. Some, but not all, Certified Hosting services include unlimited FFmpeg hosting, Flash hosting, WordPress hosting, Dolphin hosting, Elgg hosting, Magento, Joomla, Drupal, and PHPmotion hosting, among many other technologies used by webmasters and business owners.

For more information about Certified Hosting, visit certifiedhosting.com.

Certified Hosting Upgrades Reseller Hosting Plans with Increased Resources
Reseller hosting specialist Certified Hosting offers more disk space and bandwidth as part of newly improved unlimited reseller hosting services.

Los Angeles, CA (PRESS RELEASE) November 22, 2011 – Certified Hosting, a market leader in reseller hosting, shared hosting, and dedicated server hosting services, announced today a comprehensive overhaul of its popular reseller web hosting services. With increased system resources allocated to each reseller hosting plan and prices more affordable than ever, Certified Hosting helps hosting reseller customers start their own successful web hosting business.

“At Certified Hosting, we’ve always had a popular range of unlimited reseller hosting plans,” says Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting. “But we were not content with just being popular – we are determined to be the best. Looking at competing reseller hosting solutions from other providers, we are now confident that we offer the most generous disk space and bandwidth allocations at the most reasonable prices.”

Reseller hosting solutions have become popular among freelance designers or web developers looking to supplement their existing services with hosting, as well as with individuals who want to start their own web hosting business. In either case, there is a continued necessity to offer popular, high quality services with enough room to make a healthy profit. Certified Hosting now offers five distinct reseller hosting service levels, ranging from 50GB disk space and 500GB bandwidth all the way through to a 200GB disk space and 1500GB bandwidth plan. This means that Certified Hosting now provides an unlimited reseller web hosting service to suit customers of all sizes – those who are just starting out and those who are looking to offer high quality cPanel hosting to numerous demanding customers.

“We now offer extremely generous system resources starting as low as $19.95,” says Carlsen. “The immediate result is that every one of our reseller hosting plan customers can now generate more profit by hosting more accounts, or by establishing a higher price point for their services. Of course, this is useless if we limit the number of accounts that can be hosted on each reseller hosting service, or if we don’t include the features that end-users demand like high-level uptime and a reliable, easy to use control panel.”

In addition to the new improvements to Certified Hosting’s reseller web hosting solutions, the same professional-level features that made the service popular remain untouched. Certified Hosting provides cPanel, the world’s most popular web hosting control panel, which can be deployed for end-users and used to manage reseller accounts via Web Host Manager (WHM). In addition, Certified Hosting’s reseller web hosting plans include unlimited domains and unlimited accounts, maximizing the opportunities for revenue available to reseller hosting customers. Reseller web hosts can divide their allocation of resources however they want, making Certified Hosting’s unlimited reseller plans remarkably flexible and highly customizable.

“The simple truth is that we want to let our customers run their business the way they want to,” says Carlsen. “We provide a robust, reliable network, the most generous resources, unlimited domains, and unlimited accounts on each plan. Even better, we offer those features at the lowest prices around. That’s how every one of our reseller hosting customers can enjoy the independence they want to grow their business as they please.”

The world of reseller hosting is competitive, but by offering a truly unlimited reseller web hosting solution, Certified Hosting has grown to become a preferred choice among hosting resellers. Now, by matching – and then beating – the prices and features of competitors, Certified Hosting is set to hold its dominance and attract new resellers.

About Certified Hosting

Certified Hosting was established in 1999 as a Southern California based unlimited web hosting company to provide shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed dedicated servers to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals throughout the world. Recognizing that each client has unique goals, Certified Hosting tailors hosting services to meet specific needs including individualized services available for clients in many different specific industries such as unlimited ffmpeg hosting, flash hosting, wordpress hosting, dolphin hosting, elgg hosting, magento, joomla, drupal, and php motion hosting, among many other technologies available for webmasters and business owners.

For more information about Certified Hosting, visit http://certifiedhosting.com/.

Certified Hosting Reaches New Milestone with Fastest Growing Web Hosting Affiliate Program
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 15, 2011

Certified Hosting, a Los Angeles-based dedicated server, reseller hosting, and shared hosting company, announced today that it has reached a major milestone in the growth of its web hosting affiliate program, making it one of the best web hosting affiliate programs currently available in the web hosting industry. With over 2,600 web host affiliate partners and more joining every day, Certified Hosting has built a marketing network that sees high levels of income for every hosting affiliate.

“We strive to be the best web hosting affiliate program and the highest converting web hosting affiliate program available,” says Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting. “Unlike many web hosting affiliate programs, we see our many affiliate hosting partners as an integral part of our success and reward them accordingly. As a direct result of the Certified Hosting affiliate hosting program, our generous approach is what has helped us reach this impressive new milestone in the development of our hosting affiliate program.”

Certified Hosting’s free web hosting affiliate program boasts highly competitive rates of pay, with up to $125 per sale payouts to hard working partners. In addition, affiliate marketers who work with Certified Hosting are nurtured to achieve the very best results, and offered a range of free marketing tools including affiliate web hosting space and advertising materials such as banners, page peels, and lightboxes of varied sizes, shapes, and designs. Distinctively, marketing Certified Hosting is made easy thanks to a web hosting services range that is genuinely attractive to potential customers. While some web host affiliate programs rely upon the careful art of persuasion, Certified Hosting provides high quality, high performance hosting services that naturally appeal to thousands of business and individuals worldwide.

“Of course we believe that our products and services are an easy sell for our affiliates,” says Carlsen. “But we would never underestimate how important our marketers are to the success of our hosting affiliate program. Our web host affiliate program has reached 2,600 affiliates due to our passionate partners promoting Certified Hosting web hosting services. Simply put, our affiliates earn good money by helping to promote our hosting services, and, unlike some other hosting affiliate programs, we have built up a reputation for paying our marketers quickly, efficiently, and fairly.”

Every affiliate who works with Certified Hosting is rewarded for attracting new business and generating sales on hosting products and services, but also receives a payout for referring other affiliates to the network. Today, the Certified Hosting affiliate web hosting program boasts 1,165 hosting affiliates, with 301 affiliates working through Share A Sale, and 1,150 affiliates through Affiliate Bot. These affiliates have all discovered how easy it is to make money with Certified Hosting and have embraced the community spirit that Certified Hosting prides itself upon. Affiliate hosting marketers can also now benefit from tips and advice made available by the company’s resident marketing experts to increase their income even further.

“We’ve made some big steps towards becoming the best hosting affiliate program in the world,” says Carlsen. “But we are only just beginning to reach our targets. Every affiliate hosting member is now part of something big, but over the next few months we are working to make our team part of something even bigger. This milestone does not mark the end of our affiliate goals – instead, it marks the start of the next exciting stage in the growth of our web hosting affiliate program.”

With the highest affiliate hosting payouts in the business and a service range that is innately and easily sellable, Certified Hosting is experiencing tremendous growth both in terms of the successful affiliate program and the ever-increasing demand for their affordable yet reliable hosting solutions. As Certified Hosting begins working towards its next affiliate milestone, the company is set to achieve its goal of being the best web hosting affiliate program available in the industry.

People interested in learning more about the Certified Hosting Affiliate Network and how they can join to start earning money are encouraged to visit certifiedhosting.com/affiliates.

About Certified Hosting Certified Hosting was established in 1999 as a Southern California based unlimited web hosting company to provide shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed dedicated servers to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals throughout the world. Recognizing that each client has unique goals, Certified Hosting tailors hosting services to meet specific needs including individualized services available for clients in many different specific industries such as unlimited ffmpeg hosting, flash hosting, wordpress hosting, dolphin hosting, elgg hosting, magento, joomla, drupal, and php motion hosting, among many other technologies available for webmasters and business owners. For more information about Certified Hosting, visit http://certifiedhosting.com/.

Certified Hosting Announces Deployment of CloudLinux OS and Ksplice Uptrack Across Shared Hosting Platform for Maximum Uptime and Stability
Leading shared, reseller, and dedicated server hosting company greatly improves uptime of shared hosting platform by moving to latest CloudLinux OS and Ksplice Uptrack technologies.

Los Angeles, CA (PRESS RELEASE) February 28, 2011 – Certified Hosting, a leading shared, reseller, and dedicated server hosting company, announced today major improvements in uptime and stability across the company’s shared hosting platform by moving to advanced, innovative CloudLinux OS and Ksplice Uptrack technologies. New and existing Certified Hosting customers using unlimited shared hosting plans will appreciate the increased stability, performance, and availability of their websites thanks to the move.

“The reason for the move is to provide an even more stable environment for Certified Hosting customers using our shared hosting services,” says Kacy Carlsen, Certified Hosting co-founder and CEO. “With innovative technology like CloudLinux OS and Ksplice Uptrack in place, customers using Certified Hosting unlimited hosting plans will definitely enjoy better uptime and performance of their websites and improved quality of service from the Certified Hosting support team.”

Regardless of how great any web hosting provider’s uptime is, there is still downtime every now and then caused by two different factors. While Certified Hosting has a guaranteed 99.9% uptime for customers on all shared hosting plans, occasional downtime, albeit short, has been inevitable due to the shortcomings of previous shared hosting platform technology and server reboots as a result of Linux OS kernel patching. In the past, all shared web hosting providers and their customers had to put up with these two issues as there was no way to fix these prevailing issues.

“To combat these two factors and make our uptime even better, Certified Hosting chose the latest innovative CloudLinux OS and Ksplice Uptrack technology for all our shared web hosting servers,” says Carlsen. “When combined, these two great and innovative technologies allow running shared servers almost without any reboots resulting in nearly zero downtime for shared hosting customers’ websites. Each technology is aimed at combating one of the two major factors causing downtime on a shared hosting platform.”

CloudLinux is an innovative server operating system (OS) that has been designed specifically for shared hosting environments as an alternative to conventional operating systems like CentOS and RHEL. CloudLinux OS features website account isolation on an OS level, which is similar to VPS hosting and results in a more stable shared hosting solution platform. Deploying CloudLinux OS allows Certified Hosting to ensure resource spikes caused by a customer’s website do not take down the entire server. Each customer will be assigned a finite amount of resources, which will ultimately increase stability and uptime for all shared hosting accounts.

“The Ksplice Uptrack service combats another major factor causing downtime in any hosting environment – reboots due to Linux OS kernel patching. Usually, Linux servers need to be rebooted monthly or more often to apply kernel security updates. If you look at Certified Hosting’s uptime record, you will see that most of our downtime is caused by having to reboot servers to apply these updates,” says Carlsen. “With Ksplice Uptrack, Certified Hosting limits the amount of downtime, if any, that normally occurs due to kernel security updates. There will be no more server reboots as all updates will be applied by hot-patching a running kernel.”

Certified Hosting technicians have also embraced both technologies. With CloudLinux OS and Ksplice Uptrack in place, they will not have to rush to pinpoint website accounts causing spikes and get servers back online or spend additional hours to take servers down to perform kernel updates. Instead, Certified Hosting’s tech support team can spend more time answering questions and helping customers get the most out of their shared web hosting experience.

“Certified Hosting constantly monitors the IT market for new and innovative technologies that we can implement to make our customers’ online experiences even better. We are extremely confident that the CloudLinux OS and Ksplice Uptrack combination will provide us and Certified Hosting customers with a more reliable, stable, and secure shared hosting environment than ever,” concludes Carlsen.

Certified Hosting also provides 24/7/365 expert support and monitoring with all shared hosting plans and a host of other free features. To find out more about Certified Hosting’s unlimited shared hosting plans with maximum uptime and availability in the hosting industry, shared web hosting customers are encouraged to visit http://certifiedhosting.com/unlimited-web-hosting/.

About Certified Hosting

Certified Hosting was established in 1999 as a Southern California-based unlimited web hosting company to provide shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed dedicated servers to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and individuals worldwide. Recognizing that each client has unique goals, Certified Hosting tailors hosting services to meet specific needs including individualized services available for clients in many different specific industries such as unlimited FFmpeg hosting, Flash hosting, WordPress hosting, Dolphin hosting, Elgg hosting, Magento hosting, Joomla hosting, Drupal hosting, and PHP Motion hosting, among many other hosting technologies available for webmasters and business owners.

For more information about Certified Hosting, visit http://certifiedhosting.com.

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