Dreamhost, usually on special occasion gives out special offers, This is their Earth day offer, what is interesting is they change their homepage for the occasion, similar to doogle of Google.

Offer is good for new customers only, so bad news for existing clients and customer.

WireNine is a recognized leader in the Web hosting industry. We have earned numerous awards, not only for our services and support, but for our commitment to ethical standards within the hosting industry.

Our hosting network is monitored 24×7 by both in-house and third-party technicians, giving us the ability to address service issues before our customers are even aware of them! We have invested in powerful servers, which we house within the SoftLayer datacenter, a state-of-the-art facility with a robust and reliable backbone.
Fast, Friendly Support

We owe our success as a business to our customers—they’re the very heart of our business. By serving them quickly and with utmost care, we show our appreciation for their loyalty. We take our relationships with our customers very seriously, and we make every effort to demonstrate how much we value their business.
Affordable Pricing

We pride ourselves on delivering a first-rate customer experience at a price our customers can afford. There is no reason superior quality and fast, friendly service should come at a prohibitive cost. Our plans, loaded with generous hosting resources, start at just $3.95/monthly for shared web hosting plans and $24.95 a month for reseller web hosting plans, all powered with the quick and responsive support our customers have come to expect from us.

Contact Information

• WireNine
  160-2 County Court Blvd, Suite 165
  Brampton, ON
  L6W 4V1 CANADA

Links

• http://www.wirenine.com/

Over the years WebFaction built their own monitoring systems which detect potential problems on servers before they can cause any crashes. They also put fewer people on each server than most hosting providers. As a result many people have reported that the servers were faster and more stable than the competitor’s.

Features

• Fewer customers on each server (which leads to faster and more stable servers)
• Great customer support (friendly and knowledgeable staff)
• Modern and flexible software platform with tons of one-click installers
• Scalable hosting (integrated load-balancing if you need it)
• Rock solid hosting (over 6 years in business, servers in some of the world best datacenters)
• Affordable and risk free (60-day moneyback guarantee)

Contact Infromation

• 65 Hammersmith Grove
  London W6 0NE
  United Kingdom

Links

• Go to Webfaction

Our new corporate name resulted from the words: “Serve” and “Age”, that when combined (almost) spell our proud name. It is our goal to serve our customers while always keeping our systems up-to-date with the most modern technologies.
The Perfect Hosting Platform

Servage provides the next generation hosting platform, and is likely the most technically advanced and reliable platforms available today. Compared to traditional platforms our clustered platform revolutionizes the way web hosting works.

Downtime is not an option as all systems are in redundant setups – even our servers is mirrored in a fail tolerant way. In the event one server should fail it is automatically replaced by the other cluster nodes. Read more about this exciting technology, here.

Customer Satisfaction

Cluster reliability, speed and customer services are the keywords for our operation. Every single person in our organization understands this and works toward our common goal of total customer satisfaction. We understand satisfied customers are the key to our long term success in this competitive market.

Every single customer is treated with respect and our staff is standing by to help you around the clock – we are only one click away!

Contact Information

• Sales Inquiries
• E-Mail: sales@servage.net

Germany

• Servage GmbH
  Neustadt 16
  D-24939 Flensburg, Germany

Sweden

• Servage Tele5
  Norra Stationsgatan 93
  113 64 Stockholm, Sweden

United States

• Servage Hosting
  Suite# 2617
  14781 Memorial Drive
  Houston, TX 77079 – USA

Australia

• Servage Hosting
  Suite 2228, 9 Tanbark Circuit
  Werrington Downs
  NSW 2747 – Australia

Links

• http://www.servage.net

Services

Media Temple’s primary business is website hosting for more than 200,000 websites from 40 countries on Grid-Service. Its grid hosting system uses a network of servers that work together as a team. Unlike traditional shared hosting, grid hosting can cope well with spikes in traffic as it can assign more servers to help carry the load. The service was launched on October 17, 2006.

Although Grid-Service offers clear benefits over traditional shared hosting solutions, it has come under criticism for service outages. Intermittent service availability has been a frequent problem. In one case, periodical downtime occurred between April 29, 2008 and May 28, 2008, until engineers made substantial changes to the system’s storage architecture.

Grid-Service will be replaced by a Cluster-Server in 2009. It will feature a re-architected storage system which will be designed to eliminate the main source of service instability that the Grid-Service suffered from.

Media Temple also provides a dedicated hosting service providing virtual private servers designed for clients whose websites experience high levels of traffic. Current clients include Diesel, Adobe, Rip Curl, Mashable, CheeseMind and Qantas

Contact Information

Corporate Headquarters

• 8520 National Blvd, Bldg A
• Culver City, CA 90232

West Coast

• Data Center 2260 E. El Segundo Blvd
  Los Angeles, CA

East Coast Data Center

• 44480 Hastings Dr.
  Ashburn, VA

Contact (mt) Internationally Description  Number

• Sydney, Australia  +61-280149326
• Sao Paulo, Brazil  +55-1130135428
• Tokyo, Japan  +81-345801703
• Mexico City, Mexico  +52-5527890309
• Barcelona, Spain  +34-931845531
• Johannesburg, S. Africa  +27-114613288
• London, UK  +44-2033938379
• All other countries:  +1-3108415500

Links

• Website MediaTemple.net

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising US$1.67 billion, making it worth US$23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy and positive employee relations have been important tenets during the growth of Google, the latter resulting in being identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine’s #1 Best Place to Work. The unofficial company slogan is “Don’t be evil”, although criticism of Google includes concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, censorship and discontinuation of services. According to Millward Brown, it is the most powerful brand in the world.

Trivia

• “Googol” is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
• They have found in user testing, that a small number of people are very typical of the larger user base. They run labs continually and always monitoring how people use a page of results.
  The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’
• The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
• The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.
• Infact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
• Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.
• On Jan 31, 2009, between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. Google flags every search results with the message “This site may harm your computer”.
• Google announces a $125 million deal that settles a lawsuit with publishers that had sued it over its book search. Not only does it put the search feature in the clear, but it may see Google become a major retailer of out-of-print books.
• Orkut is very popular in Brazil. Orkut was the brainchild of a very intelligent Google engineer who was pretty much given free reign to run with it, without having to go through the normal Google UI procedures, hence the reason it doesn’t look or feel like a Google application. They are looking at improving Orkut to cope with the loads it places on the system.
• Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren’t told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.
• They use the 20% / 5% rules. If at least 20% of people use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people need to use a particular search preference before it will make it into the ‘Advanced Preferences’.
• Gmail was used internally for nearly 2 years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.
• They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn’t emailing a blackhole.
• Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

Products

• See Google Pruducts

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Other Information

• Founded  Menlo Park, California (September 4, 1998)
• Founder(s) Sergey Brin, Larry Page
• Headquarters  Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States
• Area served  Worldwide
• Key people  Eric E. Schmidt, (Chairman) & (CEO), Sergey Brin (Technology President), Larry Page (Products President)
• Industry  Internet, Computer software
• Market cap  US$ 96.472 Billion – At market close on January 22, 2009
• Revenue  ▲31.3% US$ 21.796 Billion (2008)
• Employees  20,222 – December 31, 2008

Competitors

• Yahoo!
• Ask.com
• Microsoft Live Search

Links

• About Google – Links to numerous Google resources.
• Product descriptions – Categorized listing with links.
• More Google products – A variety of Google tools.
• Google Press Center – News and public information.
• Executive Management – Our executives and board of directors.
• Corporate Addresses – Locations around the world.
• Investor Relations – Financial and corporate governance information.
• Ten things – Our philosophy.
• Help page – Support for Google products.
• Jobs at Google – Positions available in many locations.
• Contact us – Links to various business units.
• Official Site: Philanthropic Branch Google.org
• Website  Google.com

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