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A lot of cool stuff happens behind the scenes at Ubiquity which no one ever gets the chance to see. Historically, that’s included UbiquityNOC, our renowned in-house software that’s long boasted many, many more features than most providers in the industry, and has helped us keep up on growing fleet of servers increasingly well. At the start of the year, saw the release of a completely revitalized, UbiquityNOC 2.0.

This month, we’ve finally admitted defeat, bringing Ubersmith Datacenter Edition’s powerful list of data center management features to our arsenal. Don’t worry- our programmers aren’t going anywhere, and custom server toys will still be showing their faces in the form of special Ubersmtih modules. The new client-side Ubersmtih DE interface can be expected by our dedicated server and colocation customers with the next few months the coming months, in the meantime, rest easy knowing that we’ve redoubled our attention and monitoring capabilities on the uptime of each of our customer’s servers.

Awards

Ubiquity has been awarded the overall best of service award from Web Hosting Search, which we’re proud to sport here. We’re very happy that Ubiquity’s triumphant plunge into a revitalized hosting platform this past June has been well-received, by web hosting search and so many others. And it hasn’t helped our egos one bit. In an industry amassed with desperate business models spewing absurdly oversold servers and absent customer service by the cut-throat economics of having 100’s of thousands of web hosting competitors, these awards and a stream of happy customers growing with each day, really provides us that reassuring reminder that in the end it’s just about treating customers the way they deserve to be treated.

Fish

People tend to remember things in 3’s, so we may be reaching now. For lack of a more awful pun- fishing. As anyone in any line of tech support knows- it can be pretty stressful. Keeping a low stress office means keeping friendly customer service people. This is why anyone that visits our corporate offices in Bloomington will now find our new office pets; our new salt-water fish tank display!! Excited? We are too.

Ubiquity is looking to hire four new full-time staff members to work out of our main office in Bloomington, Illinois- fitting various roles. If you enjoy figuring out computer problems, Chuck Norris jokes, and helping people remember their passwords, you might have what it takes: send an email to sales [at] ubiquityhosting (dot) com with your resume!

Now that everyone on the planet has written a blog about the iPhone - we decided - why not us?

It’s small, black, and shiny. It’s a phone, and it plays music. And it looks really, really cool with our website on it.

It goes without saying that we’re a company full of technology dorks, but, no one at Ubiquity actually owns an iPhone (at least, none that I’m aware at the time of writing this). Clint came really close to winning one from a long string of embarrassing acts at this year’s HostingCon, but just couldn’t take the CDGCommerce competition.

But back to the iPhone. Everyone thinks it’s going to dominate the market, and, well right now our staff are keeping their Treo’s. Apple’s done very well to marginalize Microsoft as simply a business-focused company in the desktop world lately, and the iPhone seems to be different.

Even though we’re split between Palm and Microsoft phones over here, some toys you just can’t do without. Like beaming spreadsheet files from one phone to another - or secretly changing the channel on a TV at the local pub. The iPhone is no doubt cool, but if they’re ever going to make sense for the business sector, they’ll have a lot of catching up to do in getting usable software on this thing.

We’d like to welcome 3 important new members to Ubiquity’s managing staff this month. Customer service manager Zach Barr and Network Engineer Chris Donnelly have each joined the Ubiquity team to make strong additions to our managing staff. Ian Kaufmann, co-founder of Ubiquity’s predecessor brand (ci net services), has re-joined our ranks to act as 3rd shift supervisor.

The Ubiquity news blog has been offline for a brief spurt of time due to a lack of development in our previous blogging software (LifeType, formerly pLog). Without being completely cliche, the blog is now back online as it should remain for the duration, powered by the latest release of Wordpress.

Bloomington, Illinois (April 10, 2006) – Ubiquity Hosting Solutions, LLP (www.ubiquityhosting.com), a premium provider of Linux web hosting, dedicated servers, and collocation, has announced a complete overhaul of its pre-existing affiliate referral program.

The new hosting affiliate program marks a number of significant and unusual revisions which are expected to benefit existing members. Members utilizing Ubiquity’s hosting services no longer just receive discounts on more Ubiquity hosting services, but rather cash reimbursement for each referral via PayPal.com’s payment gateway.

This new system also provides members multiple tiers of referral payouts, dependent on what type of hosting package a newly referred client subscribes. Explaining this decision, Chief Operating Officer for Ubiquity Corey Northcutt explained: “Our original affiliate program was forged by the principles of the other hosting companies. We’ve rethought out all options for the new format so that our hosting clients can get what they want out of a referral program. If tomorrow one of our clients refers Microsoft to us, they’re going to reap a reward beyond belief – and that’s just as they deserve.”

Web hosting clients utilizing Ubiquity’s new referral program may also be pleased to learn that the method of tracking referrals exclusively through browser cookies has ended. As pointed out on the company’s web site, most hosting signups do not come immediately following the discovery of the company web site, giving time for cookies to expire, if they have not been blocked by browser security settings already. By demanding each new signup manually provide detailed information about how they arrived, the company states that they are able to greatly increase the percentage of which referrals are recognized.

For more information, please visit http://www.ubiquityhosting.com/affiliates.html

Ubiquity is proud to announce that we have taken over the web sponsorship of the State Farm Holiday Classic here in Bloomington, Illinois. This year Ubiquity will be sponsoring the Normal Community High School Girls AA team. For more information on the tournament including game times, tickets, and Bloomington/Normal area information visit theclassic.org.

We would like to welcome sitetemplatenow.com into the Ubiquity network. This site is intended as an enhancement upon the website templates that have already been sold on the ubiquityhosting.com for some time. It is our hope that this will help us in giving both our site template service as well as our hosting service the personal attention we feel they each deserve.

In a dual effort to test out our new location in Chicago, while at the same time moving the entire operation under our direct control, we have migrated our entire free hosting research operation to the future home of Ubiquity ahead of schedule. As a booming and flourishing hosting operation, this has allowed us to effectively test all aspects the setup before moving our premium and dedicated hosting services.

As expected, we’ve been extremely impressed with all aspects of our new network and data center. We are setting a launch date of August 1st for shared and dedicated hosting, with a pre-launch sale expected to happen sometime next week.

This past week Ubiquity bought out free cPanel hosting company
FreeWebsiteHost.net. As a result, 3 new web sites are to now operate within our network.
These sites are . . .

FreeWebsiteHost.net

MyWebHut.com

FreeForumHost.us

This action will account for one of the forementioned “new Ubiquity sites” referred to in the June 4th blog. Stay tuned for more action this week!