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Bloomington, Illinois (December 30, 2006) – The Nobis Technology Group, LLC (www.nobistech.net), holding company of recently merged DarkStar Communications and Ubiquity Hosting Solutions, has announced that it has opened offices in Ubiquity’s hometown at 510 E. Washington, Third Floor, Suite 322, in Bloomington, Illinois.

These new offices will operate as a central headquarters for handling the administrative tasks associated with either brand, as well as the staging ground for each localized Ubiquity facility being rolled out in 2007.

The Nobis Technology Group has acted to give back to the community by leasing space inside a very historic building in the local community of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, which is now maintained by Bloomington’s Mount Mariah Christian Church, and shared by various community programs and area businesses.

Bloomington, Illinois (December 1, 2006) – Ubiquity Hosting Solutions (www.ubiquityhosting.com), provider of collocation, dedicated, shared, and virtual server hosting, and DarkStar Communications (www.darkstarllc.com), provider of Ventrilo, Teamspeak, game server, IRCd, and shell hosting, have announced a merger which will maintain both companies as brands under a new parent company known as the Nobis Technology Group (www.nobistech.net) – a new Illinois Limited Liability Corporation.

While DarkStar Communications currently operates servers in 20 cities in 11 different countries, making them one of the most diverse hosts online of any niche, as well as one of the largest voice communications services online in both Ventrilo and Teamspeak markets. Ubiquity has made it’s focus on just one location to date, building up it’s presence offering diverse b2b IT services from 350 E. Cermak in Chicago, before moving towards it’s first expansion by opening collocation at 1950 N. Stemmons Highway in Dallas last summer. DarkStar Communications’ General Manager Jake Mertel commented on the merger:

“This (merger) means a lot of things for a lot of people. Both companies obviously benefit massively in the boost of both economies of scope as well as economies of scale, but that’s only the start. The pieces fit perfectly to allow either half of the puzzle to a caliber of international services never before seen in the hosting industry. ”

Nobis has made it clear that they will be doing little to tamper with their current services (unlike many recent mergers in the hosting industry), due to the scarcely overlapping scope of either company’s current services. The company will instead be building upon its current offerings, utilizing the resources that either organization is able to bring to the table. Ubiquity’s Chief Technical Officer Clint Chapman elaborated regarding plans for the future:

“Ubiquity prides its collocation and dedicated hosting on our flexibility and abilities to meet virtually any set of needs. There is no question that DarkStar’s particular set of needs for the lowest-latency, highest availability networks stretch our requirements to build consistently high performance networks the extreme.

It’s one thing to sell someone a dedicated server and tell them they won’t have any problems with latency-critical applications. It’s another thing when you can honestly tell your clients that you’ve carefully sculpted a network in every city and test it daily with your own world-class hosting operations of every shape, to be certain that doesn’t ever change”.

For more information on the Nobis Technology Group, visit http://www.nobistech.net

Bloomington, Illinois (October 20, 2006) - Ubiquity Server Solutions (www.ubiquityservers.com), provider of dedicated and collocation hosting, has announced that it will be entering into the virtual dedicated server industry this month.

When asked for a statement, Ubiquity’s Chief Marketing Officer Corey Northcutt commented:

“This has really been a long time coming. For years now our company has made a significant name in shared and dedicated hosting, it was simply time to fill in the gap between those offerings. We’re jumping in full-steam too - for all of the VPS clients that come to us over the first seven days, we’ll be giving out an entire free month of service.”

Ubiquity’s new virtual private server (VPS) service will utilize Virtuozzo - SW-Soft’s industry-leading platform for partitioning isolated virtual server environments from a single real server. This solution is one of very few which secures complete functional, fault, and performance isolation.

Although the initial features with this offering are somewhat limited, providing options for two operating systems and three control panels, the company has promised a substantial increase to the available options across the next 30 days.

For more information on Ubiquity Server Solutions, visit http://www.ubiquityservers.com .

Information on Ubiquity’s VPS promotions can be found at http://www.ubiquityservers.com/vps.php

As many of our most Ubiquity-loving users know, our company has now been one of a far-too scarce sect of provider’s supporting the Novell-sponsored Mono Project’s complete solution for running ASP.NET 1.1 applications on Linux for some time. We would like to take this opportunity to reinforce why this decision was made, what’s been going on in the world of Mono, and what can be expected in the near future.

Release of Mono 1.1.17

The latest release of Mono was let out at the end of August with a number of bug fixes and improvements upon previous versions. As it applies to web use, the greatest improvement was of adding support for X.509 client certificates in order to make System.Web.HttpClientCertificate work with Apache. Certificate validation may now be done by Apache, a Mono application, or both.

This release follows 1.1.16, which was let out not long after our first implementation of mod_mono hosting, which contained some very significant enhancements in performance optimiziation for approachingly flawless execution of ASP.NET 1.1 applications.

Support for ASP.NET 2.0

As many who have come to us have been curious, Mono’s support for ASP.NET 2.0 is in the works and making progress. On one page of the Mono website user’s can check the current status of each feature in Mono’s tests of the ASP.NET 2.0 framework. Mainsoft, a key contributor to Mono, also released a peak of some of the ASP.NET 2.0 functionality last month in something called the Grasshopper 2.0 technology preview, which is well-worth a look-over for those seeking to reaffirm their faith in the direction the project is headed.

Criticisms of mod_mono vs. .NET Framework

Ubiquity’s systems administrators are frequently asked about the drawbacks of using Mono for .NET 1.1 on Linux vs. Microsoft .NET Framework on a Windows IIS system.  It stands to reason that existing imperfections should remain, however to date, there have been no significant criticisms presented to Ubiquity’s staff. If you are one of the many Mono web developers in our community, please present any problems found to our support team, so that we can aid in better supporting such problems in the future.

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.

Ubiquity Server Solutions has added two new dual core Intel server models to its hardware offerings. The new base hardware specs for these servers will be as follows:

Bloomington, Illinois (July 13, 2006) - After much anticipation, the 100% in-house developed UbiquityNOC server management application has been released by Ubiquity Server Solutions - the dedicated and collocation hosting unit of Ubiquity Hosting Solutions, LLP. With this new interface, Ubiquity clients can now utilize the common features of other high-end dedicated providers including management all of server information with a common interface, and commanding remote power controls for instant reboots in the event of a freeze-up.

In addition, the new UbiquityNOC has been made equip with advanced service monitoring capabilities. Through this fully-configurable interface, the NOC supplies automated service monitoring capabilities on par with many costly exclusive server management companies. In the event of a service failure, the UbiquityNOC can be configured to send notification immediately via email or text message. If the user chooses, the NOC can also step beyond popular monitoring services by executing pre-defined shell commands or a full system restart should a certain service fail.

When asked to comment, Chief Operating Officer for Ubiquity Corey Northcutt stated:

“After reviewing the mainstream software titles for data center management, we eventually decided that nothing on the market quite had the features that our members had been asking for. Clearly the only solution left was for us to build this new interface, and from how it’s shaped up, we’re very happy we did.”

Although it has not yet been stated where this project will inevitably lead, Ubiquity has made it clear that a number of new features and advancements are still on the way.

For more information on UbiquityNOC, contact Ubiquity Server Solutions at http://www.ubiquityservers.com .

Bloomington, Illinois (June 19, 2006) - Ubiquity Hosting Solutions, an eminent Linux hosting provider, has announced two new and highly unique Linux tools to be added to their web hosting services effective immediately.

The first of these tools provides web developers a rare service within the Linux web hosting industry which has been labeled jailed shell access. With this tool, webmasters are given the authority to connect to the web hosting provider using Secured Shell Handling (SSH), allowing the capability to compress and decompress files on the web server, execute Linux bash scripts, monitor system health, and a large variety of other features. Security in this environment has been maintained for the reason that Linux shell commands available to the webmaster have been “jailed”, which in turn will limit the availability of potentially dangerous commands to the users.

In addition to SSH, Ubiquity has stabilized the Mono Project’s open source tool which emulates .NET Framework in a Linux web hosting environment. Through Mono, Ubiquity has successfully assembled a stable and effective platform for running ASPx scripting from a Linux system – and in turn bridging the gap between Linux and Windows web hosting which otherwise exists. When asked to comment, Chief Technical Officer for Ubiquity Clint Chapman stated “Linux is capable of so much more than what most web hosting companies are doing. We decided that the time had come to start delivering the full potential of what we offer”.

More information on SSH and the Mono Project can be found at Ubiquity’s web site at http://www.ubiquityhosting.com

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

UbiquityServers.com has just announced all-new payment options which allow our clients to take full advantage of both the hardware management service that comes from a dedicated provider, as well as the long-term cost effeciency that comes from Colo. Now every server we provide comes with TWO payment options - the standard option, as well as an option to pay a larger setup fee, greatly reducing the monthly rate.