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ZNetIndia.com has the best reseller program for an obvious reason – we give your customers complete, personalized service 100% through you.

A true private-label solution, we handle all technical support on your behalf so you can focus on growing your business instead of handling the time consuming and technical task of customer support, Just designed for resellers who want the competitive edge, with a complete outsourced reseller hosting solution.

Venturing into the hosting service business can be an exciting and yet daunting proposition. Our most extensive and advanced reseller plan, geared towards customers interested in starting their own private label web hosting service, but without having to learn the technical expertise required to operate a complex server environment and handle the associated technical support responsibilities.

We make it problem-free and cost effective, especially for our enterprise customers who serve small to medium-sized businesses. We understand that there are actually two service providers who rely on us: you — our valued private label customers — and you’re small to medium-sized business customers and their end-user customers. We’ve structured our service model and our technology to meet the needs of both. You’ll find our flexible solution easy to integrate into your existing system, and you can quickly begin reselling to your customers. Our tested Migration Plan will help you make a smooth and seamless transition to our platform. If you’re new to hosting altogether, we have proven processes to make it low-risk. And with a correspondingly low upfront investment, you start seeing profit right away.

We help you grow your customer base while lowering your customer acquisition costs. With our multi-tiered reseller capabilities, plan management, and flexibility to rapidly integrate third-party applications, Network Solutions private label Web and e-mail hosting and e-commerce services give you the freedom to create multiple levels of resellers, each with their own branding and pricing. Now THAT’s flexibility!

As a ZNetIndia.com private label customer, you will enjoy:

•    Brandable graphical user interface: customize your product’s look and feel, and add marketing messages targeting your small to medium-sized business customers

•    Automated provisioning and servicing of small to medium-sized business customers. We provide you and your customers with all the rights and resources needed to manage hosting and e-mail accounts. Access rights and privileges are tracked to ensure the utmost security for all your customers.

•    Ability to track all Web site activity for small to medium-sized business customers for reporting and auditing purposes

•    Ability to manage hosting resources and applications from a single, unified interface across Windows® and Linux® servers

We can help you create a customized private label hosting program; this is a valuable way to grow your customer base quickly and efficiently. Your small to medium-sized business customers can resell your hosting services to their end-user customers, reaching a market you may not have otherwise been able to access.

Visit us now at http://www.znetindia.com/partners.asp to find out how we can help your business soar.

ZNetIndia.com is proud to offer the entire boutique of  SmarterTools which has licensed with Microsoft ActiveSync technology, allowing for over-the-air synchronization and push email to a wide range of mobile devices, including iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, Palm devices, Palm Pre (Web OS) devices, and Nokia devices. The ActiveSync add-on is based on a yearly subscription and will be licensed in user packs.

Collaboration, Synchronization, and Over-the-air Mobile Communications
SmarterMail 6.x will continue to offer previous technologies for synchronizing calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes to desktop applications and mobile devices. Specifically, SmarterMail 6.x will include:

•    SmarterMail Sync for Windows Mobile Devices and Microsoft Outlook

•    SyncML for Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile devices , Thunderbird, and Microsoft Outlook

•    The ability to integrate with the Funambol service for push email on certain devices

•    The ability to integrate with the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) for push email

The Microsoft ActiveSync protocol requires SmarterTools to license per mailbox on a subscription model. ActiveSync will push calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, and email to devices that support ActiveSync, and SmarterTools administrators can manage which mailboxes can have this functionality.

In addition, SmarterMail 6.x will offer another method of collaboration for Microsoft Outlook 2007 and higher users. Using new two-way synchronization found in SharePoint 2007, Outlook 2007 users can simply “add” a calendar or contact/address book into Microsoft Outlook. No add-ons or products need to be installed, and all users can manage items offline in Outlook and/or on the server .

Anti-spam Enhancements

Although SmarterMail 6.x has a premium anti-spam add-on option, many customers will find the enhanced out-of-the-box anti-spam functionality of SmarterMail 6.x to be sufficient spam protection. Anti-spam enhancements planned for SmarterMail 6.x include:

•    The Open Source SpamAssasin for Windows has been removed due to limitations of the implementation

•    SmarterTools has developed a SpamAssasin Pattern Matching option that is based on SpamAssasin and integrated directly into SmarterMail. This option is highly efficient and will allow for much larger number of messages to be processed than the SpamAssasin for Windows implementation

•    DKIM is now integrated into SmarterMail

•    Support for URIBL checking is integrated into SmarterMail

•    Additional features are available for Greylisting:

o    Enable Greylisting on connections that have certain spam weight levels

o    Enable Greylisting for IP’s from certain countries

o    Enable Greylisting for IP’s based on certain ranges

•    To simplify the upgrade process to SmarterMail 6.x and for new SmarterMail installations, the Getting Started Wizard includes predefined spam configurations that take all the spam options available in SmarterMail (RBLs, SpamAssaisn, URIBL, DKIM, etc.) and associates them to spam protection performance and system resources. System administrators will now be able to choose one of these defined solutions and, as always, they can be uniquely configured and defined

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists have been completely revamped to include features usually found in third-party marketing and mailing list solutions—not in mail server products. The mailing list features and improvements will include:

•    Bounce detection has been added to all mailing list emails. Bounce detection will benefit system administrators and mailing list moderators

o    For system administrators, a mail server can get backed up from mailing lists that become stale and produce large volumes of bounced messages. Although SmarterMail provides tools such as throttling and priority spooling to prevent this from happening, eliminating as many bounced messages as possible will increase the health of the server

o    To keep mailing lists clean moderators can set bounce limits and can monitor total bounces for a mailing list and subscriber

•    SmarterMail 6.x includes a subscriber database that can be populated manually, automated through Web services, or imported through comma delimited files. The subscriber database holds all subscribers and each subscriber can be associated to multiple mailing lists

•    Custom fields can also be associated to subscribers to manage additional information

•    All emails sent through the mailing list can use mail merge variables. This allows messages to be personalized to each individual within a mailing list

•    Manage Messages page is now available to create and store messages that you may want to send to a mailing list. The ability to preview the message using subscriber information when using mail merge variables is also available. Common usage for this could be to notify certain users of a product update, which could also be personalized with their name and other unique information

•    Mailing list command messages can now be customized

•    Double opt-in feature is now available to help eliminate forged mailing list subscribers

•    Unsubscribe links can be added to mailing lists to help reduce bounced messages or limit moderator maintenance

For more features and offering contact our support desk Right Now @ ZNetIndia.com

Cloud Hosting, empowers the client for large bursts of traffic, with little or no failures, at anytime.  This hosting platform work best for those needing high performance and high availability.  If you are in the market for reliable and dependable grid server hosting, we are in the market to meet your needs

ZNetIndia.com Managed Cloud Services are enterprise-ready cloud services that address issues of migration, compliance, management, and SLAs that allow even the most regulated industries to fully embrace the power and elasticity of modern cloud computing.

Migrate Your Current Applications

ZNetIndia.com Cloud Solutions is designed to work with the tools of today’s modern enterprise and our services makes it easy for you to migrate physical hosts to virtual hosts, use approved appliances, and creates your own templates through a well established and understood set of tools.

Full Service Management in the Cloud

With ZNetIndia.com Managed Cloud Services, you don’t just get elastic computing – you also get an elastic IT Operations team. You will have the complete support of all the ZNetIndia’s expert engineers who are on-hand around the clock to assist you with common challenges on infrastructure planning, optimization of deployment, configuration, monitoring and general maintenance of your cloud solutions.

Compliance in the Cloud

All our cloud services are housed in our state-of-the-art, secure data center and all our internal processes, financial reporting and external controls are standardized to meet a SAS 70 Type II audit.

Accountability of ZNetIndia.com SLAs

ZNetIndia.com Cloud Services are the first cloud offering that comes with a 100% Power and Network Uptime Guarantee. Built on an enterprise grade hyper visor, our cloud services also come with fault tolerance, load balancing and the ability to be self-healing and restart an instance that has become unresponsive.

Open Interfaces for Better Application Intelligence

All ZNetIndia.com Cloud Services come with an open restful API that allows enterprises to interact with our cloud services programmatically. This allows enterprises to build intelligence into their applications, to initiate and shut down extra capacity, and to process data and manage increased usage of their applications.

The prices of Servers may be dropping, but the purchase price is just a small part of the total cost of ownership.

Server budgets expand rapidly once you factor in the cost of maintenance, as well as cabling, cards, rack space, adapters, switches, operating systems and other software licensing costs. Additionally, each new deployed server decreases server room cooling efficiency, which runs the electricity bill up another notch.

On top of the hardware costs, there’s the cost of hiring and training staff to operate and maintain the servers. The costs and complexity of managing a server are often beyond the financial and technical abilities of smaller companies which often do not have in-house I.T. staff.

Economies of scale, which generally dictate that costs drop as the purchase quantity of a particular product increases, do not work in the server world. And all of that is what is making virtual dedicated servers so attractive.

You are probably becoming familiar with the concept of a virtual server. Many organizations are beginning to deploy products like VM ware Infrastructure to create multiple virtual servers inside of one physical server. But the concept of a hosted virtual dedicated server is relatively exciting.

Essentially, you are renting resources on a remotely-hosted server. However, unlike the typical shared-server environment, such as a web server, you’re not sharing any of the server’s operating system with other users.

Virtual dedicated servers, for all intents and purposes, function exactly as if your applications were running on a dedicated box. The server hosting company deploys a VM ware Infrastructure, partitioning physical servers into multiple virtual machines. Each machine functions exactly as if it were a single server. It has its own instances of the operating system, application software, virtual processors, virtual memory, networking, storage devices and even its own virtual BIOS.

In fact, the only real difference between using a virtual dedicated server and your own dedicated server is a reduction in TOC that is difficult to realize using other solutions.

The cost savings begin not having to make capital expenditures to acquire the server. Costs are spread out monthly and are not carried on the organization’s balance sheet.

But the real cost-savings come into play when you start looking at what else you don’t have to buy. Most popular operating system software is included, so there goes the licensing fees. Most common server application software, such as Exchange Server, can also be included, which further reduces costs.

So for short money, you can deploy a hefty server, configured to your exact specifications, with a minimum amount of ramp-up time.

Ongoing benefits include the fact that the server hosting company takes care of maintenance and support, so replacement part costs disappear was well.

There’s really no downside, and you can look good to all around. Find out more about virtual hosted dedicated server technology solutions at ZNetIndia.com

Nehalem Processors based Servers Hosting can provide an easy way for customers to utilize next-generation computing capacity based on the latest generation of server technology

Nehalem processors, key ingredients for performance and energy efficiency include:

Quick Path, a data transfer technology that integrates a memory controller into each microprocessor, and connects processors and other components with a new high-speed interconnect.

Hyper threading technology, which will allow each core within a Nehalem processor to appear as a pair of virtual cores, This allows better utilization of the pipeline built into each core.

Turbo Mode technology, which improves power efficiency of the chips by disabling inactive cores to prevent power leakage. Turbo mode allows the running cores to utilize more power when other cores are off or in low power modes.

A new circuit/process technology called Power Gate that can shut off both switching power when idle and leakage power. “The key idea in power management is quite simple — to shut things off when not in use. when one or more of the cores on a Nehalem chip is powered down, the processor can divert extra power to the cores that are in use by increasing their clock speed and voltage — thus giving the active cores extra performance headroom.

Nehalem also uses low-power, slower static CMOS transistor chip design rather than faster but more power-hungry designs that have been used in previous Intel designs, such as low-voltage swing in the Pentium 4 chip.

ZNetIndia.com is committed in providing this next-generation Nehalem Processors based Servers Hosting. Companies that are looking to adopt this new technology are running mission-critical applications, which require high availability and contain vital data can contact our support desk for more details on this powerful hosting solution.

One issue that often pops in mind for business people is about unlimited web hosting. Is this really possible? You see, how can web hosting services offer unlimited storage? If you check in detail, they would try to explain that unlimited web hosting would mean that your website can use so much of the resources that they offer. But most of the websites available in the World Wide Web have not even reached the level of shutting a server down. It may a nice way of advertising they have a huge amount of disk space and a high bandwidth.

The term unlimited may be compared to the service that you can get — more bandwidth and other perks like numerous email accounts which you will need for your business. Shutting a server down will not happen since these web hosting services are offering big storage spaces to handle the volume of data that you need.

Unlimited web hosting is more or less like the advertisement of some fast food joints that cater an eat-all-you-can promo. You have to stop somewhere right? Otherwise, you’d end up throwing up on the table or getting rushed to the hospital for overeating.

The most important deal to consider for this kind of marketing campaign is would the web hosting company be able to provide you with 100% uptime website hosting, could they support all your customer service inquiries and could they offer you all the resources that you need to make your website compatible across all browsers.

So this does not mean that by availing the unlimited hosting services you can use storage space until kingdom come. It just talks about the rate in which you can use the storage space before being responsible in crashing the main server.

There is countless number of hosting companies offer unlimited hosting packages but only few actually provides what they promise. Some promise the world and provide nothing while a handful of companies concerned about maintaining their reputation just don’t talk to talk but walk to walk as well. Start making wise and solid decisions based on your actual need based requirement. Feel free to contact us at ZNetIndia.com to help you find the Ideal hosting solution for your Business.

One who is familiar with the Reseller web hosting knows that it can be an ideal way for a person to increase the revenue parallel to his/her business yet making it a full time work once a person gets fully involve into it. Web hosting can really be an exciting business start up for many aspiring entrepreneurs. All you have to do to set up your business is become a hosting reseller, i.e., provide hosting facilities to website owners. Here as a business owner, you are buying space from a big hosting company, and redistributing the hosting space to other website owners.

Basically, Resellers are nothing but entrepreneurs acting as middlemen, offering you hosting services by leasing time and space from another Web host’s server rather than owning their own. Most of the times, the quality of services offered by resellers are so good that consumers do not even have the idea that they are dealing with resellers who do not have servers of their own. Resellers, since they can pick and choose their servers, are basically in a position to provide the customers with the best of services.

Reseller hosting business can be quite a profit making venture once you understand the figures and profit margins involved. And more importantly, this income is residual income. It will keep coming to you month after month, year after year. You do the work once and get paid for it over and over. All you are doing is buying space from a major web hosting company link ZNetIndia.com and becoming a reseller host. Your efforts are focused towards selling hosting space and the rest is handled by your web host.

You can also earn additional residual incomes by adding recruiting more resellers through you. By doing this you will earn regular commissions on their monthly sales. The profit margins in the business of reseller hosting is quite good and you can start on this exciting business venture even if you do not have the required expertise and access to funds for setting up the required infrastructure. Strange as it might sound, there are also times where a reseller can also be more scalable than a typical hosting firm.

In most cases, resellers are in a position of establishing their own branding through name servers and customized control panels. Reseller web hosting does not need extensive knowledge of the web hosting technical aspects. Normally, the responsibility of maintaining the hardware and network infrastructure rests in the hands of the data center operator.

You may have to note that, the services offered by a reseller web hosting service do not really differ from a real host. As a matter of fact, reseller web hosting offers more features to the customers. Due to the added value services, reseller web hosting can offer web design and programming services to each customer that are often times not possible from real hosts. Real hosts tend to focus on bulk accounts and corporate clients. Reseller web hosting offers value added services to customers in order to maintain a competitive edge against bigger web hosting services.

Reseller web hosting is also better able to establish friendly relationship with their customers that go beyond the contract terms. This is the secret for those successful reseller web-hosting services. They fill the need that bigger hosting servers cannot provide. Those who want to start a reseller web hosting business with a trusted back end partner may visit ZNetIndia.com for the most exciting and lucrative reselling opportunities.

SmarterMail 6.x provides nearly all of the power and flexibility of Microsoft Exchange while dramatically reducing the cost of management and ownership by as much as 80%. Today, more than 15 million mailboxes worldwide use SmarterMail through enterprises, small businesses, and service providers.

Planned SmarterMail 6.x features include:
•    Add-On Licensing System
-ActiveSync
-Commtouch
•    Collaboration, Synchronization and Over-the-air Mobile Communications
•    Anti-Spam Enhancements
•    Mailing Lists
•    Additional Features

SmarterMail 6.x will also include additional fixes and changes. This page will be updated with more information as it becomes available.

In addition, SmarterMail 6.x will change configuration files, eliminating the ability to uninstall and reinstall to a previous SmarterMail version, such as SmarterMail 5.x. The features found in SmarterMail 6.x will further secure SmarterMail as one of the most powerful, stable, flexible, and cost-effective mail and collaboration servers on the market.

Add-On Licensing System

The release of SmarterMail 6.x will introduce the add-on licensing system, which allows SmarterTools or third-party companies to extend the software’s functionality across all SmarterMail editions. Initially, the following optional add-ons licensed by SmarterTools will be available for SmarterMail 6.x:

Commtouch Anti-Spam will be available as an optional add-on for SmarterMail 6.x, for those users who want to enhance the mail server’s ‘out-of-the-box’ anti-spam functionality.

Although, the SmarterMail 6.x will continue to provide up to 97% spam protection ‘out of the box’, the additional functionality of the Commtouch add-on is expected to provide customers with nearly 100% spam protection.
According to SmarterTools, the SmarterMail features a webmail interface, collaboration, reporting, throttling, on-board anti-spam/antivirus, synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook, BlackBerry, iPhone, and windows mobile devices, and an event-driven architecture that provides automated actions and notifications.

Commtouch is a great fit as a spam protection partner because its technology is complementary to SmarterMail’s existing techniques and the company has worked with us to create a licensing model that will make sense for our hosting and business customers.

For comprehensive SmaterMail 6.x solutions visit ZnetIndia.com

Web hosts have been offering dedicated servers for a while now, however, because dedicated servers can be difficult to operate technically, there has been a demand for web hosts to provide extra services such as: reporting and monitoring; managed load balancing; managed security; managed storage and managed databases. These extra services are referred to as ‘managed hosting’.

Is it Right for You?

Before you think about managed hosting you will first need to decide whether or not you need a dedicated server. You will need a dedicated server if you have a high-traffic web site. If you only have a small web site with low traffic levels then a shared hosting arrangement should be fine. A dedicated server is more expensive to rent and more difficult to operate than a shared hosting solution but if your business depends on a steady service then you should seriously consider renting a dedicated server.

The only disadvantage with dedicated web hosting is that you will have to do a lot of the server administration yourself, and to do this you will need to possess some technical skills; hence the demand for managed hosting. If you fall into this category of needing a dedicated server but you need your host to provide system administration services such as security, firewalls, monitoring and reporting services, and data backup then most likely you will need managed hosting.

What you will get from ZNetIndia.com managed hosting services:

Reliable and fast support – a good way to find out the response rate and the quality of the services offered by a web host is to send them an email before you sign up with them. If you receive a good response from your web host then this should give you a good indication of the services they are offering.

Freedom – it’s important to have as much freedom as possible and having the ability to choose from a wide range of services is essential. With managed hosting you might decide that you don’t require firewall support, it’s important that your web host will provide you with the option of selecting exactly what you need and what you don’t need. Also having the ability to pay monthly is a huge advantage. It will be less of a drain on your budget and you can avoid any expensive yearly contracts.

Fast and reliable connection – You should find out exactly what sort of connection the web host has to the Internet. By asking the web host they should be able to send you their network and connectivity details, you might even be able to find this out on their web site.

Competitiveness – Best Service at the best competitive price ever.

Managed hosting is ideal for the online businesses person, looking to build a large online business, and wanting to avoid the extra time and resources spent in-house on managing their dedicated servers. In-turn, managed web hosting has provided a profitable outcome to many online businesses by preventing a waste of valuable resources spent on high skilled employees; months of staff training; and, costs of hardware and software.

Our Managed Security/ Database/ Storage services can deliver a highly-available, and highly-secure, managed firewall and intrusion prevention system under the constant vigilance of well-trained security engineers. The knowledge that your security is managed and can be audited will boost your confidence, and the confidence your customers and users have in your application. Visit ZNetIndia.com now for best Managed hosing deals.

If your business processes, transfers, or stores credit card information, you have a responsibility to make sure this data is secure and protected. The PCI Certification Service Automates Unlimited On-Demand PCI Vulnerability Scans, Full Vulnerability Remediation Support from Certified Security Specialists, Assistance with Completing the online Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) and a Complete Proof of Compliance Report.

PCI Certification Service & why do I need it?

The increasing frequency of credit card fraud and identity theft is impacting the confidence of consumers buying online. Recognizing the need for a common set of industry-wide security standards, Visa and Master card collaborated on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. Compliance with this standard is mandatory for merchants accepting payment via Visa and Master card.

The payment card industry’s response to the overwhelming number of credit card data thefts by hackers was the development of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). All organizations that capture, process, or store credit card data must demonstrate proof of compliance. The PCI Certification Service provides step-by-step guidance and real time analysis of your compliance status, so that you can successfully navigate and complete the PCI DSS requirements.

PCI compliance does have to do with your hosting provider, but it also involves a test/series of questions that you answer in regards to your own business practices.

Getting a PCI compliant hosting provider is part of the process, so you’re on your way (If you’ve chosen ZNetIndia.com)

ZNetIndia.com Managed Hosting works with Payment Card Industry certification for its managed hosting. ZNetIndia’s network and hosting service was thoroughly examined by security auditors, specializes in the PCI Data Security Standard, and given a Report on Compliance confirming its PCI compliance, a standard set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council comprised of all the major credit card companies to impose rules on processing cardholder data.

ZNetIndia.com fully adheres to the comprehensive requirements of the PCI Security Standards Council’s PCI Data Security Standard. Many merchant account providers require this compliance. Our PCI compliance certification obviously provides a direct benefit to all of our clients hosting sensitive credit card data, but all of our clients gain the additional security benefits that come from the rigorous requirements in the PCI specification. All our servers are regularly scanned by external organizations focusing on security scanning and assessment of PCI compliance. For more information feel free to contact our support team to assist you for PCI compliance.