AT&T LAUNCHES ENHANCED WEB HOSTING OFFER FOR WEB DESIGNERS AND BUSINESSES THAT ADDRESSES EVOLVING NEEDS ON THE INTERNET.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1996-- Guarantees Internet Server Availability 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week AT&T today announced an enhanced Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. offer that will provide Web designers and businesses with a variety of powerful tools to create compelling applications on the Web and the increased levels of performance and security these sophisticated application tools require. The new AT&T Enhanced Web Development Package comes with an "Internet Server Availability" guarantee, ensuring that every customer's site will be accessible by Internet end users at any time unless AT&T provides advanced notification of network maintenance or downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. . If anyone is denied access to an AT&T customer's hosted Web site during a three-month period due to AT&T Web server unavailability, the customer will be eligible for a one-time credit equal to one month's service fee. The "Internet Server Availability" guarantee will apply to all AT&T customers under the AT&T Web Site Services umbrella. "Our strategy for AT&T Web Site Services is to ultimately offer a continuum of hosting services ranging from basic to the most complex Web site packages," said Kathleen Earley, vice president of AT&T EasyCommerce Services. "The Web is evolving so quickly that we want to provide optimal hosting solutions for companies and designers who are using the latest tools in environments of their choice." Trials of AT&T's Enhanced Web Development Package start in November with general availability in the first quarter of 1997. Pricing will be announced at the time of availability. New features include: -- The ability for AT&T Web Site Services customers and Creative Alliance Program members to upload content onto the AT&T hosting platform, using development tools of their choice running on any computer platform; -- Support for the most popular MIME mime: see pantomime. (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) The most common method for transmitting non-text files via Internet e-mail, which was originally designed for only ASCII text. (Multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective Internet Mail See Internet e-mail service. Extensions) types; -- High-speed, secure access from the customer's premises to the staging server A server used to temporarily show certain users new and revised Internet and/or intranet pages before they are put into production. using AT&T WorldNet(SM) Managed Internet Services in addition to the currently offered AT&T WorldNet(SM) dial access; -- Protected CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. (Common Gateway Interface) script hosting, enabling designers and developers to use custom CGI scripts (Common Gateway Interface script) A relatively compact program written in a language such as Perl, Tcl, C or C++ that processes data on a Web server. It is commonly used to process a query from the user that was entered on an HTML page (Web page) and returned as an on their Web sites; -- Scalable CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. space to accommodate any Web application with appropriate levels of performance; -- Generic upload security and encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. for uploading content. AT&T Web Site Services customers will be able to take advantage of the powerful feature additions being announced by AT&T that address such applications as safe and secure transactions on the Web and the ability to expand the Web purchasing experience through interactive online service representatives. These capabilities are delivered by AT&T SecureBuy(SM) Service and Project iA (immediateAnswers) call center technology that will be available across the continuum of Web hosting offers. -0- Note to Editors: Additional press releases were issued over Business Wire today that describe each of these offers in more detail. Those releases also are available on our Web site at www.att.com/press. Or for copies of those releases, call Grant Crawford at 908-221-3188. CONTACT: Diane Nakamura 201-331-4061 (office) 888-249-3580 (pager) dnakamura@attmail.com or Janet Stone 201-331-4144 (office) 888-249-6478 (pager) janetstone@attmail.com |
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