Affinity Internet Improves Reseller Program; Partners Receive Bigger Discounts With Fewer Accounts.Business Editors FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla., and EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- March 18, 2002 Affinity Internet, Inc. (www.affinity.com), a leading managed web and application hosting service provider, today introduced an enhanced Partner Program that will provide its channel partners with incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. discounts of up to 40 percent. The newly revised program will also allow the company's partners to sign up as a reseller on their first account. "Our enhanced Reseller Program creates greater profit faster for our partners. Additionally, it lowers the barrier to entry for those who are just venturing into 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. , and also makes migrating accounts and program testing more economical," said Tiffani Bova, vice president of sales and channel programs. With the addition of the Reseller Program, the Affinity Partner Program, which hosts more than 1,800 resellers, now encompasses three main levels of participation. Its Referral Program provides partners with commissions by referring hosting customers with online and offline efforts; and the Strategic Program allows partners to introduce web hosting into their product line. The Reseller Program is available for all shared Unix and Windows hosting accounts, e-commerce packages and managed dedicated hosting Typically refers to a single Web site that is hosted on a stand-alone server. See dedicated server. solutions. "All the changes and consolidation with web hosting providers have created an environment where resellers of hosting need options from a stable partner. The financial state of our company, combined with a program that enables resellers to experience our benefits without becoming too heavily invested have removed the risk for the reseller. We have created a comprehensive program that addresses the concerns received directly from the reseller community," said Pat Donohoe, vice president of marketing. The Affinity Partner Program provides a unique service to web developers, VARs, system integrators, solution providers and telecommunication providers by offering recurring re·cur intr.v. re·curred, re·cur·ring, re·curs 1. To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly. 2. To return to one's attention or memory. 3. To return in thought or discourse. revenue, annual 24-hour customer service, sales support and access to an online partner community. Additionally, partners may combine their integration services with Affinity Hardware and network infrastructure to create a full-service managed hosting solution. Affinity, Inc. recently merged with top web hosting company, CyberGate, Inc. The combined company now hosts more than 275,000 domains for approximately 100,000 customers worldwide, and is expected to produce immediate operational and financial results. Web Hosting Magazine Web Hosting Magazine was a web hosting industry print magazine that published from 2000 to 2002. It spawned a companion tradeshow, Web Hosting Expo. Its founders and editors were Dmitri Eroshenko and Isabel Wang, and it was published by Infotonics Media. recently honored both companies, as two of the Top 10 Web Hosts in the World. Operating under the name Affinity, Inc., the company is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city's population is described as metropolitan, where diverse culture is commonplace. According to 2006 U.S. . About Affinity, Inc. Affinity Internet Inc. is a leading provider of managed web and application hosting solutions for small-to-medium sized businesses. Headquartered in El Segundo, CA, with data centers in Maryland and California, Affinity offers a wide range of customizable and private-branded dedicated and shared hosting products and services with value-added features including eCommerce, email, database management, load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , firewall and VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. services. Affinity is the hosting partner for 1,800 resellers representing more than 55,000 businesses in over 100 countries. Affinity's experienced staff is committed to providing proactive technical, marketing and training support. For more information, please visit www.affinity.com or call 877/865-6580. |
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