Rediff.com
Launches Web Hosting Solutions for Young Entrepreneurs
[April 27, 2005]
Offers
Opportunity to Further Business Growth over the Internet
in a Cost Efficient
MUMBAI,
India, Apr 27, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rediff.com India
Limited (REDF), one of the premier worldwide online
providers of news, information, communication, entertainment
and shopping services today announced the launch of
Rediff web hosting, a world-class hosting platform and
a complete web presence management tool for young entrepreneurs.
Rediff web hosting is an integrated platform comprising
of personalized domain names, business email solutions
and web hosting services with advanced online features
like the creation of individualized blog, message board
and photo album sections.
The service offers a range of online
solutions on a reliable and trustworthy platform to
over three million small and medium enterprises in India.
The Company allows these entrepreneurs to create and
manage their website in simple, cost efficient packages
per their business needs. Additionally, the Company
provides advertising space on its website through the
state-of-the-art 'Rediff pay4clicks' ad service to promote
individual websites hosted on the Rediff web hosting
platform.Rediff.com will be deploying the same people,
the same network and the same monitoring that run Rediff.com
to run the business websites hosted via Rediff Web Hosting.
Two hosting packages - 'basic' and 'advanced'
have been initially launched in addition to a variety
of tailor-made combinations. Each of these solutions
are competitively priced with single domain registration
costing as low as Rs.495 per annum while the annual
basic web hosting service is priced at Rs.2400. Various
combinations of hosting, email and domain registrations
are priced accordingly.
Some of the features of the Rediff Web
Hosting package are:
Domain Name Registration:
The service provides booking of all
the international Top Level Domains (TLD) like .com,
.org, .net, .info, .biz as well as country level domains
( ccTLD ) such as .in, .co.in, .org.in and .net.in without
buying any other additional service.
Basic Web Hosting Package:
-- Storage Space: 100MB of storage space
allows users to create a detailed functional business
website without facing any design constraints in terms
of space.
-- Sub-domains: The website design flexibility
is further strengthened by providing rights for creating
five additional sub-domains. This allows for proper
segmentation of business information while presenting
it in a more professional manner.
-- Web Control Panel: Management of
all the website functions is possible through an easy,
user-friendly web based control panel. Every hosting
package has access to this sophisticated control panel
that consists of a variety of easy-to-use tools and
features to help manage a professional, quality web
site.
-- System Compatibility: The service
is available for both Windows & Linux platform that
supports Java. The windows hosting supports .net platform
also.
-- High site traffic: The service allows
for high data transfer making it accessible to all without
any worry.
-- Website Reliability: Redundant server
architecture and hosting with one of the premier Internet
backbone service providers in India, allows for reliable
access to the hosted websites at all times.
-- Security: Tested and proven site
security tools and anti-virus guards with updated patches
provide for a secure and stable web hosting service.
-- Web Statistics: Comprehensive web
site statistic tools to better manage space usage and
allocation amongst the domain and the sub-domains.
-- Database Support: Database functionality
is available at an incremental cost of Rs2000 per annum.
This allows for maintenance of five databases supported
by SQL or MySQL tools
-- Tech Support: The same network, systems
people and 24x7,365 monitoring is provided that is deployed
for the Rediff.com web portal enabling very high uptime,
secure and fast access
Advanced Solutions Package:
-- Power Tools: provides a variety of
features for creating a highly professional website.
-- Gallery - The photo album management
system permits for effortless management and display
of images on the hosted web site. Gallery automatically
keeps track of popular pictures and lets viewers leave
comments.
-- Bulletin Board - Provides for unlimited
number of forums and categories with full user management,
search and moderator capabilities.
-- Web log - Allows for the creation
of a blog system to the hosted website.
-- Higher Storage Space: 500 MB of storage
space provides for the creation of multiple websites,
thus providing depth and width of online presence to
users.
-- Database functionality: The service
allows for the creation of 10 databases supported with
the SQL and MySQL functionality.
-- Additional sub-domains: The creation
of up to ten allocated sub-domains make for better utilization
of the 500 MB space allocated.
-- Webalizer: is a state-of-the-art
analysis tool to know the website traffic and consumer
behaviour on the site.
Business Email Solution:
RediffmailPro service provides five
personalized email IDs, 1GB mail storage space, offline
access of mails through POP3.
Speaking on the occasion, Ajit Balakrishan,
Chairman & CEO, Rediff.com said, "We strive
to provide a faster, safer and simpler web experience
to our customers at all times." Highlighting the
importance of Rediff Web Hosting, he added, "Young
entrepreneurs historically play a significant role in
the growth of any economy. Rapid globalization of the
Indian marketplace has led these Indian businesses to
look for up-grading their existing systems to world-class
technology platforms at competitive costs. With the
launch of this service, Rediff.com aims to provide a
suite of the state-of-the-art web services for these
small and medium enterprises which are backed by the
same people and the network that we use for our own
Rediff.com site. Effectively, businesses can now have
only a small investment in I.T. and yet enjoy the same
expertise that powers Rediff.com."
About
Rediff.com
Rediff.com
India Limited (REDF) is one of the premier worldwide
online providers of news, information, communication,
entertainment and e-commerce services for Indians.
Known for being one of the first with
news and providing accurate and trustworthy information,
Rediff.com provides an ideal platform for Indians worldwide
to connect with one another online fast. Rediff.com
is committed to offering a personalized and a secure
surfing and shopping environment.
Rediff.com additionally offers the Indian
American community, one of the oldest and largest Indian
weekly newspapers, India Abroad, and an online portal,
Rediff USA online.
Founded in 1996, Rediff.com is headquartered
in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi, India and
New York, USA.
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