Powerful New SW Automates Hosting Business, 5 People Can Manage 20K Customers
HSPcomplete 2.0 - Hosting Business In-a-Box
18 months of development on over 100 beta customers, To Be GA Tomorrow.
Team of under 5 people can manage over 20K hosting accounts
HSPcomplete 2.0 is the world's first automated "Hosting Business in a
Box" - allows a company of 5 people to have a fully-automated Web
hosting infrastructure that provides more products and low-cost services
than that of a global Hosting company (IBM Global Services, Exodus,
AT+T, etc.)!
For under $10K, comes with:
- The Virtuozzo technology, supercharging Intel-based hardware
- Total automation of business infrastructure
- Manages anywhere from 10K to 100K+ customers, with upwards of 500
customers on a single server.
- Integrates billing, customer account usage and plan upgrades from a
single user interface (read: no "Accounting" Department :)
- Offers customers a full-range of hosting plans, including the
low-cost, high-powered Virtual Private Server (VPS) plans
Virtuozzo is the backbone of HSPcomplete 2.0 and can support anywhere
from 10 to 2000 instances of Linux on a single piece of hardware, which
is ideal for Web hosting companies looking to manage 10 to 100K
customers and all system apps/resources on a single network.
Worldcom, Exodus, IBM GS, PSINet and other big companies are slowly
drowning in excess bandwidth, rackspace, hardware and office space
bought for the Dot-Com boom. HSPcomplete gives them a way to leverage
these extra resources, while also creating new products (VPS) and
revenue channels.
We have many customers that will talk about the system and how it's
changed their business and their life, as well as analysts at IDC,
Garter, Giga, Forrester and EMA that can talk about HSPcomplete and the
industry.
Get a sneak peek at our new Web site at w3.sw-soft.com!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SWSOFT ANNOUNCES HSPCOMPLETE 2.0 FULL BUSINESS LIFECYCLE HOSTING
AUTOMATION SOLUTION
Scalability and Reliability Proven Through 18 months of Development, Six
Months of Public Testing on Over 100 Hosting Providers
S. San Francisco, Calif., July 30, 2002 -- SWsoft, Inc., leader in
hosting automation and enterprise server software, today announced the
GA of HSPcomplete 2.0 full business lifecycle hosting automation
solution.* HSPcomplete 2.0 provides a fully-automated infrastructure and
a full set of management and reseller user tools that enables hosting
providers to support thousands of customers on a single network,
integrating a flexible billing system and generating new revenue through
reseller and virtual private server (VPS) products. www.hspcomplete.com
<http://www.hspcomplete.com/>
"The culmination of three (3) years' work, our vision of a complete
hosting automation system is now realized," said Serguei Beloussov, CEO
of SWsoft. "Hosting businesses will now follow the trends of developed
manufacturing factories that produce goods in high volume with high
efficiency. We enable a fully automated robotic production line for
hosting that uses technology to free the hosting worker from the
drudgery of manual tasks, like billing, accounting, etc. The need for
HSPs to automate and efficiently scalable business processes has never
been more important."
To meet this need, SWsoft redesigned HSPcomplete to incorporate hundreds
of new features. The redesign was developed over 18 months and the
software subjected to an additional 9 months of testing, including a
test phase in which 30 select hosting customers were brought online
using a controlled release version of HSPcomplete 2.0. SWsoft went to
great lengths to ensure that every feature went live with rock-solid
reliability and telco-grade scalability.
Andreas Barth, CEO of Alexandria, VA-based hosting provider
AWorldWIdeMall.com, needed a way to quickly sign-up new customers, offer
promotions and support his current client base and scale his business.
According to Barth, "With dozens of custom hosting plans, incomplete
automation systems are useless to me. After investigating other
solutions, it seemed that there was always at least one process that
needed to be done manually. With HSPcomplete, everything is automated,
from beginning to end!"
The unique modular design consists of four "Directors," each tool
managing one component of an hosting business:
1. Operations - Manages hardware, backups, domains, IP pools,
service levels and virtual partitions (or 'virtual environments')
2. Business - Controls accounts, resellers, partners, enterprise
accounts, billing and e-commerce systems
3. System - Configures the system and allows the HSP to mange
security, Web site content, licenses and events and to customize the
look and feel of the control panels
4. Application - A single point to administer application and OS
templates for mass deployment of thousands of system updates,
applications or other resources
These modules comprise the only pre-integrated and scalable
infrastructure that automates all points in the business lifecycle of an
HSP. The unique benefits of using HSPcomplete 2.0 include:
* Comprehensive - the only pre-integrated and scalable full
business life-cycle solution
* Flexible Billing - powerful usage based billing with promotions
support
* Integrated Billing - complete billing/accounting integration
with automatic account provisioning and management capabilities
* Resellers - Tools to build a multi-tier sales channel that can
be fully rebranded with fully anonymous resellers
* VPS - scalable VPS hosting capabilities and Server Consolidation
technology
* Application Hosting - completely automated and integrated
application templating with advanced license management
* Customizable - Ability to customize, extend and integrate.
Source code available for purchase
* Unified - One unified platform to manage all hosting - basic
shared, VPS, complex dedicated.
In addition to a comprehensive feature-set proven in live use,
HSPcomplete 2.0 offers powerful tools and processes to configure,
customize, integrate, and extend HSPcomplete 2.0, enabling HSPs to
differentiate themselves in a crowded marketplace. For example,
HSPcomplete 2.0 is designed to be easily integrated into the HSP's
existing infrastructure with its open API and use of standard SQL.
Jeb Bolding, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates, says
that, "HSPcomplete 2.0 is a comprehensive automation solution, flexible
and powerful enough to manage hosting businesses of any size."
For small HSPs, a $10,000 comprehensive entry system allows
implementation of a complete automation solution that includes a
flexible and powerful billing system able to scale to over 100,000
accounts. Medium HSPs can quickly generate more revenue by offering new
products such as VPS, managed hosting and managed applications by easily
integrating HSPcomplete into their existing systems. SWsoft provides
complete support options to large HSPs, allowing them to use
HSPcomplete's fully anonymous reseller features to develop new sales and
service channels by selling through rack space and bandwidth to small
HSPs.
For small HSPs, a $10,000 comprehensive no-compromise entry system
allows implementation of a complete automation solution that includes a
flexible and powerful billing system able to scale to over 100,000
accounts. Medium HSPs can quickly generate more revenue by offering new
products such as VPS, managed hosting and managed applications by easily
integrating HSPcomplete into their existing systems. SWsoft provides
complete support options to large HSPs to allow them to use
HSPcomplete's fully anonymous reseller features to develop new sales and
service channels by selling through rack space and bandwidth to small
HSPs.
HSPcomplete 2.0 is a true ready to run, "out of the box" system and
comes pre-integrated with a large library of software and plugins that
provide additional capability such as automated payment through
LinkPoint, WorldPay, or Authorize.net and automated domain registration
through OpenSRS and enom. Example ISVs include Miva, macromedia, Sun,
Tucows.
Web Seminar
SWsoft will host an online forum to discuss the costs, business models,
hardware and software requirements, bandwidth utilization, and usage
requirements of HSP administrators, resellers, and end-users in a free
web seminar at 10:00am PDT, September 4, 2002. Register at
http://www.sw-soft.com/seminar
For more information on how HSPcomplete 2.0, please see
www.hspcomplete.com <http://www.hspcomplete.com/> or contact the SWsoft
sales team at 1-800-422-3593 www.sw-soft.com <http://www.sw-soft.com/>
About SWsoft
SWsoft is an advanced server and networking software technology company
focused on the development of its patent-pending VirtuozzoT technology
with end-to-end solutions and services for hosting service providers
such as Internet data centers, application service providers, managed
hosting providers and Web hosters. SWsoft's products deliver powerful,
comprehensive solutions that can help data centers automate management,
accelerate operations and provide excellent return on investments.
For more information about SWsoft, please visit www.sw-soft.com.
__________________
Alex Plant
Senior Marketing Manager
SWsoft, Inc.
395 Oyster Point Blvd., Ste. 213
S. San Francisco, CA 94080
(650) 875.7185 x123
aplant@sw-soft.com
www.sw-soft.com
