iWeb Communities: Blog

Montreal, Quebec, August 24, 2010 – iWeb Group Inc. (TSX-V : IWB) (« iWeb » or the « Company »), a provider of IT infrastructure and Internet hosting services to clients in 150 countries, announced its results for the third quarter of 2010.

Financial highlights for 2010 third quarter:

• Revenues increased to $7.5M, from $7.2M in Q3 2009
• $2M Adjusted EBITDA, or 27% of revenue
• Operating loss of $152,000, down from an operating profit of $261,000 one year prior
• Net loss of $645,000, compared to net earnings of $1M in Q3-2009, due mostly to exchange rate variations on long-term debt in USD

“iWeb has been pursuing several key operational targets throughout the third quarter, like the reorganisation of many internal technological resources and securing the financing for ongoing projects”, said Eric Chouinard, President and Chief Executive Officer of iWeb, adding that “many important technological developments, related to iWeb’s new data center in Montreal, have been deployed during the quarter. iWeb expects the results of these developments to act as a catalyst for its return to growth” added the Company’s cofounder, named to “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40^TM” in June, a recognition of his accomplishments with iWeb. Continue reading »

If you get a new dedicated server, it’s very likely that you’d use it as a web server, or alternatively as a database server or file (assets) server. These represents the vast majority of cases.

From time to time though, we do see people using a server in very original ways, sometimes with bewilderment, sometimes with a blank stare, but most of the times amazed at the creativity. As a fun exercise, I’ve made a (short) list of creative ways on using a server. A few of them are useful and you could probably and run them on your machine, although my guess is that they’ll stay as as exceptions.  Continue reading »

We always like to showcase your projects and share your good moves with iWeb’s community. Earlier this week we talked with developper Jerôme Gravel-Niquet about his latest project, an extention for the Safari browser, named Ostrich (http://ostrichapp.com/). Continue reading »

To end the summer on a high note iWeb’s marketing team has decided to rock the house and to literally slash prices on servers in promotion.

I felt like plugging this offer on the blog because I think many of you will find it very interesting.

If you planned on getting a dedicated server from iWeb without blowing your budget, it’s really now or never .
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iWeb has recently been voted one of the most popular web hosting companies by webhosting industry specialized website, Dedicated Server Directory

Part of the Serchen Network, this site lists all the webhosting companies in Canada and the United States. Every month it ranks the 25 most popular companies listed on their directory. Continue reading »

Always trying to be more efficient in all of our activities, and to generally improve our service, iWeb recently acquired new tools to better follow the activities related to customer service.

We notably installed a specialized workstation with 10 attached screens (8 of them are installed “in the air”) that will allow us to better monitor the activity occurring on iWeb’s network. It will help us being more proactive and respond faster to emergencies if need be. Continue reading »

Some time ago we published a series of interviews with our customers. After a few months break we decided to carry on and this time, Laurent Maisonnave, from Ze Agence, gracefully accepted to answer iWeb’s questions. Continue reading »

Dear customers,

Our Panelbox server S035 recently had to be checked for data corruption and this emergency maintenance caused a service interruption that affected a small part of our shared hosting customers.

Now that this technical incident has been addressed, we wish to answer some of your questions Continue reading »

iWeb achieves its third consecutive ranking on the Profit100, the annual ranking of Canadian companies based on 5-year revenue growth.

iWeb’s revenue grew to over $27.1 Million in 2009, from $1.6 Million in 2004, a 1644% growth which moved iWeb into the 31st position, up from 85th the year before and 100th in 2008.

Recently named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, CEO Eric Chouinard credits iWeb’s team; “It is impressive to see how innovative and passionate our team has become. Everyone has put so much into reaching their targets and objectives. iWeb’s growth, almost entirely organic, is the result of this collective effort!”

[More details in our press release]

Wordpress is probably one of the best known content management systems. There are many others, TikiWiki or Impress CMS to name a few, but when it comes to managing a blog, Wordpress is certainly the most popular. The software, whose development is led by the Automattic team is so popular that it has almost ousted SixApart’s MovableType, that has been the leader in this field for many years . Continue reading »