iWeb Communities: Blog

MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC – march 19, 2008 - iWeb Group Inc. (TSX-V: IWB) (?iWeb?), a worldwide internet hosting infrastructure provider, unveiled its brand new corporate identity along with a new website now available at iweb.com. The deployment of the website under the much coveted domain name iweb.com is an important element for the consolidation of the company’s brand.

“This new site is an important step in the process of affirming iWeb’s identity and in the differenciation of the company in front of the competition”, explains Martin Leclair, Chief Operation Officer at iWeb. “Our ultimate goal is to transform and facilitate the use of our hosting infrastructures and the server or shared hosting management by giving more control to our users, by speeding the services delivery, and by offering unique, user-friendly and attractive online tools”, he adds.

The new website is the first visible effort in a series of improvements which will be unveiled in the coming months and which will include new products, but also an all new ordering process , and a recasting of the Customer Hub, iWeb’s control panel used by customers to manage every aspect of their hosting plan. This new image of the company is the next step in the consolidation of iWeb’s position alongside the leaders of the evolving web hosting industry, and also to make room for a renewed and improved services offer.

“For many months, every department joined forces to produce a new user-friendly website, from design and accessibility, to the great variety of offered services”, explains Hugo Dénommée, VP Development and Automation. “We are very proud of what has been accomplished and of the results are now public”, he says.

For each of the four sections, major products additions have been made. In the dedicated servers and colocation sections, a new range of Mac servers, private dedicated server racks, cages in colocation and anti-ddos are now available. Our range of dedicated servers, load-balancing, clusters, and managed hosting services remain vital components of our offering. In the shared hosting section, all offers have been completely improved, a website builder has been added, and an offer for Google Adwords credit have been added.

We invite ou to visit iweb.com to discover our new website.

About iWeb Group Inc.
Founded in 1996, iWeb offers a full line of advanced IP hosting services either through shared hosting, dedicated servers or colocation in its own data centers featuring 52,000 square foot of floor space and the latest technological equipments. iWeb provides services in English, French and Spanish to clients in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit www.sedar.com or the Company?s website at http://iWeb8.com.

Caution concerning forward-looking statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or iWeb?s future economic performance and reflect the current assumptions and expectations of management. Certain unknown factors may affect the events, economic performance and results of operations described herein. iWeb undertakes no obligation, and does not intend to, update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable law.

For more information

Olivier Niquet
iWeb Technologies Inc.
Communications officer
(514) 286-4242
oniquet@iweb.com

Over the past few years, the exponential increase in the volume of spam has forced email service providers to apply increasingly aggressive filtering solutions which sometimes exclude legitimate emails. In order to reduce the chances that your emails are perceived as spam from major suppliers such as Yahoo, Hotmail, Google or AOL, please make sure your server meets the following qualifications :

1) A valid “PTR” Record (Reverse-DNS) is configured on your IP address.

A PTR Record is essentially the hostname that is shown when a reverse lookup query is done on an IP address. This type of query is always done by default and the result is shown in email headers. Having a configured or customized PTR record will help giving your server more credibility when sending emails.

An optimal PTR record would be the server’s principal hosted domain.

You can have your Reverse DNS configured or changed by opening an assistance request with our system administration team.

2) The email addresses: abuse@.tld, postmaster@.tld should be working.

Feedback loop is an email address used to report spam abuses for a certain IP address. This address is abuse@ and/or postmaster@. AOL asks that these account exists and that they accepts emails.

3) A “TXT” DNS entry that contains a valid SPF record is configured for the domains hosted on your server.

By default, anyone can send emails from any domains by spoofing email addresses. A SPF record will restrict the IP addresses or hostnames allowed to send e-mails from the domains it will be configured on.

You can generate a SPF record by using the OpenSPF Wizard.

By having the two conditions above met, the verifications made by the email service providers are likely to determine that your IP address can be trusted and will refer to other criterias to verify wether a specific email is considered unsolicited.

If you wish to know more about how email delivery works and ways to raise your delivery rate, you can review the following website: http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/solutions/dns.html

Do not hesitate to contact our team if you have any questions or require assistance.

We are currently fixing the last issues on the new iweb.com web site. The development team has been working for more than 9 months on the project and has yet to go to sleep after yesterday night’s work to bring the site online. Discover the new design, the new iweb.com domain, new products and a lot more at the new iweb.com. Official press releases will be posted later today and tomorrow and there is still a lot to come in the next weeks.

As you already know from the last few weeks, our new website is about to see the light pretty soon. Several new features have been added but we would like to talk about one in particular, the sitepal. For those who are not familiar with this communication tool, sitepal is an online service that uses animated virtual agents to provide any kind of information.

Why the sitepal integration? Quite simply because we find the idea of this virtual character fun and it brings a bit of dynamism and accessibility that for us very well reflects what we are!
That is not all, the sitepal is not just any kind of digitalized robot without a soul, behind the image lies an exceptional collaborator working for iWeb for several years; We present you Ariana!

You will see the charismatic Ariana appear very soon on your screens and she has a lot of interesting things to tell you, therefore, stay tuned when you see her! In addition to being present shortly on our new website, Ariana will also be featured in several corporate flavored videos that will make their apparations in the coming weeks, more details will be sent to you regarding that matter.

Finally, we would like to have your impressions about our spokesperson that is the sitepal. Do you find this practical? Are you tempted to take a look at it? Send us your comments, we want to know what you think about this addition.