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iWeb is a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure. We provide services to more than 25,000 customers in 150 countries.

As a growing company we continually need qualified personnel to work on different exciting projects and meet the needs of an ever-growing customer base.

If you are seeking employment in the IT field, we definitely want to hear from you. Continue reading »

Several media outlets have recently published articles based on a report from the Citizen Lab organization, which can be found here: http://citizenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/canadian_connection.pdf

The report, titled “The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada” highlights a very important issue, providing a summary of what has become a complex problem for the web hosting industry. We support any initiative that helps bring clarity to the issue. The following is iWeb’s take on the report (iWeb also issued an official press release on the matter). Continue reading »

After months of hard work, the whole team is really pleased to launch iWeb’s new website.

This is a perfect time because iWeb has just celebrated 15 years of activity on the Web and we wanted to mark the occasion !

Several changes were made to iweb.com to improve the user experience of our visitors and to better showcase our products and services. Continue reading »

A couple of weeks ago, all of us at iWeb celebrated Smart Layer technology’s first anniversary.

This event was also the occasion to celebrate iWeb’s 15th birthday. That’s right, 15 years already, it’s crazy how time flies! Continue reading »

Beyond the human tragedy unfolding in Thailand following the floods that occured recently, a major economic disaster could be on the horizon for this country.

The Prime Minister of Thailand recently announced that the large quantities of water that flooded the country could take up to six weeks before retiring. Continue reading »

The home page of the Smart Server’s Control Center has been modified to better display your server configuration as well as the products and services available on the Smart Servers. Indeed, iWeb just added a new tab in the Control Center: Overview.

This new tab summarizes the key information and simplifies the activation of the different services on your server Smart, such as SuperSmart, in addition to offering shortcuts to navigate in one click to other sections within the Control Center. Continue reading »

Release 1.1.16.0

Control Center

• New “Overview” tab that summarizes the key information and simplifies the activation of the different services on your server Smart.
• Fixed a problem with sleeping processes in the Control Center’s virtual console that could potentially cause delays while using it.
• Fixed some broken urls in the Customer Hub leading to iWeb.com product pages.
• Improved internal management errors messages displayed in the hosted backup tools (visible to iWeb’s support team only).

Smart Layer

• Deployment of a new segment of the backend servers that support the Smart Servers.

We are really proud to announce the recent activation of the 3000th Smart Server and by the same token we wish to celebrate the first birthday of our flagship server.

One year ago, iWeb introduced its biggest innovation to date. The launch of the Smart Server, the first product based on iWeb’s SmartLayer technology, marked the first step in transforming the company into an innovative provider of automated Web hosting services. Continue reading »

Our guest blogger, Charles Lacroix, had the opportunity to test the SuperSmart option on his Smart Server and he shared his impressions through his blog. Charles was kind enough to allow us to republish his article, so that you too can read about his experience:

For several months, I’ve been using a Smart Server from iWeb and I can say that I am pleasantly surprised. The price is right, they are reliable and the interface to manage your server or servers, the Control Center, is quite nice. Notably, it provides access to a virtual console allowing you to turn off the server if it stops responding.

Recently, iWeb launched a series of additional features for the Smart Servers, known as, the SuperSmart Option. Check out what it offers… Continue reading »

Eric Chouinard, President and CEO of iWeb, is one of four graduates of the University of Quebec in Montreal School of Management (ESG UQAM) to be honored by le Réseau ESG UQAM, as part of their Performance Award Gala on November 15th, 2011. Continue reading »

In order to better tailor our services to your needs, we decided to simplify our dedicated server monitoring and administration packages.

Whether you have a corporate blog or an advanced infrastructure for your business, we can provide you with the right support solution. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Contact us and we will give you a hand! Continue reading »

We won’t hide the fact that many of us at iWeb, are fans of Steve Jobs and of the Apple brand.

It is not uncommon to see Macbooks and iPhones in our hallways. As for our Marketing, “UX” and design teams, they are officially in mourning this morning.

We just wanted to pay a humble tribute to this genial inventor, communicator and marketer with this little blog post.

The man was not loved by all but the least we can say is that he was very inspiring, as can be seen in this video filmed during his speech to Stanford University graduates in 2005: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html

Apple created an email address if you wish to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences: rememberingsteve@apple.com. We also invite you to share your comments at the bottom of this post, telling us how Steve Jobs has influenced or inspired you (or not, so do not hesitate to express your opinions freely).

We are very proud to announce that iWeb has taken the important decision to separate its shared hosting services and domain management to a new company called Funio.

This new company will aim to consolidate all shared hosting and domain name reservation activities, which will no longer be offered by iWeb. This service supports over 15,000 clients, 23,000 websites and 32,000 domain names in over 100 countries around the world.

Funio’s new website, is now accessible at www.funio.com. Continue reading »

Like any large company that manages IT infrastructure, iWeb is facing major challenges regarding the management of its equipments.

Maintaining 4 data centers with a total capacity of nearly 35,000 servers is not an easy task.

We have always been concerned about energy conservation and the environment. Continue reading »

Are you familiar with Drupal? This is an open source software that makes it easy to organize, manage and publish content with an endless variety of customization.

Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or “GPL”), Drupal is developed and maintained by a community of over 630,000 users and developers around the world.

The Drupal Montreal community invites you to the fourth edition of the DrupalCamp that will be held on September 16-18, 2011 at McGill University’s McIntyre building. Continue reading »

Netcraft, a firm which measures reliability, uptime and network performance, has ranked iWeb.com as one of the most reliable web hosting company sites in August 2011. Second this month, on list, iWeb has regularly appeared in the top ten over the last year. Continue reading »

Fondaction, The CSN’s investment fund for cooperation and employment increases its investment in iWeb Group by investing an additional 2,5 million dollars, bringing its total investment to 13,5 million since 2007.

This new funding completes a major financing package attributed to the privatization of the company last June. For more details please read the official press release.

iWeb is proud to launch a new feature included in the SuperSmart package for Smart Servers: Smart Group. Smart Group is a private virtual LAN service for all your Smart Servers in your account and is completely dedicated to your account. Servers within a group can communicate while remaining invisible to other clients’ servers connected to the same local network, like a private rack. Continue reading »

In modern age of online media, we are surrounded by written words. This article is for any amateur or advanced Web designers out there that ever asked themselves the question: “Does the font choice really matter?” The answer is YES! The proper font choice does matter. Actually, it is one of the most important aspects of design, especially in Web design. Continue reading »

Last Thursday night, iWeb participated in a “Bug Hunt” which was held in downtown Montreal, at the Notman House.

Organized by Montreal Tech Watch, this event gathered developpers and product managers from several companies to test the usability of their respective products. Continue reading »

Adding and improving functionality on iWeb’s new line of Smart Severs is a top priority at iWeb. With regular additions of new functions and tools comes a new need: an easy way to view and manage these tools. Enter: Smart Services. Continue reading »

Meet Wendy Mahew from idea2delivery, one of the winners of iWeb’s Startup Festival contest.

The main goal of idea2delivery.ca is to connect entrepreneurs as well as to provide educational and informational resources. Tools for entrepreneurs such as white papers and a section dedicated to showcase startups and small businesses are also available. Continue reading »

We know that you are looking for the best performance from your server at the best price. Now, for a limited time only, iWeb is offering SuperSmart free for 3 months with the purchase of a new Smart Server. This amazing package unleashes your server’s power and brings it to a higher level. The awesome features included in SuperSmart are: Continue reading »

Last week iWeb proudly took part to the International Startup Festival as a Startup Patron.

The event assembled entrepreneurs and industry experts and took advantage of our great city of Montreal by choosing it as an awesome location at the port of Montreal.

Food, drinks, startups, and live music provided by Alertpay rounded out the evenings and put the “festival” in International Startup Festival.

The event was, by all accounts, a great success, with attendance higher than projections (over 1000 participants), proving that Montreal is emerging as a hub for startups. Continue reading »

Welcome to the second lap of the iWeb Browser Race! In the past few months, we’ve noticed that the race for the best Web browser can be brutal. With our chronometers in hand we’ve been analyzing statistics with help of our computer program called Boulier Quad. We’ve decided to start to regularly share results as well as the quarrels, quips and quick comebacks between users during what we’ve dubbed “The Incredible Browser Race”.

Please note that these statistics are drawn from a very particular cast of users: YOU, our customers, visiting iWeb.com. These statistics could not be applied to other websites. Continue reading »