Business Web Hosting Services at HostGator
Regulatory compliance, service continuity, data protection and delivering a great online customer experience are all critical to running a business in current Internet connected global marketplace. This is the major reason why more businesses are turning to HostGator to build and manage their IT systems, which enables them to focus on growing their businesses and serving their customers. In addition to Service Level Agreements for power and network availability and personal support, HostGator provides a complete range of services for the hosting needs of many types of businesses.
Web 2.0 & SaaS Hosting
HostGator believes that applications of its customers deserves the best in the industry, the Web 2.0 Hosting Partner. The latest generation of Web applications enables the business owners to enhance their customers’ online experience and offers access to key applications on demand that help run their businesses. As a result, providing consistent high performance access to their Web site and applications are top priorities for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies including HostGator. Because HostGator enables its customers to leverage new innovative technologies and methods such as on demand access to computing applications or compute anywhere without clients, it keeps the online Web presence of the customers a step ahead of their competitive organizations who have not taken the services from HostGator. Choosing the right company to host the infrastructure for the Web site or Web application is one of the biggest decisions the client business will make. With the world class web 2.0 and SaaS hosting infrastructure of HostGator and choices of hosting services with it, this service provider gives its customers the flexibility to choose the right solution that best matches needs of their Web application.
eCommerce Hosting
HostGator offers its clients a secure and scalable hosting platform for their online business or e-commerce applications. Many businesses with a broad customer base provide the capabilities to conduct financial transactions online so customers are able to make purchases any time of the day. In doing so, it becomes critically important that the online shopping experience is available to the users of the customer services when they are ready to buy. The current online economy offers untold shopping choices for consumers, so an eCommerce Web site that is unresponsive or unavailable negatively affects the experience, sending prospects to alternatives sources.
One of the most important business decisions the business owners need to make is about choosing a dedicated eCommerce Web site hosting partner. They should select a company with a trusted and reliable uptime record that also offers the right hardware options for their business needs and expectations. HostGator provides eCommerce businesses with dedicated hardware models that offer far greater scalability than shared platforms. With its enterprise class service level guarantees, the business people can be confident that the provided hosting environment will be available to manage the high volume online transaction traffic of the hosted eCommerce business with the high levels of securities and confidentiality of the data. At HostGator, they provide the customers with the right eCommerce Web site hosting platform, whether the customer is looking to start the eCommerce solution or need a partner that can help in moving the existing business applications and services to the next level of advancements.
Web Developers & Designers
HostGator is a perfect platform for it customers to showcase their web applications.
As a Web developer, the primary goal of the business owners is to create Web sites or applications that function precisely as the end users of the applications expect. The business owners who are the customers of HostGator and availing its services know that the experts at HostGator in fact take great care to write, refine, debug and release the most efficient code to power a feature rich and functional user experience. With that level of critical detail, the business owners are usually also interested in the top level quality of the infrastructure for the best application response and its performance for the best user experience and satisfaction, which is directly related to their underlying hosted infrastructure.
HostGator provides precisely the right Web application performance to maximize the scalability and reliability of the applications. Whether it is the proof of concept or a design or any other deliverable, right from beginning of the concept to all the way to showcasing solutions to the prospects, they provide the customers with a flexible cost model that provides a tangible business case when proposing the overall solution. The business proposal of the client will be more attractive when prospects know exactly how the Web application will perform and scale. Even better, the customers of the business organization will appreciate a platform that in fact does not require the bulk of their capital budget upfront. In fact they can focus on development while the team at HostGator provides the hosting platform to make it shine.
Web Hosting Resellers
HostGator is a known name in the best platform for Web Hosting Partners in the industry. Web hosting is a competitive business with thousands of providers in the market. Success as a web hosting provider often comes down to maximizing the number of customers the service buyer can support for each additional server it adds to the infrastructure. To improve its success in this equation, it becomes critically important to find a partner that can provide a stable server platform, housed in high quality data centers with high-performing and reliable access to the Internet and that’s too all for excellent prices.
HostGator hosts many of the largest and most successful Web hosting resellers of the world for a reason. Its economies of scale allow it to provide the best prices in the industry without cutting corners. All of its servers are leading name-brand Dell hardware housed in SAS 70 Type II compliant, N+1 redundant data centers with over 130 Gbps of network capacity. It then layer on an array of cost efficient servers, all of the key web hosting technologies (control panels, billing platforms, web analytics, etc…) and the broad range of data storage options the customer needs to effectively maximize its customers per server. In addition, its customer satisfaction rating is unmatched with 9 out of 10 customers consistently giving positive feedback on their support incidents. With HostGator’s dedicated servers as the hosting platform, the customers can focus on acquiring and supporting their customers, while HostGator provides the infrastructure and support they need to cut through the competition. With HostGator, the service buyers can provide a more reliable Web hosting experience to their customers while the team of experts at HostGator maintains the infrastructure.
Business Continuity
Business continuity by the service provider in fact ensures that critical business IT functions will be available to the service taker’s customers, suppliers, partners, and others in the event of a disaster, power loss or other unexpected business disruption. Most business continuity services include disaster recovery as well as standardized procedures for backup and security management.
As the number one dedicated hosting provider in the world, HostGator gives to its customers the power and flexibility to choose the right IT infrastructure and mix of business continuity services that best fit their specific business needs. The customers of HostGator can select from a full spectrum of options including colocation facilities, self-managed dedicated servers, or supplement their team with customized management services that can expand to fully outsourced managed hosting solutions.
HostGator provides its customer with a complete range of business continuity services and prices so there is no reason to put the business of the customer at risk by not properly planning for continuity in the event of a business interruption or disaster.
Technical Configurations
HostGator provides the technical hosting configurations to meet the web hosting needs of its clients. Whether the customers know exactly how their hosted IT environment should be configured, or they are just getting started and need configuration advice, they should feel comfortable and secure with right hands of HostGator. HostGator offers a wide variety of technologies and expertise combined to create the right hosted IT infrastructure for the business of its customers. If the customers know exactly what they need, they would have the tools to build their configuration per their design. Alternatively, if they need help designing their hosted environment, the Northstar Managed Hosting experts of HostGator would work with them to develop and architect a fully managed environment that meets their specific requirements. HostGator has the flexibility and the technical hosting expertise to deliver the right IT infrastructure regardless of size or IT hosting experience of their company.
HostGator and Microsoft BizSpark
The Microsoft BizSpark Program which is designed to provide the software companies of future with unlimited access to the premium tools they need today. From the beginning, start up software companies need to take a complex decision and chose whether to develop their software on unsupported open source tools or on Microsoft’s commercially available and supported software development platform which is highly expensive and they may not afford. The Microsoft BizSpark Program provides these companies with the support of premium tools when they need them the most, right at the beginning of their business and that’s too at no cost at all.
As an official Network Partner and Hosting Provider, HostGator offers access to free Microsoft software licensed software through the Microsoft BizSpark program. With HostGator as BizSpark hosting provider for the customers, they can build their business on a solid foundation for growth that is based on the best choice in servers, state of the art data centers, 24 x 7 x 365 support and an enterprise class network.
How Microsoft’s BizSpark does work?
Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most:
The BizSpark program provides qualified start ups with unlimited access to the following assets:
The Software — The customers of HostGator can join BizSpark and can have easy and fast access to current, full featured, licensed software development tools, including Visual Studio Team System, production licensing for Windows Server and SQL Server to develop and bring their software solutions to the market and raise their business. They can have access to the premium tools for immediate use in developing and bringing to market innovative and interoperable solutions. There is no upfront cost to enroll.
The Support — BizSpark provides the customers with professional technical support from Microsoft, and connects them to a global community of business experts who can help guide them through the hurdles of their growing their business. They can guide them in start using a tool, making its best use and also in case when the developers get stuck in some technical problem related to their development. With BizSpark, the eligible software developing organizations can get connected to Network Partners around the world including incubators, investors, advisors, government agencies and hosters that are equally involved and vested in software fueled innovation and entrepreneurship who will provide a wide range of support resources to the developers.
Visibility — Through BizSpark, the customers get to have the opportunity to achieve global visibility with an audience of potential investors, clients and partners the support of whom can be used to raise the business to new heights. The member organizations can achieve global visibility to an audience of potential investors, clients and partners. As a Microsoft BizSpark member, they will be tapping into a rich, vibrant ecosystem of peers, partners and support resources around the globe, helping them in growing and succeeding. Microsoft BizSpark is the quickest way to get the Software Development Business Startup fired up.
The story of BizSpark Expansion
Since the launch of BizSpark in November of 2008 and in response to feedback from the community, the program has been expanded to include such things as technical training and the addition of products like Robotics and Windows Azure.
Microsoft® BizSpark™ One is the latest expansion of the BizSpark program. It seeks to accelerate the growth of high potential startups through a one to one relationship between Microsoft and the Startup. In this unique, invite only program, Startups are paired with a dedicated relationship manager who works with them to promote its visibility, expand its network of investors and mentors, expose it to business opportunities, and develop cutting-edge applications. In some markets, BizSpark One goes one step further by forming Advisory Committees to help address common startup needs in those countries — such as access to leading seed and venture capital organizations.
In the coming months, the BizSpark Program will further evolve by introducing a Community for BizSpark Startups and Network Partners, the availability of assessments tools, and access to funding. Microsoft is committed to helping startups become successful businesses and will continue expand the BizSpark Program to meet the needs of the Startup Community.
Network Partners
Network Partners of Microsoft share a passion for driving the success of today’s most promising software startups through business mentoring, peer connections and other entrepreneurial resources. The sponsorship of a Network Partner is easy to obtain for qualifying startups. To learn more about their services and to obtain the sponsorship, one can contact a Network Partner and get its BizSpark enrollment code.
Getting started with Microsoft’s BizSpark
Getting starting with BizSpark is simple and the eligibility requirements for each startup at The BizSpark are minimal. These eligibility criteria are listed as follows:
The applicant is an organization.
The applicant organization should have an active engagement in the development of a software based product or service that forms a core piece of its current or intended business.
The applicant organization should be privately held.
The applicant organization should be in business for less than 3 years at the time of enrollment
The applicant organization should generate less than US $1 million in annual revenue
There are no upfront costs for enrollment to the BizSpark Program. At the end of the program, companies pay Microsoft only a US $100 program fee.
How to Join Microsoft BizSpark
To join BizSpark, each startup must be sponsored by a BizSpark Network Partner. Most privately held software development startups in business for less than 3 years that are generating annual revenue under USD $1 million can join the network. This in fact is an eligibility criteria to join Microsoft BizSpark.
A Software Development Organization meeting the eligibility criteria of the network can join BizSpark through a valid BizSpark Network Partner or a Microsoft BizSpark Champ to get its unique BizSpark enrollment code. Enrollment to BizSpark is free of cost but there is an exit fees of the program. The enrolled organization just pays a USD $100 program offering fee at program exit. This can be considered as a donation for the support of the BizSpark Program in rising the business of the infant struggling business organizations.
To join BizSpark, the representatives of the interested and eligible organizations may send an email to BizSpark@microsoft.com. The Program Owners would send the unique enrollment code up on verification of eligibility.
HostGator and Microsoft WebsiteSpark
Microsoft® WebsiteSpark™ is designed to ignite the success of professional Web developers and designers. The Program is designed to give small firms access to the premium tools they need today, at no cost. As an official Network Partner and Hosting Provider, HostGator offers access to free licensing for the latest versions of Windows Server and SQL Server through the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. With HostGator as the WebsiteSpark hosting provider to its customers, the customers can build their business on a solid foundation for growth that is based on the best choice in servers, start-of-the-art data centers, 24 X 7 X 365 support and an enterprise-class network.
Benefits of Microsoft WebsiteSpark program
The WebsiteSpark program provides professional Web development and design companies with a vehicle to access:
Business Opportunities: Companies can expand their customer base and drive new business by showcasing their capabilities and connecting with partners via the WebsiteSpark Marketplace and through other Microsoft marketing and business networking vehicles.
Support and training: Participants receive professional support from Microsoft and gain connections to WebsiteSpark Network Partners, Hosting Partners, and other Web developers and designers with complementary technologies or business models. This ecosystem can provide a wide range of technical and business resources for every Web professional need.
Software and solutions: Firms gain fast, easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and Web server production licenses at no up-front cost, making it easy to build, design and bring to market rich, innovative Internet sites.
To join, an eligible Web design and development company must have the following characteristics:
A professional service firm whose primary business is providing Web development and design services for its clients
Has no more than 10 members (including owners and employees)
To be eligible to continue to participate in the program once accepted, the company must deploy a new public, Internet accessible Web site which should be developed using program software within six months of program enrollment. They must also report it and other new Web sites through the WebsiteSpark Portal. Eligible Web development and design companies can participate in WebsiteSpark for up to three years.
Joining and Costing?
How much does the program cost? There are no up-front costs. At the end of the program, companies pay Microsoft a U.S. $100 program fee. This may be considered as an exit fees or the support fees.
To join the program, each firm must be sponsored by a WebsiteSpark Network Partner such as HostGator. To receive a nomination or to start hosting services for WebsiteSpark, on can simply chat online with a member of the sales team on their website.
HostGator Sand Castle
It is no more a secret that entrepreneurs around the world drive business growth. HostGator knows that sometimes entrepreneurial inspiration and vision may need a little jump start, so they are in fact here to help the customers. The first major hurdle for a software developer is finding the online space for new ideas to grow. The costs of rolling out and testing new software can be prohibitive, especially in uncertain economic times. HostGator is offering the developer community an economic stimulus of sorts to transform dreams into realities
While that old X386 humming along in the closet of the customer may be what it needs for building and testing its newly coded software, it does not offer the things it is intended for. HostGator Sand Castle takes the development environment of the customer to the next level:
Enterprise-class data center: the server at HostGator is hosted in a dedicated, secure environment.
Industry-leading network: the network at HostGator of Tier 1 and peering bandwidth providers enables maximum speed and accessibility around the world.
N+1 power architecture: The redundant power at HostGator protects its customers from power disruptions.
Knowledgeable technical support: The customers can also get help from the in-house experts team of HostGator and that’s too round the clock, means 24 X 7 X 365.
NO COST for one full year: the service buyers need not to let their budget interrupt ideas. For the 12-month program term, the server hosting service is FREE… . . that’s true, its free.
5.9.1 FREE Server Configurations
The expert team at HostGator consulted with many developers, and with their feedback, they set minimum server specs for this program:
Dual Xeon 2.4, 2.8 or 3.2
1 GB RAM
2 x 73 GB SCSI or 2 x 80 GB IDE / SATA
10 Mbps Unmetered Bandwidth
Operating System: CentOS 5
Eligibility
Eligibility is to be a developer, to have a vision for a new application or service, and to have a desire of helping turning that vision into reality. Someone with these things in its wallet may be taken as a perfect look for the Sand Castle program. HostGator want to provide individuals and small businesses a hosted, dedicated development environment to create the next big Internet success. Here the small business means the one to have less than 10 employees. The primary business of the team must be Web development or design. HostGator wants to see the great things the team is doing with the server provided free of cost, and in fact they require the team to publish a new domain within six months of beginning the program.
Enrollment
The application process for enrollment to the program is made quite simple One who is interested in this would just need to fill out the one page sign up form with its complete contact information and vision for the Sand Castle server. Quantities are limited, and not every application may be accepted. The applicant should take time to detail the plans, motives, and objectives. It should also provide any applicable examples to give itself the best chance of approval of the application. The team of HostGator would evaluate the submitted application and send the applicant the result within one week. When the application is approved, the team would send the applicant a link to “order” its server. To verify the identity of the applicant, they would require a credit card. The Sand Castle server would generate a zero balance invoice, and the card will not be charged for the one year program term.
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Business Web Hosting Services at HostGator
Regulatory compliance, service continuity, data protection and delivering a great online customer experience are all critical to running a business in current Internet connected global marketplace. This is the major reason why more businesses are turning to HostGator to build and manage their IT systems, which enables them to focus on growing their businesses and serving their customers. In addition to Service Level Agreements for power and network availability and personal support, HostGator provides a complete range of services for the hosting needs of many types of businesses.
Web 2.0 & SaaS Hosting
HostGator believes that applications of its customers deserves the best in the industry, the Web 2.0 Hosting Partner. The latest generation of Web applications enables the business owners to enhance their customers’ online experience and offers access to key applications on demand that help run their businesses. As a result, providing consistent high performance access to their Web site and applications are top priorities for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies including HostGator. Because HostGator enables its customers to leverage new innovative technologies and methods such as on demand access to computing applications or compute anywhere without clients, it keeps the online Web presence of the customers a step ahead of their competitive organizations who have not taken the services from HostGator. Choosing the right company to host the infrastructure for the Web site or Web application is one of the biggest decisions the client business will make. With the world class web 2.0 and SaaS hosting infrastructure of HostGator and choices of hosting services with it, this service provider gives its customers the flexibility to choose the right solution that best matches needs of their Web application.
eCommerce Hosting
HostGator offers its clients a secure and scalable hosting platform for their online business or e-commerce applications. Many businesses with a broad customer base provide the capabilities to conduct financial transactions online so customers are able to make purchases any time of the day. In doing so, it becomes critically important that the online shopping experience is available to the users of the customer services when they are ready to buy. The current online economy offers untold shopping choices for consumers, so an eCommerce Web site that is unresponsive or unavailable negatively affects the experience, sending prospects to alternatives sources.
One of the most important business decisions the business owners need to make is about choosing a dedicated eCommerce Web site hosting partner. They should select a company with a trusted and reliable uptime record that also offers the right hardware options for their business needs and expectations. HostGator provides eCommerce businesses with dedicated hardware models that offer far greater scalability than shared platforms. With its enterprise class service level guarantees, the business people can be confident that the provided hosting environment will be available to manage the high volume online transaction traffic of the hosted eCommerce business with the high levels of securities and confidentiality of the data. At HostGator, they provide the customers with the right eCommerce Web site hosting platform, whether the customer is looking to start the eCommerce solution or need a partner that can help in moving the existing business applications and services to the next level of advancements.
Web Developers & Designers
HostGator is a perfect platform for it customers to showcase their web applications.
As a Web developer, the primary goal of the business owners is to create Web sites or applications that function precisely as the end users of the applications expect. The business owners who are the customers of HostGator and availing its services know that the experts at HostGator in fact take great care to write, refine, debug and release the most efficient code to power a feature rich and functional user experience. With that level of critical detail, the business owners are usually also interested in the top level quality of the infrastructure for the best application response and its performance for the best user experience and satisfaction, which is directly related to their underlying hosted infrastructure.
HostGator provides precisely the right Web application performance to maximize the scalability and reliability of the applications. Whether it is the proof of concept or a design or any other deliverable, right from beginning of the concept to all the way to showcasing solutions to the prospects, they provide the customers with a flexible cost model that provides a tangible business case when proposing the overall solution. The business proposal of the client will be more attractive when prospects know exactly how the Web application will perform and scale. Even better, the customers of the business organization will appreciate a platform that in fact does not require the bulk of their capital budget upfront. In fact they can focus on development while the team at HostGator provides the hosting platform to make it shine.
Web Hosting Resellers
HostGator is a known name in the best platform for Web Hosting Partners in the industry. Web hosting is a competitive business with thousands of providers in the market. Success as a web hosting provider often comes down to maximizing the number of customers the service buyer can support for each additional server it adds to the infrastructure. To improve its success in this equation, it becomes critically important to find a partner that can provide a stable server platform, housed in high quality data centers with high-performing and reliable access to the Internet and that’s too all for excellent prices.
HostGator hosts many of the largest and most successful Web hosting resellers of the world for a reason. Its economies of scale allow it to provide the best prices in the industry without cutting corners. All of its servers are leading name-brand Dell hardware housed in SAS 70 Type II compliant, N+1 redundant data centers with over 130 Gbps of network capacity. It then layer on an array of cost efficient servers, all of the key web hosting technologies (control panels, billing platforms, web analytics, etc…) and the broad range of data storage options the customer needs to effectively maximize its customers per server. In addition, its customer satisfaction rating is unmatched with 9 out of 10 customers consistently giving positive feedback on their support incidents. With HostGator’s dedicated servers as the hosting platform, the customers can focus on acquiring and supporting their customers, while HostGator provides the infrastructure and support they need to cut through the competition. With HostGator, the service buyers can provide a more reliable Web hosting experience to their customers while the team of experts at HostGator maintains the infrastructure.
Business Continuity
Business continuity by the service provider in fact ensures that critical business IT functions will be available to the service taker’s customers, suppliers, partners, and others in the event of a disaster, power loss or other unexpected business disruption. Most business continuity services include disaster recovery as well as standardized procedures for backup and security management.
As the number one dedicated hosting provider in the world, HostGator gives to its customers the power and flexibility to choose the right IT infrastructure and mix of business continuity services that best fit their specific business needs. The customers of HostGator can select from a full spectrum of options including colocation facilities, self-managed dedicated servers, or supplement their team with customized management services that can expand to fully outsourced managed hosting solutions.
HostGator provides its customer with a complete range of business continuity services and prices so there is no reason to put the business of the customer at risk by not properly planning for continuity in the event of a business interruption or disaster.
Technical Configurations
HostGator provides the technical hosting configurations to meet the web hosting needs of its clients. Whether the customers know exactly how their hosted IT environment should be configured, or they are just getting started and need configuration advice, they should feel comfortable and secure with right hands of HostGator. HostGator offers a wide variety of technologies and expertise combined to create the right hosted IT infrastructure for the business of its customers. If the customers know exactly what they need, they would have the tools to build their configuration per their design. Alternatively, if they need help designing their hosted environment, the Northstar Managed Hosting experts of HostGator would work with them to develop and architect a fully managed environment that meets their specific requirements. HostGator has the flexibility and the technical hosting expertise to deliver the right IT infrastructure regardless of size or IT hosting experience of their company.
HostGator and Microsoft BizSpark
The Microsoft BizSpark Program which is designed to provide the software companies of future with unlimited access to the premium tools they need today. From the beginning, start up software companies need to take a complex decision and chose whether to develop their software on unsupported open source tools or on Microsoft’s commercially available and supported software development platform which is highly expensive and they may not afford. The Microsoft BizSpark Program provides these companies with the support of premium tools when they need them the most, right at the beginning of their business and that’s too at no cost at all.
As an official Network Partner and Hosting Provider, HostGator offers access to free Microsoft software licensed software through the Microsoft BizSpark program. With HostGator as BizSpark hosting provider for the customers, they can build their business on a solid foundation for growth that is based on the best choice in servers, state of the art data centers, 24 x 7 x 365 support and an enterprise class network.
How Microsoft’s BizSpark does work?
Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most:
The BizSpark program provides qualified start ups with unlimited access to the following assets:
The Software — The customers of HostGator can join BizSpark and can have easy and fast access to current, full featured, licensed software development tools, including Visual Studio Team System, production licensing for Windows Server and SQL Server to develop and bring their software solutions to the market and raise their business. They can have access to the premium tools for immediate use in developing and bringing to market innovative and interoperable solutions. There is no upfront cost to enroll.
The Support — BizSpark provides the customers with professional technical support from Microsoft, and connects them to a global community of business experts who can help guide them through the hurdles of their growing their business. They can guide them in start using a tool, making its best use and also in case when the developers get stuck in some technical problem related to their development. With BizSpark, the eligible software developing organizations can get connected to Network Partners around the world including incubators, investors, advisors, government agencies and hosters that are equally involved and vested in software fueled innovation and entrepreneurship who will provide a wide range of support resources to the developers.
Visibility — Through BizSpark, the customers get to have the opportunity to achieve global visibility with an audience of potential investors, clients and partners the support of whom can be used to raise the business to new heights. The member organizations can achieve global visibility to an audience of potential investors, clients and partners. As a Microsoft BizSpark member, they will be tapping into a rich, vibrant ecosystem of peers, partners and support resources around the globe, helping them in growing and succeeding. Microsoft BizSpark is the quickest way to get the Software Development Business Startup fired up.
The story of BizSpark Expansion
Since the launch of BizSpark in November of 2008 and in response to feedback from the community, the program has been expanded to include such things as technical training and the addition of products like Robotics and Windows Azure.
Microsoft® BizSpark™ One is the latest expansion of the BizSpark program. It seeks to accelerate the growth of high potential startups through a one to one relationship between Microsoft and the Startup. In this unique, invite only program, Startups are paired with a dedicated relationship manager who works with them to promote its visibility, expand its network of investors and mentors, expose it to business opportunities, and develop cutting-edge applications. In some markets, BizSpark One goes one step further by forming Advisory Committees to help address common startup needs in those countries — such as access to leading seed and venture capital organizations.
In the coming months, the BizSpark Program will further evolve by introducing a Community for BizSpark Startups and Network Partners, the availability of assessments tools, and access to funding. Microsoft is committed to helping startups become successful businesses and will continue expand the BizSpark Program to meet the needs of the Startup Community.
Network Partners
Network Partners of Microsoft share a passion for driving the success of today’s most promising software startups through business mentoring, peer connections and other entrepreneurial resources. The sponsorship of a Network Partner is easy to obtain for qualifying startups. To learn more about their services and to obtain the sponsorship, one can contact a Network Partner and get its BizSpark enrollment code.
Getting started with Microsoft’s BizSpark
Getting starting with BizSpark is simple and the eligibility requirements for each startup at The BizSpark are minimal. These eligibility criteria are listed as follows:
The applicant is an organization.
The applicant organization should have an active engagement in the development of a software based product or service that forms a core piece of its current or intended business.
The applicant organization should be privately held.
The applicant organization should be in business for less than 3 years at the time of enrollment
The applicant organization should generate less than US $1 million in annual revenue
There are no upfront costs for enrollment to the BizSpark Program. At the end of the program, companies pay Microsoft only a US $100 program fee.
How to Join Microsoft BizSpark
To join BizSpark, each startup must be sponsored by a BizSpark Network Partner. Most privately held software development startups in business for less than 3 years that are generating annual revenue under USD $1 million can join the network. This in fact is an eligibility criteria to join Microsoft BizSpark.
A Software Development Organization meeting the eligibility criteria of the network can join BizSpark through a valid BizSpark Network Partner or a Microsoft BizSpark Champ to get its unique BizSpark enrollment code. Enrollment to BizSpark is free of cost but there is an exit fees of the program. The enrolled organization just pays a USD $100 program offering fee at program exit. This can be considered as a donation for the support of the BizSpark Program in rising the business of the infant struggling business organizations.
To join BizSpark, the representatives of the interested and eligible organizations may send an email to BizSpark@microsoft.com. The Program Owners would send the unique enrollment code up on verification of eligibility.
HostGator and Microsoft WebsiteSpark
Microsoft® WebsiteSpark™ is designed to ignite the success of professional Web developers and designers. The Program is designed to give small firms access to the premium tools they need today, at no cost. As an official Network Partner and Hosting Provider, HostGator offers access to free licensing for the latest versions of Windows Server and SQL Server through the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. With HostGator as the WebsiteSpark hosting provider to its customers, the customers can build their business on a solid foundation for growth that is based on the best choice in servers, start-of-the-art data centers, 24 X 7 X 365 support and an enterprise-class network.
Benefits of Microsoft WebsiteSpark program
The WebsiteSpark program provides professional Web development and design companies with a vehicle to access:
Business Opportunities: Companies can expand their customer base and drive new business by showcasing their capabilities and connecting with partners via the WebsiteSpark Marketplace and through other Microsoft marketing and business networking vehicles.
Support and training: Participants receive professional support from Microsoft and gain connections to WebsiteSpark Network Partners, Hosting Partners, and other Web developers and designers with complementary technologies or business models. This ecosystem can provide a wide range of technical and business resources for every Web professional need.
Software and solutions: Firms gain fast, easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and Web server production licenses at no up-front cost, making it easy to build, design and bring to market rich, innovative Internet sites.
To join, an eligible Web design and development company must have the following characteristics:
A professional service firm whose primary business is providing Web development and design services for its clients
Has no more than 10 members (including owners and employees)
To be eligible to continue to participate in the program once accepted, the company must deploy a new public, Internet accessible Web site which should be developed using program software within six months of program enrollment. They must also report it and other new Web sites through the WebsiteSpark Portal. Eligible Web development and design companies can participate in WebsiteSpark for up to three years.
Joining and Costing?
How much does the program cost? There are no up-front costs. At the end of the program, companies pay Microsoft a U.S. $100 program fee. This may be considered as an exit fees or the support fees.
To join the program, each firm must be sponsored by a WebsiteSpark Network Partner such as HostGator. To receive a nomination or to start hosting services for WebsiteSpark, on can simply chat online with a member of the sales team on their website.
HostGator Sand Castle
It is no more a secret that entrepreneurs around the world drive business growth. HostGator knows that sometimes entrepreneurial inspiration and vision may need a little jump start, so they are in fact here to help the customers. The first major hurdle for a software developer is finding the online space for new ideas to grow. The costs of rolling out and testing new software can be prohibitive, especially in uncertain economic times. HostGator is offering the developer community an economic stimulus of sorts to transform dreams into realities
While that old X386 humming along in the closet of the customer may be what it needs for building and testing its newly coded software, it does not offer the things it is intended for. HostGator Sand Castle takes the development environment of the customer to the next level:
Enterprise-class data center: the server at HostGator is hosted in a dedicated, secure environment.
Industry-leading network: the network at HostGator of Tier 1 and peering bandwidth providers enables maximum speed and accessibility around the world.
N+1 power architecture: The redundant power at HostGator protects its customers from power disruptions.
Knowledgeable technical support: The customers can also get help from the in-house experts team of HostGator and that’s too round the clock, means 24 X 7 X 365.
NO COST for one full year: the service buyers need not to let their budget interrupt ideas. For the 12-month program term, the server hosting service is FREE… . . that’s true, its free.
5.9.1 FREE Server Configurations
The expert team at HostGator consulted with many developers, and with their feedback, they set minimum server specs for this program:
Dual Xeon 2.4, 2.8 or 3.2
1 GB RAM
2 x 73 GB SCSI or 2 x 80 GB IDE / SATA
10 Mbps Unmetered Bandwidth
Operating System: CentOS 5
Eligibility
Eligibility is to be a developer, to have a vision for a new application or service, and to have a desire of helping turning that vision into reality. Someone with these things in its wallet may be taken as a perfect look for the Sand Castle program. HostGator want to provide individuals and small businesses a hosted, dedicated development environment to create the next big Internet success. Here the small business means the one to have less than 10 employees. The primary business of the team must be Web development or design. HostGator wants to see the great things the team is doing with the server provided free of cost, and in fact they require the team to publish a new domain within six months of beginning the program.
Enrollment
The application process for enrollment to the program is made quite simple One who is interested in this would just need to fill out the one page sign up form with its complete contact information and vision for the Sand Castle server. Quantities are limited, and not every application may be accepted. The applicant should take time to detail the plans, motives, and objectives. It should also provide any applicable examples to give itself the best chance of approval of the application. The team of HostGator would evaluate the submitted application and send the applicant the result within one week. When the application is approved, the team would send the applicant a link to “order” its server. To verify the identity of the applicant, they would require a credit card. The Sand Castle server would generate a zero balance invoice, and the card will not be charged for the one year program term.