Apollo Hosting December Newsletter

The Year that Was

Holiday Greetings from your team at Apollo Hosting,

The Holidays are here, and we wish you all a Happy New Year! Apollo Hosting is committed to bringing you the best products and services in 2007. For those really "last minute shoppers" we even have Gift Certificates now available for purchase. More details below.

Windows Hosting customers can now enjoy IMAP email and new webmail services courtesy of our newest feature upgrade. These changes come at no additional cost!

2006 was a big year for us, as we deployed our newest line of dedicated servers, the Control Series (on special this month!), partnered with ScanAlert to provide our ecommerce customers free PCI compliance scans, offered 2 big new tools, MailBoxCop and Site Symphony, and, biggest of all, deployed our new Windows Hosting plans.

We're already working on big things for 2007, so relax and enjoy the holidays, looking forward to a bright and feature-packed new year with Apollo Hosting.

The A-Team

Apollo Hosting Gift Certificates

Give the gift of a website this season to someone who always wanted a website but just never got around to signing up. Friends, family, anyone you know who would be a great blogger, could run a forum, or has some creativity to share with the world is a great candidate for a website!

Certificate Sample
A certificate like this is delivered to your email inbox to print out and give or forward via email to the recipient of your choice. (Not to scale.)

Gift Certificates are available in convenient denominations, with variations that include an additional amount allotted for a new domain name for those just starting out. They can be applied to any kind of account from Apollo Hosting! Some folks don't just need a small plan, after all... Our certificates can get them started in a VPS or even a fully dedicated server from our Control Series.

It's quick and easy to buy a gift certificate, so click the link below to get yours today, and give the gift of the web this season!

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Upgrade - Windows Hosting Plans Now Feature New Webmail & IMAP

To our Windows Hosting customers, and anyone considering a new Windows Hosting account, we have upgraded our Windows Hosting plans to feature both IMAP email access and an advanced Webmail client via MailEnable. This service upgrade comes at no additional cost to all current Windows Hosting plan customers.

IMAP is a type of email protocol that provides the ability to fetch only message headers from a mail server instead of the whole thing. Windows hosting customers may now access email accounts via POP3 or IMAP protocols.

The new Web Mail access is also available via your control panel, or via http://webmail.<yourdomain>.com. The new MailEnable webmail client is more than just a browser-based email client. The Pro Edition we provide also adds a personal contacts, search, spell check, skins, and much more.

Hosting Help - What is Wikipedia?

Hosting Help Graphic A Guide to the Most Unique Encyclopedia on the Net
by Madison Lockwood

You've probably heard about it by now. From the Nightly News to The Colbert Report, the free open source encyclopedia that anyone can edit is slowly becoming a household name. If you're still scratching your head, this article will explain what Wikipedia is all about.

Wikipedia is an open source encyclopedia, a website where anyone can write and post an article on any topic of their choice. The site has been a remarkable success, with thousands of amateur authorities weighing in on an infinite variety of topics. As of the summer of 2005, Wikipedia was home to nearly 850,000 articles in English alone, with many other entries in dozens of additional languages. They currently have over 1.3 million articles in English, 445,000 in German, 342,000 in French and lesser totals in many other languages, such as Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese. Wikipedia has become an international phenomenon.

For pedestrian research Wikipedia can be a remarkable resource. Search on wheat production in Kansas, and you'll get seventeen articles that refer you to a commodities trading organization, a couple of agriculture publications, the Kansas Board of Trade and links to other sites that may or may not be related. If you don't find what you want, chances are that a search on Kansas will get you their annual wheat production in a review of the state and its resources. For general information, Wikipedia has become a repository for an unmatched collection of resources. From quantum physics to cartoons, you'll find something on virtually any topic.