Certified Hosting, a leading web hosting provider offering shared web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated server hosting plans, announced today the introduction of CloudFlare functionality through all shared hosting and reseller hosting services. The service, which is fully integrated with Certified Hosting’s existing cPanel web hosting setup, improves website performance and security for a better, safer, and more dependable end-user experience.

“We have been in discussions with CloudFlare for a while now, and we have worked hard to bring this incredible new technology to our customers,” says Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting. “With the click of a button on their existing cPanel installation, our shared hosting and reseller hosting customers can now provide a faster, more responsive service to their end-users, without worrying about downtime or threats to their security.”

Launched just over a year ago, CloudFlare was initially developed with a focus on securing websites and protecting them against a range of potentially crippling online attacks. Developers Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn began creating a “firewall in the cloud” where visitor traffic passes through one of 13 data centers before it reaches your website. Here, traffic can be monitored, and in the event of a traffic spike, CloudFlare automatically checks for signs of spamming, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and bot crawling. Most distinctively, since the CloudFlare servers act as proxies to numerous websites, the CloudFlare security system actively learns from attacks and grows progressively more intelligent over time. As a result, Certified Hosting users who opt for CloudFlare functionality can be confident that their website is robustly defended at all times.

“CloudFlare takes security off of the list of things our users have to manage for themselves,” explains Carlsen. “After selecting a security level for their website, our shared web hosting users can let CloudFlare manage their security with no further input required. Even better, in the event that a web hosting server does become overloaded with disruptive traffic, the CloudFlare system automatically calls upon a cached version of the website from one of the distributed cloud servers. Our customers can be completely assured that their website is available to end-users consistently, and is always performing at its best.”

The cloud-based distributed nature of CloudFlare does not only impact website security – Certified Hosting customers will also notice significant improvements to the speed and performance of their website. Usually, when an end-user logs on to a page, the content must be transmitted from one static server to their home computer. Potentially, this requires traffic to be routed around the entire world. When using CloudFlare, a mirrored version of the website can be accessed on the CloudFlare server that is geographically nearest to the user. As a result, page loading times decrease dramatically and customers are able to view website content or place orders quicker than ever before.

“We are pleased to add Certified Hosting as a partner,” says Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of CloudFlare. “Certified Hosting has integrated CloudFlare into their control panel, making it simple to offer improved website performance and security to all of their customers.”

“CloudFlare makes accessing websites lightning-fast, while also making sites more secure,” says Carlsen. “But I guess the thing I like most about CloudFlare is that it works perfectly, without requiring our customers to learn a completely new system. At Certified Hosting, we are always looking for new ways to give our customers better service on their unlimited web hosting plans, without introducing complexity.”

As Certified Hosting has grown, the company’s commitment to improving its flagship unlimited hosting services has always remained at the forefront. Now, with the addition of easy-to-deploy CloudFlare functionality, every customer can enjoy new and improved features at no extra cost.

For more information on Certified Hosting and CloudFlare hosting services, visit certifiedhosting.com.

About Certified Hosting

Certified Hosting was established in 1999 as a Southern California-based unlimited web hosting company to provide shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed dedicated servers to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and individuals throughout the world. Recognizing that each client has unique goals, Certified Hosting tailors hosting services to meet the individualized service needs of clients in many specific industries. Some, but not all, Certified Hosting services include unlimited FFmpeg hosting, Flash hosting, WordPress hosting, Dolphin hosting, Elgg hosting, Magento, Joomla, Drupal, and PHPmotion hosting, among many other technologies used by webmasters and business owners.

For more information about Certified Hosting, visit certifiedhosting.com.

Certified Hosting, the leading specialist in shared hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated server hosting services, announced today the launch of exciting new video content available at certifiedhosting.com. With a friendly, informative style designed to make the basics of web hosting easier to understand, Certified Hosting’s new videos help to put a face to this rapidly growing hosting company.

“The truth is that the web hosting industry can at times be a little cold and uninviting,” says Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting. “That’s not what we are about. At Certified Hosting, we are real people who love getting to know our customers, whether we are helping them get started with their hosting or just hearing about the success they have had online. Our latest video, available now, explains the basics of getting your web hosting service online and acts as an introduction so that every potential customer knows we are friendly people and always willing to help.”

Although almost everybody can identify the major benefits of establishing a web presence online, the realities of implementing a professional, attractive and easy to navigate website can be overwhelming to those with no prior knowledge of web hosting services. In addition to the difficulty of choosing between different types of hosting such as dedicated server hosting or VPS web hosting plans, businesses need to choose and register a useful domain, link this domain to their hosting plan, and then launch actual content onto their server. Certified Hosting’s latest video, ‘How To Create A Website In 5 Steps,’ is delivered by Kacy Carlsen herself, with a friendly, humorous approach that helps to engage the audience and make learning the basics of setting up a website an enjoyable experience.

“There are so many options out there,” says Carlsen. “Not only are there a lot of web hosting service providers, but also each of those website hosts offer different things. It’s too much to expect that potential customers should have to research the definitions to our in-house jargon that only a geek like me will understand. So what we’ve done is to explain, in real terms, what buttons need to be hit in order to get a site up and running. Then, once customers have begun to grasp the basics, I’m hoping they’ll take advantage of our new Ask Kacy feature to keep developing a good relationship with Certified Hosting.”

In addition to the informative video guide to setting up a website hosting plan, Certified Hosting also now offers an informal question and answer service, called Ask Kacy. By completing a short online form, current and potential customers can get in direct contact with Certified Hosting’s co-founder and CEO to ask a question on just about any subject. The new video blog (VLog) works alongside over 200 existing video tutorials to provide a more comprehensive overview of what Certified Hosting does and how the company works. In the first video of the series, Carlsen outlines the recruitment process of technical support staff, identifying the key traits that lead to the creation of a helpful team to respond to online chat, ticketed support, or phone calls. Carlsen hopes that the introduction of Ask Kacy will make Certified Hosting’s customer service division even more impressive.

“I like getting great service when I make a purchase,” says Carlsen. “But the Internet can be a very anonymous place, and some web hosting services use this as an excuse to hide in an office and leave customers to fend for themselves. In a physical store, face to face interaction makes helping customers easier. Our continued focus on video guides, video tutorials, and video responses to questions helps us to mimic that intimacy and achieve the best customer service in the business.”

In the years since the company was first founded, Certified Hosting has seen rapid growth, becoming the leading provider of web hosting and reseller hosting services – largely thanks to outstanding customer service. Now, despite the sheer volume of customers who have chosen Certified Hosting for their website, Carlsen and her team are finding new ways to maintain that sense of care and assistance.

About Certified Hosting

Certified Hosting was established in 1999 as a Southern California based unlimited web hostingcompany to provide shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed dedicated servers to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and individuals throughout the world. Recognizing that each client has unique goals, Certified Hosting tailors hosting services to meet specific needs including individualized services available for clients in many different specific industries such as unlimited ffmpeg hosting, flash hosting, wordpress hosting, dolphin hosting, elgg hosting, magento, joomla, drupal, and php motion hosting, among many other technologies available for webmasters and business owners.

For more information about Certified Hosting, visit http://certifiedhosting.com/.

Reseller hosting specialist Certified Hosting offers more disk space and bandwidth as part of newly improved unlimited reseller hosting services.

Los Angeles, CA (PRESS RELEASE) November 22, 2011 – Certified Hosting, a market leader in reseller hosting, shared hosting, and dedicated server hosting services, announced today a comprehensive overhaul of its popular reseller web hosting services. With increased system resources allocated to each reseller hosting plan and prices more affordable than ever, Certified Hosting helps hosting reseller customers start their own successful web hosting business.

“At Certified Hosting, we’ve always had a popular range of unlimited reseller hosting plans,” says Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting. “But we were not content with just being popular – we are determined to be the best. Looking at competing reseller hosting solutions from other providers, we are now confident that we offer the most generous disk space and bandwidth allocations at the most reasonable prices.”

Reseller hosting solutions have become popular among freelance designers or web developers looking to supplement their existing services with hosting, as well as with individuals who want to start their own web hosting business. In either case, there is a continued necessity to offer popular, high quality services with enough room to make a healthy profit. Certified Hosting now offers five distinct reseller hosting service levels, ranging from 50GB disk space and 500GB bandwidth all the way through to a 200GB disk space and 1500GB bandwidth plan. This means that Certified Hosting now provides an unlimited reseller web hosting service to suit customers of all sizes – those who are just starting out and those who are looking to offer high quality cPanel hosting to numerous demanding customers.

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