With the new brand, Empowering Media will be able to more effectively market and promote its business hosting services. HostCube currently offers eight monthly plans, four for both managed and unmanaged VPS. Managed plans start at $130/monthly, and unmanaged plans start at $30/monthly. Both entry-level plans include 8 GB Disk Space and 100GB of monthly data transfer.

”Providing robust, dynamic and competitive Web hosting solutions is by no means something that’s new to us,” said Larry Ludwig, president and founder of Empowering Media. “By launching HostCube as a separate brand, we are in a better position to offer a wider selection of custom-tailored solutions. We are also able to more directly compete with other hosting firms.”

HostCube has designed its service around the needs of Web developers and designers. Namely, the company does not engage in abusive overselling practices, and hosts all plans on business-class, fully owned servers—featuring 8 core CPUs, 16 GB ECC RAM and hardware RAID 10. HostCube also uses completely separate installations for each VPS account, meaning there are no shared file systems among different users.

“With our managed VPS plans, it truly is a matter of ‘you code, and we’ll handle everything else,’” said Ludwig. “We provide a complete, out-of-the-box solution for our customers, and we do so with the utmost quality. Our VPS services are designed to be a very reliable replacement for dedicated servers.”

HostCube utilizes the DirectAdmin control panel. The platform allows managed VPS customers to view real-time statistics, including CPU utilization, memory usage, disk IO rates, bandwidth consumption and more.

The company also provides completely in-house technical support, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Response times generally average less than 15 minutes for most issues. The technical support team proactively monitors network performance, power availability, system temperatures, server performance, and service status.

To learn more about HostCube , please visit http://www.hostcube.com.

About Empowering Media

Founded in 2001, Empowering Media is a leading provider of world-class Internet and Information Technology solutions. The company specializes in a variety of Web hosting services, as well as infrastructure management and Web design and development.

The addition of the 10for10 brand adds a new dimension to the vast array of existing services Empowering Media has to offer. Our 10for10 service is perfect for any web developer that requires fast, reliable and affordable hosting of multiple web sites.  Pricing starts at $7.00/month.

To learn more about 10for10, please visit http://www.10for10.com.

About Empowering Media

Founded in 2001, Empowering Media is a leading provider of world-classInternet and Information Technology solutions. The company specializesin a variety of Web hosting services, as well as infrastructuremanagement and Web design and development.

• Allow the customer to create multiple MySQL databases
• Manage DNS for your domain
  
• Password protect folders
• Site backup
• Customer error pages
• Install SSL certificates

• Online Flash-based tutorials
  
• Live Chat with customer service
• Knowledge base search
• Online management of billing, domain name and web site services
• Real time system notices with RSS subscription feeds
  
• Over 100 articles added to the knowledge base with automatic linking to related articles
  
• A help desk to better track and manage customer issues
  
• The latest Anti-Virus/Anti-Spam notices, resources and help
  

"We used a combination of proven and new technologies to create an extensible, standards compliant site," noted CTO Tom Shohfi. All applications were developed in-house by our application developers. Alex Smoller Design assisted with the graphic design, Flash components, and navigation. This new site is XHTML compliant, uses DHTML menus, and is driven by Empowering Media's content management system. Mr. Shohfi added, "this new site, along with the rest of our portfolio, is a fine example of what we can offer customers in terms of web development."

In terms of further solidifying Empowering Media's corporate identity, CEO Larry Ludwig commented that "our new site gives existing and potential customers easier access to any information about our company and services. As a gateway to our full range of IT services, we feel that our primary site must reflect the professionalism, knowledge, and simplicity of operation that our customers have come to expect from us. Now, our site does this better than ever before."

Any questions and/or comments concerning Empowering Media's new website should be directed to the webmaster.

"This upgrade not only will allow further growth in our computing installations, but, more importantly, will provide greater reliability and faster response time to potential problems than ever before," noted Empowering Media's CTO Tom Shohfi. "All of our current and future customers can rest assured that their data is well protected and properly archived with this new backup system. In addition, headless operation with KVM-over-IP will allow us to react even more quickly and effectively to keep our technology base running without interruption." Customers of Empowering Media can view the latest information regarding server and data center status at the Customer Service site.

All applications were developed in-house and Janner Media assisted with graphic design and navigation. The goal of the redesign was to improve sales and reduce losing new customers because the previous site was too complex to navigate.

"We continue to focus on the virtual hosting market because many other providers are not delivering what they promise." said Larry. He adds, "We are one of the few virtual hosting providers that offer an anti-spam and anti-virus solution. This is a desperately needed feature that keeps e-mail communication useful." It is estimated from Empowering Media statistics, 20% to 30% of all e-mail is spam and 2% are viruses. It is estimated by end of 2003, that 30% to 40% of all e-mail on the Internet will be spam. Empowering Media's hostasite.com is the solution for small businesses.

Larry Ludwig, Chief Executive Officer of Empowering Media, stated, "The web site redesign helps create a strong presence on the Internet and within Brookhaven's community". He continued, "Not only is the site easy to navigate, very pleasing to the eye, it is also very easy to update". One of the requirements of Brookhaven Hospital was to make the web site easy to update content without the need of technical skills. The news articles, calendar and physician directory sections are all updated via a web based administration control panel. The technology, developed by Empowering Media, allows web site development to be quicker and easier. Larry Ludwig states, "Without the use of our content management system, the development time would have been twice as long".

All changes made in the administration area are instantly updated on the web site. A Java based HTML editor allows the formatting of content, which is similar to using a word processor on your computer.

The Physician's Directory makes it very easy for the community to search for the nearest physician in their area. The physician directory can not only search by location, but also by specialty and last name.

ABOUT BROOKHAVEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER:
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center is a 321-bed acute-care, voluntary not-for-profit community hospital located in East Patchogue, New York. Brookhaven opened its doors to the community in 1956. The Medical Center is comprised of the main campus, two community multi-disciplinary health centers, and a modern state-of-the-art facility located in downtown Patchogue accommodating our expanded Hemodialysis Program, Home Health and Hospice/Bereavement Services, as well as an off-site ambulatory Women's Imaging Center. For more information visit: http://www.brookhavenhospital.org or call 631-654-7759.

ABOUT EMPOWERING MEDIA, Inc.:
Empowering Media, Inc. is a comprehensive E-Business solutions provider, offering a wide range of integrated services, including customized web design and development, web hosting ranging from virtual hosting to managed services, and security analysis. For more information visit: http://www.empoweringmedia.com or call 631-321-0262.

Larry Ludwig, Empowering Media's CEO said, "The acquisition of hostasite.com builds upon the service offerings of the do-it-yourself web site hosting, and at the same time brings outstanding management, marketing and development talent to Empowering Media." Empowering Media plans to add more such services to help small businesses use the Internet more effectively.