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The website hosting industry is a relatively new business segment. With mergers, acquisitions and the threat of continuously increasing competition, it is a testament to a company’s perseverance if that firm reaches the nine year mark. UK web hosting firm 34SP.com was founded by Manchester University colleagues Daniel Foster and Stuart Melling 9 years ago this month, and to celebrate the anniversary the company is giving away 9 great prizes to mark the occasion. 34SP.com is located in Manchester, United Kingdom and specializes in providing the highest levels of customer service and technical support for website hosting and domain names. Over the past 9 years the company has solidified a reputation for outstanding support, coupled with extremely high reliability at fair prices. A complete list of the company’s website hosting products can be viewed at:Anyone who purchases any 34SP.com product during the month of October is eligible to win the ‘9 Years of Hosting, 9 Great Prizes’ contest. Winners will be determined by a random drawing at the end of the month. The prizes being offered are: New Apple iPod nano with Camera 8GB (5th Generation)  Toshiba Satellite L350-20G 17-inch Laptop Canon Powershot 12.1 MegaPixel Camera* Western Digital Elements 1TeraByte USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Canon Selphy ES40, a Portable Talking Printer (yes, you read that right – it talks)Sony DVPFX730 7-inch Portable DVD Player Flip Video Ultra High Definition Camcorder With 8GB MemoryToshiba 19AV615DB 19-inch Widescreen HD Ready LCD TV The Beatles Rock Band – Limited Edition Premium BundleStuart Melling, co-founder of 34SP.com explained the giveaway, ”We thought it would be great to reward clients with a truly valuable prize for each year that 34SP.com has been in the website hosting business. It has been a great challenge to grow as we have over the past 9 years and continue to offer our clients world class support, but we are gratified to have had the opportunity to serve our customers over the past 9 years. We are very much looking forward to the next 9 years!” 34SP.com was established in the year 2000. The company was founded with the aim of bridging the gap between sophisticated hosting solutions and affordable prices. The owners and core engineering staff have been with the company since its founding. In terms of reliability, independent monitoring service, Netcraft in Bath, England recently rated 34SP.com as the fifth most reliable hosting service in the world for the month of June, 2009. Additionally, a recent internal survey found that 98% of 34SP.com clients would recommend the company to others.
34SP.com offers professional website hosting services for cost conscious web developers and designers. The 34SP.com team of technical experts offers industry leading support and service coupled with a money back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. Website hosting services offered include: UK domains, UK web hosting and dedicated servers. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

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MoonMan Racing and driver Jim Moon of Crawfordsville, IN, had a sweet & sour weekend of racing action this past weekend, as the team competed at both Kankakee County Speedway on Friday night before returning to the Hooiser state to compete at Kamp Motor Speedway in Boswell Saturday evening, which also marked Jim’s 38th birthday. On Friday night, Jim Moon put himself behind the eight-ball before the first flag even fell on the evening. The MoonMan’s late arrival to the speed plant did not allow for any hot lap session or qualifying attempt. This meant Jim had to scramble to tag the rear (11th) of the first heat race, and though he tried mightily, could only muster a decent seventh place showing. After a few adjustments on the car before the 15-lap last chance consi, the MoonMan was ready to rock & roll his way to the front. Jim began the consi from the inside of row four, and quickly moved up to the third spot where he looked to be solidly in the show. However, on the final lap, veteran driver Dick Potts began to spin in turn two and in the process collected the trailing MoonMan, who straightened up Potts and caused Jim to fall to a seventh place finish. How quick the tide can turn in this game we call dirt track racing. Saturday night, Jim Moon and his fans went to Kamp Motor Speedway to celebrate his 38th birthday. In qualifying, Jim recorded a lap of 14.028, which gave him 11th quick time among the 25 entries. Jim started on the pole of the second heat race and looked to again to have a solid run going until he blew a right rear tire on the final lap and limped to a fourth place finish. This put MoonMan in the 11th starting spot on the grid at the start of the 25-lap feature event. Jim worked his way up to the fourth position behind Ryan Unzicker before attempting the high side of the racing surface. Jim almost immediately went backwards and again had to work his way back towards the front. The final outcome showed Jim recording a seventh place feature finish. A few more adjustments and the MoonMan will be right there knocking on the victory lane door.
The team had planned to race Sunday night at Shepp’s Speedway in Alexander, IL, but inclement weather negated those plans.
Look for the MoonMan race team to possibly attend Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, IL next week, Thursday thru Saturday, for a trio of $2,000 to win UMP Late Model events, before heading back to Shepp’s Speedway next Sunday night. The alternate plan will be to attempt Tri-City on Thursday night before returning to Kankakee again Friday night, and Kamp on Saturday night, with Shepp’s closing out the weekend of racing action.
MoonMan Racing would like to thank the following supporters for all their help during the 2009 season: J-Force Rocks, Rocket Race Cars, Hoosier Tire, Simpson Safety, Advanced Racing Suspensions, Willy’s Carburetors and Dyno Shop, Earl’s of Indy, A E D, Dominator Race Products by Aerotech Styling, Pitmat USA, The Spot Lounge, JEDCO Communications, Race Car Engineering of Lakeland, FL, ADC Diecast, Dirt Profile Web Hosting and Design, and Woodward.

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NEW YORK Rapid sales growth of nearly 442 percent is the accomplishment that drove technology company Voxel dot Net to a position on Inc.’s third annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.Voxel dot Net debuted on Inc. Magazine’s 2009 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies in the top 15 percentile, to #623. Voxel also ranked No. 48 among the “Top 100 Inc. 500|5000 Companies by Metro Area – New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA” and No. 82 among the Top 100 in IT Services.The selection by Inc. builds on two recent nods from Gartner Research, which selected Voxel as a key player in cloud computing and Web hosting in the August 2009 “Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On Demand)” report and in April 2009, when it was featured as a “Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing.”Voxel joins other prominent brands such as Vizio, GoDaddy, Zipcar, and Honest Tea on this year’s list, which represent the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy -America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs.”Savvy trend spotters and those who invest in private companies know that the Inc. 5000 is the best place to find out about young companies that are achieving success through a wide variety of unprecedented business models, as well as older private companies that are still expanding at an impressive rate,” said Inc. 5000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. “That’s why our list is so eagerly anticipated every year.”Voxel’s debut at a high ranking is significant given its competition – especially among the 371 Inc. 5000 companies based in New York and 658 companies in IT Services. IT Services had the most companies on this year’s list and was among the top five industries by total revenue, generating $13.2 billion. Like many IT services companies, which in aggregate created 89,632 jobs, Voxel has expanded its team in 2008 with the addition of sales and engineering support in Asia and the United States. The company now has a staff of 40 employees in New York and Singapore.We’re excited about the recognition by Inc. as one of the fastest growing private technology companies nationally, regionally and within the rapidly expanding IT industry. Revenue growth only tells part of the picture, so we’re looking forward to the additional attention this honor by Inc. Magazine will bring to the ways we are making it easier for businesses – small to large – to run their Internet-based operations.”Voxel powers high-traffic blogs and Web-based operations for clients such as Perez Hilton, DailyKos, HEAVY, eBay, and AmieStreet. It is a global leader in Internet Infrastructure services including managed hosting, content delivery and cloud computing. Additionally, Voxel offers data storage, IP transit and transport circuits, and raw infrastructure services. As the only company operating its cloud platform on three continents – North America, Europe and Asia, and offering a combination of on-demand and traditional hosting, all packaged with its performance-tuned content delivery network (CDN), Voxel continues to gain attention and build revenues. Voxel foresees a higher placement on Inc.’s list for 2010 as it anticipates boosting revenues from a growing list of new clients, particularly ones operating or delivering content to global Internet users.The  2009 Inc. 5000, serves as a unique report card on the U.S. economy. Despite the ongoing recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year, with a median three-year growth rate of 126 percent. The Inc. 5000 are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding, making the list perhaps the best example of the impact that private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found The Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Businesses must be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2008. Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million. The top 10 percent of companies on the list comprise the Inc. 500, now in its 28th year.Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC Inc. ( is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,961, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology.

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