Phoenix, AZ, December 6, 2004 – CrystalTech Web Hosting Inc, a subsidiary of Newtek Business Services (NASDAQ: NKBS) and a leading provider of Windows-based web hosting, is pleased to announce that it has made significant upgrades to both its shared and dedicated hosting plans. These changes include offering increased disk space and bandwidth on all shared hosting plans, as well as offering an entirely new selection of dedicated hosting options.
CrystalTech has always looked for ways to enhance its shared and dedicated hosting plans. Whether it was through the addition of products and services that increased the functionality of its hosting plans or to being one of the only hosts to actually lower the pricing of their offerings, CrystalTech has shown that they are willing to do what it takes to provide their current and future customer base the finest web hosting in the industry.
CrystalTech’s hosting plans are designed to meet a wide variety of disk space, data transfer needs and budgetary concerns. "By upgrading our plans, CrystalTech can better fulfill the needs of individuals or businesses just beginning to build an online presence as well as the needs of growing businesses that need more out of their hosting plans," said Tim Uzzanti, President and CEO of CrystalTech.
As a part of this upgrade, most shared hosting plans now have double the amount of mail disk space and bandwidth and a substantially higher allocation of hard disk space for website files than previously offered. In addition, CrystalTech has lowered its entry level price point for customers who need dynamic website hosting by providing MySQL on all of its plans. Now, customers can host a site with MySQL for as low as $7.95 a month. CrystalTech has also added Microsoft SQL to its Intermediate hosting plan, making it more accessible to customers who need the scalability and reliability that Microsoft SQL provides.
As dramatic as the changes to their shared hosting was, the changes to CrystalTech’s dedicated hosting plans are even more so. Along with a significant increase in bandwidth, its dedicated hosting solutions have been overhauled to provide customers a wider selection of processors, memory and hard drive storage.
“CrystalTech constantly strives to evolve and enhance our services to better meet the needs of our customers,” added Uzzanti. “When you combine these new higher plan allocations with our renowned service and support, our hosting plans are unsurpassed throughout the industry." These hosting plan changes follow along the heels of CrystalTech recently adding CTSiteCenter, an easy-to-use online site builder, editor and file manager and CTZenCart, a customizable shopping cart solution. Both are available free to all CrystalTech customers on shared hosting plans.
About CrystalTech
Founded in 1992, CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. is one of the largest Windows-based web hosting companies in the world, hosting customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. CrystalTech is responsible for hundreds of millions of visits each day on the Internet and uses a state-of-the-art data center that includes redundancy throughout core systems like power, air conditioning, network connectivity, network transportation, as well as a secured environment for their network operations center. CrystalTech is a subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: NKBS), a premier provider of business services and financial products to small and medium-sized businesses. For more information about CrystalTech, please contact 877-323-4678 or visit http://www.crystaltech.com.
About Newtek Business Services, Inc.
Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a premier provider of business services and financial products to the small to medium-sized business market. Newtek’s core brands include:
• Newtek Small Business Finance: small business and U.S. government-guaranteed lending services;
• Newtek Merchant Solutions: electronic merchant payment processing solutions;
• Newtek Insurance Agency: customized business insurance provided through Financial Keyosk;
• Newtek IT Services: complete information technology solutions;
• CrystalTech Web Hosting: comprehensive web site services for small and medium sized businesses;
• Newtek Financial Information Systems: outsourced digital bookkeeping; and
• Newtek Tax Services: tax filing, preparation and advis
