August 30, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Malaysian web hosting provider Smart Team Networks Sdn Bhd. (http://www.smartteam.net) has migrated its servers to SWsoft Plesk Expand 2.2, the company announced today. The company will use the software to manage its hosting servers on one integrated platform.
"The decision to migrate our servers from our existing software to SWsoft Plesk Expand was a smart business move for us," explained Smart Team Networks’ Managing Director T.Y. Png. "Plesk Expand provides a unified platform that integrates with our existing technology to centrally manage our Plesk servers, and advanced functionality, such as the web-based auto-install feature, to significantly improve shared hosting management."
"Plesk Expand will help Smart Team manage their Plesk servers with greater efficiency," added SWsoft’s Manager of Asian Operations, Jan-Jaap Jager. "As part of our ongoing OPEN FUSION initiative, Plesk Expand has evolved to provide an integrated, open hosting platform that will allow Smart Team to customize their hosting environment for new opportunities, such as software as a service (SaaS)."
According to the company, “Plesk Expand combines multiple Plesk servers into an integrated hosting platform, giving hosting professionals the ability to centrally manage Linux, FreeBSD and Windows Plesk servers”. Features include the ability to manage backups from a single source and configure central backup storage and management and upgrading of all hosting plans centrally, switch accounts to another hosting plan, import existing plans from Plesk, create a new plan using settings from an existing plan or using a configured account as a prototype.
The web hosting market in Malaysia is one of the fastest growing in the Asia Pacific region, according to recent data from Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com). Smart Team, caters to around 3,000 customers worldwide. Its hosting services are designed to meet the needs of individuals, small and medium-sized businesses and large corporations and include domain name registration, email web hosting, website hosting, ecommerce web hosting, dedicated servers and collocation.
