Rediff.com India Limited (REDF), one of the premier worldwide online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services today announced the launch of Rediff web hosting, a world-class hosting platform and a complete web presence management tool for young entrepreneurs. Rediff web hosting is an integrated platform comprising of personalized domain names, business email solutions and web hosting services with advanced online features like the creation of individualized blog, message board and photo album sections.

The service offers a range of online solutions on a reliable and trustworthy platform to over three million small and medium enterprises in India. The Company allows these entrepreneurs to create and manage their website in simple, cost efficient packages per their business needs. Additionally, the Company provides advertising space on its website through the state-of-the-art 'Rediff pay4clicks' ad service to promote individual websites hosted on the Rediff web hosting platform.Rediff.com will be deploying the same people, the same network and the same monitoring that run Rediff.com to run the business websites hosted via Rediff Web Hosting.

Two hosting packages - 'basic' and 'advanced' have been initially launched in addition to a variety of tailor-made combinations. Each of these solutions are competitively priced with single domain registration costing as low as Rs.495 per annum while the annual basic web hosting service is priced at Rs.2400. Various combinations of hosting, email and domain registrations are priced accordingly.

Some of the features of the Rediff Web Hosting package are:

Domain Name Registration:

The service provides booking of all the international Top Level Domains (TLD) like .com, .org, .net, .info, .biz as well as country level domains ( ccTLD ) such as .in, .co.in, .org.in and .net.in without buying any other additional service.

Basic Web Hosting Package:

-- Storage Space: 100MB of storage space allows users to create a detailed functional business website without facing any design constraints in terms of space.

-- Sub-domains: The website design flexibility is further strengthened by providing rights for creating five additional sub-domains. This allows for proper segmentation of business information while presenting it in a more professional manner.

-- Web Control Panel: Management of all the website functions is possible through an easy, user-friendly web based control panel. Every hosting package has access to this sophisticated control panel that consists of a variety of easy-to-use tools and features to help manage a professional, quality web site.

-- System Compatibility: The service is available for both Windows & Linux platform that supports Java. The windows hosting supports .net platform also.

-- High site traffic: The service allows for high data transfer making it accessible to all without any worry.

-- Website Reliability: Redundant server architecture and hosting with one of the premier Internet backbone service providers in India, allows for reliable access to the hosted websites at all times.

-- Security: Tested and proven site security tools and anti-virus guards with updated patches provide for a secure and stable web hosting service.

-- Web Statistics: Comprehensive web site statistic tools to better manage space usage and allocation amongst the domain and the sub-domains.

-- Database Support: Database functionality is available at an incremental cost of Rs2000 per annum. This allows for maintenance of five databases supported by SQL or MySQL tools

-- Tech Support: The same network, systems people and 24x7,365 monitoring is provided that is deployed for the Rediff.com web portal enabling very high uptime, secure and fast access

Advanced Solutions Package:

-- Power Tools: provides a variety of features for creating a highly professional website.

-- Gallery - The photo album management system permits for effortless management and display of images on the hosted web site. Gallery automatically keeps track of popular pictures and lets viewers leave comments.

-- Bulletin Board - Provides for unlimited number of forums and categories with full user management, search and moderator capabilities.

-- Web log - Allows for the creation of a blog system to the hosted website.

-- Higher Storage Space: 500 MB of storage space provides for the creation of multiple websites, thus providing depth and width of online presence to users.

-- Database functionality: The service allows for the creation of 10 databases supported with the SQL and MySQL functionality.

-- Additional sub-domains: The creation of up to ten allocated sub-domains make for better utilization of the 500 MB space allocated.

-- Webalizer: is a state-of-the-art analysis tool to know the website traffic and consumer behaviour on the site.

Business Email Solution:

RediffmailPro service provides five personalized email IDs, 1GB mail storage space, offline access of mails through POP3.

Speaking on the occasion, Ajit Balakrishan, Chairman & CEO, Rediff.com said, "We strive to provide a faster, safer and simpler web experience to our customers at all times." Highlighting the importance of Rediff Web Hosting, he added, "Young entrepreneurs historically play a significant role in the growth of any economy. Rapid globalization of the Indian marketplace has led these Indian businesses to look for up-grading their existing systems to world-class technology platforms at competitive costs. With the launch of this service, Rediff.com aims to provide a suite of the state-of-the-art web services for these small and medium enterprises which are backed by the same people and the network that we use for our own Rediff.com site. Effectively, businesses can now have only a small investment in I.T. and yet enjoy the same expertise that powers Rediff.com."