1&1 Root Servers Now Equipped With New Plesk 7.5 Reloaded Software

PHILADELPHIA, December 15, 2004 - (HostReview) - 1&1 Internet, Inc. is providing safer, faster and more powerful management of its root servers by pre-installing Plesk 7.5 Reloaded, a powerful new control panel software that offers enhanced Firewall, Gaming, VPN, FileServer, Plesk SDK, Plesk API Modules, SiteBuilder integration and more than 20 new packaged site applications.

Pre-installed in all 1&1 root servers at no additional cost to customers, Plesk 7.5 Reloaded is an upgraded version of SWsoft's award-winning Plesk control panel software. It was developed with feedback from thousands of users and allows quick deployment and simplified management of Linux servers by enabling the delegation of management tasks and providing complete self-management interfaces for mail, domain, reseller and server level administration with point-and-click simplicity.  It also offers a number of new features and a comprehensive applications vault with popular software including: blogging, search engine, polling, banners, Webmail, calendaring and more.

"Plesk 7.5 Reloaded further strengthens what was already an excellent and comprehensive control panel software," said Andreas Gauger, Chairman of the Board of 1&1 Internet.  "Since we are committed to providing our customers the latest technologies at competitive prices, we are extremely happy to be the first hosting company to offer this valuable new tool." 

"We are pleased to continue to offer 1&1 and its customers innovative hosting automation solutions that provide proven and immediate value to their hosting business," said Kurt Daniel, director of marketing, SWsoft.  "We've deliberately taken the feedback from our customers to extend our solutions to incorporate the most demanded features and applications available. By making Plesk more flexible through the our API modules and the Plesk SDK, customers and partners can now leverage new powerful capabilities that will only be further expanded in the future."

In addition to its various new features, Plesk 7.5 Reloaded includes several components that are offered to 1&1 customers at no cost, such as: Integrated SPAM-Assassin, Application Pack and Counterstrike-Gameserver support. SPAM-Assassin provides mailbox-filtering against SPAM, and is fully integrated into the Plesk Interface. Users will also receive more open-source applications for their systems, including Mambo content management software, Nuke PHP, osCommerce Shop, phpBB (bulletin board), phpBook (guestbook), bbClone (Counter), gtChat (chat software), and more. Plesk's Software Development Kit (SDK) allows further customization and integration with existing systems.  Additionally, Plesk 7.5 Reloaded includes the support of CounterStrike GameServer.

About 1&1 Internet

1&1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with 4,400 employees and a market cap of more than $1 billion. 1&1 was established in 1992 and has registered some 4.5 million domain names, while 26,000 servers run in the company's four state-of-the-art data centers. 1&1's global community is over 3.3 million customer contracts strong. The company's U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA. For more information, please contact the company at www.1and1.com or 1-877-461-2631.

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