Web hosting providers dotCanada.com and Hostopia have partnered to provide an upgraded suite of services to its small- to medium-sized business customers.

“We are very pleased to be working with Hostopia,” says Richard Madison, President, dotCanada.com. “Our rapid growth in business customers has created a significant opportunity to not only continue our expansion but to offer enhanced and new applications to our users.” He adds, “Hostopia has provided all the new services we require on a very efficient operating model.”

As part of a five year exclusive agreement, Hostopia will provide dotCanada.com enhanced web hosting, email, and applications, together with managed ordering, provisioning, and customer support services. dotCanada.com will continue to manage its own powerful brand and direct sales and marketing initiatives to expand its base of satisfied customers.

Colin Campbell, Hostopia’s CEO says, “dotCanada.com has built a powerful reputation as a small business service provider and an enviably large base of loyal customers.” He adds, “Hostopia’s highly customizable private-label formula gives dotCanada.com the ability to rapidly scale to tens of thousands of customers while presenting its own unique brand of web services.”

The new and enhanced web services now offered by dotCanada.com include many in-demand small business applications like business email, powerful spam and virus protection, highly reliable web hosting, website creation, ecommerce, search engine optimization, and more.

Richard summarizes, “Our customer feedback since launching has been tremendous. Our new services are being well received and our main sales site, redesigned with Hostopia’s assistance, is producing increased new orders.”

dotCanada.com is a division of Light Speed Technologies. Light Speed has been providing Canadian corporations with custom software solutions for over 15 years. Light Speed's hosting division, formed in 1997, has seen rapid growth resulting in the launch of dotCanada.com.

Hostopia provides wholesale private-label hosting, managed email, and application services to telcos, ISPs, cable companies, hosting providers, and domain registrars. Hostopia’s automated provisioning and support systems enable service providers to increase their profits, offer superior features to their end-users, and reduce the risks and challenges of delivering reliable, high-performance web services including; small-business hosting and applications, business-class email, and consumer email.