“The New Jersey facility will help improve the overall access, backup and load time by 97 percent,” Host Department operational and technical manager Ivan Seidenberg said in a statement. “In addition to that, all our future growth is going to be at our New Jersey facility.”

According to Host Department, its third and newest data center is essential for expansion because its facilities at Hurricane Electric and Terremark Worldwide were reaching their limits.

Located near its head office in Union City, New Jersey, the location will enable engineers to be quickly dispatched to handle hardware issues.

The New Jersey facility will house the company’s new range of blade servers and storage area network fabric.

The New Jersey facility will also lighten the load of the other data centers. In conjunction with the technical team’s “Load Lightening” program, all mail servers located in the Hurricane Electric facility will be moved to New Jersey, where there is little risk of cross connection between the architecture. Other servers will not be moved for cross connection concerns.

In the past, Host Department customers have criticized the website for being too crowded, causing visitors to not find what they are searching. To solve this issue, the company created a new site design to ensure that customers and visitors are able to quickly find what they need.

Host Department decided to keep a similar site structure and only re-design the skin, however, it says that not all of the pages within the website have been updated with the new skin. The Domain Name Registration section, for instance, has not been updated because of some minor difficulty in the coding structure.

The web host says its new site reflects its philosophy of professionalism that includes $3.95 exclusive hosting package, smart domain name registration, reseller hosting and web development solution.

“We want visitors to easily find what they need and reduce the effort they have to make in getting their website up,” says Hagen Oey, Host Department product manager. “The new site will definitely help a lot in minimizing it.”

Host Department is based in Union City, New Jersey with data centers located in Santa Clara, California, and Wilmington, Delaware. The company celebrated the Fourth of July by offering discounts on its nolimit and reseller web hosting plans.

Not unlike Open-Xchange’s recent offering, strategically-timed, presumably, to come out right around the highly-anticipated release of the newest version of the iPhone, web hosting provider Hostway announced a similarly well-timed offer on Wednesday, in light of Apple’s latest iPhone release on July 11, to offer customers a chance to “experience all the benefits of Microsoft Exchange on the most cutting-edge wireless device to date.”

Hostway says it will be holding three drawings for the new 16GB Apple iPhone 3G with winners to be announced on July 25, August 25 and September 25. Purchase is not necessary to be included in the draw and customers who order five or more hosted Exchange accounts between June 17 and September 17 will automatically be entered into the drawing, says the company.

On Thursday, web hosting provider Dotster, perhaps best known for its “Dotster Dots” spokesmodel search campaign in 2006, announced it will be offering a “Happy Hour” promotion on June 24, during which the company will give away 50 free domain names every hour from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. PDT. Dotster says its will award a total of 400 visitors a coupon redeemable for one free .com, .net or .org domain name.

Also on Thursday, UK domain registrar 123-reg announced it is “kicking off the mid-summer sales” with a new 20 percent price slash on its shared hosting, e-commerce and InstantSite products.

And on Friday, web hosting provider Host Department reported that it is celebrating the Fourth of July with a “blast of discounts” for all its nolimit and reseller web hosting plans.

Customers that sign up from now until July 4, using the coupon code “FOURTH” will receive a 10 percent discount off the regular price, says the company. Customers using their credit cards are eligible for 20 percent discounts. And any sign up with a 12-month or more billing period comes with two free domains, including a “special Independence Day” .us extension, says Host Department.

The offering enables prospective resellers to build their own reselling business. The plan includes five billable control panels, 10GB storage space, 25GB of bandwidth, 20 IP addresses, private nameservers, complete mail, web and database tools plus a personal reseller specialist to help with the initial setup.

Resellers who sign up for a 12-month or longer billing cycle, will receive a free domain to use as their domain storefront.

“Our mini-reseller special plan is the end product on what everyone has been asking for quite some time,” says Hagen Oey, Host Department’s product manager. “Starting your own reseller business doesn’t require you to break the bank.”

Currently, Host Department offers two reseller plans: the Premium Reseller and the Blowout Reseller. The Premium is priced at $24.95 and includes 50GB storage, while the Blowout is priced at $49.95 and includes “unlimited” storage and 350GB of bandwidth. unlimited IP address 150GB of bandwidth.

Both plans enable resellers to create their own hosting plans and prices, sales are directly transferred to their bank account and offer the ability to host both UNIX and Windows based accounts.

When the company found slight network performance variations in five of the Hurricane Electric cabinets, it decided to replace the previous DELL 5324 switches with two Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series counterparts. All network connectivity is now distributed through these Cisco switches.

“Optimal network connectivity is one of the most essential entities within a Web hosting business,” says Ivan Brunetti, Host Department’s technical and operational manager. “Tomorrow, we’ll start on replacing and optimizing all the remaining manageable switches in the data center.”

Customers can use the coupons ‘BEMYVDATE’, ‘SWEETLOVIN’ and ‘MYENDLESSLUV’, to receive a 10 percent on the No Limit Website plan, a 25 percent discount on the Developer Windows plan and a 50 percent discount on the Ecommerce plan, respectively. All plans include a free domain for life, six extra hosting months, unlimited bandwidth and storage.

“We’ll keep on giving our customers great products at an affordable price,” says Stanley Morgan, Host Department’s senior business development. “It’s all about value-added.”

In addition to the discount, customers will also receive a free Domain-for-Life, six extra hosting months, unlimited bandwidth and storage. By using the code ‘BEMYVDATE’, subscribers will get a 10 percent discount off their first payment.

Entering promo codes ‘SWEETLOVIN’ and ‘MYENDLESSLUV’ will provide customers with a 25 percent and 50 percent discount, respectively, on Host Department’s NO LIMIT Developer Windows and Ecommerce plans.

“Everyone deserves to enjoy Valentine’s Day,” says Stanley Morgan, Host Department’s senior business development. “Use these coupons to signup an account for yourself, or someone special, whatever the reasons.”

Mega Savers Reseller plans now start at $14.00 for each reseller hosting account. The plans include a free domain-for-life, a professional site creation software to create the store front, the ability to sell both UNIX and Windows hosting under a single account and an assigned dedicated reseller specialist.

The sale also applies to the NO LIMIT Developer, Windows and Ecommerce plans, each discounted by 10 percent, 25 percent and 50 percent, respectively. All three plans include unlimited hosted domains and unmetered bandwidth and storage, says the company.

“Everyone likes a good deal,” says Stanley Morgan, Host Department’s senior business development. “So, we are going to extend this special hosting deal for our customers and visitors alike.”

The Mega Savers Reseller plans are priced from $14.00 for each reseller hosting account, and include a free Domain-4-Life with a service account, a Professional Site Creation Software to create the storefront and the ability to sell both UNIX and Windows hosting under a single account. A dedicated reseller specialist will aslo be assigned for assistance.

Host Department is offering discounts on all its NO LIMIT Developer, Windows and Ecommerce plans, with 10 percent, 25 percent and 50 percent in savings, respectively. All plans include unlimited hosted domains, as well as large bandwidth and storage.

“It is the time of the year again when we all try to be nice to each other,” says David Williams, Host Department’s system development manager. “Instead of just trying, we are better off offering our loyal customers something for the holidays.”

The promotion has been extended for another week in response to its high customer demand. After that time, Host Department will decide whether to change to a different offer for Christmas and New Year.

The promotion also includes its NO LIMIT Developer, Windows and Ecommerce plans, providing customers with discounts of 10 percent, 25 percent and 50 percent respectively. Host Department also offer every subscribing user the choice of buying five more domains for 25 percent off the regular price of $12.95.

“We have decided to extend this promo before our Christmas and New Year specials to give a chance for those who have missed out on our incredible offer,” says Stanley Morgan, senior business development executive of Host Department.