The new control panel built exclusively on next-generation, Web 2.0 technologies has been released recently by Slamdot. The developers focused attention on creating a user-friendly, thoughtful, web-based account management utility that serves as the foundation of its Web hosting service. Clients are hosted on high-performance CentOS Linux servers, located in SoftLayer's award-winning Dallas, Texas datacenter. The company's RAID servers, paired with its incredibly powerful and easy-to-use control panel, are backed by United States-based technical support, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

    Sean Christman, CEO of Slamdot, stated: "Slamdot is all about integration and ease of use. We set out to build our own ideal hosting environment to address the problems that we personally had experienced with other Web hosting companies. We then invited users to try our approach, and the response has been absolutely phenomenal. Our aim is to make Web hosting management easier and more likable, without forfeiting features, performance, or reliability. The company integrates billing, support, hosting and domain name management into a single AJAX-based tool, requiring only one username and password to access all of its features. The control panel was developed using Ruby on Rails, a stable development framework that allows for swift application development and the ability to quickly implement new features in the future.

    Even more, Christman added: "We're very passionate about our control panel, and we take our support and uptime just as seriously. By working with SoftLayer, we're able to provide superior hardware, while maintaining complete control over our servers through their virtual datacenter tools. That means we don't have all of the added costs and aging equipment involved with owning our own datacenter. We pass those savings along to the customer."

    Each hosting plan receives a feature-rich control panel directly integrated with the rest of Slamdot. Your control panel allows you to create email accounts, upload files, check web stats, setup subdomains and pointers, customize error pages, password-protect areas of your website and a whole lot more. You can upgrade, downgrade or cancel your plan without hassle.

    Plans from Slamdot start at $11/monthly for 1,000MB of disk space, 25GB of monthly data transfer, and the ability to host up to 3 Web sites. Every one include nightly information backups, MySQL databases, and Subversion access. A single Slamdot account can be used to manage multiple plans. To find more about Slamdot, please visit http://www.slamdot.com