Montreal Tech Watch

In a move that follows its recent privatisation, iWeb has launched a new site showcasing its dedicated server offerings, with a highlight on the SmartServer product, its advanced control panel.

For those who know the company, the biggest difference is that the new site more focused: it doesn’t mention anymore non-virtualized server hosting. Another big difference is that shared hosting is know Funio. It leaves more freedom then for iWeb to present itself as a dedicated server specialist. Announced earlier, iWeb’s goal is now to reach $100m quarterly revenues in 4 years, which means they plan to do most of their revenues on dedicated hosting (plus enterprise services such as colocation).

Here’s quite an *intense* video:

It shows they are quite proud of their new product. Compared to Amazon or other known cloud hosting offers, iWeb differentiates itself by taking a more consumer approach, with a more user-friendly control panel, where you can easily manage your server with a visual interface (as opposed to Amazon EC2 where it’s pretty much the Terminal). iWeb also offers managed support, a bold move in a market where many now just offers the box (think Linode) and you’re kindly suggested to use other software or a sys-admin to manage your infrastructure.

Check out the new site.
Check out the new shared hosting division, Funio