San Jose, CA, -- July 21, 2004 -- Akmin, the leading provider of SiteGalore (www.sitegalore.com), a private branded online website building software - for Webhosts, ISPs, ASPs and other service providers, today announces that Tucows Inc. has launched Website Builder, their wholesale version of the SiteGalore service to the Tucows channel of over 6,000 ISPs and Webhosting companies worldwide.
SiteGalore was selected by Tucows after an extensive evaluation process which spanned nearly six months and involved detailed analysis of over a dozen leading website building products available today.
“Using a single installation of SiteGalore’s multi-level private branded reseller edition, large organizations like Tucows can empower thousands of service providers to fully private brand the application including the brand name, email communications, complete user interface and most importantly serve it from the service provider’s own domain name, with absolutely no installation required at the service provider’s end. Service providers also retain full control over the FTP location where the end user websites as published,” says K. Sathya, Vice President, Marketing – SiteGalore.
SiteGalore worked closely with Tucows to provide functionality they needed to meet the unique demands of their wholesale channel. Tucows has integrated this service into its provisioning platform, OpenSRS. Service providers are able to choose from four packages to meet the needs of individual consumers to mid-size businesses and to offer Website Builder in conjunction with other Tucows services.
Kim Phelan, Product Manager at Tucows said, “We recognize that our service providers need to continually add value to their hosting packages. By adding the Tucows Website Builder powered by SiteGalore, to our portfolio, we enable our service providers to be more competitive. SiteGalore met our requirements of usability, robust feature set, and most importantly a wholesale focus.”
About SiteGalore
With over 500+ service providers, Akmin’s SiteGalore, (www.sitegalore.com) is a comprehensive online website building software that enables web hosts & service providers to offer a profitable private-label online website building service to their customers. SiteGalore, which recently proved itself unbreakable after achieving a whopping 2,795,904 successful transactions per day without a single failed transaction as part of a rigorous 3-tier scrutiny by the National Software Testing Labs (www.nstl.com), is designed to offer a significant cost advantage to service providers at a considerably low cost of ownership. This is made possible by its efficient use of hardware resources and strategic use of open source software. For more information, please visit: http://www.sitegalore.com.
