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The free service upgrade was automatic and was designed to give all current and future shared hosting customers more powerful tools for creating multimedia Web sites. "We've heard from customers time and again that a hassle free Web hosting experience is paramount," said John Lee, Hostway's vice president of marketing. "While many companies claim to truly value their customers, we felt it was important to substantiate our claim by listening to our customers and solving a specific need." Hostway begun to offer its customers 1.2GB of disk space, unlimited traffic and 200 email addresses for $27 per month. GoDaddy also recently improved its email offerings by increasing storage space by up to 500 percent while providing additional mailboxes and mobile mail applications to users. "We developed our email offering to provide the best possible solution for our customers' growing needs," said Bob Parsons, president and founder of GoDaddy. "This most recent upgrade is a reflection of our customers requirement for a tremendously robust email system." The new GoDaddy email offering provides five email addresses and 1GB of total storage for $19.95 per year. The service includes full virus and spam protection and Web mail with advanced composition tools, that allow users to send text and HTML emails, or to schedule email delivery for a later date or time. The Web-based accounts also provide a customizable tool bar and the ability to flag email messages or use a quick-view function. GoDaddy also introduced a new shared hosting package with 1GB of Web server space priced at $9.95 a month. The package was introduced after Yahoo! put competitive pressure on the entire Internet services marketplace by offering expanded email and hosting storage at a discount. Last month, the portal began selling an enhanced email package with 2GB of storage for $19.95 per year. The firm also began offering 2GB of server space and 2GB of email storage with its $11.95 a month "starter" hosting package. The enlarged hosting service provides customers with up to 39 times disk space and five times more bandwidth to accommodate big multimedia sites. Yahoo! says it significantly upgraded its email and Web hosting services to enhance ease-of-use, storage and customer support, and to position itself well within a marketplace where the number of domains registered totals more than 50,000 per day. The company plans to leverage its brand recognition to make more headway within the hosting sector. "Yahoo! is addressing the rapidly growing marketplace by offering a superior product from a brand customers can trust," said Rich Riley, a Yahoo! vice president and general manager. "We continue to innovate and deliver enhanced domain, email and web hosting products at competitive prices to make it easy for consumers and small businesses to stake their claim on the Internet." The decision to increase Web hosting storage mimicked the company's choice to increase its free email storage limit to 100MB. Yahoo!, along with GoDaddy and Hostway, were motivated to boost their respective storage rates due to the "storage arms race" between Web mail providers that emerged after Google introduced its 1GB free email product, Gmail. Gmail started the battle when it was launched in April. As a result, free email providers, such as Lycos and MSN have been forced either to match Gmail's 1GB allowance or drastically increase the amount they offer. Lycos is providing 1GB of mail storage for free while MSN's Hotmail will begin offering 250MB free, and 2GB of storage for $30 a year, starting this fall. Some Web hosting companies are following in the vein of the free email providers by offering massive storage at cheap rates. 1&1 Internet now offers its entry 1GB shared hosting package for only $4.99 per month. 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