IN THIS ISSUE:

• Summer Spectacular Final Days
• SSL Login for SmarterMail & SmarterStats
• Show Your CrystalTech Pride

Summer Spectacular Final Days
Due to popular demand, we extended our Summer Spectacular 2006 promotion until August 15th. Originally started in early July, this special promotion was so popular we couldn’t help but extend it. Unfortunately, all great things must finally come to an end, and so must this spectacular deal.

Act now! You have until Midnight Pacific Time (GMT -7) to order a new shared hosting plan priced $7.95/month and above and use ‘SUMMER2006’ as your promo code in Step 5 of the online ordering process. You’ll receive four additional months of hosting for free* and only pay for your first month’s hosting and setup fee. You won’t have to pay your standard monthly hosting fee again until January 2007!

* Overages and additional hosting options are not eligible for the discount.

SSL Login for SmarterMail & SmarterStats
For enhanced security, we recently added a new SSL (Secure Socket Layer) feature to both the SmarterMail and SmarterStats web interfaces. Now, you can login securely either from within the Control Center or by typing in the secure URL directly into any standard browser.

For example, when logging into mail from within the Control Center, highlight ‘Mail’ and click on ‘Mail Admin’ from the left hand Menu. Then, you can choose to ‘Login as Admin’ or ‘Login as User’ to read and compose messages securely.

You can also use the SSL login for SmarterMail via the web by typing in https://mailXX.example.com into your browser. The ‘XX’ corresponds to the number of your mail server (which can be found in the Site Overview section of the Control Center) and using your domain name instead of ‘example.com’.

Logging into SmarterStats from within the Control Center works essentially the same way: highlight ‘Statistics’ from the Menu, then ‘SmarterStats Professional’ and then click on ‘Login as Admin’ or ‘Login as User’.

By using a secure login to both your email and statistics, you will have an encrypted connection to our servers. This provides an enhanced level of security for your login information as it cannot be intercepted by third parties and used to exploit your email and stats services. However, when it comes to sending mail, please understand that using a SSL connection to webmail only encrypts your connection to the mail server from within your web browser and does not encrypt any email that is sent.

Show Your CrystalTech Pride
As you may or may not know, a large number of our new customers are referred to us by you, our loyal customer base. Every effort is made here to provide you the best hosting in the industry, and it means a great deal to us when our customers tell their friends, relatives and colleagues about our services.

Did you know that you can earn $10 credit for every person you refer to us? You can either ask your referral to list one of your hosted domains during online signup or you can make it even easier by having a Referrer Specific URL on your website.

You can save money on your monthly bill and show your CrystalTech pride by adding a "Hosted by CrystalTech" logo or text link like http://www.crystaltech.com/default.aspx?ref=yourdomain.com to your home page. A gallery of logos that can be added to your site can be found here (http://www.crystaltech.com/ctgallery.aspx). Further instructions can be found in Article# 535 of our Knowledge Base.

By using a Referrer Specific URL, you will automatically add your domain name to the "Referral" box in our order form. That way, your referral does not have to remember to input your domain name when they are ordering their hosting plan online.