Starting at $12.99/monthly, the new blog hosting plan from Doreo includes a pre-installed version of WordPress, the Web’s most popular and robust blogging platform. Users can also choose from a variety of exclusive blogging add-ons, including a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Bundle, which optimizes the blog software to rank highly in search engine indexes. Doreo’s Publicity Bundle offers a variety of marketing tools for bloggers, and the Statistics Bundle offers access to the latest analytics software.

As part of today’s partnership, each premium blog hosting account will also receive access to a premium WordPress theme (or template) from iThemes at no additional charge (a value of $79.99). iThemes offers nearly two dozen professionally designed themes valued at more than $2,200.

“Blog hosting has been a key strength for Doreo in the past several years, as prospective customers are drawn to our affordable but robust hosting plans that can withstand the frequent traffic spikes that are the prevailing wind in today’s social media,” said Frank Feingold, president of Doreo Hosting. “With today’s introduction of an all-inclusive blog hosting plan, we will be able to deliver more focused and custom-tailored services to bloggers, and offer value-added features that further distinguish Doreo in the hosting marketplace.”

All hosting plans from Doreo also include a myriad of standard features, including the cPanel control panel and MailFoundry, an enterprise-level anti-spam and anti-virus email security solution.

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About Doreo Hosting

Founded in 2002, Doreo Hosting is a leading provider of shared and reseller Web hosting services, serving small to medium sized businesses in North America. The company’s fleet of Dell servers is housed in Doreo’s private data facility in Franklin, Wisc., offering around-the-clock monitoring and top-tier IP transit. All client accounts also feature MailFoundry, an enterprise-level anti-spam and anti-virus email filtering solution.

Doreo, which has always backed up its customers’ data, had previously relied on a backup solution that required entire accounts to be backed up. With the new solution, the company is now able to back up only disk-sectors that have been changed, a feature allowing more frequent backups to me made.

“The cardinal goal in backing up our clients’ data is to offer a true layer of security for everybody—even us,” said Frank Feingold, Doreo Hosting president. “Hard drives fail, scripts break, and sometimes customers just go ‘oops’ and delete the wrong file. We need a solid solution that will allow us, and our customers, to quickly recover from these situations.”

Backups will be kept on three separate schedules. Hourly backups will be taken with 14 day retention, and both weekly and monthly backups with 8 week retention. Customers will be able to restore files from any previous backup.

“I’m confident our customers will be just as thrilled about these backups as we are,” said Feingold. “For our customers, it’s very reassuring to know their data is absolutely safe—a reassurance most hosts can’t offer. I think that will be a big draw for Doreo.”

There are no additional charges for utilizing the backups, and all customer data, regardless of the hosting plan, will be backed up.

The company had been looking to move its mail management software away from individual web servers since early 2006, and when it found MailFoundry in June, it took only a few weeks to deploy the new solution.

“Mail management has always been an important aspect of our web hosting service. As such, we have been hunting for a solution that will not only reduce the load on our servers, but that will also allow for a higher level of spam and virus mitigation,” said Frank Feingold, Doreo Hosting President. “MailFoundry is the prefect fit.”

MailFoundry runs off its own hardware appliance, and monitors all incoming emails automatically. When MailFoundry detects possible spam, it quarantines the message, and notifies the recipient once a day with a list of withheld messages.

“There’s no such thing as a perfect anti-spam solution, but MailFoundry’s false-positive rates are well-below the industry average, and so far it has performed remarkably well for our customers,” said Feingold. “It has identified roughly 70 percent of all incoming messages as spam—even we could not have predicted that.”