Company introduces new version of its control panel based on user feedback.

Netfirms, Inc., a domain registration and web hosting technology company, today launched Netfirms XLR8, a new version of its control panel. The company says that the control panel is now available to all the websites, hosted by it.

It claims that it has improved the usability of XLR8 by adding a domain transfer status bar to show how quickly transfers are occurring, plus a knowledgebase to make troubleshooting easier. The company says that the menu bar simplifies navigation, streamlines the transfer of domains to itself, and makes it easy to manage a large portfolio of domains. It explains that other changes enable users to take advantage of faster server speeds, further enhancing their XLR8 experience and users can install into their domains an e-commerce, blogging and content management applications offered by it.

"We encourage user feedback, with the promise that we will try to find ways to incorporate their suggestions in any upgrades," says Netfirms president Thomas Savundra. "Most of the changes we've made are based on feedback we've received in recent months. It is undoubtedly the most user-friendly control panel we've yet released. You could say that Netfirms XLR8 wouldn't exist if it weren't for our customers. Incorporating fast AJAX programming makes Netfirms XLR8 a powerful interface to their grid hosting platform for small businesses as well as web masters."

"With the Netfirms grid hosting platform, our customers can free themselves from in-house servers, expensive software installations and other localized devices, the Netfirms platform is built on clustered hosting and distributed processing, making it effortless - in fact, automatic - to handle sudden spikes in traffic. You don't want to be featured on CNN, for example, but be unable to handle the flood of traffic to your site. With XLR8 and our platform, the load is spread over many distributed processors, evening out the load and allowing even small businesses to enjoy the full power and convenience of Web 2.0." says Savundra.