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The Planet Launches Virtual Racks
May 7, 2008 -- The Planet said Wednesday that it has launched its new "virtual rack" solution, designed to make the features of its popular private rack solution available to customers running as few as two servers. (read more) (make a comment)
Mosso Launches CloudFS Storage
May 5, 2008 -- With the rise in cloud computing adoption, companies are looking for more ways to support the demand for this emerging technology with new applications and services. (read more) (make a comment)
Layered Tech Ready for Integration
April 15, 2008 -- The prospect of integrating its acquisition, however, raises the specter of some of the most notable failures in the hosting business of the last year. But Layered Technology says it is prepared for what follows. (read more) (make a comment)
Online Services Okay with Partners
March 11, 2008 -- Last week, Microsoft announced that it had begun the beta program for its Online Services offering, a version of Exchange and SharePoint hosted by Microsoft and delivered as a service. (read more) (make a comment)
Judge Withdraws Wikileaks Ruling
March 2, 2008 -- Reversing a decision that had drawn criticism from many corners of the Internet, on Friday US District Judge Jeffrey S. White withdrew an order that had previously seen the.org domain of whistleblowing website Wikileaks suspended. (read more) (make a comment)
Microsoft Launch a Big Production
February 29, 2008 -- Microsoft showcased the next generation of its infrastructure and application platform products on Wednesday to thousands of customers and partners worldwide in an event the software giant calls its largest enterprise launch in the company's history. (read more) (make a comment)
Bulletproof Host Keeps Wikileaks Up
February 21, 2008 -- Wikileaks, the whistleblower resource that a federal judge in California ordered shut down last week, remains mostly available online almost a week after the injunction was issued. (read more) (make a comment)
Comodo Launches UserTrust Program
February 20, 2008 -- The danger of identity theft and other security threats has always been a hurdle for online shoppers. And online retailers have long fought to acquire their customers' trust. (read more) (make a comment)
Layered Tech Preps LT PACT 2008
January 29, 2007 -- For two years, utility hosting services provider Layered Technologies has worked to distinguish LT PACT event as an important consideration among hosting related events. (read more) (make a comment)
The Planet Adding Affiliate Program
January 21, 2008 -- On Tuesday The Planet will launch its first ever program to provide commissions for both customers and non-customers who refer new business to the company. (read more) (make a comment)
DH Capital Advises Data393 in Sale
January 16, 2008 -- In one of the first major data center acquisition of 2008, DH Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor to managed hosting and colocation provider Data393 in its sale to Managed Data Holdings (read more) (make a comment)
365 Main Lowers Energy Use with PG&E
January 11, 2008 -- In an effort to manage its own energy consumption, data center operator 365 Main joined Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Critical Peak Pricing program. (read more) (make a comment)
SWsoft Acquires Helm Control Panel
December 20, 2007 -- Web hosting software maker SWsoft made another big announcement this week, reporting that it had acquired WebHost Automation, developer of the Helm control panel and billing software for Windows. (read more) (make a comment)
SWsoft Re-Brands as Parallels in 08
December 12, 2007 -- SWsoft announced on Wednesday that in 2008 it will begin re-branding its services under the new corporate name "Parallels," taken from the well-known desktop virtualization company SWsoft quietly acquired several years ago. (read more) (make a comment)
Performance Key in Holiday Retail
December 3, 2007 -- The story is almost the same every year, only more so -- researchers predict the biggest online holiday shopping season yet, with 30 percent of holiday shopping taking place online for a total of $30 billion in business. (read more) (make a comment)
Vyatta Community Expands with VC3
November 30, 2007 -- The recent release of version 3 of its Community Edition, open source routing company Vyatta brought new features to the free version of the products with which it is working to take on networking giants like Cisco and Juniper. (read more) (make a comment)
Fires Prompt Greater Facility Defense
November 14, 2007 -- The recent wildfires that ravaged over 500,000 acres of Southern California land had a significant impact on many tech companies, both directly and indirectly. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Host NaviSite Discusses Downtime
November 12, 2007 -- Last week, theWHIR reported on an extended outage affecting as many as 165,000 sites hosted by Web hosting provider NaviSite that set off a significant storm of customer complaints on hosting message boards, blogs and in news posts. (read more) (make a comment)
C I Host Responds to Robbery Reports
November 6, 2007 -- This week, the WHIR reported a recent robbery at Web hosting provider C I Host's Chicago colocation facility, in which an employee was assaulted with a tazer by intruders who took at least 20 data servers. (read more) (make a comment)
Register.com Refocuses on SMB Market
October 31, 2007 -- As the domain industry becomes saturated with offerings, the level of competition is rising accordingly. Even the veterans are finding it difficult to differentiate their services from competing domain registrars. (read more) (make a comment)
Nominum Offers Always-On DNS
October 18, 2007 -- From translating hostnames to IP addresses to storing vital information, domain name system has become a crucial part of IP connectivity and Internet use today. (read more) (make a comment)
FlexiScale Competes with Amazon EC2
October 15, 2007 -- With the considerable absence of European on-demand hosting companies, Amazon EC2/S3 service has dominated the market since it launched last summer. (read more) (make a comment)
FireEye Sets Anti-Botnet Strategy
October 2, 2007 -- As cyber crimes plague the IT industry, malicious threats have evolved from the simpler worms of recent years to the more sophisticated, harder to battle botnets. (read more) (make a comment)
AppLogic in the Enterprise
August 31, 2007 -- In a somewhat unexpected turn, 3Tera announced an extension of its efforts this week, saying that AppLogic is now available for enterprises to deploy in-house. (read more) (make a comment)
The Planet Eyes New Partners For SBS
August 28, 2007 -- Dedicated hosting firm The Planet sought to address that the emerging overlap between Web hosts and systems integrators with the announcement that it plans to introduce a hosted Microsoft Small Business Server product in September. (read more) (make a comment)
365 Main Recovers From Downtime
August 15, 2007 -- A data center's reputation has become synonymous with its reliability, which is built almost entirely on its ability to maintain 100 percent uptime, and thus, assure clients that their service will be available around the clock. (read more) (make a comment)
Plesk Support Pushes Roaring Penguin
August 14, 2007 -- While SWsoft made much of the recent news that a first wave of commercial software vendors had packaged their applications using its Application Programming Standard, not much was heard immediately from the vendors themselves. (read more) (make a comment)
Paid Caters to Celebrity Services
August 7, 2007 -- Scoring front row tickets to a big stadium rock concert is no easy feat, unless of course you know a guy who knows a guy who is friends with the promoter. (read more) (make a comment)
dnZoom Reaches for Domain Profits
Aug 1, 2007 -- Managing a medium- to large-sized domain portfolio can be taxing for any individual or company, especially when the domains are spread across multiple registrars, parking services, Web hosting providers and marketplaces. (read more) (make a comment)
HostingCon 2007 Wraps Up
July 27, 2007 -- The largest Web hosting conference and tradeshow HostingCon 2007 took place this week at the scenic Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois, drawing in a record-attendance of 1,200 hosted services industry professionals. (read more) (make a comment)
DegreeC Cools Down Data Centers
July 11, 2007 -- As a growing energy crunch causes the cost of power to soar, data center operators are working hard to equip their facilities with the proper energy-efficient technologies. (read more) (make a comment)
Peak 10 Sponsors Game Building Event
June 26, 2007 -- Hosted and sponsored by Peak 10, the first-ever Triangle Game Jam brought together nearly 200 senior game developers to the data center operator's headquarters. (read more) (make a comment)
Go Daddy Auctions Domains by Mobile
June 19, 2007 -- As the overlap between mobile technology, domain names and Web hosting grows, along with the rise in popularity of .mobi domain names, businesses are quickly updating their Web sites so that users can more easily access them via their mobile devices. (read more) (make a comment)
AIT CEO Expands Search Market
June 13, 2007 -- AIT CEO Clarence Briggs says the centralized search model is unjust, allowing a few major search engines to reap the vast rewards of pay-per-click advertising revenue. (read more) (make a comment)
API Says Monitoring Adds Value
June 6, 2007 -- Blake Nelson, director of solution sales for performance monitoring software provider Absolute Performance Inc. says monitoring technology can add value to a standard hosting offering in several ways. (read more) (make a comment)
RegisterFly Names Moved to Go Daddy
May 31, 2007 -- Thousands of RegisterFly customers and their domain names were left in limbo after an ugly dispute between the founders resulted in numerous personal attacks, hostile litigation and the Web host being stripped of its ICANN accreditation. (read more) (make a comment)
3Tera Adds Features with AppLogic 2.0
May 25, 2007 -- Bert Armijo, VP of product management at 3Tera says his company is working to convince hosting customers that the utility platform is the best way to host those Web 2.0 and SaaS applications. (read more) (make a comment)
EIG-IPOWER Deal Forms Hosting Giant
May 18, 2007 -- Domain registrar and hosting provider IPOWER and shared hosting provider Endurance International Group caught the industry by surprise this week after they announced that they joined forces via a high-profile merger. (read more) (make a comment)
Microsoft Previews Longhorn Via Beta
May 11, 2007 -- As anticipation builds over the upcoming release of the next generation of Windows server, Microsoft recently began offering the public a beta and feature-complete version of Windows Server Longhorn. (read more) (make a comment)
SWsoft Builds Relationships at Event
May 10, 2007 -- SWsoft's Global Hosting Partner Summit, the second installment of the company's now-annual partner and customer gathering took place during a very busy two days this week in Reston, Virginia. (read more) (make a comment)
FastServers Offers Velocity Exchange
May 9, 2007 -- Having a Microsoft Exchange server system in place may be an administrative neccessity for companies, but many smaller businesses find they lack the financial resources to deploy one. (read more) (make a comment)
Akamai Attracts SaaS with Accelerator
May 3, 2007 -- The demand for software as a service continues to increase as small and large businesses alike are increasingly increasingly dissatisfied with the lengthy times and costs associated with deploying traditional software. (read more) (make a comment)
Concentric PEP Relieves Mail Servers
April 25, 2007 --Officially launched on Monday, Concentric's Perimeter Email Security service provides SMBs with a variety of email security that can drastically reduce server load, and prolong the life of an in-house email solution. (read more) (make a comment)
Yahoo Tool Targets Simpler Web Sites
April 23, 2007 -- Yahoo! Web Hosting, already a contender among the very small number of very large organizations targeting the mass market, announced recently that it added a further simplified Web design tool to its offerings, the Yahoo! Site Solution. (read more) (make a comment)
Netcraft Spoof a Political Move
April 17, 2007 -- Several weeks ago, Netcraft discovered that Perens had altered server headers in order to improve the survey results of the Apache Web server. (read more) (make a comment)
VeriSign Plans Registry Upgrades
April 12, 2007 -- With a 7 percent price increase announced and scheduled, VeriSign has begun to discuss its plans to spend the new funds on upgrading the infrastructure that supports the registries. (read more) (make a comment)
Intermedia.NET Aims at Mid Market
April 11, 2007 -- Already a leader in the hosted exchange space, Intermedia.NET introduced a hosted Exchange 2007 service targeting the mid market In the first week of April. (read more) (make a comment)
MarkMonitor Guards Brands Online
April 5, 2007 -- Devising an effective branding strategy is a key part of crafting a company's presence both online and offline, and ultimately establishing a positive and reputable name to attract customers. (read more) (make a comment)
Hostway Deal Makes New Market Force
April 4, 2007 -- With the announcement Wednesday that it had acquired Web hosting peer Affinity Internet, Hostway created a new force in the Web hosting market, capable of competing, in terms of scale, with the largest players in the business. (read more) (make a comment)
Opsource Simplifies SaaS Development
April 4, 2007 -- Software-as-a-service solutions provider OpSource is working to make application delivery simpler and more affordable, most recently by introducing its Optimal On-Demand 2.0.
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Host Gator Tackles SEO Hosting Tech
April 2, 2007 -- Brent Oxley, president of Host Gator, says SEO services can walk a thin line between using inventive techniques to attract search engines, and activities that those search engines might consider exploitative. (read more) (make a comment)
Microsoft Brings New Tools to Summit
March 27, 2007 -- Software giant Microsoft announced last week at the Microsoft Hosting Summit 2007 in Redmond, Washington, that it had updated two solutions for hosting service providers. (read more) (make a comment)
Rackspace Takes Hosting on the Road
March 19, 2007 -- In a business in which service providers and their customers may never meet face to face, the emergence of a series of conferences and exhibitions has provided Web hosts with good evidence of the value of in-person contact. (read more) (make a comment)
CBS Doubles March Madness Bandwidth
March 15, 2007 -- As March Madness officially gets underway with Thursday's 2007 NCAA Men's Division Basketball Championships tipoff, CBS SportsLine, a unit of CBS Interactive, is once again offering live, on-demand coverage of the tournament. (read more) (make a comment)
1&1 Deal an Open-Source Milestone
March 12, 2007 -- A partnership between messaging solutions firm Open-Xchange and Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet, created considerable buzz by being, says Open-Xchange, the largest open-source software agreement in history. (read more) (make a comment)
3Tera's Grid University In Session
March 8, 2007 -- Last week, the grid and utility computing platform developer 3Tera launched Grid University, a series of more than 30 online educational sessions that provide live, interactive education on utility computing for Web applications. (read more) (make a comment)
Hosting Days Visit Toronto
March 7, 2007 -- Microsoft held the third North American installment of its annual Microsoft Hosting Day event last week at its Canadian headquarters, located just outside of Toronto. (read more) (make a comment)
Women a Small Group in Web Hosting
March 5, 2007 -- While there are women scattered throughout the highest ranks of the mostly male-dominated IT business, women who operate their own Web hosting firms remain few and far between. (read more) (make a comment)
Bravenet Offers Customers Avatars
February 16, 2007 -- Web hosting provider Bravenet announced this week it has partnered with avatar software provider Oddcast to offer SitePal to its customer base of approximately 8.6 million registered members (read more) (make a comment)
Microsoft Launches Hosting Exam
February 12, 2007 -- The Web hosting industry has seen tremendous growth over the past few years as seen by the several publications dedicated to it, industry-specific conferences as well as attempts to organize an industry-wide association. (read more) (make a comment)
Verio Looks to Expand with Linux VPS
January 31, 2007 -- Web host and managed services provider Verio launched Linux virtual private server offering as part of its 360º Managed Servers suite of fully-managed hosting solutions this week. (read more) (make a comment)
VeriSign Plots GeoTrust Course
January 26, 2007 -- Last September, VeriSign acquired SSL security provider GeoTrust in a $125 million agreement, adding a channel of more than 9,000 direct resellers in more than 140 countries. (read more) (make a comment)
MIVA Launches Monetization Product
January 18, 2007 -- The industry has seen its share of companies offering tools and services to help small-to-medium sized businesses optimize and monetize their Web sites. (read more) (make a comment)
The Planet Raises Bar After Merger
January 17, 2007 -- Last May, hosting powerhouses The Planet and EV1 Servers announced that they were integrating into a single entity in a high-profile merger after the two companies were acquired by private equity firm GI Partners. (read more) (make a comment)
Networking Show Could Teach Hosts
January 11, 2007 -- The social networking business is the source of some significant hosting requirements, and a hotbed of new thinking on how customers can interact with one another - thinking that could have real value in the hosting business. (read more) (make a comment)
Go Daddy Preps New Super Bowl Spot
January 9, 2007 -- After a series of risqué Super Bowl television spots featuring a scantily-clad model, Web hosting industry watchers and fans of football are sure that Web host and domain registrar Go Daddy isn't shy when it comes to controversy. (read more) (make a comment)
Grid-Based Web Hosts Build Niche
December 21, 2006 -- From Media Temple, to Amazon's S3 storage service - and a collection of other new providers - grid-based utility-model hosting providers have carved out a new niche in the Web hosting market. (read more) (make a comment)
VeriSign Introduces EV SSL Certs.
December 14, 2006 -- Earlier this year, the CA/Browser Forum, a voluntary organization of leading certification authorities and vendors of Internet browser software, met to establish standards and guidelines to enforce Internet security and combat fraud. (read more) (make a comment)
Wikia Launches Free Hosting
December 13, 2006 -- Wikia announced it has launched a new open-source project that offers all the software, computing, storage and network access necessary for users to create, maintain and disseminate their own content and information online, for free. (read more) (make a comment)
Verio Offers Virtual Windows Hosting
December 8, 2006 -- Establishing a Web presence can be a fairly simple procedure for small and medium-sized businesses these days, with a seemingly endless supply of easy-to-use shared hosting plans and supporting tools. (read more) (make a comment)
365 Main Launches Data Center Program
December 6, 2006 -- Data center developer and operator 365 Main is working to address demand with its SCALE 365, a national program that will make available large amounts of high-end data center real estate at wholesale rates. (read more) (make a comment)
Akamai Adds with Nine Systems
December 4, 2006 -- To enhance its ability to provide better solutions to Web publishers offering rich media, content delivery network Akamai Technologies recently announced it has signed an agreement to acquire rich media solutions provider Nine Systems. (read more) (make a comment)
Gomez to Launch Actual Experience XF
December 1, 2006 -- For any Web host, particularly if it is one that offers hosted applications, the ability to measure the performance of its Web site is a crucial factor in determining the level of its success. (read more) (make a comment)
The Psychology of Divesting
November 28, 2006 -- I have heard the statement tossed around for years, "at least 50 percent of mergers and acquisitions have been shareholder value destroying events for the buying entity." (read more) (make a comment)
ISPCON Deals With Shifting Business
November 21, 2006 -- The Fall ISPCON event, held earlier this month in Santa Clara, California, had a certain pedigree. An event with a legacy, ISPCON is a fixture in a business that, somewhat paradoxically, is in a state of transition. (read more) (make a comment)
Alert Logic Caters to Web Hosts
November 21, 2006 -- As security threats continue to invade online territory, Web hosts face escalating IT security and compliance issues and are increasingly held responsible for deploying and demonstrating sufficient levels of IT security. (read more) (make a comment)
New President Pushes Data Center
November 17, 2006 -- Baltimore Technology Park, the largest carrier-neutral data center facility in the state of Maryland, recently announced it has expanded its executive team by appointing Jim Weller, its new president. (read more) (make a comment)
Microsoft Opens SaaS On-Ramp
November 14, 2006 -- One of the largest proponents of the software as a service model, software giant Microsoft announced it has launched another program to help independent software vendors and Web hosts more easily move into the SaaS market. (read more) (make a comment)
Verio Introduces New VPS v3 Solution
November 10, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Web hosting industry has seen a resurgence of virtual private servers, particularly because they provide a level of customization that cannot be fulfilled by a shared hosting solution. (read more) (make a comment)
ISPCON 2006 Web Host Event Guide
November 6, 2006 -- With the fall installation of North America's largest ISP and WISP conference ISPCON 2006 just around the corner, the WHIR caught up with show organizer Jon Price to gain some insight on what he thinks are must-sees at the event. (read more) (make a comment)
SingleHop Separates Managed Services
November 3, 2006 -- Zak Boca and Dan Ushman, founders of Web hosting provider midPhase, launched SingleHop, a transparent managed services provider that offers managed services a la carte. (read more) (make a comment)
Rackspace Does Exchange Its Way
October 31, 2006 -- Managed hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting extended its offerings last week when it announced it had added hosted Microsoft Exchange to its portfolio of hosted services - which includes several other email hosting services. (read more) (make a comment)
BlueTie Plays with Hosted App Model
October 27, 2006 -- Small business email and calendaring service provider BlueTie said this week it has begun offering its online email, calendaring and collaboration solution free of charge for small businesses with up to 20 employees. (read more) (make a comment)
Verizon Takes Ethernet Worldwide
October 26, 2006 -- Since the formal January 6 debut of the merged MCI and Verizon, telecommunications giant Verizon Business has been busy expanding its global reach. (read more) (make a comment)
Miami TV Station Expands Online
October 23, 2006 -- The past few years have seen a wide range of interactive digital deployed arrive online, including streaming video, podcasting and other multimedia content, as media outlets work to make their Web sites more attractive destinations. (read more) (make a comment)
Interview With Douglas J. Erwin
October 20, 2006 -- In June, new EV1-The Planet CEO Douglas J. Erwin told theWHIR he had a 90-day plan to develop the organization's new direction. Three months later, we spoke again, with the company headed in a new direction. (read more) (make a comment)
Yahoo! Targets E-Commerce Customers
October 20, 2006 -- Yahoo! Small Business and has recently launched two new enhancements to its e-commerce platform Yahoo! Merchant Solutions in an effort to enable merchants to more quickly and easily launch online retail businesses.
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Live Domain Auction to Set Bar
October 18, 2006 -- Domain asset management service provider Moniker has once again decided to take advantage of this flourishing market trend by holding its third live auction of premiere domain names on October 27. (read more) (make a comment)
Righteous Software Expands Backup
October 16, 2006 -- The dropping costs for disk-based storage hardware, however, have enabled technology company Righteous Software to develop a more affordable solution for automated backup.
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Mosso Designed for Designers
October 10, 2006 -- Web hosting provider Mosso, a venture company of Web hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting, recently announced the official launch of The Hosting System, a new utility hosting offer designed for Web designers and developers. (read more) (make a comment)
KEMP Makes Load Balancing Affordable
October 5, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting providers serving a small to medium-sized business clientele are often bombarded with excessive traffic, which can eventually lead to a server overload. (read more) (make a comment)
NaviSite Offers SaaS Sandbox Service
October 3, 2006 --Web hosting provider NaviSite says its new ISV Sandbox solution, a joint offering with software giant Microsoft, makes it easier for companies to develop and adopt a cost-effective SaaS offerings. (read more) (make a comment)
HostGator Recovers From cPanel Flaw
September 29, 2006 -- A confluence of vulnerabilities - one in the hosting control panel cPanel, and one in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser - created a large-scale security breach at several hosting firms last week. (read more) (make a comment)
Browser Forum Sets Validation Rules
September 25, 2006 -- Digital certificate provider XRamp Security Services, and with other industry leaders, set out to clear up that confusion last week when they gathered at the sixth International Certificate Authority Browser Forum in San Antonio. (read more) (make a comment)
Summit Eyes Success Beyond the Box
September 22, 2006 -- Held in Las Vegas this week, Tier 1 Research's Hosting Transformation Summit illustrated all the ways in which the Web hosting business is changing. (read more) (make a comment)
Brinkster Upgrades DNS with Nominum
September 20, 2006 -- Network naming and addressing solutions provider Nominum announced on Wednesday that Web hosting provider Brinkster has selected its Foundation authoritative name server to enhance its existing DNS operations. (read more) (make a comment)
Summit Starts With Neutrality Talk
September 19, 2006 -- Tier 1 Research's second annual Hosting Transformation Summit began Monday evening in Las Vegas with analysts Dan Berninger and Dan Golding leading a discussion on Net Neutrality during the opening reception. (read more) (make a comment)
Verizon Expands Managed Hosting
September 14, 2006 -- For hosting providers targeting small businesses or individual users, specialization is often a selling point. But for managed Web hosts serving enterprise customers, diversity of skills and offerings is a prerequisite. (read more) (make a comment)
Arkhold Offers Immortal Web Hosting
September 13, 2006 -- Web hosts are always looking for unique offers, attempting to attract customers by adding high-end software or free features to packages, or lowering prices to outrageous extents. (read more) (make a comment)
SWsoft Re-Brand Marks New Direction
September 8, 2006 -- Corporate branding can have a profound impact on a company's market share and overall revenue. An enormous amount of work can go into the development of a brand, and the execution of its ideas. (read more) (make a comment)
Gartner Study Marks SAVVIS Milestone
September 7, 2006 -- IT analyst firm Gartner's recently published 2006 North American Web hosting Magic Quadrant positioned Web host and IT infrastructure service provider SAVVIS at the top of the "Leaders" quadrant. (read more) (make a comment)
3Tera Launches Grid OS for Hosts
September 5, 2006 -- The ability to scale an application to hundreds and thousands of servers is a laborious and costly challenge for Web hosts, a challenge that took even the Googles, Yahoo!s and eBays of the world 10 years to execute properly. (read more) (make a comment)
HostMySite Connects over Fiber Cut
August 31, 2006 -- On August 16 at 8:50 a.m. ET Delaware-based hosting provider HostMySite dealt with the accidental severing of a fiber conduit that disconnected approximately 10,000 shared hosting customers, as well the infrastructure for its Web site. (read more) (make a comment)
Overseas Call Centers Plan Ahead
August 30, 2006 -- One of the biggest IT call centers, the Cochin-based BobCares, has taken extra precautions to ensure its employees are kept safe and that the service goes uninterrupted, implementing a full disaster recovery solution. (read more) (make a comment)
Ensim SDK Connects Hosting Features
August 24, 2006 -- As communication tools like email, voice over Internet Protocol and instant messaging converge, customers outsourcing these applications are beginning to demand a single host for those services. (read more) (make a comment)
Software CEOs Beat SaaS Drum
August 23, 2006 -- According to Jim Howard, CEO of content management firm CrownPeak, debunking some of the negative assumptions associated with the software as a service model is part of the job when attempting to sell customers on a hosted application. (read more) (make a comment)
AIT Launches Dealership Program
August 18, 2006 -- Customer uncertainty was the motivation behind Web host AIT launching the AIT Dealership Program, a new initiative that trains AIT resellers in opening and managing their own brick-and-mortar dealerships. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Hosting Expert Panel in Works
August 17, 2006 -- Fairly new to the Web hosting scene but acutely aware of the industry's growth, business consultant Brad Rutledge says Web hosts have been desperate to play a concrete role in shaping the industry. (read more) (make a comment)
Customers Rally Around DreamHost
August 16, 2006 -- When Web hosting provider DreamHost experienced a major meltdown during the month of July, however, the company took a very different tack when owning up to the issues in its data center. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Host Go Daddy Backs Out of IPO
August 9, 2006 -- Web hosting provider and domain registrar Go Daddy announced on Tuesday it had withdrawn its registration statement form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and had determined not to proceed with the sale of its stock. (read more) (make a comment)
VariLogiX Fights Fraud by Phone
August 3, 2006 -- Like many specialty service providers, telephony fraud prevention service provider VariLogiX began its days as a Web hosting provider offering a variety of services such as SSL certificates. (read more) (make a comment)
Jamcracker Simplifies SaaS for Hosts
July 31, 2006 -- Santa Clara, California based Jamcracker is working to address the complexity in SaaS delivery, helping solution providers to lower the barriers to entry through its service delivery network.
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Superb Internet Celebrates 10 Years
July 28, 2006 -- Superb Internet has come a long way from its beginnings on a single university server, to owning and operating three - soon to be four - of its own data centers and serving a customer base in the hundreds of thousands. (read more) (make a comment)
Host Depot Banking on Bandwidth
July 24, 2006 -- With its new Rollover Bandwidth offering, Web hosting provider Host Depot is departing from the standard bandwidth-buying process presented to customers, enabling them to use the resources they buy more completely. (read more) (make a comment)
HostingCon 2006 Met With Enthusiasm
July 21, 2006 -- After three action-packed days of keynotes, educational sessions and schmoozing in the city of sin, North America's largest Web hosting conference, HostingCon 2006, wrapped up at Mirage hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada. (read more) (make a comment)
World Cup Drove New Media Tools
July 19, 2006 -- For the first time in World Cup history, fans were given the opportunity to take advantage of BBC's live Internet video streaming of all the games. (read more) (make a comment)
Hosts Find Niche at Microsoft Show
July 18, 2006 -- Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, held last week in Boston, was a big event by any standard - with more than 7,000 partners in attendance, it was no-hotel-rooms-left-in-the-city big. (read more) (make a comment)
Verio PC Data Backup Prepares SMBs
July 14, 2006 -- Nearly one year ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the north-central Gulf Coast, flooding much of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, killing 1,836 people and racking up $75 billion in damages. (read more) (make a comment)
Hosted Solutions Keeps Marketing Local
July 13, 2006 -- From sponsoring the birth of a child to tattooing a company's logo on a person's forehead, many Web hosts have employed unique and sometimes outrageous marketing tactics. (read more) (make a comment)
365 Main Reaches Out To Community
July 10, 2006 -- While community involvement is by no means a new strategy for corporations to increase their presence, there is a substantial difference between submitting a charitable donation and taking a proactive approach in reaching out. (read more) (make a comment)
New EV1, The Planet CEO Studies Up
July 1, 2006 -- Just days into his new post as CEO of the Web hosting operation created in the merger of dedicated server giants EV1 Servers and The Planet, Douglas J Erwin says he is fine-tuning his hands-on knowledge of the hosting business. (read more) (make a comment)
USi Studies Customer Satisfaction
June 30, 2006 -- Application service provider USinternetworking's efforts to achieve customer satisfaction involve an especially scholastic approach to understanding the customer relationship (read more) (make a comment)
Register.com Sees Big Mobi Potential
June 29, 2006 -- Since the dawn of the dot-com, the scope of top-level domains has expanded to accommodate a variety of markets, including countries, companies and governments. (read more) (make a comment)
An Interview With Isabel Wang
June 28, 2006 -- Isabel Wang is one of Web hosting's original thinkers. She co-founded Internet access directory ISPCheck in 1997, and was editor of the excellent but now defunct hosting magazine WHMag. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Hosting Association in the Works
June 23, 2006 -- Some say that Web hosts, a complex and dissimilar collection of businesses, and their related vendors could benefit from being unified in an industry-wide association. (read more) (make a comment)
Perimeter Offers Security-in-the-Cloud
June 20, 2006 -- On-demand managed security services provider Perimeter Internetworking says it offers a reasonable alternative for small to medium-sized businesses that can't necessarily afford to set themselves up with the highest level of protection. (read more) (make a comment)
Microsoft Hosting Play Pans Out
June 16, 2006 -- Although the Linux platform still holds favor with a majority of Web hosting providers, a recent report by research and analysis firm Netcraft shows that Microsoft is continuing to take a bigger share of the Web hosting industry. (read more) (make a comment)
SaaS Summit Pushes Software Thought
June 14, 2006 -- ISVs brought questions with them to the "Software Business Transformation Summit: SaaS, Subscription Models and Open Source Take Hold" conference, held Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas. (read more) (make a comment)
Hearing Held Over .com Dispute
June 8, 2006 -- An estimated one-hundred people attended a hearing last week hosted by the House Committee on Small Business to discuss the proposed .com deal between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and VeriSign. (read more) (make a comment)
SWsoft Partner Summit Wraps Up
June 9, 2006 -- Web hosting software developer SWsoft's first annual Hosting Partner Summit wrapped up last Thursday after two days of keynotes, in-depth product and business sessions and networking events. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Hosts Discuss Domain Business
June 8, 2006 -- Web hosts debated the legitimate but controversial practice of domain speculation, how many names to juggle at once, which domain registrars are favored and what to do with all those domains they haven't touched. (read more) (make a comment)
Verizon Study Examines Collaboration
June 7, 2006 -- This week, collaboration technology providers Verizon Business and Microsoft presented the results of a study sponsored by the companies and conducted by research group Frost & Sullivan. (read more) (make a comment)
Trinitas Powers Online OHL Draft
May 31, 2006 -- In a unique amalgamation of two ideas, minor league hockey organization the Ontario Hockey League has begun conducting its draft online through an interface resembling those used in many online fantasy sports pools. (read more) (make a comment)
Ensim Announces Ensim Pro X Release
May 23, 2006 -- Web hosting service enablement and automation software provider Ensim announced on Monday that it is preparing to release its newest control panel, Ensim Pro X. (read more) (make a comment)
ISPCON Spring Gets Hosts Involved
May 19, 2006 -- Hundreds of ISPs, Web hosts, and other Internet service representatives gathered this week at the Baltimore Convention Center for the Internet services providers' conference, ISPCON Spring 2006. (read more) (make a comment)
EV1, Planet Plot Post-Merger Course
May 10, 2006 -- With a couple of quick announcements this week, the balance of power in the dedicated Web hosting market shifted, or rather coalesced, into the hands of one new, and very big, organization. (read more) (make a comment)
SWsoft Customers to Meet and Learn
May 5, 2006 -- Hosting software developer SWsoft launches its own partner event this month with the SWsoft Global Hosting Partner Summit 2006, scheduled from May 30 to June 1 near the company's offices in DC. (read more) (make a comment)
C I Host Celebrates Nine Year Mark
May 4, 20006 -- In just under a decade, C I host has built a client base of more than 250,000 customers in 182 countries, maintained a healthy financial status and continues to offer a diverse range of value-added products and services. (read more) (make a comment)
CM4all Offers Web Hosts WebDrive
April 27, 2006 -- One of the simplest and most effective means Web hosts have of attracting new customers, keeping existing customers and increasing the revenue generated by existing customers is adding new services. (read more) (make a comment)
Customer Churn Costs Web Hosts
April 25, 20006 -- Web hosts that fail to focus sufficiently on preventing customer churn may be failing to recognize the variety and severity of negative effects that churn can have on a business. (read more) (make a comment)
History Offers Go Daddy IPO Lessons
April 19, 2006 -- Last week's reports that domain registrar and Web host Go Daddy may have hired Lehman Brothers to lead the company through an initial public offering drew plenty of questions. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Hosts Ready for Texas Blackouts
April 18, 2006 -- While residential users saw air conditioners go down, and traffic backed up at streetlights, local Web hosts say their data centers - obviously big draws on the power grid - are well prepared for outages. (read more) (make a comment)
Online News Drives Intense Demand
April 13, 2006 -- According to a recent report on media use and technology spearheaded by nonprofit organization Pew Internet & American Life Project, 50 million Americans are accessing their news online. (read more) (make a comment)
Go Daddy Deal a Pro-Microsoft Move
March 28, 2006 -- With the announcement last week that it would transition its hosted domains to the Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting, Go Daddy made a massive conceptual investment in the software company's technology. (read more) (make a comment)
Control Panels Evolve With Plesk 8
March 24, 2006 -- Taking cues from customer feedback, SWsoft just completed development on a major upgrade to its Plesk for Linux/Unix control panel, and is preparing to launch the new product next Wednesday. (read more) (make a comment)
Verizon Tool Targets New Market
March 21, 2006 -- With the launch of the Basic version of its Remote IP Application Management service, IT solution provider Verizon Business set out to expand the appeal, and the accessibility, of its existing offering. (read more) (make a comment)
WebTrends Launches Marketing Lab
March 17, 2006 -- This week, Web analytics developer WebTrends announced that it had launched the WebTrends Marketing Lab product family, adding what it calls "marketing performance management" solutions to its analytics tools. (read more) (make a comment)
Online Tax Filing Uses Complex Tools
March 13, 2006 -- Of the 132.4 million income tax returns received by the IRS last year, 68.5 million were filed electronically, an 11.3 percent increase over the previous year. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Hosts Tap March Madness Demand
March 9, 2006 -- Many Web hosting companies are finding lucrative niches within the NCAA men's basketball tourney - whether they service travel, academic or gambling site customers. (read more) (make a comment)
ModernGigabyte Hosts Event, Teams Up
March 7, 2006 -- Web hosting software developer ModernGigabyte, arrived at its second annual Hosting Workshop last week prepared to introduce Version 5 of ModernBill, and to announce a new partnership with Internet giant Google. (read more) (make a comment)
ICANN Closes Deal, Upsets Registrars
March 3, 2006 -- After several years of what some considered VeriSign's bullying of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers through lawsuits, the two reached a settlement this week. (read more) (make a comment)
Avoiding the Big Web Hosting Lies
March 1, 2006 -- As buyers become more aware, even well-meaning Web hosts may discover that they set off alarms, coming close to making claims that are becoming more commonly recognized as literally too good to be true. (read more) (make a comment)
Globat Defies Gravity, Status Quo
February 28, 2006 -- Taking a page directly from the marketing manual of C I Host, Web hosting provider Globat announced this week that 25-year-old Maine man Mark Greenlaw has agreed to become a "human billboard" for the company. (read more) (make a comment)
HostingCon Raises the Stakes in 2006
February 24, 2006 -- Attendees of the second annual HostingCon 2006, set to take place July 17 to 19, can expect some significant changes and improvements over last year's event. (read more) (make a comment)
Site-Building Tools for Web Hosts
February 22, 2006 -- Many of the Web hosts seeking to accommodate the SMB market have incorporated easy-to-use Web site building tools into their overall offerings, either as a free feature or as a paid-for add-on. (read more) (make a comment)
Developing Web Hosting AUP and TOS
February 20, 2006 -- Drafting an Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service that reflect the unique risks present in your business puts you in a better position to control and mitigate those risks. (read more) (make a comment)
A Web Hosting To-Do List for 2006
February 17, 2006 -- I would recommend that hosting companies a series of steps during the coming year in order to overcome competitive pressures and better position themselves to succeed in the market. (read more) (make a comment)
Concentric Refines SMB Hosting Play
February 15, 2006 -- Meeting the market between these extremes was the goal of XO Communications as it introduced a number of significant upgrades to the offerings of its Concentric hosting brand. (read more) (make a comment)
ModernBill Re-engineered in Update
February 13, 20005 -- Having met the early challenge, ModernGigabyte set out to accomplish new goals in the development of ModernBill version 5, which began initial beta testing January 16. (read more) (make a comment)
Coradiant Suggests Blended Monitoring
February 8, 2006 -- Companies that monitor their Web sites using a "blended" set of specialized performance monitoring tools are able to cut the number of undetected site errors down to 35 percent, says Coradiant. (read more) (make a comment)
Go Daddy Ad Fight Goes to the Judges
February 2, 2006 -- Web hosting provider Go Daddy held a press conference Wednesday to discuss its efforts to win last-minute acceptance for a Super Bowl ad that has been repeatedly rejected by the standards and practices division of ABC. (read more) (make a comment)
Telehouse Adds To Basic Colocation
February 1, 2006 -- Countless Web hosts colocate their operations with larger carrier hotels. But, aside from the basic power, ping and pipe, they rarely derive any additional benefits from the standard colocation arrangement. (read more) (make a comment)
Jamcracker Helps Web Hosts Into SaaS
January 30, 2006 -- The application service provider model, now commonly referred to as "software as a service," has a made a comeback in recent years, presenting Web hosts with an opportunity to expand their revenues and attract new business. (read more) (make a comment)
Register.com Makes Wholesale Changes
January 27, 2006 -- The thriving market for domain names has created new opportunities in the wholesale market, which was the ultimately the deciding factor in the recent re-branding of Register.com's wholesale division and new partner Web site. (read more) (make a comment)
Q&A With AIT CEO Clarence Briggs
January 25, 2006 -- In a conversation with the Web Host Industry Review, Briggs discusses the problem, the solution as he sees it and what he has committed to the case, and to the greater battle against click fraud. (read more) (make a comment)
New Verio Targets SMB Web Hosting
January 23, 2006 -- On Monday of this week, Verio announced that it had begun 2006 by reorganizing its business to sharpen the company's focus on the hosting requirements of small and medium-sized businesses. (read more) (make a comment)
Affinity Launches Web Host Gate.com
January 20, 2006 -- Web hosting companies will occasionally employ multiple brands to target specific segments of the market. But when an industry evolves or a company wants to adjust its focus, sometimes a new identity is needed. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Hosting and Liquidity
January 19, 2006 -- Business liquidity encompasses the number of prospective buyers, the business valuation and the amount of time required to market and close the sale of that business. (read more) (make a comment)
Web Host INetU Defends Disaster
January 18, 2006 -- If the tragic impact of September's Hurricane Katrina revealed anything about Web hosting, it is that many companies are still without a sound disaster recovery system. (
