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Red Hat Announces Summit Speakers

March 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source software developer Red Hat, Inc. (redhat.com) announced on Wednesday the headlining speakers for their first annual Red Hat Summit 2005. The conference will be held in New Orleans from June 1-3 and joins various members of the open source community, including community contributors, developers, customers and partners.

Peer 1 Network Opens New Data Center

March 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet bandwidth, colocation and Web hosting provider Peer 1 Network (peer1.net) announced on Wednesday that it had opened a new 12,000 square-foot data center in Herndon, Virginia, its twelfth facility.

Rackspace Most Reliable, Netcraft Says

March 8, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com) had the most reliable Web hosting company Web site last month, according to research and analysis firm Netcraft’s (netcraft.com) survey of Web site reliability. It was the first time Rackspace topped Netcraft’s survey.

Spam Conviction Overturned

March 4, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — One of the US’s first felony spam convictions has been overturned after a judge ruled that the jury had been misled by the case’s technological terms.

The Planet Offers Red Hat Linux 4

March 1, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com) said on Monday that it is the first Web host to offer Red Hat (redhat.com) Enterprise Linux 4. The company says the new platform will provide enterprise customers with higher security and performance benefits, in addition to the cost benefits of open source solutions.

OpSource Unveils ROI Calculator

February 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — OpSource (opsource.net), a developer of solutions for delivering software as a service, announced on Thursday that it had released its ROI calculator, an online tool that enables independent software vendors to calculate startup, capital and operating expenses for delivering software as a service, in addition to showing ISVs the cost savings they will realize as a result of partnering with OpSource.

Netvention Giving Free Lists to Brokers

February 15, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Netvention (netvention.com), a provider of services for finding, extracting and harvesting business information from the Internet, said on Monday that it is giving away 5,000 free records to first-time list brokers. The records are drawn from Netvention’s B2B database, which the company says now holds information on over 2.4 million businesses.

Vigilante Group Attacks Cyber-criminals

February 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, an Internet vigilante group known as the 419 Flash Mob, launched a two-day bandwidth attack last Wednesday against spammers attempting to defraud people by providing hosting services for fake bank sites.

OLM Downtime Caused by Hardware Failure

February 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to posts on a Usenet newsgroup, a shared hosting server at Web hosting provider OLM (olm.net) went down on the morning of February 8 in an outage that affected some sites for as long as 28 hours.

Web Host Hostopia Extends Services

February 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting wholesaler Hostopia (hostopia.com) announced on Monday that it has introduced new applications and upgrades for its wholesale Web hosting and managed email services, to be launched throughout the first quarter of 2005.