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nginx Continues Market Share Momentum in Netcraft February Web Server Survey

February 9, 2012 — Web analytics firm Netcraft released the results of its February 2012 web server survey this week, and while Apache has gained the most hostnames, nginx was the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month.

Nebraska Seeks to Win Massive $1.2 Billion Data Center Contract

February 6, 2012 — Nebraska data center development officials are making a move to pass economic incentives to win a massive data center build contract dubbed “Project Edge”, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. The company looking to build the $1.2 billion data center campus hopes to break ground in May, with an initial first phase investment of $500 million.

Microsoft Gives Free Windows Azure Access to TechStars Startups

February 2, 2012 — Microsoft announced on Monday that it is working with startup accelerator TechStars to provide startups with up to $60,000 of Windows Azure compute and storage at no cost. TechStars accelerators in Boulder, Colorado, Boston, New York, Seattle and Texas will have access to Windows Azure over a 24-month period.

SSL Certificate Authority Global Sign Appoints Microsoft Vet as CTO

January 30, 2012 — Certificate authority and Internet security firm GlobalSign announced this week that it had appointed Ryan Hurst, a 10 year veteran of Microsoft’s security business, as its new chief technology officer, charging him with developing the company’s overall technology vision, product architecture, standards and compliance.

DiscountASP.NET Launches Free Beta for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Hosting

December 13, 2011 — Windows Server hosting provider DiscountASP.NET announced on Tuesday it has launched a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 hosting beta program for all DiscountASP.NET hosting customers at no additional cost. The program emerges a few weeks after DiscountASP.NET launched its free Web Matrix v2 beta hosting sandbox program for the web developer community.

Apache Sees Largest Gain in Netcraft December Web Server Survey

December 12, 2011 — Web analytics firm Netcraft reported the results of its December 2011 survey, which saw responses from 555,482,744 sites. This marked an increase of 29.5 million since last month’s web survey. Since June, all major web server vendors have continuously gained hostnames.

Web Host Rackspace Offers Free Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with Windows Cloud Servers

November 29, 2011 — Web hosting provider Rackspace announced on Monday via its blog that it is offering Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for free with its cloud servers for Windows. According to the post, Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment that ensures quality code throughout the application life cycle.

Web Host AppliedI Launches WebsitePanel with Integrated Microsoft Datacenter Toolkit

November 21, 2011 — Web hosting provider Applied Innovations announced over the weekend that its WebsitePanel control panel now integrated with Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit is now available. According to the press release, WebsitePanel is an Open Source control panel for Windows hosting.