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Web Host BurstNET Receives Funding for Data Center Expansion

January 19, 2012 — Web hosting and colocation provider BurstNET Technologies announced on Thursday it has received growth capital from an undisclosed institutional investor. The move comes a few months after BurstNET expanddd into the US West Coast marketplace by offering dedicated hosting in Los Angeles.

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Web Host BurstNET Expands Dedicated Server Availability to LA Market

April 19, 2011 – Web hosting provider BurstNET Technologies announced on Tuesday that it will expand into the US West Coast marketplace with the availability of its dedicated hosting in Los Angeles, California. 

Q&A: BurstNET, President and CEO, Shawn M. Arcus

September 30, 2010 — In an email interview with the WHIR, BurstNET president and CEO Shawn M. Arcus discusses the motivating factors behind the company’s expansion into Europe and how it will open new growth opportunities for BurstNET.

Web Host BurstNet Opens Europe Headquarters

August 30, 2010 — Web hosting provider BurstNET Technologies announced on Monday it has expanded into the European hosting marketplace by launching its wholly-owned subsidiary, BurstNET Limited.

After Controversial Content-Related Shutdown, Blog Host Blogetery is Back Online

August 23, 2010 — Several weeks after free blog hosting service, Blogetery, was shuttered by its hosting provider, BurstNET, for hosting content allegedly posted by members of terrorist group al-Qaeda, the blog site is back online with a new host.

BurstNET Announces IPV6 Enabled Web Hosting

July 30, 2010 — Web hosting provider BurstNET announced this week that it had made Internet Protocol Version 6 available end-to-end across its entire product line.

BurstNET CTO Joe Marr Comments on Blogetery Shutdown

July 20, 2010 — After a flurry of attention based partly on incomplete information, BurstNET’s chief technology officer Joe Marr offered some more insight into the suspension of the Blogetery service in an email interview with the WHIR, in which he outlines the company’s justification for taking the customer server offline, including details of the “history of abuse” alluded to in BurstNET’s original email to the customer.

Blogetery Site Shut Down for Bomb Threats, Hitlist, Says Host

July 19, 2010 — Monday afternoon, BurstNet released a statement saying it took the service offline after receiving a critical notice from law enforcement requesting information on the ownership of the Blogetery server. 

US Authorities Shut Down Site Hosting 73,000 Blogs

July 19, 2010 — According to several reports published over the weekend, a website providing free WordPress blogs was shut down overnight by its hosting provider BurstNet last week at the request of US authorities, under circumstances that remain mysterious more than a week later.

BurstNET Buys Renewable Energy Certificates

April 13, 2009 — The largest web hosting and colocation provider in the Northeast Pennsylvania region, BurstNET Technologies, has purchased Green-e Energy certified, renewable wind energy certificates from Community Energy, Inc. to match 100 percent of its electricity needs.