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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – Nov 20, 2009

November 20, 2009 — There were many web hosting sales and promos to announce this week, including a giveaway from DemoWolf, e-commerce hosting discounts from WebNet, cheaper EV SSL certificates from Go Daddy, free MySpace ad credits from SiteGround, and shared hosting discounts from DiscountDomainsUK.com.

MySpace Installs Fusion-io Flash Memory Servers at Data Center

October 14, 2009 — Social networking site MySpace recently installed Fusion-io’s flash memory cached servers at its data center, replacing its traditional server/direct-attach disk combos, to reduce its carbon footprint and costs.

Michael Jackson Memorial Streamed Online

July 7, 2009 — Expected to be one of the biggest media events to have taken place – ever – with city police estimating that between 250,000 and 700,000 fans flooded downtown Los Angeles, where the Tuesday funeral for pop icon Michael Jackson took place. Those crowds, however, may only represent a fraction of the Internet users around the world, who tuned into the memorial via online video streams, cell phones and peer-2-peer networks.

Netcraft: Microsoft Hosts Most Active Sites

April 27, 2009 — Web analytics firm Netcraft is expanding on its web server survey by offering a dataset of the most active sites, giving a truly global analysis of web hosts.

MySpace Begins Offering .tel Domains

March 25, 2009 — With direct access to 130 million active social network users, MySpace is now offering “.tel” domains to its members, who will be able to better promote their MySpace page in organic search results from any device by registering a .tel domain.

Twitter Hack Hits Obama, Others

January 6, 2009 — Social networking site Twitter warned users Monday that phishers are directing users to fake Twitter login pages in an effort to dupe them into handing over their user names and password credentials.

Site Shut For Breaking Own Copyright

October 22, 2008 — The copyrighted content on Quote Unquote Records’ website was taken offline by its Web host due to infringement of its own copyright, according to record label founder Jeff Rosenstock.

Level 3 Streams Presidential Debates

September 29, 2008 — Fox Interactive Media has selected fiber-based communications provider Level 3 Communications to deliver video acquisition, transport, encoding and live streaming for all four of the 2008 US presidential debates online.

Mosso Powers Teen Awards Site

September 15, 2008 — Mosso announced on Monday that interactive design firm Hello Interactive successfully deployed Mosso’s flagship product, The Hosting Cloud, to host FOX 2008 Teen Choice Awards program.

Nintendo Wii Selects Limelight CDN

September 4, 2008 — Content delivery network provider Limelight Networks announced on Wednesday that it will be providing content delivery services for Nintendo’s Wii console.