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XO Communications Appoints New Director

January 13, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunication service provider XO Communications Inc. (xo.com) announced this week that it has appointed Alan Hill as the company’s director of legislative affairs. Hill will represent XO’s interests on legislative matters before members of the United States Congress.

Red Hat Opens Netscape Directory Server

January 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports released Monday, Linux vendor Red Hat (redhat.com) is planning to release Netscape’s Directory Server to the open source community, which may improve scalability to current open source lightweight directory access protocol offerings, according to a developer for the Linux distributor.

Wachovia to Open New Data Center

December 6, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Wachovia (wachovia.com), the fourth largest bank in the United States, is planning to open a new $400 million data center facility in Birmingham, Alabama, according to a report by the Associated Press.

N3sport Picks Web Host Verio Europe

December 3, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Verio Europe (verio.co.uk) announced on Wednesday that it has added n3sports, a provider of collaborative planning solutions for sport organizations, as a new customer.

Web Host Voxtreme Expands to UK

November 23, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Reseller Web hosting provider Voxtreme Hosting Limited (voxtreme.com) announced on Monday it has launched a UK-based sister company Voxtreme UK Limited (voxtreme.co.uk).

New Windows Server Near Completion

November 12, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, Microsoft’s (microsoft.com) next Windows Server operating system, code named R2, is well on its way to being finalized, though Microsoft has yet to release a beta version. Packaging, licensing and support details have already been ironed out, reports say.

VeriCenter Launches Recovery Tools

September 24, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed services provider VeriCenter (vericenter.com) announced on Thursday that it has added several disaster recovery clients, along with several new solutions, to its hosting facility in Atlanta, prompted in part by the recent hurricane activity in the Southeast United States.

Peak 10 Plans Disaster Recovery Lesson

September 15, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Peak 10 Inc. (peak10.com) announced on Wednesday that Agility Recovery Solutions? (agilityrecovery.com) Marylaine Canavan will give a presentation entitled “Enough with the Planning?How will your Disaster Recovery Plan Work? Real Lessons from Real Disasters,” at its ongoing executive educational seminar series. The presentations will take place the week of September 20, 2004 in each of Peak 10′s four data centers.

Verio Prepares for Hurricane Ivan

September 13, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Verio (verio.com) announced last Friday that it was implementing emergency preparedness and business continuity planning in preparation for Hurricane Ivan. The company recently made similar preparations for Hurricane Frances, and says it suffered no outages to data center service or degradation in performance as a result.

Tucows to Launch Domain Auction Service

September 7, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Tucows (tucows.com), a wholesaler of Internet services to Web hosting and Internet service providers, announced on Tuesday that it is planning to release a new auction service for reselling expiring domain names, later this year.