Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup

October 24, 2008 -- Most of this week's sales and promotion news revolved around hosting providers offering discounts on certain products or packages, as well as new launches of various services.

Webair Adds Cloud Storage Service

October 30, 2008 -- Web hosting provider Webair announced on Thursday it is offering a new cloud storage system that enables customers to reduce administrative overhead and increase data redundancy and flexibility.

HostDime Launches UK Subsidiary

October 30, 2008 -- Web hosting provider HostDime announced on Thursday it has launched HostDime United Kingdom, a new wholly owned subsidiary offering shared hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private servers, and dedicated servers.

Site5 Bought, New Execs Announced

October 29, 2008 -- The founders Web hosting provider Site5 are leaving their posts, according to a Tuesday announcement that they are handing over the company to new owners, Ben Welch-Bolen and Joel Brown, who promise to maintain the company's vision.

Go Daddy Web Applications Take Off

October 23, 2008 -- Discount Web host and registrar Go Daddy reports its Hosting Connection service averages more than 1,000 daily Web application installations including ones for photo albums, blogs and content management platforms.

Intermedia Offers Exchange in UK

October 21, 2008 -- Software as a service provider Intermedia announced on Tuesday it has expanded its hosted Microsoft Exchange offering to customers in the United Kingdom.

Rackspace Hosts Cloud Webinar

October 20, 2008 -- Web hosting provider Rackspace, and its cloud computing division Mosso announced on Monday they are hosting a customer event and live webcast on October 22 at 1:00 p.m. EST.

Cirrus to Launch Managed Solutions

October 20, 2008 -- Canadian web hosting provider Cirrus Tech announced on Monday it will be launching a new set of what the company calls "managed corporate hosting solutions," powered by R1soft's continuous data protection technology.

Web Host Endurance International Sold

October 15, 2008 -- Private equity firm Audax Group said Tuesday that it had sold the significant web hosting property Endurance International Group to another investment group, Accel-KKR.

Gazzin Moves Facility, Upgrades Plans

October 15, 2008 -- Reseller hosting provider Gazzin announced on Tuesday it has upgraded hosting plan allotments after successfully relocating to a new data center facility.

Cirrus Tech Adds Exchange, SharePoint

October 10, 2008 -- Canadian web hosting provider Cirrus Tech announced on Friday it will soon expand its hosted offerings to include Hosted Exchange and SharePoint Services.

Registrar Gandi Adds Web Hosting

October 7, 2008 -- After nine months of beta testing using a pool of 9,000 servers running 4,000 customer websites, Gandi.net, the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in France, has officially launched its hosting service.

Q&A: Jonathan Bryce, Mosso

October 7, 2008 -- In an email conversation with The WHIR, Mosso co-founder Jonathan Bryce discusses how Mosso's Hosting Cloud is providing YouDecide2008.com, a political blog and website, handle tremendous election-related spikes in traffic.

TRAFFIC Fetches $3M-Plus in Domains

September 30, 2008 -- Domain aftermarket provider Moniker announced on Tuesday that more than $3 million in premium domain names were purchased during Moniker's live auctions at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York domain conference last week.

PHASE 2 Names New Sales VP

September 24, 2008 -- Software as a service solution provider PHASE 2 International announced on Wednesday that it has named Mike Peterson the company's new vice president of sales.

CM4all Partners with Brazillian ISP

September 18, 2008 -- Web-based applications provider CM4all announced on Thursday it is expanding its business into Latin America through a new partnership with Brazilian Internet service provider iG Empresas.

BlackMesh Sees Record Growth

September 15, 2008 -- BlackMesh, a company that has recently joined KEMP Technologies' VARMaster Partner Program, announced on Monday it is exceeding growth projections for 2008 with over 30 percent revenue increase in the first half of the year.

Q&A: Jim Fagan, Rackspace Asia

September 12, 2008 -- Jim Fagan, the managing director of Rackspace Asia, discusses the web hosting provider's recent Hong Kong data center opening in an email conversation with the WHIR.

LeaseWeb Expands Network, Support

September 11, 2008 -- Dedicated hosting provider LeaseWeb announced on Thursday it has expanded its network and support department, and named four new network engineers to cover various operational services.

Rackspace Aims at Asian Market

September 8, 2008 -- Early on Monday, hosting company Rackspace issued the announcement that it had established an Asian headquarters and a data center in Hong Kong.

Global Crossing Adds Managed Services

September 3, 2008 -- Global IP solutions provider Global Crossing announced on Wednesday it has expanded the range of services offered in its London, UK data center at Docklands by offering hosting managed services.

Outsourced, Not Offshore in Mexico

August 27, 2008 -- Sieena Software says what it calls the "near-shore outsourcing" model compares favorably to the overseas alternative in a long list of ways.

WpWeb Offers R1Soft CDP

August 25, 2008 -- European online solutions and media development company WpWeb has joined the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program, offering R1Soft's Continuous Data Protection solution as an add-on to its hosting services.

HostingCon 2008 - Microsoft Spreads the Word on Hyper-V

Posted on 2008-08-06

Certainly the most challenging discussion of the show, purely in terms of the amount of information to absorb and the breadth of understanding required was the conversation I had last Wednesday with Michael van Dijken and John Zanni of Microsoft, the

WWF Touts Green Hosting Solution

August 1, 2008 -- The UK arm of the well-known panda-logo-sporting environmental organization apparently formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund has chosen a "green" web hosting offering from hosting provider Carrenza.

BizCom Adds Archiving, OCS 2007

July 31, 2008 -- Internet hosting provider BizCom Web Services announced two new services this week, adding its Hosted Email Archiving Library and hosted Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 services.

OutlookToday Deploys ProvisorSP

July 30th, 2008 -- Hosted application and provisioning solutions provider Abridean has announced that Outlook Today has deployed Abridean's ProvisorSP to manage its hosted messaging and collaboration services.

ServerCentral Sells WingSix to UK-2

July 29, 2008 -- Data center solutions provider ServerCentral announced on Tuesday it has completed the sale of its WingSix hosting brand to UK web hosting provider UK-2 Group.

Dotser Offers Application Vault

July 25, 2008 -- Web hosting provider Dotster announced on Wednesday that it has launched its "new and improved" hosting Application Vault.

WebFusion Revamps Hosting Plans

July 23, 2008 -- UK Web hosting provider WebFusion has revamped its entire shared hosting range, and is temporarily offering discounts of up to 40 percent, making some plans as cheap as ?3.95 per month.

PEER 1 Offers Plesk Power Pack

July 21, 2008 -- Automation and virtualization software developer Parallels has partnered with PEER 1 to offer its hosting providers Parallels Plesk Control Panel and Power Pack.

PEER 1 Powers Plesk Power Pack

July 21, 2008 -- Automation and virtualization software developer Parallels has partnered with PEER 1 to offer its hosting providers Parallels Plesk Control Panel and Power Pack.