Application Hosting Not For Everyone

2008-12-29

Resellers should take a hard, honest look at their businesses before jumping headfirst into the application hosting market, according to Traver Gruen-Kennedy, chairman of the recently-formed Application Service Provider (ASP) Industry Consortium. "Don't fool yourself," he told VARBusiness ...

Red Hat Announces Summit Speakers

March 17, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Open source software developer Red Hat, Inc. (redhat.com) announced on Wednesday the headlining speakers for their first annual Red Hat Summit 2005. The conference will be held in New Orleans from June 1-3 and joins various members of the open source community, including community contributors, developers, customers and partners.

34 Vendors Port Apps to Solaris 10

March 14, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Sun Microsystems (sun.com) announced on Monday that a total of 34 software vendors, including Lenovo, Ulticom, Veraz Networks and VoiceGenie, have agreed to port a variety of telecom applications to the Solaris 10 operating system.

Tornado Merges with Web Host Novara.ie

March 10, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Irish Web hosting provider Novara.ie (novara.ie) announced on Wednesday that it had merged with Tornado Dedicated Servers (tornado.ie), effective immediately. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Netspoke Picks Rodopi Software

March 10, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Rodopi (rodopi.com), a developer of back-end software automation for Internet service and Web hosting providers, announced on Wednesday that Web and audio conferencing service provider Netspoke has selected Rodopi's OSS telephony services for international and domestic customer billing.

Postini Opens Two New Data Centers

March 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Email security and management provider Postini (postini.com) announced on Friday it has opened two new data centers in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands, providing Europe with additional processing facilities for an enhanced local, enterprise-level security.

Radiant Adds Two New Board Members

February 17, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet service and Web hosting provider Radiant Communications (radiant.net) announced earlier this week that Wendy Porter and Don Calder have joined its board of directors, replacing outgoing members Marc Bouchard and Omaya Elguindi, who have resigned.

Bank of America Chooses VeriSign

February 17, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- VeriSign (verisign.com), a provider of Internet infrastructure services, said on Thursday that the Bank of America has selected the VeriSign Unified Authentication solution to support its two-factor authentication platform.

1&1 Offers Discount Web Design

February 17, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet Inc. (1and1.com) announced on Thursday it is offering free discount vouchers for Website Pros' professional Web design services.

Speedera Unveils App Hosting Platform

February 16, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Content delivery service provider Speedera Networks (speedera.com) announced on Tuesday that it had introduced FlexComputing, a platform that provides distributed application hosting.

Netvention Giving Free Lists to Brokers

February 15, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Netvention (netvention.com), a provider of services for finding, extracting and harvesting business information from the Internet, said on Monday that it is giving away 5,000 free records to first-time list brokers. The records are drawn from Netvention's B2B database, which the company says now holds information on over 2.4 million businesses.

MCI Hosting Spam Gang, Spamhaus Says

February 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to a report published Friday by anti-spam organization Spamhaus (spamhaus.org), Web hosting and Internet service provider MCI (mci.com) is hosting illegal spam operations that generate approximately five million dollars in annual revenue for the company.

New Method Could Lead to Spam Increase

February 3, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Anti-spam organization Spamhaus (spamhaus.org) has warned that spammers have developed new and more effective methods of sending unsolicited bulk email, foreshadowing a surge in spam around the world, reports say.

Webshell.net Launches Shopping Cart

January 31, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web site software developer Webshell.net (webshell.net) announced on Friday that it has released its Quick Shopping Cart tool, designed to provide users with a seven-step wizard for develop successful e-commerce storefronts quickly and efficiently.

Scalix Launches Partner Network

January 31, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Linux email solution Scalix Corporation (scalix.com) announced on Monday that it had introduced the Scalix Partner Network, a global initiative that will team the company with resellers to offer successful Scalix customer deployments.

VeriCenter Appoints Support Director

January 28, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT infrastructure and managed services firm VeriCenter Inc. (vericenter.com) announced on Thursday that it has appointed Kwesi Ames its director of support engineering.

Thawte Adds Wildcard Cert for Resellers

January 27, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- SSL certificate authority Thawte (thawte.com) said on Thursday that it has introduced SSL Web Server Wildcard Certificates to its reseller channel.

Web Host RackForce Upgrades Firewall

January 21, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Canadian wholesale Web host RackForce (rackforce.com) announced on Friday it has enhanced its managed FortiGate ASIC accelerated antivirus firewalls, enabling its managed security services to handle increasing volumes of traffic.

WebSitePulse Adds Two Monitoring Sites

January 18, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- WebSitePulse (websitepulse.com), a provider of independent and remote monitoring of Web-based systems and e-business transactions, announced on Tuesday it has added two US monitoring locations in Seattle and Chicago.

Schematic Deploys Coyote Point Tools

January 11, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- E-business solutions provider Coyote Point Systems (coyotepoint.com) announced that technology development firm Schematic (schematic.com) has, using the Equalizer E350 load-balancing and traffic management solution in its data center, succeded in providing "five-nines" availability to client Web sites. Since implementing Equalizer, Schematic's Web hosting service has not experienced any downtime in more than two and a half years.

SWsoft Powers New Go Daddy Web Hosting

January 10, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting automation and server virtualization software developer SWsoft (sw-soft.com) announced on Monday that domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy (godaddy.com) has chosen SWsoft's Virtuozzo and Plesk solutions to power a new set of virtual private server-based dedicated hosting offerings.

TJR Networks Discounts Web Hosting

January 6, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- New Zealand-based Web services company TJR Networks (tjrnetworks.com) launched on Tuesday, announcing a 25 percent discount on all of its hosting plans.

Netcraft Unveils Anti-Phishing Services

January 5, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) launched an anti-phishing service earlier this week in an effort to help financial institutions combat criminals and the Web hosting companies that host their fraudulent sites.

SiteReportCard Launches Free SEO Suite

December 20, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Search engine optimization tools provider SitereportCard (sitereportcard.com) announced late last week that it has launched a suite of free SEO tools that help Web site owners improve and optimize their Web sites.

Patriots Pick Northeast Data Vault IDC

December 16, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Northeast Data Vault (nedatavault.com), a provider of colocation, Web hosting and data center services, announced on Thursday that the National Football League's New England Patriots have consolidated the team's Web site operations at the Northeast Data Vault?s data center in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The company said the Patriots' move to NorthEast Data Vault is part of the recently completed re-launch of its Web site.

PaperStreet Adds Total Control Hosting

December 14, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- PaperStreet Web Design (paperstreet.com), a Web design provider, announced the release of its new Total Control content management system for law firms.

Outblaze Launches Email Platform

December 10, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hosted email solutions provider Outblaze (outblaze.com) announced earlier this week that it has launched Outblaze-SME, an email platform designed for value-added resellers such as Web hosting providers, ISPs and domain registrars targeting the small and medium-sized business market.

Speedera Gives Goodwill.org Web Hosting

December 9, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Speedera Networks (speedera.com), a provider of application hosting and content delivery services, announced on Wednesday that it will provide free hosting and infrastructure services for Goodwill Industries International as part of its "Giving Back" philanthropy program.

The Planet Sets Up 500 Game Servers

December 7, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed Web hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) announced on Monday that it deployed 500 servers in just five hours for Pandemic Studios, creators of Star Wars Battlefront and other popular games. The 500 servers were installed, configured and delivered at the rate of one every 36 seconds using The Planet's proprietary automated provisioning system.

Softshare Picks Redbus Web Hosting

December 6, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Colocation and managed service provider Redbus Interhouse (Netherlands) (interhouse.net) announced on Monday that it had been selected by US based e-commerce solution provider Softshare to host core e-commerce services as part of its European expansion.

Plumtree Software Picks 365 Main

December 2, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and colocation provider 365 Main (365main.com) announced this week that it has added Plumtree Software as a new customer. Under the agreement, 365 Main will host all of Plumtree Software's engineering labs. Plumtree enables a suite of applications that coordinate human-managed activities across systems, processes and business boundaries.

International Opportunities

October 2004