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• Customer Feature: How Ticketing Site Seatwave Handles Demand Spikes with PEER 1 Hosting
  May 15, 2012 -- Depending on the event it’s serving, an online event ticket marketplace, acting as a middleman for buyers and sellers, can process thousands of transactions a minute. An event that is high in demand can attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the website simultaneously.
• Q&A: Ruslan Fazlyev of Ecwid Talks Shopping Cart Software
  May 14, 2012 -- In an email Q&A with the WHIR, Ecwid CEO Ruslan Fazlyev discusses how he applied the lessons learned working on his previous project X-Cart to Ecwid, addressing some of the pain points in deploying storefronts in websites. He also discusses how the company intends to work with hosting providers.
• How App Stores Offer Web Hosting Customers a Custom Cloud
  May 11, 2012 -- The app store has become a pretty universally understood model for acquiring software, thanks to the across-the-board adoption of smartphones, and their approach to customization. Not surprisingly, the app store has made its way into the web hosting world.
• Q&A: Jeffrey S. Klaus of Intel Data Center Manager Solutions Talks Power Efficiency
  May 10, 2012 -- In an email interview with the Web Host Industry Review, Jeffrey S. Klaus, director of Intel’s Data Center Manager solutions discusses the power crunch in the data center in general, and talks specifically about some of the middleware tools Intel has developed to help push the power-efficient agenda inside facilities.
• How Weebly Dazzles Customers Who Might Otherwise Become Yours
  May 8, 2012 -- The shared hosting market hasn’t been a hot topic in the hosting business for years. But while other areas have seen more rapid growth, the shared market is still out there, still consistently producing revenue for a large number of hosting providers.
• How Inktank Supports Service Providers Running Ceph Storage Platform
  May 3, 2012 -- Open source unified storage platform Ceph was created by a co-founder of web host DreamHost in 2004, and since then, DreamHost has been behind it despite not even having a QA department supporting the project.
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