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News: Controversial Scottish Data Center Build Moves Forward
March 5, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications provider AT&T (att.com) announced on Wednesday that it is planning to expand its data center network with a focus on Boston, Massachusetts, Dallas, Texas, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Singapore. This comes just six months after AT&T announced new data centers in Toronto, Canada and Piscataway, New Jersey.
The company says it plans to add about 180,000 square feet of hosting space as part of a broader $1 billion expansion of its network, which already consists of 38 data centers around the world. AT&T's 2008 expansion budget is 33 percent larger than last year's and the company says it is being driven by the recent surges in data, voice and video traffic.
AT&T's network expansion also will include new undersea fiber optic cable capacity to Japan and Asia, new core MPLS routers to Europe, Asia and the US, new network-to-network connections to extend its reach into high growth markets in Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and South America as well as the rollout of a global virtual private local area network solution. By the end of 2008, AT&T says it expects to have an Ethernet footprint in 39 countries.
Last month, AT&T extended its partnership with 1-800-Flowers.com and will continue to support its infrastructure with data hosting services in a multi-year contract.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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