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Child Abuse Content Hosted in US
July 21, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A recent study performed by an Internet watchdog reveals that over half of all online child abuse content is hosted in the US, reports Vnunet.com. The Internet Watch Foundation (iwf.org.uk) study traced 51.1 percent of all reported child abuse material to US based Web hosts. Comparatively, the UK only accounted for 0.2 percent of the content, showing a substantial decrease from 18 percent in 1997.
The IWF received a record number of reports of potentially illegal content for the first six months of 2006. Of the 14,313 reports that were received, 4,908 of them contained illegal content. For the same period last year, 11,522 reports resulted in illegal material being discovered at 3,289 sites.
"2006 is proving our busiest year yet with record reports processed and a record number of Web sites confirmed to contain child abuse content," says Peter Robbins, CEO at the IWF. "That only 0.2 percent of child abuse content is hosted in the UK is a testament to the public's help in reporting suspicious Web sites, and to our partners such as ISPs, mobile operators, search providers, the government and police agencies for supporting our aims."
All reports, which are submitted anonymously by members of the public, were processed within 24 hours and any content hosted in the UK was removed within 48 hours. However, removing content from hosts located abroad remains a problem, as one fifth of sites hosting illegal material were accessible for a period of six weeks.
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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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