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Google Launches Source Host Service
July 31, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Search engine giant Google (google.com) has launched a new project hosting service for open source software, according to reports released Monday.
Employing the Subversion control system, the new service provides repository hosting and support for issue tracking. The early beta reportedly has limited functionality at the moment and plenty of rough edges, more in tune with the principles of the open source movement than with some of Google's more polished beta offerings.
The service's issue tracking feature includes a useful filtering list view widget, but lacks popular Ajax flourishes. The project's search feature isn't fully useful yet either but is expected to improve as project metadata expands. Reports also say the Web-based repository view is a bit on the basic side and doesn't provide a means of viewing earlier revisions, the source code display is very simple and syntax highlighting isn't yet supported.
Google's new source code hosting service is reportedly far from ready for production use, but once properly integrated with GMail, Google Groups, Google Talk and other relevant services, the new hosting offering could become an important force in the development world.
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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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