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December 9, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a 19-year-old Winnipeg man is trying to clear his name after his Netgo Web Hosting (netgohosting.com) business unknowingly hosted al-Qaeda terrorist related content.
Justin Fitzpatrick, who rents server space from a Dallas-based data center, hosted a Web site in October for 10 days that featured video content of Osama bin Laden and his right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahri.
Fitzpatrick consulted the data center when he discovered Arabic-language text and videos on the Web site his company was hosting. After reporting it to the Dallas-based company, its legal department recommended he remove the content.
Fitzpatrick followed their instructions, removing the site and refunding the $4.95 monthly fee to the credit card. He says he has no idea why his company, which hosts all but 15 to 20 sites, was targeted. The report speculated that the responsible party believed the content would go undetected with a smaller hosting provider.
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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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