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January 16, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Digex, Incorporated (digex.com), a managed hosting provider,today announced that it has expanded its performance and availabilityofferings by adding Akamai's (akamai.com) EdgeSuite solution, an integratedsuite of services that provide for seamless distribution of content andapplications, to its solutions portfolio.
Digex is offering the Akamai EdgeSuite service to its enterprise clients asan integrated set of functionalities designed to reduce Internetinfrastructure complexities by extending the performance, scalability, andreliability benefits of content delivery across an entire Web site,including dynamic content. The service uses intelligent routing technologythat connects end-user requests to the most optimal server within Akamai'sdistributed computing platform for more efficient distribution of dynamiccontent, rich media, and Web and enterprise applications.
Digex clients work with Akamai and the Digex Application Optimization Center(AOC) to guide them through setup and provide support. The AOC will offersupport for Akamai clients and is an ISO 9001-2000 registered organizationdedicated to providing pre- and post-production application enhancement anddeployment services. Other AOC services include testing, migrations,profiling and code review.
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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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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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