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February 18, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider and domain registrar Go Daddy (godaddy.com) announced on Friday that it would issue its Turbo SSL certificates, valued at $29.95, free of charge to open source projects.
The Turbo SSL certificates, the companysaid, are issued within minutes, have 99 percent browser recognitionand provide 128-bit security.
"We are a big supporter of the opensource community," says Bob Parsons, president and founder of The GoDaddy Group, Inc. "Go Daddy offers numerous open source softwareapplications in conjunction with our hosting plans, specifically,blogging, image galleries, content management and more."
Go Daddy issued its first free SSL certificate to binarycloud (binarycloud.com),an open source project focused on application framework and developmentenvironments for creating large-scale PHP applications.
"Part of what binarycloud offers ishighly secure authentication - which means everything we do must beextremely secure - especially code checkins," says Alex Black, projectleader for binarycloud. "After researching Verisign's certificates, wedecided that Go Daddy's SSL offering was superior - well priced andsimple to administer. They kindly donated an enterprise-grade SSLcertificate to the project and we've used it with no problems for avariety of services on binarycloud.com."
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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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