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March 11, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, US prosecutors made several indictments last month against Lexitrans Inc. and other shell companies based in Overland, Kansas, alleging that they ran adult Web sites and 900 numbers, defrauding customers by illegally charging for subscriptions to services that were advertised as free.
Lexitrans is alleged to have been founded by members and associates of the Gambino crime family. According to reports, the scams ran by Lexitrans netted around $230 million for the perpetrators.
The company's operations included 7,000 square feet of data center space, redundant power and fiber-optic pipes. Former employees of the company said the adult sites hosted were very successful, attracting large volumes of traffic. Other sources backed up these claims, reporting that the operation was paying $50,000 a month in Internet access fees and $100,000 a day for search engine placement. Programmers employed at Lexitrans also developed pop-up ads designed to entice users to sign-up for free tours. According to the indictments, the technology was designed to illegally trigger charges to credit cards as users proceed through the free tour.
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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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