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January 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and Internet access provider Drizzle Site Specific was sold to Internet Professionals & Network Solutions Inc. (ipns.com) this week, according to the firm representing Drizzle Site Specific in the deal.
The sale included Drizzle Site Specific's data center in downtown Seattle, Washington. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Seattle-based Drizzle Site Specific was founded in 1996 by Kaley Davis. Internet Professionals & Network Solutions, a provider of Internet access and Web hosting, is based in Portland, Oregon.
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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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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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