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According to BizReport, the worm disrupted service for thousands of Webhosting.net customers. Chief information officer Andrew Martin told BizReport that the worm completely destroyed four of Webhosting.net's Windows-based servers, bringing down more than 1,000 Web sites for most of the weekend. Martin said the data was retrieved from back-up servers, but the infected machines had to be rebuilt from scratch.
The worm targeted Windows servers running the BlackIce Defender firewall (blackice.iss.net) developed by Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems (iss.net). The company has made a patch available for the flaw, which was discovered by research firm eEye Digital Security on March 8.
In the days since Witty first appeared, several customers of Web hosting provider C I Host (cihost.com) made posts on the Webhostingtalk.com (webhostingtalk.com) forum, reporting that the company was experiencing problems with the databases on its shared SQL servers. The servers have reportedly been down since Saturday morning and posts made on Tuesday said the problem persisted. One post suggested the problem might have been caused by the worm, though C I Host has made no official comment on the matter.
Read Back Issues of WHIR Magazine
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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