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February 16, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet portal Yahoo! (yahoo.com), said on Tuesday that it will open an European operations headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. The new base will reportedly include a Web hosting center, in addition to accounting and revenue operations, and a multi-lingual customer support unit.
According to data released in December by Netcraft, Yahoo! was the fifth fastest growing Web host in 2004, based on the total number of domains added. The company recently extended its $4.98 domain promotion, which is being used as a loss leader to attract Web hosting customers.
In recent years, Ireland has become a hotbed for US-based technology firms attracted by the country's low corporate tax rates, educated, English-speaking work force and robust economic growth. Tech giants with operations in Ireland include Dell, Google, HP and Intel. Reports say the move is expected to create four hundred new jobs.
John Marcom, senior vice president for international operations at Yahoo!, said the success of Yahoo!'s Overture division in Ireland led to way to the expanded presence.
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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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