eUKhost’s Updates Server
March 31, 2008
The Internet hosting company eUKhost has just announced that it will now be able to offee its customers, the new state of the art server system. eUKhost plans to implement Dell servers with Xeon processors. These are available in a fully managed agreement. The bandwidth allocation is expected to be greater with the implementation of […]
The Planet Implements IPv6
March 31, 2008
Information has been recently announced about the new IPV6 offered by the well known Internet host The Planet. The current Internet protocol used by The Planet is IPv4 but this has been in operation since the 1980s. With the addition of new address space, and increase support for mobiles, The Planet has developed a more […]
Momentum Partners with Reseller
March 30, 2008
Canadian managed hosting and collocation services provider Momentum Advanced Solutions announced on Thursday it has united with an unnamed company it calls “the Canadian arm of one of the world’s top five technology resellers,” enabling it to put forward a variety of hosting and managed services to the partner’s customer base.
This accord which Momentum calls […]
LeaseWeb Utilises Cisco CRS-1 Platform
March 30, 2008
Web hosting provider LeaseWeb announced on Thursday that it is set to reorganize its global hosting network after installing two Cisco CRS-1s for approximately $2.4 million.
The company says the two Cisco CRS-1s will make the network infrastructure more hierarchical and scalable and allow LeaseWeb to enlarge its hosting network to a capability of 1900 […]
Internap Names New CFO
March 30, 2008
Internet business solutions provider Internap Network Services announced on Thursday it has named George E. Kilguss III the company’s chief financial officer, effective April 7.
“George’s skills and experience as a seasoned CFO with publicly traded, high-growth technology companies, combined with his hands-on knowledge of the financial markets will help drive Internap’s expansion into new areas,” […]
PowerServe Acquires 7th Street Media
March 30, 2008
Web design and software company PowerServe announced on Monday it has acquired Augusta, Georgia-based Web hosting and design provider 7th Street Media from Morris Communications.
The financial terms of the transaction were not revealed.
The acquisition, which completed on March 1, adds more than 100 website customers to PowerServe. 7th Street Media customer base is made up […]
Netflix Website Experiences Outage
March 30, 2008
Online DVD rental website Netflix suffered major technical troubles Monday, leading to an outage of more than 11 hours.
The website was unreachable to its 7.5 million subscribers from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST, said company spokesman Steve Swasey.
Even though Netflix did not indicate the facts of the technical problems, the company said that […]
The Planet, NTT America Offer IPv6
March 30, 2008
Dedicated hosting provider The Planet and telecommunications provider NTT America announced on Monday that The Planet will offer its more than 22,000 customer’s access to IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol. The companies have started developing the project, and The Planet anticipates announcing availability later this year.
Launched in 2001, IPv6 provides a major enhancement over the […]
CoreTech Hosts Business Magazine
March 30, 2008
Web hosting and e-commerce provider CoreTech Web Solutions announced on Monday it has signed an accord with business-to-business news source, Business Leader.
Under the terms of contract, CoreTech is providing Web management and support services for the electronic communication, distribution and hosting of the monthly, direct-mailed publication. Ever since 1989, Business Leader has provided information, tools […]
AIT’s “Spring Has Sprung” Promotion
March 28, 2008
The popular web host Advanced Internet Technologies, has just released information on its new Spring promotion. Dubbed the “Spring has Sprung” promotion, AIT will give any business organisation a free iPod Shuffle if they sign up to become a Domain Virtual Registrar. The price of registration is quite affordable at one dollar, and anyone purchasing […]
SmarterMail Microsoft Exchange Receives Upgrade
March 27, 2008
The Internet hosting provider recently released updated software for their SmarterMail Microsoft Exchange application. This will be version 5.x. The softwares is used on MS Windows server operating systems, and is completely compatible with PocketPCs and Windows mobile devices.
The new software version will, “deliver(s) upon the SmarterTools promise to provide innovation, reliability, and value […]
Go Daddy Will Not Outsource
March 25, 2008
Popular web hosting provider Go Daddy has stated that it try everything to prevent outsourcing. Even though outsourcing has become a trend within the industry, Go Daddy has stated that it is against it. It is expected that many companies will increase their outsource spending by forty percent this year.
CEO Bob Parson has this […]
PEER 1 ATL Center Survives Storms
March 22, 2008
Web hosting provider PEER 1 Networks announced on Thursday that its customer service at its Atlanta, Georgia facility remained unaffected during last weekend’s tornado and severe storms.
The company says it preserved its 100 percent uptime pledge to customers during the terrible Atlanta weather, as its data center staff put into practice the company’s strategic crisis […]
NetNames Publishes Phishing Details
March 22, 2008
Domain registrar NetNames announced on Thursday it has published its Quarterly Fraud Report, which divulges that banking customers persist in facing mounting levels of online deception as phishing attacks drastically increase in early 2008. In February 2008 alone, there were over 60,000 phishing emails sent to customers of financial services organizations.
Conducted by NetNames’ sister company […]
Apollo Names Director of Operations
March 22, 2008
Web hosting provider Apollo Hosting announced on Thursday it has named Bret Messer its new director of operations.
He brings to Apollo widespread know-how in customer service and infrastructure. Messer latterly worked at global defense and technology company, Northrop Grumman, where he managed numerous multi-million dollar IT services contracts.
Messer has already enhanced Apollo’s customer […]
Microsoft Revises Hyper-V Software
March 22, 2008
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has launched a feature absolute release candidate of Microsoft Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization software being offered with different versions of Windows Server 2008.
A beta of Hyper-V was included with Windows Server 2008 when it publicly launched last month at Microsoft’s largest enterprise product launch, Heroes Happen Here, but according […]
iWeb Reveals New Identity and Site
March 22, 2008
Montreal, Canada-based Web hosting provider iWeb Group announced on Wednesday it has revealed its new corporate identity together with a new website. The company’s earlier corporate brand was iWeb8 and its website was located at iWeb8.com, which the company has redirected to its new site.
In the press release, the company says “the deployment of […]
Apache in front in Top 100 Sites
March 22, 2008
While the statistics from Netcraft lean to demonstrate an ever-decreasing gap between Apache and IIS deployments across the Web, a report posted this week to the Royal Pingdom blog of uptime monitoring service Pingdom shows Apache remain far in advance of Microsoft’s Web server among the 100 most popular sites on the Web.
While Netcraft’s data […]
DedicatedNOW Offers Virtual Clusters
March 22, 2008
DedicatedNOW one of the countless hosting providers operating under the rather indistinguishable description of “managed hosting,” announced on Tuesday that it had introduced Virtual Cluster, an offering based on the rather young utility computing model.
Specifically, DedicatedNOW’s Virtual Cluster will be built via the AppLogic utility computing platform developed by 3Tera.
DedicatedNOW says its own Virtual Cluster […]
Aplus.Net Offers New Hosting Facilities
March 20, 2008
The well known host provider Aplus.Net has announced the addition of new servers to better provide hosting needs to their customers. The company has added new dual quad servers, with a 2.0 GHz and 2.33GHz speeds respectively. They also plan to offer at least 2 GB of DDR2 RAM, and a two hundred and fifty […]