A major infrastructure upgrade on BurstNET’s network has led to unscheduled downtime, with the network still inaccessible at the time of writing. While BurstNET had notified customers of the replacement of core routers and an upgrade of Philadelphia POP, expectations of “momentary periods of higher than normal latency” appears to be optimistic. The company had [...]
BlueSquare, the UK network based in Berkshire, has suffered a serious power outage, bringing down its entire network. Back-up generators failed to compensate, resulting in a significant number of UK hosting providers, or providers with UK interests based in BlueSquare, going offline. Both BS and BS2 appear to be affected. Webhosting providers known to have [...]
Online advertising and services company eZanga announced on Thursday that it has joined with Web hosting provider HostMySite and content delivery network provider Panther Express to progress its online services and search engine offering. EZanga’s CEO says that it determined to partner with these companies because eZanga wanted to proffer a much faster website for [...]
UK Web hosting provider Fasthosts Internet faced a key outage early on Tuesday, leaving many of its dedicated servers offline for at least up to eight hours. According to reports by The Register, websites and services hosted by Fasthosts went offline in the early hours of the morning, making this the last straw for many [...]
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority announced on Tuesday that Canadian Internet users have registered one million .ca domain names, which illustrates the country’s strong Internet presence and the popularity of Canadian websites. The one-millionth dot-ca domain name, krauslaw.ca, was registered by Brent Krause of Calgary, Alberta who is using the domain for a website that [...]
Telecommunications provider AT&T announced on Wednesday that it has launched new Web hosting and website design solutions, which expressly target the small to medium-size business market to assist them increase operations more cost-effectively. The new services comprise building new websites for companies or improving present websites. AT&T says that it will also help businesses trade [...]
The domain name Bond.com went up for auction on Thursday for a reserve price of $1 million. Consistent with reports on Computer Weekly, with the publicity surrounding the latest Bond movie, titled “Quantum of Solace,” and the opening of the Ian Fleming exhibition at the Imperial War Museum on Wednesday, it is thought that the [...]
Hitachi Group announced on Thursday it is commemorating next week’s Earth Day by expanding its green data center in Yokohama, Japan. The new wing will present technological enhancements that are part of the company’s general CoolCenter50 project, which aims to decrease power consumption in Hitachi’s Yokohama and Okayama facility by 50 percent in five years. [...]
The well known Internet host and domain name provider, Go Daddy, has just launched a promotion allowing webmasters to register international domains. This promotion is called the “Internationalised Domain Name Service,” and it will provide the ability for customers to obtain a domain name using their own local language. With the international domain service, it [...]
Website name registrar 123-reg.co.uk has entered a joint venture with Webworx24. This new joint venture allows users to opt to choose from one of three packages. These packages will still provide POP email, and a free website name. One package consists of a at least five pages fully designed to client specifications. This fully functioning [...]
DemoWolf is a company known for providing tutorials about web hosting. Recently they have made these tutorials available for anyone either on a subscription or full purchase option. Previously anyone wanting a voice or non-voice tutorial had to purchase the tutorial, but now DemoWolf has given webmasters the option of only having to pay a [...]
Information released this week stated that the Internet hosting company ServInt has had a successful run with its new SuperVPS service. The new offering by ServInt is their SuperVPS service which has become quite popular. This service features a way for webmasters to move away from having the benefits of a dedicated server at a [...]
The latest news from JaguarPC is the launch of a new commercial website. The new Web site that is available to its customers will give them access to a control panel that is more friendly to the user. The updated Web site also has a company blog, and a forum where members of the community [...]
The web host 2MACS will be offering their customers new web hosting plans starting this month. The purpose of these plans is to make it easier for 2MACS customers to access their online accounts, and have their websites hosted more efficiently. The hosting plans will also help to increase the customer’s presence on the Internet. [...]
With the launch of Google’s new App Engine, many are predicting that Google is well on its way to becoming a web hosting provider. The biggest competitor for the Google App Engine is Amazon, but at least ten thousand have signed up for this service since its launch. Googl App Engine is a tool for [...]
Today’s announcement from the hosting company uk2.net company in charge of registering domain names, stated that it achieved the best results since the first quarter of 2000. Also the company has excellent growth in every region such as dedicated hosting profits, as well as in domain names. In the UK and Europe uk2.net’s important role [...]
Customer services from VeriSign has a new promotion for invited organizations ito sign up for the VeriSign Identity Protection Network in order to increase the security of website customers who are using the Internet. Starting this week to the end of September, the VIP Quick Start Program is hoping to give more than four thousand [...]
Web hosting provider Future Hosting announced on Thursday it has joined data recovery solutions provider R1Soft’s Hosting Partner Program. The affiliation will provide the Web host with better access to sales and marketing resources. Released in January, Future Protect is a bespoke adapted data protection service that enables users to tap into Future Hosting’s geographically [...]
The Internet provider Verio has made it known to the public that it has partnered with GlobalSign to release the first set of “one-click” SSL Certificates. Using this method, it is now possible to immediatelyy buy and renew Secure Sockets Layer Certificates. SSL Certificates are needed by web commerce sites to ensure the data they [...]
The Internet hosting provider Intermedia will be making Adobe ColdFusion available to its customers, as the company announced today. The company will introduce ColdFusion plans to the list of services it currently offers. The use of ColdFusion will give customers the ability to use the .Net framework while increase the performance of their site. According [...]
