http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk Web hosting news, forums, and reviews on the webhosting industry. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:04:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PacketExchange, provider of private network services with internet economics, has announced the availability of its global network at Telx’s 60 Hudson Street Facility in New York City. PacketExchange allows existing customers of the Telx facility to connect directly to their trading partners and access networks around the world. It uses ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/06/02/packetexchange-starts-services-with-new-york-telx/ UK webhost ukeasily, a trading name for Port9 Ltd, has gone offline along with all of its customer accounts. Company representatives of ukeasily/Port9 appear to be unreachable on their phone support number. The company's servers at the Greenheys datacenter went offline around 15:30 on Friday, taking down Port9's own websites. The Greenheys data ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/24/ukeasily-taken-offline-at-manchester-data-center/ Rackspace Hosting, provider of IT hosting services, has announced that it has begun installing equipment in its new 'green' data centre, which will be powered by renewable energy sources. The data centre, in Slough, Berkshire, will draw power from a local combined heat and power plant that uses wood chips, waste ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/21/wood-chips-power-rackspace-green-data-centre/ After a series of new customer announcements, customer feedback management provider, RatePoint (ratepoint.com), has announced a revision to its offers, initiating a novel email marketing feature it says enables businesses to easily design and execute email campaigns within the RatePoint platform. RatePoint declares the new email functionality will facilitate RatePoint members, ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/16/ratepoint-adds-email-marketing-tools/ Consistent with reports released this week, Public Interest Registry (pir.org), the company that manages the .org domain, is planning to elevate prices for .org domains by 10 percent this year. In a moderately succinct letter sent to ICANN (icann.org) earlier this month, PIR CEO Alexa Raad says ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/16/org-domain-price-to-climb-10-percent/ The world's principal networking hardware builder, Cisco (cisco.net), reported on Monday that the leader of its data center division was leaving after 15 years with the company. Jayshree Ullal, who initially joined the company with its purchase of Crescendo Communications in 1993, said in a posting to the company's blog that ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/16/data-center-head-departuring-cisco/ Facebook, the rapidly expanding social networking phenomenon, purportedly raised a supplementary $100 million in funding this week, that will be used to purchase additional hardware to support the service's expansion. The company has previously said the whole amount of the new money will be used to obtain servers, to assist in ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/16/facebook-raises-100m-for-servers/ On-demand infrastructure hosting provider, Layered Technologies, detailed on Monday an additional range of new offerings to supplement its selection of dedicated server hosting plans. The packages comprise new HP servers configured with Quad-Core AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors and the option to provision up to 12 hot swappable hard drives. ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/16/layered-tech-adds-hosting-packages/ Dedicated and hosting provider, Frontpages, has expanded the list of options of management services it offers to provide its dedicated customers with a more managed solution, through the launch of a product it calls "Total Care Support." Total Care, says Frontpages, provides 24-hour hardware monitoring and alerting, and monthly reports on ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/16/frontpages-extends-hosting-management/ Website monitoring supplier, Hyperspin Internet Services, announced that it has upgraded the application programming interface for its reseller platform to maintain external payment systems. Hyperspin states that the upgrade will allow resellers to acknowledge and process online payments through practically every payment gateway or system. Providing superior flexibility in payment processors appears ... http://www.webhostingworld.co.uk/2008/05/16/hyperspin-improves-reseller-api/