Global Hosting Talk

Managed hosting and security services company, DataPipe, recently sponsored a WIRED Magazine event, featuring Editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson, in New York City.
Mr. Anderson spoke about the emerging business trend toward FREE, the subject of his second book set to be released in 2009. The economics of FREE are responsible for generating billions of dollars in [...]

Managed hosting services firm, HostDime, has been certified under the United States-European Union Safe Harbor framework, which enables U.S. companies to comply with the E.U Data Protection Directive.
Michael Kahn, vice president of operations at HostDime remarked, ”Our abuse and security team spends numerous hours each day contributing to several security organizations to lend our hand [...]

Premium wholesale data center space for corporate customers provider, Fortune Data Centers, has instituted energy efficiency measures as part of the company’s participation in PG and E’s High Tech Energy Efficiency program.
John Sheputis, CEO of Fortune Data Centers noted, ”We are firmly committed to energy efficiency while minimizing our impact on the environment, which is [...]

Web hosting provider WebHostingBuzz (www.webhostingbuzz.com) announced on Tuesday it has launched a new, user focus website, and has named Wayne Reavill to chief information officer.
The new website redesign incorporates a visually appealing aesthetic and user-friendly navigation to improve the overall experience for visitors.
The new site includes a new section entitled “Featured Client of the Month”, [...]

Consulting and software development company LogicBoxes (www.logicboxes.com) has launched a new initiative to allow large web service companies to leap frog their way into obtaining an ICANN accreditation without having to worry about the initial consultancy costs required.
According to LogicBoxes’ announcement last week at HostingCon 2009 in Washington DC, LogicBoxes’ new website Accreditation.com (www.accreditation.com), the [...]

Managed hosting provider HostDime (www.hostdime.com) announced on Tuesday it has completed construction of a new 5,000 square-foot data and network operations center in Brazil.
The new data center significantly expands the hosting capacity of the company’s local division, HostDime Brazil.
When HostDime opened its international division in Brazil nearly three years ago, there were no plans [...]

SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., provider of global, on-demand data center and hosting services, and VeriSign, Inc., provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, have formed a partnership to bring the entire line of VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates to SoftLayer customers.
Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign noted, ”Businesses of every [...]

ResellerClub, one of the largest ICANN accredited Registrars, has announced the Mega Bargains Month for all new as well as existing resellers. During this month, it is offering colossal discounts across all products and services. This promotion slated to end on 3rd September 2009, had been conceptualized 3 years ago, and has been running successfully [...]

Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions provider GNi (www.gni.com) has reached an agreement with Avisé Partners (www.avisepartners.com) to provide sales and support at Avisé Partners’ Paris office to meet the increased European demand for IaaS offerings, especially among Software-as-a-Service providers.
GNi provides North American and European customers secure and robust server and network management featuring pay-as-you-go flexibility. According to [...]

Web hosting provider NaviSite (www.navisite.com) announced on Tuesday it has received a General Services Administration (www.gsa.gov) schedule contract where it will sell a full range of managed hosting and infrastructure services to US federal government agencies and all branches of the military.
The deal expands on its existing relationship with the GSA, having been the [...]

Web hosting provider GreenSoft Solutions (www.gsihosting.com) announced on Tuesday it has successfully completed a six-month expansion project to add capacity to its AirWorld Technology Center facility in Kansas City.
The project has more than doubled the available cabinets for GSI’s customers, and contributes to the company’s ongoing development efforts to build out more of its 77,000 [...]

Web hosting provider Carpathia Hosting (www.carpathiahosting.com) announced on Tuesday it will begin offering managed cloud solutions in its Phoenix data center.
The addition of the managed cloud solutions adds to the range of services that the company already delivers in the data center, including colocation, bandwidth and managed services.
In the Phoenix facility, Carpathia Hosting will offer [...]

Wowza Media Systems®, the media server software company, announced strong growth among domestic and international service providers who are now offering their customers Flash® media services based on Wowza Media Server® software.
Hosting providers across the globe, including MojoHost and Central Host in the U.S., as well as Armada Hosting A/S and Planet srl in Europe [...]

Leveraging strong business performance and an array of new customers, Bobcares, the leading provider of Professional Technical Support, Software Development and Phone Support services for Web hosts and Datacenters, announces the opening of their new office, Poornam GmbH at Bad Durkheim, Germany.
Headquartered in India, Bobcares was founded in 1999 and today manages over 50,000 servers [...]

InfoGenius, Inc. has announced the launch of UptimeSafe, a first-of-its-kind uptime certification service for online service providers. Prior to UptimeSafe, service providers like hosting companies and software-as-a-service providers had to rely on word of mouth and their own claims to build and maintain a reputation of service uptime and reliability. For the first time, [...]

Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading provider of online marketing for small businesses, today announced that Jeff Stibel tendered his resignation as President and member of the Board of Directors effective September 30, 2009. He has agreed to assist the company through a transition process for the remainder of 2009. Mr. Stibel intends on pursuing [...]

Mainframe migration, modernization, and optimization solution provider Clerity Solutions (www.clerity.com) has been selected by the Itanium Solutions Alliance (www.itaniumsolutions.org) as a finalist in the “data center modernization” category of its 2009 Innovation Awards program for its outstanding use of Intel Itanium-based servers in its applications.
According to its Monday announcement, Clerity’s UniKix mainframe re-hosting software suite, [...]

Brad Keselowski did it again… driving the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet to victory in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series, this time at the Carfax 250 at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan today.
Keselowski took the lead out of nowhere in the last turn of the race, charging ahead of Brian Vickers and Kyle Busch. In his [...]

Web hosting provider Superb Internet (www.superinternet.net) announced on Monday it has officially launched its managed hosting division (www.superbhosting.net/managed-hosting/), which adds a new suite of managed services to all new and existing clients.
The announcement follows Superb’s introduction of a new Managed Dedicated Server offering, last month, that brings R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection backups to customers.
“This marks [...]

tyBit (www.tyBit.com) recently launched the industry’s first time ever “Ad Server Appliance” at affordable prices for publishers of any size. “We combined 14 years of web hosting experience from tyBit’s sister company AIT (www.AIT.com) with our patented ad serving platform that allows publishers to serve relevant PPC advertising as well as display banner and text [...]

iomart Hosting and Swedish IT company Apica announced a new partnership under which iomart will provide 24-hour managed hosting services to the web performance company and iomart Hosting will offer Apica’s services to its client base.
iomart Hosting will host Apica’s entire suite of web performance solutions, which are provided as Software as a Service (SaaS) [...]

Coinciding with a re-design and re-launch of its corporate website, private-label reseller web hosting provider Value Reseller (www.valuereseller.com) has launched all new plans, which offer savings and flexibility for resellers ranging from novice to experienced.
The new, simplified plans, “Pay As You Go” and “All You Can Eat,” provide complete flexibility for every budget, according to [...]

When building or developing a website, there are many things to take into consideration, the look and feel of a site is what gives the first impression, what many forget is that the web hosting is just as important, if not more.
There are many things you should take into consideration when choosing a web host. [...]

A number of hosting providers announced interesting promotions in the second week of August including Globin.com’s life-long hosting plan, ConnectReseller’s discounted domains, Exabytes’ “ILove Malaysia” festivities, and MochaHost’s 30 percent discount on shared hosting and other summer discounts.
Globin.com Announces Free Lifetime Hosting Plan
Managed hosting provider Globin.com (www.globin.com) has launched a new hosting plan, offering [...]

Taking the complexity out of powerful online applications, web host and domain registrar Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) has created a service that installs popular online applications in as few as three clicks. Go Daddy Hosting Connection’s ease of use, in fact, has catapulted it past more than 1,000,000 application installs, according to the company’s Thursday announcement.
“Our [...]

Altay Corporation’s (www.altayusa.com) virtual server technology subsidiary, Infinitely Virtual (www.infinitelyvirtual.com), has added networking services provider Global Crossing (www.globalcrossing.com) as an Internet peer, offering Infinitely Virtual clients higher quality connectivity to their virtual servers.
Global Crossing provides simple solutions to meet Infinitely Virtual client’s complex telecommunications needs, making this partnership ideal, according to its Thursday announcement. Global [...]

Web hosting provider MaximumASP (www.maximumasp.com) announced this week that it has introduced 30-day a private customer beta for its new shared web hosting platform the MaxESP “elastic shared platform,” seeking feedback on the new platform.
According to the press release, issued Thursday, MaxESP is a “highly available” and “shared-style” ASP.NET hosting platform, designed to be completely [...]

NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of cloud enabled enterprise hosting and application management services, today announced that Rock Solid Technologies, the leading software solutions company in Puerto Rico, has selected NaviSite for hosting RESPOND® – its proprietary citizen relationship management software developed on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 platform.
Rock Solid Technologies offers a [...]

Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced its Gold Sponsorship of the LINX66 event (www.linx.net), organised by LINX, the membership association for operators of Internet Protocol networks. The event will take place at Goodenough College, London, on 17th – 18th of August 2009.
The event will consist of two days of [...]

Aflexi enables web hosts and service providers to create their own CDN that can instantly grow and change in response to customer and bandwidth needs.
At HostingCon, Aflexi will be demonstrating their new Aflexi FlexiMart platform for webhosts that enables them to purchase and market excess capacity, creating win-win situations and providing affordable CDN services among [...]

eNom, Inc., the largest ICANN accredited wholesale registrar, has announced the general availability of RichContent, a cutting edge content offering, allowing eNom resellers access to a library of millions of high quality articles, blogs and videos. eNom resellers can now offer their customers contextually relevant content via this new tool to expand their websites and [...]

Web hosting provider, The Planet, recently released its financial results for the quarter ending July 31, 2009. The Planet provides quarterly updates to its customers, business partners and prospects with information relative to new initiatives and its progress.
Douglas J. Erwin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Planet explained, ”We ended the second quarter with [...]

Hosting provider Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) has launched a new solution for automatically keeping a long-term backup of incoming and outgoing email for hosted email customers.
Rackspace Archiving is now available for hosted Microsoft Exchange and Rackspace email customers, according to its Wednesday announcement at HostingCon in Washington DC. Built on the Rackspace Cloud, Rackspace Archiving currently [...]

Web hosting provider Host The Best (www.hostthebest.com) announced on Wednesday it has spun-off its shared hosting division to Enotch Technologies (www.enotch.com), letting Host The Best focus exclusively on providing software solutions for other Web hosting providers.
According to the press release, Host The Best offers nearly two dozen software products, in addition to providing custom software [...]

The first Marketing + Sales session of HostingCon 2009’s final day discussed the enormous potential of social media as a marketing tool.
The panel, comprised of NYI’s Guillaume Bouchard, BlitzLocal.com’s Dennis Yu, and Applicure/Empire’s Sharon Koifman, highlighted key social media strategies that companies can use to drive traffic to their respective websites.
Koifman kicked off the discussion [...]

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz delivered the second keynote of the third day on HostingCon 2009.
I should start with a disclaimer. While it was an excellent presentation, with a pretty excellent and impressive gimmick – each of his 60 slides was a photo of a whiteboard, the whiteboard presentation being a hallmark of the SEOmoz site [...]

Entitled “Affiliate Marketing / Lead Generation in an Extremely Competitive Market”, the second session in the afternoon’s Marketing + Sales, Affiliate Marketing track gave an insider’s look on how affiliate marketing can potentially earn a company millions in revenues a year.
Led by RankSense SEO’s Curtis R Curtis, who was joined by Web Hosting Unleashed’s Chris [...]

In the last regular session on my schedule for today, Chris Samson of Microsoft presented on Microsoft’s server virtualization solutions for hosted cloud services.
I had a chance to talk to Chris last night for a little while about how much the hosting area at Microsoft has evolved in the last few years, and how much [...]

Web hosting solution provider, SoftLayer, has extended its Application Programming Interface (API) to enable control of the company’s CloudLayer Computing and CloudLayer Storage services.
The API is an interface that allows customers to give their systems automatic, remote access and control of SoftLayer services.
Nathan Day, Chief Technology Officer at SoftLayer remarked, ”The API we give customers [...]

Web hosting tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has created new Server Level flash tutorials, including 133 new solutions to help server administrators, as well as 84 new Joomla VOICE tutorials.
Rob Moore, President and Founder of DemoWolf remarked, ”We are excited to finally bring Server Level demos to market. More and more customers have been asking us for [...]

CirtexHosting, a leader in Linux Web hosting, has released its exclusive custom user interface for cPanel®, Colortex™. The interface skin provides an intuitive, color-based navigation scheme that enables CirtexHosting customers to easily manage their sites and take advantage of advanced hosting management features.
Built to mimic the spirit of the coloring in the New York City [...]

Hosting industry online community company, iNET Interactive, has revealed the location and date for the sixth annual HostingCon, the world’s largest conference and trade show serving the hosted services industry.
HostingCon 2010 will be held in Austin, Texas, on July 19-21 at the Austin Convention Center located in the heart of the Texas Capital.
HostingCon attracts web [...]

Cloud storage provider Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com) announced on Tuesday it has introduced the Mezeo Service Provider Alliance Program, which lets service providers instantly enter the cloud storage market.
The new program is offered in coordination with Mezeo’s Preferred Hosting Partners, which are tested world-class IT hosting providers, says the company.
The Mezeo Alliance Program offers service providers [...]

Tuesday’s second keynote presentation was a panel discussion on “Shaping the Cloud Opportunity: Vision and Growth for the Future,” moderated by Antonio Piraino of Tier 1 Research, with panelists Zane Adam of Microsoft, Stephen Cho of Google, Emil Sayegh of Rackspace and Daniel Burton of Salesforce.com.
One of the most interesting threads throughout the conversation – [...]

HostingCon 2009 entered its second day Tuesday, with the WHIR editorial staff now fully in place and aiming to provide some extensive coverage of the event.
The day’s schedule is done, and between Tuesday’s hosting news, as well as keynotes and sessions from HostingCon, the WHIR published 21 pieces of hosting content over the course of [...]

Virtualization and automation leader, Parallels, today launched the public beta of Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition – a hosted control panel software that helps hosting and cloud services providers broaden their offerings, increase revenue and meet SMB IT needs. The comprehensive solution introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace, which enables hosters to rapidly enter the growing software-as-a-service [...]

This is the second day of HostingCon 2009, and there have been many great educational sessions, a sold out exhibit hall filled with hosting vendors, and plenty of opportunities for networking with other web hosting professionals – many of them from other countries. The WHIR networking booth saw heavy activity as the exhibit hall opened [...]

Challenging attendees to think like buyers and sellers, Cheval Capital managing director Hillary Stiff hosted “Valuing and Structuring Web Hosting Acquisitions,” an interactive workshop Tuesday afternoon at HostingCon 2009.
It started with some brainstorming about issues that factor into a business’ attractiveness and value, with such answers as long-term prospects, number of clients, and customer concentration. [...]

Tuesday’s HostingCon activity closed with a return to the keynote presentation theatre, to the panel discussion and the topic of cloud computing, as representatives from Parallels, Rackspace, Mezeo and SoftLayer weighed in on the subject.
They started out by defining cloud computing, which I’m going to skip over, rather than write out for the third time [...]

It seems only a brief time since the last HostingCon in Chicago, but HostingCon 2009 has now arrived. On Saturday I went out to get a jump start on things near the Gaylord Hotel which is the show hotel just outside Washington, D.C. A short shuttle trip takes you into downtown Washington near many of [...]

Published by TemplateZone and developed by Extentia, High Impact eMail 5 is designed for small businesses and individuals wanting to send great-looking HTML emails with the minimum of fuss.
High Impact eMail 5 comes in two editions: Professional and Platinum.
The Professional edition includes hundreds of customizable templates suitable for a wide range of emails, including marketing [...]

Domain registrar and web hosting provider Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) announced on Monday it has donated $100,000 to the Arizona Humane Society (www.azhumane.org) Telethon, matching every single contribution made on the Internet.
At the end of the live telethon Sunday evening, the $100,000 check was delivered by Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons’ dogs, with Chief [...]

It appears HostingCon has been going on as planned, even though I have personally been delayed. I admire everyone’s perseverance during this time of strife.
Anyway, those WHIR staffers who are there have been taking pictures and posting them up on the site. In particular, Candice Rodriguez grabbed a bunch of cool shots of the exhibit [...]

Social media firm iNET Interactive (www.inetinteractive.com) announced on Monday that HostingCon 2010 (www.hostingcon.com), a conference and trade show serving the hosted services industry, will be held in Austin, Texas, on July 19 to 21 at the Austin Convention Center.
The announcement was made at HostingCon 2009, which is being held this week through Wednesday at the [...]

HostDime, a web hosting provider, today announced that it has been certified under the United States-European Union Safe Harbor framework, which enables U.S. companies to comply with the E.U Data Protection Directive.
The company says that The U.S. Department of Commerce developed the Safe Harbor framework to bridge differences between U.S. and E.U. privacy law, and [...]

Windows and Linux server data protection software developer R1Soft (www.r1soft.com) has introduced the “Mini-Elite Hosting License,” giving resellers and web hosts access to its Continuous Data Protection technology at an unprecedented discount.
According to R1Soft’s Monday announcement, the Mini-Elite Hosting License, available until the end of September, provides a flat-rate subscription access to CDP backup technology, [...]

Domain registrar eNom (www.enom.com) announced today, in a presentation at HostingCon, that it has launched its new RichContent service, a subscription service designed to provide website operators with article, blog and video content to supplement their existing site content.
In an interview with the WHIR, eNom’s VP of sales Chris Sheridan described RichContent, which has [...]

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today discussed its results for the quarter ended July 31, 2009. The Planet provides quarterly updates to its customers, business partners and prospects with information relative to new initiatives and its progress.
“We continue to see the most significant revenue growth from both our largest customers and our [...]

Bobcares is the premier name in the Hosting Industry when it comes to providing Server Administration, Technical Support Solutions and Software Development Services.
Bobcares, today added a new service offering towards helping web hosts save on their server maintenance expenses.
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To compliment their recognition as a leader in dedicated [...]

SoftLayer™ today extended its industry-leading Application Programming Interface (API) to enable control of the company’s CloudLayer™ Computing and CloudLayer Storage services. The API is an interface that allows customers to give their systems automatic, remote access and control of SoftLayer services. It integrates with third-party and custom software, providing seamless provisioning, management, monitoring, and information [...]

the web hosting division of Newtek Technology Services, a Newtek Business Services, Inc. company (NASDAQ: NEWT) has announced it will host the beta version of Adobe® ColdFusion® 9. CrystalTech hosts more than 100,000 domain names and serves developers and customers in more than 100 countries around the world.
“We’ve been a strong and vocal supporter of [...]

Automation and virtualization leader, Parallels, today announced that its hosting provider partners are seeing an uptick and increased demand for its Parallels Automation offering, which delivers applications like Microsoft Hosted Exchange in a software as a service (SaaS) model. Hosters, telecommunication providers, and MSPs are leading the industry trend and providing hosted e-mail services to [...]

On Monday, Real Host Ltd., a hosting provider operating from Latvia, was cut off from the Internet by its uplink provider Junik. The company’s assigned address space had previously been linked to the Zeus botnet and other illegal online activities.
Due to reports from various security researchers, Swedish telecommunications provider TeliaSonera, which delivers services in the [...]

CirtexHosting, a leader in Linux Web hosting, today released its exclusive custom user interface for cPanel®, Colortex™. The interface skin provides an intuitive, color-based navigation scheme that enables CirtexHosting customers to easily manage their sites and take advantage of advanced hosting management features.
Built to mimic the spirit of the coloring in the New York City [...]

Hartland Ross, founder and president of eBridge Marketing Solutions, will deliver a break-out presentation on Day 1 of HostingCon 2009 on ways hosting companies can make their marketing more effective.
The session takes place from 9:00 to 9:45 a.m. on Monday, August 10th. Mr. Ross says the presentation is directed at sales and marketing people [...]

eBridge Marketing Solutions, a leading provider of Internet marketing solutions for web advertisers including hosting companies will offer a draw for a free, in-depth site review to those visiting their booth (#231) at HostingCon 2009, to be held this year in Washington DC, August 10 – 12.
“Site reviews are an important tool for making sure [...]

GlobalSign Inc., one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced significant growth in the number of partners joining its Partner Program throughout the last twelve months. Hundreds of new partners have joined in recent months, and the latest high profile partners to come on board include Liquid [...]

There were just a handful of sales and promotions for the first week of August including 1&1’s summer discounts on shared hosting, DemoWolf discounts on tutoriels francais, and Bobcares’s free server security for HostingCon attendees.
1&1 Unveils Summer Special Offers, Including a Free Year of Hosting
Web host 1&1 Internet (www.1and1.com) is offering discounts on a variety [...]

Media company iNET Interactive (www.inetinteractive.com) will host HostingCon 2009, the premier conference and trade show, at Washington, D.C.’s Gaylord National Resort on August 10 to 12.
This marks the first year the annual event will be produced by iNET Interactive, which acquired HostingCon from Interjuncture last July.
This year’s conference is also the first time the [...]

As a special promotion for HostingCon 2009 (www.hostingcon.com) in Washington DC, technical support and dedicated server management provider Bobcares (www.bobcares.com) is offering attendees one free server security audit per company.
According to its announcement, Bobcares is helping web hosts save on their server maintenance expenses from August 10 to 12 at the Gaylord National Resort and [...]

Staying ahead in a competitive hosting marketplace, particularly within the current recession, is no easy task for a company. Fortunately, there are many online tools available to help hosting providers along the way.
In his presentation, “Step by Step Ways to Increase your Sales and Decrease Costs”, taking place Monday, August 10 from 9:00 to 9:45 [...]

Canadian web hosting provider iWeb (www.iweb.com) announced on Friday that it is planting trees in celebration of next week’s HostingCon 2009 (www.hostingcon.com/2009), which the company is sponsoring.
As the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, HostingCon 2009 will take place at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington D.C. from [...]

Web hosting services for individuals and small businesses, IPOWER, has unveiled a 100% carbon neutral web site featuring a newly designed layout, in order to provide easier access to its tools, services and offerings.
IPOWER has streamlined site navigation, with a single row, hover-over menu at the top of the screen, and a mini-sitemap in the [...]

Leading managed hosting provider, NeoSpire, will announce the unveiling of their newest offering, the NeoSpire PCI Resource Center, August 12-13 at OpenSource World. Companies know protecting customer credit card data from hackers and identity theft is essential for maintaining client trust and remaining free of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data breaches, but many of those [...]

Provider of high-reliability, managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, ServInt, has embarked upon a major expansion of its technical support staff with the formation of the ServInt Managed Services Team (MST).
To achieve faster average response time and meet other customer-service goals established by the new ServInt MST, ServInt has added a substantial number of trained [...]

The LeaseWeb website hosting provider in Europe based in Amsterdam, has appointed Thorsten Einig as its new Hosting Product Development Manager, previously having worked for hosting provider 1 and 1 Internet.
Mr. Einig will focus on streamlining and expanding LeaseWeb’s product portfolio, including enlarging its range of virtualization products. He started at LeaseWeb a year ago, [...]

The web hosting division of Newtek Technology Services, CrystalTech Web Hosting, will host the beta version of Adobe ColdFusion 9.
CrystalTech hosts over 100,000 domain names and serves developers and customers in more than 100 countries around the world.
Bob Cichon, President of CrystalTech explained, ”We’ve been a strong and vocal supporter of the ColdFusion environment for [...]

CrystalTech Web Hosting – the web hosting division of Newtek Technology Services, a Newtek Business Services, Inc. company (NASDAQ: NEWT) today announced it will host the beta version of Adobe® ColdFusion® 9. CrystalTech hosts more than 100,000 domain names and serves developers and customers in more than 100 countries around the world.
“We’ve been a strong [...]

VISI, Minnesota’s largest data center services and managed hosting provider, wants to help business owners understand the difference between merely surviving in an economic downturn and thriving, so starting today a new white paper titled “Thriving in an Economic Downturn: Focus on What You do Best; Outsource the Rest” is available for complimentary download at [...]

An Internet presence is an essential tool for businesses, no matter what their size. Unfortunately, however, setting up a website can be a confusing, costly and time-consuming task for many small and mid-sized enterprises.
That’s why GVTC Communications has launched GVTC Hosting, a simple way for businesses to design, launch and maintain dependable, professional-quality Internet sites. [...]

Open-source groupware provider Open-Xchange (www.open-xchange.com) has announced the first Open-Xchange Partner Summit will take place October 8 at the RheinEnergie Stadion in Cologne, Germany, providing its partner community with a new forum to learn how to advance their business with email and collaboration services.
According to its Thursday announcement, the conference’s theme will be “Competence Meets [...]

Mezeo Software Corp., the leading provider of a deployable platform for cloud storage, has announced that Mezeo President and CEO Steve Lesem will participate in a panel discussion at HostingCon 2009. The panel, “Offering Cloud Services to Your Customers,” will discuss how hosting providers can increase profits by providing cloud services.
HostingCon is the largest gathering [...]

Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous hackers in the 1980s and ‘90s and now a leading security consultant, has selected FireHost as his new secure hosting provider moving forward. Mitnick’s website, mitnicksecurity.com, which was managed by a third-party hosting provider, has been compromised multiple times and defaced by hackers. Due to his high-profile and [...]

HostingCon begins next Monday (August 10), as anyone who is attending – and many people who are not attending – is more than likely aware by now.
As we did last year, the WHIR is sending our entire editorial team, along with a smattering of sales and business development folks, to Hosting Con this year.
The general [...]

LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com), one of the largest website hosting providers in Europe based in Amsterdam, has appointed Thorsten Einig (39) as its new Hosting Product Development Manager. Einig previously worked for hosting provider 1&1 Internet. He is to focus on streamlining and expanding LeaseWeb’s product portfolio, including enlarging its range of virtualization products.
Thorsten Einig (39) started [...]

IPOWER (web://www.ipower.com/), a leader in Web hosting services for individuals and small businesses has revealed a brand new IPOWER.com Web site – featuring a sleek, uncluttered layout, providing easier access to tools and services – that is 100% carbon neutral.
IPOWER has streamlined site navigation, with a single row, hover-over menu at the top of the [...]

Worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), has been named to the 2009 Tech Titans Fast Tech Five Year Listing by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), the largest technology trade organization in Texas.
The Tech Titans Fast Tech Award annually recognizes the fastest-growing technology companies in the DFW Metroplex, based [...]

INetU Managed Hosting, an enterprise managed hosting provider, announced today that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a new participating organization. As a Participating Organization, INetU will work with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards.
The PCI DSS, endorsed by American [...]

The web development industry was not affected as severely by the recession the same as other industries. As a result, web development companies are in a position to recover and move towards a flying start, with some added promotion.
That’s even more true for local web development firms. Just this week, the local web development market [...]

Cloud computing provider VISI (www.visi.com) announced on Tuesday it has launched its new Virtual Dedicated Server product based on VMware’s (www.vmware.com) virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3.
VISI’s VDS product was designed to provide greater security, reliability and performance than traditional hosting products, says the company.
The solution uses VMware’s High Availability feature to optimize the [...]

Layered Technologies, Inc. (www.LayeredTech.com), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has announced that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is now available for rapid server deployments via Astro, Layered Tech’s proprietary automated Web hosting platform. In addition to Windows Server 2008, Layered Tech offers the broadest range of high-performance, secure Linux and Unix operating systems [...]