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Pride Hosting launches
A new UK based web hosting provider Pride Hosting launched today. The new UK web host specializes in affordable ecommerce web hosting.
Boot Camp for web companies, hosting resellers
A virtual conference, the first of its kind, will kick off on June 1. It is designed for web hosting companies, hosting resellers, and others who have an online business. The attendees just need to log into audio sessions directly, read information, and network. Ping! Magazine, HostingDiscussion.com and TheWHIR are some of the sponsors supporting […]
WebHostingTalk data hacked
The user data of a web hosting discussion community WebHostingTalk.com has been hacked. Some of the data was compromised and distributed by hackers. There were lengthy downtime periods on Saturday and Sunday. When the forum was restored, it was missing posts that were made as far back as October of 2008 (date of last physical […]
Dedicated Host shuts down
An Australian web hosting provider has shut down due to being disconnected by at least one wholesale provider. Dedicated Host has been offline for nearly two weeks and its phone line went offline jsut recently. Google’s cache of the company page last appeared on January 28. Web Hosting Support and two other web hosts have […]
Wayback Machine’s new DC demands
A new data center will be opened for Internet Archive organization. It will store two petabytes of data for its now famous digital time capsule called the Wayback Machine, which houses 85 billion archived web pages dated since 1996.
Disaster Recovery by MaximumASP
A new disaster recovery service for enterprise and dedicated server customers has been launched by MaximumASP. It employs Symantec Recovery Solution which synchronizes and replicates databases and files to a Chicago data center. The service offers protection for critical data against events such as hardware failure, natural disaster, or data corruption.
NaviSite hosts PetsUnited
The e-retailer websites of PetsUnited is now being hosted by NaviSite. PetsUnited sell pet and outdoor supplies. Their brands include Dog.com and Horse.com. The deal with NaviSite provides PetsUnited with a hybrid virtualized and dedicated hosting solution.
IBM to purchase Sun?
IBM is out shopping again. After acquiring acquired Cognos, a Canadian software developer, last year for $5 billion, the technology giant made an offer to buy Sun Microsystems for at least $6.5 billion or double its closing price of $4.97.
Cisco’s new data center game plan
Cisco announced its new data center strategy called Unified Computing System, which unites things such as network and storage access in a single efficient system. This approach can reduce IT infrastructure costs and help customers develop efficient data centers.
Gmail outage
Gmail users experienced another outage today. Google expects to fix the problem by the morning of March 11. The company did not release any information of how many users were affected. Also, it is not clear whether both business and personal users are affected. If last year is any indicator, Gmail has been experiencing downtime […]
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