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LiquidWeb brings Plest Panel to its Linux servers

LiquidWeb announced it will offer Parallels Plesk Panel version 9.0 on all its servers in the next few weeks. Previously, the panel was only available on LiquidWeb’ Windows servers. With 9th version of the software, the company will be able to extend the offering on Linux-based servers which account for about 80% of company’s total […]

UK-based Fasthosts launches new reseller platform

Fasthosts Internet, a UK web hosting provider, announced that it has launched a new reseller platform, exclusively for its reseller partners in UK. The package is available with promotional three free months and priced at £5 per month plus VAT. The company also re-engineered its Reseller Control Dashboard that lets resellers customize their customers’ control […]

MediaTemple suffers a 2-day long outage

On May 4, a major outage at MediaTemple placed their customers’ websites offline for nearly two days. In a statement issued by the company, only the grid hosting service customers were affected, and not the shared hosting customers. The company suffered a similar outage back in March, which lasted 38 hours.

SurpassHosting to serve the U.K. market

Florida-based web hosting provider Surpass Hosting now has a web hosting plan specifically tailored for the U.K. market. The servers that will power company’s U.K. operations are located in a BlueSquare Data facility near London. Surpass Hosting announced it plans to expand similar offerings to other countries such as Malaysia and New Zealand.

ReliableSite introduces dedicated servers

A line of dedicated servers was introduced a few days ago by ReliableSite. The servers of the North Bergen, New Jersey-based data center are available in Dual Core, Quad Core, and 8 Core configurations and can run both Windows or Linux OS. Other features also include cooling and self-management.

GoDaddy to sponsor Indianapolis 500

For the third year in a row, domain registrar GoDaddy will be the presenting sponsor for the telecast of the Indianapolis 500. A new commercial will be made for the Indy 500 event. It will star Danica Patrick (as you probably guessed), a GoDaddy Girl and an IndyCar racer. In the ad, Danica is pulled […]

TweetPhoto picks Rackspace Cloud to host its site

TweetPhoto, an image application provider that lets users of social media website share photos through Twitter, has selected Could Files and Cloud Sites to support its photo sharing site. It is expected to get large traffic and the Rackspace Cloud approach makes an attractive solution to support the site. TweetPhoto was launched in beta mode […]

Highbridge Business Park secures $255M in financing for a new DC

Highbridge Business Park, a UK-based data center provider has secured financing in the amount of $255 million in to build a new DC at Cobalt Park, North Tyneside, UK. The funding for a new 45,875 square feet data center came from a group of investors from Chancery Tax.

Third of UK-based firms lack time to manage their websites

33% percent of UK businesses do not make necessary updates to their websites due to the lack of time according to Fasthosts Internet‘s study. The UK web hosting provider that tailors to small and medium-sized businesses, surveyed 145 UK-based firms.

SiteGround customizes cPanel with new features

Web hosting company SiteGround has launched new features for Crystal, its customized cPanel theme. Crystal is now available in 11 languages and working on adding five more. A custom backup script was also introduced.