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Patrick Solutions’ new colocation facility at Columbus

Patrick Solutions announced that it has a new colocation facility located at Columbus. The facility provides redundant power and environmental controls to protect data and IT systems. In case of power interruptions, it  can switch to an onsite generator which creates virtually no downtime for their customers.

iWeb’s upgrades network to 50Gbps

Montreal-based web hosting provider iWeb has expanded its network. It started with 9Gbps at the start of last year and has just reached 50Gbps. The reason for the increase is to meet and support the bandwidth demand of those who use their services. iWeb received a credit on the amount of $1 million Canadian dollars […]

LCN.com offers free hosting to 190,000 UK based charities

Four out of 10 charities say they have been hit by the economic downturn, which forces them to cut costs and make savings wherever possible, including their Internet-based operations. A UK-based LCN.com hosting company announced that it will offer free hosting and domain registration discounts to registered UK charities. Mark Boost, LCN Managing Director, said: […]

Netcraft’s January web server survey

Netcraft web server survey for the month of January have just been released. Apache’s market share grew by 1.27 million sites while Microsoft IIS lost 2 million over the previous month. Two million expired blogging sites have caused Microsoft IIS the largest loss of any web server. Google’s Blogger service lost approximately 600,000 sites.

LeaseWeb partners with Hewlett-Packard

Netherlands-based LeaseWeb has partnered with Hewlett-Packard. LeaseWeb will provide HP with solutions to reduce energy consumption of its hosting infrastructure. LeaseWeb customers will also continue on using HP’s Factory Express services due to this deal. Also, LeaseWeb will start to offer HP’s Green IT products such as HP ProLiant Servers models DL120 and DL180.

8 companies lose business privileges at HostingDiscussion.com

We’ve all heard of social marketing and the benefits it yields. Regrettably, it is just as easy to abuse this strategic know-how and fault your company’s reputation forever. Such was the destiny of at least 8 web hosting firms that were censored and banned on HostingDiscussion.com forum in November 2008.

Google to push Google Apps through resellers

Google made an announcement yesterday that it now offers a reseller program designed to push office tool suite called Google Apps. The program will begin in March and it will allow resellers to offer the Premier Edition of the suite to their customers. The cost of the package is set at $50 per year.

HostGator offers toll free numbers to businesses for free?

HostGator, the oft-embattled but ever popular web host, has unveiled a new service that provides toll free numbers to business clients. This service is offered at no additional charge with its flagship business shared hosting plan. HostGator offers this plan at $12.95 per month, and it has many unlimited features, including bandwidth, disk space, domains, […]

WebhostingBuzz improves reseller plans, decreases prices

Following a group of other companies, US web host WebHostingBuzz has revised all of their reseller plans. They have expanded on plan quotas and features, as well as decreased the plan prices. Among newly added features are live chat and telephone support. cPanel is now also included with the new reseller plans.

IFL’s new power tool to save energy and costs

IFL has launched a tool called ISIS which is designed to provide clients with information about colocation space environment. The data is similar to what the operations center staff at IFL sees. The data can be viewed in simple text data and graphical formats. The company says one of the purposes of the tool is […]