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Chillers and fuel cells: the greening of the hosting industry continues
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
By Chris Redman
WebhostingDay 2010: dates, location, speakers
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Web hosting socially and in the cloud in 2010
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
By Renee Hendricks
One man’s data loss is another man’s lesson
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
By Chris Redman
Questions you didn’t know you can ask potential web hosting providers
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
By Artashes Toumanov

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Archive for Wednesday, July 29, 2009

FireHost extends web protection to small businesses

FireHost made an announcement yesterday that it is now providing small and medium-sized businesses a web-based application, security scanning solution. The scanning service tests 15,000 vulnerabilities every day, checing for hacking attempts such as SQL Injections, Cross Site Scripting attacks and header tampering. The company also offers a data loss prevention solution.

EdgeCast to power The Planet’s CDN solution

EdgeCast Networks has been selected by The Planet to provide the basis of their hosted Content Delivery Network offerings. With access to hundreds of servers located around the world, customers will be able control their own CDN, and effectively use features such as data caching, online content distribution and the ability to deliver content on […]

Hostway warns online retailers on product video addiction

Like any addiction, Hostway hosting provider thinks that massive adoption of video previews could cost online retailers millions of pounds this holiday season. Thomas Herbert, product manager at Hostway, says “companies should actually be planning for a higher volume of traffic this Christmas and be especially prepared to maintain their websites if they use videos […]

Falling out of love with Internet Explorer, thanks to version 8 (beta)

I thought the day would never come when I fall out of love with an Internet Explorer browser. I have been a fan since day one. Sure, I tried a few other browsers along the way (Netscape, early Firefox, Opera, recent Google Chrome and even Safari for Windows), but I was nevertheless convinced that Microsoft […]