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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

LxLabs owner found dead

K T Ligesh, the owner of LxLabs, a software firm based in India, was found dead after a late night drinking session. The news followed a recent exploitation in LxLabs’ HyperVM. The exploit destroyed 100,000 sites and approximately half of them were hosted by Vaserv, a UK-based web hosting provider. Investigators say the event might […]

Email filters cause Fasthosts outage

This past weekend, customers of Fasthosts provider experienced an over 45 minute outage. The company says one of its email filters caused the problem, but no email information was lost. Data will be restored and re-delivered to those who experienced the outage.

3FN protests FTC shutdown

Web host 3FN is countering the FTC’s claims of hosting and actively participating in the distribution of botnets, spam, and child pornography. The spokesperson of 3FN said that it may have been targeted by FTC due to associations with the Ukraine’s reputation of hosting malicious files and online crime.

YesPCI launches all-in-one solution for online vendors

A Payment Card Industry all-in-one solution was launched by YesPCI yesterday. It combines dedicated hosting, PCI compliance guarantees and merchant services for online vendors. YesPCI is a new joint-venture company by Total Apps and Colocation America.

CA buys Cassatt

IT management software giant CA has acquired Cassatt Corporation – a cloud computing software developer. As part of the deal, CA also inherits Cassatt’s intellectual property including existing and pending patent applications. According to the co-founder of Cassatt, its company is a leader in cloud-style architecture usage. The chief architech of CA also praised Cassatt […]

You-Student chooses DediPower as its provider

You-Student has picked DediPower as its provider for managed hosting services. You-Student is a UK student social networking community that offers a unique geographical login to its users and is only accessible for users with ac.uk email addresses.