GoDaddy Web Hosting Provider, Chosen by Tipping Point, for SSL
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Web hosting domain registrar, Go Daddy, has been selected by intrusion prevention company,TippingPoint, for its SSL Certificate solution. The new agreement underscores each company's commitment to safeguarding data and combating cyber crime through the implementation of the most stringent security standards...

Microsoft warns web-hosting providers of zero-day flaw
Security Watch - London,UK,UK
The vulnerability affects Windows XP Service Pack 2 as well as all supported versions and editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. It allows for elevation of privilege from authenticated user to LocalSystem. An attack is possible through authenticated user provided code. Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL Server are affected ...

IPO REPORT: Tech Firm Rackspace Files $400 Million IPO
CNNMoney.com - USA
Rackspace Inc. filed late Friday to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering, adding to a springtime flurry of IPO activity. Profitable computer services firm Rackspace Inc. plans to trade under the symbol RAX on the New York Stock Exchange ...

Intel Viet Nam and Vietnam’s FPT Cooperate on Web Hosting
HostSearch.com - USA
Intel Viet Nam and Vietnam’s Financing and Promoting Technology Corporation (FPT) - the country's largest information technology company - will cooperate to launch a full solution package for web hosting services for small medium sized businesses ...

Lunarpages Unveils New Spring Sale
HostingTech.com - Leawood,KS,USA
A special discount for all new customers purchasing LunarPage's most popular web hosting solution, The Basic Hosting Plan, which offers 1,500 GB storage space and 15,000 GB bandwidth/month, is normally priced at $6.95/month. The sale price is $4.95/month, with free domain name, free website templates, free blogs, free photo galleries and chatrooms, and unlimited email addresses. The promotion will last until June 20, 2008 ...

cPanel Releases Event Schedule
Web Host Industry Review - USA
Web hosting control panel software provider cPanel announced on Thursday that it has released an up-to-date schedule for its third annual 2008 cPanel Conference. The event is being held from June 11 to 13 at the Westin Oaks Galleria in Houston, Texas...

Microsoft to offer Web-streamed Office, combating Google Apps
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Worried by the small but growing number of small businesses and consumers switching from Office to less expensive or free online alternatives, such as Google Apps, Microsoft Corp. plans to arm a key cohort of its formidable legion of business partners to help fight the threat posed by so-called Office 2.0 technologies. Microsoft plans to conduct a yearlong test of a change to a key part of its license for Office 2007 that will, according to multiple sources, enable Web hosting service providers to offer the Office suite via an emerging technology called application streaming ...

Frontpages Web Hosting Network Offers Shared Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Hosting Option
HostSearch.com - USA
Frontpages Web Hosting Network is offering a new shared Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 hosting option, it was announced yesterday. The company's Starter Plan offers 1GB of space and 5 users, both of which can be added to "on the fly". A free 14 day trial is also available ...

Yahoo targets small, medium cos with Web-hosting services
Livemint - Delhi,Delhi,India
Yahoo Inc. has launched a service to build and host websites for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India for a fee, as the Internet company aims to attract more users online to earn a higher income from local advertisements ...

Web Host Aplus.Net Announces Microsoft adCenter Partnership
HostSearch.com - USA
Web host Aplus.Net has announced a partnership with Microsoft adCenter, it was reported yesterday. The company has added Microsoft Search Engine Advertising to the online marketing and ecommerce services it has available to its customers. Microsoft adCenter allows users to target specific demographics and provides supplemental search engine tools including keyword generator and keyword optimization ...

Cirrus Tech Announces Virtualization for Its Dedicated Server Plans
PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna,Bulgaria
Cirrus Tech prides itself on being at the forefront of the Canadian web hosting industry and offering clients innovative hosting solutions. Cirrus has long been offering Linux and Windows Virtual Private Server (Virtual Dedicated Servers) hosting plans to its clients. But with a growing number of VPS clients upgrading to dedicated servers, Cirrus Tech has officially announced the availability of virtualization technology on its dedicated server hosting plans ...

Microsoft warns of web server flaw
VNUNet.com - UK
Microsoft is investigating a newly reported flaw that could put websites at risk of attack. The company has issued an advisory on the vulnerability, which affects Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The problem exists in Windows' handling of code within its Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL Server ...

Lunarpages Offers $1000 Cash & 5 Years Free Web Hosting
HostSearch.com - USA
Lunarpages, provider of reliable and affordable web hosting, is sponsoring a WordPress Theme contest, where the best design wins $1,000 and 5 years free web hosting on Lunarpages Basic Plan ...

AT&T Launches SMB Hosting Plans
Web Host Industry Review - USA
Telecommunications provider AT&T (att.com) announced on Wednesday that it has launched new Web hosting and website design solutions, which specifically target the small to medium-size business market to help them boost operations more cost-effectively ...

Canadian Web Host Cirrus Tech Introduces Virtualization for Dedicated Server Plans
HostSearch.com - USA
With a growing number of VPS clients upgrading to dedicated servers, Canadian web host Cirrus Tech has launched virtualization technology on its dedicated server hosting plans. The company's customers can now benefit from the same virtualization technology used in its Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting plans in a standalone dedicated server ...

Lunarpages Anounces Spring Web Hosting Discount
WebHosting.Info - San Francisco,CA,USA
Lunarpages Web Hosting, a provider of website solutions, today announced a special discount for all new customers who purchase their most popular web hosting plan. The Basic Hosting Plan, normally priced at $6.95/month, is now $4.95/month, and comes with Free Domain Name, Free Website Templates, Free blogs, Free photo galleries and chatrooms, and Unlimited email addresses ...

Managed Web Hosting Sector Continues to Grow: T1R
Tophosts - Toronto,ON,Canada
Analysts at Tier1 Research (T1R) report that the managed Web hosting sector has experienced considerable growth in the past 12 months - more than 30 percent in fact. Several trends are responsible for the advance, notes T1R, including virtualization, business continuity services and security technologies ...

Dreamhost Drops Procmail Support
Web Host Industry Review - USA
Web hosting provider Dreamhost recently announced in its March company newsletter that it will stop providing mail-filtering tool Procmail to its users, leaving a few customers upset with the hosting provider's decision to cut one of its services after offering it for years ...

AT&T Launches Web Hosting Suite
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
AT&T (NYSE:T) has introduced a suite of turnkey Web hosting solutions and Web site design services designed and priced specifically for small and midsize businesses. The new services allow companies to launch or improve a Web site, sell products and services online, manage company e-mail, and distribute digital content ....

FFmpeg Hosting New Hosting Trend
PR Urgent - USA
FFmpeg is a collection of software that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video over the internet. FFmpeg allows Hosting Marketers customers to run similar websites like YouTube and software such as Clip Share, Ostube, PHPmotion. In addition to FFmpeg, the following modules have been installed on Hosting Marketers servers: Mplayer + Mencoder, LAME MP3 Encoder, flv2tool, Libogg and Libvorbis ...

Web Hosting Provider ServInt's new SuperVPS web hosting service
HostSearch.com - USA
The SuperVPS, ServInt's new flagship service, is a powerful replacement for the traditional Dedicated Server. SuperVPS offers customers dramatically increased redundancy, while providing equal or greater computing performance than that of a traditional, similarly priced Dedicated Server. SuperVPS is ideal for companies whose business model demands a reliable hosting service managed by experienced professionals ...

Poll Shows Link Between Brand Reputation and Reliable Web Hosting Underestimated
SourceWire (press release) - London,UK
A poll conducted by managed hosting provider NetBenefit has revealed that even though online marketing now plays a very important role in the communication strategies of most businesses, only one in four (28%) companies consider going to an external company for managed hosting services from an experienced solutions provider ...

MaximumASP Joins New BrowserHawk Offered by cyScape
WebHosting.Info - San Francisco,CA,USA
cyScape, Inc., creator of BrowserHawk, the industry standard solution for a good web experience, today announced that MaximumASP, a Microsoft Gold Certified Provider of web hosting and managed IT services, has joined the BrowserHawk Certified Hosting Partner Program ...

Web Host Sitestar Buys N2 The Net
Web Host Industry Review - USA
Web hosting provider Sitestar announced on Monday it has acquired the Internet access customer base and assets of N2 The Net. Sitestar has been actively pursuing acquisitions this year, having most recently purchased Internet service and hosting provider Comcation in late February ...

Web Hosting Solutions Firm, R1Soft, to Exhibit at MySQL Conference and Expo
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, will showcase its products and True Granular Restore technology at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo, to be held April 14-17 in Santa Clara, California. At the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and database administrators. This year's show provides an opportunity for R1Soft to educate the MySQL community about its Continuous Data Protection software for MySQL database servers ...

Web Host and Domain Name Provider Go Daddy Introduces an Internationalized Domain Name Service
HostSearch.com - USA
Web host and domain name provider Go Daddy has introduced an internationalized domain name service, the company announced this week. The service will allow users to register domains in more than 100 native languages ...

New-Product Sales Record set by SuperVPS Web Hosting Service
Tophosts - Toronto,ON,Canada
Provider of web hosting for businesses, ServInt, announced on Thursday that the company has set a new-product sales record with the deployment of its new SuperVPS service by hundreds of companies. The SuperVPS is a powerful alternative to the traditional dedicated server, offering customers considerably increased redundancy while providing equivalent or greater computing performance than that of a traditional dedicated server ...

Web Hosting Day in 2009, Should You Attend?
Tophosts - Toronto,ON,Canada
WebhostingDay 2008 was recently held in Bruehl, near Cologne, Germany. Touted as the largest web hosting event in Europe, the two day gathering presented the opportunity for web hosting professionals interested in the European market to network and learn from their peers. With the dollar / Euro exchange rate being what it is, and the relatively high cost of airfare - does it make sense to attend WebhostingDay in 2009?...

The Changing Face of Web Hosting
SitePoint - Australia
Earlier this week, Google announced the preview release of Google App Engine, a service that lets you build and run web applications (in Python only for now) on Google¡¯s own server infrastructure. This latest move continues a trend away from self-managed hosting and extends it by offering a fully managed application environment ...

Web Hosting Resource, Compare Web Hosts, Debuts Windows Server 2008 Info
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Most exciting about Windows Server 2008 is it offers pleasing features such as a stripped-down mode called ''Server Core'' that does away with many unnecessary features that are normally installed and a new virtualization platform, Hyper-V, that should increase Microsoft's foothold in this increasingly important Market sector ...

Google Offers Free Web Application Hosting
Netcraft - UK
Google has made a bolder move into web application hosting, unveiling the preview release of its Google App Engine service. The Google App Engine allows developers to build web applications on the same systems that power other Google applications, affording good scalability without needing to worry about infrastructure. For those who are familiar with the Python programming language, Google App Engine offers far greater flexibility than Google's existing free hosting service, Google Pages ...

New Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Hosting Plans from Intermedia
TMCnet - USA
Intermedia has announced Web hosting plans to leverage Adobe ColdFusion 8's new technology. The new version gives developers the ability to integrate Web sites with .NET applications and offers real-time monitoring and reporting of production systems ...

Web Hosting Design Solutions Firm, Template Monster, Unveils Flash Update
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Website template provider, Template Monster, has debuted the launch of an updated and improved version of its Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries, following the first version release of almost a year ago. The initial version of the product has became extremely popular around the world as non of the Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries presented anywhere on the Internet before have been equipped with the admin panel which made their use quite inconvenient ...

Web Host Intermedia Offers Adobe ColdFusion 8 Plans
HostSearch.com - USA
Web host Intermedia is offering Adobe ColdFusion 8 plans, it was announced yesterday. According to the company, the new version of ColdFusion enables developers to integrate their websites with .Net applications and provides them with real time monitoring and reporting of production systems ...

Compare Web Hosts Provides Valuable Resource for Windows Server 2008
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Compare Web Hosts, a premier Web Hosting Directory is pleased to announce its users can find out what they need to know of Windows Server 2008 on it's site. On February 27, Microsoft released the much anticipated Windows Server 2008, replacing Windows 2003. Windows Server 2008 is built from the same code base as Windows Vista; therefore, it shares much of the same architecture and functionality ...

CWCS, one of the top web hosting service providers in UK
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
CWCS Managed Hosting is a UK based company that offers a wide range of flexible web hosting packages and plans on dedicated servers for both Linux and Windows environments ...

Intermedia Announces New Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Hosting Plans
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Intermedia, the worldwide leader in Web hosting and business email services for small and medium enterprises, today announced the availability of Web hosting plans that leverage the new technology of Adobe ColdFusion 8. The new version of ColdFusion enables developers to integrate their Web sites with .Net applications and provides them with real time monitoring and reporting of production systems ...

easyCGI, a web hosting provider, offering now .NET 3.5 upgrade
Greatresponder.com - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Windows web hosting provider easyCGI, now launching .NET 3.5 hosting for clients of with the shared web hosting plans ...

Web Host SupaNames Offers VPS
Web Host Industry Review - USA
UK Web hosting provider SupaNames announced on Thursday it has launched its VPS service, which provides small and medium-sized companies with virtual private servers ...

Partner Agreement Formed Between Gomez and Rackspace IT Hosting
Tophosts - Toronto,ON,Canada
Gomez, Inc. today announced that they have formed a referral partner agreement with web hosting leader, Rackspace. Under the Referral Partner Agreement, Rackspace will use Gomez ExperienceFirst applications to test and evaluate the performance of its web applications, which will help ensure the delivery of the best possible user experience ...

Web Hosting, VoIP Firm, Covad, Receives Regulatory Approval for Acquisition
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Web host and national provider of integrated voice and data communications firm, Covad Communications Group, Inc., has obtained all of the required regulatory approvals for the proposed acquisition of Covad by an affiliate of Platinum Equity ...

The Planet Enhances Web Site with New Video Customer Testimonials
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Planet, the world¡¯s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced the addition of four new customer success videos to its Web site. The videos feature testimonials from the executives of small- and medium-size companies that host their IT infrastructures and businesses with The Planet ...

Yahoo! Web Hosting Search Firm, Reveals Investor Presentation Plans
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Yahoo! global Internet company, filed an investor presentation that details the Company's three-year financial plan and strategic initiatives, which are expected to roughly double operating cash flow over the next three years ...

US Web Host midPhase Services Partners with SoftLayer
Tophosts - Toronto,ON,Canada
US web host, midPhase Services, announced on Sunday that they will partner with SoftLayer Technologies to jointly launch a new range of midPhase dedicated servers. This portfolio expansion will now enable midPhase to offer the complete web hosting line up to existing as well as new customers ...

Green Web Hosting launched by NSDesign
SourceWire (press release) - London,UK
Glasgow based Business Internet Solutions company NSDesign Ltd, have partnered with Tree Appeal to launch a new "Green" Web Hosting package, aimed at their environmentally conscious client base. The new "Go Green" initiative allows customers to pay an optional £5.00 contribution which is matched by NSDesign, allowing the planting of 1 native broad-leaved tree such as oak, beech and ash ...