Web Hosting Provider Easy CGI Provides Form-based Password Protection Option for Windows 2008 Hosting
HostSearch.com - USA
Windows web hosting provider Easy CGI is now providing a form-based password protection option for its Windows 2008 hosting products, it was reported today. The option allows users to establish an extra layer of security and is being offered without additional cost ...

Namesco Acquires Division of Ireland's Largest Web Host
Tophosts - Toronto,ON,Canada
Namesco Ltd, a UK shared Web hosting provider and domain registrar, announced that it has acquired Register365.com. The acquisition was made through Namesco’s Irish subsidiary (Namesco Ireland Ltd) and immediately adds 40,000 domains to the company’s portfolio. Register365 is part of Hosting365, Ireland’s largest Web hosting provider, serving 75,000 customers...

Web Hosting Provider, IPOWER, Unveils Spring Celebration
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
IPOWER Hosting, has unveiled spring specials on its Pro shared web hosting plan. In addition, clients can host unlimited domains on the Pro plan, with 1,500 GB of Space, and 15,000 GB of Transfer. Discounted from 7.95 to $4.95 per month, the Pro plan comes with a free domain name, 25 MYSQL database, and 2500 POP3 email accounts, with forwarding and spam filtering, 2,500 E-mail Accounts, and over $200 in Advertising Credits and Instant activation ...

A2 Web Hosting, Launches Zend Framework Support
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Linux web hosting provider, A2 Hosting, has debuted the launch of Zend Framework hosting, a tested PHP component library, created to aid in Web 2.0 application development, as well as additional web solution services. The solution was created with the objective to make web development straightforward while also encouraging best practices among PHP developers...

Huge Web Hosting Company Begs Users To Adopt Gmail
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA
DreamHost must have never imagined that so many people would use its Web-hosting services and choose to use its e-mail product. In some recent comments made by DreamHost, it is asking that its customers choose Gmail instead, because "it's somethingGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG) can do better." ...

Web Host RSHosting.com Announces the Addition of RVSiteBuilder to its Range of Options
HostSearch.com - USA
Web host RSHosting.com has announced the addition of an online website builder RVSiteBuilder to its range of options, it was reported yesterday. The move follows the company’s recent upgrade of its entire line of reseller hosting plans, increasing storage space, bandwidth, and adding features ...

The Planet Has Another Server Sale
Web Host Industry Review - USA
Dedicated hosting provider The Planet said Friday that it has launched another discount on dedicated servers, a pretty regular practice for the company. In this case, the company is reducing rates for high-end servers, including single- and dual-core processors as well as multi-processor and multi-core servers ...

Domain Name and Web Hosting Provider Dotster Offers Tips for SMB
HostSearch.com - USA
Domain name and web hosting provider Dotster is offering 10 cost effective tips for upgrading websites and "SMB website success", it was announced recently. According to the company, with economic slowdowns, it is critical for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to employ the most powerful, unique and effective websites to maximize sales ...

Best Way to Start a Website Hosting Service?
Slashdot - USA
Lets say that I wanted to start a small business endeavor, namely reselling my server space and offering pre-built websites. What resources would I need to start something like this on my own? What hosting service would best suit those needs?...

EC Suite Launches Hosting and CDN
Web Host Industry Review - USA
E-commerce solutions provider EC Suite (ecsuite.com) announced on Tuesday it has launched its web hosting and ...

Host Color Add Moodle CMS to Web Hosting Services
WebHosting.Info - San Francisco,CA,USA
Host Color, a web hosting provider, today announced that it has added Moodle CMS to web hosting services. It states that Moddle is an advanced software that ...

Rackspace Web Hosting, Installs Data Center, with Renewable Energy
webhostdir.com - Bournemouth,England,UK
Rackspace Managed Hosting, has begun installing equipment in its new green data center, designed to be powered by renewable energy sources, drawing power ...

Web Hosting Datacenter Firn, Digital Realty Trust, to Present at JMP Securities
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, redevelops, develops and manages technology-related real estate. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacenter(TM) and Powered Base Building datacenter solutions for domestic and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from information technology and internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services ...

Web Host AIT Provides Chance to Earn Record Profits with AITDomains
Tophosts - Toronto,ON,Canada
In the years since AITDomains introduced its Virtual Registrar (VR) program it has become a cash cow for hundreds of Internet entrepreneurs and resellers. Many have used it to register, renew, and transfer hundreds of domains, and some enterprising customers have more than 5,000 domains under their accounts ...

Low Cost Names become LCN and launch new look website
SourceWire (press release) - London,UK
Low Cost Names, one of the UK's top 5 domain name and web hosting companies have unveiled a new website, incorporating a fresh new look and corporate identity. As part of the new branding the name 'Low Cost Names' will be replaced in favour of 'LCN' ...

Web Host AIT Unleashes Dedicated Server Suite
Tophosts - Toronto,ON,Canada
Web Hosting provider AIT today launched a feature packed, dedicated server suite that combines high performance and premium 24x7x365 live support with dedicated administrators certified in both Linux and Windows. AIT¡¯s Cisco-powered Tier 1 Network features a 93,000 SF state-of-the-art data center and carriers such as Level 3 and Time Warner Telecom ...

Web Hosts Offered Continuous Data Protection, from R1Soft and cPanel
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, is offering its data protection solution to users of the cPanel/WHM hosting control panel system ...

AptHost unveils Managed Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Hosting Plans
HostReview.com (press release) - Orland Park,IL,USA
AptHost, a leading provider of Shared, Reseller, and Dedicated Hosting solutions, announced earlier today the release of brand new vps Hosting plans. The new service is exclusively tailored to Developers and Video Streaming with configurations pre-configured with FFmpeg and Red5 applications pre-installed ...

Frevvo Enables Dynamic Web Applications
eWeek - New York, NY
Live Forms enables users and developers to create AJAX-based forms with built-in capabilities. Frevvo, which offers systems for developing rich Internet applications, has released an SAAS-enabled solution that creates Web forms ...

Amazon the web hosting company
Bleacher Report - Menlo Park,CA,USA
This will probably only be interesting to 2 of the 5 people who read this blog, but Amazon just published on their Web Services blog a ...

Web Host Industry Review Publishes May 2008 Green Issue
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
The Web Host Industry Review, the publication of record for the hosting business, is excited to announce that the May 2008 issue of its Web Host Industry Review magazine addresses many of the environmental issues currently on the minds of hosting decision makers ...

CrystalTech Web Hosting Announces Adoption of SmarterTrack
HostSearch.com - USA
CrystalTech Web Hosting has announced its adoption of SmarterTrack, it was reported yesterday. The company, a provider of Windows-based web hosting provider, will utilize the customer service software created by SmarterTools, Inc. for its help desk, ticket system, live chat, cost analysis, data mining, knowledge base, and reporting functionalities ...

Web Hosting Support Services Firm, Foundry Networks, Schedules Financial Events
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Performance and solutions provider for end-to-end switching and routing, Foundry Networks, Inc., has updated the information in connection with its upcoming financial community events ...

Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
Slashdot - USA
Web developers are oftentimes under pressure to build attractive sites as quickly as possible, and thus they are increasingly making use of content management systems (CMSs), which offer most of the functionality typically needed in a site, such as user authentication, site-wide styling, and of course managing content contributed by site owners and users. Joomla is an extremely popular and heavily-used CMS, partly because it is one of the easiest to install, configure, and use as a starting point for a new site ....

MYOB moves into domains, hosting
Computerworld - Oslo,Oslo,Norway
Accounting software vendor MYOB has launched an online services business offering domain registration and Web hosting services. MYOB Business Web Hosting will offer its customers domain registration from A$35 (US$33) for two years, e-mail hosting from $14.95 per month, and Web hosting from $29.95 per month ...

Web Hosting Solutions Firm, Parallels, to Resell Microsoft SQL Server Tools
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Web hosting server virtualization firm, Parallels, has signed an agreement with myLittleTools to resell the myLittleAdmin for SQL Server 2005. Debuted as the first web-based management tool designed for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the application enables service providers to manage most database and server objects, such as tables, views, programmability and security objects, through a web browser...

First look: Google's high-flying cloud for Python code
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Google App Engine is meant for dreams like these. You write a bit of code in Python, customize some HTML, and bingo, you've got your database-backed dynamic Web site up and running in a few short minutes. The magic comes when the world starts flocking to your Web application, and Google's cloud of computers quickly adapts to the load, handling everything the public demands. There's no need for you to buy servers, load balancers, or special DNS tables. Google's application cloud handles all of the grungy deployment headaches...

Web Hosting Provider, Network Solutions, Upgrades Security Application
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Web hosting and small business applications company, Network Solutions, has launched a new security product, designed to protect online business owners and customers. The new WatchDog web site security service, is aimed at monitoring web sites for known vulnerabilities and performance problems. WatchDog offers web site vulnerability scanning, web site performance monitoring, and a Certification Seal ...

Domain Name Registrar and Web Hosting Provider Easyspace Offers .Biz Discounts
HostSearch.com - USA
Domain name registrar and web hosting provider Easyspace is offering substantial discounts on domain names with the .Biz extension, it was announced recently. The promotion is one of a number the company is offering during May 2008 (until May 31, 2008). The offer is open to existing Easyspace customers and new customers ...

Crucial Paradigm Adds Server 08 VPS
Web Host Industry Review - USA
Web hosting provider Crucial Paradigm reported on Wednesday that it is introducing a set of virtual private server hosting plans based on the Windows Server 2008 operating systems ...

Web Hosting Provider Crucial Paradigm to Introduce Windows 2008 Virtual Private Servers
HostSearch.com - USA
Web hosting provider Crucial Paradigm will introduce Windows 2008 Virtual Private Servers (VPS), it was announced today. The company, a shared, reseller, dedicated and managed web hosting solutions provider, will introduce a new line of Windows Server 2008 Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting plans, making it will be one of the first hosting providers to adopt the new platform. ...

Registernuke.com makes web presence simple
Merinews - New Delhi,India
Registernuke.com, dedicated to developing low-cost, high-performance hosting software, is pleased to partner with Microsoft™ by offering the new Windows Server 2008 with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) software as the backbone of its Windows Web hosting product line ...

Hostopia to acquire certain shared hosting customer assets of Tucows Retail Service Group
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Tucows Inc and Hostopia.com, Inc. yesterday signed a definitive agreement for Hostopia to purchase certain of Tucows' shared hosting customer assets including approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity and ItsYourDomain.com (IYD) customer accounts ...

Web Hosting Provider The Planet Launches Firewall Promotion
HostSearch.com - USA
Web hosting provider The Planet has launched a Firewall promotion, the company announced yesterday. The promotion promises a discount of up to 26% per month on its two popular Check Point solutions, and sits alongside a range of other promotions that will last until May 31, 2008, or while promotional supplies last...

Web Hosting Reseller Program Premieres, at Barak Hosting
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Web hosting, design, and database applications services firm, Barak Hosting, has introduced its new Reseller program, designed for website designers, developers and others desiring to build a branded web hosting business ...

Ruby, Rails Give Twitter Its Tweet
eWeek - New York, NY
Twitter's reliance on Ruby and Ruby on Rails proves the language's resilience. As the maker of one of the largest applications using Ruby on Rails on the Web, Twitter knows a thing or two about scaling applications built with the popular development framework ...

1&1 Offers Spring Specials
Web Host Industry Review - USA
Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet announced on Friday it is offering spring specials on a range of plans and products. The web host is offering its Home and Developer shared hosting packages free for the first three months. The plans require a $1 setup fee on the Virtual Private Server II for a 12 month contract and Business Server II for a 24 month contract ...

Web Hosting Solutions Firms, Reached Record Attendance, at Web 2.0 Expo
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
The Web 2.0 Expo, organized and produced by O'Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, has revealed that it recently hosted over 10,000 verified attendees. This number of attendees, compared to last year's event, highlights a growth of more than 20 percent. Marking the second year of this successful event, Web 2.0 Expo this year, at Moscone West in San Francisco....

Hostingplex Offers Clustered Hosting
Web Host Industry Review - USA
Canadian web hosting provider Hostingplex announced on Wednesday that it has launched a new cPanel-based clustered hosting service ...

Open Source Watch: Specialty Hosts for E-tailers
ECommerce-Guide - United States
The choice of a good Web host is one of the most crucial decisions an online store owner will make. A good e-commerce Web host can make the experience pleasurable. Choose the wrong host, though, and the online store owner's life can become a living nightmare ...

GoDaddy Web Hosting Firm, Celebrates Webmaster's Day
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Web hosting domain registrar, Go Daddy, has instituted a special designated day to honor Webmasters, by declaring April 29th as Webmasters' Day. Most companies now consider the web site a key aspect of the business plan and bottom line success. According to IDC, two-thirds of small to medium sized business have the webmaster in-house. Webmasters are typically responsible for the content and stability of web sites...

Web Hosting Company, Hostopia, to Acquire Uplinkearth Customer Assets
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Web hosting company specializing in small and medium business support, Hostopia, will sign a definitive agreement to purchase the customer assets of New Jersey-based hosting services provider, Luxmovera, LLC's uplinkearth ...

Web Hosting Tutorial Firm, DemoWolf, to Exhibit at HostingCon
WebSite Host Directory (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, will be exhibiting at HostingCon 2008 in Chicago, to be held from July 28 through the 30th this summer. HostingCon is the largest conference and tradeshow for the hosted services industry. HostingCon 2008 will be held at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois, over 56,000 square feet being reserved for the event ...