Web Hosting News

Clover Holdings Bids 13 M for sexcom Domain

Thursday October 21, 2010 — October 21, 2010 -- Following the bankruptcy of former sex.com domain owner, Escom, Clover Holdings has reportedly placed the highest bid for the domain, offering $13 million, proving yet again the adage that sex sells. … more

IBM Expands Cloud-based Development and Testing Environment with Windows Support More

Thursday October 21, 2010 — October 21, 2010 -- In an effort to better serve development teams, IBM has expanded its Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud, adding support for Windows platforms and other new enhancements. … more

Coyote Point Systems Launches Virtual Application Delivery Controller

Thursday October 21, 2010 — October 21, 2010 -- Application delivery and acceleration solutions provider Coyote Point Systems has launched Equalizer OnDemand, a robust Application Delivery Controller that runs as a VMware virtual appliance and optimize virtual server infrastructure. … more

Arbor Networks Launches New DDoS Mitigation Solution

Thursday October 21, 2010 — October 21, 2010 -- Security and network management solutions developer Arbor Networks has added geography-based IP alerting on traffic spikes from unexpected countries, and IPv6 BGP to gain unique insight into IPv6 traffic and trends to its network-wide … more

AboveNet Extends European Network at ancotel Site

Wednesday October 20, 2010 — October 20, 2010 -- Colocation and interconnection provider ancotel announced this week that connectivity company AboveNet had become the 400th customer at ancotel’s Kleyer 90 facility in Frankfurt, Germany. … more

GlobalNet Offers Government Hosting Services on Rackspace Infrastructure

Wednesday October 20, 2010 — October 20, 2010 -- Through its relationship with dedicated and managed server hosting provider Rackspace, IT hosting provider GlobalNet Services is now offering hosting for government agencies, effectively removing the management burden of main … more

UK Govt Revives Plan Requiring Storage of Communication Data

Wednesday October 20, 2010 — October 20, 2010 -- The UK Government has revived a previously shelved plan that would require Internet service providers to store data regarding the communications of their users, according to a report published Wednesday by the Telegraph. … more

MSP Attenda Strengthens Cloud Disaster Recovery Capabilities

Wednesday October 20, 2010 — October 20, 2010 -- Managed services provider Attenda has added a new, automated disaster recovery service as an addition to its cloud platform, which is designed to deliver the availability, agility and security of multi-site cloud platform architectures … more

Web Host iWeb Automates Dedicated Server Deployments

Wednesday October 20, 2010 — October 20, 2010 -- In a major milestone in the company's transition to automated on-demand server hosting services, Canadian Web host iWeb has introduced “Smart Servers”, a new line of servers that can be deployed in less than … more

Rackspace Passes 2 Million Paid Business Mailbox Mark

Wednesday October 20, 2010 — October 20, 2010 -- Web host and cloud computing services provider Rackspace Hosting has reached a major milestone, surpassing two million paid users of its hosted email offerings, including its proprietary Rackspace Email, hosted Microsoft Exchange and a … more