November 21, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- This week's hosting sales and promotions have already begun capitalizing on the upcoming holiday season, steering away from the doom and gloom of last week's economic crisis-driven deals.

November 21, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Netfirms announced on Thursday that online image editor Pixlr has selected the Netfirms Enterprise cloud computing hosting platform to run its website.

November 21, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Delaware-based managed dedicated server hosting provider HostMySite.com has launched a new managed services section of its main website to highlight the suite of managed services available to dedicated server and colocation customers.

November 21, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Verio announced on Thursday that it has launched an email compliance services package to help small and medium-sized businesses manage risk and maintain compliance regarding federal regulations impacting corporate messaging policies.

November 21, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Canada's communication regulation body has denied complaints about Bell Canada Enterprises' managing of Internet traffic on the network space leased to third-party providers, letting it "throttle" bandwidth, according to opponents.

November 21, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory has announced a new project that will reduce data centers' energy consumption by half by cooling computers with water and reuses the dissipated energy to heat homes in the area.

November 21, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- One of the issues that has been close to the fore in hosting pretty consistently over the last few months is the movement among hosting companies in general toward offering more cloud-based services.

November 20, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Global managed hosting and security services provider, DataPipe is number 15 on NJBIZ magazine's list of New Jersey's 50 fastest growing private companies based on earnings and percentage growth.

November 20, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- ServerBeach, a dedicated hosting subsidiary of PEER 1, has been selected by photo sharing site Natuba (www.natuba.com) to provide web hosting and IT infrastructure for its site.

November 20, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In an email conversation with the WHIR, Apptix's director of engineering James Bond, who discusses his notion of "hostophobia," and how hosting companies might counter reluctance toward outsourcing among IT guys.