July 31, 2009 — Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet announced on Wednesday that it has released the results of a new study which reveals that SMB owners are resorting to unnecessary spending because of confusion over the cost and effort involved in web hosting.
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Archive for July, 2009
SSL Flaw Exposed at Black Hat Conference
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — According to a story published Wednesday on Wired’s Threat Level security blog, among other places, security researchers presenting at the Black Hat conference this week in Las Vegas said they had uncovered vulnerabilities in the issuing process for SSL certificates that could allow attackers to pose as any website.
Online Porn Firm Drops Plan to Sue FTC After 3FN Shutdown
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — In early June the US Federal Trade Commission effectively pulled the plug on web host 3FN for allegedly distributing spam, child pornography, and other illegal content. Claiming the shutdown has cost it $5,000 a day, Spanish pornography company New Concept Business threatened to become a third-party litigant against the government, however it has since dropped its plan after getting back all the data taken by the FTC.
SingleHop Announces 19 Percent Q2 Revenue Growth
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — Two months after opening its second data center, managed hosting provider SingleHop has announced the results for its fiscal 2009 second quarter, which ended June 30, 2009, showing a 19 percent increase in revenue from the previous quarter as the firm continues growth and strategic expansion.
IPOWER Launches Newly Designed Green Website
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — Web hosting provider IPOWER announced on Friday it has revealed its newly designed, 100 percent carbon neutral website, which features a sleek new layout that offers access to tools and services.
Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — The last week of July had a number of web hosting sales and promos, including BT Business discounting its starter hosting package by 40 percent and DWHS cutting the price of its reseller hosting. Also, NSDesign doubled the bandwidth on its shared hosting, Codero announced introductory dedicated hosting discounts, Gossimer began its offer of unlimited email hosting for a buck, and Vyatta unveiled an unusual discount in which its size depends on the size of Cisco’s gross profit margin revealed next week.
PUE Can Be Misleading, says The Green Grid
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — Data center efficiency measures such as PUE have helped raise important issues of reducting data center consumption, but should not be used to compare one data center to another, said nonprofit organization Green Grid at online event, Next Generation Data Center on Thursday.
Google Shows Gains in July 2009 Web Server Survey
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — July saw a substantial increase in Blogger and Wordpress sites, fulling web server market gains by Google of 1 percent and nginx of half a percent respectively, according to web analytics firm Netcraft, which received responses from nearly 240 million sites.
Go Daddy Markets Affordable EV SSL Certificates
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — Domain registrar and web hosting provider Go Daddy announced that it is offering Extended Validation certificates at an affordable price.
Government Recommends Web Security Practices
Posted in July 31st, 2009
July 31, 2009 — Government officials are calling for a new Internet paradigm that incorporates a risk-management approach and innovative technologies to keep the web secure in future generations.