Online merchants rely on ecommerce web hosting to keep their businesses running.

Managed web hosting ‘ideal for firms with limited IT knowledge’ Friday 18th February 2011 Businesses which lack a high level of IT expertise may be best off signing up with a managed web hosting provider, it has been claimed. Writing for HostReview.com, industry commentator Elad Domb said it is “not unusual” for the average business owner to have a limited or rudimentary understanding of web hosting and web design. “If you belong to this group, then you’ll want to sign up with a web hosting provider that has the technical knowledge and experience that you can rely on,” he commented

A screenshot of Symantec’s Endpoint Protection (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Security firm Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has launched a new version of its Symantec Endpoint Protection to detect and block new threats earlier and with more accuracy than its past versions. According to the press release, the latest version of Endpoint Protection blocks threats missed by “traditional signature, heuristic, behavioral and HIPS-based security solutions.”  Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is powered by Insight, the company’s cloud-based reputation technology. Symantec says that Insight has analyzed the anonymous software adoption patterns from more than 175 million customer computers to automatically derive security ratings for more than 2.5 billion unique software files.

Microsoft to Preview Windows 8 Tablet? Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 11:45:48 AM Windows have recently announced that they will be previewing their new tablet, which could potentially be running Windows 8, at next months Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

.FR domain name registrations increased by 21 per cent in 2009 according to the latest Domain Name Industry report released by AFNIC, the registry for .FR domains. The growth in .FR registrations is a ten point percentage lead over the average growth rate for other top level domains, although the growth in .FR was held back by restrictive registration practices that were only eased in the last few years.

The $13 million sale price for the sex.com domain is more than 5,000 times the average price of a domain from Sedo. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After placing the highest bid for the in-demand domain last month, Clover Holdings has now officially bought the domain sex.com for $13 million following the bankruptcy of former domain owner Escom ( www.escom.com ), proving yet again the adage that sex sells. Domain name firm Sedo ( www.sedo.com ), which oversaw the sale on behalf of Escom in accordance with an order issued by the US Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California , announced the sale Wednesday evening.

The $13 million sale price for the sex.com domain is more than 5,000 times the average price of a domain from Sedo.