Web Hosting – SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace® Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today announced the availability of Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers. Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers provides operational efficiency to customers, is easy to set up and provides seamless integration with Rackspace Cloud Servers™ or Rackspace dedicated servers

The January 2011 issue of WHIR magazine; the annual Hottest Hosts directory The WHIR joins Web Hosting Talk and HostingCon to Form Three Complementary Media Properties under a Single Umbrella (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — iNET Interactive ( www.inetinteractive.com ) has announced today the acquisition of the Web Host Industry Review ( www.thewhir.com ), the leading news and analysis source for the hosted services industry. For more than ten years, theWHIR.com has provided its readers with daily industry news, feature coverage, expert opinion and analysis.

The January 2011 issue of WHIR magazine; the annual Hottest Hosts directory The WHIR joins Web Hosting Talk and HostingCon to Form Three Complementary Media Properties under a Single Umbrella (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — iNET Interactive ( www.inetinteractive.com ) has announced today the acquisition of the Web Host Industry Review ( www.thewhir.com ), the leading news and analysis source for the hosted services industry. For more than ten years, theWHIR.com has provided its readers with daily industry news, feature coverage, expert opinion and analysis.

A screen shot of XETA Technologies’ website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and data center operator PAETEC Holding ( www.paetec.com )  announced on Wednesday it will acquire XETA Technologies ( www.xeta.com ) for about $61 million.

A diagram describes Nominum’s NavAssist (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – DNS solutions provider Nominum ( www.nominum.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has provided Virgin Media ( www.virginmedia.com ) with NavAssist and Vantio NXR to improve navigation assistance. The terms of the contract were not disclosed.  The company has previously deployed Nominum’s caching DNS server technology, recently upgrading it to the Vantio Intelligent DNS. According to Nominum, NavAssist is an application that enables easier Web navigation and Vantio NXR is a policy software for its Vantio Intelligent DNS System

A map of FiberLight’s optical network (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Fiber optic network provider FiberLight ( www.fiberlight.com ) announced on Thursday that it has launched a Dedicated IP platform for enterprise and government customers to meet growing demand for high performance Internet service. According to the press release, FiberLight’s new service will serve government and enterprise customers exclusively to reduce congestion and threats resulting from cross-traffic with Web centric companies and service providers. “Network flexibility and performance are at the heart of FiberLight’s value, and the capabilities we have built using Juniper’s core routers extends that position in the marketplace,” executive vice president of sales and marketing for FiberLight Ben Edmond said in a statement

An image of ViaWest’ Salt Lake City area data center, which was acquired from Consonus (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and Web hosting provider ViaWest ( www.viawest.com ) announced the hiring of Daren Castain as regional vice president and general manager for the Utah market.