Various browsers that show websites protected by DigiCert’s SSL certificate (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Authentication and encryption provider DigiCert ( www.digicert.com ) announced on Thursday that it has launched its new EV SSL Wildcard certificate.

A screenshot from a demo of 3dcart’s Store Admin control panel (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Security firm Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) announced on Tuesday it has partnered with e-commerce solutions provider 3dcart ( www.3dcart.com ). 3dcart will provide its customers with VeriSign SSL Certificates and the VeriSign Trust Seal to increase security on their websites during the high-traffic holiday shopping season

The VeriSign Trust Seal (as shown on this website) is being offered as a free trial for 60 days as part of the promotion (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Security firm Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) announced on Monday it is offering free trials of all VeriSign SSL Certificates, including the free trial of its fully functional Extended Validation (EV) SSL. The competition for the SSL certificates market has become more intense recently with Symantec’s acquisition of VeriSign’s security operations – including GeoTrust ( www.geotrust.com ) – earlier this year.

Web Hosting News – Portsmouth, NH – GMO GlobalSign Inc., one of the longest established specialists in SSL Partner Programs for hosting companies, today announced that its Platinum Partner, leading hosting company Webfusion,  has extended its partnership with GlobalSign for a further period of three years. The extended partnership will enable Webfusion to continue to provide its customer base with GlobalSign’s highly trusted and secure 2048bit SSL technology to allow secure ecommerce

Managed via the AWS Management Console, Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances providing capacity where it is needed, as well as steering traffic away from unhealthy instances. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Amazon Web Services ( aws.amazon.com ) has now enabled users of its Elastic Compute Cloud (better known as EC2) create a highly scalable, load-balanced website using multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

Managed via the AWS Management Console, Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances providing capacity where it is needed, as well as steering traffic away from unhealthy instances.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Web hosting industry wasted no time in introducing sales and promotions in the week following the Labour Day weekend.

Web Hosting News – London, UK – GMO GlobalSign Ltd. one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced that Ultraspeed UK Limited, one of the UK’s top webhosts and specialists in managed hosting solutions has joined GlobalSign’s Partner Program

Portsmouth, NH 01 September, 2010 GMO GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced that Ultraspeed UK Limited (www.ultraspeed.com), one of the UKs top webhosts and specialists in managed hosting solutions has joined GlobalSigns Partner Program. Ultraspeeds hosting customers will now be able to purchase GlobalSigns full range of SSL Certificates as an additional value add product to their hosting package to fully secure their websites, online transactions, web mail and other next generation online services using GlobalSign highly trusted 2048bit SSL technology. After deciding to switch from their current SSL provider, Ultraspeed sought a leading international Certificate Authority who could offer the most highly trusted and reliable SSL Certificates available in todays market, to complement their existing premium hosting solutions.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Q&A: Christian Dawson, ServInt News: Finnish Web Host IceBlueHost Joins GlobalSign SSL Partner Program News: Web Host Hostican Upgrades Network with Addition of $470,000 Cisco Firewall News: Interoute Attains ISO 27001 Certification for Stockholm Data Center News: SoftLayer Sponsors Next Week’s European Game Developer Conference (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Finnish Web hosting provider IceBlueHost ( www.icebluehost.com ) has joined the SSL partner program of longtime Certification Authority and SSL certificate security provider GlobalSign ( www.globalsign.com ), allowing it to resell the full range of GlobalSign SSL Certificates to its Scandinavian and European customer base. According to GlobalSign’s Thursday announcement, the recent integration of the GlobalSign SSL reselling module into the management hosting solution platform WHMCS (www.whmcs.com) enables IceBlueHost to respond to its customers’ growing demand for SSL effectively and efficiently through the integration of SSL certificates with its control panel. “We have experienced an unprecedented number of partner sign-ups since our association with WHMCS.