June 28, 2011 — The data center market in Manchester is growing, and two separate announcements from UK colocation providers have confirmed this increased demand. Network solutions and connectivity provider SSE Telecoms announced on Tuesday that it will provide connectivity to TelecityGroup’s Manchester 3 facility when it opens later this year. Colocation firm UK Grid announced on Monday that it has expanded its Manchester One data center.

A screen shot of KnownHost’s VPS plans (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider KnownHost ( www.knownhost.com ) announced on Monday it has reached a significant milestone in building its 11,111th virtual private server. The announcement closely follows a major upgrade to all of its VPS and hybrid servers, including increased memory, more disk space and higher bandwidth.  All of KnownHost’s VPS and hybrid servers are powered by Parallels and include full root access, managed cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin, are housed out of KnownHost’s Texas or California data centers, and feature RAID-10 failover systems.

A screen shot of KnownHost’s VPS plans (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider KnownHost ( www.knownhost.com ) announced on Monday it has reached a significant milestone in building its 11,111th virtual private server. The announcement closely follows a major upgrade to all of its VPS and hybrid servers, including increased memory, more disk space and higher bandwidth.  All of KnownHost’s VPS and hybrid servers are powered by Parallels and include full root access, managed cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin, are housed out of KnownHost’s Texas or California data centers, and feature RAID-10 failover systems. The Web hosting provider says that most of its customers are “enjoying the increased resources for the same investment, providing better performance and the ability to grow.” The firm also doubled the bandwidth on all existing dedicated servers

A screen shot of FireHost’s new Security View feature, as part of its customer portal (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider FireHost ( www.firehost.com ) announced on Tuesday it has added a new Security View feature to its customer portal, which allows customers to see blocked attacks against their websites and applications. The announcement comes a few months after FireHost added two new features to the customer portal , including access to real-time server metrics and the ability to reboot and shutdown or startup servers as needed. The new feature allows customers to view hacks by specific type, date, and originating region

A screen shot of FireHost’s new Security View feature, as part of its customer portal (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider FireHost ( www.firehost.com ) announced on Tuesday it has added a new Security View feature to its customer portal, which allows customers to see blocked attacks against their websites and applications. The announcement comes a few months after FireHost added two new features to the customer portal , including access to real-time server metrics and the ability to reboot and shutdown or startup servers as needed.

Global collaboration against cyber security threats is one of the key themes of the ICANN meeting currently being held in Cartagena, Colombia according to the ICANN CEO and President Rod Beckstrom. Beckstrom has called for the increased global sharing of information about security risks and escalating threats to the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). “Good security measures cannot be developed in a vacuum,” said Rod Beckstrom

Abstract: This paper provides the first large-scale empirical evidence of the association between specific properties of internet domain names and website performance.