Domain & Hosting News
Shared Web hosting is arguably the most important segment of the Internet infrastructure industry. Shared hosting customers are the foundation – the engine that keeps growing and churning as Small Businesses are created and closed. I have been monitoring and keeping tabs on the shared hosting competitive landscape since I worked at ValueWeb in the late ‘90s on through the other hosters I have worked for.
Melbourne (OPENPRESS) November 21, 2010 — In an unprecedented move to attract new webmasters to its camp, Gossimer, one of the 25 most famous web hosting company of the world, has recently clubbed its website builder with its web hosting and e-mail hosting products. The newly clubbed website builder(http://www.gossimer.com/sitebuilder.php)product starts from USD 3.99 per month and goes up to USD 7.99 per month.
A chart that shows the obstacles hindering Federal data center consolidation. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Government business research firm INPUT ( www.input.com ) announced on Tuesday it has released the report that addresses the trends and technologies related to helping agencies meet the directives of the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. Entitled “Assessment of the 2010 Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative,” the report examines agency data center inventories, and summarizes select departments’ initiatives, applicable technologies, best practices, and their potential impact on IT spending.
Hosting providers with previous experience in Second Life are bringing some Second Life terminology with them into OpenSim. For example, Coral Estates draws a distinction between “owning” a region and paying “tier” — and “renting” land.
Hosting News – DALLAS & MENLO PARK — SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced a transaction in which its management team and GI Partners, a private trans-Atlantic investment firm, have acquired all of the equity in SoftLayer. Since its founding, SoftLayer has revolutionized hosting through its unswerving commitment to innovation and automation.
HOUSTON – (Business Wire) The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Web Hosting Evangelist Kevin Hazard will be a featured speaker at this month’s Houston Interactive Marketing Association meeting. On a panel titled, “Getting Down to Business: A Look at the Increasingly Interactive B2B Landscape,” Hazard will join industry experts to discuss recent developments in business-to-business marketing via the web, email, social media and mobile platforms. Hazard will cover the success of The Planet’s social media program, which includes its corporate blog ( http://blog.theplanet.com ), Twitter presence ( http://twitter.com/theplanet ), YouTube channel ( http://youtube.com/theplanetdotcom ) and Facebook page ( http://facebook.com/theplanet )
