A graph taken from Renesys’ website which shows Egypt’s sudden Internet downtime Every Friday, WHIR editor in chief Liam Eagle assembles some notes on stories from the web hosting industry this week that you might have missed or that might, for one reason or another, be worth revisiting. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Friday was a busy day around the WHIR newsroom this week, as most of the companies, government agencies and African nations with things to get done before the end of the week waited until we closed for the day on Thursday.

A screenshot shows the Alert Logic Threat Manager dashboard (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – IT security and compliance solutions provider Alert Logic ( www.alertlogic.com ) announced on Thursday that it has expanded into additional office space at its headquarters in Houston.  To support its record customer growth in 2010, the company added 6,400 square feet of office space. Alert Logic’s headquarters is now over 27,000 square feet

A screenshot shows the Alert Logic Threat Manager dashboard (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – IT security and compliance solutions provider Alert Logic ( www.alertlogic.com ) announced on Thursday that it has expanded into additional office space at its headquarters in Houston.  To support its record customer growth in 2010, the company added 6,400 square feet of office space. Alert Logic’s headquarters is now over 27,000 square feet

Hybrid Logic Ltd, a United Kingdom-based company today announced the commencement of the first round of beta testing of their PaaS (platform-as-a-service) software product, Hybrid Web Cluster in partnership with CloudSigma AG of Zurich, Switzerland. Hybrid Web Cluster is a cloud web hosting platform designed to run over any number of real physical servers, cloud server instances or a combination of the two. Due to recent advances in file system technology (ZFS) in combination with advances made by the software developers at Hybrid Logic Ltd; it is now possible to offer standard LAMP web hosting with a revolutionary level of redundancy, fault tolerance and scalability, at a price compatible with the commodity web hosting market.

Hybrid Logic Ltd announce the start of beta testing for their PaaS (platform as a service) web cluster.

HostGator to use LogicBoxes Registrar back-end to launch their long awaited registrar offering. LogicBoxes , a Registrar software and consulting company, today announced that HostGator , one of the world’s leading Hosters, will be using its Registrar back-end to launch their long awaited registrar offering

DirectI’s LogicBoxes unit announced today that that they are going to power HostGator’s new registrar. HostGator has over 7,000 servers under management and is planning to launch their registrar in 2011. They have been accredited under the name Launchpad

Nikolas Slupinski was named project manager for Logic Solutions’ Irvine office (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web application developer Logic Solutions ( www.logicsolutions.com ) announced Thursday it has made multiple appointments in its Ann Arbor headquarters and its Irvine, CA office.

Nikolas Slupinski was named project manager for Logic Solutions’ Irvine office (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web application developer Logic Solutions ( www.logicsolutions.com ) announced Thursday it has made multiple appointments in its Ann Arbor headquarters and its Irvine, CA office. The company has named George Hanosh, Zhenwei “Dave” Xie and Mark Kordyzon senior technical leads, and appointed Nikolas Slupinski project manager of its Irvine, California office

Web Host News – CANADA – Tenzing Managed IT Services (Tenzing), a leading provider of hosting solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers and Ecommerce systems integrators, today announced it has partnered with Alert Logic to help Ecommerce customers address the intrusion detection and vulnerability scanning requirements within the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), a worldwide security standard designed to help control and prevent online credit card fraud. By partnering with Alert Logic, Tenzing now offers Ecommerce companies a single solution for intrusion detection, vulnerability management and compliance reporting. By integrating Alert Logic’s IT compliant intrusion detection services with its integrated managed hosting offering, Tenzing enables Ecommerce customers to comply with PCI-DSS without having to invest in additional security infrastructure or monitoring resources.