Hosting Reviews – LONDON – A total of 46 per cent of British consumers have cancelled plans to spend with a small business after finding a poor quality website, according to research released today by 1&1 Internet Ltd, a global leader amongst web hosts.  From a study of more than 1800 UK adults, 37 per cent have walked away completely whilst a further 9 per cent have opted to spend less as a direct result.  Many consumers feel that small business websites today are mostly unattractive and often contain errors.  Whilst 1 in 3 consumers are willing to provide valuable feedback to business owners, a further study of small firms finds that half have never asked clients about their experiences of using their website. The majority of UK businesses have now taken steps to launch a website and battle for valuable online visibility.  However, 1&1’s ’2011 Digital High Street Audit’(1) finds worryingly low levels of consumer satisfaction with the small business websites available to them.  The risk to firms from providing a bad online experience is clear – 49 per cent of consumers believe that a bad website makes a worse impact than a business having no website at all.  This conclusion has led 37 per cent to walk-away from companies completely, in favor of using a competitor.  An additional 9 per cent of Britons have found themselves reducing their spend with small companies as a direct result of being deterred by a poor company website. Oliver Mauss, CEO 1&1 Internet Ltd.

Hosting Reviews – LONDON – A total of 46 per cent of British consumers have cancelled plans to spend with a small business after finding a poor quality website, according to research released today by 1&1 Internet Ltd, a global leader amongst web hosts.  From a study of more than 1800 UK adults, 37 per cent have walked away completely whilst a further 9 per cent have opted to spend less as a direct result.  Many consumers feel that small business websites today are mostly unattractive and often contain errors.  Whilst 1 in 3 consumers are willing to provide valuable feedback to business owners, a further study of small firms finds that half have never asked clients about their experiences of using their website.

UK’s biggest domain registrar 123-reg launches GlobalSign Website Passport Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 1:19:41 PM London, UK – 23 March 2011 – GlobalSign ( www.globalsign.co.uk ), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL security, today announced that major UK partner 123-reg is launching the new GlobalSign Website Passport product.

An aerial shot of CyrusOne’s North Dallas colocation facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Data center operator CyrusOne ( www.cyrusone.com ) announced on Monday that it is expanding with a new 72,000 square foot data center in Austin, Texas.  Two weeks ago, CyrusOne made its first move into the European market with a 10,000 square foot data center in London, UK. Last week, the WHIR delved into the construction of colocation firm Data Foundry’s data center campus in Austin, Texas. The 250,000 square foot data center, the first facility in its Data Ranch, will open in June 2011

An aerial shot of CyrusOne’s North Dallas colocation facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Data center operator CyrusOne ( www.cyrusone.com ) announced on Monday that it is expanding with a new 72,000 square foot data center in Austin, Texas.  Two weeks ago, CyrusOne made its first move into the European market with a 10,000 square foot data center in London, UK. Last week, the WHIR delved into the construction of colocation firm Data Foundry’s data center campus in Austin, Texas

UK Grid directors posing in front of their new Peugeot iOn electric cars (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A couple of UK Web hosting providers recently announced via separate press releases their individual green efforts. Manchester-based UK Grid (www.ukgrid.net ) is moving from turbo-charged to re-charged as its directors have traded their company vehicles for electric cars. Rob Garbutt, Patrick Doyle and John Sweeney have all swapped their existing company vehicles – two Porsches and a Mercedes – for three Peugeot iOn electric cars

A video still from a tour of TelecityGroup’s London data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation and managed hosting provider TelecityGroup ( www.telecitygroup.com ) announced on Monday that it has partnered with digital and print publishing firm Digital Technology International ( www.dtint.com ) to launch DTI Cloud, its SaaS publishing platform.

A video still from a tour of iomart’s Maidenhead, UK data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Managed hosting and cloud computing services company iomart Group ( www.iomart.com ) announced on Monday that is has completed the second phase of its expansion at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead, UK data center. This completion comes a couple weeks after iomart announced new contracts worth $2.9 million. According to iomart, the expansion is a result of customer demand and will add approximately 7,000 square feet of new data center space, or 300 high density racks.

A video still from a tour of iomart’s Maidenhead, UK data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Managed hosting and cloud computing services company iomart Group ( www.iomart.com ) announced on Monday that is has completed the second phase of its expansion at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead, UK data center. This completion comes a couple weeks after iomart announced new contracts worth $2.9 million

A live webcam still from inside Virtus’ new data center in London (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK data center operator Virtus Data Centres ( www.virtusdatacentres.com ) announced on Friday it has completed the first phase of its new Tier III Enhanced Data Centre in Enfield, north London. Construction started on the data center in June 2010, which once completed, will span 70,000 square foot. Phase 1 of the Tier III Enhanced facility provides 8,632 square feet of net technical space