An illustration from the OpenStack Compute documentation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The community around the open source cloud computing platform software OpenStack ( www.openstack.org ) announced on Friday that it has issued its third code release, code named “Cactus,” introducing more than 40 new features, and offering greater stability for larger-scale cloud computing platform deployments. Introduced less than a year ago, the OpenStack platform was originally comprised of code contributed by Rackspace ( www.rackspace.com ) and NASA, and has quickly built up a significant community, and acquired significant contributions from a range of large and small organizations and individuals. According to the OpenStack announcement, the community now includes more than 60 organizations, and the new code release includes more than 4,700 community contributions.

A chart that shows the total sites across all domains for the Netcraft February 2011 survey (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) reported on Wednesday the results of its February 2011 survey, which saw responses from 284,842,077 sites. Leading the survey with the largest number of increases in terms of market share and absolute growth is Apache, which saw 9.6 million new hostnames and a 1 percentage point increase in market share. This is the second consecutive month Apache has gained the most hostnames.

A chart of Netcraft’s top 10 most reliable hosting company sites in January 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) reported on Wednesday the results of its most reliable hosting company sites in January 2011, which is lead by Datapipe. Last month, Swishmail and ServInt took the top positions in the most reliable hosting company sites in December 2010 . Since four of the Web hosts this month saw no failed requests at all to their websites, they are ranked by average connection time.

A chart of Netcraft’s top 10 most reliable hosting company sites in January 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) reported on Wednesday the results of its most reliable hosting company sites in January 2011, which is lead by Datapipe. Last month, Swishmail and ServInt took the top positions in the most reliable hosting company sites in December 2010

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Heart Internet’s homepage, dressed up with Christmas specials With Thanksgiving weekend over, web hosts have changed gears to focus on promotions for the next big holiday. Web host SKGOLD Hosting hopes to bring holiday cheer with its 60 percent discount during the month of December, host and domain registrar UK2.net is slashing the price of its dedicated servers in half for six months, Web host Heart Internet has a special Christmas bundle with 25 percent off plans and dedicated and managed hosting provider Codero has select servers discounted by 50 percent off.

The above screenshot is taken from “How to add a domain in WebsitePanel”, one of DemoWolf’s 76 new tutorials on the recently rebranded hosting control panel. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting tutorials provider DemoWolf ( www.demowolf.com ) has released 76 new tutorials in four new series for WebsitePanel ( www.websitepanel.net ), the newly rebranded hosting control panel that used to be known as DotNetPanel