Regardless of your feelings about GoDaddy’s moral standing , its service is frustrating and restrictive. If you’re sick of paying for crappy hosting and want to jump ship, here’s how to leave GoDaddy behind for one of many better web hosts on the net. A Personal Note: Why GoDaddy Sucks A lot of people feel they shouldn’t support GoDaddy because GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons shot an elephant

A screen shot of Epsilon’s press release revealing the security breach (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Online marketing firm Epsilon ( www.epsilon.com ) announced over the weekend that its database was breached by hackers last week, potentially affecting millions of banking and retail customers.

I received a couple of updates from Internet entrepreneur Mike Mann that I wanted to share with you. First, his company sold two .CO domain names last week

Graham Crich of VMware delivers a main forum session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The first Thursday afternoon session in the main forum was delivered by Graham Crich of VMware, who set out to talk about the cloud market in the next few years, and specifically how the role of service providers is going to change.

Graham Crich of VMware delivers a main forum session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The first Thursday afternoon session in the main forum was delivered by Graham Crich of VMware, who set out to talk about the cloud market in the next few years, and specifically how the role of service providers is going to change. He showed a chart illustrating which individuals within organizations tend to be blockers or advocates toward moving to the cloud. One of the interesting things it illustrated was that IT managers are commonly advocates for the cloud, where they were more commonly blockers for more traditional outsourcing to hosting providers.

Web Hosting News – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, the leading supplier of business-class email and groupware for cloud providers, announced today a partnership with Host Europe Group, a leader in domain name registration and web hosting in the U.K.

A screen shot of the front page of Health Net’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Health insurance provider Health Net ( www.healthnet.com ) announced on Monday that it is investigating the disapearance of nine servers at its data center containing the personal information of 1.9 million policyholders. The health insurer said that IBM, which manages its IT systems, first alerted Health Net about the servers missing from its data center in Rancho Cordova near Sacramento