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.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 27, 2010 News: Web Host LeaseWeb Launches Community Outreach Project News: VoxDomains.com Offers Grid-Powered Web Hosting News: Virginia Data Center Experiences Massive Outage News: NYSE Euronext Completes NYSE and NYSE Amex Equities Migration (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — European Web hosting provider LeaseWeb ( www.leaseweb.com ) announced on Friday it has launched a new project that will offer free server capacity and bandwidth for organizations that monitor, identify and combat the sources of spam and cybercrime. The Community Outreach Project will provide dedicated servers within LeaseWeb’s data center and allocate network bandwidth to qualifying organizations which work with industry to identify Internet security threats

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 27, 2010 News: Web Host LeaseWeb Launches Community Outreach Project News: VoxDomains.com Offers Grid-Powered Web Hosting News: Virginia Data Center Experiences Massive Outage News: NYSE Euronext Completes NYSE and NYSE Amex Equities Migration (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web host and domain name provider VoxDomains.com ( www.voxdomains.com ) is now offering grid computing-based Web hosting for all US plans, offering the performance and redundancy of clustered servers at the same price as traditional shared hosting. According to VoxDomains’ Friday announcement, it now features a clustered grid architecture instead of single servers to host websites, resulting in more available resources, and to accommodate greater traffic and processing loads. Multiple servers also increase redundancy with other servers taking over if a server goes down.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 27, 2010 News: Web Host LeaseWeb Launches Community Outreach Project News: VoxDomains.com Offers Grid-Powered Web Hosting News: Virginia Data Center Experiences Massive Outage News: NYSE Euronext Completes NYSE and NYSE Amex Equities Migration (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A massive outage at the state of Virginia’s data center in Chesterfield brought many critical services to a halt, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . More than 220 servers at the facility went offline Thursday, left at least 24 state agencies stranded without IT support, reported local media.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 27, 2010 News: Web Host LeaseWeb Launches Community Outreach Project News: VoxDomains.com Offers Grid-Powered Web Hosting News: Virginia Data Center Experiences Massive Outage News: NYSE Euronext Completes NYSE and NYSE Amex Equities Migration (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider TurnKey Internet ( www.turnkeyinternet.com ) announced on Wednesday it has launched the TurnKey Vault Network Attached Storage, an enterprise-class cloud‐based backup and storage solution for business customers. TurnKey NAS is designed for file‐sharing and online backups of servers or office PC networks, and can be mounted as a local hard drive for easy, secure drag‐and‐drop file copying.    The solution can be accessed from anywhere with support for FTP, SCP, SFTP, Rsync, NFS or Samba connections. It also supports PC, Mac, Linux and other operating systems.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 20, 2010 News: UK Host Fasthosts Adds Business Cloud Storage Solution News: RatePoint Secures $7 Million in Series C Funding News: Connectivity Provider Hibernia Atlantic Opens New UK Office News: SmarterTools Reveals Three Hosting Partner Deals (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK Web hosting provider Fasthosts Internet ( www.fasthosts.co.uk ) announced on Friday it has launched a new online storage solution designed for archiving valuable business data.  The service provides secure off-site storage space within a UK data center. Designed for all levels of business user, the service offers multiple methods of uploading data, and sharing documents between teams on and off the premises.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 20, 2010 News: UK Host Fasthosts Adds Business Cloud Storage Solution News: RatePoint Secures $7 Million in Series C Funding News: Connectivity Provider Hibernia Atlantic Opens New UK Office News: SmarterTools Reveals Three Hosting Partner Deals (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Online reputation management tools developer RatePoint ( www.ratepoint.com ) announced on Friday that it has closed a $7 million series c round of funding, co-led by Massachusetts companies Prism VentureWorks, 406 Ventures and Castile Ventures.