A Netcraft graph showing the total time from New York/New York Internet to www.postfinance.ch (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Supporters of WikiLeaks have sent denial of service attacks to the websites of several financial institutions out of retaliation for discontinuing their financial services with the whistle-blower website, according to a report by Web analytics firm Netcraft .

An image from The Green Grid, illustrating how CUE is calculated (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center industry organization The Green Grid ( www.thegreengrid.com ) announced on Thursday it has released two new metrics designed to improve the sustainability of data center facilities. By measuring the effectiveness of carbon and water use as it relates to IT energy infrastructure, the new Carbon Usage Effectiveness and not-yet-released Water Usage Effectiveness metrics will help optimize sustainability in data centers, according to The Green Grid. A widely recognized and used metric in the data center industry , The Green Grid’s Power Usage Effectiveness helps data center managers evaluate efficency of the IT equipment through comparisons of the total amount of energy consumed in the facility versus the total amount of energy used by the equipment

An image from The Green Grid, illustrating how CUE is calculated (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center industry organization The Green Grid ( www.thegreengrid.com ) announced on Thursday it has released two new metrics designed to improve the sustainability of data center facilities.

RegistryPro, the exclusive operator of the .PRO TLD, announced it will be decreasing wholesale pricing to accredited registrars by over 25 per cent for 2011. The decision stems from a historic growth in the number of registered .PRO names in 2010, which were up 125 per cent from 2009. While statistics are not released by RegistryPro, they say the rapid growth in .PRO registrations began in 2008 when certification requirements were eased to include more professions and geographies.

Web Host News – SUNNYVALE, CA — Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that PEER 1 Hosting (TSX: PIX), a leading online IT hosting provider, has selected Juniper’s “3-2-1″ architecture for a comprehensive upgrade of its data centers and core network infrastructure that is designed to cost-effectively increase traffic capacity and scalability. The proven scale and reliability of the Junos® operating system and a simplified architecture will enable Vancouver-based PEER 1 Hosting to meet its guarantee of 100 percent network availability and ultra-low latency to its customers worldwide for all services, including their flagship Cloud Hosting Services

Web Host News – SUNNYVALE, CA — Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that PEER 1 Hosting (TSX: PIX), a leading online IT hosting provider, has selected Juniper’s “3-2-1″ architecture for a comprehensive upgrade of its data centers and core network infrastructure that is designed to cost-effectively increase traffic capacity and scalability. The proven scale and reliability of the Junos® operating system and a simplified architecture will enable Vancouver-based PEER 1 Hosting to meet its guarantee of 100 percent network availability and ultra-low latency to its customers worldwide for all services, including their flagship Cloud Hosting Services . “Upgrading our core network was a necessity to improving our business, but a major overhaul of network infrastructure can be challenging,” said Ted Smith, senior vice president of operations, PEER 1 Hosting

If you have decided to go for purchasing a web hosting plan for your website, you need to see whether it contains the basic features or not. ‘Disk space’ is one such feature that needs to be considered while hiring a web hosting service provider. In every hosting account the user is offered fixed amount of disk space used for storing files.

09|03|2010 10:26 am EDT Domainvermarkter Forum Live Auction Results by Frank Michlick in Categories: Domain Auction – 1 Comment Albeit with a very late start, we ‘re were live blogging the auction results of the Domainvermarkter Forum Live domain auction held in Munich, Germany by Moniker/Snapnames today. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts Blogs: Interview with John Zanni of Microsoft News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 13, 2010 News: Q&A: Imad Mouline, CTO of Compuware Division Gomez News: Dell Denies Keeping Evidence Related to AIT Lawsuit News: Spam Volume Grows 10 Percent from May to July: eleven Email Security Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After stagnating for the first part of the the year, the volume of spam rose by 10 percent from May to July, according to the latest email security report from German email security specialist eleven ( www.eleven.de ). According to the report released Thursday, the increase can be traced mainly to casino spam, which more than doubled its share of total spam in July, rising from 7.2 percent to 16.2 percent

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 13, 2010 News: Q&A: Imad Mouline, CTO of Compuware Division Gomez News: Dell Denies Keeping Evidence Related to AIT Lawsuit News: Spam Volume Grows 10 Percent from May to July: eleven Email Security Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After stagnating for the first part of the the year, the volume of spam rose by 10 percent from May to July, according to the latest email security report from German email security specialist eleven ( www.eleven.de ). According to the report released Thursday, the increase can be traced mainly to casino spam, which more than doubled its share of total spam in July, rising from 7.2 percent to 16.2 percent. As recently as May, casino spam had accounted for only three percent of the total volume.