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Welcome to our blog. If you want to read about what’s happening in the web hosting industry (and the online world in general) this is the place for you. Occasionally we’ll even just post a fun video we found on Youtube. Please don’t be afraid to leave a comment. We love discussions.
  • 2012-07-04

    MobileMe No More

    On June 30, 2012, Apple shut down its MobileMe cloud computing service, around in various forms under several different names since January 2000. At first free and called iTools, the product provided storage and...
  • 2012-06-28

    IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

    IaaS, PaaS and SaaS are the three acronyms that providers of cloud computing services want everyone to know, especially now when the major players in the Internet world are staking out claims to what those words...
    iaas paas saas index
  • twitter down index
    2012-06-26

    Cause of Twitter Outage Unclear

    Twitter was essentially inaccessible worldwide for about two hours starting around noon Eastern Daylight Time (US) on Thursday June 21st, but there are conflicting reports on why the outage occurred. Ordinarily,...
  • 2012-06-21

    Tough UK Communications Bill Proposed

    Last week the UK Home Secretary proposed a Communications Data Bill that would require web hosting providers and ISPs to retain subscriber data for periods up to twelve months. The types of data to be retained i...
  • 2012-06-15

    Problems Continue for Megaupload Customers

    The Megaupload situation is still continuing to cause problems for its customers. In January, the US government had shutdown the Megaupload file-sharing website and seized over 18 domains and 1100 servers based ...
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  • linkedin theft index
    2012-06-13

    LinkedIn Passwords Unhashed

    LinkedIn, the social networking site for business and other professionals, was compromised within the last month when over 6.5 million of its passwords were captured by hackers. About 60 per cent of that total w...
  • 2012-06-01

    Arrest of Web Hackers

    The mists that enshroud the world of Web hacking from public view parted slightly last month when at least one arrest was made concerning a recent hacking breach of the host account of the Web Hosting Management...
  • 2012-05-30

    The Monitoring of Cookies in the UK

    The potential for stricter penalties just went into effect over this past weekend for violators of the year-old UK law that requires user consent for the use of cookies on a Web site. Though the law in the UK ha...
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  • web hosting apps index
    2012-05-25

    App Stores Now Being Used for Web Hosting Products

    It used to be the only way Web hosting providers could supply customers with the software they needed was to mail a disk or perhaps set up a download site. But now, the distribution model exemplified by the app ...
  • 2012-05-23

    NASA Dropping Out of OpenStack Partnership

    NASA, the US space exploration agency, is moving its commitment for open source software and the Internet cloud from being a developer to becoming a consumer....

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