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  • 2012-02-27

    New Version of Apache HTTP Server

    This week, the Apache Software Foundation announced the release of major version 2.4 of Apache HTTP Server. The last minor release of the software was version 2.3.6 in 2010; the last major release, version 2.3, ...
  • 2012-02-22

    Access to Website Taken Down by US Order

    One of the fears of those who opposed the passage of the SOPA/PIPA Internet anti-piracy legislation in the US Congress last month may have come true. Many in the web hosting industry are concerned over the growi...
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  • 2012-02-16

    Lessons Learned from Hack Attacks

    The importance of keeping customers in the loop and making them feel an integral part of a web hosting provider's business was driven home by the recent hack attack on the Cryptome.org web site. Covering whistle...
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    2012-02-15

    Web Hosting Providers Acting As Advisors

    Yahoo has recently taken a step for interaction with the customer that all web hosting providers may want to think about emulating. Last week, the beta of Yahoo Small Business premiered to the public as a resour...
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    2012-02-09

    World IPv6 Launch Day Coming Soon

    The Internet Society recently set a date, June 6, 2012, as World IPv6 Launch Day, when it is expected that web companies and major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will permanently enable the IPv6 protocol for ...
  • 2012-02-07

    SOPA and PIPA Lobbying Payments

    Last month, the United States Congress stopped consideration of two bills, the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the US Senate and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the US House of Representatives,...
  • 2012-01-31

    Problems for DreamHost

    Other web host providers may take a lesson from the recent set of problems that have been the experience of DreamHost, a domain name registrar and web hosting provider founded in 1996 and based in Los Angeles, C...
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    2012-01-31

    Will New Online Protection Bill Replace SOPA and PIPA?

    With the overwhelming reaction against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), a few members of the United States Congress have put forth an alternative bill. Oregon Democrat Senator Ron...
  • 2012-01-30

    A Closer Look at Magento

    At its simplest, Magento is a robust e-commerce solution built on a foundation of open-source technologies. The blended approach that Magento uses provides the best of both worlds for end-users. On one hand, the...
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    2012-01-24

    Smooth Start for New gTLD Program

    ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced last week that the application system for the new gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains) of the Internet began on January 19th and is proceedi...

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