Archive for August, 2008

Vistrex Adds Web Design/Hosting Plan

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Vistrex, owner and operator of custom web design firm BestSiteDesign.net, announced on Friday it has launched a complete solution that includes both website design and hosting services for a business or individual’s website.

n|Frame Hosts Efficiency Webinar

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center services provider n|Frame will be hosting a free Webinar entitled “Complicated Equation: Facility Power + Cooling = Uptime,” to help businesses deal with the rising cost of data center energy and cooling.

n|Frame Hosts Efficiency Webinar

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center services provider n|Frame will be hosting a free Webinar entitled “Complicated Equation: Facility Power + Cooling = Uptime,” to help businesses deal with the rising cost of data center energy and cooling.

Emerson to Consolidate Data Centers

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Emerson Electric announced this week it is building a 35,000-square-foot data center in the company’s headquarters of St. Louis, as part of an enormous initiative to consolidate 100 global data centers into four facilities.

Host Color Launches New Website

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Host Color announced on Friday that it has launched its new website that now more accurately reflects the company’s “new model of providing web hosting services.”

Improved SmarterStats Software

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT-management software developer SmarterTools has released the latest version of its analytics software, providing website statistics, data mining, geographic mapping, spider and bot detection, and a Web interface.

Microsoft to Acquire Ciao.com

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an attempt to boost its Internet search and e-commerce business, Microsoft announced on Friday it has agreed to acquire Greenfield Online, the owner of European price comparison website Ciao.com, for about $486 million.

The Web Host Industry Week in Review

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — One of the interesting trends in this week’s hosting news was the issuance of data from a selection of surveys, with some of the more significant news of the week coming from more one-off events.

ServerPoint Adds Integra Telecom

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider ServerPoint announced on Friday it has added Integra Telecom as a backbone provider on its network.

Netcraft Releases Web Server Survey

August 29, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Web has grown by a net 1.3 million sites due to 1.2 million Apache sites and half-a-million Google sites, desite Microsoft IIS losing 60,000 sites, acccording to the latest web server survey by UK research and security firm Netcraft.