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We take a regular look through new job postings on our associated site Web Hosting Jobs (www.webhostingjobs.com) and post a summary here in the WHIR news section incorporating some of the newest openings. Lithium Technologies (Emeryville, California) Last week, Lithium Technologies (www.lithium.com), a company that develops solutions for building online communities, posted two openings - a demand generation manager (a marketing position), and a chief systems architect. Both jobs are located in Emeryville, California. The company posted a third listing for an online moderator, which would be handled remotely.

In the internet business foremost mania that can affect a lot is the downtime. Unavailability of website costs very high for web businesses as the economy is about growth and the growth is about availability of opportunity. Missed opportunities may cause loss of thousands of dollars an hour due to the suffered sales. It's always been unpredictable to quantify the business lost by downtime of a website.

eUKhost.com, a well-known UK based web-hosting provider, today launched their new range of Windows Virtual Private Servers powered by Microsoft's latest virtualization platform, Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based server virtualization technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008 and provides a reliable and highly available server virtualization platform. The company states that Hyper-V provides scalability and superior performance by supporting features like guest multi-processing support and 64-bit guest and host support; reliability and security through its hypervisor architecture; flexibility and manageability by supporting features like quick migration of virtual machines from one physical host to another, and integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager

The week ending April 9, 2009 was a diverse week in the world of web hosting offerings, with promotions ranging from Hivelocity using its Twitter feed for announcing giveaways, to LogicBoxes packaging free software with its platform, to Fasthosts giving away a free .co.uk domain with every .com purchase.

Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy.com, has been named 2009's "Best of the Best" technology company by Ranking Arizona, awarding Go Daddy as the "best" Manufacturing and Technology Company doing business in the state.

After taking credit for a deadly March 25 attack on coalition forces, a Taliban website claiming to be the voice of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" was found to be hosted by Texas web host The Planet (www.theplanet.com).

The internet has perhaps had more influence on the way people interact with the world than any other invention in recent history. In the last decade, the internet has increasingly become a ubiquitous feature throughout society, with a large proportion of UK households now having access to the World Wide Web, providing them with round-the-clock access to the global community.

Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has just released 194 new tutorials to facilitate operations, including Joomla, PhotoShop, cPanel, Magento CMS Made Simple, DotNetNuke and LxAdmin

There are many new web hosts every single day, and they all want to have their minds put at ease when it comes to security for their sites. Any new website or online business is subject to being invaded by hackers looking to steal valuable information like account numbers, invoice records, personal data and other usable information. The best way for a merchant to ensure a protected site is to have the best security software working hand-in-hand with comprehensive daily security practices

Web hosting automation can be described as the process of automating server management tasks. With the popularity of shared hosting, cut throat competition in the hosting industry and bargain basement prices, automation is not just a convenience, but a necessity to stay competitive in the market.

Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has included Q Point Technology's new Storage Cloud solution in its portfolio. Based in Mountain View, California, Q Point Technology develops TrueSafe software infrastructure that enables service providers, such as IT managed services providers (MSPs), to offer their own online backup service.

Network Solutions (www.networksolutions.com) and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (www.nfte.com) have named Newark, NJ high school student, Daliswan Morgan, 16, the winner of the national NFTE/Network Solutions Web Site Challenge. NFTE is a non-profit organization that provides entrepreneurship education to young people from low-income communities. In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Network Solutions and NFTE partnered to promote entrepreneurship among urban youth by inviting NFTE students and alumni to design websites in support of their business plans using Network Solutions' Web Site Starter Package.

EyeWide Hotel Internet Marketing Services, a company providing web hosting, construction, development and Search Engine Optimization of web pages, launched the brand new internet site of Kalypso Hotel in Plakias, Crete. Welcome to the land of the legends in Plakias Rethymno Crete - Kalypso Hotel: According to the myth, Zeus, father of the gods of Olympus, chose the island of Crete for his "human" residence. Taking the form of a white bull, he abducted his beloved Europe and hid her in the marvellous beach of Preveli and its nearby palm grove before consecrating her into a goddess. Later on, Odysseus, hero of Troy and the one who imagined the Trojan Horse, on his return journey from Troy was captured by the magnificence of the landscape and the beauty of the mythical queen Kalypso. He spent seven whole years in the area before continuing his return journey.

Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy.com, recently participated in the St. Petersburg, Florida Honda Grand Prix, for the third season in a row, sponsoring Danica Patrick. Ms. Patrick is the IndyCar Series' most popular driver. She was recently featured in Sports Illustrated's famous Swimsuit Edition for the second consecutive year. She also made history last year as the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race after taking the checkered flag in Motegi, Japan.

Web hosting industry flash tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has developed and released new "Demo Pages" Display options, for its flash tutorial portfolio, to enable faster deployment. DemoWolf is also currently offering all tutorials at 50% off, as well as "bundles" of tutorial series for even greater savings. Sale prices end April 30, 2009.

Web host PPN Hosting has increased the bandwidth available through its plans, it was reported recently. We've increased our plans BW from a measly 10, 20 and 50GB to a whopping 100, 200, and 500GB, suggested a company statement.

Web hosting provider, Rackspace Hosting, has named its Chief Strategy Officer, Lew Moorman, as the President of its cloud business, to be responsible for deploying Fanatical Support to Rackspace's cloud hosting model. Prior to joining Rackspace in 2000, Mr. Moorman held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company, advising a variety of technology firms. Mr. Moorman holds a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

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Easyspace, one the largest web hosting providers in the UK, has this week added a new range of low cost, feature rich, shopping cart solutions to its product portfolio. With the ability to accept payments via a number of the most popular methods already built in (including Paypal and Worldpay), as well as exporting options allowing you to easily list your products on sites such as ebay, Google Base and Kelkoo as well as on your own site, the new eCommerce solution from Easyspace offers an intuitive way for users to start or improve their business online.

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