Group items tagged

AT&T's endorsement yesterday of Internet telephone service came as a surprise because it could put increasing pressure on the company's flagship telecommunications business as users begin to exploit the Net for low-cost, long distance phone calls. Internet telephones, such as Quarterdeck's WebTalk and VocalTec's Internet Phone, allow long distance calls over the Internet for the price of a call to a local Internet service provider.

While promising one crore laptops to students, the party said in its IT and telecom vision document released last week, it would spend Rs 10,000 cr on buying top-of-the-line laptops with open source software. The party also plans to allow unrestricted internet telephony.

LNH, Inc. (D/B/A HostMySite.com) announces their listing on the General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule as a result of being awarded GSA Contract GS-35F-0208V. HostMySite's discounted pricing structure for the GSA provides government agencies and authorized GSA buyers the ability to meet their budgeting requirements while still maintaining the high levels of service their constituents have come to expect.

WiredTree (http://www.wiredtree.com), a leading provider of Managed Dedicated, Managed Hybrid and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting solutions, announced today it will now offer LiteSpeed WebServer as a premium upgrade option for all customers on any hosting plan.

UK VPS hosting and Dedicated Server specialist, (www.ServerChoice.com), has announced a new offer to allow customers to switch from any shared hosting package to Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting with no risk. The company will offer the first three months on any VPS hosting product for free, in addition to free setup on all VPS accounts.

I saw an article this morning in the Wall Street Journal that I just had to comment on. According to the news coverage, "Workers at a French factory of U.S industrial conglomerate 3M Co. were holding their boss captive on Wednesday to protest planned layoffs, in the latest sign of growing public anger at rising unemployment in France.

E-commerce firms should consider their web hosting package when looking at refining their search engine optimisation strategy, according to one expert. Writing on the Econsultancy blog, Ran Nir of Conversion Counts suggested that those specifically targeting the UK make sure their web hosting provider offers a UK IP address to improve the likelihood of appearing in UK rankings.

UK web hosting provider Webhosting.uk.com (www.webhosting.uk.com) announced on Monday that it has launched new shared and reseller web hosting products based on the Windows Server 2008 platform. The server 2008 platform first launched in early 2008 to much fanfare within the hosting community, as Microsoft built many features into the platform - and the Internet Information Server 7 module - with web hosting operations in mind.

Web Hosting News - LOS ANGELES, CA - InMotion Hosting, Inc. one of the fastest growing business web hosting providers in the U.S., announced today the opening of a new data center near Washington, D.C. Along with their data center located in Los Angeles, CA, this additional data center dramatically reduces the time it takes for clients to perform functions such as the sending and receiving of email and the uploading of web pages and other online content. 3rd party performance tests report an up to 6x improvement in speed when accessing websites from locations within one of InMotion Hosting's Max Speed Zones.

Proving the old proverb about March, "in like a lion, out like a lamb," the final week of March has been rather quiet in terms of sales and promotions, with a few exceptions. ResellerClub has chosen this week to cap off its birthday promotion, WebhostGIANT announced a half-off promotion, and Host Department is offering 20 off its shared hosting for Easter. ResellerClub Announces "Big Birthday Bash" On Wednesday, one of the world's largest registrars, ResellerClub (www.resellerclub.com), announced the start of its annual "Big Birthday Bash" promotion, running through the month of March until the 15th of April. Celebrating its third birthday, ResellerClub is offering .in domains for $3.99, .tel for $9.99, .mobi for $6.99, and .biz for $3.99 annually.

The company offers globally dispersed locations to meet their customers' requirements, wherever they are located around the world. Customers can choose from an on-premise local node in The Planet's Dallas D2 data center, or from locations on the East or West Coasts, Europe or Asia, through its partnership with Nirvanix. The company also offers Storage Cloud options for organizations that do not require hosting solutions.

The new dedicated web services are designed to help businesses improve uptime, security, reliability and data backups, with flexible managed hosting solutions that provide support on a wide array of routine tasks as well as expert guidance on managing firewalls, load balancing, and other custom services. Managed Hosting from Aplus.net offers several benefits for small- and medium-sized companies in terms of time, cost and efficiency as an alternative to self-managed servers.

Keeping in line with their promise of providing DNS as a free bundled service, LogicBoxes rolled-out their much awaited release on Sunday, April 5th. DNS is the first in a long line of products to go free on the LogicBoxes Platform.

A Taliban website used a US-based host for over a year to boast of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan before the deception was uncovered and the account was pulled out, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Houston-based web-hosting outfit said it simply rented cyberspace to the account holder and had no clue about its Taliban connections

The first and most important option when managing multiple domains is to decide whether or not to do so with the same web site host. Most web site hosts include in their packages a feature that would allow several sites on one account, or allow each individual sites to be managed and operated under separate accounts.

A dedicated server is a single web server or computer on the internet that hosts websites and shows pages as viewers request. A dedicated server is within a network of computers, exclusively dedicated to one costumer or a large business, since it can meet many needs.

Host Color said to web hosting media that it has discounted the price of its Dedicated Power (http://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/dedicated-power) server with 15%. Dedicated Power is a server hosting solution based on 2 x Quad Core Xeon 2.50 GHz machine which features 8 GB RAM and 2 x 500 GB hard drives. The service comes with 2,500 GB (2,5 TB) data transfer quota per month.

Managed hosting provider iland Internet Solutions (www.iland.com) announced on Tuesday it has selected AboveNet (www.above.net) as one of its top two Tier1 IP providers to connect the iland Virtual Data Centers, located in Los Angeles, Boston, Reston, Virginia and Dallas. AboveNet has provided iland with additional 4 Gbps IP network connectivity for each of its virtual data centers, providing iland and its customers with further redundancy, flexibility and cost effectiveness. "We continue to invest in our network construction to offer a broad array of high-bandwidth fiber optic connectivity solutions," says MaryBeth Nance, executive director of business development and marketing at AboveNet. "We provide reliability and scalability to meet iland's highest requirements for data center connectivity, IT virtualization, and consolidation and optimization services. By delivering a bundled, managed solution to iland within all four of its virtual data center markets, we also help control iland's network operating costs while enabling fast and scalable deployments."

Host Color said to web hosting media that it has discounted the price of its Dedicated Power server with 15%. Dedicated Power is a server hosting solution based on 2 x Quad Core Xeon 2.50 GHz machine which features 8 GB RAM and 2 x 500 GB hard drives mirrored by RAID 1. The service comes with 2,500 GB (2,5 TB) data transfer quota per month.

IT industry events organizer Plum Communications announced on Wednesday it is hosting the IT industry conference and exhibition, IT360 (www.it360.ca), held on April 8 at the south building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto.