Web Hosting News

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.

Minnesota is working with Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), a leader in enterprise search, in a multi-pronged effort to improve usability and findability in state web sites and to develop a new web hosting service for state agencies. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080626/NEW046LOGO ) The Minnesota Office of Enterprise Technology's web site will be the first to utilize the integration of Vivisimo's Velocity Search Platform(TM: 65.66, 1.96,

IT services hosting provider, Rackspace, will provide comprehensive monitoring, software, hardware, and network guarantees, designed to deliver high platform availability for SaaS software vendor, Confirmit.

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.

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.

US based WebhostGIANT is offering 50% off key web hosting plans for a limited period, it was reported recently. According to the San Francisco based company, the move is "an effort to provide web hosting for everyone's needs". The company goes on to suggest its promotion "guarantees the cheapest hosting available without sacrificing quality, stability, security or reliability."

Managed web-hosting provider SingleHop is offering LEAPmobile for Android and Blackberry Mobile Phones through SingleHop.mobi, it was reported recently. According to the Chicago based managed company, SingleHop is "focused on giving their customers as much control as possible over their servers".

Shared, Reseller, Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting solutions provider, Surpass Hosting, has introduced its Developer hosting plan, including over a dozen development frameworks and a wide variety of key tools designed specifically for web developers. Kayla Fleming, vice president of sales, Surpass Hosting remarked, "The Developer Plan is based on a new server architecture that is more pliable for the typical developer and offers many more options for advanced web development, including the cornerstone of the plan, Surpass Hosting Developer Tools

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Pride Hosting (www.hostwithpride.com), a new UK web host specialising in affordable ecommerce and professional web hosting, has launched today, offering 20GB of diskspace, unlimited bandwidth, the ability to host unlimited domain names and email accounts, 60 free software applications, and a free domain name, all for £7.95 (or about $11.50) a month, as well as the chance to win a free Nintendo Wii.

ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has expanded its Open Control Panel API with the addition of APIs for DNS management. The new DNS management API is part of DiscountASP.NET's Open Control Panel Initiative, whose goal is to provide customers with maximum control over their hosting presence management.

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.

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.

Pacific Bell today officially announced its Internet dial-up access service for the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, and Los Angeles, regions that comprise about 75 percent of the telephone company's residential customer base. Service to Stockton and Fresno is scheduled for this summer and the company projects that it will offer service to about 90 percent of all California residential and small business users by early 1997.

AT&T today slashed prices on its Easy World Wide Web Services, as well as offered users more flexible pricing plans, in a move to appeal to smaller businesses

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the general availability of its new Storage Cloud service. 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.

AYKsolutions, a provider of Shared, Reseller and Dedicated hosting solutions, announced today it has begun offering the benefits of its Partner Program to all customers - benefits normally reserved only for affiliates.

http://www.webhosting.uk.com, a provider of Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated Server hosting solutions, today announced that it is now providing Windows shared as well as reseller hosting on Windows 2008 server platform. Windows Server 2008 is the most recent release of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. It delivers valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the core Windows Server operating system in the form of new web tools, virtualization technologies, security enhancements, and management utilities that help save time, reduce costs, and provide a solid foundation for information technology (IT) infrastructure.

Easyspace, one of the largest web hosting and domain name providers in the UK, is now offering the popular .TEL domain extension during its General Availability launch stage. Having just complete its Sunrise and Landrush launch periods, the .TEL has proven to be a highly sought after extension, generating several thousand sales despite the premium price attached to it during those phases.

Data center operator and managed hosting provider Peak 10 (www.peak10.com) announced on Tuesday it has signed an agreement where it will house retail reporting services provider dunnhumbyUSA within its Cincinnati facility.