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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.

The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. For digital devices, the bandwidth is usually expressed in bits per second (bps) or bytes per second. For analog devices, the bandwidth is expressed in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz).

Data center and managed services provider Hosted Solutions (www.hostedsolutions.com) has completed more than $6 million in enhancements to its Boston data center in response to growing customer demand throughout New England.

Drive Headquarters, Inc. (http://www.DriveHQ.com/), the leading Online Data Storage, Sharing, Backup, Synchronization and FTP Server Hosting service provider announced a new version DriveHQ FileManager 4.5, the flagship product for Online File Storage, Sharing and Folder Synchronization.

Web hosting provider, Distributed Compliance Solutions, has introduced three new 'turn-key' solutions, consisting of Standard Operating Procedures, Regulatory and Publishing documents, as well as publishing requirements for Bio and Life Sciences.

Open-Xchange, the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced recently a deal with NameCheap, a leader in domain name registration and web hosting, to bring free webmail to NameCheap's customers, which include more than 1 million domains.

Web hosting provider, Webair, has released a new Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting platform. The company's VPS hosting plans have been integrated with Webair Cloud Storage, creating a VPS platform that provides redundancy and scalability not found with traditional VPS plans.

The latest development is said to have occurred on an old payment system containing 9,561 credit card numbers.

Web hosting provider, WebHosting UK, a provider of shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated servers, is offering Windows 2008 for its shared and reseller hosting options, available alongside Windows Server 2003.

Managed hosting and data center services company, iomart hosting, has introduced a new brand identity, unveiled as the first in a series of steps which the company is undertaking in its business upgrade mission.

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).

Dedicated hosting company, Limestone Networks, Inc. is the first company to enable full server management through an Android-based application on the new Google G1 mobile phone.

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.

On-demand marketing automation platform, Marketbright, will co-host a free Webinar with Rackspace Hosting, focusing on how to move CRM and ERP systems to the cloud, on Thursday, April 9th, 11:00am, PT.

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

Celebrating its first birthday, Google App Engine (appengine.google.com) presented Java runtime support as a gift to developers, combining the simplicity of Google App Engine with the power and flexibility of the Java platform.

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.

Fasthosts Internet Ltd., home to more websites than any other UK provider, today rolled out an offer that provides 'Buy One, Get One Free' on domain names registered until 31 May 2009. Customers who register a .com domain, will receive a free .co.uk registration for 2 years. Fasthosts' offer, with no catches or ties, is a great opportunity for small businesses and organizations to expand their visibility online and better protect their brand identity for free.

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.

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