Web Hosting News

1. InSites Chooses Dedigate as Strategic Hosting Partner

Terremark Worldwide, Inc., an operator of integrated Tier-1 Internet Exchanges and network services, today announced that InSites, an e-research and consulting company in Belgium, has signed a multi-year contract with Dedigate, Terremark's Managed Hosting subsidiary, to host their European platform for online research.

2. Hosting company enters load balancing

Melbourne-based hosting company SmartyHost has deployed load-balancing network infrastructure to improve the reliability and uptime of its operations.

3. June 2006 Web Server Survey

The Internet experienced its strongest site growth ever last month, powered by a surge in blogs and free web sites. In the June 2006 survey we received responses from 85,541,228 sites, a gain of 3.96 million sites from the May report. This is the largest one-month increase in sites in the history of the Netcraft survey, surpassing a gain of 3.3 million in March 2003, although the 2003 gain was larger in percentage terms (8.5%, compared to 4.7% this month).

4. Microsoft Gains in Web Server Market

Microsoft said Thursday that third-party data indicates the Windows server platform continues to grow at the expense of Apache and Linux. According to Web hosting research company Netcraft, Windows hostnames grew by 4.5 million, while Apache/Linux lost 429,000.

5. Mobile technology companies plan joint Linux platform

A group of mobile phone companies including Vodafone, DoCoMo, Motorola, Samsung NEC, and Panasonic, have announced plans to collaboratively develop an open, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.

6. Oregon lab plays Web host to the stars of open source

Who is the biggest Web host in open source? The answer, at least for the Mozilla Foundation, Debian GNU/Linux, Gentoo Linux, KernelTrap, Drupal, and many others is the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

7. Real Time Logic Announces Java-Based Web Server For VxWorks Real-time OS

Real Time Logic announced the availability of embedded web server for the VxWorks real-time operating system. The web server makes it easy to remotely monitor, control, and configure embedded applications running on the VxWorks real-time operating system. Barracuda is particularly effective for complex distributed systems, enabling browser clients to monitor and control multiple devices at the same time with full authentication, authorization, and encryption facilities.

8. Red faces over botched upgrade

SmartyHost, one of Australia's largest web hosting companies, is offering compensation to its customers after a botched technology migration left many without their business critical email and web hosting services.

9. Web Hosting Provider BlueHost Celebrates 150,000 Domain Milestone

BlueHost, which also recently passed the 100,000 domain milestone four months ago, credits its feature-rich plans as one of the keys behind this achievement. BlueHost offers a single web hosting plan equipped with 15 GB of storage space and an array of functionality, including blogs, message forums, e-commerce, search engine submission, video streaming support and much more. These features do not cost the customer any additional fees.

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