(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Attenda, the Business Critical IT Company, today announced its cloud security strategy, which is to play a key role in the delivery of innovative and market leading cloud services to clients, supported with the appointment of a new Director of Security. Despite the clear economic benefits of using cloud services, concerns about security, compliance and data... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – The .CO domain name has gotten quite a bit of attention as of late. It’s set to get prime time attention this weekend thanks to a television spot from Go Daddy expected to air during the Super Bowl. And on Friday, web hosting provider, WestHost announced it would aggressively advertise the TLD. In a reference to larger web hosts including Go Daddy, WestHost Director... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) - AvaHost.net hosting provider doubled the parameters for their VPS hosting: instead of 512 Mb RAM and 40 Gb hard drive storage the customer will get 1024 Mb of RAM and 80 Gb of disk at the same price. VPS hosting accounts from AvaHost.Net provide the full root-access to the virtual server of the customer. Due to this the user has access to the advanced options.... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – After Namecheap, the leading domain name registrar, web host, and SSL certificate provider, stepped up against SOPA and PIPA in 2011, hundreds of new companies joined Namecheap’s family, including the Drupal Association, which has elected to move its SSL certificate to Namecheap. Namecheap has donated over $64,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Super Bowl weekend is here! Whether you’re rooting for the Patriots or Giants, you’re bound to find some good sales within the web hosting community. Here we examine just some of them: -This month, web hosting provider CaroNet is offering a discount on its colocation services with a monthly rate of $995. The offering includes bandwidth amounting to 100 Mbps,... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – So you’ve tried the common advertising tools for your business, spent a huge sum of money but still ended up being unnoticed, what to do? Marketing and promotions are very important for any type of business, a good advertising campaign can easily launch sales into a skyrocket while a poorly planned one could also mean income loss. This is one of the reasons... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – iomart Group plc, one of the UK’s leading web hosting companies, is today calling on the UK Government to insist that all public sector organisations with a duty of care to children should only purchase software products that have been awarded the BSI Kitemark for Child Online Safety. iomart Group’s stance follows the announcement today (2nd February 2012)... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Server breaches remain one of the most dangerous threats to the online community. On Tuesday, web hosting provider Blacknight found itself dealing with just that. The company detected a breach effecting customer data pertaining to around 40 thousand of its customers. Thankfully the issue didn’t expose financial data but was limited to phone numbers and email... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Popular script provider Softaculous revealed the latest versions of its software on Thursday. The update includes a new version of the company’s auto-installer (Softaculous) and AMPPS, a stack by Softaculous enabling the operation of web development tools such as PHP, MySQL, Apache and more. Included among the updates with Softaculous version 4.0 are bug fixes... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today announced that it has launched a new customer program called “Protected by Prolexic.” Prolexic will offer incentives to new and existing customers who sign up to display the Protected by Prolexic logo on their web sites. “By joining the Protected... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Phoenix NAP®, a full service data center, premier infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider and primary network access point (NAP), announced today that Assessment Technology Incorporated (ATI), a leading provider of online instructional improvement tools and data analysis, has selected the data center for its additional disaster recovery (DR) site. The... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – On Wednesday, cloud hosting provider SoftLayer introduced a new solution aimed at helping deploy clouds between different systems. The solution, called Flex Images functions by allowing users to capture images of the cloud. Users can then store them in order to deploy them across different servers including cloud and dedicatd. Discussing the matter in a press release,... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Computer security company Trusteer recently issued a warning concerning a new type of malware effecting customers of banking institutions. As an Ice IX configuration, the malware operates by asking customers for their telephone numbers and capturing vital information that could be relevant to a user’s financial information. “In addition to stealing bank account... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) - GalaxyVisions and ColoGuard, the New York region’s most affordable and customer-focused providers of Web hosting and colocation solutions, announced today that conservation initiatives are paying off. Even with this winter’s unseasonably warm temperatures, air conditioner usage at their shared data center has been reduced by 75%, generating savings... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Users who had legal files stored within embattled file sharing site Megaupload are receiving a helping hand from Carpathia Hosting. On Tuesday, the web host announced it was teaming up with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (an electronic rights organization) to assist those users with exploring their options for retrieving their files. Megaupload was shut down...