(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) – 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) – 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) – 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) – 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... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – A deal has been finalized, officially making web host Secured Servers a part of colocation provider Phoenix NAP. Despite the deal being announced just Monday, the companies initially agreed to join up in August of last year. Services provided for by Secured Servers include cloud, backup and storage, dedicated servers and more. “This addition to Phoenix NAP falls... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – SSL certificate authority GlobalSign announced on Monday that it had added a Microsoft veteran to its leadership team. Ryan Hurst who formerly worked on Microsoft’s Root Certificate program will assume the position of Chief Technology Officer at GlobalSign. As a certificate authority, GlobalySign’s services include SSL, data privacy, email encryption and more. “We... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – The UK2 Group, the British-based company behind top web hosting brands including VPS.NET, WestHost, Resell.biz, and Midphase revealed on Saturday that it had deployed a new cloud supporting coordination of company services. Referred to by the UK2Group as an “enterprise employee portal,” regions the platform supports include the United States and locations in... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – So far, Facebook users aren’t taking too kindly to the social network’s revamp of users profiles. The overhaul known as Timeline is meant to make it easier for users to browse their ways through a profile’s history. Profile visitors can view older photo and friend additions, status updates and more by clicking a particular year as listed on a profile. However,... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Web hosting provider Nexcess recently expanded its WordPress hosting solutions by adding new server clusters. Among its services, Nexcess provides hosting in the areas of dedicated, reseller, shared and WordPress. While the company has long offered WordPress hosting, the addition of the new platform offers features such as higher redundancy, increased resources... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – After an extensive search that included consideration of more than twenty sites, colocation provider CoSentry announced the home for its latest data center on Thursday. Lenexa, Kansas, not far from Kansas City, Missouri (where the company already has one facility), will be the city where CoSentry is set to begin construction on property that makes up more than... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – A new cloud solution unveiled by Amazon Web Services on Wednesday is set to make it easier for enterprises to connect to the cloud. Known as the AWS Storage Gateway, the solution relies in part on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud Discussing the matter in a press release, AWS Storage Services GM Alyssa Henry stated, “With the AWS Storage Gateway, we’re providing... 

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Partners of VMware now have an enhanced way to showcase their products and connect with prospective customers through a new Marketplace launched by the virtualization and cloud company on Thursday. The VMware Solution Exchange, as it’s called, allows users to view detailed information on products, send inquiries to the products’ makers and review and rate the...