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AvaHost.Net Upgrades VPS Hosting Service
(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 [...] Continue reading
Namecheap Welcomes the Drupal Foundation
(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 [...] Continue reading
iomart Group Calls on UK to Make Kitemark Compulsory for Public Sector
(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 [...] Continue reading
Server Breach Hits Blacknight Networks
(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 [...] Continue reading
Prolexic Launches “Protected by Prolexic”
(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. [...] Continue reading
ATI Selects Phoenix NAP For its Disaster Recovery Location
(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 group [...] Continue reading
Trusteer Issues Warning on Banking Malware
(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 [...] Continue reading
GalaxyVisions, ColoGuard Find It’s Easy Being Green
(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 for customers as well [...] Continue reading
