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The team at HostReview is proud to announce the opening of beta version of the fully redesigned web site to the public. We believe that the new format of presenting content and interacting with you, our readers, will create a more vibrant online community, dedicated to web hosting and internet technology issues.
Yahoo! GeoCities, the free web site service offering tools for early Internet surfers to publish their own web pages, closed its doors.
In the 1990s, when most hosting options were extremely expensive, GeoCities gave anyone the opportunity to build a custom web page for free and secure a small amount of virtual storage to keep their pictures and documents. Indeed, GeoCities’s free hosting space was the home for thousands of personal web pages and became perhaps the most significant virtual museum in the recent history.
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft launched its Windows 7. This new windows operating system was developed more than 1.5 years ago. It is faster and much better than its predecessors, Windows XP and the little-loved Windows Vista, which seriously damaged the company’s reputation.
Vista turned into one of Microsoft's biggest lapses. The operating system that was initially pitched as a revolutionary evolution in computing, failed to gain the consumers after it became clear that Vista was sluggish, with poor security features and didn't work well with third-party software.
Since you're going to need hosting anyway - isn't it great to get a good deal on top of that? Here are a few cool hosting offers that are circulating around. Perhaps you can take advantage of one.
October Giveaway
CA and VMware announced the results of a sponsored study investigating the impact of data centers virtualization. The study, conducted by the IT Process Institute (ITPI) in December 2008, identifies specific procedures and controls that should be considered to reduce risk as organizations virtualize business-critical systems and when production virtualization objectives beyond server consolidation evolve to high availability, disaster recovery, and dynamic resource management scenarios.
In the coming days the team at HostReview is planning to open up a preview of the new,fully revamped HostReview web site, and to gather your valuable feedback. But before its launch, we wanted to give you a little more background on this move.
HostReview has provided insights on the hosting industry for over ten years, since its launch in 1998. As web hosting is a rapidly shifting technology and understanding all the types of web hosting services is not an easy task, now the website is being updated to respond to all these changes and to suit the visitors' expectations:
HostReview had an opportunity to speak with Cameron Bahar, founder and CTO of cloud storage start-up ParaScale. In the interview, he discusses the market for cloud storage solutions, the current trends and the future of cloud computing, and much more.
Would you tell us a few words about yourself and your professional background? How long have you been involved in the cloud computing space?
The time for HostingCon 2009 has finally arrived. I arrived last evening (Saturday) to get a jump start on things and get oriented. This year's event is being held in the Gaylord Hotel just outside Washington, D.C. The first day here I took a short 20 minute shuttle ride to the nation's Capitol then viewed the Smithsonian Institute and Washington's popular downtown monuments. It was an easy ride back to the Gaylord. It is a large hotel with a huge atrium housing shops and restaurants of various descriptions.
There are many websites devoted to web hosting reviews. Each of these sites offers something slightly different. Some focus on listing a large number of hosts in a comprehensive database. Others tout user reviews that grade the web hosts on a scale from best to worst. Yet others slim down the list to a ''Top 10'' format - listing just the top performers in website hosting. Using these hosting review sites along with forums devoted to web hosting can help form a strong opinion on a web hosting company.
In a recent article in Ad Age’s DigitalNext, Warren Lee’s article entitled "What Sank Veoh and Joost? Too Much Cash Too Soon" suggests that young companies raising too much money in a short amount of time is apt to cause them to misuse their cash. This, in turn, ignites a cascading effect of bad business choices leading to near certain failure.
