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Which web hosting companies and related businesses operate the largest number of servers? Rackspace announced they had hit the 50,000 mark recently, and DatacenterKnowledge took the opportunity to determine who is in the same league. Three web hosting companies lead the pack: 1&1 Internet (55,000), Rackspace (50,038), and The Planet (48,500). They are followed by Akamai Technologies, OVH, SBC Communications, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and SoftLayer.
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Somewhat quietly (at least for Google) Google Labs has relaunched two new products. You can read the details regarding the relaunch here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/hard-at-play-in-google-labs-with.html.
For my first trick as a blogger, I will follow my other bloggers over the intellectual cliff and prognosticate about the future of our industry! On second thought let ‘s just focus on how Resellers can survive the Recession of 2009 and then try to tackle items higher up on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs some other day. I plan to explore each of the following topics in detail, in future blogs but for our first time together; here are what I believe to be five keys to surviving the Recession of 2009:
1. Take care of those that brought you to the dance.
Popular Web hosting-oriented community WebHostingTalk (aka WHT) has suffered a severe outage since yesterday, followed by the loss of all data posted since October 2008. Site administrators state they are working on restoring failed backups and hope to have things running smoothly again in the very near future.
Web hosting company Rackspace will be added to the NASDAQ Internet Index, according to an announcement from the The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Fourteen companies will be removed from the index. The annual evaluation of the NASDAQ Internet Index is traditionally issued every March, and this year it will become effective with the market open on Monday, March 23, 2009.
The Index is designed to track the performance of the largest and most liquid U.S.-listed companies engaged in internet-related businesses.
In this exclusive interview, we talk to David Preston, Marketing Development Manager of Awardspace.
Please tell us about yourself and your position in the company.
I am Marketing Development Manager for Awardspace.com and have been working for the company for over 2 years now. I am responsible for the marketing strategy of all services and work on the business development with close cooperation with our CEO Dimitar Dimitrov. Apart from my current position I also have 10 years of experience in the field of sales and marketing mainly in the field of online business.
Ever looking for insightful views on the topics of internet technology and business, HostReview conducted an exclusive head-to-head interview with executives from two major web hosting companies. Our topic was web hosting trends 2009: what does the year hold for the web hosting industry and its clients? We talk to John Lee, Senior Vice President of Small Business Hosting, with Hostway, and Urvish Vashi, General Manager, Dedicated Hosting, with The Planet. Both companies have strong, and well deserved, presence in our Annual Web Hosting Awards listings.
HostReview is turning 10 years old this December, and to celebrate this occasion we are doing two new, and potentially interesting, things.
Visitors of HostReview will select their favorite web hosting company in a month-long campaign for the Readers' Choice Award. Nominations are now open at www.hostreview.com/top10year2008.html. Any company can nominate itself, and anyone can nominate a company. The Readers's Choice Award is a collaboratively determined distinction, which is independent of the judgement of our editorial team.
How is Web hosting affected during an economic downturn? From both a user and a host perspective, the answers vary.
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