Web hosting in a slowing economy: a roundtable
HostReview is bringing back the roundtable format interviews. In each issue we will ask a group of experts questions about the web hosting industry, business and the internet in general. The topic for this first roundtable feature is trends: what should we expect of the hosting industry in 2008. |
Google App Engine Launches
As with most things Google, the service is beta, free, and built around the Python programming language. |
Is Amazon changing the hosting game?
Amazon extended its distributed computing and storage platform by adding "Elastic IPs" to the offering. Elastic IPs provide static static IP addresses for server instances hosted at Amazon. In effect, it is now easier to host websites and web application using the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, which provides a worldwide network of servers for hire. The system is typically said to provide computing “in the cloud,” referring to its availability over the Internet and the traditional use of a cloud graphic for the representation of a publicly available network in technical illustrations. |
Network Solutions pulls the plug on controversial site
ICANN-accredited Network Solutions, with decades-long history and millions of registered domain names on its tab, is the latest company to suspend a web site under the pressure of what some might call common sense, and others unilateral censure. |
Majority of malware sites hosted in China: Google study
The Google Anti-Malware Team has published a research paper detailing the distribution and technical background of websites that distribute malicious software. According to the leading author of the study, Google has found in its index more than three million unique URLs pointing to 180,000 websites, which attempt to automatically infect systems when opened in a browser. Two-thirds of those "drive-by download" sites are hosted in China. |
IPv6 Internet Era Officially Begins
After ICANN enabled IPv6 addressing on six of its root DNS servers, it is now possible for an IPv6-only system to connect to another similar system without the need to do DNS lookups over the older, IPv4 version of the protocol. This is the first Internet-wide implementation of the new protocol, which is expected to gradually become the new standard over the coming years. |
ServerSeek.com Now Part of the DevStart Network
by Maria Mitsova
| November 27, 2007 |
DevStart, the leading network whose online properties include the popular hosting directory HostReview, the web promotion resource PromotionWorld and the comprehensive domain name industry guide DomainInformer, has acquired another great website, this time a resource for companies offering only dedicated servers. |
Interop Fall 2007
by Maria Mitsova
| October 15, 2007 |
Interop Fall 2007 will be held October 22-26, 2007 at the Javits Center in New York City. Produced by CMP Technology, the leading business technology event invites IT and business leaders to New York to see the latest in business technology. |
ISPCON Fall 2007 Takes Place in San Jose
by Maria Mitsova
| September 04, 2007 |
ISPCON Fall 2007 will be held October 16-18, 2007 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. This fall the conference has partnered with the Hilton San Jose, which offers discount rates for all participants. |
Hosting Transformation Summit Brings Together Web Hosting Leaders
by Maria Mitsova
| July 27, 2007 |
Tier1 Research is holding its 3rd Annual Hosting Transformation Summit September 17-19, 2007 at The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada. |
Hosting Providers Meet in Chicago, July 23-25
by Maria Mitsova
| May 28, 2007 |
HostingCon, the largest gathering of hosted services professionals worldwide, will take place at Chicago's Navy Pier from July 23 through 25, 2007. |
LT PACT '07 Draws Hosting Players to Las Vegas
by Maria Mitsova
| May 03, 2007 |
On June 20-22 Layered Technologies will present LT PACT 2007: Las Vegas hosting industry event. |
ISPCON Spring 2007: The Internet Industry Event
by Maria Mitsova
| April 18, 2007 |
ISPCON Spring 2007: The Internet Industry Event is the event for those who want to know all about the best technologies and business opportunities in the Internet industry. |
SWsoft Global Hosting Partner Summit 2007
by Maria Mitsova
| March 28, 2007 |
The second SWsoft Global Hosting Partner Summit 2007 will be held May 7-9, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Reston, VA. |
3rd Annual ModernBill Administrators' Workshop
by Maria Mitsova
| March 12, 2007 |
The next ModernBill event - its 3rd Annual Administrators' Workshop - is less than a month away. Learn more. |
WebhostingDay 2007
by Maria Mitsova
| March 05, 2007 |
Web hosting companies can join WebhostingDay 2007 on March 26-28, 2007. |
Industry Highlights
Australia based NetRegistry has acquired PlanetDomain in a deal worth over $8m. With the acquisition of PlanetDomain it will now serve more than 250,000 SME customers. |
Industry Highlights
This week's topics: the top website vulnerabilities webinar, the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance and the Microsoft Hosting Day. |
Industry Highlights
A huge industry deal, a web design contest and a seminar are among this week's major events. |
Web Hosting Weekly Review
by Milena Sotirova
| July 22, 2005 |
According to the recent IDC study, the global consulting markets are undergoing a phase of uncertainty and business model redefinition. |
Web Hosting Week in Review
by Milena Sotirova
| July 15, 2005 |
According to a recently released IDC study, the vendor community has shifted its primary attention from Web services creation to that of more robust consumption. |
Industry Focus on Security and Expanding Margin of Services
by Milena Sotirova
| June 22, 2005 |
IDC reported that protecting data and identities presents significant challenges to most organizations. |
Web Hosting Weekly Review
by Milena Sotirova
| June 17, 2005 |
IDC: One-third of IT professionals reported that they have adopted a dynamic IT program. |
Web Hosting Week
by Milena Sotirova
| May 13, 2005 |
According to the last Netcraft report, the Domain registrars' expansion into web hosting has yielded strong results. |
Symantec To Keynote At NASDAQ's Conference
by Milena Sotirova
| May 12, 2005 |
The leader in information security Symantec Corp. today announced that John Schwarz, Symantec's president and chief operating officer. |
Web Hosting Week
by Milena Sotirova
| April 29, 2005 |
1&1 Internet, Inc., has introduced an exclusive, first-of-its kind Web content tool. |
Web Hosting Week in Review
by Milena Sotirova
| April 22, 2005 |
IDC reported in its recent research that the enterprise applications market saw at least 191 reported buyout deals. |
Web Hosting Week
Small Businesses on Focus in Web Hosting Industry
by Milena Sotirova
| April 15, 2005 |
Rackspace, is once again ranked as the most reliable hosting company site this month. |
IDC: U.S. IT Spending Will Increase to $416 Billion in 2005
by Milena Sotirova
| April 14, 2005 |
IDC reveals in its last report that the U.S. IT spending will increase to $417 billion in 2005. |
Web Hosting Industry Week
by Milena Sotirova
| April 08, 2005 |
FatCow Web Hosting announced that the company sold its assets to Endurance International. |
Web Hosting Industry Week
by Milena Sotirova
| April 01, 2005 |
IDC's released this week FutureScan results depicting good if not spectacular IT spending growth for the next twelve months. The users polled expect their spending to grow by over 8% between now and April 2006. |
Internet Security Insights
by Milena Sotirova
| March 28, 2005 |
A recently released report by global independent research and advisory firm Financial Insights analyzes the results of a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers to measure the impact of identity theft on consumer fears regarding their banking and online behaviors. |
Security Industry Insights
by Milena Sotirova
| March 23, 2005 |
In the security sphere, the latest news for new technology implementation came from Symantec. The information security company announced today the availability of Symantec Hosted Mail Security. |
Industry Insights
by Milena Sotirova
| March 21, 2005 |
According to the Yankee Group last report the monitored trend shows increase in IT performance and business value with utility computing and storage. |
Web Hosting Industry Week
by Milena Sotirova
| March 18, 2005 |
This week Yahoo! Inc. announced the launch of the Yahoo! Small Business Resource Center. The business unit is a new comprehensive online resource center designed to help entrepreneurs succeed by offering approximately 1,000 articles on key business issues around topics such as marketing, legal and human resources. |
Marketing and Security Industry Insights
by Milena Sotirova
| March 16, 2005 |
Its only the middle of the week and the web hosting industry has already released some remarkable events. The Speedera acquisition of Akamai Technologies, Inc. will reflect the market share in the industry. |
IDC: Storage Software Market Shows Record Revenue
by Milena Sotirova
| March 14, 2005 |
IDC released today that the worldwide storage market grew significantly in the fourth quarter of 2004. According to IDCs Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the growth is 15% year-over-year to $2.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004. |
Researchers Draw IT Future
by Milena Sotirova
| March 10, 2005 |
In a recent survey of large European firms, Forrester Research (www.forrester.com) found that infrastructure consolidation will be a top priority during the next 12 months. |
Real Time Web Conferencing Gains Popularity
by Milena Sotirova
| March 08, 2005 |
Netcraft released that Rackspace, New York Internet, Verio and Pair Networks are ranked as the most reliable hosters during February 2005. |
Web Hosting Industry Expands Offering for SMBs
by Milena Sotirova
| March 04, 2005 |
IBM and AT&T announced today that they will jointly offer a packaged team collaboration solution. The package will make it easier for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to buy and deploy collaboration software with integrated Internet access capabilities. |
Netcraft: Web Continues to Accelerate
by Milena Sotirova
| March 03, 2005 |
According to the latest Netcraft survey, there are more than 60 million web sites on the Internet. Netcrafts reported that the March 2005 survey received http responses from 60,442,655 sites. |
IDC: Worldwide Server Market Maintains Strong Momentum
by Milena Sotirova
| February 25, 2005 |
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 5.1% to $14.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004, marking the seventh consecutive quarter of positive growth. |
WIPO to Combat Cybersquatting
by Milena Sotirova
| February 22, 2005 |
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/search/index.html announced it will continue efforts to combat the abusive registration of trademarks as domain names, a procedure known as cybersquatting. |
Web Hosting Industry Survey Week
by Milena Sotirova
| February 18, 2005 |
The nearly $1 trillion IT market is in the midst of a fundamental restructuring, driven by the challenges of mobility, convergence, security, and globalization, according to the recent IDC release. These challenges and their impact on the years ahead will be the focus of IDC's Directions 2005: Blueprint for the Next Decade. |
Investments in Research to Provide IT Industry Extensive Coverage
by Milena Sotirova
| February 11, 2005 |
IDC outlined recently a series of ongoing research investments designed to expand and deepen its market intelligence and advisory capabilities. The investments in IDC's core research assets will result in greater geographic and vertical industry coverage. |
Web Hosting Industry Week
by Milena Sotirova
| February 04, 2005 |
Netcraft prognoses this week that SBC Communications' $16 billion purchase of AT&T will create America's largest telecom company. |
Web Hosting Industry Firms Attract Customers with New Offerings
by Milena Sotirova
| February 02, 2005 |
Last weeks top promotion was launched by 1&1 Internet AG, offering free full-featured web hosting accounts for up to six months. |
Web Hosting Industry to Spend More in Internet Marketing
by Milena Sotirova
| February 01, 2005 |
This month showed the trend of continuing strength in industry growth. Several merges and acquisitions were in the spot light, including NetSec, Inc. which was acquired by MCI (www.mci.com). |
Web Hosting Week in Review
by Milena Sotirova
| January 17, 2005 |
As the week continued to present the novelties in the industry with the new launches and forming of successful teams. The week continued with tsunami relief action announcements reflecting the companies efforts to help the devastated areas. |
Internet Security Weekly Review
by Milena Sotirova
| January 16, 2005 |
Recently Linux vendors Red Hat, Novell and Mandrakesoft released patches for several vulnerabilities. The patches range from flaws to buffer overflows. Secunia rated five of the updates "highly critical". |
Web Hosting Industry Year in Review - 2004
by Milena Sotirova
| January 11, 2005 |
Web Hosting Year continued the industry growth with expansion in adding of new services and dynamic development of the offered services. Netcraft reported 2004 to be dynamic for the web hosting industry year with more than 10.9 million hostnames added. |
Weekly Review: Web Hosting Industry
by Milena Sotirova
| January 09, 2005 |
Netcraft reporting this week showed the best companies for the last year performance. Of the leading hosting companies, monitored in the period, seventeen providers went through the entire six months with no outages at all, reported the monitoring company. |
Web Hosting Marketing Activity Increases
by Milena Sotirova
| January 06, 2005 |
According to the latest research published by Netcraft, Datapipe is the most reliable hosting company site during second half of 2004. The agency monitored the leading hosting company sites counting the days downtime during the period. |
Netcraft: Dynamic Web Hosting Year
by Milena Sotirova
| December 20, 2004 |
Netcraft reported 2004 to be dynamic for the web hosting industry year with more than 10.9 million hostnames added. The research showed that the five hosting providers that gained more than 100,000 active sites during 2004 are growing companies and familiar names. |
Increase in Phishing Activity Trend
by Milena Sotirova
| November 29, 2004 |
According to the latest Netcraft's release, phishing activity has surged in recent weeks. This data is from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) .
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Industry Week Review: Researches Predict Enterprise Storage Market Growth
by Milena Sotirova
| October 15, 2004 |
The recently released IDC http://www.idc.com study states that in planning their IT budgets, European companies are moving away from cost control strategies towards strategic applications to gain competitive advantage. |
Rapid Growth for Security Segments Prognosis
by Milena Sotirova
| October 01, 2004 |
In its recent report IDC http://www.idc.com announced that the latest FutureScan results for the month of October show significant growth expectations for the next several years. Buyer Intent, which reflects market demand for IT products and services, is 1041, down from 1085 in September. |
Strategy Lead Investments in the IT Industry Projected to Increase
by Milena Sotirova
| September 08, 2004 |
The recent Netcraft report announced during August all of the hosters monitored experienced some failed requests, with iPowerWeb, Italian hoster SeeWeb and Rackspace the most reliable sites during the period. |
Internet Industry Meets the Future Market and Security Challenges
by Milena Sotirova
| August 24, 2004 |
According to Netcraft http://news.netcraft.com/, speculation about hosting IPOs is natural, since many of the industry's strongest recent performers are privately held, including Go Daddy, Rackspace, EV1Servers and The Planet. |
Virus Threat Increases and SPAM Harm Online Business
by Milena Sotirova
| July 20, 2004 |
The first six months of 2004 showed an increase in the number of attacks against online servers, which caused millions of dollars of losses potentially reaching $20.1million for a global sized company, according to marketing research published in the last week. |
Hosting Industry Sales to Double by 2008
by Milena Sotirova
| July 11, 2004 |
The outlook for the hosting industry projects continued growth into 2008 expanding from expanding from $5.5 billion in 2003 to $10.4 billion in 2008, as reported by IDC. |
United Nations Makes Efforts in the Spam Battle
by Milena Sotirova
| July 09, 2004 |
The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) group plans to solve a big part of the spam problem during a July 7 to 9 2004 meeting which focuses on the development of international cooperative measures to counter spam on a global level. |
Hosting, Internet services and Domain registration back on stage
Hosting industry is battling with security threats and growing in service popularity
by Milena Sotirova
| June 22, 2004 |
Worms continue to make their way through the internet despite the ongoing excelling growth of domains and even IP addresses.
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Virus Threats Again Emerge over the Hosting Industry
United Nations extended its peace efforts to Internet in the recently concluded Summit
by Milena Sotirova
| March 29, 2004 |
The last week industry events flooded the news coverage with announcements for ambitious projects, regulation initiatives and new virus threat attacks. |
Waves of security attempts flood the industry
According to the recent surveys the worm threat drains 5% of the internet traffic
by Milena Sotirova
| March 19, 2004 |
The Web Hosting market showed again that one of the top priorities for all web hosting companies is security issues. When it comes to virus threats, the hosting companies are in the hot seat. |
Advanced File Storage Keeps Your Business Protected
The Challenge of Real Time File Transferring
by Milena Sotirova
| May 20, 2003 |
Web-a-File (http://www.web-a-file.com) is a service by Aplus.Net. Offering toll-free 24/7 customer support, Aplus.Net provides datacenter services to hundreds of thousands of customers. Aplus.Net, in business since 1992, is a facilities-based provider located in San Diego, California. |
Feature Price rumors grow, dissatisfied users prepare to sue the company
by Milena Sotirova
| May 16, 2003 |
The Feature Price (www.featureprice.com) story appears to be gaining momentum after planned for today action of list of their users to post the media their complaints. |
Hosting Industry Year 2003 in Retrospection
The hosting industry developed some new trends and products throughout 2003. |
Web Hosting Industry Year 2003 Review and Future Look
At the end of each year, HostReview draws upon our industry leaders to frame the picture for the future of the industry. With so many achievements in the past, we look at the trends and how they will affect the future. |
A Comparison of the Top Web Hosting Provider Control Panels
This article is an objective overview of the top control panel interfaces for hosting providers. We will cover key design and usability elements along with strengths and weaknesses. Each product was tested and when failures occurred it was recreated across on at least one other test machine. |
Online Storage Services Awards
Storage services are the eagerly awaited solution for online businesses and the improvement shown by online storage companies is the answer for growing security and transfer demands. |
E-mail marketing challenge
How web developers and Hosting companies can profit using email marketing for their clients
E-mail marketing is a challenge to be explored in detailed surveys in the coming years. Not so long ago it was undeveloped territory, where the logic of e-mailing was brought along with the custom correspondence and timid attempt of the direct advertisement to flow into the Internet world. |
Digital Era Widens New Horizons
The Internet has proven to be the ultimate communication tool. The introduction of the digital camera has only enhanced the Internet s capabilities for communicating and correspondence between family, friends, and the business community. |
