Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Some of the web’s most well-known websites experienced sluggishness and downtime Wednesday night due to troubles with DNS services. The problem was most pronounced at UltraDNS, which reported that its performance issues were done by an electronic attack.
The list of sites experiencing problems included Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services and Walmart.com. DNS is short for the domain name system, which serves as a roadmap allowing users to find web sites. Domain registries like VeriSign provide centralized web lookups through a network of data centers, while commercial DNS service providers like UltraDNS offer additional tools to manage traffic.
UltraDNS told CNet that it was hit by a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) targeting its west coast infrastructure at data centers in San Jose and Palo Alto. A DDoS attack targets a site or provider with large volumes of traffic in an attempt to overwhelm its ability to serve content.
That logjam at UltraDNS caused ripples across the Internet, causing uptime problems for several major service providers.
“We can confirm some customers in the West Coast are experiencing issues with resolving DNS,” Amazon Web Services reported. The issue was resolved by 6:40 p.m. and affected Amazon’s EC2 compute service, S3 storage and CloudFront content delivery network, Pacific time.
“Due to a global DNS outage, all services at salesforce.com were affected,” Salesforce reported on its status dashboard. ”We are closely working with our providers to get more details and to isolate the nature of the problem.”
The outages marked the third time this year that DDoS attacks on DNS providers had disrupted service for customers:
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Lunarpages web hosting provider selected Latisys Irvine data center for its ability to give outsourced, scalable IT infrastructure management services to comply with the company’s growing needs, which is driven by customer growth as well as broader use of high-density applications.
“We consider our data center partner to be a critical part of the Lunarpages team, which is why we invest in only the best,” said George Natzic, chief operating officer at Lunarpages, in a statement.
“By turning to Latisys, our customers will benefit from a SAS70 compliant infrastructure and continuous uptime,” Natzic added. “At the same time, we have assurance and peace of mind that our IT environment is secure.”
Don Goodwin, executive vice president of Latisys said, “Because Lunarpages prides itself on offering customers uncompromised security, management, pricing, and services, selecting a data center partner that enabled the firm to execute on this mission was paramount.”
Latisys multiple high-density SAS70 Type II certified data centers across the United States, they can offers scalable outsourced IT infrastructure management solutions to customers, company officials added.
Two month ago, Latisys announced it joined Microsoft (News – Alert)Software + Services Incubation Center Program, TMCnet reported.
The Microsoft Incubation Center Program is designed to help independent service vendors to easily face the commercial, financial, and technical challenges that they face while adding a service-based delivery application to their business offerings. Microsoft brings together leading independent software vendors with hosting providers, through this program.
In another major development Latisys announced that AboveNet, a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has implemented dedicated, diverse routing over two physically separate paths between Latisys’ data center in Irvine, California and AboveNet’s Los Angeles backbone network.
This implementation provides Latisys with a private, high bandwidth fiber connectivity running over these paths. This network will also provide Latisys fewer ‘hops’ or connection points to offer low latency service for their customers’ mission-critical applications, company officials stated.
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
GoDaddy a domain registrar and web hosting provider announced, They are now offering incorporation services, which gives businesses a easy and cost-effective way to incorporate a business.
This services will simplifies the process of transitioning a business into a corporation or LLC. To make use of the service, clients can log into the their accounts to answer the requiered questions.
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
SiteGround has started a great holiday prices. The discounts are on the prices of the web hosting plans and other popular services provided by the SiteGround. The main hosting plan now comes at a special price of $20.10 for a full year. Also there is a 50% discount on extra features is also part of the Holiday discounts.
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
Session Topic Sneak Peek and Early Bird Pricing Available at CitrixSynergy.com
12/17/2009 » Fort Lauderdale » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), today announced registration for Citrix Synergy™ 2010 is now open. Citrix Synergy – where virtualization, networking and cloud computing meet – has evolved into a global event offered in two key geographic locations: Synergy San Francisco will take place May 12 to 14, 2010, at the Moscone West Convention Center, and Synergy Berlin will be held Oct. 6 to 7, 2010, at the Estrel Hotel and Convention Center.
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Web hosting leader, VEXXHOST.COM, announced their new “Holiday Web Hosting Special” for shared web hosting. The plan is priced at $3.95 per month which offers unlimited disk space, unlimited monthly transfer, industry leading CDP backups (which are taken every 3 hours of every account and database), free site builder and free domain name. Customers of other web hosting companies are also eligible to up to $25 of credit into their VEXXHOST account to cover the remainder of their term at their old web hosting company.
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