Dec
24Downtime for Major Sites Caused By DNS Issues
Posted By: Ellen Tate on December 24, 2009 at 3:05 pm- Hundreds of thousands of web sites were slowed for hours on Jan. 23 when Network Solutions’ DNS servers were hit by a DDoS. The company described the incident as a “very large scale” attack.
- UltraDNS blamed an April 1 outage on a DDoS, but said the issue affected a small subset of its customers.
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Dec
22Lunarpages Web Hosting Selects Latisys’ SAS70 Compliant HD Colocation and Managed Services
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Dec
22GoDaddy Domain & Hosting Provider Offers Business Incorporation Services
Posted By: Carol Wilson on December 22, 2009 at 9:51 amGoDaddy 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.
Then GoDaddy will file the papers on their behalf and send the incorporation documents in a few weeks.
All applications are reviewed by experienced professionals to make sure it is submitted correctly and accurately.
As a large portion of GoDaddy’s clients are a small and medium businesses, this service certainly seems like a logical value-added service for GoDaddy customers.
“If you haven’t incorporated your businesses, you’re leaving yourself and your family open to unnecessary risk,” says Bob Parsons, Go Daddy CEO and founder. “Go Daddy wanted to help make the whole incorporation process affordable and painless, which is why we’re offering Incorporation Services.”
There are two levels for this service. The Economy plan priced at $99, plus state fees, and includes everything that is needed to incorporate a business and the Deluxe plan that cost $279, plus state fees, this includes also a Federal Employer Identification Number, an additional six Months of Registered Agent Service, and expedited shipping.
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Dec
21SiteGround Web Hosting Provider announces Holiday specials
Posted By: Alice Young on December 21, 2009 at 8:54 amSiteGround 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.
The discount price of $20.10 chosen by SiteGround is clearly inspired by the upcoming new year 2010. It will be valid for one year accounts ordered in the period between December 16th, 2009 and January 4th, 2010. “We wanted to greet the new customers who will actually use their first account with us during the whole 2010 with a special price” – says Lilyana Yakimova, SiteGround marketing manager.
Another group who will benefit from this holiday special are existing customers as they can enhance their service with an extra features. During the last two months SiteGround has launched 4 new services: SSH access, business hosting upgrade, advanced SPAM and virus protection, and premium support. They are now provided at half price together with the most popular domain services like domain registration, transfer and WhoIs privacy.
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Dec
21Registration Now Open for Citrix Synergy 2010
Posted By: Mark Dallas on December 21, 2009 at 12:20 amSession 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.
Synergy offers an open, expansive array of technical and business breakout sessions, as well as hands-on learning labs, presented by leading technical experts. Presenters will examine key issues impacting IT, such as breaking away from the costs and complexities of the distributed computing status quo; building a simpler, more cost-effective computing environment to position organizations at the forefront of the on-demand IT services era and utilizing available technologies to achieve and exceed business goals.
Synergy will feature timely virtualization, networking and cloud computing content, including sessions such as:
- Need a simpler, low-risk path to Windows 7? Desktop virtualization makes it a snap!
- Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) is ready for prime time: How Citrix did it and what we learned.
- Dear CFO, I know how we can save big bucks with desktop virtualization…
- Virtualization and application networking. Learn how one plus one equals three.
- HDX, the user experience “champ,” takes on the contenders.
Synergy is the industry’s premier conference focused on the growing convergence between virtualization, networking and cloud computing. Session content will address how these technologies can solve real IT business problems in an open and dynamic atmosphere and will be divided into the following three tracks:
Desktop Virtualization
This track provides a comprehensive examination of desktop virtualization, covering the full breadth of desktop virtualization technologies, including client virtualization (local virtual desktops), desktop streaming, VDI (hosted virtual desktops), self-service on-demand applications, application virtualization and user profile management. You’ll get case studies of successful implementations, best practices, technical sessions and a roadmap to help you reduce costs, simplify desktop management and deliver high-definition desktops to all users now.
Datacenter-Cloud
Server virtualization, networking and cloud technologies are converging to enable dramatic improvements in datacenter efficiency, flexibility and reliability at an affordable cost. You’ll learn about the latest innovations in server virtualization, datacenter infrastructure management, and networking and application delivery controllers. This fast-paced technical track will examine all three areas with special attention to options and merits of private and public cloud solutions.
IT Business and Strategy
Senior IT management face unprecedented challenges, needing to reduce costs, while simultaneously delivering innovation to drive efficiencies for their users and effectiveness for their business. This track is designed for senior IT leaders, providing new sources of IT-led innovation and competitive advantage to position their business for success today and in the future. Insightful, interactive sessions will feature prominent industry executives who have produced impressive bottom-line improvements for their businesses.
Synergy will also feature hands-on training. The instructor-led, hands-on learning labs provide the in-depth experience required to master new Citrix technologies. These high-value, unique labs are designed for administrators and architects responsible for managing or designing an environment that consists of Citrix technologies including XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer and NetScaler.
Citrix Summit 2010, the premier training conference designed for members of the Citrix Partner Network, will be combined with Synergy – both in San Francisco and Berlin. Summit, which begins two days prior to Synergy, is the main event where the company’s partners can learn about the latest trends in virtualization, network optimization and cloud computing solutions. Summit provides intense educational sessions and offers valuable technical knowledge, selling skills and competitive strategies for attendees.
Registration for Synergy and Summit San Francisco, as well as Synergy and Summit Berlin is now available at www.citrixsynergy.com. A discounted, early bird registration is available for Synergy San Francisco through Feb. 2, which provides a $400 savings off of the normal conference fee.
About Citrix Synergy 2010
Born as a user conference more than 10 years ago, Citrix SynergyTM is the only event where virtualization, networking and cloud computing meet. Interoperability and openness are central to the event. Its sessions will focus on the coming convergence of these critical technologies and how they can be used today to address real world IT business challenges. Synergy addresses topics that have simply become too critical and widespread for one event on one continent. IT professionals now have two opportunities each year to attend this important industry conference. Citrix Synergy San Francisco will take place May 12 to 14, 2010, at Moscone West Convention Center. Citrix Synergy Berlin will be held at the Estrel Hotel and Convention Center, Oct. 6 to 7, 2010. More information is available on the Citrix Synergy web site at http://www.citrixsynergy.com.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center™, Citrix Cloud Center™ (C3) and Citrix Online product families radically simplify computing for millions of users, delivering desktops and applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the world’s largest Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion.
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Dec
15VEXXHOST Web Hosting Announced Holiday Special
Posted By: Mark Dallas on December 15, 2009 at 8:23 pmWeb 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.
This plan offers all the features necessary and needed for a web hosting plan, the price of the plan does not reflect it’s features as it comes with unlimited everything, including unlimited hosted domains, as well as a 99.9% up-time guarantee, all backed up by a 30 day money back guarantee. There are no hidden fees and there are no setup fees.
Additional services that are available to all of VEXXHOST’s clients are Fantastico which allow customers to install more than 50 PHP scripts without going through the fuss of creating new databases, configuring and installing. They also offer a simple self-intuitive web site builder, preloaded with over 500 templates, that makes building websites extremely easy.
VEXXHOST uses the latest Xeon multi-processor servers with a minimum of 8GB of ECC RAM. Their storage system is based on RAID-10 arrays that are optimized for maximum speed and at the same time is able to sustain numerous failures, if they ever do.
VEXXHOST currently operates two data centers as well as their own fully redundant BGP network that allows them to have sites with 100% uptime because they control all of their servers, network equipment, redundant power generators and UPS systems.
VEXXHOST has gone the extra mile by offering exceptional unique services only available to their clients. To name a few, InstantVideo which allows client’s to install a video sharing website with a few clicks, without going through configurations and databases as well as custom PHP configuration utility that allows clients to modify their php.ini file without having to create it themselves and configure it.
Just like every year, VEXXHOST comes with a much better deals, with great features and a great prices as well, the wisest decision is to switch over from your current host, take advantage of the $25 credit, and make sure to sign up and lock yourself onto this deal, as VEXXHOST never raise their prices and never will as long as you continue to remain their client on that specific package.
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