Tag: Web Hosting News

Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-04 – GI Partners announced that it has acquired all equity of SoftLayer Web hosting provider.

Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer states: “I’m extremely proud of how much SoftLayer has grown and accomplished in its history. GI Partners’ investment and partnership enables us to take our unparalleled approach to the next stage. It’s gratifying that a firm with GI Partners’ insight and success sees such value in SoftLayer’s past growth and future opportunities.

GI Partners, based in The Menlo Park, CA, owns a controlling interest in The Planet, and rumors surfaced during HostingCon held in Austin, TX on July 19-21 that there would be a merger or takeover involving the two Web hosting companies in some shape or form. That possibility still exists.

Rick Magnuson, Executive Managing Director of GI Partners said: “SoftLayer has taken a visionary model and created a company for the future of hosting. We are excited to bring additional resources and experience to help SoftLayer leverage its strategic position in the expanding global data center services market.

GI Partners (www.gipartners.com) manages about $4 billion worth of capital and has investments in colocation hosting firm Telx Group as well as Managed hosting provider ViaWest. Visit www.softlayer.com for more information on it’s Web hosting and data infrastructure services.

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-29 – Sucuri, an eminent name in providing Web integrity and monitoring solutions, has issued a warning of a new series of malware code injection attacks targeting obsolete WordPress websites, as reported by SOFTPEDIA on July 17, 2010.

Users, who visit these websites, will end up being redirected to web pages that serve FakeAV variant.

Further, the security researchers explained, that these new attacks were the duplicate of those mass compromises that had recently, hit thousands WordPress blogs, on BlueHost, GoDaddy and other organizations. The hackers execute automatic scan procedures to trace the vulnerable installations and thus insert a rouge code in the PHP script.

This malicious code is obfuscated through an encoding function called, base64. The assessment of code gives the output as the elements of a HTML script, which have the content of an external domain.

In such a situation, cyber criminals use “whereisdudescars.com” as the attacking website. Besides, they add the following JavaScript code to the websites: <script src=” #. This code further loads another JavaScript code from the site http://www4.realprotection36.co.cc, trying to push “Fake Antivirus” virus to the site visitor.

The script can also be used to redirect to other malicious domains possibly from the .co.cc. The domain (co.cc) is in controversy now because of hosting malware loaded websites that manipulate search results through poisoned search results.

This type of criminal activity is very common in the cyber world, whereby the criminals take advantage of the victims by panicking them. Once the victims are panicked, the criminals either persuade them to upload malware to infect their computers or ask them for license fee for the removal of cyber security threat.

In fact, there have been many poisoned search results pointing to a website hosted on .co.cc domains, from where the victims are redirected to other pages similar to YouTube or displaying some fake antivirus scans. In such cases, scareware installer naming PACKUPDATE107_195.EXE is downloaded and detected as Adware/SecurityMasterAV.

According to the security firm “Panda”, websites displayed in both the cases have no connection to the search carried out. An image that appears ‘My Computer’ is displayed with an alert message of infection after the system is completely scanned, reports cjnews on July 16, 2010.

Resource: SPAMfighter News

Web hosting leader and innovator, SiteGround.com, announced the release of their new cloud web hosting service based on KVM, one of the industries best virtualization technologies.  KVM is able to offer the control of guests in an OpenVZ-like manner with the isolation of Xen.  Also, it includes numerous free extras with the service which makes it extremely attractive

Cloud web hosting service is the best solution for large websites that see a large vast amount of traffic because of its ability of providing large amounts of computer resources.  Their cloud service is also powered by redundant storage on the Sun Powered Cloud Storage which ensures the reliability of your files and documents.

The virtualization technology utilized by SiteGround is KVM.  It is one of the best virtualization technologies at the moment and one of the rares ones that are being utilized in a cloud platform, it has a very good ability to split and share equally resources between clients as noted by Nikolay Todorov, CTO of SiteGround

To learn more about the new web hosting platform by SiteGround, please visit the following link: http://greatresponder.com/siteground

About SiteGround:

SiteGround is one of the leading hosting providers in the web hosting industry, they host over 250,000 domains from all over the world.  They have a large offering starting from shared hosting and working their way up to business, reseller managed dedicated hosting and the recently introduced cloud hosting.  They offer a very powerful infrastructure and 24/7/365 technical support which assures you uptime and reliability.