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    Downtime for Major Sites Caused By DNS Issues

    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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    Lunarpages Web Hosting Selects Latisys’ SAS70 Compliant HD Colocation and Managed Services

    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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    GoDaddy Domain & Hosting Provider Offers Business Incorporation Services

    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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    SiteGround Web Hosting Provider announces Holiday specials

    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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    New Three-Tiered Channel Program By The Planet Web Hosting Provider

    Saturday, November 7th, 2009

    The Planet web hosting firm has introduced its brand new “Partner Plus” plan, presenting industry-leading payment rates plus an entrée to an entrance having a variety of marketing and sales tools.

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    Host Color Web Hosting Provider Updated his VPS WEB Hosting Plans

    Friday, September 25th, 2009

    Host Color web hosting provider , a well-known firm in VPS Web Hosting community announced to hosting media its changes in VPS hosting plans.

    New Three-Tiered Channel Program By The Planet Web Hosting Provider

    Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

    The Planet web hosting firm has introduced its brand new “Partner Plus” plan, presenting industry-leading payment rates plus an entrée to an entrance having a variety of marketing and sales tools.

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    CoreLink Datacenters is Selectd by Lunarpages web hosting to Provide them with High Density Power and Cooling Strategies.

    Sunday, June 28th, 2009

    CoreLink Data Centers LLC, one of the biggest provider of colocation and disaster recovery solutions with its data-center in Seattle, Las Vegas and Phoenix, is happy to announce that Lunarpages web hosting provider, a leading company of affordable and reliable web-hosting for small business, personal websites, e-commerce shops, Fortune 100 corporations and dedicated customers, has selected CoreLink Datacenters, as their provider in Las Vegas. CoreLink is providing Lunarpages web hosting with high density power and cooling facilities to support their web hosting applications that are requiring more processing power to meet the demand of their clients.

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    cPanel PHP configuration manager from VEXXHOST Web Hosting

    Saturday, June 27th, 2009

    Vexxhost web hosting Provider announced on Thursday a modified version of their famous PHP configuration manager. The new script was built on AJAX technologies to get the configuration instantly from the servers using JSON

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    Web Hosting Provider, AvaHost Started to provide Virtual Private Server

    Saturday, June 27th, 2009

    AvaHost web hosting provider has just started Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting, This service will offer an important choice to shared web hosting, This service starting price is $14.95 per month. with this service clients can enjoy the benefits of having control over their root access.

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