Archive for April 12th, 2008

GoDaddy Unveils Internationalized Domains

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - April 11, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, Go Daddy, has premiered a new Internationalized Domain Name Service, to enable registration in over 100 native languages. An IDN is a Web address expressed in a native language, and it’s helping to revolutionize [...]

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R1Soft Prepares for MySQL Conference

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - April 11, 2008 - Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, will showcase its products and True Granular Restore technology at this year’s MySQL Conference and Expo, held April 14-17 in Santa Clara, California. At [...]

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Web Hosting Tutorial “Subscription Option" Announced by DemoWolf - Tophosts

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Web Hosting Tutorial “Subscription Option" Announced by DemoWolf
Tophosts, Canada -22 hours ago
April 11, 2008 - (TopHosts News Brief) - DemoWolf has recently announced a subscription option for all available tutorial series, both voice and non-voice.

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Nasstar sells web hosting contracts for 120000 pounds cash - Interactive Investor

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Nasstar sells web hosting contracts for 120000 pounds cash
Interactive Investor, UK -23 hours ago
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Nasstar Plc. said it has disposed of its web hosting contracts for 120000 pounds cash, and added these proceeds will be used to

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Dealing with Managed Web Hosting Service - Best Syndication

Saturday, April 12th, 2008


Best Syndication
Dealing with Managed Web Hosting Service
Best Syndication, CA -18 hours ago
Managed hosting service can be considered as an upgraded version of web hosting. The managed hosting provider takes the responsibility of hosting the

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Digiweb, Web Hosting, Data Center Services Firm, Acquires Novara Hosting Service

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Dublin, Ireland - (The Hosting News) - April 11, 2008 - Web hosting and broadband, telecom provider, Digiweb, has acquired veteran web hosting services firm, Novara, as well as its host.ie and register.ie brands.

The deal is the first consolidation in Irish web host market in 10 years. Award winning web hoster and domain registrar Novara operate under the trade names host.ie and register.ie and add over eight years of intensive industry experience in the Irish webhosting market to Digiweb’s existing specialist hosting team and datacentre services.

Dan King, Hosting and Managed Infrastructure Manager with Digiweb noted, ”Our drive to bring better services and value to the Irish hosting market has been further strengthened by the acquisition of Novara. We’re absolutely thrilled to welcome Novara’s experienced and knowledgeable team to Digiweb, and look forward to supporting existing Novara customers with the same expert team and top service they already enjoy, and offering them now a single solution provider for their hosting, datacentre, broadband and telecoms needs.”

The Irish hosting industry has been fragmented for some time and this represents the first major acquisition and consolidation in the Irish market in 10 years. Digiweb’s re-entry into the hosting market in 2006 has seen them capture significant market share and high profile customers, hosted from their custom-built datacentre in Blanchardstown. Digiweb has also reported that it is eyeing further acquisitions in hosting and voice in Ireland and the UK regions.

Eoin Costello, Founder and Managing Director of Novara remarked, ”Novara customers and staff will benefit hugely from Digiweb’s proven commitment to the Irish hosting industry. Digiweb’s determination to become the number one provider in the Irish hosting market, there being a wholly owned Irish business with strong customer service and business growth as a focus, made them the obvious choice as the best long term home to our customers. We know that they will be well looked after.”

Digiweb Ltd is one of Ireland’s leading Telecoms and Internet Services Providers, offering Wireless and Fixed Broadband, Telephony, and Web Hosting services. Digiweb is 100% Irish owned and run, and currently employ 155 staff in Dublin, Dundalk, Waterford and Limerick. Digiweb was the 2007 Irish Telecommunications Company of the Year, and 2007 Irish ICT Company of the Year, and has been ranked by Deloitte in the Top 3 fastest growing companies in Ireland for each of the last 3 years. Digiweb has also been ranked within the Top 100 companies by Deloitte for the past 3 years in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Digiweb is a provider in the Irish broadband market having established an extensive wholly owned telecoms network across the country. The company also services clients throughout Ireland and Europe for Web Hosting, Data Centre Services, and Satellite Broadband, and is currently developing wireless networks in a number of northern European countries.

To learn more, please visit: www2.digiweb.ie.

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Web Hosting Solutions Firm, R1Soft, to Exhibit at MySQL Conference and Expo

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - April 11, 2008 - Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, will showcase its products and True Granular Restore technology at this year’s MySQL Conference and Expo, to be held April 14-17 in Santa Clara, California.

At the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and database administrators. This year’s show provides an opportunity for R1Soft to educate the MySQL community about its Continuous Data Protection software for MySQL database servers. R1Soft’s database backup technology, True Granular Restore, is the first of its kind for MySQL, allowing developers and administrators the ability to restore individual tables to original or alternate locations using an easy-to-use web interface.

David Wartell, Vice President of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies remarked, ”Since we introduced our MySQL CDP product, we have seen a rapid adoption from administrators tasked with maintaining mission critical MySQL environments. The usual reaction we hear is , ‘Wow! Someone finally solved the MySQL backup problem. While other vendors were sitting around waiting for a new MySQL backup API, we developed a new Linux device driver to facilitate near-Continuous point-in-time MySQL backups. I look forward to interacting with database users at this year’s conference.”

R1Soft’s MySQL data protection product is the only product capable of MySQL hot backups for both MyISAM and InnoDB table types. The technology provides a complete server backup and allows databases to be backed up as often as every 15 minutes, without interrupting or slowing down a busy production database in any way.

Mr. Wartell will host a conference session at the show titled, ”MySQL Backups Go near-Continuous.” He will discuss the changes to MySQL data protection, including current MySQL backup technologies, the coming MySQL backup API, and the future of MySQL backup and restore.

R1Soft will be at booth #509 on the floor of the exhibit hall, where it will offer a variety of promotional materials and run its popular prize wheel. Attendees have the chance to win one of many floor prizes, including CDP Starter packs, t-shirts, penguins, and cash.

The 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo brings over 1,600 open source and database enthusiasts together to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL ecosystem. Peers and experts from a wide variety of companies and countries will gather at the MySQL Conference and Expo, to discuss and learn from some of the leading visionaries in the open source world.

The largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide, the event reflects MySQL’s wide-ranging appeal and capabilities. The open atmosphere of the MySQL Conference and Expo helps IT professionals and community members to create the best database applications, tools, and software through expert instruction, hands-on tutorials, readily available MySQL developers, and guru business advice. Users gain the knowledge they need to rapidly build solid applications with MySQL that scale with the enterprise.

Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a provider of disk-based backup solutions. The company’s customer list includes some of the world’s largest hosting providers. R1soft products provide Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for over 85,000 mission-critical Linux and Windows servers worldwide. In November, 2007 R1Soft was acquired by BBS Technologies, Inc.

To learn more about the conference, please visit: http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008.

For more information about R1Soft and Continuous Data Protection, please visit: www.r1soft.com.

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Over 300k .EU Registered in 2007

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

April 11, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The past two years has seen the registration of over 2.8 million European Internet identities, with .eu ranking as the fourth most popular top level domain in Europe, and the ninth worldwide.

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Comodo Offers Security Watch Group

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

April 11, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT security solutions provider Comodo announced on Wednesday that it has recently launched Testmypcsecurity, a new model in security that acts as a “Virtual Security Community Watch Group.”

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Demowolf Adds Subscription Option

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

April 11, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting tutorial provider DemoWolf announced on Thursday it is now offering a subscription option for all available tutorial series, both voice and non-voice.

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