October 14, 2009 – (The Hosting News) – United Kingdom – Fully managed web hosting and domain name registration services firm, WebHostingUK. com, is providing free domain name registration and transfer with their Linux/Windows shared and reseller hosting plans.
The company has also increased the web space and monthly bandwidth allocation of one of its most [...]

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October 14, 2009 – (The Hosting News) – Houston, Texas – Global IT hosting firm, The Planet, has announced plans to host the Texas IPv6 Task Force, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 3-4, at its headquarters in downtown Houston.
More than 100 participants are expected for the free two-day event. Gold Sponsors include ARIN (American [...]

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According to Google Trends, the web site that helps watch trends for search results via Google, the phrase “web hosting” has been in a steady decline since 2004.
You can see the chart for yourself here.

So what does this mean?  Well, a hundred different people could read into that data a hundred different ways.
Negative View – [...]

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October 14, 2009  (The Hosting News) – OVERLAND PARK, KS – The hosting industry’s first rewards program debuts with 20 ways to upgrade your technology platform. Codero Rewards + More Points = More Power
Adding support, security, server tools and more memory for hosting just got easier with Codero’s new rewards program. Codero Rewards is the [...]

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I have been promising CPU protection for a long time and its finally ready.  It has been running on several servers during our live beta testing and it has proven itself to be extremely successful.  For those that need the brief rundown again this is what this feature will provide.
1) Guaranteed CPU resources for every [...]

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As the smartphone market increases and Apple gobbles up market share from its competitors what can smaller companies do to compete?
First, copy the good aspects of the product you are trying to compete against.  Next, improve your product in the areas that your competitors are deficient, and finally,  if you are smaller and more nimble [...]

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In my quest for the most efficient server environment that I can create I have spent a good portion of my life drilling down to the lowest levels of the linux kernel.  This helps to me better understand how to make use of and in some cases limit cpu and I/O usage to make the [...]

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I have really been thinking a lot lately about America and what it stands for and represents.  As I listen and watch and participate in my community I can’t help but believe our country has already gone down a path that it can never recover from.  Simultaneously, I realize that many in this country believe [...]

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The affiliate market is a very important part of Bluehost’s business.  Affiliate marketing was our chosen method to grow Bluehost.  Of course we did direct marketing and we hoped that our word of mouth business would continue to grow.  All in all it has worked out really well.
There were two reasons our affiliate marketing worked [...]

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Seems I am the devil because I didn’t put some code up that I said I would.  So here it is.  This is a patch to the 2.6.27 kernel that outputs all the files that have been modified, chmod, created, etc.  Basically, all the files that would need to be backed up WITHOUT having to [...]

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