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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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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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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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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Hosting is an interesting business.  It has come a long way from the free website days of Geocities and the like.  Speed, reliability, and features have grow far beyond what they were only a few short years ago.  What you can now buy for under $10 a month is 10x as powerful as what you [...]

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I have written over and over that great things are born from trials and failure.  I have also written that very often when you need something done right you just do it yourself!  Although web hosting backups don’t count as one of life trials they have been a pretty big thorn in my side.
As most [...]

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New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – October 1, 2009 – Web hosting providers, CirtexHosting and HostV, will join the fight against cancer by donating a portion of its sales in October to the Jimmy Fund, which supports cancer research and care at the Dana-Farber [...]

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Parksville, British Columbia – (The Hosting News) – September 30, 2009 – New reseller and dedicated web hosting packages for Canadian and U.S. clients have been launched by web hosting service provider, Hosting Nation.
Sean Enns, Director of Marketing and Communications at Hosting Nation explained, ”We already offer a lot of extra resources [...]

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