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📅 - McKremie Hosts US Non-Profits - Las Vegas-based Web host McKremie Web Hosting Solutions (mckremie.com) has launched a hosting program offers all US-based registered 501(c)(3) non profit organizations and public schools free Web hosting services. According to its Thursday announcement, McKremie's Nonprofit and Public School Web Hosting Program is available to all US-based organizations, not just those located in Las Vegas. A Web hosting plan McKremie offers non-profits and public schools includes features like 3 TB transfer, 15 GB disk space, unlimited MySQL databases and unlimited sub-domains, normally worth $263.40."We are pleased to give back to the organizations and schools that are the ...
📅 - Netcraft Releases Oct. Server Survey - Web analytics firm Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com) announced on Wednesday it has released the results of its October 2008 Web Server Survey. This month's survey received responses from 182,226,259 sites, which amounts to an increase of 948,000 websites since last month.Apache once again saw the largest growth, with an increase of 463,000 websites since September.ThePlanet.com gains 1.3 million sites this month, most of which are operating on Apache. This includes many large 'link farm' sites that contain .pl domains to generate search terms using pornographic phrases.Google gains an additional 411,000 sites to bring its total to 10.5 million ...
📅 - Fujitsu Siemens Holds Workshop - Taking its 'Customer Challenge' programs to the next level, Fujitsu Siemens Computers (http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com) has announced its new, data center 'Efficiency Challenge,' inviting European companies to participate in a free 'Discovery Workshop' where Fujitsu Siemens will work with the company to reduce the time it takes managing their IT infrastructure by 20 percent. According to Fujitsu Siemens' Thursday announcement, if it cannot identify company's greatest IT infrastructure pain points, reducing its IT management time by at least 20 percent, they will receive 10,000? worth of products or services. The Efficiency Challenge is a significant addition to Fujitsu Siemens ...
📅 - Salesforce Adds Website Hosting - Known as one of the first companies to successfully offer Software as a Service, Salesforce (http://www.salesforce.com) has unveiled Force.com Sites, which will allow customers to run their Web sites on salesforce.com's existing cloud infrastructure. Seen as the next logical step to move beyond its core business of offering sales-automation software, the cloud computing and customer relationship management software developer announced Monday that Force.com Sites is now available in a developer preview version, letting application developers who use Salesforce's platform publish Force.com data and applications to any Web site. This further extends the reach of Salesforce into the ...
📅 - Power Failure Sends Verizon Offline - According to reports over the weekend, a power failure at Verizon (http://www.verizonbusiness.com/za/) in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, left thousands of people unable to access their websites on Saturday after the hosting provider's generator failed to kick in. Independent Online, or IOL, a local publication in South Africa, said its news site, was "hard-hit by the crash" and even popular SMS chat applications like MXit were unavailable for most of the day, leaving "thousands of teenagers unable to communicate with their friends."According to reports, a spokesperson for Verizon told IOL that its generators failed to turn on after the back-up battery ...
📅 - Sitestar Buys DONOBi Assets - Internet solutions provider Sitestar (http://www.sitestar.net) announced on Monday it has purchased the Internet related assets of DONOBi Internet Services (http://www.donobi.com), which offers dial-up, DSL, high-speed fiber optic Internet, web hosting and colocation services. The deal marks the company's sixth acquistion this year, having already acquired the dial-up and hosting customers and other assets of Oklahoma-based Internet service provider AdaNet in June, the DSL accounts and related assets from USA Telephone and modem dial solutions provider Dial Assurance in May, the Internet access customer base and assets of N2 The Net in April, and the assets of Internet service and ...