Nov 14, 2008 : The webhost industry: week review
📅 - In a remarkable development that only the sinister would consider anything other than "good news," the disconnecting of a host suspected of being a haven for spammers showed a dramatic drop in the delivery of spam messages this week.
On Monday, the Washington Post's "Security Fix" blogger Brian Krebs reported that San Jose based host McColo might be hosting a variety of illicit material, primarily spam, but also possibly including illegal pornography and malicious software. In researching the story, Krebs contacted Internet providers for the company, which quickly shut down their connections after confirming some of the activity he reported.
Following the disconnections, which all but shut down McColo, we reported on Friday that spam researchers from all over the world were reporting huge drops in the amount of spam they were receiving, presumably as a result of the company's disconnection. Anti-spam companies reported drops of 50, 70 and even 75 percent in the volume of spam they were filtering over the last few days. Some say the McColo was suspected of hosting command centers for some of the largest and most prolific spamming botnets.
Along with the unusual news of an enormous dip in spam came the much less surprising news of further construction in the data center space - a regular source of material here at the WHIR.
On Monday, C I Host announced its plans to add a new data center facility in Texas. The company says the 60,000 square foot space will open in February 2009 in Dallas. C I Host says the facility will be built to enhance the company's performance, and will put into operation all the best practices developed by the company during its 11-year lifetime.
Also on Monday, hosting provider Site Ox announced that it had opened a new data center in the Nashville, Tennessee area. The facility will be located just south of Nashville in downtown Franklin, and will provide support for the company's web hosting, colocation data center outsourcing and business continuity products.
On Tuesday, 1&1 Internet announced its plans to build a 32,800 square foot data center in Hanau, Germany using power only from renewable sources and built from a former nuclear facility. The never-used nuclear facility is located in the Frankfurt metropolitan area, and will have room for 100,000 severs, according to the company.
On Wednesday, we reported that Digital Realty Trust had signed a deal to construct a facility for Irish telecommunications company Eircom from the ground up. The facility will be include about 124,500 square feet of space, and will be located in Dublin, Ireland. According to the company's announcement, the facility will adhere to strict standards for energy efficiency and other best practices for green data centers.
And on Thursday we reported that telecommunications company SureWest had completed the conversion of a new data center in Citrus Heights, California, the company's second colocation facility. The data center occupies 7,000 square feet of space in building at McClellan Business Park.
Data center construction at this pace, and on this scale seems a bit incongruous, given the worldwide concern about the state of the financial markets. But reports show that appetites for data center space have not slowed, perhaps because of an increasing desire to seek savings through outsourcing IT.
On Wednesday, we reported on a presentation at the Data Centre Asia 2008 conference, in which researchers BroadGroup offered up information from an upcoming report on data center growth in the Asian market, predicting that data center floor space in Southeast Asia will increase 68 percent over the next five years, on average.
Like last week, the data center growth is this week's most likely ongoing trend, with several more data center announcements in the lineup for later today.
On Monday, the Washington Post's "Security Fix" blogger Brian Krebs reported that San Jose based host McColo might be hosting a variety of illicit material, primarily spam, but also possibly including illegal pornography and malicious software. In researching the story, Krebs contacted Internet providers for the company, which quickly shut down their connections after confirming some of the activity he reported.
Following the disconnections, which all but shut down McColo, we reported on Friday that spam researchers from all over the world were reporting huge drops in the amount of spam they were receiving, presumably as a result of the company's disconnection. Anti-spam companies reported drops of 50, 70 and even 75 percent in the volume of spam they were filtering over the last few days. Some say the McColo was suspected of hosting command centers for some of the largest and most prolific spamming botnets.
Along with the unusual news of an enormous dip in spam came the much less surprising news of further construction in the data center space - a regular source of material here at the WHIR.
On Monday, C I Host announced its plans to add a new data center facility in Texas. The company says the 60,000 square foot space will open in February 2009 in Dallas. C I Host says the facility will be built to enhance the company's performance, and will put into operation all the best practices developed by the company during its 11-year lifetime.
Also on Monday, hosting provider Site Ox announced that it had opened a new data center in the Nashville, Tennessee area. The facility will be located just south of Nashville in downtown Franklin, and will provide support for the company's web hosting, colocation data center outsourcing and business continuity products.
On Tuesday, 1&1 Internet announced its plans to build a 32,800 square foot data center in Hanau, Germany using power only from renewable sources and built from a former nuclear facility. The never-used nuclear facility is located in the Frankfurt metropolitan area, and will have room for 100,000 severs, according to the company.
On Wednesday, we reported that Digital Realty Trust had signed a deal to construct a facility for Irish telecommunications company Eircom from the ground up. The facility will be include about 124,500 square feet of space, and will be located in Dublin, Ireland. According to the company's announcement, the facility will adhere to strict standards for energy efficiency and other best practices for green data centers.
And on Thursday we reported that telecommunications company SureWest had completed the conversion of a new data center in Citrus Heights, California, the company's second colocation facility. The data center occupies 7,000 square feet of space in building at McClellan Business Park.
Data center construction at this pace, and on this scale seems a bit incongruous, given the worldwide concern about the state of the financial markets. But reports show that appetites for data center space have not slowed, perhaps because of an increasing desire to seek savings through outsourcing IT.
On Wednesday, we reported on a presentation at the Data Centre Asia 2008 conference, in which researchers BroadGroup offered up information from an upcoming report on data center growth in the Asian market, predicting that data center floor space in Southeast Asia will increase 68 percent over the next five years, on average.
Like last week, the data center growth is this week's most likely ongoing trend, with several more data center announcements in the lineup for later today.
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