NewsHosting news - 13 Sep 2004 - Listing Page: 2548

Patagonia Picks Equinix Data Center - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - Data center and Internet exchange service provider Equinix (equinix.com) announced on Monday that apparel company Patagonia is moving its e-commerce operations to an Equinix facility in Los Angeles.



"We have a reputation for high-quality merchandise and great customer service," says Craig Wilson, director of e-commerce at Patagonia. "Ensuring that our customers' on-line experience reflects what they have come to expect from Patagonia is a high priority. Equinix provides us ...

Verio Prepares for Hurricane Ivan - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - Web hosting provider Verio (verio.com 👉 Total Reviews: 28
🙌 Average Rating: 2.2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 4
👎 Bad Reviews: 24
👈 Official Responses: 0) announced last Friday that it was implementing emergency preparedness and business continuity planning in preparation for Hurricane Ivan. The company recently made similar preparations for Hurricane Frances, and says it suffered no outages to data center service or degradation in performance as a result.



According to Verio, its data centers, including one in Boca Raton, Florida, will be monitored on a 24-hour basis as part of the ...

Template Monster Targets Web Hosts - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - Template Monster (templatemonster.com), a Web site template provider, said this week that it has gone from a simple template shop into a Web design solution depot for hosting and domain registration industries with the recent offering of the White Labeled Partnership program.



"We really did our utmost developing a system that will satisfy the needs of hosting and domain registration companies seeking to supply their clients with custom web design services," says Template ...

HP Wins Government Data Center Contract - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - The Defense Logistics Agency (dla.mil), a government agency that provides supply support, technical, and logistics services to the US military services and several federal civilian agencies, announced last Friday that it has selected Hewlett-Packard (hp.com) to migrate and host its Enterprise Data Center program. The EDC is an IT initiative designed to help DLA fulfill its mission to manage the logistics supply chain and better serve its customers.



HP will be helping the DLA ...

Web Host Inflow Plans Educational Forum - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - The Portland-based operations of Web hosting provider Inflow (inflow.com) announced on Monday it will host an educational forum on the topic of "Making the Grade in Web-Based Training" Tuesday, September 14th at the Inflow-Portland office. Registration begins at 5 p.m., with the program to follow at 6 p.m.



Web-based training experts from Nike Corporation and Kaiser Permanente will discuss how their companies are using Web-based training to maximum effectiveness. Specific ...

EMI Music Picks Rackspace Web Hosting - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - Web hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com 👉 Total Reviews: 16
🙌 Average Rating: 3.3 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 4
👎 Bad Reviews: 12
👈 Official Responses: 0) announced on Monday that it has signed a multi-year agreement with EMI Music North America. Under the deal, Rackspace's Windows hosting division Intensive Hosting (intensive.com) will host EMI's Blue Note, Capitol Records and Virgin Records' North American Web sites.



EMI says it wanted to consolidate its infrastructure from its multiple data center locations to a single service provider. The company chose ...

C I Host to Open San Jose Data Center - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Web hosting provider C I Host (cihost.com 👉 Total Reviews: 17
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 17
👈 Official Responses: 0) announced on Thursday that it will open its fourth data center, a 10,000 square-foot facility in San Jose, California, in November. The Texas-based host said the new facility will extend its foothold in the North American colocation market.



"Many of our customers house their equipment in at least two of our data centers for redundancy and geographic content distribution," says Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We have received ...

DataPipe Scales Gas Buddy Web Hosting - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Web hosting provider DataPipe (datapipe.com) said it scaled operations recently to accommodate high traffic related to its client, GasBuddy.com. The heavily publicized Gas Buddy, which calls itself the ultimate portal for local gas price information, has real-time updated information on everything fuel related.



Users enter their zip codes to find the range of gas prices available in the area and the cheapest provider, compiled by thousands of volunteer gas price spotters ...

The webhost industry: week review - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - While there was plenty of interesting Web hosting news, even in this shortened week, the most prominent trend did not come from the Web hosting business itself, but from the market of products and services that surrounds Web hosting, as this week saw developments in the markets for domain registration, SSL security and hosting related software and hardware.

SSL security certificate specialist FreeSSL said on Tuesday that it would sell its 128-bit StarterSSL certificates for a ...

Yahoo! to Host Apprentice Web Site - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Internet portal and Web hosting provide Yahoo! (yahoo.com) reportedly said late last week that it has entered into a deal to produce, host and sell advertising for the official Web site of NBC's "The Apprentice."



The agreement is with Mark Barnett Productions, the company responsible for producing The Apprentice. The deal runs for the second and third seasons of the show. The second season debuted last Thursday evening and the Yahoo!-hosted site went live earlier the same ...