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netfirms.com logoNetfirms Offers Free Domain Names - 📅 - Netfirms (netfirms.com 👉 Total Reviews: 48
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) announced today that new and existing customers of their Advantage or Business Web hosting plans will receive a free domain name.



The company said in a release that the offer was "initiated to underline Netfirms? ongoing commitment to providing the best value in Web hosting for the lowest prices."

There will be no time limit to the service and it will apply to registered domain names with Netfirms including .com, .net, .org, .info and .biz. ...
Netcraft: Many Strong Sites Using FreeBSD - 📅 - Half of the top 10 Web hosting company Web sites with the fewest failed requests run on the FreeBSD platform, according to Netcraft's (http://www.news.netcraft.com) July survey of Web hosting provider's Web sites.



The monthly survey measures and ranks the hosting providers whose Web sites experienced the fewest failed requests and the fastest connection times.

Topping the list was uswest.net (http://www.uswest.net) with a .07 failed request percentage. Occupying positions 2- 6 with a .08 ...
Details on October 2003 ICANN Meeting to be Held in Carthage, Tunisia - 📅 - ICANN's next round of meetings will be held 27-31 October 2003 in Carthage, Tunisia. The meetings are free to attend and open to any interested person. ICANN encourages broad participation in its bottom-up consensus-development process.

The meetings will be hosted by the Tunisian Internet Agency. They will be held at the Carthage Palace Hotel in historic Carthage, Tunisia.

Pre-registration for attendees is available by filling out the form at ...
rackspace.co.ukReport: Support, SLAs Are Critical In Choosing Host - 📅 - Customer support promises and service level agreements (SLAs) are the most important factors in the selection of a Web hosting provider, according to a research report commissioned by Rackspace Managed Hosting Europe (rackspace.co.uk).



Released today, the report was carried out by Vanson Bourne, a market research company, and questioned the customers of five leading UK Web hosting providers.

According to the report, there continues to be "huge variation" and "much ...
Yankee Group: Businesses Prefer Metro Ethernet - 📅 - Nearly half (43 percent) of U.S. businesses that have deployed a metro ethernet solution built it themselves, in contrast to 21 percent that implemented a carrier-supplied solution, reports research and analysis firm the Yankee Group (http://www.yankeegroup.com).



According to the Yankee Group's recently released 2003 Metro Ethernet Survey, 90 percent of the 350 enterprises canvassed had deployed metro ethernet solutions with an additional 10 percent confirming they had plans to ...
uplinkearth.com logouplinkearth Implements Windows 2003 Server - 📅 - uplinkearth (uplinkearth.com 👉 Total Reviews: 15
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) announced last week the implementation of Windows 2003 .NET Server for their virtual server hosting solutions.



"As part of our commitment to provide our customers with the best possible service along with the most advanced development tools available we are implementing Microsoft Windows 2003 aggressively," said Charles LaPadula, CIO at uplinkearth. "Since mid-July all new virtual hosting accounts have been being setup on one of our new Dual ...
telecity.com logoTeleCity to Host LambdaNet IP Network - 📅 - TeleCity (telecity.com) announced today that pan-European telco carrier LambdaNet Communications (http://www.lambdanet.net) has extended its Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) into TeleCity's two London Docklands facilities.



TeleCity said LambdaNet's decision to locate in its facilities was the result of a number of existing carriers and service providers looking to route traffic through London on the LambdaNet network. The company added that having a presence at TeleCity London would ...
aplus.net logoAplus.Net Launches New Corporate Web Site - 📅 - Aplus.Net (aplus.net 👉 Total Reviews: 30
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) has launched its new corporate Web site.



The new site is divided into five different areas, each one representing a distinct service group offered by Aplus ? Web hosting, dedicated services, domain hosting, connectivity and Web design.

The company said the redesigned site reflects its new business strategy of transforming itself from a Web hosting company for small and medium-sized businesses into an "Internet presence provider."

"We ...
verio.com logoATS Awarded Managed Services Contract - 📅 - Advanced Technology Systems, Inc. (http://www.atsva.com) announced today that it was awarded a six-year $9.1 million contract from the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB) to provide managed IT infrastructure operations and services.



"ATS is delighted to be supporting FHFB and its mission to help twelve federal home loan banks finance our nation's urban and rural housing and community development needs," said Pete Spewak, senior vice-president of business development at ATS. "By ...
q9.com logoMassive Power Outage Tests Web Hosts - 📅 - Thursday's power outage was a significant test for Web hosting companies located in eastern North America, as most firms scrambled to address a massive failure that forced some regions to spend the entire weekend in the dark.



And while the electrical blackout that affected the Eastern Seaboard severely tested the robustness of the Internet architecture, the network did maintain its integrity.

According to Keynote Systems (http://www.keynote.com), an Internet performance ...