April 29, 2009 — In an effort to save the thousands of animated GIFs, blinking text, web rings and even legitimate websites from going offline forever, Jason Scott’s Archive Team it trying to migrate sites hosted by Yahoo!’s long-standing free web hosting service, GeoCities, following its shut down last week.
Updates from April, 2009
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Project to Archive Homeless GeoCities Sites
Web Hosting News
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UK Data Center Firm Gets $255M Financing
Web Hosting News
April 29, 2009 — UK data center provider Highbridge Business Park announced on Wednesday it has secured funding of $255 million, equivalent to £175 million, to build a new data center at its Cobalt Park, North Tyneside, UK.
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Digital Realty Leases to Neuberger Berman
Web Hosting News
April 29, 2009 — Asset management firm Neuberger Berman has established a large data center presence in a Digital Realty Trust’s “Turn-Key Datacenter” facility in the Northeastern US, which features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation.
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Afilias Joins MAWWG and Online Safety Group
Web Hosting News
April 28, 2009 — Domain name registry operator Afilias announced on Tuesday that Brian Cute, vice president of discovery services has been named to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Online Safety and Technology Working Group.
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AppLogic Powers CariNet Virtual Data Center
Web Hosting News
April 28, 2009 — Powered by the 3Tera’s AppLogic cloud computing platform, data center operator and hosting services provider CariNet has launched its new Virtual Private Datacenter (or VPD) line of services, adding the scalability, reliability and cost effectiveness of grid technology to CariNet’s suite of hosting solutions.
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NeoSpire Participates in PCI Council
Web Hosting News
April 28, 2009 — Managed hosting provider NeoSpire has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a participating organization, helping the PCI Data Security Standard and other payment card data protection standards evolve along with the other 518 participating organizations.
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ServeCentric Wins Hosting Deal from Broker
Web Hosting News
April 28, 2009 — Irish managed hosting provider Servecentric announced on Tuesday it has signed a managed hosting deal worth $1.3 million, which is equivalent to €1 million, with an unnamed, major international law firm.
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Infinera Rolling Demo Hits Europe
Web Hosting News
April 28, 2009 — Bringing its digital optical network solutions to businesses’ doorsteps, optical networks provider Infinera has begun a European road trip with the Infinera Express, a mobile demonstration bus equipped with state-of-the-art Infinera networking systems to demonstrate to potential clients.
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IBM Leases Spaces at DRT Paris Data Center
Web Hosting News
April 28, 2009 — Wholesale data center provider Digital Realty Trust announced on Tuesday it has signed a second turn-key data center lease agreement with IBM for space at Digital Realty Trust’s suburban Paris facility.
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Active Power Endorses EU Energy Code
Web Hosting News
April 28, 2009 — Bolstering its commitment to helping data center operators reduce their electricity cost and environmental impact, energy-efficient critical power system developer and manufacturer Active Power has signed on to an initiative designed to encourage European data center operators and owners to cost effectively reduce their energy consumption without hampering mission-critical functions.
