March 30, 2011 — The BBC experienced a major outage late Tuesday evening that prevented all of its websites from being accessible from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. local time.
Updates from March, 2011
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Faulty Switch Causes Massive Outage of BBC Website
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Performance Monitoring Firm Yottaa Hits 30000 Site Milestone
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March 30, 2011 – Cloud services provider Yottaa announced on Tuesday that more than 30,000 websites are now being monitored by Yottaa Insight, its web performance monitoring service launched in September 2010.
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Data Center Outsourcing to Hit 163B in 2014 says Inifiniti Study
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March 30, 2011 — IT industry research group Infiniti Research announced on Wednesday it has released a new report titled “Global Data Center Outsourcing Market 2010-2014″.
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Comodo Suspends Two More Compromised Resellers as it Patches Security
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March 30, 2011 — As reported this morning by Paul Mutton at Netcraft, (who is keeping a close eye on the story), Comodo has confirmed that it has suspended registration authority privileges from two more resellers who were compromised in last week’s well-publicized attack. Comodo says no further certificates have been issued by the compromised RAs.
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Google Makes a Move on SMB Web Hosting with Free Offering
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March 30, 2011 — Is this the big Google push into shared hosting that web hosts have feared for years? According to several reports surfacing Tuesday, the search engine giant has launched a new program called “Canada Get Your Business Online,” offering small businesses a free domain name, web hosting space and a coupon for $100 worth of AdWords credit.
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Web Host Hostway Offering Microsoft Exchange 2010
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March 30, 2011 — Web hosting provider Hostway announced on Tuesday it is now offering email platform Microsoft Exchange 2010.
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Web Hosting Provider QTS Announces 45 Million Credit Increase
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March 29, 2011 — Data center operator Quality Technology Services announced on Tuesday that its lenders ING Capital and Caterpillar Financial Services have increased the capacity of its revolving credit by $45 million, bringing the total to $170 million.
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India Intends to Block XXX Domain
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March 29, 2011 — According to reports released Monday, the Indian government has said it intends to block the .xxx domain, following the news last week that ICANN had announced its own intentions to work with the ICM Registry to enable the creation of a top-level domain specifically for adult content.
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Web Host NeoSpire Successfully Completes SAS 70 Type II Audit
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March 29, 2011 – Managed hosting provider NeoSpire announced on Tuesday that it has successfully completed its SAS 70 Type II audit.
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Web Host Data Storage Corp Appoints John Coghlan to Board of Directors
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March 29, 2011 – Data center protection and recovery firm Data Storage Corporation announced on Tuesday the appointment of John Coghlan to its board of directors.
