October 28, 2011 — In the week ending October 28, many web hosting providers offered their share of treats in the days leading up to Halloween. Hostmonster has a 50 percent discount on shared hosting, DreamHost is offering up to 92 percent off its shared hosting, Storm On Demand is offering bandwidth pricing on its cloud hosting plans, and QuadraNet is providing the first month of colocation service for free.
Updates from October, 2011
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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - October 28 2011
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Facebooks Swedish Data Center to Showcase Architecture Design Work
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October 28, 2011 — In the same week that Facebook’s Open Compute Project formalized some of its organizational structure at its summit in New York City, the company announced plans for a data center in Lulea, Sweden that will showcase some of the design principles that helped found that project.
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Colocation Firm Interxion Deploys Second Cloud Hosting Testlab
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October 28, 2011 — Colocation provider Interxion announced on Friday it has deployed its second Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test environment enabling service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees.
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Akamai Report Names Taiwan Number-One Source of Attack Traffic
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October 28, 2011 — The report, which is published quarterly by Akamai, and offers up data on patterns of malicious Internet traffic, its source and its intended targets, ranks locations according to the volume of traffic they produce, and also ranks server ports according to how frequently they are targeted.
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Web Host Webcom Named Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner
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October 28, 2011 — Mass-market web hosting provider Web.com announced this week that it has been named a Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner, one of the first company’s in North America to take part in the new program.
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Data Center Monitoring Firm ONPATH Names Marketing VP
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October 28, 2011 — Data center monitoring solutions provider ONPATH Technologies announced on Friday it has named Gene Litt its vice president of marketing. He will drive the marketing strategy and results for ONPATH’s high-performance scalable connectivity and monitoring solutions.
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UK Web Host Alentus Acquires Rival Emnet UKs Hosting Customers
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October 28, 2011 — UK Web hosting provider, Emnet UK announced on Friday it has sold it’s customer contracts and infrastructure to Alentus for an undisclosed sum. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Colocation Provider CoSentry Acquired by Equity Firm TA Associates
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October 28, 2011 — Private equity firm TA Associates announced on Thursday it has completed the acquisition of colocation provider CoSentry. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
TA partnered with CoSentry management to acquire the company. Selling shareholders include private equity fund McCarthy Capital and investment company WaittCorp Investments.
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Open Compute Project Gets Organized at NYC Summit This Week
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October 28, 2011 — At the second Open Compute Summit, held this week in New York, the Open Compute Project, a kind of open data center architecture effort created by Facebook earlier this year, saw some official structure develop around the organization.
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Scality TeamDrive Offer Web Hosts File Storage Tool for Private Cloud
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October 28, 2011 — Storage technology developer Scality announced on Wednesday that its technology is being employed by synchronization and collaboration specialist TeamDrive in the delivery of a file sharing and synchronization solution for private clouds.
