Good morning,
this goes out to anyone that has had any sort of experience buying a web hosting business as a going concern.
What were the key issues in your transaction.
Did you rebrand the business.
What level of attrition did you see with your customers, did the customer base drop significantly. I would be very interested to hear [...]

we have asked serverwizards.com aka kravietz for help in setting up our servers DNS and such, last time our server was stopped by our providers because a fake paypal page was set up, that was, may be two years ago. I didn’t think it had anything to serverwizards.
Thing is, since they did it fast last [...]

I recently signed up for a couple of grid accounts on Media temple and even recommended the company to some clients, but so far both those accounts have run into frequent downtime and undeliverable mail due to "compromised accounts" on the same server…. is this the status quo at Media Temple? I’m really surprised at [...]

OK, I’m finally sick and tired of Dreamhost screwing up and screwing me over. I’ve got $30/mo to spend, and am looking for something similar, and I don’t just mean disk space and bandwidth.
Here are the things I like about Dreamhost:

Lots of disk space
Easy GUI setup of multiple Subversion repositories with multiple [...]

Hey all,
I’m currently in the progress of devoloping a website, and looking for opinions on what kind of hosting I should use for this project.
A little info on the project:
- PHP/MySQL will be used
- I need PhpmyAdmin
- I will be using mod_rewrite to rewrite urls for seo optimization
- The first half year, im expecting 2000 [...]

(The Hosting News) – Digital Realty Trust, Inc., the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider, has begun expanding power and datacenter capacity at its 210 N. Tucker property in St. Louis. The centerpiece of these enhancements is the addition of 16 MW of new electrical power, which effectively quadruples the power available to the facility. Other [...]

(The Hosting News) – Telehouse has officially opened Telehouse West, its state-of-the-art £80 million flag ship data centre facility. This new data centre adds to the latest evolution of the Telehouse brand, which has also recently expanded into South Africa and Vietnam. As a result, Telehouse’s global data centre footprint has now reached 119,000m².
 
The 35th [...]

(The Hosting News) – Fasthosts today announced the launch of Rise, an IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) provider enabling thousands of resellers to move into cloud computing.
 
Rise (www.rise-partners.co.uk), a brand new company from Fasthosts, will provide cloud and dedicated infrastructure as well as end-to-end solutions for channel partners to either resell, or offer as a white label service [...]

(The Hosting News) – GlobalSign today announced the launch of its new four-tier partner program, consisting of Authorized, Silver, Gold and Platinum levels. The new program is ideal for web hosts, ISPs, VARs, domain registrars and web consultants of all sizes wishing to incorporate SSL Certificates, as a value-add or revenue generating product into their [...]

March 31, 2010 — Data center provider Data Centers Canada has broken ground on the phase three expansion of its Toronto North data center facility, which will provide capacity for an additional 100 cabinets, predominately configured in private cage and suite environments.

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