Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – April 29 2011

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Apr 302011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — For the week ending April 29, 2011, a couple hosting of companies are offering special discounts on services in celebration of the royal wedding. Web hosting provider Brain Host is offering one free year of hosting, while UK hosting firm WebHostingBuzz is offering 50 percent discount off all hosting plans. Additionally, CoreXchange is offering a discount pricing on disaster recovery for the upcoming hurricane season, and DemoWolf is offering 25 percent off all its hosting tutorials.

Brain Host Offers One Free Year of Hosting

To celebrate the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, hosting company Brain Host (www.brainhost.com) is offering new customers one year of free web hosting. The new hosting account includes unlimited Web space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited email accounts, a free domain name, and the ability to host unlimited domains on one account.

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Web Host Go Daddy Celebrates Web Professionals Day

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Apr 302011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) announced this week that it would be celebrating the fourth annual Web Professionals Day this Friday, a “holiday” created by the company in conjunction with the World Organization of Webmasters (www.webprofessionals.org).

Go Daddy says Friday, April 29, 2011 is the fourth Web Professionals Day, an occasion created “to honor all online professionals around the globe – the people who develop, run, refresh, secure and repair websites.”

The company will be hosting a party to clebrate the occasion in Scottsdale.

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Lincoln Rackhouse Buys 150K Square Foot Data Center in Plano Texas

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Apr 302011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Lincoln Rackhouse Data Centers (www.rackhouse.com) announced on Wednesday it has acquired a Plano, Texas data center. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

The 150,000-square-foot “purpose-built” data center is located in the Legacy business park at 6653 Pinecrest Drive.

Built by Stream Realty Partners in 2006, the data center is located on a 20-acre site and built to  withstand 175-acre winds. The building is valued for taxes at more than $40 million.

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Amazon Issues Apology Explanation and Credits over EC2 Cloud Outage

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Apr 302011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a Friday posting to its blog, cloud hosting provider Amazon issued an apology for the April 21 outage to its EC2 cloud hosting service that disrupted many websites and applications – including several high-profile social media tools – providing a lengthy technical explanation and offering customers service credits.

While it was working to repair the outage, which had widespread impact and drew even more widespread attention, criticism and speculation, Amazon promised a detailed explanation of the problem’s cause. On Friday, it posted an almost-6,000-word accounting of the outage, written by the AWS team, to its blog. 

In the blog post, along with a lengthy and detailed technical explanation of the outage, the company offers customers an apology, along with a 10-day credit for their services.

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Cloud Hosting Marketplace SpotCloud Releases OpenStack Connector

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Apr 302011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REIEW) — Cloud hosting resources marketplace SpotCloud (www.spotcloud.com) announced this week that it has created the open source SpotCloud OpenStack Connector, an easy tool for companies building clouds on the OpenStack framework to make their services available on the SpotCloud market.

In the announcement, SpotCloud calls the release an important step in its efforts to open the SpotCloud market to the widest possible range of cloud services. The SpotCloud OpenStack Connector code is available for download from the company’s website. It is free open source software released under the Apache license.

The SpotCloud market is a kind of clearinghouse for infrastructure as a service resources, enabling sellers of cloud hosting to get their services in front of a community of buyers, who register for the service, and set up an account with SpotCloud in order to buy the cloud processing.

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