(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the final week of 2011, many web hosts offered deals enticing Go Daddy customers to transfer their domains. While some may have worked, a report by VentureBeat says results from statistics site DailyChanges illustrate that twice as many domains transferred into Go Daddy than out.
Among those web hosts offering Go Daddy or SOPA related deals include A Small Orange, offering 25 percent off shared hosting and domains, HostGator offering half of shared hosting, and cloud computing provider Centuric is offering 33 percent off deluxe hosting plan.
Web hosting provider WebHostUK is extending its Christmas promotion to the new year, and FastWebHost is offering 50 percent off unlimited web hosting until Jan. 1, 2012.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud performance and monitoring provider Phixios announced this week it is now offering a low cost service for customers to audit and verify their SLAs of their outsourced IT infrastructure.
This service provides an independent verification of the availability of their outsourced IT infrastructure, which include network routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, as well as servers, which include Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX.
The Phixios IT Outsourcing Verification Service is a cloud based service that provides “agentless” availability reporting.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Spanish data protection authority AEPD announced this week it has opened an online public consultation on cloud computing.
Running through until January 27, the consultation is designed to gauge the opinions of service providers and cloud computing clients, as well as individual users, academics and experts.
The consultation addresses nearly all aspects of cloud computing in terms of how it relates to data protection.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hacker group Anonymous claims that it has stolen user password and credit card information from military equipment provider SpecialForces.com, according to a report by PCWorld on Wednesday.
This news comes after Anonymous stole customer credit card information from security research website Stratfor Global Intelligence Service. Anonymous used some of the information to donate to charities over the Christmas weekend.
According to the report, the breach occurred months ago in August, but Anonymous waited until this week to post the data online. While the report says about 14,000 user passwords and 8,000 credit card numbers were stolen from the website, Special Forces Gear says that the compromised customer passwords were from a backup of a previous version of the website that is more than a year old.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider VISI announced on Friday that it will provide data center space and hosting services to Minnesota Public Radio|American Public Media.
According to the press release, VISI will host MPR|APM’s web properties including Marketplace.org and the Public Insight Network using with its SaaS platform. With this platform, MPR|APM can add colocation and cloud computing infrastructure as needed.
“We needed a hosting provider with a top tier facility in the Twin Cities to ensure the best availability for our web and IT services,” Brad Rosenberger, manager of IT infrastructure at Minnesota Public Radio said in a statement. “Now, more than ever, our listeners rely on MPR for our in-depth online reporting, in addition to our radio broadcasts.”