Liquid Web has sold the company’s shared web hosting business segment to Deluxe Hosting. Deluxe Hosting is owned by Deluxe Corporation, a business known for its check printing business. Other web hosting brands owned by Deluxe Corporation includes Aplus.net and Hostopia. Deluxe Corporation is a publicly trade company on the NYSE under the symbol DLX. […]
Equinix has activated their new datacenter in Sydney, Australia. The new datacenter has a designated name of SY4. The new $97 million dollar datacenter is one the latest Equinix datacenters to be completed. Full press release: Equinix Opens New Data Center in Sydney Sydney campus now the most interconnected in Australia REDWOOD CITY, Calif., and […]
It is being reported that Alibaba’s Aliyun cloud business will face more pressure as rival Ksyun increases focus. Kingsoft the software company behind: WPS Office, Kingsoft Internet Security, and Liebao browser has announced it will be giving the enterprise cloud business more focus. Kingsoft launched its web hosting service in early 2014 and continues to […]
Web hosting provider Datapipe has acquired UK’s web hosting and AWS consulting company Adapt. Adapt provides cloud consulting and solutions to businesses that need private, public, or cloud web hosting needs. Full press release: Datapipe Acquires Leading UK Managed Cloud Services Provider And Advanced AWS Consulting Partner Adapt Acquisition expands Datapipe’s resources and service capabilities […]
Delta Airlines has revealed a small fire resulted in a power outage that led Delta Airlines to cancelling thousands of flights this week. The small fire + 300 datacenter components (probably routers, switches, and servers) that did not switch to backup power forced Delta Airlines cancel a lot of flights while they worked on restoring […]
Rackspace has announced financial results for the 2nd quarter of 2016. This quarter for Rackspace ended on June 30, 2016. Rackspace is reporting net revenue of $524 million dollars for the 2nd quarter. Net income for the 2nd quarter was $36 million dollars. Free cash flow was $98 million dollars. For the third quarter of […]
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) shares closed up 14.64% today after reports surfaced that the web hosting giant was actively engaging in talks about a sale. Bloomberg has a report out citing an article from the WSJ that Rackspace is in advance talk with one or more private equity firms about a sale. The web hosting giant […]
DigitalOcean has announced the availability of block storage. The cost is $0.10 per GB per month. The SSD block storage volume varies from 1 GB to 16 TB and can be moved between different “Droplets”. Full press release: DigitalOcean Releases Block Storage, Enabling Developers and Businesses to Build and Scale Larger Applications Highly available and […]
WebHostingTalk.com, DBForums.com, ABestWeb.com, Mac-Forums.com, and HotScripts.com may of been hacked on July 4th, 2016. The data that was allegedly hacked includes: username, email address, password, IP address, private messages, and birthday data. LeakedSource.com is reporting that the data that was hacked include passwords that were hashed using MD5 with salts. The salts were reportedly available […]
One of the most popular web hosting helpdesk software used by thousands of web hosts, Kayako has announced it will be now offering a new software as a service offering. Where 99% if not all end customer information is hosted with Kayako instead of with the web hosts that use their software. Kayako developers only […]