Google Compute Engine (GCE) experienced an outage on April 11, 2016 that resulted in all instances in different regions losing connectivity. The outage lasted for a total of 18 minutes. The company has issued an explanation or reason for outage (RFO) and what steps GCE will be taking to prevent the outage from occurring again. […]
123-Reg a UK based web hosting company has suffered an outage over the weekend that affected a number of VPS customers. One of 123-Reg’s customers posted an explanation of what had happen to their website and that they were now operating from a backup server. 123-Reg customers have been advised by the web host if […]
There have been a bunch of new dot extensions also known as new gTLDs introduced recently. What is the most expensive new domain extension? Most expensive new gTLD extension is .security and .protection If you go to GoDaddy.com and enter whatever words you want and add .security or .protection as the ending of the domain […]
WordPress.com has announced that the service will start rolling out automatically free SSL certificates for all custom domains hosted on WordPress.com. Visitors to any custom domain that is hosted at WordPress.com will automatically be encrypted. WordPress.com cite’s benefits of the encryption includes protection against surveillance, cookie theft, account hijacking, and helping to prevent other security […]
Andy Jassy the SVP in charge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been given the title of CEO of Amazon Web Services. In a blog post by Jeff Bezos the CEO, Chairman, and founder of Amazon, Jeff says that the new title is a recognition of the existing role and not a reorganization. Jeff Wilke another […]
WordPress focused web hosting provider Flywheel has recently raised $4 million dollars in series A funding. Flywheel states the company did not need to raise money but chose to raise the money to focus on building a WordPress platform that caters to web designers. The $4 million dollar funding was led by Kansas City’s Five […]
Web host DreamHost has announced the company’s cloud offering called DreamCompute is now available to the general public. DreamCompute is based on OpenStack, Project Astara, and Ceph. DreamCompute pricing starts at $4.50 per month or $0.0075 per hour. The starting price includes 512 MB of RAM and 1 vCPU. The next tier in the DreamCompute […]
Toyota has announced that the automaker will launch Toyota Connected, Inc. Toyota Connected will focus on data management and data services development. Toyota Connected will utilize Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology. Microsoft will also own 5% of Toyota Connected. Toyota Connected will use Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology to store and process the data from Toyota’s different […]
The following is a list of randomly selected VPS providers that are ranked by the number of Twitter followers. Figures were gathered on March 31, 2016. 1. HostGator = 67.7k 2. Media Temple = 48.9k 3. OVH.com = 46.8k 4. DreamHost = 30.1k 5. LiquidWeb = 25.8k 6. WiredTre = 9,136 7. KnownHost = 8,637 […]
Google has made a transition to its domain registration service. The new homepage for Google Domains is now at Domains.Google under the .google gTLD. The domain registration service offered by Google used to be accessible via domains.google.com and google.com/domains. Anyone that tries to access domains.google.com or google.com/domains are now sent to domains.google instead. After a […]