Easyspace, one of Europe’s largest hosting and managed service companies, has recently announced the opening of a new Tier 3 datacentre in the heart of the City of London.

Constructed specifically for the purpose of large scale server hosting and colocation, the City Of London datacentre offers a combined net capacity of 16,000 square feet of high quality secure data centre space, across four separate data halls.

The City of London datacentre is manned 24/7 hours per day by Easyspace’s experienced systems and network engineers, contains a state of the art integrated environment and security management system, fully redundant power, dark fibre capability and market leading network infrastructure.

Sarah Harran, Managing Directory of Easyspace stated: “The key attraction of our Datacentre is that it is a totally new facility and we have not been restricted in its design by any legacy equipment or operations. We have therefore been able to build this facility to incorporate all the critical data management and business continuity features that organisations require both today and tomorrow.”

Easyspace provides a blend of hosting services, ranging from the provision of dedicated and single servers, managed service and co-location facilities, to fully supported data centre solutions, to both the corporate & public sectors. Easyspace is one of Europe's largest hosting and managed service companies, serving the needs of over 300,000 customers.

Easyspace currently operates Datacentres in London, Glasgow and Nottingham and will be opening new facilities in Leicester and Leeds later this year.

The life of a webmaster can be an interesting one. Especially when operating a web hosting review site. In an industry stock full of shills, thieves & kids attempting to make money quick while school is out... there's no telling what can happen!

This evening was no different. Exciting to say the least, I received a phone call from the owner of a web hosting company listed here on Hostjury. The caller was unsatisfied that after having four of his clients post on Hostjury that his company still wasn't listed on the top ten list. Little did he know our PHP development team had implemented a new trick to basically ensure shilling on the site was no longer possible

After taking a few moments to reassure him that I would look into it I went back to eating my hamburger. After all, it was Victoria Day weekend and I had fireworks to get to!

After a little while of rest, leisure and even more leisure I decided to investigate

What I found wasn't surprisingly. Four of the five reviews (A new one had been added a few moments after our phone call ceased) were posted by the exact same user utilizing different proxies. No surprise, of course. I won't mention the name but if they ahem, slip up again I'll oust them like Peewee Herman.

UK Web hosting provider Supanet Hosting (supanethosting.com) announced on Friday it is extending its free one year hosting promotion to an additional 1,000 customers.

"The rush to sign up meant that a number of people missed out on the offer, therefore we have decided to continue offering it for a limited time only so even more people can experience our top quality Web hosting services," says Andrew Barton, marketing manager for Supanet Hosting

The company recently announced it would offer a free year of Web hosting to the first 1,000 customers who applied.

Wait, wait. Slow down.

Err, well that sounds great and all but after doublechecking the terms of service for it on their website there's a catch. What may you ask is the catch?

The free hosting account is subject to a £5.99 setup fee. Oops, I guess there really is no such thing as a free lunch. Or in this case free web hosting. As far as I'm aware this breaks a number of laws in the UK -- anyone care to let me know which specific ones?

It seems that IPowerweb / IPower clientele are experiencing massive problems since Friday of last week. According to several Hostjury readers users of the IPowerweb / IPower service have been unable to check their e-mail since late Friday evening.

According to our sources it appears that Endurance International Group went ahead with their planned server migration without notifying any of their clients! The result is continuous problems and issues, clients unable to check their e-mail & unable to login to their web hosting accounts.

One IPowerweb / IPower user stated that technical support seems oblivious to the migration stating that the issues were a result of "Corrupt passwords" and would be handled within a few hours. Over five days later and the problems are still occurring.

We suppose the Endurance International Group name has another possible meaning. Just how long can their clientele endure problems!

Get in touch with iPowerWeb

One of our readers found the corporate phone number for Endurance International, the company that owns iPowerWeb. If you want quick, prompt service in getting your cancellation, domain name details or anything else give them a quick call: 1-866-897-5421

This is the only iPowerWeb phone number that will result in prompt service.

iPowerWeb Complaints

We welcome anyone having issues to put in a complaint at the Arizona Attorney Generals Office, contact details below:

consumerinfo@azag.gov

You can also use their online contact form here:
http://www.azag.gov/consumer/complaintformintro.html

Free Migration Services

We've decided to step up to the plate & offer free migration services for all iPowerWeb clients as well as a decent howto on escaping iPowerWeb.

Free migration for iPowerWeb / iPower clients by HostJury staff
Howto: Leaving iPowerWeb

You'll have more luck with us moving you than some ipowerweb transition kiosk.
There's a number of web hosting providers that offer free transfer services as well including:

• HostGator
• HostIcan
• Fused Network

Tell others about iPowerWeb / iPower

If you know of other people who might be having problems, you can tell others by 'digging' this article or by linking them directly to:

http://hostjury.com/blog/view/27/ipowerweb-ipower-clients-enduring-massive-problems

 

Comodo, a global Certification Authority and leading provider of Identity and Trust Assurance Management solutions, announced today that it is offering its' fully-functional Free SSL certificate for a full three month term, longer than any leading CA. Competitors' SSL trial offers are often as short as 14 days. Comodo's Free SSL certificate runs a full quarter, allowing new businesses time to develop their trusted online presence without worrying about an initial expenditure.

Comodo is offering this long-term Free SSL certificate because, as a leading Certification Authority, Comodo is committed to promoting trust in the online space through authentication and security solutions geared for eCommerce conversion. Businesses just starting out need to find a way to secure their site while giving them time to build their business. With Comodo's Free SSL certificate, businesses can secure their customers in their initial days as they build more traffic that they can then convert to volume. Importantly, like Comodo's other SSL certificates, installation is nearly effortless and the user can be up and running in a matter of minutes. Visitors to these protected sites will see the padlock on the site ensuring visitors that sensitive information is encrypted during transmission.

To take advantage of this free three month offer or for more information, visit www.instantssl.com.

About Comodo

Comodo, through its group of Internet security companies, is a leading Certification Authority and global provider of Identity and Trust Assurance services on the Internet. Comodo secures and authenticates online transactions and communications for over 2,000,000 businesses and consumers.

During the month of April GoDaddy has reported over one million domain names total registered. According to their site a domain is registered, transferred or renewed every 1.3 seconds via their website.

In April over 2.3 million domain names were added to the internet. GoDaddy's registrations accounted for over 50% of that amount.

"I've heard people say all the good dot-com names are taken & that's just not the case," says Bob Parsons, Go Daddy CEO and founder. "The Web is just getting going. We've only scratched the surface."

Then again with someone who chose the name 'GoDaddy' back in 1999 it can't be hard finding a name. For everyone else it's impossible!

After a year in operation WebCinch is closing it's doors due to health issues within the owners' family. Eric Barbaglia has chosen to shutdown WebCinch after a year rather than selling the company off.

"This is a sad day for WebCinch and our family members who help run WebCinch however I know that the limited time I have with my family members is what I value the most.", says Eric on a statement on the WebCinch official site.

According to the statement made all existing clients will not be billed any further and have thirty days to find a new web hosting provider.

We wish Eric the best & will keep his family in our prayers!

May 12th, 2007 - Web hosting provider, PowWeb, has released a statement on their forum regarding their recent achievement of gaining their 100,000th customer domain! Over the past year PowWeb has gained over ten thousand domains.

Quite the achievement to say the least. At the current rate of growth they should be able to reach 125 thousand domain names hosted by the end of 2007.

PowWeb's proprietary "Load-Balanced Hosting" solution eliminates all single points of failure. By load balancing our servers, your Web site will have multiple paths to its destination. This is the same technique used with large corporations hosting mission-critical Web sites.

Update: Rumors turned out to be correct, additional information below!

If rumors are correct, IPowerWeb/IPower a leading web hosting provider with over a half million web hosting accounts is currently being arranged for sale to Endurance International. Endurance International has recently been purchasing up large amounts of web hosting providers including PowWeb, FatCow and many more large brands.

If history tends to repeat itself IPowerWeb clients can be expected to be in for an interesting ride. Endurance International is known to heavily moderate their forums & ban users who voice their concerns.

The company's first moves normally include switching to call-centers & support located in India. Shortly afterwards migrating any users to their datacenter location in Boston to their own proprietary control panels and systems.

IPOWER, Inc., (www.ipower.com) a leading website hosting provider for small businesses, has been named one of the 500 fastest-growing companies in the country by Inc. magazine, which released its 2006 annual ranking of the Inc. 500 on August 23. IPOWER ranked 121 on the list with a three-year sales growth percentage of 801.2%.

Update

Both companies will continue to operate as separate entities despite the merger according to IPowerWeb insiders. Additional announcements regarding the merger will be made available soon!

Under a preliminary injunction issued in late April by US Federal Court Judge, Manuel J. Real, ICANN now has the right to terminate RegisterFly’s accreditation as soon as possible. The provision to ICANN of current and accurate data for all of RegisterFly’s domain names has also been ordered by the Court as RegisterFly failed to meet the conditions of a temporary restraining order (TRO) which the Court issued on April 16, 2007.

Following the injunction, ICANN is immediately inviting statements of interest from accredited registrars starting Monday, 30 April 2007, to act as a transfer provider, so domain name registrants can gain full access to their domains. The registrar handling the transfers will temporarily hold the names and help registrants transfer to any ICANN accredited registrar of their choice.

ICANN has recently added additional content to their site to assist users of Registerfly's service. The updated information can be found on ICANN's blog here. Registerfly users are urged to perform transfers to other accredited registrars immediately.

Several of the top ten providers on our list do have ICANN accredited registrars providing their domains.

Early last week Project Honey Pot (projecthoneypot.org) has filed a lawsuit  seeking damages for email harvesting and spam on behalf of it's thousands of members. More than 15,000 e-mail harvesters and 668 comment spammers have been caught by the honey pot over the past two years.

Comment spammers are the 'spammers' that target forums and blogs like Wordpress, Blogger and many other millions that get spammed daily. The lawsuit was filed against the 2.5 million IP addresses collected by the honey pot.

The project was originally started by Unspam, a leading provider of Government 'Do-Not-Contact' registries.

Unspam is a software and services company helping governments implement and enforce effective laws to control unwanted messages. We also provide basic as well as expert compliance consulting services to businesses wishing to ensure efficient adherence to the law.

Each year Netcraft releases a reliability report of a number of web hosting providers. The new providers included this year are DataPipe, Navisite, MyHosting.com and iWeb8.

The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate locations around the internet with averages being calculated every 24 hours.

The report is available here. Results show that three of the ten most most reliable hosts run their web sites on Windows, five on Linux and two on FreeBSD.

Netcraft provides webserver and -hosting market-share analysis including web server and operating system detection and their service is in some cases, depending on the queried server's operating system, able to monitor uptimes. Uptime performance monitoring is a commonly used factor in determining the reliability of a web hosting provider.

Registerfly clients who have been burned may have another option soon. A new class action lawsuit being arranged by US attorney E. Clarke Dummit is gaining steam.

Over 700 clients have already been named as plaintiffs in the battle. Dummit claims that as many as 75,000 clients have lost their domains and immeasureable amount of damages have been caused.

A site has been setup to organize the suit and can be available below:
Registerfly Lawsuit Site

According to the site RegisterFly's conduct has had substantial, and in many cases severe, impact on individuals and business that currently have domains held by RegisterFly. Repeated efforts by many customers to resolve issues with RegisterFly have proven fruitless. People are continuing to lose their hard won livelihoods as a result of RegisterFly's egregious behavior.

That sounds about right and the lawsuit will be launching full speed ahead soon.

Dreamhost is the latest provider to jump on the 'green' bandwagon. What that normally means is that they're tree-hugging, bagel eating hippies (most dreamhost employees are, I hear) but in this case it means they're carbon neutral.

Carbon neutrality means that a project, organization or person can purchase credits to have someone else plant trees on their behalf, reduce emissions elsewhere, etc.

I personally would prefer if companies would get out there and donate their time instead: Plant trees, go around town telling other businesses & get involved directly but at least this is a step in the right direction.

Paying someone else to do it on your behalf just seems like the lazy man's way out.

Toronto, Ontario—(April 2, 2007)—Fused Network, a provider of Web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions, announced today it has begun marketing its new Fused Together promotion, enabling affiliates of the company to donate referral commissions to charitable causes.

To participate in the program, users refer other customers to Fused Network using a special tracking link. Should referred customers ultimately purchase services from the company, a commission based upon the value of the product or service they purchased will be donated to a charitable cause, chosen by the affiliate.

“One of our highest priorities is to not only be a commercially viable organization, but also one that exercises corporate responsibility and positive stewardship. We are looking forward to supporting the incredible work of charitable organizations throughout the world by offering referral commissions in a donation format, as opposed to a direct pay out to affiliates,” said David McKendrick, Fused Network Operations Manager.

Fused Network hopes to eventually donate $50,000 in commissions to charity throughout the length of the program, and it will run the program indefinitely.

All individuals, whether or not they are customers of Fused Network, are eligible to participate in the program. Additionally, there are no costs associated with participating—affiliates need to solely refer customers to the company to earn commissions.

“As an innovative organization, we felt the need to do something different—something that not only increases participation on a wider scale for a greater good, but also something that can profoundly affect the world around us, from offering assistance to Darfur to working to treat AIDS,” said McKendrick. “We believe our customers will appreciate the role we have taken. We are stepping up to the plate.”

The Fused Together promotion has been in development for the past 6 months as the company prepared for the program’s implementation. In coming months, the program may be revised to increase further participation.

To learn more about Fused Together, please visit http://www.fusednetwork.com/together.php.

To learn more about Fused Network, please visit http://www.fusednetwork.com.

About Fused Network

Launched in 2006 after a year of development, Fused Network is a leading online provider of Web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions designed to meet the unique and advanced needs of businesses and individuals around the globe. Its servers are powered by Xeon and Opteron processors and are connected to three backbone providers.

Earlier today ICANN has issued a formal Registerfly.com Accreditation Termination Notice. The notice indicates that as of March 31st, 2007 Registerfly will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar. Effective immediately ICANN has terminated RegisterFly's right to use the ICANN logo on any parts of it's site.

During these past few months RegisterFly has been in the news quite frequently. Previously here on Hostjury for several instances regarding mismanagement of their funding and not having their clients' best interests in mind.

Effectively immediately between now and 31 March RegisterFly is required to unlock and provide all necessary Authinfo codes to allow domain name transfers to occur. Any and all registrants wishing to transfer away from RegisterFly during this period should be allowed to do so efficiently and promptly.

Early today the President and CEO of ICANN said "Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers.. ICANN has been frustrated and distressed by recent management confusion inside RegisterFly.".

"I completely understand the greater frustration and enormous difficulty that this has created for registrants." he said.
ICANN intends to hold a forum to discuss the reform of the Accreditation policy and process at its' Lisbon meeting in a week's time.

You're now all free to transfer away from Registerfly!

SECAUCUS, N.J. (3/15/2007) – InterServer, Inc. (http://www.interserver.net), a New Jersey based web solutions provider, announced today it has completed its new 6,000 sq. ft. Secaucus, N.J. datacenter after nearly a year of planning, construction and development of the facility.

The new datacenter, housed in a separate portion of the same building as the company’s primary datacenter, will provide vital capacity for additional servers and networking equipment, in addition to 2,000 sq. ft. of additional office space. InterServer had initially investigated an array of other locations to house the new facility but ultimately felt expansion within the same building would maximize efficiency for the network operations team.

Both facilities are powered independently by diesel generators and each benefit from access to an extensive network backbone throughout New York City, Northern New Jersey and London with public peering at NYIIX, PAIX NYC and LINX. The new facility is powered by dual Cisco 6509 SUP720 routers and features a biometric-entry security system and raised flooring to maximize airflow.

“Our new datacenter facility provides us with an important opportunity to expand and further develop our web services, as well as provide more capacity for growth for our customers. In the past several years, we have been limited by a lack of physical space in our facilities, and that has created unique challenges for our team,” said InterServer Chief Technical Officer John Quaglieri. “I am looking forward to begin provisioning this new state of the art facility, and am confident our customers will appreciate the redundancy and scalability we have incorporated into the design of this datacenter.”

Existing customers with servers housed in the company’s other two datacenters will be unaffected and not required to move to the new facility. New orders, however, will be fulfilled in the newly constructed datacenter.

For more information about InterSever, please visit http://www.interserver.net.

About InterServer, Inc.
InterServer, Inc. is a privately held web solutions provider operating since April 1999. Located in Secaucus, N.J., the company’s datacenter is less than 12 miles from New York City and Newark, New Jersey, and contains more than 1200 servers. InterServer’s network is powered by Juniper M40 and M5 series routers connected to the Internet by three diverse fiber paths to New York City and Washington DC.

CHICAGO, IL. (March 12, 2007)—SupportPRO (http://www.SupportPRO.com), a provider of outsourced, transparent customer support solutions, today introduced SupportPRO SupportDesk 3.0, an open source helpdesk application providing customer inquiry management for Web hosting and other online businesses.

The software allows customer support professionals in a range of online service industries to manage large volumes of support tickets in a short period of time, due to its intuitive and fast-loading interface.

“SupportPRO SupportDesk was developed with the insight we have gained by providing outsourced transparent technical support to Web hosting and Internet Service Providers for the past four years,” said Aji Abraham, SupportPRO CEO. “Ultimately, we know what works and what does not, and this software is quite reflective of that.”

SupportPRO SupportDesk 3.0 features an AJAX-powered interface, improved security tools, Message Rules, POP3 support and bolstered Spam Filters. It also includes an Application Programming Interface (API) to interface with existing support and customer management systems, and a Mass User Import tool so organizations can migrate from other solutions.

New users may try the software, unrestricted, for two months free of charge. Paid licenses are available at the one-time cost of $99.95, and existing SupportPRO SupportDesk 2.0 users will be able to upgrade free of charge.

To learn more about SupportPRO SupportDesk 3.0, please visit http://www.SupportPRO.net.

To learn more about SupportPRO, please visit http://www.SupportPRO.com.

About SupportPRO SupportDesk
SupportPRO SupportDesk is an integrated helpdesk system for managing customer inquiries in a Web hosting or online service business environment. The software features an array of tools clustered around the ticket management system, including a knowledgebase, reminder system, and integrated emailing.

About SupportPRO Services
In business since 2003, SupportPRO is a leading provider of outsourced, transparent customer support services for Web hosting and Internet Service Providers. The company responds to support inquiries 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on behalf of its clients, and employs RHCE & MCSE Certified Engineers.

BOCA RATON, Fla., March 12, 2007—Applied Innovations (http://www.appliedi.net), a Microsoft Gold Certified web hosting provider specializing in Windows-based Hosting solutions, today introduced Windows Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting powered by SWsoft Virtuozzo virtualization software and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

The new Windows VPS hosting plans start at $39.95/monthly and include up to 20 GB of storage space, 1GB of dedicated memory and 1000GB of monthly transfer. As a special promotion, plans will include—at no additional charge—a SmarterTools Bundle featuring SmarterMail 4.0, Smarterstats, and Smarterticket as well as a SWsoft Plesk Unlimited Domain license including Plesk Power Pack, a combined value of over $1100.

“Virtual Private Servers represent the next evolution of shared hosting and we find it very important to continually enhance our services to meet the ever increasing needs of our clients, especially growing businesses, developers and resellers,” said Jess Coburn, CEO, Applied Innovations.

“SWsoft Virtuozzo enables leading hosting providers such as Applied Innovations to create multiple virtual environments on a standalone server, making the most efficient use of hardware, software and other resources,” said Kurt Daniel, vice president of marketing and alliances, SWsoft. “With a complete set of management tools, real-time resource allocation and unmatched performance, Virtuozzo is the only virtualization solution appropriate for hosting.”

Applied Innovations’ VPS plans include the ability to host on a private label basis, so hosted accounts are not exposed to the Applied Innovations brand. Additionally, developers have full remote access to their Windows VPS, so they may tweak server configuration settings to better test and deploy their web applications.

The company designed its VPS hosting to do more than solely bridge the gap between shared and dedicated hosting. By leveraging Virtuozzo, customers hosted on Windows virtual private servers will be able to scale, if needed, from a VPS plan to a dynamic dedicated server with near-zero downtime and absolutely no configuration changes.

For more information about Applied Innovations Virtual Private Server hosting, please visit http://www.appliedi.net/vps-hosting.

About SWsoft Virtuozzo
SWsoft Virtuozzo (http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/virtuozzo) is the leading virtualization solution for hosting providers. Virtuozzo operating system virtualization software uses patented technology to create multiple, isolated virtual environments—or virtual private servers—on a single physical server and operating system, making the most efficient use of hardware, software and other resources.

About Applied Innovations
Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Applied Innovations (http://www.appliedi.net) is a Microsoft Gold Certified Web hosting provider specializing in Windows Web hosting. Since 1999, Applied Innovations has hosted thousands of domains for small to medium sized businesses internationally, offering world-class service and support at competitive and economical rates.

Judge signs Registerfly's Death Certificate

Former CEO of Registerfly, Kevin Medina has regained control of the domain name registration provider. Less than a week remains before ICANN intends on terminating their registrar status.

In a stunning move, a U.S. District Court Judge on March 8th handed over Registerfly to Kevin Medina, the previous CEO who was in control when the company began to waiver. The previous CEO, John Naruszewicz who had ousted Medina out of the company along with another partner was surprised by the decision. There are no plans to appeal the decision he says, "We lost and it's all over," he says. "The company will implode in days and 1 million domain names are going to be lost. It's a damned shame."

Just 48 hours earlier John had posted a longwinded apology on Registerfly.com. The apology included some slight assurance that the registrar would make it out of the turmoil and address any issues that were outstanding.

In a suit filed Feb. 12, Naruszewicz alleged that Medina had been stealing money from the company since the middle of last year to fund two Cadillac Escalades, a penthouse apartment in Miami's South Beach, an escort service, and liposuction. Medina denies the allegations and felt the Judge's decision was pleasing. "This decision puts me back in the driver's seat," he said. "I believe I have built a lot of customers that will weather the storm."

With just four days remaining to straighten out all of the outstanding issues before ICANN terminates their registrar accreditation the fate of the company is bleak.

As of February 6, 2007, eNom, Inc. terminated RegisterFly, Inc. as an eNom reseller. RegisterFly will continue to have reseller access for 30 days to resolve any outstanding issues. There are over 2 million domains registered through RegisterFly however no information on the exact amount effected by this notice.

Over the last year, eNom has become aware of an increasing number of complaints from dissatisfied RegisterFly customers. eNom recently sent out an offer to the RegisterFly clients offering them assistance in transferring their services directly to eNom at RegisterFly pricing.

eNom is one of the leading provider's of domain name registration on the internet with over 9 million domains under their control.

Earlier this week 1&1 Internet, Inc. (1&1) announced a new datacenter facility in Lenexa, Kansas. The new state-of-the-art facility will allow 1&1 to offer low latency connections for the North American contintent.

The center also has excellent fiber-optic connectivity to several ISPs, high redundant capacity and is capable of routing thousands of Terabytes per month without any data jams.

The 1&1 datacenter’s connectivity and security capacities make it possible for the company to unveil it's new dedicated and VPS line and grow past its current 38,000 global servers. “Since 1&1 sold out servers in October 2006, this new line of servers is a welcome and much requested addition,” said Andreas Gauger,  Chairman, 1&1 Internet.

1&1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with 6,000 employees and a market cap of $4 billion. 1&1 was established in 1992 and hosts more than 7 million domain names, while more than 38,000 servers run on the company’s five state-of-the-art data centers.

Earlier this week SoftLayer Technologies announced the addition of a new datacenter designed to create maximum automation, efficiency and control in all facets of the outsourced environment. With over 500 watts per square foot and several hundred tons of cooling capacity, the new facility is created for mass deployment of infrastructure with a power rating of 12kW per rack. "Traditionally, legacy facilities average 80 to 100 watts per foot and are designed for 2kW per rack," said Lance Crosby, President and CEO of SoftLayer. "Our new facility was engineered for mass scale hosting that includes a very dense server installation."

According to Mr. Crosby, extensive design and engineering expertise went into the planning and build out of the new datacenter. "This system has been thought out, tested and retested by some of the greatest minds in the business," he said. "We want to consistently provide our customers with the best in quality and service."

Phase One of the new datacenter went online with 5,000 square feet of usable datacenter space able to house over 12,000 servers. The datacenter has a long-term capacity of over 50,000 servers in a footprint of 20,000 square feet.

Sam Fleitman, COO of SoftLayer believes that creating new generation datacenters is a necessity. "The rising challenges of the new Web 2.0 movement, virtualization, and grid technologies include keeping up with network and infrastructure requirements," he said. "Servers are smaller, faster, and hotter; SoftLayer is responding by focusing on lower voltage processors, high efficiency power supplies, and increased circulation and cooling to maximize the density of datacenter resources."

Mr. Crosby concluded, "Our goal is to stop server sprawl, wasted space and power and bring the datacenter back inline with the present and future needs of our customers. We don't waste time, money or resources and therefore, our customers don't either."

In what is widely being touted as a massive over-reaction, GoDaddy suspended one of their client's domains earlier this week - Fyodor Vaskovich awoke on Wednesday with his domain suspended entirely without warning. Fyodor, creator of the popular NMAP security scanner was surprised to find his site completely down as a result of the suspension.

The domain in question - seclists.org - is a popular mailing list archive site that hosts over 250,000 pages of content. GoDaddy received demands from MySpace to remove the content due to several of the pages containing user account details for MySpace. GoDaddy promptly complied - and removed access to the domain.

Fyodor posted a lengthy statement regarding the situation on the site after it returned to service:

"I called GoDaddy several times, and all three support people I spoke with said that the abuse department doesn't take calls. They said I had email abuse@godaddy.com (which I had already done 3 times) and that I could then expect a response "within 1 or two business days". Given that tens of thousands of people use SecLists.Org every day, I didn't take that well."

GoDaddy which claims to have more than 17.3 million domains under it's management, states that it holds it's self-proclaimed #1 spot by "delivering the highest quality customer service, and by always appreciating and listening to its customers!" ... (!).

1&1 recently endured a week long mail server issue as a result of an "important update" to their mail server software.

1&1 states that no e-mail has been lost however there will be continued delays in service. A representative from the company stated there are millions of queued messages awaiting their systems to process.

The maintenance was entirely planned according to Press Chief Richard Stevenson, although there doesn't appear to have been any announcements regarding it made on their site. A large number of the 1&1 clientbase appears to have been affected by the issue. Both their SMTP and POP3 services were also down throughout the situation.

1&1 offers a complete range of web services from shared hosting to dedicated. Their guarantee is the highest product quality, top security and "unshakeable reliability".