It looks like after the people involved with the Pirate Bay web site were convicted of copyright infringement earlier this year, the IFPI is starting to threaten other torrent sharing sites by threatening their web hosts.
To give you a little more information about the key players here, the Pirate Bay, a torrent sharing web [...]

In an effort to save the content that was on Geocities, a group calling themselves the Archive Team is working hard to save the Web that way it once was.  Time to pack away the animated gifs, blinking text, and web rings into their own individual boxes, so that someday we can look back [...]

Are you going to be a part of the Web Host Boot Camp?  This conference for those people out there interested in or apart of the web hosting industry looks to be a lot of fun, and very informative.  Where’s the twist?  No conference hall or long trip will be needed.  The boot camp [...]

I just noticed that the WHIR has a totally redesigned web site.

Overall, I like the new look and feel of the layout.  It surely beats the old design, that looks like it was pulled right out of 1995.  However there are a few things that nag me.  Here are both the good and the bad [...]

Even web hosts sometimes have a hard time making the rent it seems…
The problem started, when the web host IAS.net was evicted, leaving a number of businesses and non-profit organizations without hosting.  What a Christmas present, your web hosting goes out right for the holidays.  It turns out the web host had problems with late [...]

Ah I remember 2005, like it was… a few years ago.  GoDaddy grabbed headlines by doing their first Super Bowl ad with the controversial Candice Michelle.  They made fun of the wardrobe malfunction in the previous year’s Super Bowl and had a hard time getting the final version of the commercial onto the air.
Now [...]

The holiday season might have just started, but for some web hosts out there – they must really be in the Christmas spirit.  Either that, or they have started to over indulge a little early in the eggnog.  Web hosts passing out bargains like candy can only mean one thing, more web hosting deals [...]

Find yourself in the need of a portable data center?  Now I am not talking about a mobile home with a few racks inside of it.  HP’s latest release is a new Performance Optimized Data Center, or otherwise referred to as POD.   Think of it as a shipping container filled with everything you would [...]

Time to wrap up the past week in hosting in three headlines or less.  Can I do it?
Domain People want to Make You into a .Pro
DomainPeople, well not all domain people – just the company with the name is accepting reservations for .pro domain names from new registrants through August 31.  For more info on [...]

I have a quote here that will scare the pants off of you.
60 percent of the top 100 most popular Web sites either hosted malicious content or contained a masked redirect to lure unsuspecting victims from legitimate sites to malicious sites.
That comes from Websense’s latest “State of the Internet Security” report.  They say that their [...]