British owned web design company Ampheon has scooped a coveted international Interactive Media Award for their work on a clients web site, www.rentright.co.uk. The international award is judged by leaders in web design, advertising, public relations, publishing, news and other industries from companies such as American Express, Cadburys, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, OgilvyOne, Time Warner and Verizon. Judging covers web site design, content, functionality, usability and standards ... Read the full story

HostDime announced today it will debut its next-generation HDGEO 100%-Uptime Geocentric Routed Hosting Solution at the upcoming HostingCon 2010, to be held July 19-21 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. The company will also showcase its six international branches and is hosting an exclusive after-party on the show’s second night. HDGEO is able to deliver 100 percent true uptime and geographically optimized routing of its clients’ traffic by using geocentric routing to ... Read the full story

HostV, a leader in managed Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated servers, announced today it has dropped bandwidth limits on its entire line of hosting services, including Virtual Private Servers, Hybrid Servers, and Dedicated Servers, which already feature premium bandwidth and a wide-variety of value-added features. The move reinforces HostV’s position as a market leader. It is one of the first quality-class Web hosting providers to drop bandwidth limits, which allows the company to ... Read the full story

Dedicated web hosting has never been easier or more affordable thanks to NetHosting’s selection of hosting packages, designed to meet the needs of any organization’s web presence. As detailed on the company’s website at http://www.nethosting.com/products/DedicatedHosting/, four levels of configurable dedicated hosting packages are available. The option menu provides the client with complete flexibility in selecting the right server capacity, as well as the package ... Read the full story

Cloud enablement leader, Parallels, today announced that global hosting company, Softlayer has launched Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal to diversify its products and attract new customers. Softlayer recognizes that offering new products increases customer retention and sales of its servers without significant financial or time commitments. “We always aim to offer our customers the latest technologies to compliment their businesses,” said George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer at ... Read the full story

Cytanium, a web hosting service built on OrcsWeb’s Cloud Server architecture, launched this week in conjunction with the release of Microsoft’s WebMatrix. Cytanium is pleased to have been chosen as one of Microsoft’s recommended web hosting providers for the WebMatrix beta product. All Cytanium customers will have access to free hosting to use the beta version of WebMatrix. Microsoft has just introduced this beta version of WebMatrix, an easy and free way to get started building ... Read the full story

Amplidata have been named the “Best Cloud Storage Solution” at the Cloud Computing World Series Awards 2010 Amplidata, an innovator in next-generation distributed storage technology for public and private clouds, announced today that the Cloud Computing World Forum has awarded them the 2010 award for Best Cloud Storage Solution. The prestigious Cloud Computing World Series Award was presented to Amplidata at the Cloud Computing World Forum 2010 award event held at the Olympia ... Read the full story

CEO and Founder Bob Parsons put it best when he announced his decision on where to expand in eastern Iowa, “Go Daddy is officially rocking and rolling in Hiawatha, Iowa!” With its human resources staff on hand ready to accept applications, the world’s largest Web hosting and domain name registrar formally christened its new Iowa facility with employees, local dignitaries and reporters. Today, Go Daddy President and COO Warren Adelman and Iowa Lt. Governor Patty Judge ... Read the full story

Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider, announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Partner Awards in the Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year award category. Steve Holford, Marketing Director of Fasthosts Internet Ltd. said: “We are delighted to be recognised in this significant award. Microsoft products have always been a popular choice with our customers. However, in recent years we have gone further to investigate and develop new ways to ... Read the full story

Moniker® and SnapNames®, both Oversee.net® companies, will hold a live premium domain name auction on Wednesday, August 18, 2010, from 4-7 p.m. US Eastern time during the DOMAINfest® One-Day Power Networking Event at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, N.Y. Premium Names Available for Bidding The Moniker live auction includes a broad selection of premium domains as well as names across all price points. Following the Moniker auction, SnapNames will host an online auction that will run ... Read the full story

ISC, Information Support Concepts, Inc. announces the Geist RSM Series rackmount powerstrip power distribution unit with Power and Environmental Monitoring. The RMS series combines complete monitoring with standard environmental monitoring to create a multi-functional power monitoring strip. This combination of power and environmental data allows for effective benchmarking of two critical variables in the data center today, power and cooling. The RSM series is available in both rackmount ... Read the full story

AppAssure Software, Inc., a provider of innovative Windows Server backup and disaster recovery software, today announced that the Hamilton Port Authority (HPA) – one of the busiest of all the ports of Canada’s great lakes – relies on AppAssure’s Replay 4 backup and disaster recovery software to manage the logistics of shipping roughly 12 million metric tons of cargo over 700 vessels each year. IT Administrators, Ross Englefield and Peter Hammerl are using AppAssure’s Replay 4 ... Read the full story

C4L, one of the UK’s leading colocation providers has been listed as a finalists for the Best Business Customer Service Award at the Internet Service Provider Association Awards (ISPAs). The battle for the finalists place was highly competitive again this year with a large number of entries in all categories. ISPA Secretary General, Nichola Lansman said, ‘Each year the ISPA Awards rewards the UK’s top Internet Companies after a process that involves thorough technical ... Read the full story

UseNetServer.com, a top-tier, best value Usenet provider, announced today that it is now accepting payments through PayPal? for its Usenet newsgroup access service. UseNetServer is proud and excited to offer PayPal? to its Usenet subscribers internationally as part of its continued dedication to provide its users with fast, safe and secure Usenet newsgroup access. The service offerings at UseNetServer today include 600 days binary retention, over 2 years of text retention, Unlimited ... Read the full story

Webroot, a leading Internet security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced it has acquired BrightCloud, a Web content classification and security services provider. Webroot will integrate BrightCloud’s technology with its own proprietary malware detection and security-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies to protect consumers and businesses worldwide. “Webroot is growing our business through investments in research and development, acquisitions, ... Read the full story