Web Hosting News – VANCOUVER, Wash. – Dotster, Inc., a leading provider of Internet business services, today announced the top 20 finalists of its Next BIG Small Business contest. The finalists span a variety of industries including retailers, service providers, media companies, manufacturers, non-profits, and professional networking and marketplace sites that represent some of Dotster’s most innovative small business customers. Winners of the Next BIG Small Business Contest will be announced on August 12th based on video entries submitted over the next two weeks.

“This contest represents a great way to share the drive and innovation of our small business customers,” said Clint Page, CEO of Dotster. “Aided by their online presence, many of our customers are experiencing exceptional growth, and we’re extremely happy to recognize their achievements.”

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Web Hosting News – EDEN PRAIRIE, MN – VISI, Minnesota’s largest data center services and managed hosting provider, is pleased to announce the launch of TOTALVPS, a feature-rich virtual private server (VPS) service.

VISI now provides a feature-rich VPS at a cost that businesses and organizations of any size can afford. TOTALVPS provides a secure virtual environment for a company’s critical business data and essential web applications which benefit from increased uptime and reliability.

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Web Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO – In a major advancement of its open cloud strategy, Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting, today announced it has open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files™ APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Developers are now free to copy, implement, and modify the specifications, helping to enable a truly open cloud.

The Rackspace Cloud™ worked directly with developers in an open community to create the specifications and has now released them through Creative Commons. Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain through its free copyright licenses.

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Web Hosting News – Hemel Hempstead - The EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres aims to stimulate data centre operators and owners to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner without harming the mission-critical function of the data centre. 3Com today announced that it is becoming an Endorser of the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre, which commits 3Com to supporting the code and other participants through the development of products, information, services and education.

Electricity consumption in data centres, including enterprise servers, ICT equipment, cooling equipment and power equipment, is expected to contribute significantly to the electricity consumption of the EU commercial sector in the near future. Western European electricity consumption is expected to grow from 56 terawatt hours per year (TWh/yr) in 2007 to 104 TWh/yr by 2020.

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Web Hosting News – Foster City, CA – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced the purchase and acquisition of a 130,000 square foot (12,000 square meter) data center in Frankfurt, Germany, and the build out of the third phase of the company’s New York-4 (NY4) International Business Exchange (IBX®) data center in Secaucus, N.J. The announcements come as Equinix continues its measured global expansion plan where the company is currently expanding in 10 of the 18 markets in which it currently operates.

The site selected for the Frankfurt expansion (FR4) is located in the southwestern region of the city and will be purchased by Equinix at a cost of approximately $30 million (€21 million). An existing data center formerly operated by Exodus Communications, the FR4 IBX center will have a total capacity of approximately 3,300 cabinet equivalents at full build out and 107,000 square feet (10,000 square meters) of net data center and business continuity space. The center will be built out by Equinix in multiple phases, with the first phase expected to open in November 2009, adding approximately 1,700 cabinet equivalents. Equinix will invest up to $10 million (€7 million) in capital expenditures in the first phase to upgrade the facility to Equinix’s specifications.

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Web Hosting News – RESTON, VA - .ORG, The Public Interest Registry announces today the achievement of key milestones with Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC). PIR is dedicated to transparency in its implementation and sharing lessons learned with the Internet infrastructure community, with the goal of widespread adoption of DNSSEC. DNSSEC is a very important starting point that will allow companies to evaluate how to secure the many applications that are intertwined with DNS.

“DNSSEC is a critical part of our mission to lead the upgrade of Internet infrastructure and ensure online safety for current and future generations of users,” says Alexa Raad, CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry. “We are committed to lead the way and demonstrate the feasibility of this important security measure for the rest of the industry.”

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Web Hosting News – BURLINGTON, Mass. - FatCow, a leading provider of Web hosting, domain registration and related marketing services, announced today that its offices and data centers are now 100 percent powered by wind energy. “We’re offsetting all of our electricity use by purchasing wind-generated Renewable Energy Certificates,” explains Paul Bukhovko, FatCow’s Marketing Manager, “providing our customers with an environmentally preferable Web hosting solution.” The Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) are being supplied by wind energy marketer and developer Community Energy Inc. (CEI).

On behalf of all of its offices and data centers, FatCow is buying 4,412,000 kilowatt hours (kWhs) per year of wind-generated RECs. This volume is comparable to the entire output of one 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbine over the course of one year. When compared to the average generation mix in the national electric grid, the estimated environmental benefit from this purchase is equal to offsetting approximately 2,260 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, the impact of which is equivalent to planting about 2,390 acres of trees each year or not driving 6.1 million miles.

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Web Hosting News – Toronto, ON – Toronto based web hosting provider, Cirrus Tech, has updated both their Linux and Windows Shared Hosting Plans with Parallels Plesk 9.2. Plesk 9.2 is the latest version of the industry leading web hosting control panel from Parallels.

Parallels Plesk 9.2 offers an enhanced user interface that was designed to help users get things done more efficiently. The visual cues present in Parallels Plesk 9.2 combines the best elements of past Plesk products with a clean Vista inspired visual theme. Whether customers are new to working with a web hosting control panel, or are experienced users, they will find using Plesk 9.2 a breeze.

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Web Hosting News – Bayan Baru, Penang - Exabytes, a web hosting provider, today announced the launch of its shared hosting promotion. The company states that the promotion is held in conjunction with MSC Malaysia ICT Sales campaign. Thus, it has decided to continue rewarding its customers with more opportunities to save.

It further states that an instant discount of 25% will be given on all its shared hosting plans namely, EBiz Plus, EBiz Plus Unlimited Hosting, EBiz Gold, EBiz Gold Unlimited Hosting. Clients only need to enter a coupon code when making their orders. The promotion is also reported to kick off from July 20th to August 20th. It adds that one of its prominent hosting plans is Unlimited Hosting Plan which went live in mid-June 09.

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Web Hosting News – Dublin, Ireland – Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services and registry for the .INFO domain, today announced that is has added a new service aggregating .INFO Authorized Registrar special offers and sales on .INFO domain names.

The new “Deals” page allows Internet users interested in purchasing .INFO domain names to keep track of the latest registrar deals, sorting special offers either by date or registrar name.

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