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WHIR Networking Event - Toronto, January 29
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
By WHIR Happenings
We want to make sure everyone out there knows about the first of our upcoming series of WHIR networking events, particularly those of you in Toronto.
Web Hosting Deals to Start the New Year
Monday, January 05, 2009
By Derek Vaughan
Many business people are glad to put 2008 in the rear view mirror and begin afresh in 2009. January is also traditionally a strong buying season for those customers who are selecting a new web hosting account. This also translates into a great sellin
WHIR TV - Chic New Look, Same Valuable Content
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
By Anastasia Tubanos
As tempting as it is to gush on-and-on about my immense excitement over the snazzier, more sophisticated theWHIR.com, Liam has done a fine job of describing the new features and functions behind our revamped look. (read more)
Welcome to the new WHIR Website
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
By Liam Eagle
I would imagine by this point even the least observant among you have noticed a few changes around here. (read more)
Survey: SMBs Look to Hosting Providers for Support
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
By William Toll
After listening to a few hours of sales and support calls for NaviSite Dedicated Server prospects and customers it became clear to me that SMB’s are looking for technical support as much as they were looking for hardware, software and networking equipment! Information technolo... (read more)
Top 10 Hosting Memories of 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
By Kayla Fleming
Join me on a trip down memory lane as we welcome in 2009 and all of the new technology and ideas it will bring. (read more)
WHIR Holiday Publishing Schedule
Monday, December 29, 2008
By Liam Eagle
I’m about a week past what would have been the ideal time for posting this, but I thought I’d give you an idea of what to expect from us over what’s left of the holidays. (read more)
Maybe a few things to consider
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
By Jason Brown
Ah, the holidays..... I receive more email this time of year than any other I think. Loads from friends and family that are going to be visiting "home" around the holiday, wanting to connect, see how things are. I'm always reminded of Seth Godin's "Email checklist" and I thought I'... (read more)
Register.com Pot Shot at Go Daddy Misses the Mark
Thursday, December 18, 2008
By Liam Eagle
One of our WHIR writers, David Hamilton, got an email from Register.com today. It was an actual press release, submitted by an actual PR agency, with the headline "Register.com Asks 'Haven't we had enough meaningless flash?'" (read more)
A Follow-Up Post on That Microsoft IE Patch (It is Available)
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
By Liam Eagle
Yesterday we ran a story on the advance notice Microsoft had put out about its plans to launch a patch for the serious IE flaw that was identified in the last week. (read more)
LayeredTech TV; Marketing Web Hosting with Social Media
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
By Liam Eagle
So social media actually succeeded in informing me about something to do with web hosting this weekend. If it wasn't quite a first, it was at least notable. Maybe it's my lack of direct involvement with Twitter, but I just don't tend to discover things this way.... (read more)
Copywriting for Direct Mail - Part 3: Five Motivators
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
By Hartland Ross
Two posts back I shouted: SELL THE OFFER. (read more)
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Latest News
Twitter Hack Hits Obama, Others
January 6, 2009
Social networking site Twitter warned users Monday that phishers are directing users to fake Twitter login pages in an effort to dupe them into handing over their user names and password credentials.
USA.NET Leads Business Email Market Share
January 6, 2009
Delivering 38 million messages per day and managing 80 terabytes of data and more than a million business mailboxes in 120 countries, USA.NET has been named a "Top Player" in an analyst firm's report on the business email market, finishing the year closely ahead of sector giant Google.
NetBenefit Moves into Lumison Facility
January 6, 2009
UK based ISP Lumison announced on Monday that UK managed hosting provider NetBenefit has chosen Lumison as its new data center partner.
RegisterNuke Adds TippingPoint Security
January 6, 2009
Hosting software and service developer RegisterNuke.com has added TippingPoint's intrusion prevention systems as another layer of security to its dedicated and virtual dedicated hosting clients at no extra cost.
DemoDemo Launches Monthly Subscriptions
January 6, 2009
In a major change to its fee structure, flash-based web hosting tutorial provider DemoDemo.com has announced its tutorials are now available for a monthly subscription.
Northern Ireland Gets New Submarine Cable
January 6, 2009
Submarine transport cable provider Hibernia Atlantic announced on Tuesday it will build a new cable network for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland and the Department Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for the Republic of Ireland.
Feature Interviews
Noise Filter: Hackers Forge SSL Cert
January 5, 2009
Last week we reported that security researchers had published a report outlining the process they had used to create a forged SSL certificate by cracking the MD5 algorithm using the processing power from 200 PS3 game systems.
Q&A: Steve Eschweiler, Hivelocity
December 10, 2008
In an email interview with the WHIR, Hivelocity general manager Steve Eschweiler discusses his company's recent ad campaigns that have been creating a stir, featuring a spoof of male enhancement ads and Wilson from the Tom Hanks movie "Cast Away."
Q&A: Mike Smith, Report-Gisol.com
December 9, 2008
In an email interview with the WHIR, Mike Smith, the founder of Report-Gisol.com, discusses his motivations for setting up a consumer complaint forum against web hosting provider Global Internet Solutions and why he's even gotten the authorities involved in the issue.
Q&A: Jim Lewandowski, Rackspace
November 26, 2008
In an email interview with the WHIR, Rackspace's newly appointed senior VP of worldwide sales, Jim Lewandowski, discusses his new role and his strategies for expanding the company's worldwide revenue growth.
November 24, 2008
Web hosting provider Brinkster recently began offering the beta release of its new File Manager, which was developed using Adobe's open source Flex Framework.
New Features in Parallels Plesk 9
November 24, 2008
Last week, Parallels released version 9 of its Parallels Plesk Panel control panel software to partners, the first major upgrade of the most popular web hosting control panel since the release of Plesk 8 in September of 2006.
