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To most people, especially those who don’t work primarily on the Web, GoDaddy is best known for its racy commercials, in particular those screened for the Super Bowl. GoDaddy has often stirred controversy with its commercials, but this year the build up was even greater than usual because the company has been promoting the announcement [...]

If you live in Canada, bandwidth for your home connection is about to get a lot more expensive. Recent changes from the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) means that Usage Based Billing (UBB) is coming to Canada. This means that Canadians, previously accustomed to unlimited or nearly-unlimited bandwidth caps on their Internet connections, may be facing [...]

Earlier this week, Amazon announced the launch of its new Simple Email Service (SES), which is part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division that includes components such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and its popular file hosting/CDN services Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. However, Amazon SES is not an email service like Exchange or [...]

No matter what kind of site setup you have, it has at least one thing in common with every other site on the Internet: it relies on ISPs and network providers all over the globe to deliver visitors. The magic of someone visiting your site doesn’t just involve your server, datacenter or network, it’s a [...]

We’ve talked a lot on this site about the power of a using a content delivery network (CDN), such as CloudFlare (free and easy to install), and using W3 Total Cache to integrate the CDN with a WordPress site. . But what if using a CDN wasn’t merely an optional improvement for your site, but [...]

Gawker Media operates a series of popular blogs including Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku and Jalopnik. They recently suffered a security breach that (potentially) has exposed the passwords of all of the commenter accounts on their sites – all 1.25 million of them. Hackers gained root level access to Gawker’s servers and were able to obtain a [...]

‘Exciting’ isn’t a word you often hear when describing the hosting industry. Don’t get me wrong; working for a hosting company can be an exciting job, with security issues, angry customers, attacks, downtimes and other daily disasters, working at a hosting company can feel like being in a warzone. It’s fair to say though, when [...]

One of the things that the University of Advancing Technology’s Techforum has done is give representatives of the hosting industry a chance to talk about what big things they are working on and where they see the industry going in the next five to ten years. With so many differing areas of expertise in attendance, [...]

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and one of the creators of the blogging platform WordPress, announced recently that his company had become a fully accredited registrar (#1531). This means that it can now register domains on its own without a middle man, such as GoDaddy-owned Wild West Domains, their previous partner in such matters. [...]