(The Hosting News) – Lenexa, Kansas is set to get a new data center from colocation provider CoSentry.

On Thursday, the company announced that it would be investing $31.6 million towards the construction of a data center on property in the area encompassing more than 57 thousand square feet.

Among its services, CoSentry provides for cloud, disaster recovery and more.

“CoSentry performed an ... Read More

January 27, 2012 -- In the lead-up to next weekend’s Super Bowl, hosting giant Go Daddy revealed an early look at the ad it plans to run during the big game, continuing an eight-year tradition that has helped to push the company to a leading position in the web hosting market. ... Read More

(The Hosting News) – Zyrion Inc., a leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions for Managed Service Providers, today announced that CEO Vikas Aggarwal has been selected as a panelist during IT Expo to be held in Miami, Florida on Feb 1, 2012.

Aggarwal will be a panelist along with other industry experts including NetScout CMO Steven Shalita and Jim ... Read More

(The Hosting News) – Customers of myhosting.com are now invited to participate in the new myhosting.com Hosting Affiliate Rewards program. The in-house referrals system is designed to make it easy for myhosting.com customers to benefit financially from referring friends, family, business colleagues and other users to myhosting.com web hosting, business email and VPS services.

The myhosting.com Affiliate Rewards program has been designed ... Read More

(The Hosting News) – Top website domain name TechStartups.com has been listed for sale.

Technology and Startups go hand in hand. Over the past few years alone, the fascination with the latest tech startups, mobile devices, gaming systems and entertainment systems has increased exponentially. As new technologies emerge that seek to bridge the real world with the digital, the quest to ... Read More

(The Hosting News) – Vazata, a leading provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), announced today that FC Dallas has chosen Vazata for a hybrid cloud solution that includes a custom-built private cloud deployment fully integrated with Vazata’s multi-tenant IaaS platform for disaster recovery capability.

FC Dallas, a professional American soccer club competing in Major League Soccer, has been a Vazata customer for several ... Read More

January 27, 2012 -- Web hosting provider Myhosting.com announced on Friday that it has introduced a new affiliate rewards program, offering customers the opportunity to earn money by referring friends, family or colleagues. ... Read More

In creating this issue of WHIR magazine, we set out to address what, in some ways, is just a fundamental function for your hosting business - that is, spotting the opportunities available to you, right now, in the small and medium-sized market for hosted services. ... Read More

We started putting together our Hottest Hosts web hosting services directory - now a sure-thing annual project here at the WHIR - back in 2008. Each year I've mentioned the fact that for us, this project isn't about repetition, but ongoing evolution and refinement of the idea. ... Read More

If you have been to a hosting-related tradeshow in the last three years, or picked up an IT-related publication (including this one) at any point during that time, you have probably already heard the predictions about how the cloud model is going to change the hosting business. For the great bulk of vendors, analysts and commenters of other kinds, the ... Read More