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Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:52:00 Eastern Daylight Time

The Register is reporting that Peter Gabriel's web server was stolen. The pop icons website first went offline late Sunday night, May 4, 2008 when a thief left his web hosting company with a number of servers. As of right now PeterGabriel.com is hosting a slim down site with the message that they are working to restore the website to normal as soon as possible. The website was apparently being hosted by a UK company called Rednet Ltd.

The Planets May Promotions

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:54:00 Eastern Daylight Time

The latest news over at the dedicated server hosting company, The Planet, is about their 5 new promotions.

Firewall Upgrades - Save up to 26% on selected Firewalls.
Backup Servers - Save between 13 and 29% on selected dedicated backup servers.
Resource Upgrades - Save 50% on additional disk space, backup and bandwidth.
Dual Xeon 2.4 SCSI - Now prices at $143 per month. A savings of $76.
Double Down Select - Choose to double your base bandwidth, hard disk or RAM for free on new orders of the Kentsfield SATA or the Dual Xeon 2.8 IDE.

The above promotions are only available till May 31, 2008

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Comcast may Cap Transfer Rates of Subscribers

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:28:00 Eastern Daylight Time

Communication and Internet provider, Comcast is considering placing transfer limits on their Internet subscribers. This would help ease the burden on their network. Comcast has roughly 14.1 million subscribers with a small percentage (less than .001%) using a large percentage of the network bandwidth by using file downloading, Peer to Peer programs (P2P). The initial plan, according to DSL Reports is:

... all users get a 250GB per month cap. Users would get one free "slip up" in a twelve month period, after which users would pay a $15 charge for each 10 GB over the cap they travel.

Initial testing is planned in a month or two.

Here is some Motivation for your Web Business

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:59:00 Eastern Daylight Time

From time to time everyone needs some motivation or maybe an extra push towards excellence. Success Magazine just released their choices for the 50 Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time. The list is divided up into categories including Finance, Industry and Retail. The categories I was most interested in is Technology (which included the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates) and the Internet. The Greatest Internet Entrepreneurs includes Jeff Bezos (the founder of Amazon) and, Larry Page and Sergey Brin the founders of Google. The Google founders happen to be the same age as me (born in 1973), looks like I have a lot of catching up to do ;-) Each category includes 4 or 5 people with a short paragraph for each with a synopsis of their accomplishments. It's a great read. Tag: motivation

HostPapa Upgrades their Hosting Plan to Unlimited

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:46:00 Eastern Daylight Time

After further review HostPapa has updated their shared web hosting plan to have unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space. This is up from their recent change (from last week) of 17,000 GB bandwidth and 1,700 GB disk space. There is no increase in price for this upgrade and it effects all existing and new customers. Just remember as with other shared and unlimited hosting plans from other web providers, this does not include using excess server processing power. Check out our review for more information on Host Papa. Tag: host papa upgrades hosting plans

PowWeb 50% Off Hosting Sale

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:33:00 Eastern Daylight Time

Last week PowWeb slashed their price on the One plan to only $3.88 per month. This is a 50% savings that is only on for a limited time. As with all reputable hosting providers PowWeb does offer a 30 day money back guarantee if you are not happy with the service. To find out more about Linux shared hosting provider, check out our PowWeb Hosting Review. Tag: powweb hosting plans sale

Host Papa Increases Disk Space and Bandwidth

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:57:00 Eastern Daylight Time

Starting this week Host Papa has increased their shared hosting plan disk space and bandwidth. Disk Space for members went from 1,500 GB to 1,700 GB and bandwidth per month went from 15,000 GB to 17,000 GB. This is over a 10% increase in website resources for new and existing members. For more information about Host Papa, check out our review and to find the latest coupon codes for Host Papa see our coupons page. Tag: host papa upgrades hosting plans

1&1 New Spring Deals

Sun, 04 May 2008 18:30:00 Eastern Daylight Time

1&1 Internet has posted some new sales on their website. Their new domain promotion is for .info domains. You can purchase one for only $0.99 for the first year. This includes domain privacy (most other domain registrars charge for this). Standard prices applies for the next year. 1&1 Internet web hosting sale for this spring is for their shared hosting plans, 1&1 Home and 1&1 Developer. You can now receive the first 3 months for free when you sign up as a new customer for one of these hosting plans. After the 3 months 1&1 Home then costs $4.99 per month and 1&1 Developer costs $19.99 per month. Check out our 1&1 Internet Review for more information on this domain registrar and web hosting provider (included the hosting plans mentioned in this story). Tag: 1and1 internet sale

Web Hosts can be Big Polluters

Sun, 04 May 2008 15:02:00 Eastern Daylight Time

According to The New York Times, data centers are huge polluters of today's environment. Currently data centers produce more carbon dioxide emissions than Argentina or the Netherlands and is just under the carbon emissions of Malaysia. The study by McKinsey & Company also projects power hungry data centers will surpass the airline industry as greenhouse gas emitters by 2020. The total carbon dioxide emissions of the worlds data centers as of 2008 is 0.3 percent. For comparison, the airline industry is at 0.6 percent and steel plants are at 1.0 percent. Web hosting providers are starting to realize their impact and some hosts are starting to do something about it. Host Papa is currently are only reviewed web host that buys green certificates from Certified Green Renewable Energy Sources. These certificates ensures 100 percent of the energy Host Papa uses gets put back into the power grid by green technologies such as solar power and wind turbines. For more information on this green host, please read our Host Papa. Tag: enviroment green host papa

Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Bid

Sun, 04 May 2008 14:10:00 Eastern Daylight Time

According to CBC News Microsoft withdrawed its bid to buy Yahoo. The reason given was the two sides couldn't agree on a sale price. Microsoft's latest offer was $33 per share, making the total $47.5 billion US. This is $2 more per share and roughly $3 billion more than Microsoft's original offer. Yahoo wanted $37 per share. Before Microsoft original offer Yahoo's stock price was just under $20 per share, Lately it has been in the $26 to $29 range in anticipation of the potential sale. UPDATE: Here is Yahoo's official response to Microsoft's withdrawal. Related story: Microsoft Bids $45 Billion on Yahoo! Tag: microsoft yahoo