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Rackspace Seeks $400 Million In IPO

The public offering from the hosting company comes amid the unsettled US economy, but Rackspace believes a Google-like auction will pull in nine figures.

Network Solutions Shutters Controversial Film Site

A film made by Dutch politician Geert Wilders about the Koran had its website suspended over potential violations of Network Solutions policies.

DreamHost Begs For Forgiveness

The hosting company overbilled virtually all of its customers due to the self-described "fat-fingers" of Josh Jones.

SkyDrive Hosts Unwelcome Spamming Activity

Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive service has become a hotbed of spam enabling, as criminals seek buyers for their pharmaceuticals.

Cute Animals, Not-Cute Criminals Wreck Connections

Last week was a weird one for Internet and power outages, with causes ranging from the ever-popular out of control truck, to random gunfire.

Rackspace Wrecked By Wayward Truck Driver

Plenty of popular websites suffered a couple of hours of unanticipated downtime when a truck hit a transformer and took down Rackspace's Dallas datacenter.

Sponsored Content Hosting and Renting Subdomains

Ads becoming content is not only true from a thin affiliate site perspective, but also on larger more traditional ad buys. Selling content hosting is going mainstream.

Metacafe Hosting Digg Channel

Video sharing site Metacafe has launched a new dedicated Digg Channel.

F-Secure Tweaks Google Over Hosting Ads

Bulletproof hosting usually refers to ISPs that give spammers a safe haven where other ISPs would likely shut down their activities.

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Hosting Extremist Sites

An assortment of Islamist/Jihadi websites have Western ISPs hosting them, with some of them hosted by the services of major Internet players.