Why You Would Offer a Server for $1 for One Month Alex Goldman
[April 28, 2008] We checked in with an innovative webhost to learn about the promotion and whether or not it succeeded.

A Data Center Migration Alex Goldman
[March 27, 2008] Here's the conundrum: you have to be prepared for the unexpected.

Tucows' Domain Portfolio Alex Goldman
[March 24, 2008] The company opens up its list of surnames for resale by webhosts and ISPs.

A Managed Hosting Contrarian Alex Goldman
[March 20, 2008] Let's start telling it like it is! (Unlikely.)

Windows Server 2008 for Webhosts Alex Goldman
[November 14, 2007] Microsoft says the latest iteration of Windows Server 2008 has been designed with feedback from webhosts, and has extensive channel support.

ISPCON Keynote: State of the Webhosting Industry Alex Goldman
[November 8, 2007] This was the business-focused keynote at ISPCON, filled with ideas to help you increase webhosting revenue and reduce waste.

WSTA Data Center Seminar: Data Center Virtualization Alex Goldman
[August 28, 2007] Yes, virtualization saves money. But a major webhost talks about the issues that the virtualization vendors don't like to discuss.

WSTA Data Center Seminar: Data Center Real Estate Alex Goldman
[August 27, 2007] An expert talks about everything you need to consider when choosing where to put your data center.

WSTA Data Center Seminar: Sabet Elias, Lehman Brothers CTO Alex Goldman
[August 24, 2007] The issues that the CTO of Lehman Brothers faces are similar to those you face in your data center, except for the all the buy and sell orders each day.

WSTA Data Center Seminar: Keynote Presentation Alex Goldman
[August 23, 2007] Data center designers shared their vision of the future.

ISPCON: Twenty-Three Website Wins Alex Goldman
[July 6, 2007] When Tucows talks, people listen, especially when the subject is one that the speaker knows very very well.

Building a Premium Webhost Alex Goldman
[June 15, 2007] With an early start, this company has progressed from hosting personal websites to being the anchor tenant in a local data center. It's all about offering more to customers, and getting more from them.

Ten Ways to Improve Data Center Efficiency Alex Goldman
[June 1, 2007] At ISPCON session S5, panelists said that most data centers could make significant changes and realize real improvements.

Verio Adds Data Backup Alex Goldman
[January 31, 2007] The massive wholly owned subsidiary of NTT adds a service to its already large portfolio.

The Planet's New Reseller Program Alex Goldman
[January 25, 2007] Having absorbed a big acquisition, the company prepares to grow its shared server products by growing the channel, which means working with you.

SingleHop Extends the Dedicated Servers Trend Alex Goldman
[January 18, 2007] Another webhost upgrades its service to offer more to high end customers, part of a trend that is changing the industry.

The SWDN Alex Goldman
[November 7, 2006] A major player in the hosting industry reaches out to service providers and software vendors to make it easier to provide applications.

Webhost Adds to Anti-Spam Battery Alex Goldman
[October 16, 2006] It takes more than one piece of software to blow away the spam onslaught, especially if you're a webhost managing thousands of domains.

EasyStreet Grows, Part 1: Today's ISP Growth is in the Data Center Alex Goldman
[August 11, 2006] As another Portland ISP grows its data center, we learn why the business services side of the market is booming.

Data Center Grows Alex Goldman
[July 20, 2006] It's a good time to be offering business services. We talk to a company that just expanded its data center.

Anti-Spam Software for the Webhosting Industry Alex Goldman
[July 17, 2006] Roaring Penguin Software adds multilevel rights management to its software, aiming to satisfy the needs of webhosts who have resellers.

Peril of Hosting a Popular Website James C. Cordray
[June 1, 2006] One half of a mom and pop shop give their side of the story (for background, look here).

Verio's Channel Program Alex Goldman
[May 16, 2006] It's no longer enough to have state of the art data centers. Even the largest webhosts are talking to their customers and resellers to learn more about who they are and what they want.

Handling the Thermodynamics of Webhosting Alex Goldman
[March 30, 2006] An intuitive, easy to use website builder reduces friction between the buying of a website, the building of the website, and that valuable upsell that every webhost desires.

Book Review: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Alex Goldman
[March 20, 2006] Yes, all it takes is common sense to design a good website, but reading this book will persuade you that a decade of website consulting experience adds valuable insight.

Server Colocation VS. Managed Servers John McKown
[March 15, 2006] Managed servers benefit both the ISP and the customer, argues this ISP CEO.

VeriSign/ICANN Deal Worth Over $3 Billion? Sean Michael Kerner
[February 28, 2006] Registrar alleges that VeriSign will reap billions in revenue from ICANN deal for the dot com registry.

GoDaddy NectarTECH Spat Continues BroadbandReports.com
[January 25, 2006] There's been an ongoing spat between GoDaddy and a 600-server data center.

Managing the Data Center Alex Goldman
[November 28, 2005] Plenty of apps already control devices remotely, but a new appliance aggregates the apps. Think of it as a controller of controllers.

This Registrar Wants to Steal Your Customers Alex Goldman
[November 11, 2005] It's Veterans' Day, and one company is wrapping itself in the flag and sending deceptive invoices to your customers, using the WHOIS list illegally, in a scam familiar to every ISP.

ISPCON Keynote: Three Hosts, Three Strategies Alex Goldman
[October 20, 2005] The ISPCON webhosting keynote brought together some key players in the industry, each of whom described a different core strategy.

Hostopia Alex Goldman
[September 26, 2005] This white label webhost has a key advantage over much of the competition—it doesn't compete with its ISP customers.

In Praise of .XXX Alex Goldman
[September 23, 2005] The proposed domain name would neither destroy the porn industry, as its porn industry opponents suggest, nor enrich the porn industry, as its conservative opponents suggest.

ICANN Approves .cat, Delays .xxx Jim Wagner
[September 16, 2005] The board of directors tables the proposed Internet red-light district and gives final approval to a domain space for Catalans.

Planning for a Power Outage Alex Goldman
[August 1, 2005] Data centers shouldn't just be prepared for unexpected disasters. Sometimes, problems call you up and give you the forecast date and time of their occurrence.

The Pain of Transfer Best of ISP-Lists
[July 21, 2005] Webhosts learn that the .com rules don't apply for all TLDs, and any unfamiliar domain can have its own quirks, making trading in fringe domains difficult.

GoDaddy.com Tops Registrar Ranking Jim Wagner
[April 28, 2005] It took nearly five years, but the domain name registrar has surpassed long-time industry leader Network Solutions.

Interland's Online Catalog Suite Sean Michael Kerner
[March 21, 2005] Like many modern ISPs, Interland offers a lot more than just webosting. We examine Interland's offering, called the "Online Catalog Suite."

Make It As Easy As Possible Alex Goldman
[February 28, 2005] After you've sold a customer their own web space, try making it as easy as possible for them to build the site they want, a vendor suggests.

Menu of Services Keeps Webhosts Smiling Jim Thompson
[February 25, 2005] As we all know, there is 'no free lunch.' Instead, by offering a smorgasbord of services, webhosts can bring a lot more customers to the table.

The Most Aggressive Webhost Alex Goldman
[February 17, 2005] It's offered free accounts to thousands, run bigger ads than anyone else, and grown very rapidly. Other webhosts are wondering where 1&1 came from and whether the cash will run out. We asked, and learned the answer.

To Live in LA Jim Thompson
[January 27, 2005] Thinking about using a data center to ensure that you have optimal security? You might want to think again. A visit to a data center in Los Angeles reveals that physical security is marginal at best.

Webhost Offers More ISP-Planet Staff
[January 26, 2005] A webhost has found several value-added services that its business customers might like—and is offering most of them for free.

Daredevils With a Net Jim Thompson
[November 19, 2004] They deal with every problem imaginable on the Internet, so we called up webhosts large and small to ask them how they do it.

Webhosting Business Rises from Ashes of Dot-Com Bust Alex Goldman
[September 13, 2004] Former contract Web programmer changes roles, turning entrepreneur and building a facilities-based webhosting business with the help of a few other good contractors.

Publishing Prepared Her For Webhosting Alex Goldman
[August 30, 2004] Linda Miksch found her publishing company background gave her some unusual insights into webhosting, enabling her to build a business that really differs from its competition.

It's Very Personal Alex Goldman
[August 20, 2004] You don't want to change your name, so why do you have to change your e-mail address? A company that operates out of Boston and the Pacific Ocean island of Palau has built a completely new kind of top level domain that's designed to give individuals an e-mail address they'll never have to ditch.

On the Fast Track Alex Goldman
[July 15, 2004] Founded by a duo who were still in high school, a small town webhost has grown rapidly without compromise even as times got tougher.

Fifty New Features for Plesk Alex Goldman
[June 28, 2004] In a massive upgrade, the software engineers from SWsoft have piled on the goodies. Now they're looking for beta testers like you.

Building Trust in an Age of Phishy E-Mails Alex Goldman
[May 13, 2004] Neal Creighton says that surfers cannot distinguish between fraudulent and legitimate websites, but he has a solution that involves trust, which is what the company he runs is all about.

A Frequently E-Mailed Question Best of ISP-Lists
[April 21, 2004] It's a question so nice, they asked it twice. What Windows mail server do you like?

New Features for Hosting Software Vet Alex Goldman
[January 26, 2004] ShopSite, an e-commerce software veteran, has released version 7.0 of its ShopSite package, with several new features aimed at improving its ISP market share.

Ensim Extends Itself for HSPs Dan Muse
[November 5, 2003] The California-based application-hosting software provider announces Ensim Extend, a service-provider grade platform designed to help HSPs manage large-scale hosting environments with hundreds or thousands of servers.

Hosting Software Company's Affiliate Program ISP-Planet Staff
[September 22, 2003] Whatever the size of your hosting operation, you can sign up for SWsoft's affiliate program.

DNS Load Balancing for Gigabit Networks ISP-Planet Staff
[September 15, 2003] The latest version of a load balancer with special DNS traffic features operates at gigabit speeds for advanced networks.

C I Host Wants AOL to Stop E-mail Block Brian Morrissey
[August 29, 2003] A Texas webhosting company says AOL, in the name of fighting spam, is breaking a judge's order to stop blocking its e-mail.

Plesk Adds Anti-Spam Alex Goldman
[July 24, 2003] Plesk, now owned by SWsoft, adds anti-spam and security features to version 6 of its control panel.

Spam Shuts Down Legitimate Websites Alex Goldman
[July 14, 2003] Legislative "solutions" to spam, proactive blacklists, and reactionary backbone providers only harm legitimate ISPs and their customers as the problem continues to grow.

SWsoft's Moscow Edge Max Smetannikov
[June 20, 2003] SWsoft's hosting automation secret is that the company is part of an Eastern conglomerate that sells software, Korean televisions, and consumer electronics through a variety of subsidiaries around the world.

Even Deliquent Customers Have Rights Best of ISP-Lists
[May 21, 2003] Members of the ISP-Webhosting list wrestle with the legal problems of punishing clients who don't pay without breaking the law.

Hidden Heroes of Autonomic Computing Phil Wainewright
[April 25, 2003] It sounds futuristic—and the way people talk, you'd think IBM had just invented it—but autonomic computing is already a practical reality for webhosts around the world.

No Equity in Credit Card Processing Best of ISP-Lists
[April 24, 2003] Members of the ISP-Webhosting list say it's tough to get a fair deal when asking credit card processors or local banks for a merchant account.

Shared Hosting Automation for Big Data Centers ISP-Planet Staff
[April 9, 2003] Sitepak's new software plugs into an existing network, providing a layer of automation to any data center that already has all of the Internet functions (such as mail, billing, and DNS).

Ensim Aims to Improve Shared Hosting Dan Muse
[April 7, 2003] WEBappliance Pro for Linux is designed to improve security, reporting, and extensibility for hosting service providers that focus on small businesses customers.

Charging Professionals a Professional Fee Best of ISP-Lists
[March 31, 2003] Members of the ISP-Webhosting list complain that some people have found a way to put professional websites in their free webspace, avoiding the fees associated with business hosting.

Another Fee From Network Solutions Best of ISP-Lists
[March 24, 2003] Members of the ISP-Webhosting list have learned the hard way about a new policy that will cost some of your customers $150 this year.

Branding the Cow Alex Goldman
[March 20, 2003] FatCow's memorable website and service plan have given this local webhost a global customer base. A woman, a brand, and a simple plan made it all happen.

Examining the Black Hole Best of ISP-Lists
[February 27, 2003] Members of the ISP-Webhosting list discuss the ever-thorny problem of blocking spam and dispute—mostly politely—the relative merits of the various solutions.

Updated Hosting Automation System ISP-Planet Staff
[February 20, 2003] SWsoft has added several new feautres in HSP Complete 2.1, including an anti-fraud algorithm for webhosting companies.

Name Server Rules Best of ISP-Lists
[February 3, 2003] Members of the ISP-Webhosting list find that there are a wide variety of myths, understandings, and assumed procedures when setting up name servers.

The Big Kahuna Hits the Beach Alex Goldman
[January 23, 2003] A cofounder of high-end webhost Rackspace has founded a new company courting the other end of the market. Richard Yoo's ServerBeach will offer fully-functional personal website hosting for $99 per month.

VeriSign Inititative Displeases ICANN Mark Berniker
[January 15, 2003] ICANN objects to VeriSign's i-Nav plug-ins, which enable Internet users across the globe to navigate the Web in a variety of different languages.

Prices in a World Without DSL Best of ISP-Lists
[January 10, 2003] If DSL in not available in your area, and a client wants to host a large website, you're talking about T-1 lines. Here's how the members of the ISP-Webhosting list break down the bandwidth costs.

BT Ready to Ignite Its ASP Business Paul Rubens
[January 6, 2003] Application Service Providers have promised to deliver applications over the Internet. When they succeed, they will be a boon for the ISP business as they will increase demand for bandwidth. Here's how the UK ILEC hopes to dominate the ASP business.

Finding a Better Control Panel Best of ISP-Lists
[January 6, 2003] Members of the ISP-Webhosting list examine a much-discussed and rapidly changing area of the webhosting business.

PIR Takes Over .org Domain Ryan Naraine
[January 6, 2003] A massive transfer of data is underway as the .org domain passes out of the control of VeriSign Global Registry Services.

Iceland's Best DNS Software Alex Goldman
[January 3, 2003] Although free is cheaper, most folks looking for DNS management and diagnostic software will find it difficult to find a better price than that offered by Men & Mice.