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Pittsburgh tackles intricacies of hosting leaders

The Prince of Wales slept here. So did Abe Lincoln. And Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cold War. More recently: Bill Clinton and John McCain.

State legislature posts social calendars online

The Montana Legislature is offering its constituents food for thought by posting its 2009 calendar of special interest group-sponsored brunches and mixers online for the first time.

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Project Playlist Pushes The Line Between Music Search And Music Hosting
Source: TechCrunch

If there is a poster child for the battered Web music startup, Project Playlist is it.

Dear China: It's Not Google That Is Producing Or Hosting Porn
Source: Techdirt

We've noted in the past that the Great Firewall of China basically works via a threat model. Basically, the government tells ISPs that if they fail to block "undesirable" content, then they'll get in trouble.

The Best Dedicated Host for Me (and Maybe You)

A few years ago I posted an article here on Newsvine about shared webhosts. It was right around the time I got my first full-time job. Jump ahead to now, and things have changed dramatically. No longer am I running on a shared host. I've upgraded, in a very serious way.

Sex offender arrested for hosting teen parties
Source: wthitv.com

Linton Police arrested a convicted sex offender after learning he was allegedly hosting parties for teens, supplying them alcohol and watching them have sex with each other"

Top Web Hosting deals and Companies
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Top hosting companies - A very helpful list.

The Day the Botnet Died
Source: MXLogic

Last week we reported the significant decrease in spam volumes as a result of the shutdown of McColo, a hosting provider that was catering to spammers.

What clouds and grids can learn from each other
Source: isgtw.org

During the past 10 years, hundreds of grid projects have come and gone, passing away after funding ran dry. Most didn't have a realistic strategy for sustainability, let alone a viable business model for their infrastructures, tools, applications or services.

Media Temple launches beta for VPS running on Leopard Server - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Teaming with Parallels, Media Temple has just announced the start of private-beta period for its latest (mt) Labs offering, the (xv) Xserve-Virtual -- which they are dubbing "the world's first VPS Leopard Server."

How Green is Your Web Host?
Source: AENews

The recent explosion in green websites has prompted us to post this survey so we can get an idea of just how many sites are actually green.

How2: Set up a Forum (Message board)

If you have ever wanted to add a forum to your community, but found the task daunting, or didn't even know where to start, this is the guide for you. I will show you what software to use, where to get it, and how to set it up.

YouTube Tries to Get Legal
Source: blogmaverick.com

First, let me offer a great big thank you to Youtube from me and everyone on the internet, including many small businesses.

GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site
Source: Wired News

A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.

This Hand is Your Hand — the poker guide continues

Part 4: This Hand is your Hand — a brief tangent — no sidebetting, please.

A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World's Densest Meet-Me Room
Source: Wired News

In the bowels of the world's most densely populated Meet-Me room -- a room where over 260 ISPs connect their networks to each other -- a phalanx of cabling spills out of its containers and silently pumps the world's information to your computer screen.

MySpace wins UK domain name that pre-dated its service
Source: The Register (UK)

Social networking company MySpace has won the right to have the domain name myspace.co.uk transferred to it despite the fact that it was registered six years before MySpace was founded.

Web hosting names that make you go "Huh?"
Source: royal.pingdom.com

There are a lot of web hosting companies out there with unusual, strange, or just plain weird names (and URLs). We have collected some of the strangest ones in this post.

EZLAVA Website Builder - Online Web Building Software

With EZLAVA and its online website building software, beginners and web designers alike can make amazing professional websites fast. The website building software provides users with the most advanced and dynamic web building tools available.

Damn Good FREE Web Hosting
Source: blogiseverything.com

No joke, no joke! This is really damn good, Webhosting.Solutions (WHDot.com) is a damn good FREE web hosting.

Virtual Hosting Blog » 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images
Source: virtualhosting.com

This is a great source for free stock images that can be used for noncommercial purposes!

Cheap Unlimited Web Hosting
Source: manadospace.com

unlimited web hosting low price all plan come with 64bit OS, Centos 5,MYSQL 5, PHP 5, Pearl 5, Cpanel 11, Fantastico deluxe,rvskin,rvsitebuilder, Full Features, Moneyback Guaranteed, egold moneybookers paypal are accepted instant activation

GoDaddy Helps Out the DC Madam
Source: The Hill

"They came in and offered unlimited bandwidth forever and ever — they thought it was their patriotic duty," Palfrey gushed.

Microsoft Web Servers Continue to Gain on Apache
Source: Netcraft

Microsoft adds 2.4 million sites this month in Netcraft's Web Server Survey, pushing the total number of sites running on Windows servers past 40 million. Apache now has a 49.98% share in active sites, less than 14.5% ahead of Microsoft.

Go PHP5! A Community Movement to Drop PHP4 Support | Hiveminds Magazine for web publishers and community builders
Source: hiveminds.co.uk

Most applications support PHP 4, and this fact does not encourage the shelterers to update their version. And as PHP 4 is everywhere, the editors are not thorough to pass to PHP 5. It is this vicious circle which the movement Go PHP 5 wants to break.

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