[frame align=”left”][/frame]Irish cloud host Spiral Hosting announced earlier this week that they have acquired one of my favorite community hosts – SpeedySparrow. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based out of Melbourne, Australia – SpeedySparrow has a large Australian and American client base, both of which Spiral Hosting plans to tap into […]
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GoDaddy Will Offer .CLUB Domains
.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), has announced that GoDaddy has signed an agreement to offer “yourname.club” domain names to clubs, membership organizations, affinity and loyalty groups, and anyone sharing a common interest or passion. Of those registrars who have been taking pre-registrations over the […]
1&1 Partners with Cloudflare
[frame align=”left”][/frame]1&1 Internet has just announced a new partnership with CloudFlare in an effort to deliver improved website performance to its customers. As a leading Content Delivery Network (CDN), CloudFlare’s technology proves to reduce the latency between data centers and end users; and this is something I can vouch for myself as Cloudflare helps to power […]
New Pricing Structure for Volusion in 2014
Volusion is kicking off 2014 strong with a completely new plan and pricing structure. This brings about some of the lowest pricing Volusion ever had – which is, in my opinion, a perfect way to start off 2014 for everyone. Here are some highlights of the new plans: First off there are now 4 plans instead […]
Winamp Rescued by Radionomy!
Back in November I had posted my official farewell to Winamp – a massively popular media player from back in the nineties. Few people were surprised when AOL finally decided to cut its losses, announcing that, starting December 20 2013, the site and associated cloud services, including Shoutcast, would no longer be available to the public. […]
WHUK Launches WordPress Hosting @ 50% Off
[frame align=”right”][/frame]WHUK, a leader in Web hosting services in the UK since 2001, to date is already hosting thousands of WordPress blogs and websites for clients worldwide and they hope to start hosting even more WordPress sites as they announce a new range of fully managed WordPress hosting plans. Optimizing the plans for entrepreneurs, website […]
Domain Name Revolution Begins at Easyspace
Easyspace, one of the UK’s largest domain name providers, has launched a brand new website where you can register your interest for free in one of the new ICANN generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). The website, located at http://www.easyspace.com/domain-names/new-gtlds has been designed to allow you to create a shopping basket of domains you are interested in, such as .london, […]
List of 557 Pending New gTLDs
Webwork over on the WebmasterWorld forums put together a great list of new gTLD’s waiting to be released: [column size=”1-2″] 1).abogado 2).academy 3).accountant 4).accountants 5).active 6).actor 7).ads 8).adult 9).africa 10).agency 11).airforce 12).alsace 13).amsterdam 14).analytics 15).apartments 16).app 17).arab 18).archi 19).architect 20).army 21).art 22).associates 23).attorney 24).auction 25).audible 26).audio 27).auto 28).autos 29).baby 30).band 31).bank 32).banque 33).bar 34).barcelona 35).bargains […]
GoDaddy Finally Offers cPanel Linux Hosting
[frame align=”left”][/frame]For as long as I could remember one of my biggest gripes with GoDaddy has been their proprietary hosting control panel which seemed to turn everything that used to take a few clicks, into a mission. I touched base on it in my GoDaddy Hosting Review. It seems someone at GoDaddy may have read […]
Saying My Farewall to Winamp
Unfortunately Winamp has announced that, starting December 20 2013, the site and associated cloud services will no longer be available to the public. What is even worse is that the longstanding media player will also be pulled from winamp.com. For many of us – especially myself, this is quiet a sad moment. See I have loved Winamp […]
New TLD’s Coming to Namecheap
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Namecheap has joined the new TLD initiative, which will allow customers to buy hundreds of new top level domains. As such you will now be able to register TLDs such as .online, .music, .inc, and so much more through Namecheap – personally one of my favorite domain name providers. If you haven’t read up […]
Volusion Launches New eCommerce Features
[frame align=”right”][/frame]Volusion has always been great at making sure their merchants have everything they need to make the most of any holiday season. This time around is no different as they launch a series of enhanced selling features to further help drive a merchant’s success online. Their newest product enhancements simplify the ecommerce experience, empowering merchants […]
GoDaddy Announces Plans for 2014 Super Bowl Ads
As Super Bowl XLVIII comes around, GoDaddy is getting ready for their latest set of commercials. As has become tradition the last few years, GoDaddy runs 1 or more new commercials during the Super Bowl; last year focusing on the .co domain name. “The Super Bowl ad strategy allows us to have fun and be […]
SiteGround Partners with CrazyEgg
Through a recent partnership with CrazyEgg, SiteGround has decided to assist clients in determining what’s working with their websites’ visitors and what’s not. They’re accomplishing this by offering a 90-day FREE Trial of CrazyEgg’s Original Heat-Mapping Technology, the best-selling website user behavior tool. A heatmap is an easy way to understand what users want, care about […]
Digg Goes Viral With Videos
Digg once was one of the top ranked sites when it came to finding the latest and greatest stories and news. Over the past few years things have been a bit quiet at Digg, however the company has recently started working hard on resurrecting themselves – starting with the launch of the Digg Reader, an […]
Fasthosts Launches New Website Builder
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Available with any web hosting package from Fasthosts, the Website Builder is based upon a drag-and-drop user interface designed to make it simple for non-technical managers to create an effective business website. The new Fasthosts Website Builder comes with a complete customisation option for colour schemes, font styles, images, slideshows and embedded video feeds, […]
Yahoo Launches New Mail Site
Last week, on October 8th 2013, marked Yahoo Mail’s sweet 16, and to celebrate Yahoo released a brand new Mail experience on desktop, iOS, and Android devices. The new Yahoo Mail brings about some great new features – one of my favorite being the introduction of conversations – allowing you to view emails grouped in threads – and something Google’s Gmail […]
New Yahoo Hosting Offers
Moving forward with the reworking of their network, Yahoo has launched completely new web hosting plans and services. First off Yahoo has joined the recent Website Builder craze and launched a new site builder of their own called Yahoo Site Solutions – which is packed with features such as photo and video galleries; customizable contact […]
CloudServers.com Launches!
CloudServers.com is a new cloud server provider specializing in Windows and Linux hosting; and just a few days ago they have announced that they have finally launched out of beta and their services are available to the public. The beauty and uniqueness of CloudServers.com comes from their plethora of available server templates. Save time and avoid the hassle of learning about being […]
Bing Gets A Redesign
I did say I will be mentioning Bing a-lot more often right? Right on time, and following close in the footsteps of the new Yahoo redesign Bing has went and ahead and launched a redesign of their own. The redesign brings about a brand new logo, dropping the curly blue Bing logo for a modern […]