http://lordhost.net Web host and hosting news from around the world Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:24:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We received a very long press release this week from TrendPoint Systems, a company that produces a "turn-key data center energy management solution." It's not a company we're especially familiar with at the WHIR, but with TrendPoint's fairly singular focus on data center energy efficiency and carbon ... http://lordhost.net/web-hosting-news/trendpoints-four-point-green-data-center-plan.html Managed dedicated hosting provider SingleHop recently launched LEAP, what the company considers the first "webtop" or browser-based dedicated server interface (in other words, a fancy, schmancy control panel) that enables users to have complete management access to their dedicated servers. We recently spoke ... http://lordhost.net/web-hosting-news/video-interview-with-dan-ushman-singlehop.html In June, application delivery optimization company KEMP Technologies launched a version of its load balancing and delivery control solutions designed for managed hosting providers. While at HostingCon 2008, the company took the opportunity to elaborate on this while discussing the challenges facing today's ... http://lordhost.net/web-hosting-news/video-interview-with-peter-melerud-kemp-technologies.html A few weeks back, the WHIR conducted an email interview with Mark Klein, director of business development at Sedo, and asked him to make the case for his HostingCon 2008 session titled "Tapping the Exploding Secondary Domain Market: How It Can Increase Your Revenue and Customer ... http://lordhost.net/web-hosting-news/video-interview-with-mark-klein-sedo.html Rackspace began trading 11 days ago as of this writing …my analysis. At HostingCon, during one of the panels the speaker brought up the Rackspace IPO, he bet the strike price would be  $14 – sounds good to me – Another panel member piped in ... http://lordhost.net/web-hosting-news/rackspace-was-set-up-a-study-in-motivation.html In the weeks leading to what is considered the web hosting industry's largest event, the WHIR reported that iNET Interactive, a social media company that owns the popular web hosting community Web Hosting Talk among other web properties, rather unexpectedly announced that it had acquired the HostingCon conference and trade ... http://lordhost.net/web-hosting-news/video-interview-with-troy-augustine-inet-interactive.html (Note: If you want to skip what I say and go right to the sign-up page, here's your link)Otherwise, fasten your fun-belts!Cisco's TechWise TV is set to "air" an episode called "Energy Efficiency in the Data Center," this Thursday, August 21 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern, which ought to be enough ... http://lordhost.net/web-hosting-news/ciscos-techtv-to-air-data-center-efficiency-episode.html