BlueHost and HostGator have been hit by another outage on Wednesday. According to HostGator, router issues in its Provo, UT, data center are to blame. It appears that the issues began around 11 am ET this morning.
A new partnership between virtualization software provider VMware and graphics card maker NVIDIA is poised to deliver graphics-rich experiences to more virtual desktop or "Desktop-as-a-Service" environments.
Microsoft rebrands Windows Azure to Microsoft Azure and cuts prices, dropping the price of its compute by up to 35 percent and storage by up to 65 percent.
Security could prove to be a business opportunity for web hosts over the next few years as respondents say they are willing to pay more for security, a new report by Microsoft found.
GoDaddy is in the process of selecting underwriters for its IPO, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, citing two anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
HostingCon, the industry conference and trade show for hosting and cloud providers, announced the theme for HostingCon 2014: “Turn Up the Heat” by accelerating ideas and insights into innovation, strategic vision, and new revenue opportunities.
DigitalOcean, a web hosting startup geared towards making hosting simple for developers, has closed a $37.2 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.