September 5, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The US Internal Revenue Service network has been the taget of thousands of unauthorized and insecure internal web servers, according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

September 5, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web application experience management service provider Gomez has added support for google's Chrome and Microsoft's internet Explorer 8 beta 2 browsers for its cross-browser, performance testing environment.

September 5, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internap network Services announced on Friday its content delivery network and professional services are delivering customized streaming media services for the Million Dollar Round Table, an association of financial professionals.

September 5, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The big trends in this week's news were a list of appointments at data center companies, and a set of new services from a range of companies, though one story certainly stood out more than others.

September 5, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- US telco giant Comcast, one of the more vocal players in the "net neutrality" debate, has announced on Thursday it is appealing the Federal Communications Commission's order to stop blocking peer-to-peer traffic.

September 5, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Memset announced on Friday it has found that "ripping and replacing" servers that are over three years old is essential, adding that holding onto these old servers is neither economically nor environmentally sound.

September 5, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT solutions firm DataChambers announced on Wednesday it is significantly expanding the infrastructure that supports the company's Winston-Salem, North Carolina data center.

September 5, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Global internet traffic grew by over half in the one-year period ending in mid-2008, with the US and Latin America leading expansion, growing 112 percent year-over-year, while overall capacity continues to keep ahead of demand.

Toronto, Canada - (The Hosting News) - September 5, 2008 - The results of an industry survey, conducted by Tucows Inc.'s reseller services group, OpenSRS at the HostingCon 2008 conference in Chicago last month, have been released. Survey findings revealed resellers of email and domain names are missing significant business opportunities to tap into social network users. Of the respondents, 60% have their own blog or personal website, and nearly three-fourths use social networks like Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and FriendFeed to share information with friends and family. Ken Schafer, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Tucows noted, ''While the web hosting industry does not view social networks as a threat to its business, people are going to functional-hosts for services that allow them to share information online. This demonstrates that there are opportunities for web hosts to tap into consumers who embrace social networks - but these opportunit

Heerhugowaard, Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - September 5, 2008 - continuous data Protection for Linux and Windows provider, R1Soft, has welcomed enterprise and SaaS hosting firm, Uniserver internet, to its hosting partnership roster. Offering a value-added data protection service for its clients, Uniserver internet gains access to a variety of sales and marketing resources in R1Soft's Partner Program, in addition to priority technical support and pre-release software updates. R1Soft works with its hosting partners to help them maximize their return on investment and effectively deploy Continuous Data Protection. Ronald Bezuur, CEO of Uniserver Internet noted, ''Providing a reliable data protection service is a sacrosanct commitment for a hosting provider in today's market. We have investigated a variety of backup solutions for both Windows and Linux servers, but none provided the flexibility, scalability and affordability offered by