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October 31, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud storage provider FlexiScale, a unit of UK-based web hosting provider Xcalibre, has been hit with its second outage in two months, leaving some customers without access to their servers for more than 18 hours.

October 31, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The regulating body of China's internet policy called for the shutdown of 10 online video websites on Tuesday, and warned 17 others, as it resumes its aggressive stance against such sites after a fairly relaxed summer.

October 31, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- This week saw an increasing amount of news related to the hot hosting topic of the "cloud," with several cloud-based products introduced, and a major malfunction at a well-known existing operation.

October 31, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In response to the government's intentions to crack down on online illegal material using a nationally mandatory filter, many Australians including Greens party Senator Scott Ludlam questioning the implications on legitimate users.

October 31, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Google is stalling its long-awaited Oklahoma $600 million data center construction because of the current economic situation according a Wednesday report from Tulsa World.

October 31, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain name regulation body ICANN has terminated suspected Estonian malware host EstDomains from its list of accredited registrars based on its former president's convictions of credit card fraud, money laundering and document forgery.

October 31, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Microsoft partner DiscountASP.NET announced this week that the company had teamed with the software giant to offer a beta sandbox hosting environment for the Web Deployment Tool.

October 31, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The RSA Fraud Action Research Lab research team recently found out that a cyber gang has stolen over 500,000 bank and credit card account numbers using trojan software, making it one of the largest stolen data caches ever recovered.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 31, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has debuted the launch of its direct attached storage (DAS), a new offering for dedicated and managed hosting customers requiring enhanced database performance and increased file storage capacity. Rob Walters, General Manager of storage and data protection remarked, ''Web sites are the lifeblood of every company that operates an online business, so having a high-speed, highly available site is critical, especially during the upcoming holiday season. Our new DAS product provides online retailers -- and SMBs of any kind -- enhanced redundancy with clustering and failover capabilities. DAS is an affordable way to keep critical data protected, so companies can experience peace of mind any time of the year.'' The versatile DAS product, based on Dell's MD series, is available in three configurations that can be used as primary storage or for backup and

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - October 31, 2008 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has introduced free Sandbox Hosting to enable next-generation web application packaging and deployment, using Microsoft web deployment tools for developers. Bill Staples, General Manager at Microsoft noted, ''One of our goals with the new Web Deployment Tool and Visual Studio 10 was to improve the application deployment experience. We wanted to make it easier for developers to package their applications so that others could deploy them hassle-free to production environments. We are thrilled to work together with our hosting partner, DiscountASP.NET, to debut the latest Web Deployment Tool and to offer a sandbox environment so developers can get first-hand experience to test these new publishing scenarios.'' DiscountASP.NET and Microsoft announce a partnership to offer a free open beta sandbox hosting program for testing the next-generation Web