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Save $449 on Dell PowerEdge SC440 Server with upgraded Intel Pentium Dual Core E processor. After Instant Savings, the prices comes down to $199.

So this is the plan, take out your old Slackware Linux 1.0.1 distro and install it and write a article and post it on Digg and Reddit, and then you’ll be considered cool.

Effective January 25, 2008, BlueHost and HostMonster has approximately doubled CPU usage caps for shared hosting accounts.  Caving into user demands that CPU quotas were overly restrictive,  CPU utilization tracking was updated to measure up to 8 CPU cores. 

Uncle Sam gonna help out Uncle Ho build largest data center in Vietnam. They gonna do be like instead of helping you out with da Agent Orange. We gonna help you out with building data center space so Gary Glitter don’t be exploiting your young generations. Word on the street is that southern “Uncle” Ho Chi Minh City headquartered QTSC (Que Tyo Squiero Cenchiladas) and DOT (Don Ojump Tohi) Vietnam will invest around $10 million in constructing the 3,281 square foot center.

 Once operational in Septemba, facility will provide hosting for dog roasting websites and backup services to such major klients as govermment agencies, multinational (meaning they do bisiness in more din one country), financial groups and banks.

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Matt Heaton, CEO & President of BlueHost claims growing pains for a series of support problems since Dec 20 of last year. Claiming unprecedented signups (more than 850 a day), forced upgrades of CPanel (presumablely from security issues), PHP upgrade from 4 to 5 and Apache 1.3x to 2.2x on all servers created perfect storm of problems for BlueHost.

Nice to hear BlueHost and their CEO fess up to their problem. When they’re growing as fast they are, you can expect problems but not apologies. So nice round of applause to BlueHost.

Lunarpages is an independent Web hosting provider founded in the late 1990s by Ron Riddle and Maximiliam Anderson . With over 150,000 customers, Lunarpages colocates in three datacenters (Los Angeles CA, Riverside CA and Las Vegas NV) with a call center in La Habra, California. They also employee remote US based technicians to service their customers. Currently, their network features dual gig-E connections & 2500 fully owned servers.

The name “Lunarpages” was inspired by Riddle’s interest in the sci-fi television show Star Trek. Some of their first hosting packages included “Shuttle” and “Voyager” plans, were also Star Trek inspired.

Lunarpages’ services literally began with a handful of servers housed in Riddle’s bedroom, where Riddle and Andersen offered free web hosting subscriptions to customers worldwide. Andersen has since sold his shares of the company to Riddle, who is the sole owner and CEO of Lunarpages Web hosting.

1&1.com is offering a 50% off sale on all their products and services, including their dedicated server configurations. The fine print on this deal states that the 50% discount applies to the first 3 months of the minimum contract, after which regular prices apply.

Online marketing company OverSee.net announced that it acquired Moniker.com, a innovative ICANN-accredited registrar for an undisclosed amount on Jan 3, 2008.  Having acquired domain name auctioneer SnapNames last June, OverSee has been setting itself up to increase it’s share in the domain name secondary market. 

The plan will be to leverage the two divisions’ capabilities by adding Moniker’s live auction and back-office services to SnapNames Live to offer a comprehensive set of live and silent auctions.

At DOMAINfest Global later this month, OverSee will demonstrate the integration where SnapNames Live will lead and conduct the auction, with Moniker providing valuation and escrow services.

UK Web hosting provider UK-2 Group (uk2group.com) announced on Friday it has acquired US Web hosting provider midPhase Services’ (midphase.com) shared and virtual private server businesses.

UK-2 Group says it plans to continue operation of midPhase’s brands, which includes midPhase.com, ANHosting.com and Autica.com. They also say they will not dissolve the midPhase brand and integrate them into the UK-2 Group brand which should keep the customers happy at least for now.

HostGator.com is offering a 20% off everything Holiday Sale via coupon code ’snowman’. Click here to go to the order page. Enter coupon code as illustrated here.

Hosting company HostGator.com current traffic rank is holding steady at around 1468 with a 3 month average of 1468. Since it’s launch in 2003, HostGator has experienced linear growth until it tapered off late 2006.