web-hosting-top.com hosting news - Jul 2003

Atlantic.net (atlantic.net) announced Monday that it has served Feature Price with an eviction notice. According to the terms of the notice, Feature Price officials have until Thursday, July 17 to vacate the premises.Atlantic.net has also filed a small claims complaint against Feature Price with Clerk County Court in Lee County, Florida. The docket was dated July 2, 2003.The complaint calls for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction ...

Schlund (schlund.de), Rackshack (rackshack.com) and Time Warner Cable (timewarnercable.com) are the fastest growing Web hosting providers, according to research conducted by Netcraft (netcraft.com). To attain these results, Netcraft counted the total number of servers between March 2002 to March 2003 and only included companies that started the period with a minimum of 600 servers, ended the period with at least 1000 servers, and showed growth of at least 33 percent. These ...

According to a notice posted by Atlantic.Net (atlantic.net) on Feature Price's Web site (featureprice.com), all sites hosted by Feature Price are currently offline because of a dispute over access to equipment.Atlantic.Net acquired the assets of Feature Price on May 21, which included a reported 40,000 customers. Since that time, Atlantic.Net has been working to transition Feature Price customers to Atlantic.Net?s infrastructure.According to Atlantic.Net, the ...

Hosting automation firm SWsoft (sw-soft.com) said today it had acquiredPlesk (plesk.com) and Yippi-Yeah!E-Business GmbH (yippi-yeah.com), bothautomation companies, for an undisclosed amount. Terms of the deals were notdisclosed.The combined company claims to have trumped Ensim as the largest provider ofsoftware automation products in the world, with 30,000 servers running SWSoft software, and 3,000 Web hosts using company's products. According toEnsim, the ...

One of the more noticeable trends from the Web hosting industry last week, the acquisition and sale of Web hosting assets, carried a good deal of momentum into this week, as several companies announced the buying and selling of assets, while several hosting software developers announced new products and a powerful hosting player announced its withdrawal from the US market altogether.After an announcemet last week that it was close to revealing its US restructuring plan, it was ...

Florida-based ISP and Web hosting firm Atlantic.Net (atlantic.net) said yesterday it had purchased the assets of Feature Price, a Ft. Meyers, Fl.-based Web host that had recently experienced customer service issues and is currently under investigation by the Florida Attorney General's Office.The company said it had acquired a customer base of 40,000 from Feature Price. Financial details of the purchase were not disclosed.The status of Feature Price's business operations had ...

In a rare instance of what appears to be one man walking away from a million dollar payday, Feature Price (featureprice.com) appears to have disintegrated amidst strange behavior and customer outcry.Rumors of the Ft. Meyers, Fl.-based Web hosting firm being troubled have circulated for months, helped in part by Travis Johnson, co-founder of the firm, who reportedly shut down the site in April to post an open letter informing customers that the company had closed and that ...

Hosting automation software developer Ensim Corporation (Ensim.com) announced on Thurdsday that it has added 14 hosting companies to the list of organizations offering customers Ensim's new control panel Ensim WEBppliance Pro, as well as to its Ensim Active Reseller Network (EARN).Released last week, says Ensim, WEBppliance pro offers the professional-grade capabilities needed to build and manage commercial-quality hosting for shared, reseller and dedicated-server ...

Privately-held Internet service provider Atlantic.Net (Atlantic.Net) announced on Thursday that it has opened a data center in Orlando, Florida that will serve as the hub of the company's network and will be its second-largest employee base in Florida.Built in 2000 at a cost of $14.5 million, says Atlantic.Net, the 25,000-square-foot facility includes a sophisticated technology infrastructure and provides high-end hosting services to meet the advanced needs of online ...

Internet service provider Atlantic.Net (Atlantic.Net) announced on Thursday that it has launched its SpamScope tool, designed to filter out unwanted email messages, including advertisements, hoaxes and pornography. The new feature is available to Atlantic.Net subscribers at no additional charge."SpamScope is a spammer's worst nightmare," said Marty Puranik, president and CEO of Atlantic.Net. "Now, Atlantic.Net members don't have to waste time looking ...