Dutch Web Host Internet Today Implements Anti-Spam Protection from SpamExperts
31.08.2015 10:51:00 - Dutch email security company SpamExperts expands client pool with Dutch web host Internet Today.
(live-PR.com) - Amsterdam, August 31, 2015 – Leading email security company SpamExperts announces new partnership with Dutch web host Internet Today. The company has implemented SpamExperts Incoming and Outgoing filters in the Local Cloud and has joined the Hosting Partner Program. SpamExperts addressed the company's most important challenges: incoming and outgoing spam, blacklisting and usage of resources. The professional anti-spam and virus solutions instantly raised their filtering level and reduced time investment, so the team could use their resources on other business opportunities. Besides a significant reduction in the amount of incoming and outgoing spam, Internet Today is experiencing an excellent filtering accuracy rate for them and their customers, and saving on internal resources and costs."SpamExperts is true to their name: they deal with spam. Dealing with spam is now far less time consuming. SpamExperts solutions stop all spam and prevent our servers from getting blocked by remote blacklists. Not to mention the server GUI which makes everything very easy to manage and navigate through, plus the weekly release cycles which are very helpful," said Daniel Verboeket, Internet Today owner and CEO.
The company currently uses the incoming and outgoing filtering solutions on multiple DirectAdmin and cPanel servers. Moreover, they have also implemented SpamExperts software in their custom SATserver sys tem.
"Internet Today needed a robust and professional anti-spam solution to, first of all, help them fight spam but to also add value to their product offering for end-clients. We are happy that they are part of our Hosting Partner Program and hope for a successful business partnership in the future," said Sam Renkema, SpamExperts CEO.
For detailed information about how SpamExperts solutions have helped Internet Today fight spam, please read their case study.
About Internet TodaySince its establishment in 2001, Internet Today has grown from a young hosting provider with a vision into a reputable Internet Service Provider, with a professional and complete range of IT solutions for retail. Their focus is on corporate clients. The driving force behind their continuous development and business expansion is the passion to mix quality service and innovative technology.For more information, please visit www.internettoday.nl/
About SpamExpertsSpamExperts solution s are tailored to (shared) webhosts, ISPS/Telcos and large organizations, as well as distributors and resellers. They offer inbound & outbound email filtering services, as well as email archiving. The services can run either within the redundant SpamExperts Hosted Cloud or on a Local Cloud directly deployed on the customer's (virtual) hardware.For more info, please visit www.spamexperts.com
Source: Dutch Web Host Internet Today Implements Anti-Spam Protection from SpamExperts
When to host your Website's security
Managing the daily updates and upgrades needed to keep the website secure demands a highly skilled administration team. A third party website management company provides both managed hosting and security, but the security of the site depends largely upon the provider.
Larger enterprises come to website hosting providers because they have regulatory requirements that they can't meet on their own. Commodity providers from AWS to Azure and Rackspace, provide infrastructure, but the enterprise monitors the security of the site themselves.
Self-monitoring with a highly skilled team can be as reliable as entrusting their site to the security team of a web hosting provider, but not every organization has a staff with the expertise and flexibility needed to build a strong security platform program.
Jeff Schilling, CSO, FireHost, said, "The biggest security risk in self-hosting is that they are outward facing toward the threat, and the threat can interact with the website." It takes a very sophisticated security team to successfully self-host a website.
"Open source like WordPress have a lot of vulnerabilities that make it easy to get access and to eventually get into the database," Schilling said. "A security team has to be able to identify the threat presence and have knowledge of security patches."
Because there are zero-day vulnerabilities that no one knows about, enterprises need a security team with the tools and capabilities to detect threats, said Schilling, who also noted that most of the customers that come to them have been compromised through their websites.
"They tried to host on their own, but they've been told they lost company IP, and they realized they can't do it themselves," Schilling said.
The companies who have already been infected require a very sophisticated security team to find the threat. Schilling said, "We are able to find the threat actors who have been on the network for 100+ days."
Schilling also noted the complications of patching different applications that aren't compatible. "In some cases, companies can't patch because it breaks the application that they've written on top of the server," Schilling said.
Schilling advised, "Companies should invest in a web platform that is secure. With platforms like Java exploit, WordPress, or Magenta, they need at least one security person who knows how to keep up." With these open source platforms, the companies have to monitor their websites themselves.
"In most cases it's a full-time job to monitor open source platforms and understand whether they are patched or can be patched," Schilling said. Depending on the size of the organization and the staffing budgets, having their website managed can provide a core intelligence security model that protects customers all the way through the stack, said Shilling.
Most organizations that shift to managed hosting of their websites, Schilling said, "Don't want to be bothered with managing infrastructure. They can manage the content inside applications. The hosting provider delivers the tech labor so that customers can manage their content."
Web hosting providers know the latest versions of updates on a variety of applications, and Schilling said, "They can provide upgrades to the infrastructure without much change to the service. They provide high-speed storage with better performance."
If an organization is considering moving to a hosting provider, Schilling advised, "Make sure the hosting provider stays up to date."
If the right in-house security team is too costly, companies might find that a hosting provider is more affordable and efficient depending on their needs. Schilling said, "A reputable hosting company should have a security team with talent, tools, procedures, antimalware scanning, vulnerability scanning, and a plethora of tools they can leverage to detect threat activity."
For those that are self-hosting, John Bock, vice president of software security, Optiv, said, "There are lots of options for website service providers out there, from lower tiered providers who offer free stuff all the way to full service providers. As you scale up the price, you are paying for more isolation so that breaches are dependent on the security of your own site."
For most companies that are deciding whether to self-host or outsource the website management, cost and security are frequently asked questions. Bock explained, "Aside from the cost of having an internal management team, the hosting provider is more on the ball than you will be with patching."
Because very few if any hosting providers will agree to unlimited liability in a contract, companies need to keep in mind that even if they completely outsource their website development and management, the website is theirs. Their customer information and data will be collected. In the event of a breach, the name of the enterprise, not the hosting provider, will be in the spotlight.
Bock explained, "If you are a health insurance company who builds its own consumer level website that collects a lot of patient data, and that data gets compromised, it's not just damaging to your reputation and brand. There are HIPPA laws and additional disclosures that can result in real penalties."
Organizations need to do a cost-benefit analysis and determine whether the security they can guarantee in-house will surpass that of a managed service provider. Whether having a website fully managed or self-hosting their website, Bock said, "The rules of the game are the same. Keep everything hardened and patches up to date."
When it comes to self-hosting, a security concern for Brad Anderson, CEO, Fruition, a full service digital agency that provides web hosting and website development, is that companies are banking on the hope that they are going to stay under the radar and avoid risk.
Anderson said "One benefit of having a managed website is that an enterprise has a dedicated team of development operations folks who are specialized in firewall." Security and accessibility are two of the most important concerns with websites.
Anderson noted, "Places like Amazon and Azure are largely unmanaged. Self-hosting requires an in-house server administration team and the ability and wherewithal to have access to the hardware 24/7. Most corporate IT teams do not want to deal with this," he continued.
Certainly there is no single reason why companies decide to outsource the management of their websites, but a disastrous event can raise concerns. Noticing a security issue or suspicious behavior is a reason organizations hire external parties to manage their websites, said Anderson. "There has been some security event where they are watching behavior but not quite sure what to do about it," he continued.
"With managed hosting, they have multiple layers of management. There is managed hosting and managed security with WAFs (web application firewalls) and hardware firewalls. Both software WAFs like ModSecurity and hardware firewalls," Anderson said.
When enterprises invest in managed hosting, Anderson said, "Companies are shifting the risk and leveraging the cost of hardware firewalls."
Source: When to host your Website's security
Rackspace Hosting Trading 4.8% Higher Following Insider Buying Activity (RAX)
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) shares traded up 4.8% during mid-day trading on Wednesday following insider buying activity, MarketBeat Ratings reports. The stock traded as high as $30.01 and last traded at $29.99, with a volume of 2,310,245 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $28.63.
Specifically, Director Graham M. Weston acquired 85,500 shares of Rackspace Hosting stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, August 25th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $29.24 per share, with a total value of $2,500,020.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 318,599 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $9,315,834.76. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link.
RAX has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of Rackspace Hosting to an "equal weight" rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 20th. Cowen and Company restated an "outperform" rating and set a $74.00 target price (down from $75.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research report on Saturday, May 23rd. Jefferies Group reaffirmed a "hold" rating and issued a $46.00 price objective (down previously from $48.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a report on Saturday, May 23rd. Credit Suisse reissued an "outperform" rating and set a $54.00 target price (down previously from $57.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research note on Tuesday, May 12th. Finally, JMP Securities restated an "outperform" rating and set a $62.00 price target (down from $67.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have issued a hold rating, eleven have assigned a buy rating and three have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Rackspace Hosting presently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $42.96.
The firm has a market capitalization of $4.48 billion and a PE ratio of 37.43. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $33.48 and a 200 day moving average price of $43.80.
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) last posted its earnings results on Monday, August 10th. The hosting company reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, hitting the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.20. The firm had revenue of $489 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $490.54 million. On average, equities analysts forecast that Rackspace Hosting will post $0.83 earnings per share for the current year.
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX) runs in the managed cloud section of the business information technology (IT) marketplace. The Organization offers a portfolio of integrated IT solutions for common business needs, including for ecommerce, Web content management, office post, info services, Website hosting and cooperation, and private clouds. Additionally, it offers advisory services for DevOps automation, security and conformity, program evaluation and migration, and technology strategy. The Business offers its solutions across an assortment of IT form factors, including multitenant public cloud, dedicated single – cloud that is private, renter servers, and hybrid cloud. It also produces managed services, and Fanatical Support across its entire product portfolio. The Company sells its services to business customers in more than 120 nations. The Company has operations located across the United States, along with in London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Hong Kong, Sydney and Mexico City.
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Source: Rackspace Hosting Trading 4.8% Higher Following Insider Buying Activity (RAX)
When to host your Website's security
Managing the daily updates and upgrades needed to keep the website secure demands a highly skilled administration team. A third party website management company provides both managed hosting and security, but the security of the site depends largely upon the provider.
Larger enterprises come to website hosting providers because they have regulatory requirements that they can't meet on their own. Commodity providers from AWS to Azure and Rackspace, provide infrastructure, but the enterprise monitors the security of the site themselves.
Self-monitoring with a highly skilled team can be as reliable as entrusting their site to the security team of a web hosting provider, but not every organization has a staff with the expertise and flexibility needed to build a strong security platform program.
Jeff Schilling, CSO, FireHost, said, "The biggest security risk in self-hosting is that they are outward facing toward the threat, and the threat can interact with the website." It takes a very sophisticated security team to successfully self-host a website.
"Open source like WordPress have a lot of vulnerabilities that make it easy to get access and to eventually get into the database," Schilling said. "A security team has to be able to identify the threat presence and have knowledge of security patches."
Because there are zero-day vulnerabilities that no one knows about, enterprises need a security team with the tools and capabilities to detect threats, said Schilling, who also noted that most of the customers that come to them have been compromised through their websites.
"They tried to host on their own, but they've been told they lost company IP, and they realized they can't do it themselves," Schilling said.
The companies who have already been infected require a very sophisticated security team to find the threat. Schilling said, "We are able to find the threat actors who have been on the network for 100+ days."
Schilling also noted the complications of patching different applications that aren't compatible. "In some cases, companies can't patch because it breaks the application that they've written on top of the server," Schilling said.
Schilling advised, "Companies should invest in a web platform that is secure. With platforms like Java exploit, WordPress, or Magenta, they need at least one security person who knows how to keep up." With these open source platforms, the companies have to monitor their websites themselves.
"In most cases it's a full-time job to monitor open source platforms and understand whether they are patched or can be patched," Schilling said. Depending on the size of the organization and the staffing budgets, having their website managed can provide a core intelligence security model that protects customers all the way through the stack, said Shilling.
Most organizations that shift to managed hosting of their websites, Schilling said, "Don't want to be bothered with managing infrastructure. They can manage the content inside applications. The hosting provider delivers the tech labor so that customers can manage their content."
Web hosting providers know the latest versions of updates on a variety of applications, and Schilling said, "They can provide upgrades to the infrastructure without much change to the service. They provide high-speed storage with better performance."
If an organization is considering moving to a hosting provider, Schilling advised, "Make sure the hosting provider stays up to date."
If the right in-house security team is too costly, companies might find that a hosting provider is more affordable and efficient depending on their needs. Schilling said, "A reputable hosting company should have a security team with talent, tools, procedures, antimalware scanning, vulnerability scanning, and a plethora of tools they can leverage to detect threat activity."
For those that are self-hosting, John Bock, vice president of software security, Optiv, said, "There are lots of options for website service providers out there, from lower tiered providers who offer free stuff all the way to full service providers. As you scale up the price, you are paying for more isolation so that breaches are dependent on the security of your own site."
For most companies that are deciding whether to self-host or outsource the website management, cost and security are frequently asked questions. Bock explained, "Aside from the cost of having an internal management team, the hosting provider is more on the ball than you will be with patching."
Because very few if any hosting providers will agree to unlimited liability in a contract, companies need to keep in mind that even if they completely outsource their website development and management, the website is theirs. Their customer information and data will be collected. In the event of a breach, the name of the enterprise, not the hosting provider, will be in the spotlight.
Bock explained, "If you are a health insurance company who builds its own consumer level website that collects a lot of patient data, and that data gets compromised, it's not just damaging to your reputation and brand. There are HIPPA laws and additional disclosures that can result in real penalties."
Organizations need to do a cost-benefit analysis and determine whether the security they can guarantee in-house will surpass that of a managed service provider. Whether having a website fully managed or self-hosting their website, Bock said, "The rules of the game are the same. Keep everything hardened and patches up to date."
When it comes to self-hosting, a security concern for Brad Anderson, CEO, Fruition, a full service digital agency that provides web hosting and website development, is that companies are banking on the hope that they are going to stay under the radar and avoid risk.
Anderson said "One benefit of having a managed website is that an enterprise has a dedicated team of development operations folks who are specialized in firewall." Security and accessibility are two of the most important concerns with websites.
Anderson noted, "Places like Amazon and Azure are largely unmanaged. Self-hosting requires an in-house server administration team and the ability and wherewithal to have access to the hardware 24/7. Most corporate IT teams do not want to deal with this," he continued.
Certainly there is no single reason why companies decide to outsource the management of their websites, but a disastrous event can raise concerns. Noticing a security issue or suspicious behavior is a reason organizations hire external parties to manage their websites, said Anderson. "There has been some security event where they are watching behavior but not quite sure what to do about it," he continued.
"With managed hosting, they have multiple layers of management. There is managed hosting and managed security with WAFs (web application firewalls) and hardware firewalls. Both software WAFs like ModSecurity and hardware firewalls," Anderson said.
When enterprises invest in managed hosting, Anderson said, "Companies are shifting the risk and leveraging the cost of hardware firewalls."
Source: When to host your Website's security
Rackspace Hosting Trading 4.8% Higher Following Insider Buying Activity (RAX)
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) shares traded up 4.8% during mid-day trading on Wednesday following insider buying activity, MarketBeat Ratings reports. The stock traded as high as $30.01 and last traded at $29.99, with a volume of 2,310,245 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $28.63.
Specifically, Director Graham M. Weston acquired 85,500 shares of Rackspace Hosting stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, August 25th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $29.24 per share, with a total value of $2,500,020.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 318,599 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $9,315,834.76. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link.
RAX has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of Rackspace Hosting to an "equal weight" rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 20th. Cowen and Company restated an "outperform" rating and set a $74.00 target price (down from $75.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research report on Saturday, May 23rd. Jefferies Group reaffirmed a "hold" rating and issued a $46.00 price objective (down previously from $48.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a report on Saturday, May 23rd. Credit Suisse reissued an "outperform" rating and set a $54.00 target price (down previously from $57.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research note on Tuesday, May 12th. Finally, JMP Securities restated an "outperform" rating and set a $62.00 price target (down from $67.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have issued a hold rating, eleven have assigned a buy rating and three have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Rackspace Hosting presently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $42.96.
The firm has a market capitalization of $4.48 billion and a PE ratio of 37.43. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $33.48 and a 200 day moving average price of $43.80.
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) last posted its earnings results on Monday, August 10th. The hosting company reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, hitting the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.20. The firm had revenue of $489 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $490.54 million. On average, equities analysts forecast that Rackspace Hosting will post $0.83 earnings per share for the current year.
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX) runs in the managed cloud section of the business information technology (IT) marketplace. The Organization offers a portfolio of integrated IT solutions for common business needs, including for ecommerce, Web content management, office post, info services, Website hosting and cooperation, and private clouds. Additionally, it offers advisory services for DevOps automation, security and conformity, program evaluation and migration, and technology strategy. The Business offers its solutions across an assortment of IT form factors, including multitenant public cloud, dedicated single – cloud that is private, renter servers, and hybrid cloud. It also produces managed services, and Fanatical Support across its entire product portfolio. The Company sells its services to business customers in more than 120 nations. The Company has operations located across the United States, along with in London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Hong Kong, Sydney and Mexico City.
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10 Common Mistakes Web Developers Make
This article is part of a web development series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible.
There seems to be endless choices regarding how to accomplish the same task – to develop a website that works in today's modern web. Web developers have to choose a web hosting platform and underlying data storage, which tools to write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in, how design will be implemented, and what potential JavaScript libraries/frameworks to include. Once choices are narrowed down, the online world is filled with articles, forums, and samples that provide tips for making a better web experience. Yet no matter which path is taken, all developers are susceptible to mistakes. Although some mistakes will be related to a specific approach, there are challenges shared among all web developers. So through research, experience, and recent observations, I thought I would share a list I compiled of ten common mistakes I see web developers make – and how to avoid them.
The following list is in no particular order.
1) Writing Old School HTMLMistake : The early days of the internet had much less options for markup than we do today. However, old habits die hard, and many still write their HTML as if we were still in the 20th century. Examples here are using <table> elements for layout, <span> or <div> elements when other semantic-specific tags would be more appropriate, or using tags that are not supported in current HTML standard such as <center> or <font>, or spacing items on a page with a large number of entities.
Impact : Writing last decade's HTML can result in over-complicated markup that will behave inconsistently across multiple browsers. And it's not necessary in more recent modern browsers like Microsoft Edge and even past versions of Internet Explorer (11, 10, 9).
How to avoid : Stop using the <table> element for layout of content, and limit usage for it to displaying tabular data. Get acquainted with the current markup options available such as seen at whatwg.org. Use HTML to describe what the content is, not how it will be displayed. To display your content correctly, use CSS ( http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/).
2) "It Works in My Browser…"Mistake : A developer may be fond of a particular browser or really despise one, and might primarily test web pages with that bias in-view. It is also possible that code samples found online may be written without factoring how it would render in other browsers. Also, some browsers have different default values for styles.
Impact : Writing a browser-centric site will likely result in very poor quality when displayed in other browsers.
How to avoid : It would not be practical to test web pages in every browser & version during development. However, having a regular interval of checking how your site will appear in multiple browsers is a good approach. Nowadays free tools to help are readily available regardless of your preferred platform: free VMs, site scanners. Sites such as http://browsershots.org/ or https://www.browserstack.com/show snapshots of how a given page would render over multiple browsers/versions/platforms. Tools such as Visual Studio can also invoke multiple browsers to display a single page you are working on. When designing with CSS, consider "resetting" all the defaults as shown at meyerweb.com.
If your site is using any CSS features created specific for a browser, be cautious as to how you will approach vendor prefixes such as -webkit-, -moz-, or -ms-. For guidance on industry trends in this regard, it would be worth your time to examine the following references:
While the above references explain a movement away from vendor prefixes and why, this site provides practical suggestions on how to work through this today.
3) Bad FormMistake : Prompting a user to provide any information (especially when entered into a text field) and assuming the data will be received as intended.
Impact : Many things can (and likely will) go wrong when user entry is trusted. Pages may fail if required data is not provided, or data received is not compatible with an underlying data scheme. Even more serious is the intentional violation of the site's database, perhaps through Injection attacks (see OWASP: Top 10 2013-A1-Injections).
How to avoid : The first bit of advice here is to make sure it is clear to the user what type of data you are looking for. These days, asking for an address could result in either a business, home, or even email address! In addition to be specific, take advantage of data validation techniques available in today's HTML as seen at this article. No matter how data is validated on the browser side, be sure it is always validated on the server-side as well. Never allow a concatenated T-SQL statement to use data from user entry without confirmation the each field is the type of data it should be.
4) Bloated ResponsesMistake : The page is filled with many high quality graphics and/or pictures, scaled down with use of img element height and width attributes. Files linked from the page such as CSS and JavaScript are large. The source HTML markup may also be unnecessarily complex and extensive.
Impact: The time to have a page completely render becomes long enough for some users to give up or even impatiently re-request the whole page again. In some cases, errors will occur if page processing is waiting too long.
How to avoid : Don't adopt the mindset that access to the internet is getting faster and faster – thus allowing for bloated scenarios. Instead, consider everything going back and forth from the browser to your site as a cost. A major offender in page bloat is images. To minimize the cost of images that slow down page loads, try these three tips:
Another way to reduce cost is to minify linked CSS and JavaScript files. There are plenty of tools out there to assist in this endeavor such as Minify CSS and Minify JS.
Before we leave this topic, strive to be current with HTML (see mistake #1) and use good judgment when using <style> or <script> tags in HTML.
5) Creating Code That Should WorkMistake : Whether it is JavaScript or code running on the server, a developer has tested and confirmed that it works, thereby concluding it should still work once deployed. The code executes without error trapping, because it worked when it was tested by developer.
Impact : Sites without proper error checking may reveal the errors to the end users in an ugly way. Not only can the user experience be dramatically impacted, the type of error message content could provide clues to a hacker as to how to infiltrate a site.
How to avoid : To err is human, so bring that philosophy to coding. With JavaScript, be sure to implement good techniques to prevent errors as well as catch them. Although this article addresses JavaScript coding for Windows Apps, the majority of the topics apply to web development too, and it is full of good tips! Another aid to help create solid code that can hold up well to future changes in code is unit testing (see this Wikipedia article).
Failures in server-side code should be caught without the user seeing any of the nerdy details. Reveal only what is necessary, and be sure to set up friendly error pages for things like HTTP 404s (see this Wikipedia article).
6) Writing Forking CodeMistake : With the noble notion of supporting all browsers and versions, a developer creates code to respond to each possible scenario. The code becomes a heap of if statements, forking in all sorts of direction.
Impact : As new versions of browsers update, management of code files become bulky and difficult to manage. And as mentioned in #1, it's increasingly unnecessary.
How to avoid : Implement feature detection in code versus browser/version detection. Feature detection techniques not only dramatically reduce the amount of code, it is much easier to read and manage. Consider using a library such as Modernizr which not only helps with feature detection, it also automatically helps provide fallback support for older browsers not up to speed with HTML5 or CSS3.
7) Designing UnresponsivelyMistake : Site development assumes viewing in the same size monitor as the developer/designer.
Impact : When viewing the site in mobile devices or very large screens, the user experience suffers with either not being able to see important aspects of the page or even preventing navigation to other pages.
How to avoid : Think responsively. Use responsive design ( Wikipedia) or ( A List Apart article) in your sites. Here are some practical tutorials on it including responsive images. A very popular library ready to serve in this area is Bootstrap.
8) Making Meaningless PagesMistake : Producing public facing pages with content that might be very useful, but not providing any hints to search engines. Accessibility features are not implemented.
Impact : Pages are not as discoverable through search engines and therefore may receive little or no visits. The page content may be very cryptic to users with impaired vision.
How to avoid : Use SEO (search engine optimizations) and support accessibility in HTML. Regarding SEO, be sure to add tags to provide meaning to a page with keywords and description. A good write up on that is found at About Tech. To enable a better accessibility experience, be determined to provide an alt="your image description" attribute in each of your img or area tags. Of course, there is more to do and further suggestions can be investigated at About Tech. You can also test a public web page at Cynthia Says to see if it is compliant with Section 508.
9) Producing Sites That Are Too RefreshingMistake : Creating a site that requires full refreshes of a page for each interaction.
Impact : Similar to bloated pages (see mistake #4), performance of page loading time is affected. The user experience lacks fluidity, and each interaction could cause a brief (or long) resetting of the page.
How to avoid : One quick way to avoid this is by determining if posting back to the server is truly required. For example, client-side script can be used to provide immediate results when there is no dependency for server-side resources. You can also embrace AJAX techniques ( Wikipedia) or go further with a single-page application "SPA" ( Wikipedia) approach. Popular JavaScript libraries/frameworks are available to make adoption of these methods much easier, such as JQuery, KnockoutJS, and AngularJS.
10) Working Too MuchMistake : A developer spends a long time creating web content. Time might be spent doing repetitive tasks, or simply typing a lot.
Impact: Time for initial web site launch or subsequent updates is too lengthy. Value of the developer diminishes when it appears other developers are doing comparable work in less time and with less effort. Manual labor is prone to mistakes, and troubleshooting mistakes takes even more time.
How to avoid : Explore your options. Consider using new tools or new process techniques for every stage of development. For example, how does your current code editor compare to Sublime Text or Visual Studio? Regardless of what code editor you are using, have you recently dived into its features? Perhaps a small investment of your time perusing the documentation could unveil a new way to do something that could save hours & hours of time later. For example, note how an extension to Visual Studio can increase productivity for web developers as seen in this post.
Don't miss out on tools available on the web to help! For example, check out the tools at dev.modern.ie to simplify testing (across multiple platforms and devices) and troubleshooting.
You can also help reduce time and mistakes by automating processes. An example of this is using a tool like Grunt that can automate things such as the minifying of files (see mistake #4). Another example is Bower which can help manage libraries/frameworks (see mistake #9).
How about the web server itself? With the help of services such as Microsoft Azure Web Apps, you can quickly create a site for virtually any development scenario that can easily scale with your business!
SummaryBy identifying common mistakes, web developers can eliminate much frustration that others have already endured. Not only is it important to acknowledge, but when we understand the impact of a mistake and take measures to avoid it, we can create a development process catered to our preferences – and do so with confidence!
More Hands-on with JavaScriptThis article is part of the web development series from Microsoft tech evangelists on practical JavaScript learning, open source projects, and interoperability best practices including Microsoft Edge browser and the new EdgeHTML rendering engine.
We encourage you to test across browsers and devices including Microsoft Edge – the default browser for Windows 10 – with free tools on dev.modern.IE:
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ASPWebHosting.com.au Launch New Windows Hosting with Cheaper Pricing
The company now offers four types of shared hosting plans; Windows Starter, Windows Economy, Windows Business and Windows Premium. These hosting plans are offered at price range of AUD$1.99, AUD$5.99, AUD$12.99 and AUD$21.99 per month which is cheaper than our previous shared hosting plans.
This new shared hosting pans will give the same benefits as Windows Premium plan, such as Unlimited Websites, Unlimited Bandwidth, 3 MSSQL 2012 database, unlimited MS Access DB and many more. The new plan suits customers who need to build website for short-p roject, promotions or college/school project. But it is not limited for other use or customer who has limited fund since it is a perfect way to cut cost.
ASPWebHosting.com.au supports the Windows Server 2012 and its older versions, IIS 8.5, ASP.NET 4.5 framework and its older versions, MSSQL 2012, cheap domain registration and many more. With its certified support teams can help manage the servers 24/7. For more information, please visit http://www.aspwebhosting.com.au/windows-web-hosting.aspx
About ASPWebHosting.com.auASPWebHosting.com.au was established in 2001 as a web hosting company offering businesses a cost-effective, flexible means of setting up, monitoring and maintaining websites that could include advanced features like online shopping and database functionality. It also provided the infrastructure and interface tools that allowed web developers to focus on the job of web design. ASPWebHosting.com.au provides a wide range of hosting solutions, with a great man y features, well beyond the developer web account and well surpassing the competition. For more information, visit them at http://www.aspwebhosting.com.au
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Web Host eUKhost Partners with SpamExperts to Keep Network Secured
"We host over 34,000 clients worldwide who are sending and receiving millions of emails each day. With a mission to prevent our customers from the global issues and annoyance associated with unsolicited e-mails, we decided to team up with a world leading provider of anti-spam solutions and are proud to announce our partnership with Spam Experts," explained Robert King, eUKhost founder and Managing Director.
"Our company is growing and it is with great pleasure that I welcome eUKhost to our Hosting Partner Program. Due to the large amount of incoming and outgoing spam, eUKhost needed a professional, robust solution and we are happy we were there to satisfy this request. Thei r team can now keep a clean infrastructure and focus on the real needs of their clients," states Sam Renkema, SpamExperts CEO.
For detailed information about how SpamExperts solutions have helped eUKhost fight spam, please read their case study.
About eUKhosteUKhost is a privately owned web hosting provider located in the UK with 24x7x365 live customer support, providing fully managed services, from hybrid enterprise solutions down to personal domain names and running across a large number of data centres across the UK. Whether you need a cloud hosting solution, private virtual server, a dedicated environment or just need to host a personal website eUKhost can cater to any of your needs.For more information, please visit at www.eukhost.com or webhosting.uk.com.
About SpamExpertsSpamExperts solutions are tailored to (shared) webhosts, ISPS/Telcos and large organizations, as well as distributors and resellers. They offer inbound & outbound email filtering servi ces, as well as email archiving. The services can run either within the redundant SpamExperts Hosted Cloud or on a Local Cloud directly deployed on the customer's (virtual) hardware.For more info, please visit www.spamexperts.com
Source: Web Host eUKhost Partners with SpamExperts to Keep Network Secured
How To Analyze Traffic (Bandwidth) and Disk Space to Host your Social Media Site
The internet is undoubtedly the busiest street on earth. With thousands of websites and millions of visitors popping up every day, it becomes more complex to manage and maintain a website whose traffic keeps on going with time.
Enter social media and you make it even more complex. Social media site hosting can no longer be done on shared servers because shared hosting is just not the right thing that can scale a web app. Today you may have 100 users using the app, but within a few months, you have no idea on how many zeros will be added behind that number. And it will happen very quickly, which might bring down the entire thing like a house of cards (if you are not prepared for the scale). The impact of hosting a social media site is enormous and it will come from nowhere, not giving you any time for preparation. Before you decide to purchase hosting for your brand new social media site which is about to launch, here are a few things you should take care of.
1. Choose a hosting provider wisely
You should choose a hosting provider that is right for your business (and not randomly choose a hosting company). This is very important for the long-term success of your website. Specifically, you should consider the following factors before you choose a web hosting provider
Does this hosting company provide a smooth transition from one plan to another? So if you get started with shared hosting and want to eventually try a Windows or Linux virtual private server hosting solution, how smooth the transition will be?
These are some, if not all of the factors you should consider before you choose your web hosting company. You can always migrate to another host if things go wrong, but why make the effort of moving from one host to another when a little bit of research will help you time, effort and money?
2. Analyze Bandwidth of Your Social Media website
The first thing you would want to analyze before you launch your social media website is how much bandwidth your web host can provide you, should you get a spike in traffic. The first thing to note here is visitor metrics. You should calculate the following metrics:
A typical web page can size anywhere between 30KB to 1MB (depending on the number of embedded images, JavaScript, CSS and other files that the website uses for rendering). On an average one HTML page should not be more than 50 KB in size. So let's say your website gets 1000 visits every day and each user clicks through 5 pages. Your total bandwidth requirement for any given day would be,
= (1000 X 5 X 50) = 250,000 KB = 250 MB.
What this means is that 250 MB of data is transferred from your web server to the computers of the users who are using your social media site. More the number of users, more will be the bandwidth. So the bandwidth will only rise with time, should your website starts getting big and user engagement increases.
Now that you have figured out the daily bandwidth quota needed for your social media site, it won't be too hard to calculate a monthly bandwidth range. In our example, it should be around 6000 – 10,000 MB.
You can cross check this data in the cPanel of your existing web host. Just take a look at the Bandwidth section and you should see daily and weekly bandwidth trends. Server logs and Awstats will also provide you useful numbers on how much data is being transferred to your users on any given day.
Before you choose a new web host for your social media website, it would be worthwhile to check with the support team, whether the plan you are taking would support your daily and monthly bandwidth needs. Each hosting plan comes with some bandwidth limitations and you should check this before availing the plan.
If you are choosing a VPS hosting plan to host your social media website, make choice of your VPS hosting provider wisely.Things like uptime management, reliability, technical assistance, caching, billing can get really messy if you choose a provider without doing prior research.
3. Analyzing Disk Space
Most web hosting plans come with fixed disk space usage and depending on the plan you subscribe to, your disk space is allocated. But here is an important point to note.
When you choose a web hosting plan on a shared server, the entire disk space is not allocated to your website. Disk space is allocated in batches, depending on the needs of the website. So if your web hosting plan provides you 10GB of disk space and you are using just 200 MB, the initial quota that will be allotted to your website will be around 1GB.
When your usage increases and nears the allotted quota of 1GB, the provider will add more disk space on demand in batches. This is how shared hosting works. Added to this, there are other web host factors to consider before you proceed. If you are hosting your social media website on a shared server, here are a few things you should consider evaluatingThe total file size of the framework which you will be using. Ideally, you would want to download all the files of the framework and see how much file size it takes for the server. Let's take an example to understand.
The total file size of the framework which you will be using. Ideally, you would want to download all the files of the framework and see how much file size it takes for the server. Let's take an example to understand.
Let us suppose you are using Ruby on Rails to create your social media website. The core files of your application would be anywhere around 85 – 100 MB (at most). This won't take up much space at all, but you should check the total size of the web application framework which is powering your website.
If you are using Caching plugins, check the size of your cache.
Keep an approximate count of the number of user uploaded image files on your website. If you have 1000 users, it is possible that your website will have images around 4000-8000. If each image takes up 100KB of space, the total disk usage of the image turns out to be 1 GB.
Are you using your own website to host user-uploaded videos or other file types? Keep an approximate count of these files as well and calculate the file size per user. This will give you some idea of the disk space used by each user on an aggregate, so you will be able to calculate how much disk size you need as you scale up your social media site.
You can get a rough idea about disk space already consumed by your website from your hosting cPanel. Given below is a rough disk usage of a blog with 2000 pages:
Keep in mind the scale factor. As you scale your social media site, the disk space usage will rise exponentially and you will need to upgrade your disk space very quickly. Otherwise, it is possible that a sudden influx of traffic will crash your entire website down.
Source: How To Analyze Traffic (Bandwidth) and Disk Space to Host your Social Media Site
Web.com Loses 93,000 Credit Card Numbers in Breach
Update Florida-based web hosting company Web.com on Tuesday announced that it had suffered a data breach and payment card and personal information belonging to 93,000 customers was accessed.
The company did not say in a statement or press release whether the stolen data was encrypted, nor how it was accessed. "All Web.com customer credit card numbers are encrypted," company spokesperson John Herbkersman told Threatpost via email.
The breach was detected Aug. 13 and Web.com said it contacted law enforcement and a security consulting firm to assist with its investigation.
Web.com said it has more than 3.3 million customers and said that it is offering a year of credit monitoring to those affected by the breach; victims were yesterday sent an email from Web.com explaining next steps.
"The security of our customer information is a high priority for Web.com. Our goals are simple – to protect our clients from internet attacks and, in the event that an attack succeeds, to fix the problem immediately," said David L. Brown, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Web.com, in a prepared statement.
Web.com said the vector by which the attackers were able to infiltrate one of its systems was immediately shut down. In addition to credit card numbers, Web.com said the hackers also accessed personal information including names and addresses attached to the payment cards. Card validation, or security codes, as well as Social Security numbers were not compromised, Web.com said.
"Web.com has very strong and sophisticated security measures in place to protect our computer systems and we regularly review and update our security protocols," the company said in a FAQ published on its site. "Unfortunately, cybercrime is a persistent threat in today's world. Despite our best efforts, no business is immune."
Web.com provides an array of hosting services, as well as domain registration, website design, management, search engine optimization and other services.
This article was updated Aug. 21 with a comment from Web.com.
Source: Web.com Loses 93,000 Credit Card Numbers in Breach
Liquid Web Celebrates 9th Consecutive Year on List of Fastest Growing US Companies
LANSING, Mich., Aug. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquid Web, Inc., (www.liquidweb.com) a leading provider of professional web hosting and managed cloud services headquartered in Lansing, MI added a 9th consecutive year to its run as one of Inc. Magazine's 5,000 fastest growing private companies headquartered in the United States. The company has launched additional locations in Arizona (US) and Amsterdam (NL), while adding such diverse clientele as Home Depot, FILA USA, The Boy Scouts of America, The United Way, and Disruptor Beam – Developer of Game of Thrones Online Games – over the period in which Inc. Magazine has charted its growth. This comes in the wake of a nod to Liquid Web's best-in-class customer service with the announcement of their NPS score reaching all time high of 74.
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Inc Magazine's list is based on percentage of revenue growth over a three-year period. The list also notes each company's industry, revenue, number of employees, and location. Over that three year span, Liquid Web has experienced a 64% growth rate, while adding 141 new positions to its workforce. Companies making the list for 5 or more consecutive years are recognized on the "Inc. 5000 Honor Roll" and this is Liquid Web's fifth straight year for Honor Roll recognition. Only 22 privately-held companies, nationally, have achieved this distinction more times than Liquid Web, Inc since the inception of Inc. Magazine's rankings.
Announcing substantial investment from Madison Dearborn Partners and naming a new CEO in Jim Geiger on May 27th, 2015, Liquid Web is spearheading efforts to further accelerate this rapid growth through global expansion and by building upon the foundation of the company's world-class customer service. "It's extremely pleasing to see Liquid Web recognized for its growth, however this honor also serves as more motivation to continue this trend," said Geiger when receiving the news of the Inc. 5000 honor. "We've already gotten off to a running start, not only initiating new developments geared toward the needs of our customers and the hosting industry at large, but also making certain that we are aligned to scale our business to unprecedented heights."
See Also: Liquid Web Achieves Best-in-Class NPS Score of 74
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Ispaze Unleashes the power of 64 bit web Hosting in india
Ispaze Hosting , One of the emerging web hosting company in india has unleashed the power of 64 bit hosting by introducing its new Enterprise class windows web hosting plans with Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET 4.0, LINQ, IIS 7, MSSQL 64 bit and MVC Hosting Support in windows server 2008 environment.
Hyderabad, Telangana, August 19, 2015 /India PRwire/ -- Ispaze Hosting , One of the emerging web hosting company in india has unleashed the power of 64 bit hosting by introducing its new Enterprise class windows web hosting plans with Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET 4.0, LINQ, IIS 7, MSSQL 64 bit and MVC Hosting Support in windows server 2008 environment.
Ispaze Hosting CEO, Mr. Y S Gupta said "Ispaze Hosting always works hard to adopt the new technologies in Hosting and also pass the technological benefits to its customers right away; our motto is customer satisfaction through unparalleled support and service at an affordable price. We will monitor the performance of the applications hosted on this 64 bit Grid Hosting servers for next 3 months and currently this option is only available with Enterprise Class web Hosting Plans, in future we will introduce this new technologies into our consumer class plans as well."
Some of the Key benefits of this 64 bit hosting are tremendous increase in performance, High scalability, can work in more demand as well, works better when high resource consumptions technologies like Silver light and AJAX is used and perfect solution for SQL Database. Using 64 bit software memory of the server can utilized to the fullest extent thus making the Rich Internet Application work perfectly.
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This Glorious Web-Collage is Made Entirely from Pieces of Old GeoCities Pages
It's Cameron's World now—the rest of us are just living in it.
To wit, Cameron's World is a web-collage and de facto time machine that offers visitors a glimpse into the Internet of old. The project (link at bottom) is an enormous collection of text, GIFs and other visuals culled from thousands of archived GeoCities pages. For those of you too young to remember GeoCities (R.I.P., 1994-2009), here's a history lesson courtesy of Cameron himself:
GeoCities was a web-hosting service that made it possible for people to build their own home pages. During the '90s, users from all over the world created personalized corners of the Internet. By the time the U.S. service shut down in October 2009, there were more than 38 million GeoCities pages. Cameron's World brings together archived material from thousands and thousands of these sites.
As you may imagine, Cameron's World reads like an Internet time capsule with a decidedly surrealist bent, incorporating everything from an animated skull playing a trumpet to the words "Feel free to visit all my cave then tell me what do you like and what not" to a button marked "Steve Buscemi Greetings!" The massive collage is divided into about two dozen distinct sections, which become increasingly bizarre as you scroll. One could easily spend hours sorting through all the insane digital flotsam and jetsam Cameron has aggregated.
Despite the eye-popping, absurd and often hilarious appearance of Cameron's World, the message behind the project is actually quite profound. "In an age where we interact primarily with branded and marketed web content, Cameron's World is a tribute to the lost days of unrefined self-expression on the Internet," Cameron explains in a statement. "This project recalls the visual aesthetics from an era when it was expected that personal spaces would always be under construction."
Cameron (full name: Cameron Askin) is a full-time freelance designer and part-time artist living in Berlin. Today, he is a full-time Internet hero as well. GeoCities, we hardly knew ye.
Experience Cameron's World in all its animated and audio-enhanced glory here.
Source: This Glorious Web-Collage is Made Entirely from Pieces of Old GeoCities Pages
Web Hosting Meets Customer Support
The noted web hosting provider 'DirektHost' recently announced that they are now offering their services throughout Europe and the Eurozone.
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Timisoara, Romania -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/18/2015 -- Since 2004, DirektHost has been developing innovative new technologies and has made an unprecedented name for themselves within the web hosting, domain registration, and virtual server industries.
"Although we are a small business, we pride ourselves on putting our clients first." said a DirektHost representative. "Our dedicated support staff is always available to offer personalized customer support. When available, we always try to connect clients with the corresponding staff member who they spoke to in the past. Making the process quick and simple."
About DirektHostOften considered as one of the most reliable web hosting providers, DirektHost has professional servers located in six data centres throughout the world.
To find out more information about the company, visit their website directly at www.direkthost.net
Media Contact:Dow Media SRLCristian Sutac – CEOBlv. Republicii Nr. 9 Et. 3, camera 310Timisoa ra, Romania300159+40213107237http://direkthost.net
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UK-Based Web Host Pickaweb Is on Top of Spam since Partnering with SpamExperts
17.08.2015 09:46:01 - Dutch email security company SpamExperts expands client pool with British web host Pickaweb.
(live-PR.com) - Amsterdam, August 17, 2015 – British web host, Pickaweb, has implemented SpamExperts Incoming and Outgoing filters in the Hosted Cloud and joined the Hosting Partner Program. Switching to SpamExperts has helped Pickaweb save valuable time from an operational and management perspective, as well as increase customer satisfaction. Rather than reacting and fixing problems generated by email spam and viruses retrospectively, they could be confident of nipping issues in the bud."By being able to identify spam at source, we can point out issues such as insecure scripts, out of date CMS, and more. This means that our overall infrastructure is more secure, as we can manage these types of issues much more effectively. Being on top of spam means that we spend less time from a management perspective addressing these issues with our team and we can all focus on growing the business and offering exceptional levels of support. SpamExperts has enabled us to get on top of spam, stop wasting valuable time and increased customer satisfaction. This all feeds into the bottom line; overall we are really impressed!" explained Tony Messer, Pickaweb Director.
"Pickaweb is a valuable industry partner for SpamExperts. We welcome them to our Hosting Partner Program and are pleased they've chosen our solutions to help their customers get more value directly from their web hosting or cloud services plans. Throug h our partnership, Pickaweb can manage their email security while focusing on maintaining service quality to their end-clients," said Sam Renkema, SpamExperts CEO.
For more information about how SpamExperts solutions helped Pickaweb fight spam, please read their case study.
About PickawebPickaweb is one of the UK's longest established web hosting companies. Formed in 2000, they offer a full range of online services to UK SMEs; including domain names, web hosting, SSL certificates, Virtual Private Servers, Cloud Servers and Dedicated Servers.For more information, please visit their website.
About SpamExpertsSpamExperts solutions are tailored to (shared) webhosts, ISPS/Telcos and large organizations, as well as distributors and resellers. They offer inbound & outbound email filtering services, as well as email archiving. The services can run either within the redundant SpamExperts Hosted Cloud or on a Local Cloud directly deployed on the customer's (virtual ) hardware.For more info, please visit www.spamexperts.com
Source: UK-Based Web Host Pickaweb Is on Top of Spam since Partnering with SpamExperts
HostForLIFE.eu Launches Umbraco 7.2.8 Hosting
London, United Kingdom, August 16, 2015 –(PR.com)– HostForLIFE.eu, a leading Windows web hosting provider with innovative technology solutions and a dedicated professional services team, today announced the support for Umbraco 7.2.8 hosting plan due to high demand of Umbraco users in Europe. The company has managed to build a strong client base in a very short period of time. It is known for offering ultra-fast, fully-managed and secured services in the competitive market.
HostForLIFE.eu hosts its servers in top class data centers that is located in Amsterdam (NL), London (UK), Paris (FR), Frankfurt (DE) and Seattle (US) to guarantee 99.9% network uptime. All data center feature redundancies in network connectivity, power, HVAC, security and fire suppression. All hosting plans from HostForLIFE.eu include 24×7 support and 30 days money back guarantee. HostForLIFE Umbraco hosting plan starts from just as low as €3.00/month only and this plan has supported ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 5/6 and SQL Server 2012/2014.
Umbraco 7.2.8 is a fully-featured open source content management system with the flexibility to run anything from small campaign or brochure sites right through to complex applications for Fortune 500's and some of the largest media sites in the world. Umbraco was sometimes unable to read the umbraco.config file, making Umbraco think it had no content and showing a blank page instead (issue U4-6802), this is the main issue fixed in this release. This affects people on 7.2.5 and 7.2.6 only. 7.2.8 also fixes a conflict with Courier and some other packages.
Umbraco 7.2.8 Hosting is strongly supported by both an active and welcoming community of users around the world, and backed up by a rock-solid commercial organization providing professional support and tools. Umbraco 7.2.8 can be used in its free, open-source format with the additional option of professional tools and support if required. Not only can you publish great multilingual websites using Umbraco 7.2.8 out of the box, you can also build in your chosen language with our multilingual back office tools.
Further information and the full range of features Umbraco 7.2.8 Hosting can be viewed here: http://hostforlife.eu/European-Umbraco-728-Hosting
About HostForLIFE.euHostForLIFE.eu is an European Windows Hosting Provider which focuses on the Windows Platform only. HostForLIFE.eu deliver on-demand hosting solutions including Shared hosting, Reseller Hosting, Cloud Hosting, Dedicated Servers, and IT as a Service for companies of all sizes.
HostForLIFE.eu is awarded Top No#1 SPOTLIGHT Recommended Hosting Partner by Microsoft (see http://www.asp.net/hosting/hostingprovider/details/953). Their service is ranked the highest top #1 spot in several European countries, such as: Germany, Italy, Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and other European countries. Besides this award, they have also won several awards from reputable organizations in the hosting industry and the detail can be found on their official website.
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JMP Securities Reaffirms Buy Rating for Rackspace Hosting (RAX)
JMP Securities restated their buy rating on shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) in a research report released on Tuesday, Marketbeat reports. They currently have a $55.00 price target on the hosting company's stock, down from their previous price target of $62.00.
Shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) traded up 1.22% during trading on Tuesday, reaching $29.89. 4,024,011 shares of the company were exchanged. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $34.91 and a 200-day moving average price of $44.69. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.25 billion and a P/E ratio of 35.58. Rackspace Hosting has a 1-year low of $27.65 and a 1-year high of $56.20.
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) last released its earnings results on Monday, August 10th. The hosting company reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.20. The business had revenue of $489 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $490.54 million. Equities research analysts predict that Rackspace Hosting will post $0.83 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Other equities research analysts have also issued reports about the stock. CLSA lowered shares of Rackspace Hosting from an outperform rating to an underperform rating and reduced their price objective for the company from $40.00 to $35.00 in a report on Tuesday. KeyBanc dropped their target price on shares of Rackspace Hosting from $58.00 to $45.00 and set an overweight rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday. RBC Capital lowered their price objective on shares of Rackspace Hosting from $43.00 to $36.00 and set a sector perform rating on the stock in a research report on Monday. Barclays lowered their target price on shares of Rackspace Hosting from $50.00 to $39.00 and set an overweight rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday. Finally, Raymond James upgraded shares of Rackspace Hosting from an outperform rating to a strong-buy rating and set a $48.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Tuesday. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a s ell rating, ten have assigned a hold rating, eleven have assigned a buy rating and three have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. The stock currently has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus price target of $42.96.
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX) runs in the handled cloud section of the company information technology (IT) marketplace. The Organization offers a portfolio of integrated IT solutions for common business wants, including for e-commerce, Web content management, office mail, info services, Website hosting and collaboration, and private clouds. It also offers advisory services for security, technology strategy and conformity, application assessment and migration, and DevOps automation. The Organization offers its solutions across an assortment of IT form factors, including multi tenant public cloud, dedicated single – private cloud, tenant servers, and cloud that is hybrid. Additionally, it produces Fanatical Support across its entire product portfolio, and managed services. The Company sells its services to business customers in more than 120 countries. The Company has operations located across the United States, in addition to in Mexico City, Sydney and London, Amsterdam, Zur ich, Hong Kong.
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ASPHostPortal.com Announces ASP.NET 4.6 Hosting Solution
ASPHostPortal.com - The leader of ASP.NET hosting provider launches ASP.NET 4.6 hosting with fast network and fast support.
New York, NY, August 14, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Nowadays, anybody can afford to order a feature-packed web hosting plan for next to nothing; however, affordable price is not the only criterion which should be considered when purchasing web hosting services. The basics of what you should look for in choosing a web hosting company, not just concentrating on the best price and features, but also on reliability and honesty. You're investing your money and effort into finding paying customers and you wouldn't like to lose them in order to save a few dollars per month on a web hosting service. ASPHostPortal.com is reliable and honest ASP.NET hosting provider for you. Today, they offer ASP.NET 4.6 hosting with excellent service and responsive support.
ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites. It allows you to use a full featured programming language such as C# or VB.NET to build web applications easily. AS P.NET is in the process of being re-implemented as a modern and modular web framework, together with other frameworks like Entity Framework. The new framework will make use of the new open-source .NET Compiler Platform and be cross platform. ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages will merge into a unified MVC 6.
ASP.NET 4.6 is an umbrella term used to describe updates existing Frameworks such as ASP.NET Web Forms/ MVC 5/ Web API 2 etc. You can build Web Apps using these Frameworks on the standard, desktop-enabled .NET Framework model. Apart from working on ASP.NET 5, we are also working on updating Frameworks in ASP.NET 4.6. You can expect changes around supporting platform updates. These includes updates in .NET for .NET Compiler Platform (Roslyn) and hosting changes in IIS to support HTTP/2.
ASPHostPortal.com serve people since 2008 and they know how to deliver Powerful, Fast and Reliable ASP.NET 4.6 Hosting with the Superior Customer Support. Fully manage d and monitored around the clock, their servers run on Windows Operating system with lots of memory (RAM) and up multiple Quad-Core Xeon CPU's, utilizing power of the Cloud Services. Their ASP.NET 4.6 Hosting plans come with up to 99.99% uptime and 30-Day Full Money Back Guarantee. To learn more about ASP.NET 4.6 Hosting, please visit http://asphostportal.com/ASPNET-46-Hosting
About ASPHostPortal.com :ASPHostPortal.com is The Best, Cheap and Recommended ASP.NET & Linux Hosting. ASPHostPortal.com has ability to support the latest Microsoft, ASP.NET, and Linux technology, such as: such as: WebMatrix, WebDeploy, Visual Studio 2015, .NET 5/ASP.NET 4.5.2, ASP.NET MVC 6.0/5.2, Silverlight 6 and Visual Studio Lightswitch, Latest MySql version, Latest PHPMyAdmin, Support PHP 5.x, etc. Their service include shared hosting, reseller hosting, and sharepoint hosting, with speciality in ASP.NET, SQL Server, and Linux solutions. Protection, trustworthiness, and performance are on the co re of hosting operations to make certain every website and software hosted is so secured and performs at the best possible level.
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Rackspace Hosting Given Buy Rating at Stifel Nicolaus (RAX)
Stifel Nicolaus reiterated their buy rating on shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) in a research report sent to investors on Tuesday morning, AnalystRatings.Net reports. Stifel Nicolaus currently has a $42.00 target price on the hosting company's stock, down from their previous target price of $60.00.
A number of other research firms have also recently weighed in on RAX. Cowen and Company restated an outperform rating and set a $75.00 price target on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Morgan Stanley lowered shares of Rackspace Hosting from an overweight rating to an equal weight rating and decreased their target price for the stock from $55.00 to $49.00 in a report on Tuesday, May 12th. Oppenheimer reissued an outperform rating and issued a $62.00 price target on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a report on Tuesday, May 12th. Credit Agricole reduced their target price on shares of Rackspace Hosting from $55.00 to $52.00 and set an outperform rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, May 12th. Finally, Credit Suisse reissued an outperform rating and set a $54.00 price target (down previously from $57.00) on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research report on Tuesday, May 12th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, el even have issued a hold rating, eleven have assigned a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. Rackspace Hosting currently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average price target of $42.96.
Shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) traded up 2.56% during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $29.99. 6,899,488 shares of the company's stock were exchanged. The firm has a market cap of $4.27 billion and a P/E ratio of 35.70. Rackspace Hosting has a 52-week low of $27.65 and a 52-week high of $56.20. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $35.60 and a 200 day moving average price of $45.04.
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) last released its earnings results on Monday, August 10th. The hosting company reported $0.20 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.20. The company earned $489 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $490.54 million. Analysts forecast that Rackspace Hosting will post $0.87 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX) runs in the managed cloud section of the business information technology (IT) market. The Organization offers a portfolio of integrated IT solutions for common business wants, including for e commerce, Web content management, office mail, information services, Website hosting and cooperation, and private clouds. In addition, it offers advisory services for security, technology strategy and compliance, application evaluation and migration, and DevOps automation. The Company also offers its solutions across an assortment of IT form factors, including multi tenant public cloud – tenant servers, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. In addition, it delivers managed services, and Fanatical Support across its entire product portfolio. The Company sells its services to business customers in more than 120 countries. The Company has operations located across the USA, along with in Sydney, London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Hong Kong and Mexico City.
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Best Web Hosting Awards for 2015 Announced by NCM Online
After purchasing, testing, reviewing, and ranking 50 popular hosts, NCM Online has honored the top web hosting companies in nine categories.
Online PR News – 12-August-2015 – NCM Online (www.ncmonline.com) — a leader in the publication of data-driven web hosting reviews, testing, analysis, and rankings — has announced the winners of the 2015 Web Hosting Awards.
Utilizing compiled data and independent third-party test results, NCM Online has selected best web hosts of 2015 in 9 categories.
Best Affiliate ProgramBest Online MarketingBest Web Hosting Coupon CodesFastest Web Hosting WorldwideFastest Web Hosting United StatesTop 10 Web HostsBest Budget Web HostingBest Web Hosting100% Uptime Rating
"There were numerous challenges in undertaking a project of this scope and magnitude, said NCM Online editor, Patricia Roberts. She continued, "But true to our principles, we used the compiled data and test results to minimize any possible bias in the selection of the winners."
"Whenever you select winners, there will also be losers," commented NCM Online editor, Anthony Ailed. He added, "As NCM Online acts as an affiliate for nearly all of the companies we review, we were forced to consider the risk of alienating hosting companies with which we have established business relationships. However, we decided at the outset that we would publish our findings, and let the chips fall where they may."
NCM Online's efforts have resulted in reliable source of unbiased hosting information for webmasters, small-business owners, internet marketers, and bloggers.
About NCM OnlineIn addition to the benefits of their singular, data-driven approach to testing, reviewing and ranking low-cost web hosting services, NCM Online publishes current discount, flash sale, and coupon code updates. Click for page-load speed and reliability test results as well as web hosting reviews and rankings.
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"But true to our principles, we used the compiled data and test results to minimize any possible bias in the selection of the winners."
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UKHost4U.com Launches Easy Website Builder Packages for Home, Business and Reseller
London, UK — (SBWIRE) — 08/11/2015 — UKHost4U.com is a leading name in the web hosting services industry which is providing its high quality and comprehensive services to clients across the world. Recently, the web hosting company introduced its Web Site Builder package which allows anyone to design their own web site in an easy and convenient way. The new service packages have been launched to meet Home, Business and Reseller needs of the clients.
A the look and layout of a website plays a major role in a brand image and positioning, a well-made and laid out website attracts customers and helps a business differentiate itself from its competitors. UKHost4U acknowledge the importance of a good website for their esteemed clients and have therefore created website builder packages with their needs in mind. The service has been developed to empower people to create their own website according to their needs and wants in an easy and simple way. The builder features a wide variety of aesthetic options such as themes and color combinations to choose from, to grab the attention of website users; the builder comes equipped with a range of stock media.
UKHost4U.com spokesperson explained: "With our Web Site Design packages people will be able to select from a multitude of unique layouts, including design, website hosting, color scheme, a plethora of stock imagery and text of their choice to build a website presence in only 4 individual steps. Add special features such as Flash video media, forums, mapping features, social media and networking widgets and feedback forms simply, without any or very little previous experience."
The company explained that the builder is simple enough for people with no or little website designing experience. The builder also provides the capacity to include a user's own portfolio of images and unique text, creating a design can be mastered in just 4 simple steps. These varieties of choices and options open doors to ultimate customization and modification to achieve the exact look and feel of a website to match any brand's' image. The packages have been tailored to meet the needs of different types of clients.
For more details please visit: https://www.ukhost4u.com/website-builder-package
About UKHost4UUKHost4U offers easy to use web hosting solutions have made us one of the leading service providers in the world for Internet based website hosting from 1999 till today. They were among the first businesses in the IT sector to offer a fully automated web hosting solution and continue to lead the market through the constant development of our web hosting technologies. UKhost4u clients benefit from the most advanced, feature rich, web based control panel in the industry combined with our first class technical support.
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Source: UKHost4U.com Launches Easy Website Builder Packages for Home, Business and Reseller
Vetr Inc. Upgrades Rackspace Hosting to Strong-Buy (RAX)
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) was upgraded by Vetr from a "buy" rating to a "strong-buy" rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Monday, MarketBeat reports. The brokerage presently has a $36.00 price objective on the hosting company's stock. Vetr's price objective would suggest a potential upside of 12.32% from the stock's current price.
Several other research analysts have also issued reports on RAX. Zacks downgraded Rackspace Hosting from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, July 23rd. Wells Fargo & Co. reaffirmed an "outperform" rating on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research report on Tuesday, July 14th. Evercore ISI downgraded Rackspace Hosting from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and decreased their target price for the stock from $50.00 to $40.00 in a research report on Thursday, July 9th. JMP Securities reaffirmed a "buy" rating and issued a $62.00 price target on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a report on Monday, June 29th. Finally, TheStreet lowered Rackspace Hosting to a "hold" rating in a research note on Friday, June 26th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have given a hold rating, thirteen have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. The stock has a consens us rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $50.05.
Shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) opened at 32.05 on Monday. The company has a market capitalization of $4.58 billion and a P/E ratio of 40.57. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $36.04 and a 200 day moving average price of $45.29. Rackspace Hosting has a 1-year low of $28.80 and a 1-year high of $56.20.
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May 11th. The hosting company reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.20. The firm earned $480.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $481 million. Rackspace Hosting's quarterly revenue was up 14.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.18 EPS. Equities research analysts anticipate that Rackspace Hosting will post $0.87 EPS for the current year.
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX) runs in the handled cloud section of the company information technology (IT) marketplace. The Organization provides a portfolio of integrated IT solutions for common business needs, including for e commerce, Web content management, office mail, data services, Website hosting and cooperation, and private clouds. It also provides advisory services for technology strategy, security and conformity, program evaluation and migration, and DevOps automation. The Business offers its solutions across a variety of IT form factors, including multi-tenant public cloud – cloud that is private, tenant servers, and cloud that is hybrid. Additionally, it produces Fanatical Support across its entire product portfolio, and managed services. The Company sells its services to business customers in more than 120 nations. The Company has operations located throughout the USA, along with in Mexico City, Sydney and London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Hong Kong.
To view Vetr's full report, visit Vetr's official website.
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LayerOnline to offer Weebly Cloud website builder tool for its cPanel cloud web hosting services
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08, August 2015: cPanel cloud web hosting is increasingly becoming popular among firm owners as it ensures effective management of the official websites of the companies. It allows the users to perform administrative tasks easily and quickly. There are many firms which are offering cPanel cloud web hosting services but when it comes to quality LayerOnline is much superior to other software firms. This firm is specialized in providing cloud based nameservers, CDN, and email hosting with maximum reliability and performance. Customers availing the services of this firm can have instant registration of their domain name. They also have the option of transferring their domain even after availing free web hosting services from their server. This company in partnership with Weebly is seeking to provide more innovativecPanel cloud web hosting services to the customers.
Many firms while managing their websites are often in need of backup in case of any emergency situation. In this re gard LayerOnline is miles ahead than its competitors because it helps its customers to access their backup websites quite easily. Newly created websites also receive adequate protection from malware attacks, SQL injections and other illegal requests because of the real time request scanning services of the software firm. Now consumers have the option of viewing the service plans of Weebly in the site of LayerOnline and so would get the opportunity to compare their service quality as well as service charge. This partnership with Weebly is also noteworthy as it enables the customers to utilize the drag and drop builderof Weebly for creating professional and beautiful websites for free.
Weebly Cloud is being preferred by huge number of website builders andits introduction in cPanel cloud web hosting services of LayerOnline would help them in creating user friendly websites. It is an efficient website builder which allows the users to sell their products easily in the e-commerce s ites as well as help them to develop blog content quite easily and quickly. It allows customers to focus only on the content and bears the responsibility of decorating the background. Besides it also helps in displaying photos in professional photo gallery and maximizing the graphical impact of the site.
LayerOnline provides efficient technical support to its clients. Customers send their queries to them when they face any technical problems. The technical support staffs of the company are always present to solve the queries of the customers. Customers can also consults before availing the services of the company. Consumers can apply for refund within 30 days if they are not satisfied with its services.
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Website: www.layeronline.com
LayerOnline which was established in the year of 2008 is a leading Toronto based web hosting provider providing top quality web hosting solutions to every website of the world. To know more viewers must log on to the site of the company.
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