Holiday Gift Idea

by BlockBuster on January 4, 2010

I hope everyone’s holidays are going fine and that you are not working overly hard this season. There are two things that holidays always bring to mind, (three if we are talking about this particular holiday season) and that is cooking and pictures.
I look forward to two basic chores each year. One taking pictures and [...]

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December 2009 Web Server Survey

by BlockBuster on December 25, 2009

In the December 2009 survey we received responses from 233,848,493 sites, an increase of 212k since last month. nginx continues…

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Through the Eyes of a Novice

December 25, 2009

If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch someone who has never even thought about HTML or coding create a web site, I highly recommend it. Especially if you are a programmer, web designer, web host, customer service, well any job or hobby that has to do with web sites. The amount you can learn [...]

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Koala loses a little karma with Ubuntu.com

December 14, 2009

Ubuntu.com was unavailable for some short periods during yesterday’s release of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”.

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24 of the 100 top HTTPS sites now safe from TLS renegotiation attacks

December 4, 2009

24 of the 100 most popular HTTPS websites are now safe from the recently documented TLS Renegotiation flaws.

Related Netcraft Service: SSL Survey

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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in November 2009

December 4, 2009

In November 2009, Swishmail and Verio had the most reliable hosting company sites.

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GeoCities Closure sees Surge in Phishing

December 4, 2009

Free hosting services have always been attractive to fraudsters, and the speculation over the profitably of GeoCities may not have be the only reason for today’s closure — nearly all of the phishing attacks hosted on geocities.com this month were actually targeted against its owner, Yahoo!.

Related Netcraft Service: Phishing, Identity Theft and Bank [...]

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November 2009 Web Server Survey

December 4, 2009

In the November 2009 survey we received responses from 233,636,281 sites. The largest share growth comes from nginx, with a…

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White House goes Open Source

December 4, 2009

The White House launched a new version of its website on Saturday. While little has changed on the surface, the underlying technology is now powered by the open source Drupal content management system.

Related Netcraft Service: Site Operator Survey

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Free Web Hosting Perfected?

November 25, 2009

Budget hosting or free? This is an age old question. I have seen successful movement upmarket in this dilemma (UK hosting firm 34SP.com discontinued free hosting products and even created a higher resource, higher priced product) and now I am seeing a return to the free hosting model from LimeLabs. Until now the idea of [...]

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