The deal gives Equinix a total of more than 200 data centres worldwide and will see it providing services to some of Australia's largest organisations
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Google Joins GoDaddy In Withdrawing Domain Service To US Far Right Website
Google cancels Daily Stormer domain registration just 24 hours after GoDaddy withdrew its own service for post about killed protester
Amazon S3 Cloud Outage Impacts High Profile Websites
A number of well known websites impacted after a partial failure of Amazon's cloud hosting platform
CloudFlare Suffers Major European Outage
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Web Hosting Site Squarespace Suffers Major Outage
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UK Hosting Giant 123 Reg ‘Deletes’ Customer Sites
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GoDaddy Launches Cloud Servers And Cloud Applications
New cloud services from GoDaddy looks to entice developers and IT pros to its pay as you go cloud platform
Linode Resets Passwords After Possible Breach
Hosting firm resets all passwords after user credentials found on an “external server”, following DDoS attack
The Independent’s Blog Section Hit By Ransomware Attack
Millions of Independent readers at risk of being infected with ransomware
Vodafone Pumps £5m Into Irish Data Centre Services
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Facebook Wants To Become Your One-Stop Shop For News
Social network looking to host content from news organisations
Sex-Obsessed Fifty Shades Of Grey Fans Crash Art Website
Latex portrait website crumbles to fans demanding Fifty Shades-inspired art
WordPress Disconnects Unpatched Sites
In a continuing effort to secure hundreds of millions of users, WordPress.com is disconnecting self-hosted sites that haven't updated the Jetpack add-on
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Connected technology will revolutionise the workplace and mean big changes for IT managers everywhere, predicts IDC
The Xen Vulnerability That Rebooted the Public Cloud
More details are now public on the open-source Xen hypervisor vulnerability that triggered full Amazon, Rackspace and IBM cloud reboots
Rackspace Names New Boss After Takeover Refusal
Rackspace rebuffs takeover offers and ends 'strategic review'. It also appoints a new CEO
IT Life: Minds And Machines
Lawrence Jones wanted to be a musicion. Now he orchestrates a tech empire
BAFTA Chooses Rackspace For Web Hosting As IT Becomes A Priority
BAFTA COO Kevin Prince says cloud-based hosting will help it deal with peak traffic and engage with audiences
GoDaddy Reveals OpenStack Cloud Support
GoDaddy publicly reveals its support of OpenStack, but in reality has been using it for months
Rackspace Brings Managed MongoDB ObjectRocket Service To Europe
The acquisition of ObjectRocket in 2013 is bearing fruit for Rackspace
Microsoft And GoDaddy Offer Small Businesses Office 365
Microsoft and web hoster GoDaddy partner up to bring Office 365 to small business customers
Linode Hackers Compromise Passwords, Credit Card Details
Linode had a Bitcoin heist last year. Now it has had another serious breach
IT Life: A Hoster Who Motors
Mike Duncan of Peer 1 Hosting remembers modems - but strangely, prefers motor bikes
A10 Replaces Cisco At Go Daddy Hosting Centres
Go Daddy pulls a switch on Cisco, and swaps in A10 AX Series switches
Mega Accepts BitCoins, Outlines World Domination Plans
Kim Dotcom wants to launch encrypted email, video and communication services
Rackspace Profits Despite Hosting Slowdown Fears
Rackspace has posted impressive growth figures but that doesn't impress investors
Go Daddy Sued For Hosting ‘Ex-Girlfriend’ Porn Site
Plaintiffs demand the hosting company shares responsibility for violating their privacy
Italian ISP Aruba.it Prepares For European Expansion
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Kim Dotcom: New Megaupload “90 Percent Done”
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