off-prem AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
Patches Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected
AI + ML Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades Pair backs scraper blocking and standards to separate trusted agents from bad bots
On-Prem Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites
Devops GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.
PaaS + IaaS Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike Web host blames partner's license fee increase, but users say notice was too short and terms unfair
Software How your software startup can avoid the hyperscaler trap The cloud's Hotel California isn't such a lovely place
Networks Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own Domain name giant yanked into court after Entri Connect disconnect
Off-Prem Activist investor to GoDaddy: Cut costs, improve sales, or sell Starboard Blue LLC says management failed to create shareholder goodness, 'change needed'
Networks Users of 123 Reg caught out by catch-all redirect cut-off Web hosting company tells users to pay up or shift off, but users say they weren't warned in time
Off-Prem Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud ‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’
PaaS + IaaS Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson Not doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point'
PaaS + IaaS DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff The layoffs will continue until morale improves
Security Namecheap admits 'unauthorized emails' pwning its customers Blames 'third-party provider' as phishers drain Ethereum wallets
Off-Prem tsoHost pulls plug on Gridhost service with just 45 days' notice Company claims to have emailed customers repeatedly, but many say they didn't receive any
Cyber-crime LockBit 3.0 malware forced NHS tech supplier to shut down hosted sites Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack
On-Prem Major IT outage forces UK emergency call handlers to use 'pen and paper' Suspected cyberattack at Advanced takes down part of server estate that hosted range of apps
Databases Scottish universities launch £42m ERP tender Framework deal to cut across software, services and systems integration
Off-Prem tsoHost pleads for 'patience and understanding' as sites borked, support sinkholed Like 'thoughts and prayers' but for web hosting
SaaS Facebook is leaky, creepy, and trashy. Now it wants to host some of your customer data Reveals hosting service for WhatsApp Business API and gives its partners reasons to be fearful
Networks About ready to POP3: Day 6 of email wobbles at UK2 after services provider Tucows suffers 'service failure' 15% of customers affected as Canadian partner promises 'full mailbox services' today
Security Honeypot behind sold-off IP subnet shows Cyberbunker biz hosted all kinds of filth, says SANS Institute Botnet C2, denial-of-service, phishing – and that's after filtering
Software UK council dodges £100k hosting bill, opts for £6.5 million ERP migration You must be Barking and Dagenham, the east London borough
Legal TsoHost swings axe at 'legacy' DIY website builder MrSite, giving customers a month to find alternative arrangements Celebrating two years of merged activities by hitting the Off button
Security GoDaddy hack: Miscreant goes AWOL with 28,000 users' SSH login creds after vandalizing server-side file Now might be a good time to change your passwords, folks
SaaS 'No BS' web host Gandi lives up to half of its motto... Some customer data wiped out in storage server meltdown 0xdeadbeef
Security 600 armed German cops storm Cyberbunker hosting biz on illegal darknet market claims Look, it's CB3ROB – remember them?
On-Prem Welcome to Hollywood, Claranet-style: You've (not) got mail, or hosted sites for that matter Hoddesdon bit barn outage blamed as customer emails falter, corporate sites go dark
On-Prem GoDaddy's daddy goes: Chief exec Scott Wagner steps down as hosting biz swings into the red Cites health reasons amid net loss of $12.6m for Q2
Networks cPanel unleashes price hikes on its most dense customers Yeah - because hardware is better these days, we're going to need to charge you more. Much, much more...
On-Prem Brit hosting provider tsoHost takes needleful of 'unauthorized code' to the servers, suffers week of outages GoDaddy offspring admits to security breach, takes sweet time with emergency patching
On-Prem Black Wednesday: DXC hosting services wonky for almost 8 hours after core switches go rogue TITSUP* at Wynyard, Doxford bit barns leave finance clients with some free time – sources
Systems Server at web host 1&1 Ionos decides to take unscheduled day off, sinks a bunch of sites Meanwhile, customers complain of complete comms shutdown
SaaS Brit web host biz UKFast gears up to IPO on London Stock Exchange Server and cloud outfit aims to float by October if tech market evades Brexit jitters
On-Prem Legal tech startup tries to haul 123-Reg to court over 24-hour backup claims You know those Ts&Cs you used to offer on your website? Yes that one.
On-Prem GoDaddy told off for reeling in punters with 'misleading' prices Calling all the Basic twitchers...
Networks 123 Reg suffers deja vu: Websites restored from August 2017 backups amid storage meltdown Daily backups? We've heard of them
Networks Heart Internet outage... three days and counting Array with you! Biz still fixing failed drives
On-Prem There's a way to dodge Fasthosts' up-to-160% domain renewal hike but you're not gonna like it Buy now! Buy now! Buy now! Or commit to the firm for a decade
Security Swedish slip-up leaks hosting company's customer data Bork bork bork! Hackers infiltrate major hosting provider Loopia
On-Prem Guess who's hiking their prices again? Come on, it's as easy as 123 Reg Yeah, we used a variation of the headline before. And what?
SaaS Gone daddy gone: GoDaddy offloads its cloud businesses PlusServer sold after eight months, Cloud Servers service snuffed after 16
Legal Photobucket says photo-f**k-it, starts off-site image shakedown No more freeloading graphics, it wants its $400-a-year cut
Security South Korean hosting co. pays $1m ransom to end eight-day outage Talked scum down from $4.4m after they waltzed through unpatched legacy mess
Security Backup crack-up: Fasthosts locks people out of data storage for days amid WCry panic Windows Server 2k3 kit yanked, replacement slow to arrive
Security Republicans want IT bloke to take fall for Clinton email brouhaha Not quite 'lock her up,' but they'll take what they can get – like formal criminal charges
Networks Oz companies fume as Enetica outage enters its second day Hosting service's access to .au registry suspended
Legal Smart Hosting offers up service credit in bid to hang on to clients Pint-sized outfit which couldn't handle support tickets gives out £10 vouchers
Devops With nearly 1m users on its books, DigitalOcean touts load balancers CTO gets all loved up about customers on Valentine's Day
Devops Cheap virtual box hosters – Amazon's Lightsail is out to destroy you (yes, you, Digital Ocean) Look out for bill shock, though, devs
Networks Metronet gobbles up hosting firm for £47.5m, instantly doubles in size It's a network-biz-eat-network-biz world. Burrrp
Channel Six Degrees grabs £12m pot of cash from private equity overlord We are recruiting yells CEO, "we want to own the mid-market".
Networks Interoute gets green light for £402m Easynet gobble Blighty's competition regulator gives permission for major boot filling
Security Get James Bond in here: 13 million account passwords plundered from 000webhost Unencrypted logins leaked through unpatched PHP hole
Channel Reseller SCC slurps up 'minority' stake in SIPCOM Enter hosted voice and UC-as-a-service space
Channel Rackspace: Amazon? Sure, you can buy their cloud ... from us Hosting firm will offer cloud management on top of AWS, report claims
Security Web hosting biz Servint hit by network-toppling DDoS attack Outage domino effect as network's customers' customers also hit
On-Prem Network Solutions' 30-day refund has a catch: It'll keep up to 30% Watchdog tuts at website hosting biz
Channel Rackspace shares tumble on lowered forecast, revenue miss Cloudy growth not coming fast enough for testy shareholders
SaaS 'Photof*cket' men manacled, indicted over Photobucket password-protected pic plunder Two suspects face conspiracy and fraud charges
On-Prem FTC: Hey, Network Solutions, time we had a chat about 'refunds' Hosting house agrees to play nice after complaints over 'money back' guarantee
SaaS $23m to a WordPress biz? Why top-end hosting is big money VC North Bridge explains its investment
Channel Capita IT Services raises the axe AGAIN Closes OPENHIVE's last office, puts staff at risk of redundo
SaaS DigitalOcean floats alpha images of Docker-happy CoreOS Cut-rate hoster woos massive-scale Linux deployments
Channel Woe, Daddy! GoDaddy customers wail as hosting service GOES TITSUP Support team swamped by calls as websites die
Channel Rackspace: Record revenue shows managed cloud strategy 'working' But income still flat, execs schtum on potential buyouts
Systems Rackspace touts cloudy, single-tenant OnMetal servers to world+dog Pricing revealed for dedicated boxes that provision like clouds
Channel UK.gov pops lid off £700m barrel of non-Cloudable hosting pork Come and get it while it's still porky, shouts Cabinet Office
SaaS Linode busts up Digital Ocean with price-matching speedy server Penguin vs Penguin as prices plunge in Linux clouds
On-Prem OpenStack kingpin Rackspace hires bankers to help it mull 'inbound strategic proposals' Brutality of cloud economics means 100,000 servers are no longer enough
SaaS Battle of the Linux clouds! Linode DOUBLES RAM to take on Digital Ocean Also adds SSDs, Intel Ivy Bridge for 'largest single investment we've made in the company'
SaaS Linode raises Hourly Billing flag against Digital Ocean pirates VPS-vs-VPS fight brings billing parity to hosting market
Channel Rackspace seals new UK data center in frosty air-cooled TOMB This ain't your normal Crawley bit barn
On-Prem Hosting outfit goes PERMANENTLY TITSUP after 'lifetime' plans kill biz NodeKi set to become lifeless corpse
SaaS Host Minecraft on Shard Gaming? Grab your data RIGHT NOW before it goes completely titsup Abrupt shutdown burns servers for loads of games
Channel Crack open those wallets: Microsoft is raising software prices AGAIN Hosting biz bosses warned of double-digit hikes in 2014, 2015
Security Top server host OVH warns of 'multi-stage' hacking attack 'Higher level of paranoia' suggests EU and US users should change passwords
Networks Cloud silo and services firm UKFast hires personal shopper M&A specialist to help it score after 'missing out on past targets'
Networks Kim Dotcom victim of 'largest data MASSACRE in history' Megaupload servers wiped – were Feds to blame?
Channel Comms giant Vodafone ready to smash up hosting and services market Using C&WW buy as foundation... but where's its channel?
SaaS Big Blue blows big green in SoftLayer public cloud gobble If you can't beat them, eat them. And make them move to OpenStack
Systems SoftLayer sticks with Super Micro servers, ponders Open Compute It's all about the supply chain - THEN the price
