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  1. SSL Site owners using ISPs rather than Hosting Companies

    Companies servicing the largest
    numbers of SSL sites, August 2003
    Company SSL Sites
    uu.net 6,950
    verio.net 4,243
    ATT 4,019
    Interland 3,946
    Cable and Wireless 3,038
    Qwest 2,908
    Sprint 2,787

    Self hosting is still a popular option for SSL site owners whose sites perform encrypted transactions and ecommerce. When counted by reverse DNS, the largest aggregations of SSL sites are on networks at companies whose main business is selling connectivity rather than hosting.

    Of the top seven providers, only Interland is exclusively a hosting provider, although Verio is best known for hosting and all of the others have significant hosting operations. Interland's early focus on the mid-market and the Windows platform, which is favoured by many internet retail sites, has helped create its position as the leading hosting location for encrypted transactions.

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    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 31st August, 2003 in Around the Net Share

  2. Further DDoS Attack on Rackspace?

    Rackspace's site was down for around two and a half hours early this morning [BST], in what may likely have been a repeat of Tuesday's distributed denial of service attack.

    The response times to our own performance collector on Rackspace's network indicate that the attack did not adversely affect response times to other machines at Rackspace.

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 30th August, 2003 in Hosting, Performance, Security Share

  3. PHP growing surprisingly strongly on Windows

    Although PHP is universally thought of as implying Linux, Apache and MySQL, nearly 7% of PHP sites [when counting by ip address] run on Windows. This has doubled over the last year, and on its current growth trajectory PHP will overtake Cold Fusion as the most popular non-Microsoft scripting language used on Windows during the next year.

    IP Addresses on Windows Operating System PHP-Windows.PNG

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    Posted by Mandy Davis on 30th August, 2003 in Around the Net Share

  4. Trail of clues pointed to Blaster B author

    On Friday evening [BST] US authorities charged Jeffery Parsons with creating a variant of the Blaster worm know as “Blaster B”. Such a trail of clues pointed to Parsons that those investigating the case must have initially expected that they were dealing with a case of identity theft, but from the reports it seems that Parsons had modified and re-released the worm “because he could” giving no thought to the potential consequences for himself. (more...)

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 30th August, 2003 in Security Share

  5. Hosting Companies under Attack

    The recent spate of distributed denial of service attacks has diversified, with some attackers apparently now targetting hosting companies.

    On Tuesday rackspace.com was attacked just one day after issuing a press release launching a service to mitigate the effects of DDoS attacks, while early this morning[BST] Rackshack appeared to suffer a similar attack. (more...)

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 29th August, 2003 in Hosting, Performance, Security Share

  6. Rackshack maxs out Houston power grid segment

    Rackshack have posted to their support forums that their power consumption has hit the limit of the local Houston power grid.

    Rackshack expects to have a second datacenter, also in Houston, but on a different segment of the power grid, in the first few days of September, and that [at the time of the posting] it had around 600 servers available to rent in its existing datacenter. 600 servers sounds a lot and more than the entire installed base of many hosting companies, but Rackshack is one of the market leaders in Linux/Apache dedicated servers and has been adding in the region of 1000 new Linux servers per month to its network.

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 28th August, 2003 in Hosting Share

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