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There were many web hosting promotions announced in the last week of February, including Host Department’s 20 percent off St.Patrick’s Day discount, Easyspace’s “Indefinite Reduction” on domain name prices and C I Host giving a website makeover to the construction company responsible for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

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Green issues, which played a major factor in the promotion of web hosting and data center services throughout 2008, are no longer dominant issues for data centers which need to reduce costs, it was reported recently. A survey of registered attendees at this year’s Data Centre World in the United Kingdom suggested only one in [...]

Web host ServInt met its goals as far as green initiatives were concerned in 2008. The company, which bills itself as a “pioneering provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide”, launched a series of initiatives designed to “help customers operate with minimal environmental impact” in June 2008.

LFC Hosting (LFC) adds to its web hosting offerings Zen Cart™, the user-friendly open source shopping cart software designed to provide a hassle-free experience for online retailers. Zen Cart™ provides convenient e-commerce capability through an extremely intuitive, yet infinitely powerful model to provision versatile online ’storefronts’ that are easily customized and interface with payment gateways [...]

Web hosting provider Network Redux is to host the browser-based InstantAction 3D game platform, it was reported recently. The Portland, Oregon based provider has worked for the past 18 months to prepare for the launch of InstantAction, which took place on February 24, 2009. .

As evidence mounts that the current business climate is continuing its steep decline, web hosts in the business hosting space would seem to be vulnerable. After all, consider these facts:

Straumur Investment bank (www.straumur.net/en) announced on Wednesday that Finnish communications company Elisa (www.elisa.fi) has agreed to acquire Straumur’s hosting subsidiary, Xenetic (www.xenetic.fi/in_english/en_GB), for $10.3 million.