Data centre and web hosting moving to cloud computing

Amazon was the pioneer of cloud computing, Google followed very shortly and now Microsoft has jumped on the bandwagon with its announcement of the launch of Window Azure. Microsoft is going one step further in a bid to move ahead of Windows in the cloud computing realm with the recent announcement of a Multi billion pound investment in infrastructure.

Microsoft used to outsource web hosting but a web hosting become more and more crucial to software delivery, it has brought it in house and now expanding it to a new height with the proposed 22 data centres its planning to build, which was recently announce by As Microsoft’s corporate vice-president for Global Foundation Services; Debra Charpaty.

Charpaty and her group are tasked with build 20 supersize data centres that can cost about £450 million. She was quoted as saying that “We’re going to reinvent the infrastructure of our industry”.

Online Shopping Spend in decline

The amount of money spent online in the US is down, just like high street retailers are felling the pinch of the credit crunch according to US Internet statistics firm, ComScore. Spending online has grow steadily over the last eight years since ComScore began measuring online sales, November 2008, shoppers spent £5.3 Billion, that is 4% less than what shoppers spent online same time last year. ComScore forecasted for the rest of the Christmas sale period is not encouraging either, it sees a flat or even negative growth. Last year, US online retailers enjoyed a 19% rise in sales.

ComScore forecast does not necessarily mean the same fate for UK and European retailers. Manager of Online golf equipment retailer Planet Golf UK, Stuart Tree said sales are up by about 11% in November when compared with November 2007, BBC quoted Bruce Fair, managing director of Kelkoo “We dispute the notion that online shopping in a downturn, in the UK and Europe at least, as there is much evidence that shows its is replacing the high street as a primary shopping location,” .

A few months ago, the forecast that UK ecommerce will grow by at least 15%.

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What is Marathon

Marathon is a long-distance foot race with an official distance 26 miles 385 yards. Marathon is  usually run as a road race but there are many variants of Marathons including cross country. The event is named after the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens.
More than 800 marathons are contested throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes. Larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants such as the London Marathon.
Half Marathon is also popular with athletes who are not able to run the full marathon.

A taste of Herefordshire

Herefordshire is the most rural county in the whole of England, that make Herefordshire one of the most beautiful places in England and indeed the whole of United Kingdom. Herefordshire has beautiful landscapes made even more picturesque by rivers and valleys, this make the tranquil landscape a holiday destination for those looking to escape the hectic pace of city life.

One of the handy tools first time visitors will find useful when planning to visit Herefordshire or even after arriving in Herefordshire it a portal called A taste of Herefordshire. The portal brings information about places to stay, where to go for a good night out, the sights to see and for those who love walking the beautiful trekking routes found all over the entire county.

A taste of Herefordshire uses web 2.0, a format that allows users to exchange information, share ideas and knowledge about places they have been so that new visitors to the place knows what to expect.

If you plan to visit Herefordshire, the best place to start planning your journey is at the Herefordshire portal; A taste of Herefordshire.

iHostingUK cPanel web hosting for small business

When considering buying web hosting service for a domain name, one of the most important features to consider apart from the obvious such as hosting platform stability, server availability, pre-installed script etc is the control panel software that powers your hosting account.

There are quite a few hosting control panels out there, ranging from the primitive hosting interface developed inhouse by some hosting company to not so bad hosting control panel such as Plesk to the Rolls Royce of hosting control panels; cPanel.   Most webmaster vote for cPanel as the best hosting control panel in most polls.

Bearing the request of their customers and small businesses in mind. iHostingUK, the specialist small business hosting company rolls out all its hosting packages with cPanel web hosting control panel, this make iHostingUK web hosting very popular with small business. Cpanel make the time it takes for an average users to learn and master the complexity of setting up email, reading traffic statistics and other daily housekeeping task website owners perform regularly on their web hosting account easy.

Apart from providing cPanel control panel with all its hosting, iHostingUK hosting packages are reasonably priced to ensure it is affordable to most budget. All their servers are hosting in UK data centre, this makes hosting packages from iHosting UK more search engine friendly than UK targeted websites hosted outside UK.  A sample of iHosting UK budget hosting package follows to show how keenly priced their packages are:

* 500MB Disk Space
* 5GB Bandwidth
* 10 e-mail accounts
* Pre-installed scripts
* PHP, CGI, Perl, SSI & MySQL
The above package like all the other hosting packages at iHostingUK come with 30 days no quibble money back guarantee and they are all backed by fantastic phone and email support.

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