October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With the considerable absence of European on-demand hosting companies, Amazon EC2/S3 service has dominated the market since it launched last summer.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — SWsoft announced on Monday it is now offering the beta version of Plesk 8.3 for Windows, the first control panel to support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed services provider Inforonics announced on Monday it has signed a two-year contract with real estate support and incentive program OptHome to provide managed hosting and application management services.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting control panel provider DotNetPanel Software announced last week it is offering a new version of its DotNetPanel control panel with Internet Information Services 7.0 support.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Netcraft recently announced that Web hosting providers Tiscali Italia, Rackspace and Seeweb are the most reliable hosting company sites for September 2007, followed closely by Pair Networks, Go Daddy and Affinity.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian Web hosting provider Crucial Web Hosting announced on Monday it has launched its new high availability split shared Web hosting solutions.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Enterhost announced last week it has renewed its partnership with SmarterTools.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — BitTorrent tracking site the Pirate Bay have stolen IFPI.com, t he domain name once owned by anti-piracy group the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — E-Commerce hosting provider Webplus announced on Friday it is giving away one year of free Webplus Shop online store hosting.

October 15, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider WebFaction announced on Monday that it had rolled out a range of new one-click installers in its control panel.