An Event Apart is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity [...]

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian domain registrar Internic announced on Tuesday that it is pleased to be the company that registered the one-millionth .ca domain name last week.

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Business-class email hosting provider Mailtrust which recently changed its name from Webmail.us, announced on Monday that it has launched a new integrated control panel, available through all of its email hosting services.

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage platform provider Nirvanix announced on Tuesday that it is offering a 30-day “fee holiday” for all uploads from any source, including Amazon S3 to a new account on its storage delivery network.

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust released on Monday the results from a new study it conducted on green data center trends that “show significant changes since 2007.”

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation provider TELEHOUSE America announced on Tuesday that it is hosting a “Boot Camp” on May 2 to help companies run their businesses greener.

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft announced on Tuesday that CNN’s website has been affected at least twice since the distributed denial of service attack that was launched against it last week.

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Microsoft Exchange hosting reseller groupSPARK announced on Tuesday that it has expanded its reseller channel through a new agreement with IT solutions distributor Ingram Micro.

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Green Grid announced on Monday that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the US Environmental Protection Agency.

April 22, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Software giant Microsoft issued a warning on Thursday about a flaw that could put Web hosting providers at risk.