August 13, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hosting infrastructure and disaster recovery solutions provider HostVentures has appointed former Parallels vice president of sales Tim O’Rourke to lead the company’s sales, marketing and operations as chief operating officer.

August 13, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Extreme Networks announced on Wednesday it has joined The Green Grid, a non-profit organization that promotes the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies within data centers.

August 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web host Got Web Host has released of its demo video player, providing users with access to over 160 search engine optimization and web hosting tutorials free to anyone.

August 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content management system developer Bitrix has announced a powerful new Media Player addition to its Bitrix Site Manager, letting users embed an unlimited number of video streams into their Web sites.

August 13, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Crown Trading Systems has launched CRWE Domains, a new business that will provide Internet domain name registration services for businesses and personal.

August 13, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Glasgow-based internet business solutions provider NSDesign has announced it has partnered with web retailer accreditation body SafeBuy to offer its customers SafeBuy’s Stage One approval services.

August 13, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Software provider StrataScale has announced its new IronScale product is the first fully-automated managed server hosting environment in the world, automating the provisioning and management of servers, security, storage and networks.

August 13, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — INetU Managed Hosting, which, on several occasions, has been listed as the most reliable hosting site by web analytics firm Netcraft, announced on Wednesday that it has completed the construction of its fifth data center.

August 13, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK-based web hosting and domain registrar Easyspace has added the new, and already popular, .ASIA domain name extension to its offerings.

August 13, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — 1&1 Internet announced on Wednesday it has introduced a new line of dedicated servers that features energy saving AMD processors, large quotas of RAM and hard disk space, and RAID 1 or RAID 5 technology, all for an affordable price.