May 18, 2012 — In the week ending May 11, 2012, web hosting company ServInt is offering 20 percent off its VPS Plans, 1&1 Internet is offering discounts on its hosting packages, UK2 is offering a promotion on its business hosting plan, and Hivelocity is offering several new deals on its dedicated servers.
May 18, 2012 — Web hosting industry veteran and current VP of engineering at UK2Group Nick Nelson has launched the beta of his new website backup venture Comcure. The service provides automated website backups in three steps, and supports any website with FTP or STFP access including websites built on WordPress, Umbraco, Drupal, Windows Linux or Mac.
May 18, 2012 — Web hosting company Cirrus Tech announced on Friday it has launched a range of Windows Server Cloud Virtual Machine Hosting plans, which include guaranteed dedicated resources, a fully redundant infrastructure and the ability to manage, control and customize your environment.
May 18, 2012 — Colocation provider CoLoCSX announced on Friday that it will offer customers data backup and recovery services from managed services provider StraTech.
May 18, 2012 — Space agency NASA is withdrawing its participation with OpenStack, the open source cloud organization it co-founded with Rackspace, according to a report by DatacenterDynamics.
May 18, 2012 — Online business directory Yell announced on Tuesday that it acquired UK website and ecommerce shop builder Moonfruit for $29 million in cash. Yell will pay retention bonuses of up to $8 million to key Moonfruit management after two years, if they remain exclusively employed by Yell.
May 18, 2012 — Data center operator Equinix announced on Friday it will acquire European colocation and internnection services carrier ancotel, which adds a 6,890 square foot data center in Frankfurt, Germany to Equinix’s already massive footprint.
May 18, 2012 — Domain registrar and web hosting provider Domain.com announced on Friday that its “Next Great Idea” challenge will take place at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York City this weekend.
Go Daddy has become an official partner of England’s Test match grounds for the 2012 cricket season, following its sponsorship of the UK coverage of IPL cricket on ITV4.
May 17, 2012 — Cloud platform Jelastic announced on Wednesday that it is now commercially available in Russia through a partnership with Russian web hosting provider Rusonyx.
