Category: Web Hosting News

Rackspace Suffering Multiple Outages in their Cloud Sites
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Rackspace Suffering Multiple Outages in their Cloud Sites

On Tuesday, Rackspace suffered yet another failure to their data center, causing outages for their cloud computing customers. The incident was their third since late June. On June 29 as well as July 7, Rackspace experienced power failures at their data center of 144,000 square feet in the suburbs of Dallas. The failures affected around 2,000 customers. On Tuesday, the same facility was hit with another outage.

Yahoo Shuts Down Geocities
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Yahoo Shuts Down Geocities

On Monday, Yahoo closed down GeoCities, their free hosting service they had purchased during the dot-com boom for more than three billion dollars. In a message on their GeoCities website, Yahoo stated that they had enjoyed hosting Yahoo user created websites from around the world and were proud of the community they had built, but they had decided to focus on helping their customers explore as well as build online relationships in different ways.