Mount Hosting, a UK web host, announced that it has started a partnership with MyAntivirus.info, a reseller of antivirus and IT security software products. the hosting provider offers to all customers a 10% discount on all of the security products available at Myantivirus.info’s website. Anyone who wants to purchase any of those products and t take advantage of the discount shall use coupon “mounthosting2010″ during the order process. This promotion will be valid until March 31st, 2010. Among the featured security applications are Avast Antivirus, PC Tools Internet Security,...

Overselling is an industry standard in Shared Hosting, something that web hosts underline. When any shared hosting provider states on its home page “Unlimited Disc Space”, this makes it confident that the magic word “unlimited” allows the company to better compete on the hosting market. The truth is that consumers byte this. They think that “Unlimited” means that no restrictions are imposed to the service usage. Sad and untrue. As you know, dear readers of VPS Hosting Dir, “Unlimited” means mandatory restriction over the usage of any web hosting service. Anyway....

Red Hat and Microsoft announced a technical support agreement which, according to IT analysts is aimed to compete the leader in virtualization technologies VMware. Microsoft has recently been put under pressure from customers who demand to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) smoothly on their Windows servers and desktops. The Microsoft’s virtualization General manager Mike Neil publicly announced that Microsoft and Red Hat signed agreements to test and validate their server OS running on each other’s hypervisors. The hypervisor, also known as Virtual Machine manager is a technology which...