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....

The Tech Target website has published a comparison article that compares the pricing of Hyper-V and WMware and the benefits consumers have with each of those Windows virtualization technologies. “Microsoft touts Hyper-V as a lower-priced virtualization option than VMware’s ESXi, but for straight server consolidation, it’s unclear whether Hyper-V is that much cheaper than VMware because of Hyper-V’s system requirements and lower consolidation ratios”, writes Bridget Botelho. It is true that VMware has higher consolidation ratios than Hyper-V. Another benefit of WMware...