Customers who need the highest levels of availability and reliability from their dedicated and virtual servers got some good news today. 1&1 Internet, a global web hosting company, is now the first to have a global launch of dedicated servers with six-core AMD processors.

Demand for Mac OS X based cloud services is on the rise. With most web hosting companies typically offering a choice between Windows or Linux platforms, Apple is often not an option that is even considered.

HostDime continues to expand throughout the world. The web hosting company, which is ranked as one of the 50 largest hosting companies in the world, launched its sixth international division this week in Kerala, India.

The guys who run GreenGeeks, the eco-friendly web hosting company, are no dummies-but the full-featured hosting company is now proud to be the official web hosting company for the latest book in the popular “For Dummies” series from Wiley Publishing, Inc.

In the advertising business, super bowl ads are the gold standard. Companies spend big money to produce them, and of course, it’s some of the most expensive ad space in the business.

FutureHosting announced that it would adopt the Ksplice Uptrack system which enables upgrades and maintenance to take place without having to reboot the system.

A New Year bug in leading anti-spam software code caused a glitch in the international email system in the early hours of 2010.

The company has bought the building where Parsons Technology started 15 years ago at 1 Parsons Drive in Hiawatha, near Cedar Rapids, IA, and plans to hire 60 new staff and turn the building in to a customer care center over the next few weeks.

Just Host is looking to expand the firm’s customer base and has moved in to providing competitive professional reseller hosting services to encourage resellers to switch alliance – and bring their customers with them.

Web hosting provider DreamHost has given many customers nightmares during recent weeks after denial of service attacks, outages and network failure prompted by data center migration.

cPanel, the leading Linux control panel has opened the Windows market with a new EnKompass hosting package with managed hosting provide HostDime.

If you are looking for full server control without the cost, HostGator is now offering fully managed VPS hosting plans.

Two companies tied as the most reliable web-hosting providers for October 2009, SingleHop and Acens, according to internet security and analytics site Netcraft.

HostGator is napping up new customers from the demise of GeoCities by promising “to try sending some free months of web hosting” for anyone that wants to switch hosts.

Hostgator continues to impress both industry observers and web hosting customers with stellar results for the period 2005 to 2008. Revenue increased from $3.4 million to $34.2 – an impressive 896% increase.