Monthly Archives: September 2015

AWS, GoDaddy Named in Ashley Madison Lawsuit

A lawsuit has been filed against Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GoDaddy by three anonymous plaintiffs for hosting websites that reproduced the user data stolen from Ashley Madison. The suit seeks $3 million in damages, and also names 20 other defendants, three of whom operated sites which sold the leaked user data. Continue reading

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Rancher Labs Provides Infrastructure Platform for Container-Based IaaS Clouds

Rancher Labs is a startup that provides tools to help run Dockerized applications in production. Launched in beta in July, its management platform Rancher fully automates container networking, load balancing, service discovery, monitoring and recovery. Continue reading

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Migrating Cloud Hosting Providers

One of the most challenging points for any organization is an infrastructure move or migration. This becomes even more difficult when core systems are reliant on a cloud platform. Continue reading

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Constant Contact And Email Marketing

The post Constant Contact And Email Marketing appeared first on HostGator Blog . Despite the stigma that surrounds email marketing, due primarily (and justifiably) to “spammers,” this channel remains a valid and profitable avenue for generating leads, sales, and generally just reaching people. Roughly 10% of HostGator customers are Non-Profit businesses, and a recent study shows that these businesses actually get the highest open rates of any industry.  An “open rate” is defined, fairly self-explanatorily, as the percentage of email messages that are opened (and presumably viewed) relative to the total number of emails sent out as part of a given email campaign.  In other words, people are more likely to open an email sent from a Non-Profit than they are any other type of business. However, email marketing remains one of the best performing and most-effective ways to market a business. The aforementioned study, which was created by Constant Contact , also contains valuable information regarding the optimization of email campaigns and was created via the analysis of over 100 billion customer emails. Constant Contact is an excellent tool for small businesses to execute successful email marketing campaigns.  HostGator customers can learn more by visiting this link . web hosting Continue reading

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – September 4, 2015

In the week ending September 4, 2015, there are savings on web hosting and VPS plans from MyDomain.com, discounts on .COM domains from 1&1 and more. Continue reading

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