Rebel Networks Acquires Rarehost Web Hosting Customers
TORONTO, ON – Sept 23, 2008 Managed Website hosting provider Rebel Networks has continued expansions through acquisitions by acquiring the customer base and web hosting infrastructure of Rarehost.com. The Acquisition will enable Rebel Networks to increase its customer base and expand into the UK. Rebel Networks has successfully been acquiring hosting companies such as WRC hosting and ARC Web Scape, Lehost.net as part of there growth strategy.
Rarehost.com has a small customer base, but has facility in a data center in London, England. Rebel Networks, will be converting the rarehost.com name to rebelnetworks.co.uk and begin to accept British pounds as a form of payment effective immediately. Rebel Networks feels this works well with their expansion plans into the European Market, where they currently have thousands of customers. This will give those customers a choice of having hosting with a UK IP address” stated Domenic Macchione, President and CEO of Rebelnetwork.com
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About Rarehost.com
Rarehosts.com is a professional web hosting and web development company that provides multimedia and e-commerce solutions to all sizes of businesses and individuals.
About Rebel Networks
Rebel Networks is a Leading Provider of Outsourced Internet Infrastructure and Managed Website Hosting Solutions. Rebel Networks provides Managed Dedicated Servers, Collocation Services, Shared Website Hosting, E-Commerce Solutions, and Domain Name Services. Rebel Networks is also an enabler of web 2.0 application. With strong and passionate commitment to customer service, and deployment across multiple secure data centers, Rebel Networks is revolutionizing the way hosting is being delivered to the small and medium enterprise.
Barak Hosting aquires 561 Web Hosting
Jupiter, Florida – September 18, 2008 - Web host, design, development and Internet solutions provider Barak Hosting, has completed the acquisition of 561WebHosting.com.
Marc Burofsky while announcing the acquisition, added that Barak Hosting will continue to pursue additional acquisitions in the near future.
The acquisition adds to Barak Hosting client base and provides the clientele of 561WebHosting.com with access to the ever-expanding line of Barak Hosting server hosting environment, website design/development and managed services offerings. 561 clients can expect to be integrated into the Barak Hosting environment over the next few months.
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About Barak Hosting
Barak Hosting, located in Jupiter, Florida, provides web hosting and web site design services, email, database applications, and Managed Services on Shared, Virtual Private Server and Dedicated Server platforms.
Barak Hosting specializes on the design side in database driven dynamic websites. Performing customer service at the highest levels along with their extensive design capabilities sets them apart. Barak Hosting are a large provider of VPS Hosting powered by Virtuozzo.
Idea to Consider if your Host Sucks!
After reading this piece, there may be a number of hosts reviewed on Hostjury, that may wish to check into the availabilty of their domain+sucks. I hate to give people ideas but here it goes.... enjoy
A study of Fortune 500 and other companies found that one in three have bought the name, say, walmartsucks.com. But corporate attitudes toward hate sites vary widely between, say, Dell and Xerox:
FairWinds based its analysis on 1,058 domain names for companies on the Global 500 and Fortune 500 lists. Of the companies surveyed, 35% own the domain name for their brand followed by the word "sucks." They include Wal-Mart Stores, Coca-Cola, Toys"R"Us, Target and Whole Foods Market, according to FairWinds. Some 45% of these domains have yet to be registered by anyone. The study found that the majority of companies that do own these domain names publish no content on them.
Some have been much more aggressive than others. Xerox, for example, has bought or registered about 20 unflattering domain names, including xeroxstinks.com, xeroxcorporationsucks.com and ihatexerox.net. But other companies, such as Dell, have taken a more hands-off approach. DellisEvil.com, MyDellSux.com and IHateDell.info are for sale, but the computer maker says it has no interest in buying them.
http://valleywag.com/5046116/35-percent-of-biggest-companies-own-____suckscom
The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted
| Q. What is this? A. A challenge to confirm whether or not a professional data recovery firm or any individual(s) or organization(s) can recover data from a hard drive that has been overwritten with zeros once. We used the 32 year-old Unix dd command using /dev/zero as input to overwrite the drive. Three data recover companies were contacted. All three are listed on this page. Two companies declined to review the drive immediately upon hearing the phrase 'dd', the third declined to review the drive after we spoke to second level phone support and they asked if the dd command had actually completed (good question). Here is their response... paraphrased from a phone conversation: "According to our Unix team, there is less than a zero percent chance of data recovery after that dd command. The drive itself has been overwritten in a very fundamental manner. However, if for legal reasons you need to demonstrate that an effort is being made to recover some or all of the data, go ahead and send it in and we'll certainly make an effort, but again, from what you've told us, our engineers are certain that we cannot recover data from the drive. We'll email you a quote." |
| Q. Why are you doing this? A. Because many people believe that in order to permanently delete data from a modern hard drive that multiple overwrites with random data, mechanical grinding, degaussing and incinerating must be used. They tell others this. Like chaos, it perpetuates itself until everyone believes it. Lots of good, usable hard drives are ruined in the process. |
| Q. What exactly is the challenge? A. You or your company or your organization or your group of researchers can have a crack at the drive. You don't actually have to recover any data to win the challenge, just tell us the name of one (1) of the two (2) files or the name of the one (1) folder that existed in this screen shot before the dd command was executed. |
| Q. What kind of hard drive is it? How much did it cost? Is it new? Does it work? How did you format it? Why did you buy this drive? A. Western Digital (WD800JB) 80GB hard drive. We paid roughly $60 USD for the drive. It is new. Yes, it works. We did a default initialization and NTFS format from within Windows XP. It was the smallest and least expensive hard drive we could purchase new. It's also a very plain, common drive. Data recovery firms should have a lot of experience dealing with this type of hard drive. |
| The Terms were updated on January 16th, 2008. The underlined portions have been added Q. May I enter the challenge? A. Sure... here are the terms of the challenge: Send a self-addressed, postage-paid box you pay shipping both ways with packaging material to the address listed below along with a sixty $60 USD deposit United States Postal Service Money Order only and we will mail the drive to you. When you receive the drive, you have three (3) consecutive days beginning on the day of receipt to analyze the drive. You must return the drive to us immediately on the end of the third day. The drive must be returned in the same condition that you received it in. Photos will be taken before shipment. It will be demonstrably functional before shipment. So, don't break it. If you damage the drive, then your deposit will not be returned. The challenge will last exactly one (1) year and will end immediately should someone win. THE CHALLENGE BEGAN ON JANUARY 15th 2008. THE CHALLENGE ENDS ON JANUARY 15th 2009 OR WHENEVER SOMEONE WINS. You may not write any data to the drive or disassemble the drive. If the challenger is an established data recovery business located in the United States of America (We would need to see Articles of Incorporation, a current business license and one other form of business identification in order to determine that they are indeed a professional, for-profit, established data recovery business) or a National government law enforcement or intelligence agency (NSA, CIA, FBI), then we will allow these type of organizations to disassemble the drive and to keep the drive for thirty (30) consecutive days. Fair enough? If you object to these terms, then don't participate or suggest changes. Challenges are accepted in the order in which they are received at this address: 16 Systems, LLC P.O. Box 356 Blacksburg, VA 24063 |
| Q. How do I win the challenge? A. You must identify the name of one (1) of the two (2) files or the name of the one (1) folder that existed in this screen shot before the dd command was executed. You do not have to actually recover any data from the drive, but you can if you are able to. You also must publicly disclose in a reproducible manner the method(s) used to win the challenge. Here is the answer to the challenge. It's a TIF screen shot that shows the original contents of the root folder of the drive before the dd command was executed. It's PGP symmetrically encrypted using GnuPG. The key will be released at the end of the challenge or when someone wins. Should someone win, they get to keep the drive. They also will receive $40.00 USD and the title "King (or Queen) of Data Recovery". |
Q. Is this a scam? http://16systems.com/zero/index.html |
Is Liberty Names of America Scamming Your Domain Name!
These guys do for domain name registrations what the phone companies used to be so fond of doing... try trick you into switching to them. They do this by sending you a letter by mail that looks very official. The Liberty Names of America letter reads like an expiration notice that a domain registrar might send, but in this case if you look at the fine print you'll see that it's an attempt to get you to transfer your domain to them.
The reason this works, is because a lot of people don't know or remember who their domains are registered with. Make sure you know this, or can at least find out easily by looking it up when you need to.
Things like this are also easy to spot just by doing a quick web search with the company name as a keyword. Whether it's a hoax, scam or just poor service, you'll often find others who have made their own experience public.
If you're the type that likes to do something about this kind of junk, do feel free to file a complaint with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (or better yet, all three!)
To find out more about the Liberty Names of America scam, check out the following:
Two more creative things you can do to fight back are to not open mail from a known company like the above, mark "return to sender" on it, and send it back which increases their cost of sending junk mail to you. If the company is so kind as to send return envelopes with postage-paid, it can be fun to take one company's junk mail, and send it to another in their postage-paid envelope. All it costs you is a few minutes of time, and you can sleep well that night for having helped to make it less profitable for scammers.
I mean just run a search in Google for Liberty Names of America and see results like:- etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.