The court order was handed down by Judge Ronald Whyte of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, who said “[security] experts had analyzed data derived from internet searches which establish that defendant, an internet service provider, was engaged in widespread illegal activity. There seems to be little doubt from the information provided that [it] functioned primarily as an internet service provider for illegal activity.”

3FN avoided detection by frequently changing IP addresses. FTC officials said 3FN and its other alias companies were distributing malware capable of keystroke logging, password stealing other data theft using hidden backdoor remote control programs to steal personal information and spread spam.

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The new service, SiteAutoBackup.com, is open to the general public, and is not limited to HostGator users.

The backup plans buy HostGator start at $1.95 per month for a 1GB account. Additional disk space is available for as low as $1 per additional 1GB.

By default, SiteAutoBackup.com backups run daily, but users can define a custom schedule.

SiteAutoBackup.com backup data is securely stored within servers at its Texas data center space, run by its exclusive data center and network provider The Planet. HostGator has servers in four of The Planet’s Dallas-area data centers, which provide top-of-the-line technology ensuring that servers stay cool, secure, and up at all times. The facilities feature redundant power, HVAC and fire detection systems, and are monitored 24/7 by both HostGator and The Planet’s Network Operation Centers.

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According to Netcraft, Memset had the most reliable hosting company site in March.

Memset provides dedicated physical and virtual servers, all-inclusive managed hosting and cloud-computing services from their two data centres near Reading, UK. Memset uses Apache on Linux to run their own website.

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Netcraft measures the response times of around forty leading hosting providers’ sites. The performance measurements are made at 15 minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

As of February 2010, the most reliable hosting service, according to Netcraft, is Navisite, which had no down time and no failed requests. The second place goes to Datapipe, and INetU is in the third place.

According to Netcraft:

From a customer’s point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

CyberWurx has been offering shared hosting, dedicated servers and colocation hosting solutions to their customers since 1997.

Nick Gray, Datacenter Manager at CyberWurx, explains, “The online gaming industry is growing rapidly, and dedicated, efficient game servers are crucial to an exceptional gaming experience. We’re sure our LAN party will prove to participants that we are ready to provide all the support, technology and expertise that’s needed to provide a seamless gaming experience.”

In 2009, CyberWurx was the host company for the annual Atlanta LAN Fest for charity. The two day event in June drew hundreds of gamers to participate in games such as Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty 4 and Left 4 Dead. Proceeds went to various charities, including March of Dimes and Relay for Life.