We do hosting, and we’ve been doing a pretty awesome job of it for the past eight years. When it comes to a service like hosting, many equate our industry to that of utilities like your local power or water company: just another thing you have to keep paying for. We’re doing everything we can [...]
Lately, it seems that just about every hosting provider is touting how ‘green’ their hosting is, despite having an actually weak environmental commitment. Some companies talk about how they are 100% carbon neutral, followed by how they bought green credits to make this happen. Others make outlandish claims stating that they’re green entirely because their [...]
Yesterday, Mark Maunder at markmaunder.com happened to run across and identify a very dangerous and clever hack on his site. The hacker had gained access through the very popular TimThumb image library. If you are interested in the specifics of the hack, more detailed information can be found at his website: Zero Day Vulnerability in [...]
The Canadian Government announced this week that it is planning on only buying Energy Star qualified servers. Canada, along with many other Governments including the EU, Switzerland, Australia and Japan have adopted the US EPA’s energy efficiency certifications for appliances. The datacentre and hosting industries have seen a huge green push over the last several [...]
We would like to welcome Chris MacLellan to the Web Savers team. Chris is joining us as our new Account Manager and will be introducing himself to many of you over the next few months. Thank you in helping us welcome Chris as part of the team.