Aliso Viejo, California - (The Hosting News) - October 24, 2007 - Utility and grid computing solutions firm, 3Tera, Inc., has revealed a new Assured Success Plan for Web 2.0 companies, that wish to engage utility computing, combining one-on-one training, consultation and support.

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - October 24, 2007 - The new recently launched Carbon Neutral Search Engine, powered by Google, was designed to offset the CO2 emissions that are generated through producing search queries.

The people behind the Carbon Neutral Search estimate that the average search emits a fraction of a gram of CO2, with the inclusion of the users personal computer usage they estimate that this is 17.57g [In comparison the carbon footprint of a 34.5g packet of Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps is 75g, and the carbon footprint of the average person in the United Kingdom emits 9.8t of CO2 annually.

Green Web hosting has become a subject of increasing interest in the hosting industry, and certainly something worth attending to for hosts that want to make their services as attractive as possible to prospective customers.

This past summer VMware released the newest version of its ESX server product - called VMware Infrastructure. The product runs as a very small Linux server OS, enabling Web hosts to operate virtual machines with any kind of operating system.

The netZentry Partner PROFIT Program allows you to offer DDoS protection for your customers at the domain-level while generating additional service revenue.

Knowing about the mistakes is one thing, but trying to avoid them will not apply to every situation for every web host. The following list shows a couple of mistakes that I made and also a few mistakes I have seen at other businesses.

Monitoring is a very important part of the web hosting business. We are not talking about monitoring log files or so. What we are talking about is monitoring services and uptime and what to do with the information.