Cassidy, Woon, Fong and a fourth friend started Ultimate Arena, a Web site hosting online tournaments.
He did brief stints at a Web site hosting firm and at a factory assembling cable harnesses.
Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).
The industry's leading trade group, the National Association of Campus Stores, tested a Web-site hosting service for independent campus stores at five schools for several months and announced a widespread rollout of the program set for spring.
Users are provided with hosting for their site and a Web-based interface where they can enter their posts. (Disclosure: Forbes.com uses the TypePad service to power its blogs, including one by the author of this story.) Six Apart also operates LiveJournal, a popular free blogging service, and sells Movable Type, blogging software which companies and individuals can install on their own Web servers.
Slowdowns and bottlenecks greeted some visitors to the site, but the site "never went down, " claimed Brian Doyle, a spokesman for IBM Global Services, which provided Web hosting and electronic-commerce software for the site.
That suggests that as soon as Srizbi's owners find a new web hosting firm, they need only set up a site at that unique address and the botnet will be fully functional again.
The intruders, a hacktivist group that calls itself UGNazi, ultimately leaked a 1.7 gigabyte trove of data from the British web hosting firm that includes 500, 000 users accounts according to the UK tech news site the Register, including some number of credit card details.
First, for a credit-card payment of twenty-five dollars, the Web site will verify your name and address (which means that a member can be certain she is hosting the real Ripper, and not an impostor).
After hosting an investor cruise around Manhattan on his motorboat, the Motherland, Middleton posted pictures on his Web site of guests cavorting with scantily clad women.
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