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Website hosting is renting or purchasing space on a server to host a website.  All of the images, content, and code that make a website is stored in this space– which is then accessible through the World Wide Web.  To better understand it,…

Parler has withdrawn its antitrust action against Amazon, two months after filing the case against the tech giant.

The website was removed from Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) hosting platform in January for violating its rules.

Parler brands itself as a “free speech” social network and the platform is popular with far-right supporters.

It has now dropped the case, without providing an explanation, but “without prejudice to refiling” it in the future.

Amazon suspended use of its platform after the rioting on Capitol Hill, following the US presidential election.

It claimed it had discovered 98 posts on Parler that encouraged violence, and notified the social network about them.

AWS said it acted because Parler was “unable or unwilling to…

[Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in journalist Eli Sanders’ “Wild West” newsletter, which covers internet-related legal issues. Subscribe here.]

The social media platform Parler marketed itself as a place where Americans could “speak freely” and avoid the fear of being “deplatformed.” Its investors included conservative donor Rebekah Mercer, who described Parler as “a beacon to all who value their liberty.” But Parler was never any sort of wholly independent island of absolutely free speech.

Before Parler’s August 2018 launch, according to court documents, its leaders signed the nascent site up for Amazon’s cloud-based web hosting services. In practical terms, this meant that a platform that billed itself as “the world’s…

As rumored last month, web hosting giant Endurance International Group (EIG) has been sold – but not to VPN specialist J2 Global as expected.

The owner of well-known web hosting and website builder brands such as Hostgator, Domain.com, Bluehost, Constant Contact and Resellerclub was worth around $859 million last month, but private equity firm Clearlake has agreed to pay a significant premium and handle the enormous outstanding debt.