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Holiday shoppers and web developers nationwide were stalled Tuesday morning when some of Amazon’s business services, including e-commerce, web hosting and Prime Video, went offline, according to DownDetector.com, which tracks connectivity issues based on customer reports.

At noon, DownDetector showed a peak of more than 25,000 reports of problems connecting to Amazon.com and 11,000 reports about outages on Amazon Web Services, which provides remote computing and cloud computing services to other businesses, including WRAL Digital. The problem was concentrated along the eastern seaboard, with Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta all showing outages.

WRAL uses Amazon Web Services, for instance, to schedule the…

• Amazon’s web-hosting subsidiary, AWS, is experiencing major issues.
• The outage appeared to cause issues for major streaming services, including Netflix and Disney Plus.
• Amazon said it is “investigating increased error rates.”

A number of former staff of Adelaide-based web hosting and domain name service provider Net Virtue has launched a new venture called Click Host.

Net Virtue in August was acquired by Nexigen Digital, the parent of hosting firm VentraIP, to boost the brand’s client base and number of services.

Two of its former employees, chief technical officer Dean Walsh and customer service Adrian Acosta founded Click Host following the acquisition. The company specialises in web hosting, managed WordPress hosting and reseller hosting for consumers ranging from personal bloggers to small and medium-sized businesses.

Click Host’s announcement said its founding was “in response to ongoing consolidation within the Australian hosting market” primarily by international…

GoDaddy says the recently disclosed data breach affecting roughly 1.2 million customers has also hit multiple Managed WordPress services resellers.

According to Dan Rice, VP of Corporate Communications at GoDaddy, the six resellers also impacted by this massive breach are tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe.

GoDaddy acquired these brands after buying web hosting and cloud services companies Host Europe Group in 2017 and Media Temple in 2013.

” A small number of active and inactive Managed WordPress users at those brands were impacted by the security incident,” Rice told WordPress security firm Wordfence.

“No other brands are impacted. Those brands have already contacted their respective customers with specific detail and…

By Jaqueline McCool · November 23, 2021, 4:45 PM EST

A New York company that provides web hosting services for mobile devices, including designing, maintaining and optimizing sites, is not subject to sales tax because it isn’t offering enumerated services subject…

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