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More than ever before, website hosting solutions and services are significant for businesses globally. Poor website functionality can lead to loss of customers because of bad user experiences.

In a market that has expanded rapidly since its humble beginnings, web hosting statistics show continued exponential growth. With more than 1.2 billion hostnames registered as of July 2021, the web hosting industry market size is expected to reach $171.4 billion by 2027 compared to the $56.7 billion it was worth in 2019. Projections say that the industry will have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.5% between 2020 and 2027.

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A pernicious botnet used for cryptojacking has taken a major blow thanks to Google, whose free cloud-based services it relied on to propagate. The company has identified and removed thousands of accounts, hosted files and ad accounts that were being used to spread malicious files.

The botnet, Glupteba, has been operating for some months and was thought to be compromising thousands of people per day at its peak. The cryptojacking botnet quietly installs coin miners on Windows PCs and attempts to steal login credentials and authentication cookies. It spread via Google advertisements promising software cracks and phishing emails linking to malicious files hosted with Google Docs.

Notorious cryptomining and credential theft botnet crippled

Google cautions that…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Wednesday morning, which took down several popular websites including Netflix, Doordash and Hulu, marking the second time in a week the cloud hosting service has failed. 

The Amazon-owned platform began experiencing problems around 10:24am ET, with users citing the website, hosting and server connection as all having issues. It returned to full service shortly after 12:20pm ET. 

Only a few countries, including the US, China the UK and India, reported problems, which were less widespread than the prior outage.

On December 9, Amazon Web Services went down for seven hours and took several other websites with it that use the company’s cloud servers.

However, DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows…