Louisville, Kentucky - (The Hosting News) - November 12, 2008 - Global hosting solutions and services firm, Hosting.com, has completed a $2 million round of funding with CapitalSouth Partners, LLC, to continue to expand its Enterprise Colocation business.

Hosting.com intends to enable enterprises to deploy custom-built micro-data centers of 2,000 - 20,000 square feet inside one of Hosting.com's five SAS 70 certified data centers.

CapitalSouth, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, also operates an office in Louisville, KY, site of Hosting.com's corporate offices. After years of watching the rapid growth and expansion of Hosting.com, CapitalSouth executives partnered with Hosting.com to increase the number of data centers Hosting.com

Providence, Utah - (The Hosting News) - November 12, 2008 - British web hosting company, and high bandwidth dedicated hosting provider, UK-2 Group, has acquired Utah-based WestHost.com, completing its program of growth-by-acquisition in the US Hosting Market.

Ditlev Bredahl of UK2 noted, ''I've followed WestHost for years, and I have always been impressed with their quality of service, respect for their clients and great offerings. I want to assure all WestHost clients that they are not going to see any changes in that kind of personal service. We're keeping the data center in Utah open, because a local presence is important, and we're keeping the excellent staff there.''

UK2 Group will continue to operate WestHost's d

La Mesa, California - (The Hosting News) - November 12, 2008 - Web hosting solutions provider of cPanel/WHM-based shared and reseller hosting solutions, AllureHost, has introduced a new semi-dedicated hosting solution offering.

John Lewis, Executive Vice President at AllureHost noted, ''Semi-Dedicated hosting thrives by blending ease of use with total performance. Our fully managed Semi-Dedicated plans offer the usability of virtual hosting with the resource guarantees and stability that only a Dedicated Server can provide.''

AllureHost is a provider of cPanel/WHM-based Shared and Reseller hosting solutions, announced today it has launched a Semi-Dedicated Web hosting solution, offering a bridge alternative between a Dedicat

Portland, Oregon - (The Hosting News) - November 13, 2008 - Developer-focused provider of managed linux hosting solutions, Network Redux, LLC, was given the privilege of hosting the reporting database and providing technical support to the Twitter Vote Report 2008 project.

Thomas Brenneke, President of Network Redux remarked, ''Utilizing our cloud computing resources we were able to dynamically scale the Twitter Vote Report platform in real time, giving life to a project which allowed voters to report on the conditions of their voting precincts, as well as positive and negative experiences (such as length of voting lines.)''

A record number 11,000 voters reported on problems at the polls. Joining a volunteer network of software developer