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Amazon Web Services reveals i2 instance pricing - inadvertently?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) inadvertently (?) revealed the pricing of their forthcoming i2 instance type in a Slideshare presentation.

Amazon Web Services Puts Cap On Spot Instance Pricing

In an effort to reduct the likelihood of customers being "overcharged", Amazon Web Services (AWS) is capping the price of Spot instances to 4x the minimum.

Fifty questions for Spamhaus, with our answers

Ken Magill, who writes a weekly marketing blog called "The Magill Report", recently solicited his readers to submit questions for Steve Linford...

World's largest spam sources are all hosting companies

The world's largest spam sources revealed to be hosting companies

AOL Accidentally Rejects Millions Of Messages

AOL began rejecting connections instead of temp-failing them under certain conditions. This resulted in a major increase in non-delivery receipts worldwide.

How Web Hosting Providers Can Battle Fraudulent Sign-ups

Fraudulent sign-ups are a major problem for web hosting providers - particularly for providers offering VPS's and other flexible hosting options.

How Botnets Send Spam (In Layman's Terms)

A guest blogger describes how and why spammers use bot nets to send spam.

What is fakemx.net and why are they temp failing me?

In this post, we discuss what fakemx.net is, and why it's generating temporary delivery failure notices in your mail server logs.

Why Is Yahoo! Temp Failing My Mail?

We explain why Yahoo! fails connections to its mail servers with error: 421 4.7.0 [TS01] Messages from 1.2.3.4 temporarily deferred due to user complaints.

Most popular SMTP responses - updated for August 2012

A summary of the top-50 most popular SMTP error responses, as collected at a major web hosting provider.

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