iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For Feb. 18th, here are the highlights:

• Ars Technica asks if Internet traffic decreases, why the ISPs are throttling the Internet? This is related to the CRTC hearings and the net neutrality debate in Canada.
• At the SMX conference, Vint Cert, the creator of the Internet, listed several problems for the Internet, amongst them the problem of security for cloud computing, lack of formats, protocols and standards, and the impossibility to communicate between different clouds.
• Facebook and myspace have the best uptime, while Twitter and LinkedIn trail, in a pingdom study. If you are interested in the infrastructure of social networks, Wordpress has a post (and a video) about their new data center.