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According to Fortune news, Godaddy will buy Host Europe Group for 1.69 billion euros , including debts. HEG , whose customer base is similar to GoDaddy’s, is one of Europe’s largest independent web hosting firms, and operates brands such as 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet and Host Europe. HEG is currently owned by European private equity firm Cinven Ltd, which acquired the business in August 2013 for 438 million pounds. In 2013, Godaddy bought MediaTemple , Godaddy is expending its web hosting and domain registration service very fast.

Today, Linode opened a second datacenter in Tokyo , as they promised several months ago. Tokyo 2 is the ninth datacenter around the world, and it offers all of the features and services as other datacenters. If you with to move to Tokyo 2 from other datacenters, you can follow the instructions or open a support ticket and they will configure a migration for you. Enjoy the Tokyo 2 datacenter!

Vultr announced the 15th location - Singapore about a month ago.You can now provision and manage high performance cloud servers from the heart of this island nation, strategically positioned for low latency in the APAC region. This new location is as great as other 14 locations, here is a screenshot of benchmark of Singapore and Japan. Singapore Japan

Linode now accepts Paypal payments, to start using PayPal just log into your Linode Manager and go to the Account -> Make a Payment tab. While any customer can use PayPal to fund their account, new customers will still need to sign up using a credit card. You can use PayPal from then on. PayPal has a “recurring payment” scheme for automatic payments, but Linode doesn't support it yet. Before you transferring funds from Paypal, you need to ensure that you have enough credit on your Linode account to cover your next invoice.Otherwise, Linode's billing system will attempt to collect any remaining balance from the credit card you have on file.