Protecting Cloud Hosting Clients By Preventing Outbound Spam

Spam. It clutters inboxes with multi-million-dollar offers from Nigerian royalty and assures that a devoted Russian bride is just a click away. Sophisticated spam filters have relegated most of these dubious invitations to users’ spam folders. But while spam has become less readily visible, it remains a major threat as a point of entry for…

Affordable Cloud Hosting – Hourly VS Monthly Billing Compared

As the cloud space continues to mature and expand with new providers coming on line, host companies have begun exploring alternative pricing options for service. With the major price cuts among providers, long-term contracts that freeze prices have begun to look like a bad bet for businesses. One new model for affordable cloud hosting being…

The Cons of Working with Amazon Web Services “AWS”

For many start-ups Amazon web services offers a way to grow their infrastructure quickly and cost effectively, at least in the early stages of the business. For many, as the business grows, Amazon web services can become a bit clunky and expensive. Amazon web services or AWS is a cloud-computing platform that provides customers with…

Content Delivery Networks Aren’t Just Fast – CDN’s Save Money, Too

Content delivery networks or CDN’s are changing the way we access information online. For the user it offers faster loading times and seamless deliver of streaming content including audio, video and IPTV. For the business owner it offers reduced server load, less bandwidth use and optimized website performance that means better performance and improved search-engine…

Content Delivery Networks Save Time and are Loved by Search Engines

With CDN’s The World Is Yours Faster When you’re developing your web strategy it’s important to understand all the available options for boosting your sites performance. One technology that is addressing the big picture in performance is the content delivery network or CDN. A content delivery network uses multiple servers in various geographic locations to…

Don’t Buy More Than You Can Eat – 100/Month For Rigid Hosting Wasteful

How Much Hosting is to Much? The cloud has changed the way we all do business. As the space continues to evolve, cloud host providers lately have been advertising affordable cloud hosting featuring dedicated server technology. Basically outsourcing your IT needs to a managed dedicated hardware server for a fixed monthly price. This guarantees your…

Flexibility and Auto-Scaling Let Cloud Hosting Stand Apart

In the B.C. era (before the cloud) businesses had the option to get online through either shared hosting technology or to invest in a dedicated server. For many small to medium sized businesses this became a difficult choice that was often driven by budgetary considerations. Let’s take a brief look at the online options available…

Disaster Recovery? Long Emergency Downtimes? Not With Cloud Hosting

The cloud provides businesses with many benefits like flexibility, scalability, cost effective resource use and elasticity, but one of the greatest benefits of cloud computing is how it’s changed the nature of disaster recovery and business continuity. The cloud has made disaster recovery more cost-effective and has allowed smaller businesses to deploy comprehensive disaster recovery…

Avoid One of Web Hosting’s Demons – Fixed Pricing

The past few years there’s been a lot of talk about “the cloud.” Many business owners believe that virtualization and the cloud is a “one-size-fits-all” technology better suited to Fortune 500 companies than their small business. The truth is that the cloud has matured and that assumption is not today’s reality. Today, scalability is the…

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