Are Bandwidth Offers Confusing?
By now, millions of smartphone subscribers have heard countless advertisements touting 10, 15, 30 (or unlimited) gigs of data shared between users on their personal cell phone plans. Consumers …
Resource limitations on shared hosting?
Resource Limitations – Quite often, we’ll see threads opened on web hosting forums that pertain to unlimited offers from web hosting providers that offer shared hosting services, complaining about …
Unmetered Bandwidth on Dedicated Servers
Unmetered bandwidth on dedicated servers has its pros and cons. With unmetered bandwidth you get a flat rate, whether you use one Megabyte of traffic or 100 Terabytes of …
Addressing TOS Policies for Web Hosting Providers
Terms of Service (TOS) policies vary by web hosting providers, and while sometimes they’re widely disparaging, generally the clauses in each cover the same basic provisions. They all talk …
Dedicated servers versus cloud computing
Cloud computing is all the rage today, providing redundancy, scalability and on-demand services, yet questions abound exactly what the cloud actually is as advertised by many web hosting providers. …
Renting a dedicated server vs colocating
There are real world pros and cons to both renting a dedicated server and to colocating your own server, and the answer as to which you should select depends …
Advantages of a Dedicated Server vs Shared or VPS Services
Let’s start by saying that a dedicated server comes in many flavors, in terms of hardware like CPUs, RAM, RAID arrays, hard disk drives, hot swappable units and so …
Leasing Dedicated Servers at a Datacenter
Leasing dedicated servers housed in a data center can minimize downtime of mission-critical servers and applications. Can you afford to lose even one hour of revenue stream? What would it …
Understanding DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks are simply distributed denial of service attacks whereby unscrupulous cybercriminals try to overwhelm a website with bogus traffic from multiple sources. At first, they primarily attacked important …
Dedicated Servers – What You Should Know
A couple of years ago I wrote an article explaining why it was counterproductive to not know what you didn’t know. Confused? Having been in the hosting industry for …