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 …
White Space – the Forgotten Website Design Element
Successful websites, in other words – sites that receive lots of relevant traffic, incorporate measured amounts of white space to: Ensure legibility & readability Enhance attractiveness & professional image, …
How Branding Helps Your Business
The majority of businesses would give their right arm to have the kind of brand awareness that Monster, Pepsi™, McDonalds, GoDaddy®, Kleenex® and Xerox® possess. A lot of smaller …
Resource Intensive Ops? Why you Need a Dedicated Server!
Businesses with resource intensive or high online traffic operations more often than not migrate to a dedicated server when shared hosting or VPS servers can’t handle the day-to-day complexities …
Data Center Infrastructure – Should Know Information
Today’s data center can host millions of websites from around the globe, from web hosting providers that offer Shared, Virtual Private and Dedicated Servers to Cloud Hosting services. The …
Common Sense Security
Years ago, a well-known web host sent a message to its clients about a security breach of one of its employee accounts. They followed that with this thread in …