Archive for June, 2009
8 Ways to Fix Slow Email (Part 1)
One issue many users face is the sometimes painfully slow speed of email. This article will address ways to optimize the speed of your network connection. These suggestions may increase the speed at which you can send and receive email, as well as improving the performance of your web pages and other file transfers.
What’s Best for My Business? Cloud Hosting vs. Geo Hosting
What’s Best for Me?
As I discussed in my last article,“What is Cloud Hosting?”, cloud hosting offers an alternative to geographically based hosting (“geo hosting”). What’s best for your business? It depends on your needs. Today, I’ll take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of each type of hosting platform.
Cloud Hosting
A cloud host will have many servers, often located all over the globe. Using a technology called load balancing, the cloud host will allocate server resources to each customer as needed. Generally, you’ll pay a flat fee for …
What is The Cloud and What Does it Mean for My Business?
The Cloud
A specific definition for “the cloud” is the cause of much controversy on blogs, in popular tech publications and even within my own office. The prevalent definition is based on the fact that clouds are constantly changing, much like the Internet itself. Whatever your definition may be, “the cloud” certainly encompasses many different technologies. A few of these include cloud computing and cloud web hosting.
Cloud Computing
What is it? Cloud computing can be many things, but it is most accurately described as a network of computers with a centralized load …