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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 …
9 Tips to Make Your Website Load Much Faster (Part 1)
The goal of this article is to determine whether or not the cause of your website’s latency is due to your web host or due to the way you have constructed your site. This article will use examples from prominent websites and explain how to use the tools that they employ to ensure that their sites are served to their users quickly
1. Server Location: Closer is Faster - Google is estimated to have 450,000 – 1,000,000+ servers located in cities worldwide. This helps ensure Google’s website loads …
9 Tips to Make Your Website Load Much Faster (Part 2)
5. Your Bandwidth Is Slow - Most larger web hosts will have multiple bandwidth providers so that if one gets jammed, they can switch to another bandwidth provider to ensure the fastest connection and load times for your website. An easy way to see if your hosting provider is partnered with large bandwidth providers is by running a trace route test. Once you have completed the test, check to see if it has references to major bandwidth providers such as Sprint, Level(3) Communications, MCI-Verizon, Mzima …
Use Light Speed to Locate Your Server
The benefits of having your web server geographically close to you are well established, but how do you determine where your server is located? Unless you know a lot about physical network routing and the equipment used in network routing, you may not know how to accurately do this.
Tools to Locate Your Server
The good news is you do not need a super accurate test, instead, a relatively accurate solution is readily available. All you need is a little understanding of the speed of light and optical …