Filed under: Business, Managed Hosting
Many people new to web hosting may have the perception that having a website for their business necessarily indicates that they need business hosting or ecommerce hosting. As a result, they often pay more for hosting even when they may not need it. There are plenty of situations where ecommerce hosting is absolutely necessary, but you should first understand what it is and be able to determine if your website needs it.
Filed under: Managed Hosting
As server farms grow and their workload changes, the design and structure of the networks that serve them must also change. End-of-row switching is increasingly giving way to top-of-rack switching, and tiered networks may need to be replaced – or perhaps augmented – by more mesh-like Ethernet fabrics.
Filed under: Managed Hosting
A major infrastructure outage in Ireland affecting managed hosting services supplied by Amazon and Microsoft has highlighted the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity in the sector.
Both Amazon’s EC2 cloud service and Microsoft’s BPOS desktop virtualization suite were knocked offline after severe storms hit infrastructure in the country.
The outages show that taking preventative action is a must, as is planning for every eventuality.
Filed under: Cloud Hosting, Managed Hosting, Managed Hosting News
The European Commission (EC) wants to make it as easy for businesses to switch their managed hosting services provider as it is for them to swap their mobile phone and broadband provider.
Filed under: Managed Hosting
The managed hosting services market is set to grow substantially in the coming years, with real-time web conferencing alone expected to be worth $2.85 billion (£1.76 billion) globally in 2015.
According to the new World Web Conferencing Hosted Services Market report from Frost & Sullivan, the managed hosting and managed services sector is already worth more than $1 billion.
Posted on October 6th, 2011 by admin
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