Managed Hosting Why It’s Best for Small Businesses

small business hostingFor any small business owner, the last thing you need is inefficiency and extra costs. Most small businesses operate on long hours where the owner throws him or herself into the running of it. This leaves little time and money to spend worrying about whether or not your websites are up and running. This is why managed hosting for small businesses is the ideal hosting solution.

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Colocated Server Hosting The Right Solution.

Colocated Server HostingQuick, what do you do: choose a hosting plan, buy your own server, rent your own server, install the server in-house, or install the server at another location? Which is best option? If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably experienced this conundrum before. There are tons of questions about the right solution for web hosting. The ideal solution is different for every business and often is a combination of several approaches. This is true of colocated server hosting—a blend of renting and owning, and of control and freedom.

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Business Continuity and Disaster Planning Outlined

Business Continuity and Disaster PlanningLike most people we all know, we never think something bad will happen to us. We think, “Oh, that’ll never happen to me.” If you’re a business owner, this is the one of the biggest mistakes you could ever make! Denial of a potential problem could result in a devastating loss of productivity, money, equipment, or even the business itself. There’s no reason not to be prepared for emergency or disaster situations—and that’s why every business should invest in the development of a business continuity and disaster plan.

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Teaming up with a SharePoint 2010 Hosted Service

SharePoint 2010 Hosted ServicesCollaboration—it’s an integral part of any business. The act of working together as a team is a situation that can sometimes make or break an office environment. Teamwork, as we all know, isn’t the easiest of things to organize. That’s why having a SharePoint 2010 hosted solution can help your business succeed. SharePoint 2010 is a hosted solution that provides you with a platform on which to build internal websites, document collections, and much more. How does SharePoint bring efficiency and success to your company team?

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A Guide to the Wide Appeal of Hybrid Cloud Hosting

hybrid cloud hostingThe safe protection of critical information whilst maintaining accessibility is an issue that every business and company is dealing with right now.  Due to these increasingly complex needs, an equivalently sophisticated solution is required. What follows is a simple guide to why hybrid cloud hosting might be this solution.

What is Hybrid Cloud Hosting?

A cloud computing service distinguishes itself from traditional hosting services by allowing the user easy and scalable access to computing resources with full control over the range of services they wish to utilize. A cloud hosting service can provide a public cloud (or external cloud), which sells the service to anybody with Internet access, and a private cloud (or internal cloud) is a proprietary network that supplies only a small number of selected individuals. Hybrid Cloud Hosting is a service offering a composite of dedicated servers and shared servers that can be accessed on the same network. Generally, a hybrid cloud must consist of at least one private cloud and one public cloud.
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SAN Replication Offers Security and Peace of Mind

Every business needs the security of knowing that their information and network is safe: safe from natural disaster, human error, or any other damaging situation. That’s why having a SAN replication system in place is an excellent feature of any company’s disaster continuity plan. A SAN replication system ensures backup of your entire network’s data—and stores it away safely. But for the non-technical people out there, the concept of network backup might be a bit confusing. Before analyzing the business advantages, let’s discuss what a SAN is.
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Webhosting.net’s Miami Datacenter Delivers Excellence

miami data centerOne of the first things that people ask regarding cloud computing is security: security of data, information, and essentially, about the reliability and accessibility of everything in their cloud network. That’s why Webhosting.net is a company of choice in which to develop one’s cloud network. Webhosting.net’s Miami datacenter incorporates top notch security, highest in-class infrastructure, and is one of the five Tier-4 NAPs (network access points) in the United States. When you choose a cloud hosting solution from Webhosting.net, you’re choosing one of the premier datacenters in the world.

There’s a reason why Webhosting.net’s Miami datacenter is called the NAP of the Americas—because of its construction and power, it’s prepared to serve as the primary Internet gateway to Latin America

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VMware Disaster Recovery Solutions: Protect Your Data

One of the worst situations a business owner can ever be in is to lose all of their data. It’s an unfortunate truth, but it does happen. All of your digital information can be damaged or lost due to human error, natural disasters, hardware failings, theft, and the list goes on. Restoring your data and systems can take a long time, can get very expensive, and you might not even get all of your data back. Why take this risk? With VMware disaster recovery solutions, you can rest assured that no matter what happens, your information is safe and secure.

VMware is a virtual infrastructure that unifies hardware resources, creating a shared platform for infrastructure, application, and management services. Unless you’re an IT specialist, that definition might give you more questions than answers. Let’s analyze it in simpler terms.

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Virtual Private Server Hosting: The Perfect Solution for a Growing Business

Do you ever feel as if your company is caught between hosting plans? Lots of businesses start feeling the rigidity of a shared hosting plan when their websites start to gain lots of traffic. But if your company has outgrown shared hosting, what’s the best choice for you? You know you would like a cost-effective solution that is still efficient and provide the power you need. You also want security and the ability to customize. Is there a hosting solution that can provide all of this? If you’ve asked yourself that question before, virtual private server hosting could be the best solution for you.

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Virtual Success Comes Easy with VDI Plans

Have you ever left the office and arrived home to suddenly remember you needed to find and send information to a client? It’s too bad that all the data and programs you need to do this are on your computer at work. Unfortunately, this results in you having to leave your client waiting. This is the type of situation that reduces efficiency, delays projects, damages your client relationships, and can ultimately slow down your business. If this scenario has ever happened to you (or you hope that it doesn’t), you will want to hear about Webhosting.net’s VDI plans.

What is a VDI plan? VDI is a tech-term that stands for “virtual desktop infrastructure.” Let’s analyze this to see what it really means. The term “virtual” means that something has changed state but still retains its original characteristics. For example, you can partition your flash drive into two separate sections—but you can still interact with and think of it as a single resource. “Desktop” refers to the graphical user interface, aka GUI, presented by your computer’s operating system. Your desktop consists of icons that show the organization of your files and data.

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