Category: Hosting

How to Completely Eliminate Hosting Management

Don’t spend a second managing your hosting. If you’re committed to being productive in 2015, and need to choose a hosting platform (shared, server, cloud), keep reading. You’ll potentially save hours of wasted time. Cut the real costs associated with managing hosting, like a super-tech-ninja so you can stay focused. [Tweet “Cut hosting management costs like a super-tech-ninja, so you can stay focused on your goals.“] If you like to do things yourself, or enjoy having complete control over your environment then you may need more than shared hosting. But even shared hosting has it’s caveats that you should know about. The biggest shared hosting...
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4 Hosting Guides Every Developer and CTO Must Follow

Only a few guides, when followed, can protect every developer and CTO from major disaster. Learn them, follow them, or be at risk of spending countless hours frustrated or worse having to start projects completely from scratch. Whether you’re starting a new project or responsibility. You can completely cover your back from disaster and turbo charge your efforts with just a few tweaks to your criteria for choosing a hosting provider. Even better, you should (MUST) adopt these principles for all digital assets of your business. These Four Hosting Guides Every Developer and CTO Must Follow Backup Your Files – There...
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4 Step Visual Guide To Migrate Websites

84% of Migration Projects Fail – 72% of Migration Projects never even get started. The reasons for these staggering numbers? Failed follow through, poor planning in advance and downtime & risk. Most don’t even know when something has failed, and find out from their customers. You can avoid most of these pitfalls with a tactical and easy to follow plan. We have covered the process of a hassle free migration in some detail. Recently a well mapped out yet easy to follow plan caught our attention, though. We can’t take all the credit, one of our customers shared theirs so we’ve adapted...
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Unofficial Guide to VPS, Cloud and Dedicated Servers

Cloud adoption is growing. The multiple options for hosting, and their variations make choosing the right solution challenging. I found that even community experts were defining Cloud, VPS and Dedicated Servers in their own and often confusing way. Let’s jump right in to what these three options are (and are not). I won’t cover heavy technical detail because that’s not the purpose. Instead we will quickly touch on these three major areas. I hope to leave you feeling informed, and not out on a ledge unsure.   Describing VPS, Cloud and Dedicated Servers Every hosting plans requires hardware. This is the...
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