Category: Success Stories

Why Learning New Application Stacks Can Help Your Company Grow

We sponsored the Tulsa Tech Fest 2015 event in Tulsa OK, today. This was a local event for IT and Developers. It caters primarily to those using Microsoft Windows developer tools and environments. Being a Windows Hosting provider at our roots, we fit nicely. We service all sorts of environments today. Learning a new application stack can help you specialize & hone your purpose. Learning new application stacks can help your business grow too. [Tweet “Learning a new application stack can help you specialize & hone your purpose.”] It Helps You Serve A Niche Market Almost all web-hosting is now automated....
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Scale and Support 150,000+ Visitors A Day On A Budget

How do you successfully scale and support a site from 2400 to 150,000+ visitors per day? Carefully, methodically – and if done right affordably. By using a proven framework. We used the these steps in planning the environment for a program launched by one of largest cities in the US. It literally saved them thousands but most importantly, they stayed online during their largest campaign. We began the planning for this project months in advance and it was my pleasure to work with each person on this city’s IT team. Everyone brought good questions to the table, and momentum. If I could mention each individual I would....
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Shopping For The Best Hosting? Ask These 10 Questions

A new customer recently consulted us on a project. He had a well thought out list of questions, I was impressed by his thoroughness. After we ended the call, I thought it would be great to create a streamlined list. It would include the 10 best hosting questions I’d been asked. The truth is no single hosting provider is perfect. I wish it were true. Just about every hosting provider you can name has had major outages. Rackspace and Amazon are not the exception. Hostek like other providers have had difficulties to overcome. These occasions have helped Hostek grow and improve which...
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The Best Hosting Support Ever

Even since the very beginning of my employee training at Hostek I’ve come to appreciate areas where we are consistent. Today by working with customers that have various needs I’ll interact with a gamut of departments within Hostek. Together we build the perfect solution for them and do our best to provide great hosting support from the start. On average 40% of potential new clients I work with specifically ask about how hosting support is handled and a large portion of these are asking because they received bad hosting support from their previous host. The good news is that some are asking just to...
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