Downtime can disrupt your business, customers, and damage your company’s reputation. But how do you prevent or minimize downtime? Can a server monitoring service help? To answer these questions, first we need to understand the causes of downtime. Downtime can be broken down into three distinct categories. Read the rest of this entry »

Most people by now are familiar with hosting for their web sites, but some people are not so familiar with web hosted office suites. The concept is relatively new, and there are very few options for people interested in them. In this article, I will discuss some of the companies who provide some type of web hosted office suite package.

Introduction

When I talk about a web hosted office suite, I am specifically talking about various software applications which are traditionally used on a single computer and are stored on that computer’s hard drive. Some examples of this would be Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so on. Some companies are now providing these types of applications via the Internet. This type of service has its good points and bad points. I will discuss the positives and the negatives later on. It is fair to say, though, that this type of service will be more beneficial to some and not to others. Read the rest of this entry »

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Excedent Technologies, the leading provider of managed email hosting with integrated security threat prevention, today issued a list of characteristics that businesses and service providers should look for when outsourcing their email hosting to a third party provider.

1. Focus on hosted email
There are thousands of companies that promote email-hosting services as part of a large product portfolio. However, because email is such a mission critical application and features and security threats evolve so quickly, we highly recommend looking for a provider that dedicates their business to building and managing secure Read the rest of this entry »

Dedicated hosting is a hosting environment where one or more servers are dedicated for a single client. The client effectively leases the server from the hosting provider. The hosting provider provides the server machine, the connectivity and the required software and operating system to run the server. Read the rest of this entry »

Security has become a major concern for all who conduct business on the Internet. Viruses that can destroy hosting systems and hackers who steal confidential information are a bigger threat than ever before. As a consequence, consumers should take proactive steps to protect themselves, conducting in-depth research and asking specific questions of prospective Web hosts to ensure that the security measures that they employ are strong.

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A web host is a company that provides you with server space to host and control your website along with a whole lot of services such as software scripts, shopping carts, and other plug-ins.

Well, if you want to be on the Internet, you need a web host but not just any webhost - you need a quality and reliable web host to ensure that your website performs well. Thus, when you choose a web host you need Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to start a serious online business, you might want to consider looking for cheap dedicated hosting. By definition, dedicated hosting means that the webmaster rents an entire server, which is not shared with anybody. Read the rest of this entry »

Founded on a “pipe dream” according to company CEO Bryan Gan, Comdev’s vision has been to introduce to the world virtual computers and hosted desktops, making installation on PCs a thing of the past. With the recent release of oDesktop, Gan told TopHosts his company is even closer to its ultimate objective. Read the rest of this entry »