In a blog I wrote back in September 2014, Beyond the Firewall, I wrote about how SSL helps in 2 ways. I pointed out how SSL doesn't just help from an encryption standpoint, but it also helps, according to Google, SEO. Importance for Security Obviously, any...

Now that the holidays have come and gone, it's time to look back at the technology highlights of 2014. In 2014, we've seen the introduction of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and Apple Watch, hacks of major companies including Sony, Target and others, and the deployment of...

As 2015 has come upon us, our staff is busy preparing year end reports. One that came to me recently was our 2014 uptime report. This report covers many different types of environments, including our shared web hosting, VPS, Cloud, and Dedicated Server environments,...

The changing role of IT Support in businesses has made it imperative for companies to break away from the shackles of traditional IT service providers and find how service providers can better their bottom line. With trends like increasing complexity of IT systems,...

Data Privacy Day began January 2008 as an extension of the Data Protection Day celebration in Europe. Data Protection Day commemorates the January 28, 1981, signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data...

Each month, we will be posting our recently changed or added FAQs from our FAQ library. Check back regularly and we'll keep you updated on all the changes on our technology and how we can best help you grow, improve and profit. In this edition of our monthly FAQ...

Ponemon Institute estimates that a minute of downtime costs an organization about $5,000. Put that into perspective. How much do you spend on your IT infrastructure each year? Is it $1,000? $2,000? If you're not thinking about that side of the equation, it's time...

We live in an age when most services are pretty well explained, but not always, especially when they are complicated technically. There are tons of FAQs online now days about software, hardware, gadgets, etc. (let's call it "that thing" for short). The reasons those...

Introduction With today's wide variety of storage devices and types of hard drives, many businesses are challenged with the multitudes of drive technologies. 10K or 15K? SAS or SATA? SSD or SAS? There are a number of factors to be considered when selecting a storage...

I am asked this question from time to time, and the answer is always different. You see, when someone asks this question, it tells me that they don't thoroughly understand RAID. That's because there is no "best" RAID level. There is a good option for each type of...