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The Key Differences Between Cloud Hosting and VPS Hosting
I have been asked recently by some customers to elaborate on the differences between Cloud Hosting and VPS Hosting. While some think virtual private servers and private cloud hosting are the same thing, they are not. These terms are not interchangeable. Yes, there are...
AIT Engineering Peak-in – November 2014
Systems engineering is a methodical, disciplined approach for the design, realization, technical management, operations, and retirement of a system. A "system" is a construct or collection of different elements that together produce results not obtainable by the...
Why Outsource Your Web Hosting Infrastructure?
Web Hosting Industry vs. In-House Infrastructure Often in the world of web hosting, dedicated servers, cloud, and vps plans, the big question a company may ask themselves: Do I outsource my web hosting or build it myself in-house? Quite often, the answers are...
Why Website Security is Worth The Money
Let's start with some alarming numbers. Exploits, hacks, and the downtimes that they caused accounted for approx. $3 billion on lost sales in 2013. 95% of all websites scanned by AIT's Security Scan product has a vulnerability in the software uploaded or implemented...
5 Tips to Protect Your Business and Secure Its Data
In an article I wrote over 2 years ago, 5 Questions Every CEO Should Ask Their CIO, I approached several important topics about technology and business. According to the EMC Global Data Protection Index, data loss causes companies to hemorrhage $1.7 Trillion...
Three Marketing Problems and Their Solutions
As business owners, or marketing managers, there are many challenges to drive more business. How do you increase revenue? How do you find more customers? How do you improve your advertising conversion rates? How can you be more efficient with your marketing dollars?...
SSL Helps in 2 Ways
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...
6 Tips for Optimizing a Linux Server with 32GB+ of Memory (Part 1)
From time to time, we receive projects here at AIT that are very challenging. Each challenge is a way for myself and my team of engineers to learn more, implement more, test more, and advise our clients about the things that we see in production environments. In a...
A Technology Year in Review: 2014
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...
AIT Meets SLA Terms in 2014 – 99.999% Uptime
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,...