Grow Your Business Using Managed Hosting

August 23, 2010 by Butterfly | Leave a Comment Filed under: Web Hosting 

Today, managed hosting is one type of web hosting solution that is growing in popularity. More businesses are realizing the benefits of using these services to manage and maintain their websites. When you use these services, you will be entrusting the company to host your website using a dedicated server. The services and features that are included with hosting makes it a valuable resource for small, medium, and large businesses. Hosting frees up a company to focus on building their business and generating more revenue. Below are a few of the reasons why this is beneficial:

1. Cost Efficient: It will save your business money and time. You will have more time to focus on your business activities and you will not have to hire a team of IT specialists to run the website and look after all of the issues related to the operation of the website. It also provides that extra layer of support that will allow you to save on hiring new specialized IT employees and purchasing new equipment.

2. Exceptional Security: Hosting offers a variety of services that ensures that the website and server will be protected. This includes such features as data back up in case of a system failure, disaster recovery, and critical systems update. The hosting company will take care of all of the security issues so that you can focus on other business duties.

3. 24/7 Managed Hosting Monitoring: Managed hosting provides 24/7 monitoring 365 days a year. Monitoring includes the network, systems, as well as the hardware. A team of IT professionals will work to keep the site up and running and operating at peak performance. They will also quickly identify any problems that may arise and resolve them in a timely and efficient manner. As well, the provider will provide the highest quality equipment to deliver the highest performance levels. Managed hosting will prevent instances of downtime to ensure customers have access to the site 24/7. As well, most services offer 24/7 support, ensuring that you can get in contact with the IT professionals any time of the day or night.

4. Managed Hosting Provides the Best Features and Resources: When you use a managed hosting service, you will be provided with the highest quality resources such more bandwidth and increased disk storage. As well, there is more flexibility with such features as web applications, programming languages, and other computer technology features.

When you hire a managed hosting company to manage your website and server, you are getting experienced and trained professionals who are able to look after all of the website issues. They are dedicated to maintaining the programming and hardware so that potential customers will always have access to the site. Enlisting the services of a managed hosting company is a smart business management decision that will improve overall business operations and allow a business to grow and prosper.

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Benefits of Fully Managed Hosting

June 12, 2010 by Butterfly | Leave a Comment Filed under: Web Hosting 

Today, every business that wants to succeed needs a fully functioning website. Running a website can be an expensive and time consuming task which can take valuable time and resources away from the business. Because a business needs to focus on day-to-day tasks, the use of fully managed hosting services has become a popular choice. A fully managed hosting service is an internet hosting services that leases servers to businesses. This kind of company will provide a range of services and the business will pay a fee for the services and the use of the server.

Below are a number of benefits to enlisting the services of a fully managed hosting service:

Effective Security: In today’s high tech world, businesses rely on technology for such functions as maintaining sensitive customer data such as personal information and financial information, maintaining a businesses operational data, and running applications and programs that keep the business running smoothly and efficiently. Unfortunately, there are such risks that come with relying on technology such as hackers looking to steal information, viruses, Trojans, worms, and natural disaster risks such as a sudden power outage that causes information to be lost. Managed hosting provides efficient real time security 24 hours a day. They implement security features such as the best firewalls, virus detectors, and programs, preventing unauthorized intrusions to ensure the system and data stays protected. As well, they provide back up facilities to ensure data is recovered in the event of a system wide failure. Managed hosting provides a secure infrastructure to ensure there are no disruptions in business operations.

Convenience and Cost Efficiency: A business will save money when hiring this kind of service. A hosting company will work off site with their own IT team so a business does not have to set up their own team to work on site. The business saves money on hiring costs, training, equipment, and overhead. This allows the company to concentrate on other prioritized business tasks. The company will take care of all the server tasks and functions and deal with any technical issues in real time. The business will receive a report of their activities so managers will always be kept up-to-date on critical issues. As well, the managed hosting company will normally provide cheaper prices than if a company set up their own server because they divide the cost of the bandwidth across a number of clients.

Effective Managed Hosting Services: These services provide a number of essential services that will benefit a company. Such services include; 24 hour a day and 365 days a year technical support, server monitoring 24 hours a day, trouble shooting in real time, eliminating instances of server down time, back up services for disaster recovery, and the highest security optimization. The result is the business site will stay up and running efficiently 24 hours a day. It gives the business peace of mind knowing their website is in safe hands so that they can concentrate of running their business.

Today, technology has become an essential part of business operations. Using fully managed hosting services allows a business to operate more efficiently, protect their sensitive data, cut operational costs, and allow them to focus on other important business tasks. It makes good business sense to take advantage of the services of fully managed hosting.

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Legends Deserve More Than Dot-Coms

July 4, 2009 by Butterfly | Leave a Comment Filed under: Domain 

The theory is: Legends happen because there exists an ultimate Human Resources Department (Let’s call it Chosen One Recruitment or COR) that has positions to fill and relentless headhunters out to get them filled. It’s like when Santa fell of the roof in the Santa Clause, Tim Allen didn’t really have a choice, he was the “CHOSEN ONE (CO)”. And inversely, If you or I “choose” to be Santa for instance, well, COR may just send us a polite letter thanking us for our effort, and we’d never get that determining return call. Hard work, talent, being in the right place at the right time, friends in high places, money, open position availability, etc. all come into play, but it’s up to COR. But let’s be fair to COR. COR is REALLY good at what it does!

Whether you know it or not, we ALL work for BGR. Everyone of us, the entire human race, myself included. If elections were held this way, it would take the fun out of cheating!

The process is like a perpetual motion machine. Like water over a rock, it combines the power of statistics with human romantic passion, our creative capacity, and stick-to-it-ness and a slow-but-steady tick-toc timetable that resembles Darwinian change, to permanently etch “Chosen Ones” into the stone tablets of mankind’s Hall of Fame.

Every pop passing out cigars is certain his new baby is destined to be a “Chosen One”. And back in high school we all had at least one future Robin Williams or Joe Montana. As our high school world expands, most big fish in small tanks become just another sardine. Newspapers and social media networks are filled with people in the limelight, they select their own “chosen ones” all the time, but if COR isn’t interested, are sifted out like pebbles in a gold pan. Rising stars shine are all the buzz for a week, month or year, and even if they truly make us marvel, smile or frown, without COR the new car paint and the head-turning shine gives way to a dull, dusty coat of camouflage. Humans are far from omnipotent, we can’t even figure out how Google selects its chosen ones, how can we hope to unravel COR’s Chosen One Selection secret algorithm? If anyone anyone really knew the answer they’d be selling it to us on a daily basis in our spam mail. Isn’t that what Hollywood tries to do with varying success? But Hollywood only refers their CO candidates. They invest, polish, promote, publicize and advertise. But only COR verifies them and canonizes these names as “chosen ones”.

And there are many Darwinian-like factors that fine tune the process. If CO wanna-be’s catch wind of the fact that COR is calling a competitor back fro a second interview, then BOOOOOM”! An exponential explosion of resistance, jealousy, fear and anger that ordinary people will never know or encounter is directed at those chosen few semi finalist trying to weed out the frail as they begin to make their ascent while all of us mortals remained complacent on the ground biding our time. Most spectators are accepting, but the passionate wanna-bes pull out their pins and go down popping as many balloons as they can, based on the common theory that if you can’t rise to the top, you can at least appear respectably tall if you go around chopping off heads.

Let’s look at some actual examples: And since we already brought up this one-name icon, let’s use it again: Santa. He’s been through it all, and like most good heroes, withstood the test of time, the pin pricks, gradually ascending, sometimes with the blessing of organized religions, other times being admonished and outlawed by the same, ultimately being accepted by and transcending organized religions. Remember, it’s easier to get the job at an interview if you don’t look hungry, and Santa like so many other successful COs had the advantage of not giving a flying sleigh about the entire selection process, and being completely consumed with his purpose in life. Despite the wanna-be’s, conflicting special interest groups, Santa’s dedication to his mission caught the attention of GOR and so one day the post person knocked on Santa’s door with a certified letter, and when the man in red saw what it was he tossed it in the round file. “Too busy for this!” he grumbled.

Another syndrome that comes into play is “CO Envy”. A mere mention your favorite CO as perhaps being equal to or greater than another’s favorite CO, has been the basis fervent attacks. John Lennon was famous for saying things that got people angry, and when he said, “The Beatles are bigger than Jesus…” he ruffled a LOT of feathers. The telephone test is a good indicator. Call up anyone and ask the following as a test:

1. What do you think of + (CO first name)
2. What do you think of + (CO last name)

It is a monumental achievement to be recognized by a single name, first or last. And testament to a monopoly if an individual “owns” a first name that is recognized worldwide. Santa being a great example. But Santa’s last name is too common to stand on its own. Commonly spelled “Klaus” Klaus is the # 5681 ranked last name in the United States.

I am working on part II to follow.