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Depending on how you are hosting your website, including what platform or application you are using well define your visitor capacity that you can handle. This is not often something webmaster will have to think about until they hit that peak of traffic one day with a popular blog post or product line. Here’s some [...]
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Cloud, Data Centers, Hardware, Network, Technology, Web Hosting | No Comments
English: Illustrative diagram of history of development of ISO 9000 series of standards (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hosting Company Auditing and Certification — Part 3-A of 3 In addition to Superb Internet’s ITIL staff certification (Part 1 of this three-part series) and our SSAE-16 auditing (Part 2), we are certified for the ISO 9001:2008 standard. This [...]
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in Hosting Industry, Network, Support, Web Development, Web Hosting | No Comments
Often hear the Acronym IP address thrown around? SEO people seem to use it (Search Engine Optimization) as though it’s a numeric stealth ID number to track you down. Well, it’s kinda like that. Here’s a few very recent, and very good takeaways on what an IP address is, and more importantly, how it affects you, or [...]
May 14th, 2013 | Posted in Cloud, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Hardware, Network, Security, Technology, Web Hosting | No Comments
How many of you are still confused by the terminology SSH, aka Secure Shell? Today I’ll point you in the direction of some commentators with either hands-on experience or theoretical understanding to discuss it in different ways, with the hopes that one of the methods of explanation will stick for each of us. Authorized SSH [...]
May 10th, 2013 | Posted in Network, Security, Software, Support, Technology, VPS, Web Hosting | No Comments
Secure Shell (SSH) access is granted for our GridPRO and GridMAX hosting packages. Let’s look at what it is and why it might be useful. It really is a nifty tool – for port forwarding to get around firewall restrictions and send email remotely via your own server. We will focus specifically on using [...]
May 10th, 2013 | Posted in Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Network, Security, Technology, Web Hosting | No Comments
A common topic that I see in current news trends relates to the security breaches of various platforms. Whether it’s a popular web host that’s being targeted, or as we’ve seen recently in the tech oriented news; WordPress hacks, and often email account breaches. One of the most obvious and yet most overlooked points for protecting [...]
May 7th, 2013 | Posted in Network, Security, VPS, Web Hosting | No Comments
Filtering spam e-mail is a major challenge both for individuals and for companies. Problems with spam for legitimate companies exist on both sides, sending and receiving. Obviously we struggle with receiving e-mail from illegitimate companies. We can also struggle with sending out newsletters or other messages and having them flagged incorrectly by other people’s [...]
April 25th, 2013 | Posted in Business Talk, Network, Security | No Comments
In light of recent events I found myself inescapably absorbing the news of the Boston Bombing via the internet as I worked. I often wonder how much the way I deal with the outer-world has changed simply because my main consumption of media happens to be via the computer and mobile, rather than the Television. [...]
April 24th, 2013 | Posted in Business Talk, Cloud, Marketing and PR, Network | No Comments