We (really do) Listen!

I’ve been using online services and tools for quite a long time now … I guess you’d call me a dinosaur 😉 Along the years I have came across some great tools which I had no problem paying a substantial amount of money for in order to enjoy them. A tool that as a sysadmin, designer, musician, artist, etc. made my life easier and at the same time was pure fun was worth every penny….

Disaster Recovery in 5 Easy Steps!

Every service provider aims to deliver 99.99% uptime, a noble goal indeed. However, reality proves that outages can and do occur from time to time. Whether it be scheduled maintenance, network failures, DDoS attacks or just a clumsy tech who stepped on a cable (yep, you read it right) , downtime will rear its ugly head in many forms. Last week, a client from one of our sister companies had a networking failure at their…

Real Simple Data Protection

In the IT/Hosting world the word “easy” almost never sounds right, right?   Implementing new technologies, learning new languages, staying on track with the latest information and managing systems isn’t really easy. In most cases it was made easy only after someone invested enormous amounts of time and effort to make it easy.   Data protection is no different. If you’ve been around for a while you are aware of the frustration related to restoring…

Top 5 Reasons to Update Your Website

Here’s a scenario for you: You are getting ready for an important meeting with a prospective client and need to present new products on your website. You log into the admin area of your website and notice that there are some crucial updates to be made. You click the update button and let it run. Once the update is finished you turn to the product’s page in order to update what’s needed and the dreaded…

A Backup Tale

Once upon a time there was a really important server which hosted a really important website. This website served a lot of people and they loved it. The website’s owners invested lots of time, effort and finances, and employed lots of talented guys and gals to develop, design, edit and maintain it.   One day, a vicious hacker attacked the server, found a security hole and was able to totally destroy the beloved website hosted…