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Quick Facebook Followers

So we decided to give our social media a large push for 2010.  Everyone has been telling us that Social Media is the way of the future and if you’re not there you are no one.  Well, we want to be someone!  We want to have a strong following online but it’s a little hard [...]

Cloud Computing – How Would You Like to Use it?

Nethosting.com has developed a platform for auto deployment, control, configuration and management of web based applications and systems. These systems are often referred to as Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, or On-demand systems. As we go forward we want to know what billing models and architectures are most appropriate and usable by our customers.
Since any system [...]

Internet Services Immune to Recession

Though this may not be 100% accurate it is close. When have we ever had a tool and set of resources that we fundamentally relied upon as much as the Internet? For most of us, the job we have somehow involves the Internet, and we would not be able to function (at least as effectively) [...]

Financial “Bailout” or Common Sense

I have spent some time talking with my employees lately about this Federal “Bailout.” Frequently I am concerned that the underlying problems (without passing blame on our Presidential Candidates or either the Republicans or Democrats) are the real story being overlooked. We had a financial market where “over-valued” securities were allowed to flourish due to [...]

Economic Impact on Hosting

I think it is premature to start counting chickens, but so far the impact from the economic downturn has been less than remarkable. In fact I believe the net impact on the hosting industry in general may in fact be a net positive.
When times are tough and money is tight, everyone starts doing two things: [...]

What makes for a good hosting deal?

We have often gone the rounds internally asking, “what can we do to bring the most value to a customer?” The default answer is frequently, lets make these services cheaper some how. That obviously becomes harder and harder to do over time.
I am convinced that our customers want real value and value to them is [...]

XP and Vista Usage

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9112885
After reading this article and other articles, and from our own statistical and anecdotal evidence, most of you are not switching to XP. The significance of this also plays out in your use of IE7 vs. IE6. With the ever present conundrum of making our site and systems work across all browsers, we are taking [...]

Why not get 1 TB virtual hosting?

How many of us have seen the ad for a new 1TB virtual hosting account? Or have watched as hosting company after hosting company has steadily upped their disk space and bandwidth allotments month after month? What is really changing here?
The short answer is nothing but the marketing. That isn’t to say some companies won’t actually [...]

MSSQL Injection Virus & Managed Hosting

Recently we have seen a renewed security load from various flavors of the MSSQL Injection Virus. More interesting than that, we have had discussions with some larger customers moving from various dedicated hosting providers around the country to us, who have received little to no help solving their MSSQL Injection Virus problems. Some have even [...]

SPAM and the 80/20 rule

After reading a recent report about SPAM I got to thinking about our SPAM stats. Very interesting.
What is amazing is how many times the 80/20 rule comes up. Today it once again shows up in our anti-SPAM stats.
First, at least 80% of all mail is confirmed SPAM.
Second, 80% of the SPAM that we toss via [...]