Even before LeBron James announced his plans to join the Miami Heat, ESPN's servers couldn't withstand the volume of traffic from feverish NBA fans looking for news about where James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and other all-star free agents would land for the 2010-2011 season.
ESPN's server crashed for nearly 45 minutes in early July in the face of massive amounts of traffic. The crash happened right after news broke that Rudy Gay had re-signed ... More
July 14th, 2010 |
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Cloud hosting is more than just a trend. It's the wave of the future -- and it's here now. Companies large and small are tapping into the cost-savings of cloud hosting that lets them pay only for what they use while also reducing outages.
"You might think of cloud servers as ultra-flexible dedicated servers," said Octavio Diaz, Operations Manager at CloudPronto, a leading cloud hosting company headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale. "A cloud server is totally ... More
June 14th, 2010 |
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Facebook updated its privacy settings, but some privacy advocates still aren't convinced that personal information is safe and sound on the leading social networking platform. In fact, the whirlwind of privacy and security controversy around Facebook also has some questioning the wisdom of shared servers.
"Shared servers are kind of like having complete strangers for roommates. Yes, they're probably trustworthy, but would you leave your wallet on the kitchen table? How about your customers' credit ... More
June 2nd, 2010 |
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Server reliability has been in the media spotlight recently with outages of blockbuster social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. As membership on these sites grow, sometimes usage outstrips bandwidth, posing an inconvenience to users.
That inconvenience becomes a full-blown business interruption when your web site is hosted at a company prone to server outages. In May, server management clients at ThePlanet, a dedicated hosting company that runs more than 40,000 servers, saw ... More
May 18th, 2010 |
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In a move to offer instant scalability, redundancy, power and performance, We are rolling out a new cloud offering. The Cloud Servers and Dedicated Cloud seek to enhance your business opportunities by taking advantage of virtual hosting and cloud computing technologies. Dubbed CloudPronto, the new division offers the same enhanced reliability and affordability guarantees as ServerPronto -- in the cloud.Based on VMware's virtualization technology, CloudPronto's cloud servers bring the power ... More
April 12th, 2010 |
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A recent HP study reveals that 80 percent of senior business decision makers recognize a need for greater flexibility in their approach to business and technology. Our new dedicated server packages are designed with flexibility -- and scalability -- in mind.
We had reconfigured our dedicated server packages to meet the evolving needs of the marketplace, adding more RAM and HDD capacity across the board. Our new packages give businesses ... More
March 29th, 2010 |
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