Today Liquid Web announced a large offering of dedicated servers in partnership with Zimbra. Liquid Web Zimbra is 100% compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server and provides two-way interoperability with most collaboration platforms. This means that Zimbra and Exchange users can share calendars, contacts, tasks, see availability for scheduling and collaborate across both platforms. [...]
Liquid Web’s SSD servers just got better. Today, they announced the availability of the world’s most advanced NAND clustering technology designed for server based application-centric storage, the Fusion-IO ioDrive.
Fusion-ioDrives are high-performance solid state (SSD) hard drives designed with the revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture ioMemory that can easily match the I/O performance of the world’s [...]
The choice of a hosting service depends on your needs. Given the number of options available, it becomes difficult to zero in on one host. So, what should you see in a host before hiring its services?
Look for high-speed connectivity. If your web pages take ages to download, you risk losing traffic. Make sure the [...]
It’s been exactly 2 years now since I first signed up with Liquidweb for a managed dedicated server, and I’m more than satisfied with the level of service they provide. The package I initially purchased was an entry level webmaster series, but I have since upgraded some of the components of the server. [...]
When you are on the lookout for a hosting solution, you want a hosting company that can guarantee quality service on the lowest of costs. While these are essential criteria, you need to have other criteria to make a choice. I hope you don’t agree to use the first supposedly cost-effective host you come across. [...]
Keep up the good work guys! This just arrived in my inbox:
Liquid Web has completed a significant upgrade to its network capacity
and core infrastructure which has greatly enhanced its ability to
efficiently serve high volumes of bandwidth. Contained within the
now-completed project are a number of 10 gigabit Internet circuit
activations, along with expansions into Chicago with [...]
Choosing the right hosting company can be quite a task. With so many web hosts vying for your attention and offering ‘special’ features, you cannot decide easily on what suits your needs. Let me share a few pointers on choosing a good web host for your website.
Find out if the web host can provide you [...]
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Google returns a result of 50 million when you search with the keywords ‘web hosting companies’. Choosing the right web hosting company amidst the ocean of hosts is definitely not an easy task. So, how do you choose the one that suits your needs? Find out in this post.
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This is simple. You do [...]
SingleHop is a unique dedicated server provider in that they offer different levels of server management. The SingleHop data centers are located in Chicago, IL, and they currently operate two facilities which are leased (see their recent blog post).
Main Chicago Data Center (DC1)
The main SingleHop data center houses over 2,000 dedicated servers for [...]
The Planet has 8 data centers located in the Houston – Dallas, TX area, as well as a London Data Center. The Texas data centers are SAS 70 Type II audited data facilities. The most recent, is the addition of a 106,000 sq. ft. collocation center in Plano, TX. On the technical front, the [...]
LiquidWeb is one of our favorite dedicated server providers for many reasons. We like them so much in fact, that we use them to host the Dedicated Server School website. That being said, their data center’s aren’t anything to shake a stick at.
Tier 1 Premium Bandwidth [...]
While I had heard good things in the past about FastServers.net, it wasn’t until I started our data center tour series that I realized how truly unique their data center is. FastServers.net went to great lengths to try and pick the ideal location for their data center. Here are some of the requirements they [...]
Shared hosting and dedicated hosting are simple, understandable hosting types. However, reseller hosting leaves many confused. You will, however, not be able to figure out if your website is being hosted using reseller web hosting or shared hosting. The experience is similar.
What is reseller hosting? When a web host buys a large amount of space [...]
Large businesses understand the importance of dedicated hosting and thus opt for it. However, at times, even large organizations find it difficult to manage dedicated server hosting on their own. This is where managed hosting comes in. Apart from offering all the benefits of dedicated hosting, managed [...]
Ensuring the security of servers needs a lot of time. What a website needs is a security scheme that helps save both time and resources. Liquid Web has come up with a service that does exactly this while making sure the security is of the highest standard. [...]
When it comes to managed hosting plans, very few hosting companies compare to The Planet.
The Planet specializes in managed hosting, dedicated servers, and collocation services. But that’s not all they offer. You can also opt for The Planet’s cloud computing services, which are out of this world.
The Planet’s cloud computing services was announced on [...]
Browsing Techcrunch this morning, I just found out that Rackspace had a complete outage yesterday at one of its datacenters. For those who do not know, Rackspace is one of the premium managed dedicated server providers in the World, with nine global datacenters.
Upon further investigation, the Rackspace blog starts off with this post [...]
Layered Tech is a web hosting company with specialties in managed dedicated servers and cloud computing. Its CEO is Jack Finlayson, who used to serve as COO of SAVVIS and before that, worked at Motorola and AT & T.
Layered Tech’s data centers include 256,000 square feet in [...]
We don’t recommend a lot of web hosting companies, but one we do recommend is Fastservers.net.
The folks at Fastservers.net are friendly and knowledgeable and capable of handling a wide variety of services. Some of the best offerings of the company include:
Dedicated servers for Windows [...]
When it comes to web hosting companies, buyer beware! Not all companies are on the up and up. But there are different levels of shoddy service.
With some companies you get good technical service and lousy customer service. That’s tolerable if you don’t require customer service very often. Other hosting companies provide great customer service and [...]
Dedicated Server School (www.serverschool.com) is partnered with LiquidWeb who is one of the few managed hosting providers currently offering SSD servers.
Jun 01, 2009 – Dedicated Server School is committed to teaching the public about dedicated servers and the latest in server technology and its premier partner provider, [...]
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After my last post about Media Temple admitting to the failures of their grid system, I got a response from their sales department who promised things would get better, and they gave me 3 months of free hosting on the Grid. I’m still too tired of switching shared hosting accounts to move the few [...]
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Media Temple is a popular hosting company who has been using very slick marketing for the past two years to sell their popular Grid Service. If you had a look at their website, and read the write ups about the Grid, they make it seem like you are getting extreme
