If you are starting your own business — be it freelancing part time or something you hope would allow you to leave your full time job, one of the questions you will face is “How do I determine my rate?” or “How much should I charge for my...
We would like to welcome Jeffery Kilonsky as the new CEO of Dynamic Net, Inc.on 12/1/2012. He brings in a vast knowledge of hosting, servers, Hsphere, and security management since 1999. His abilities include the ability to troubleshoot Hsphere to a code level with...
CloudLinux is an operating system based on CentOS and OpenVZ bringing a more secure, out of the box, operating system which allows a shared hosting environment to mimic a VPS-like environment for each hosting customer. if you could imagine a refrigerator whose...
Over the past several years of working with small business owners and WordPress, we are often asked, “How often should I log into WordPress?” or related statements that begs the question. I.e. If I’m not blogging or otherwise updating content, why...
We currently co-locate a small number of servers for off site backup as well as anti-spam appliances; this is part of our Think Local initiative. Just after ceremony of our daughter’s graduation from culinary school, I was paged with the message the Internet...
Even though our servers are in secure, reliable, relatively hurricane resistant data centers and we have daily backup of all systems, we did not find out our weak areas until storm Sandy came into our neck of the woods. My heart goes out to those families who have...
Repeat after me, “hackers most often target vulnerabilities, not specific people or companies.” Now, say that over and over again.. and shortly you should come to the conclusion that every single device and application typically has vulnerabilities which...
Most small business stewards provide customer service as well as receive customer service as part of wearing many hats. I really appreciate being on both ends of giving and receiving as each encounter is an opportunity to learn, to adapt, to change, and to improve....
It is common for me to submit several hundred abuse reports as part of our security monitoring service every day. If I was asked for an off the cuff ball park of the main attack types from January 2012 to August 2012, I would probably answer with 40% remote file...
One of the common questions I hear from business stewards is, “How do I know what type of hosting to get? Will shared hosting be enough?” I also hear the variations of the above that often come in the form of, “my _______ told me I needed a dedicated...
