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Tech Specs: What is the Answer?

Dave — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:33:00 +0000

Yesterday we discussed the problems associated with tech specs and web hosting. The main problem with tech specs in web hosting is the vast bulk of the customer has little to no knowledge of anything found in the technical specifications and has no desire to learn them. When we talked about the difficulty of selling Web [...]

Tech Specs: What are they good for? Absolutely nothing

Dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:47:00 +0000

I have often wondered why web hosting plans are sold by technical specs… computers too for that matter. Don’t get me wrong, technical specifications of a product are pretty much as detailed as it gets for buying purposes. It can tell us exactly what we need to know. However, without some form of training in [...]

Google, Search Market Leader, and Lying Evil Empire

Dave — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:20:52 +0000

I hope everyone had a delightful holiday season. For myself I had a variety of projects that ended up taking more of my time that I had planned, but now I am here again providing more useful commentary than a well-trained yak. Which is fairly considerable considering how considerate the abilities of a well-trained yak [...]

Ramblings on moving a company

Dave — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:13:00 +0000

Before the holidays I managed to interview Haralds Jass, CEO of dedicated server hosting company Superb Hosting, on the moving of their corporate headquarters to Honolulu, Hawaii. That interview will be out at Web Host Magazine next week Wednesday. The interview was fairly informative and a few points caught my interest. Two points in particular [...]

Holiday Gift Idea

Dave — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:19:47 +0000

I hope everyone’s holidays are going fine and that you are not working overly hard this season. There are two things that holidays always bring to mind, (three if we are talking about this particular holiday season) and that is cooking and pictures. I look forward to two basic chores each year. One taking pictures and [...]

Through the Eyes of a Novice

Dave — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:18:46 +0000

If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch someone who has never even thought about HTML or coding create a web site, I highly recommend it. Especially if you are a programmer, web designer, web host, customer service, well any job or hobby that has to do with web sites. The amount you can learn [...]

Free Web Hosting Perfected?

Derek Vaughan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:00:33 +0000

Budget hosting or free? This is an age old question. I have seen successful movement upmarket in this dilemma (UK hosting firm 34SP.com discontinued free hosting products and even created a higher resource, higher priced product) and now I am seeing a return to the free hosting model from LimeLabs. Until now the idea of [...]

Conficker: In Retrospect

Dave — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:08:00 +0000

There are a few cardinal rules when it comes to computer security. These rules are easy to follow and can prevent quite a lot of computer viruses and malware infections. The first rule of course is to use strong passwords. The second rule is to update your software. The third rule is to use some [...]

SMB’s IT Purchasing Habits and the Studies that Figure Them Out

Dave — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:47:31 +0000

Here is an assumption you can take to the bank, the percentage of SMBs that buy new IT equipment, both hardware and software, will be far less than their enterprise level equivalents. This is business class 101 and the assumption pretty much holds water 99% of the time. This assumption is so bullet proof in [...]

Net Neutrality – Removes Consumer Empowerment

Dave — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:25:49 +0000

Many readers of this blog know that I am against net neutrality. Many also know that I am pro-consumer and when there is an argument between consumers and corporations I will side with the consumer. So how can I be a consumer advocate and be anti net neutrality? Seems mind-boggling doesn’t? It may, but not [...]