Today's internet consumer is savvier and more demanding than ever. Capturing the attention of this audience, and efficiently serving it, is critical to your success. Regional hosting, or hosting in a regional market where much of your customer base is located, is crucial to meeting the demands of your customers. Over the next four articles, we will look at the benefits of hosting in four major U.S. internet markets – Chicago, Atlanta, Miami and Los Angeles. We will start our journey in Chicago.
Ceph has emerged as one of the leading distributed storage platforms. By using commodity hardware and software-defined controls, Ceph has proven its worth as an answer to the scaling data needs of today's businesses.
Ceph allows storage to scale seamlessly. When properly deployed and configured, it is capable of streamlining data allocation and redundancy. Automated rebalancing ensures that data is protected in the event of hardware loss. New servers can be added to an existing cluster in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Fast and accurate read / write capabilities along with its high-throughput capacity make Ceph a popular choice for today's object and block storage needs. [Read more…] about An Overview of Ceph
Choosing how to host your business's application or product is crucial to ensuring your IT Infrastructure can perform and scale. Success (or failure) is defined by how you manage and apply the resources at your disposal. In-House Hosting, Colocation, and Managed Hosting require different considerations for efficient and effective deployment. Today we look at nine areas to consider when choosing, or migrating to, one of these hosting options.
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For over a decade, cloud hosting has gained traction in the business community due to its cost and scalability benefits. However, as it's become popular, many companies have realized that
relying on a solely cloud-based infrastructure can be inefficient and, at times, ineffective. Companies must keep client data secure to maintain governmental compliance. Site performance
must remain stable during daily and seasonal web traffic spikes. These needs, among others, have given rise to a Hybrid Cloud architecture that allows companies to securely maintain its
core operations and handle any unusual traffic or processing needs.
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about What is a Hybrid Cloud
Whether you've just been tasked with finding a new hosting platform for your company's website, or you've just departed the corporate world to build a “better mousetrap”,
you will be faced with many decisions on how to handle your website or applications. When researching hosting options, it doesn't take long to identify
dedicated servers
and
cloud servers
as the two most popular options. The question then becomes, how do you decide which is better for your specific application or business model. In this article,
we compare five key factors to consider when choosing a server.
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The end of 2016 ushered in a new era of large scale DDoS attacks. Last fall, we saw the launch of Mirai which has become the prototype for numerous attacks that have affected sites like Twitter, Netflix, Reddit, and CNN. One month later, Mirai-type DDoS attacks continued against several email providers and other targets – including Comcast.
While cyber-attacks can wreak havoc on a company, reflecting on the lessons learned from past disasters can help prevent future attacks and assist in patching existing vulnerabilities. These five best practices can assist you in enhancing your overall cyber security and help safeguard you against potential DDoS and other malicious attacks. [Read more…] about Protect Your Infrastructure From DDoS With These 5 Tips
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Unfortunately, several of us at Adaptive Data Networks know someone – a mother, wife, daughter, relative, or friend – that has been affected by this horrific disease. This places the core issue of cancer awareness at the top of our list when it comes to charitable giving.
Breast cancer remains “the most common cancer” for American women according to Cancer.org. More than 250,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed this year. In spite of this, we believe it's important to highlight the achievements made since Breast Cancer Awareness Month awareness month's inception in 1993: [Read more…] about Breast Cancer Awareness Month
IP Transit's role in facilitating Internet access for today's highly connected business environments is critical. Without reasonably priced, accessible IP Transit offerings,
businesses in every imaginable sector would lose many of the efficiencies that are now the foundation of their current Information Technology plans. Given the proliferation
of cloud-based business services, such as Office 365, and continued development of enhanced information technology services both on-premise and otherwise, access to reliable
network resources through services such as IP Transit remain critical.
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about The Benefits of IP Transit
If your business utilizes the Internet in any capacity, then you are undoubtedly familiar with the end result of IP Transit. However, having a more in-depth understanding of IP Transit will allow you to make better decisions about how your business accesses the Internet and how your customers reach your applications and services. In order to fully understand what IP Transit is and how it effects your business, we first need a better understanding of what the Internet is. We know that the Internet is a global set of interconnected networks that speak common protocols to exchange information. However, for the purpose of this article, we will go further into how these networks function and how IP Transit ties them all together. [Read more…] about What is IP Transit?
If you have been exploring web hosting for any length of time, you have discovered the many different types of hosting options available. From Cloud Servers to Dedicated Servers,
from VPS to Virtual Machines, the choices can be daunting. To add to the uncertainty, additional ambiguous terms like “semi-dedicated” are also being used – easily causing confusion.
As we've explored previously in our
Hosting Comparison
article, hosting can be broken down into five main categories. However, there are additional categories that are not as clear. In this article, we will discuss one of the more confusing
topics: semi-dedicated servers.
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about The Truth About: Semi-Dedicated Servers
Data security is a multifaceted area of expertise requiring extensive involvement by an organization's CIO, IT department, and virtually every area of the business that touches
organizational data. With cybercrime and data breaches occurring at an ever-increasing rate, keeping your customers' data secure is essential. Negligence or a misinterpretation
of security regulations can compromise both your customers' sensitive information and your organization's reputation.
Whether your business has just launched or has outgrown its current resources, researching and selecting the perfect hosting solution for your product can be a confusing undertaking. Over the years, terminology within the hosting community has become a bit unclear. Many hosting providers blur the lines between different types of hosting in order to cut prices. The result is inferior products being sold under a “premium” label. While it may be tempting to go with the first option that seemingly meets your needs, gaining a deeper understanding of each type of hosting will allow you to make a more informed decision. [Read more…] about Hosting Comparison – VPS vs Cloud Servers vs Dedicated Servers and Other Options