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Earlier this week, Amazon announced the launch of its new Simple Email Service (SES), which is part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division that includes components such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and its popular file hosting/CDN services Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. However, Amazon SES is not an email service like Exchange or [...]

For most of us, some downtime is pretty much inevitable. Servers fail, networks go offline, sites go down and problems arise. All of these can be minimized, but not outright avoided. Although a lot of downtime is unplanned (meaning something went wrong), there is also intentional or ‘planned’ downtime. Downtime can be required for anything [...]

No matter what kind of site setup you have, it has at least one thing in common with every other site on the Internet: it relies on ISPs and network providers all over the globe to deliver visitors. The magic of someone visiting your site doesn’t just involve your server, datacenter or network, it’s a [...]

If your site is feeling a bit sluggish, it might well be time to take some action. Though site-slowness might be your host’s fault or your local Internet provider having an off day, it might also be because you’ve become a bit lax in your site’s maintenance. Webmasters aren’t often guilty of making changes to [...]

We talked recently about some of the common misconceptions newcomers have about hosting. One of the biggest misconceptions made is that they, as the customer, don’t need any knowledge about building or maintaining a website and that the host will handle it all for them. Hosts are dedicated to providing a service, namely keeping the [...]

There’s a tendency to think of those with a domain and hosting account as ‘tech-savvy’. That, while they may not be computer geniuses, they are at least reasonably proficient with technology and capable of handling themselves on the Web. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Because nearly every type of business needs a website [...]

It’s important to search for savings when you’re looking at hosting accounts – depending on the deal and the account, finding a good hosting sale can literally save hundreds of dollars over the course of a year. For small businesses, this can be an especially important action because a deal on hosting can save a [...]

With the new year comes a chance to do some analysis and reflection. It’s a chance to look at all aspects of you life, physical and digital, and decide what changes you might want to make. Though I personally loathe New Year’s Resolutions, there’s no doubt that the turning of the calendar is a great [...]