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An Overview Of Server Colocation

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

For cost-conscious enterprises, collocation is a viable option. the total cost of ownership in IT is the total cost of the staff and infrastructure to support your business. When crunching numbers to determine the total cost of servers supporting the company’s websites and how that fits into your day to day operations, disaster recovery and business continuity plans, take that one step further to compare those numbers versus colocating your servers in a data center. Enterprises large and [...]

Managed Hosting Options

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

“Backup” is more than a mantra today; it’s mission critical. Data on the servers used in a business need to be backed up. . This essential hosting service is backed up to a fully redundant storage-area network This generally means faster backup. This is also a faster solution as compared to providers that back up to tape. Restores are likewise faster and the whole setup is more reliable than tape, which has a much higher mean time between failures than SAN technology.

Generally speaking, cloud computing at the consumer level, the concept of cloud computing is receiving [...]

An Overview Of Server Colocation

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Benefits to Your Business of Managed Hosting

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

It is conventional wisdom that dedicated server hosting with extended support and management delivering system-level administration and support, comprehensive Internet infrastructure and extensive services that relieve IT departments of many critical, but expensive responsibilities, is the ideal. Yet, in a managed hosting environment, the provider owns the data centers, the network, the server and other devices, and is responsible for deploying, maintaining and monitoring them offers a comm [...]

IP Application

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Does your company have the IT resources to efficiently run your corporate websites and online business applications? Are you able to make the necessary investments in infrastructure and updated technology to improve your online performance? Does your IT staff have the expertise to manage the processes, platforms, software, and reporting tools to meet today’s requirements for infrastructure security and reliability? Application hosting needs experienced operators which focus exclusively on [...]

Dedicated Hosting Offers

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Dedicated Hosting is a form of web hosting where a client chooses to lease an entire server housed in an off-site data centre that is dedicated to their uses only, and not sharing it with anyone else as in a shared hosting environment. This contrast to Managed Hosting, where the customer needs to have the capability to perform all system administration and management activities on the server from their remote desktop.

The customer has complete control over the server and can choose [...]

Dedicated vs Managed Hosting?

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Dedicated Hosting offers the customer their own private server thus offering complete control over its use. Most web hosting packages are called shared hosting providers - not dedicated hosting providers. What this means is that the server or servers that host your website are simultaneously hosting numerous other websites also. This gives you a discounted rate on web hosting services in exchange for tolerating certain technical constraints, like bandwidth, disk space, upload and download s [...]

Attributes of a Managed Hosting Service Provider

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

The key factors that a customer needs to should consider are:

Managed Hosting Pricing Options

This may not be the most critical factor but it is often the first a customer will look at. While it's always tempting to go with the lowest-cost provider. In accepted wisdom this is seldom the wisest choice. At the very least an approach of negotiating a price should be foremost on the mind of a customer.

The standard was created to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud through increased controls around data and its exposure to compromise. The [...]

Server Hosting

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

For a typical enterprise,, the cost for using managed server hosting is a fraction of the cost of purchasing and managing your own server. For small- and medium-sized businesses, managed server hosting is the easiest, least expensive way to have a website. Even large businesses who do not want the added responsibility of servers and technical staff can benefit from managed hosting.

Storing vital business data in a secure and resilient location, as opposed to locating it in offices or [...]

Green Data Centre, Eco-friendly and energy efficient

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom is focusing on green technology and monitoring IT energy consumption in our Data Centre to establish a Green Hosting environment. Understanding what Green Servers actually mean Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom is focusing on green technology and monitoring IT energy consumption in our Data Centre to establish a Green Hosting environment.

We are:

Measuring and monitoring what impacts power management and metric [...]

Linux Hosting | Enterprise RedHat

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Uptime is a critical metric for IT systems in web hosting some applications require up to 99.9% uptime for their revenue-generating online applications. A Linux Hosting solution is an option where designed for such exacting requirements, where, ons: effectively, the solution cannot go down.

Benefits of Linux solution

For sure some people are worried that they will not be able to use Linux hosting because they run Windows on their PCs. The fact is that what operating system you run [...]

Dedicated Hosting & Infrastructure

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Online applications have become increasingly essential to the success of business and government organisations. If IT solutions are built on technology, then the quality of that technology directly impacts the services delivered. When you choose the right Dedicated Host, your business benefits from the maximum reliability and top performance than comes from disaster proof multi-million dollar infrastructure.

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom specialises on Dedicated H [...]