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Wed Dec 05 2018
Survival in the Cloud: Downtime is not a matter of IF, it is a matter of WHEN
A great thinker once said: "The Internet is held together with bubble gum and duct tape". And that is so true.
One thing we like to educate our clients on is the subject of downtime. Downtime can be greatly minimized, but not forever eliminated.
Mon Dec 03 2018
Survival in the cloud: don't put all your eggs in one basket!
Your cloud provider, such as our ColossusCloud service, is the basket.
Your apps and clients are the eggs.
What was the lesson you were always taught from when you were a child? Don't put all eggs in one basket.
Fri Nov 30 2018
Survival in the cloud: A shared environment, such as virtual servers, may not be what is best for you
Do you like control? You don't like it when your public cloud provider announces a maintenance window and you have no control over that?
Tue Nov 27 2018
Survival in the cloud: control test reboots are necessary to avoid heart attacks; schedule them with our staff.
A client recently asked us to add an 8TB hard disk to his dedicated server while the server was live. That's no problem, as this client has a dedicated server with hot disk swap capabilities (we can install/remove disks via a front facing ejection mechanism).
Wed Nov 21 2018
Proper architecture: separate your Microsoft SQLdatabase backend from the frontend
In a previous, we explained the advantages of separating your frontend, such as WordPress, from its backend, such as MySQL, by running them in separate virtual
Sun Nov 18 2018
Proper architecture: separate your backend from the front end
Let's say you are running a popular MySQL/Wordpress based website. We will also talk about MySQL.
Your front end is the website itself, managed by WordPress. And your backend is the MySQL database.
Thu Nov 15 2018
Why do experts still recommend a dedicated server infrastructure/private cloud over the public cloud?
See that uptime? It is not easy to get that with a virtual server in a shared environment.
Why? It is true in any system that the more moving parts a system contains, the more likely it will fail.
Mon Nov 12 2018
Product updates: Introducing our new Client Portal, version 5!
Head over to our new URL, https://portal.serverpoint.com, to see our new creation!
We are so proud to release this new version to all our clients. This has been a year long project!
Wed Oct 31 2018
Survival in the cloud: backup, backup, backup!
We just can't stress this enough.
Our daily usage of "the cloud" in our phones, for example, have given us a sense that everything we put in the cloud is safe and we do not need to worry about it.
Thu Jun 29 2017
5 Ways a Web Designer Can Customize Your Current Weebly Website
Weebly has an incredible tool that lets new website owners with little experience in web programming design a site.