Although it may not seem like it today – in the era of Smartphones, Tablets, and Facebook – I think we can all agree that email’s a pretty revolutionary technology. The development of email rendered a whole crop of traditional communications methods all but obsolete.
But why does this matter?
Today is the day we all work together to make the Internet a better place.
Internet Service Providers like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T want to end net neutrality so they can charge extra fees to control what we see & do online. The end of net neutrality rules means that Internet Service Providers will be able to split the Internet into “fast lanes” for companies that pay and “slow lanes” for the rest. This will negatively impact consumers and businesses across the country.
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A cloud application is an application that provides the functionality of a native application, but which runs in the cloud and is interacted with via web browsers and APIs.
When we talk about the cloud, we usually mean public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms, but IaaS was a late-comer in the cloud space compared to Software-as-a-Service — cloud applications came first.
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It’s easy to talk about the benefits of using a cloud platform rather than in-house or colocated hardware. In 2017, few would question those benefits. But it can be challenging to see a path from a company’s current infrastructure to the cloud. Moving complex and critical legacy applications is a big step, and without executive buy-in, it’s difficult to get the ball rolling. (more…)
Traditionally, phishing attacks have targeted consumers with random spam in the hope that that some small proportion of the targets are naive enough to install malicious software or hand over login details. (more…)
Choosing the right hosting option for your project is important. It will help ensure you have a positive experience and only pay for the infrastructure you really need.
But finding exactly the right hosting isn’t easy. There’s an almost infinite variety of options, but many of those options have more to do with marketing than the technical attributes of the platform.
At ServerMania, we offer three basic choices for server hosting:
Twenty-five years ago this month, Linus Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup asking for ideas for a new project he’d been working on. The project — “just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu” — was an operating system. At the time, it was unnamed, but, as I’m sure you all know, over the next quarter of a century, Linux popularized a new way of thinking about software development and became the seed that allowed thousands of businesses to flourish. (more…)
At Server Mania, we’re extremely proud of our Support Fleet. So proud, we don’t call them a Support Team, Support Department, or even a Support Crew. You have to be extremely effective at your job to be called a Fleet. (more…)
When evaluating web hosting providers, there are many common factors educated customers use to make a final purchase decision.
