If you’re brand new to server hosting, or if you’ve been using servers for years, you know how confusing the world of server hosting can be. With so many different server types, providers, and applications out there, it’s easy to get lost in it all.
No one enjoys shopping on an ecommerce site that is slow. Since the dawn of ecommerce, studies have shown that higher latencies cause higher bounce rates and lower conversion rates. Performance optimization is critical to ecommerce sales and profitability. But what is a viable ecommerce performance target in 2020? And what can ecommerce retailers do […]
The modern development world seems to require three things which are difficult to achieve at the same time. Development should be fast, code should be high quality, and costs should be kept to a minimum. Software that is developed quickly is rarely the best quality. Testing code to make sure it’s high-quality inflates product timelines […]
Ninety percent of the world’s data was generated since 2016. The amount of data generated by businesses, government agencies, and consumers continues to grow exponentially. In 2020, over 40 trillion gigabytes of data are stored around the world according to market intelligence firm IDC.
Agile is a method of software development that came to prominence in the early years of this century. It is an iterative approach to development that breaks projects into small units that can be completed in short time frames. Agile became so popular that younger developers may not have experienced any other way of building […]
A business that relies on self-hosted applications needs a hosting platform. There are many hosting platforms to choose from: dedicated servers, cloud servers, virtual private servers, Hybrid servers, platform as a service, and shared hosting are just a few of the options. If we were to list these options from least to most powerful, shared […]
In the first quarter of 2019, the enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry generated over $23 billion. In 2018, the average business spent $340,000 on SaaS products, 78% more than the previous year. The majority of U.S. businesses use SaaS web applications to support critical operations, creating a vast market for application developers.
Game server hosting providers have a unique set of requirements for the hardware that hosts game servers for their customers. Perhaps the most important is low latency: gamers demand impeccable network and disk performance. But other factors also contribute to building and optimizing a dedicated server suitable for hosting multiple concurrent game servers.
Virtually every modern business needs servers to run their website, manage email, or deploy cloud applications. In the past, that meant building and equipping an onsite server room. Today, it usually means leasing or colocating servers in an offsite enterprise-grade data center. But some businesses still choose to invest in building their own server room.
According to Capcom, the global online gaming market was worth 33 billion dollars in 2018. The U.S. is one of the biggest gaming markets in the world. With the increasing popularity of mobile and PC gaming, the business opportunities for game server hosting providers is expected to grow even more quickly over the next few […]
