Category: Liquid Web

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Marho Atumu; “Uncertainty is the only certainty there is…” Business owners experience all sorts of unplanned events in a business environment, yet still have to remain functional and profitable. For an organization to maintain this type of continuity requires more than just tackling each challenge as it comes. That kind of attitude might be able to handle smaller disruptions, but it will leave you dead in the water when major disasters occur. This is why business continuity planning and management is an essential part of any business venture. What is Business Continuity? Business continuity can be ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jim Geiger; March 8th is International Women’s Day. The central theme of this year’s campaign is “A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change.” #ChooseToChallenge.  I certainly support that sentiment and specifically within the technology world, have advocated the drive for gender balance and equity. It’s good for business, our industry, and the world. At Liquid Web, we believe in the power of women in technology. Since acquiring Liquid Web in 2016, we have increased women within our employee base by 206%. We have women in leadership roles in every single function ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Misael Ramirez; Horizontal vs vertical scaling: what’s the meaning of those concepts? Choosing the right solution can dramatically improve your performance or cost-effectiveness. One of the most difficult things in system design and application hosting is trying to estimate the reach of our apps. This might come as a shock, but unfortunately, you can’t predict the future. The best you can do is project what would be our user base and hire computational power based on that projection. But what if the projection goes wrong? If you look at the first graph above, you can see ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Melanie Purkis; Eyeing migrating to cloud computing for your business and wondering what the trends around cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure are for 2021? If you’ve been watching the IT Industry over the past few years, you’ve witnessed an unprecedented growth in public cloud services and cloud usage across all business sectors. With that, there are now lots of new market opportunities and challenges — all of which will have a significant effect on long-term strategies and roadmaps of nearly every company. What can you expect to see from the most popular cloud computing trends in ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mark Gibson; As an organization in the digital age, your success is largely going to be based on how well you are able to adapt to an ambiguous, disruptive, and dynamic digital environment. It will also mean taking advantage of the opportunities for organizational improvement presented by technical advances and digital trends. In other words, your success will depend on extraordinary IT (information technology) leadership. As organizations and industries continue to evolve by adapting to technological advancements and trends that stem from them, the importance of having competent and innovative IT leadership is becoming increasingly clear ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Melanie Purkis; Having a hard time grasping exactly what cloud technology is and the benefits of using the cloud? Despite having been around for more than a decade, “the cloud” is still a nebulous and hard to understand term for even the savviest IT professionals. Everything from television advertisements to water-cooler conversations talk about the cloud in a way that assumes everyone knows what it is.  The truth is that the cloud is far too expansive, complicated, and nuanced to be boiled down to a one-sentence simplification. Making sense of the cloud and how to best ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jason Potter; There is more to selecting the right hosting product than just pricing. In fact, basing your decision entirely on price is a recipe for disaster. When comparing prices on shared hosting vs VPS vs dedicated vs cloud hosting, it may seem like a no-brainer to sign up for the cheapest option available, right? If you are running a web agency, you are not alone in thinking that shared web hosting, often as little as $5 per site monthly, is the most cost-effective solution for your business. However, take a deeper look and you will ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Todd Terwillegar; We’re the employees you would hire if you could. Responsive, helpful, and dedicated in ways automation simply can’t be. We’re your team. Each month we recognize one of our Most Helpful Humans in Hosting. Meet Michael Phelps Michael grew up in Mason, Michigan (15 minutes south of Lansing) and graduated from Mason High School. Upon graduating, he went into skilled trades for the summer and worked in a steel and carbide die fabrication shop. But when cutbacks hit the shop where he was employed due to the recession in 2008, he knew that he ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; IaaS in Cloud Computing At its core, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the provisioning and management of server infrastructure so that businesses and individual users can remove the worry or work that typically goes with the care and feeding of the infrastructure itself. For example, an IaaS provider likely provides not just servers but also connectivity, physical security, and electricity to the user. Imagine if your business was responsible for each of those things? Now imagine that you’re also responsible for hardware upgrades, backups, and software updates. Infrastructure-as-a-Service handles these critical but cumbersome responsibilities so that ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Misael Ramirez; Cloud hosting vs shared hosting, which one should you choose? Let’s start with an overview of concepts to understand better what hosting means. Every website is hosted (stored) on a server, and visitors are pointed to that server when typing the site’s URL on their web browsers. How fast that website is loaded, how secure the site is, and how the site is maintained are all considerations to think about when choosing the right type of hosting. This server may or may not be a physical asset, depending on the hosting solution we, as ... Read More