Optimization is not enough to handle the increasing importance of search engines and all that is included with them. SEO was the process for increasing search engine traffic to a site through a series of tweaks, fixes, and techniques. Yet, increasing search engine traffic is no longer the main priority, capitalizing on the traffic you [...]

A while ago I had written an article about web hosting data center operators preparing for hurricanes. You can read a copy here: http://www.hostpapers.com/article/228.
So now we are once again in the throws of hurricane season with the latest hurricance - named Gustav - poised to hit the Gulf coast almost exactly three years after Katrina [...]

A lot of questions can be answered by browsing the Web Host’s site. In general, there are several things you must ask your Web Host they include:

How many employees do you have?
Do you outsource support, if so who do you use?
What is the average wait time for the initial response to a support questions and [...]

The conclusion to my interview with Michael van Dijken and John Zanni, both from Microsoft.

Part 2 of my interview of Michael van Dijken and John Zanni of Microsoft from Hostingcon 2008.

At HostingCon 2008, I managed to sit down with many movers and shakers of the industry. My interviews are more conversations between professionals and as such can take anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour. Due to this, I have split the interviews into numerous parts. The following is my interview with Microsoft representatives Michael [...]

Like many buzzwords in the marketing arena, social marketing has been both over and under estimated. It has been hyped up beyond all belief as well as being sidelined as not a worth while investment of time and money.
I could spend this article praising social marketing or I could spent it demonizing social marketing. However, [...]

If you use the Internet on a regular basis you are already aware that the majority of Internet traffic is generated by search engines and directories. You’ve probably surfed the web and spent hours looking for instructions on optimizing your web site and submitting to search engines and directories. Much of this information is confusing [...]

Last we talked, Pingdom had written an article on how to figure out size and growth patterns in hosting companies. Previously we looked at the current accepted method, domain names. Although there are a lot of flaws with that, it has been one of the few solid ways. Pingdom determined that there are three factors [...]

Pingdom has presented the question on how to track hosting companies size and strength.
The normal means of determining size falls upon the number of domain names hosted. However, what if clients host their domains with other providers? What if you cannot track all of the web host’s DNS servers or if you can find all [...]