Archive for November 2008

Google Chrome Browser Market Share

Nov 28th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: General Information

The latest browser which has been introduced to a general Internet audience is the browser named Chrome by Google. It was released to much hype right around the first of September 2008. You can read the original Official Google Blog post here. Keeping in mind that its competitors have been refining their business models and [...]



Online Customer Support still Languishing

Nov 24th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary

The 4th annual survey of online consumer behavior conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Tealeaf (that’s a tongue twister) has shown that 9 out 10 online shoppers in the UK who have conducted online transactions have experienced problems.
The survey goes even deeper and shows that 41% of those shoppers who experience problems would think [...]



Reseller Web Hosting Options

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Industry Experts, News Bytes

There have been a few developments recently in reseller hosting that focus the spotlight on some of the differences between different resellers and their approaches. Here are three resellers that have quite different approaches, but all offer solid products and services if you line up with the right one for your needs.
First on our list [...]



Yahoo Pleads for MSN Buyout

Nov 6th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: In the News

Regulators said no to the Google/Yahoo advertising deal. Yahoo now finds itself in a difficult position. If the ad merger had gone through, Yahoo would have plenty of extra money to be able to move forward with their business plans, however with the loss of that cash and the decline in the economy Yahoo finds [...]



Website Hosting and Bandwidth Abuse

Nov 5th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News, Industry Experts

A seldom reviewed aspect of running a website hosting business is the process of carefully monitoring and reacting to how users absorb hosting resources such as bandwidth and disk space. Having worked for or within many dozens of hosting firms, I can definitively say that every single hosting company faces a challenge in this regard. [...]



Jargon Induced Misery

Nov 4th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Web Host Laughs

One of the scariest things to contemplate is the executive memo. Will it actually have a nugget of useful information cleverly shrouded in useless jargon and sad, repetitive, colloquialisms or will the nugget be, in fact, the tiniest scrap of a left over Grade-D sand grain that would not even find its way into the [...]