I was recently asked (as in recent, this morning) why do some people use Web hosting age as a form of litmus test as far as gauging hosting performance?
Well it’s not necessarily the test, there are a few hosts who have been around for a while and are still horrible, but for the most part [...]

In their blog, security firm Finjan discusses how a single team of cybercriminals are able to control one of the largest botnet networks on planet. The botnetwork is over 1.9 million computers and continues to grow. 1.9 million computers!
Let’s distance ourselves from the fact that this is criminal activity and the operations are of illegal. [...]

I was reading on the forums about someone who wanted to pay less than $10 a month of various features and the Host had to provide 99.99% uptime.
I thought to myself what a ludicrous desire for the money. 99.99% uptime is 4 minutes of downtime each month. You know the percents of uptime [...]

I was asked recently, what is all the fuss over SMBs about? The gentleman who asked the question is a small business owner and he believes he is nothing special. Because of this belief he wonders why does he hear so much about the SMB market especially in Web hosting.
So why do we hear so [...]

According to some extremely long and painstaking research, I have found 2004 to be the pinnacle of Web Hosting. If you use Google Trends you would probably say that 2004 was the dot com bubble burst for Web hosting.
Search on any web hosting related term and you will see a huge spike in 2004. As [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]