I am going to be on the Mailtrust Customer Advisory Board for the next 6 months. I was talking w/ one of their representatives today about how Mailtrust’s Noteworthy product is probably my most favorite SAAS solution on the market! I didn’t really realize how handy the webmail interface was because I usually download everything […]
Wal-Mart Website Issues
I was out of state visiting family over the holidays but still managed to catch wind of this one on CNBC black friday. It appears that Wal-Mart’s website went down due to heavy traffic and slow pageload times. There are no estimates as to how much revenue was lost during the outage but with wal-mart.com […]
Valuation of Annual Accounts
Several times my partners and I have played around with the idea of acquiring a smaller hosting company that was for sale on the open market. We have the infrastructure to accommodate several times over the number of clients we currently have and purchasing a smaller company seems like a logical choice for us to […]
Hosting Locations of Busiest Websites
Being a partner and co-founder of a managed hosting company, Pleth Networks, I try to stay up with what’s going on in the industry. I stumbled onto Netcraft this morning and found this hosting research data pretty interesting. Notice how big a piece of the pie our datacenter, The Planet, has in comparison to the […]
Houston Data Center
As some of you might be aware, we (Pleth Networks, LLC) have a redundant backup datacenter located in Houston, Texas. This is not our primary datacenter, our primary NOC is located in Dallas, Texas. Our RDP Backup Solution runs from the Houston datacenter. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the hosting industry and […]
Cheap is not always Better!
From time to time my partners and I are questioned about our rates for things like domain registration, web hosting, etc., and often times even have our rates compared side by side to companies like GoDaddy, etc. This has always been an amusing thing for me to explain to those who are less tech-savvy because […]