Webinar Replay: Is Your MSP Helping You Enable Innovation? Many businesses across several industries need to constantly innovate and evolve to compete in a changing market. Technology invariably supports much of the innovation as businesses look towards digital transformation at various stages in their strategy. But, while the business looks to transform and focus on the strategy and execution, the underlying technology to support […]
The “Edge/Origin” Cloud: A New Paradigm Edge/Origin Cloud Hosting: A New Paradigm While reliability, security, performance, and affordability remain the fundamental business objectives of all web hosting solutions, the best way of achieving these objectives continues to change with rapid shifts in web hosting technologies and services. The most recent and hyped change is the emergence of cloud hosting platforms. Unquestionably, […]
Availability and Performance Monitoring: A Cloud Hosting Primer It is always surprising to me the lack of attention that is paid to monitoring when customers purchase cloud hosting services. Mostly, I think it is because the business owners and many system administrators don’t really understand the complexities of properly “instrumenting” even a moderately complex application (web or otherwise) and take it for granted. […]
Milliseconds are Money: How Much Performance Matters in the Cloud In the cloud … faster is better! But how much faster equals how much better? If your site loads even one second faster, will your audience grow? Will you have more sales? If so, by how much? Would you believe it takes only half a second to lose 1/5th of your visitors?
Accelerating Web Sites and Applications: a Cloud Caching Primer Caching is a key concept in computing. Caching algorithms and hardware are used in virtually every aspect of computing to increase efficiency and performance. When it comes to web sites and applications there are numerous caching mechanisms potentially in play that can have a dramatic impact on the end users experience.
