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  • Power Management: Avoid Surcharge Surprises - When it comes to colocation and data centers, bandwidth used to be the major concern and clients needed to make sure they had enough of it. Now, however, there’s a new concern: Power. The Problem Power, more than bandwidth or rack space, limits the number of servers that can be placed in any given data center. This is due to the restrictions placed on the data center by the hydro company. There is a physical limit on the amount of power that can be run into the building and that limit is set by the cable going into the building. Because of this, it’s necessary for data centers to limit the amount of power that each server is allocated.
  • Dangers of Locating at a Leased Data Center: Why Property Management is the New Blind Spot - Hosting your servers in a leased data center is one problem that most people don’t even consider when deciding on a colocation facility. But if you’re serious about finding a reliable provider, this is something you need to consider. When locating at a leased facility, there are a number of factors that are not within the provider’s control that can affect you and that you or your provider cannot do anything about. First and foremost, a leased building is not in the control of data center provider. They are at the mercy of the landlord and are subject to his will. Factors that are out the company’s hands include power, infrastructure and building rights. Power Power is absolutely essential and data centers tend to use up a lot of it.
  • 30, 20, 10 Cents: The #1 Way to Save on Traffic - Businesses are always looking for ways to increase profits. After all, that is the nature of business- providing a product or service that helps people solve a problem at a profit. Essentially there are two ways for a business to achieve this goal. The first is to increase sales or raise prices and the second is to cut costs.
  • What Are The Benefits Of Managed Hosting? - When an individual first begins to create web pages on the internet for their company or to start a business, one of the issues that will arise is how to host the website. There are several options available but the one that many individuals choose is managed hosting. Individuals choose managed hosting for a variety of reasons and there are many benefits to managed hosting that makes it a very attractive option for many individuals. There are a number of companies that offer managed hosting and the fees for each can vary considerably due to the features and options that the company provides. So what are the benefits of managed hosting?
  • Don’t Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket? How About All Servers in One Data Center? - Everyone's heard the old adage, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Whether you think it's good or bad advice, it has its merits and it certainly applies to your servers. When it comes to your servers and protecting your data, there's nothing more important than redundancy. In fact, having multiple redundancies is the single best way to ensure the safety of your data, servers and business. Natural Disasters While no one expects a natural disaster to destroy the data center they host their servers in, it does sometimes happen.
  • Stuck With You, But Don’t Want To: Avoiding Cramped Data Centers - When it comes to hosting your servers, the number of other servers located in the facility is a very important consideration.
  • It's All Hot Air: AC & Dangers Of Under Served Data Centers - Efficient and effective cooling is absolutely essential to data centers. Servers generate heat and the more servers that are in the data center, the quicker the room will heat up and the more likely it becomes that the server room will over heat. That’s why air conditioning and a proper cooling system are necessary for the safety and efficiency of the center. Computer Meltdowns In the event that the air conditioning fails, it doesn’t take long for the data center to heat up to dangerous levels.
  • Plenty of Bandwidth, Not Enough Power: Responsible Data Center Power Allocation - Having enough bandwidth for your servers won't do you any good if there isn't enough power at your data center. Power allocation in data centers is becoming an increasing problem these days with rising oil prices and increasing power costs. In the past it was enough to simply supply equal power throughout the racks, with little or no concern for the distribution. But as times are changing, there's a need to rethink the way the power is allocated in data centers. Costs of cooling and supplying power make it necessary to implement a new strategy for distributing power throughout the data center.
  • Managed Web Hosting vs Unmanaged Web Hosting - If you are reading this article there is a good chance you are in the situation where you are choosing between unmanaged or managed web hosting servers or semi dedicated servers. In this area of web solutions there are many areas to compare to come to a solution to your needs. Keep in mind the importance of your purchase and do your research on each provider to ensure the quality of your purchase. The geography, terms of service, back bone providers, and back up power supplies should be part of your research based on your hosting requirements.

  • Ten Indicators That It’s Time For Your Company To Move From A Shared To A Dedicated Hosting Service - Many companies are operating on a shared hosting service. A shared web hosting service is web hosting that shares the web server with many other websites. Each site basically has its own partition that keeps it separate from all of the other sites.
  • Strategy for Broadband Video on Demand - Strategy Paper for Overcoming DTAG Market and Technology Advantage This paper was created for a venture capital company and subsequently used to target cable accessible markets in Germany. The paper has been parsed in this forum to separately cover Digital TV, Broadband Data, Video on Demand, Telephony, Interactive TV, Gaming and Colocation. VIDEO ON DEMAND Video on demand viability depends upon two things, 1. Costs entailed 2. Compelling content Offering VOD in the German market will take a different execution strategy and cost structure than is commonly used today. In the German market, much of the content which would be offered on Pay per View, is available for free over the airwaves. Also, infrastructure would need to be financed and built to allow VOD, which is not a common service currently in most cable systems. The two VOD dependencies go hand in hand.
  • Strategy for Broadband Telephony - Strategy Paper for Overcoming DTAG Market and Technology Advantage This paper was created for a venture capital company and subsequently used to target cable accessible markets in Germany. The paper has been parsed in this forum to separately cover Digital TV, Broadband Data, Video on Demand, Telephony, Interactive TV, Gaming and Colocation. TELEPHONY Telephony is another DTAG strongpoint. However, telephony has the potential to be just as ubiquitous a service within the enterprise as cable tv. Telephony in the form of Voice Over IP (VOIP) should be offered by the enterprise to residential and business customers. The enterprise can offer telephony cheaper than, quicker and with more bells and whistles than DTAG. My strong suggestion is to take DTAG's market share by offering better value. Value is measured by customer costs+options+customer satisfaction+enterprise costs=value.
  • Strategy for Digital TV - Strategy Paper for Overcoming DTAG Market and Technology Advantage This paper was created for a venture capital company and subsequently used to target cable accessible markets in Germany. The paper has been parsed in this forum to separately cover Digital TV, Broadband Data, Video on Demand, Telephony, Interactive TV, Gaming and Colocation. DIGITAL TV Digital TV is an already established fact of life in the 6 DTAG cable regions. The issue is the way the network is designed, i.e. a 500MHZ system. The current system is excellent for providing Digital TV systems, however there are two serious future downsides. 1. This 500MHZ system is unique.
  • What Is The Difference Between Collocated Servers And Dedicated Servers? - When it comes to hosting a website, many individuals are torn between whether to use collocated servers or dedicated servers. In fact, many individuals do not know the difference between the two. There are several differences to be found between collocated servers and dedicated servers and the different functions of each may make an option more or less attractive to the website developer. There are many companies that will offer their customers the use of either a dedicated or collocated server and there are several advantages and disadvantages to each type of service. Ultimately, the decision rests with the website developer and their needs for the website. The main difference between a collocated server and a dedicated server is the ownership of the server.
  • Limited to Web Auction Services! - Free web hosting service: is free, (sometimes) advertisement-supported web hosting, and is often limited when compared to pay hosting. Shared web hosting service: one's Web site is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands.
  • Strategy for Cable Broadband Data - Strategy Paper for Overcoming DTAG Market and Technology Advantage This paper was created for a venture capital company and subsequently used to target cable accessible markets in Germany.
  • Web Hosting And Domain Registration Basics - Web Hosting A kind of Internet hosting, the web hosting service is that which enables individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. The web host companies provide space on a server which they own for their use and providing internet connectivity. The web host also offers data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers which are not owned by them and are located in their data center. A web hosting company has computers that are hooked up to the internet 24/7/365.

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