Knowing your product and business niche is of utmost importance, as the success of your business depends on your product, your marketing abilities, and how well you know your customers. However, when it comes to online businesses there are two more critical things that you should take care of. First, the domain name of your business website and second, your hosting – viz. type and service provider. Choosing the perfect domain name is comparatively easy…
Today, many organisations and enterprises are moving into a more hybrid cloud environment. And why not? Hybrid clouds are agile – they adapt and change to the needs of the organisation. With their unique mix of private, on-premises clouds and public clouds, you can get the scalability, low cost and reliability of a public cloud, while you can get the security, control and customisation and flexibility of a private cloud- It is the best of…
Choosing the right website hosting is crucial to the success of your online business and so is the choice of the hosting provider. A quick google search would list a number of web hosting services for you to choose. From cheap to costly the options are many and at first glance, the price can be an important factor used to convert visitors to customers. However, not everything that is cheap is wonderful, sometimes it might…
Everything starts small and then grows big, even businesses. By definition, a small business is a business that is owned independently and is limited in terms of size and revenue generated. For instance, a cake shop or a web design agency with an employee size of 10-12 can be said to be a small business. Furthermore, the upper limit to the employee count is 500. Thus, if your business falls under the bracket of 1…
In the late 90s, social media burst into our lives, changing the way we interact, the relationships we build and how we present ourselves. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn offered us a chance to express ourselves, and by that very virtue, collected vast amounts of data. Not only was this data stored with these platforms, but it was also managed and analyzed to make social media more personal and more innovative.With apps becoming…
Consider this: you’ve set up your website and you finally have customers. However, the wait is long, and the website is slow to load. By the time it loads, you’ve lost your opportunity to convert a visitor to a paying customer – leading to a loss of revenue. In a matter of seconds, they’ve moved on. Why? Studies have shown that nearly half of the customers expect page load times of about three seconds. By…
The decision to take your product or services online is a daunting task. Add the intricacies of hosting your website to it, and you have a complex problem on your hand. Everything from the hosting service to the content that will go on your site is unchartered territory for you. Each and every decision that you take during the course will have an impact on your business a few years down the line. While managed…
One of the many challenges faced by web professionals is how to get their software to run efficiently and reliably while migrating from one IT environment to another. Now, this migration could be from a developer’s laptop to a testing environment, staging to a production environment or even a cloud environment. Obstacles surface when supporting software environment (or even the network topology for that matter) of the two is not the same. In such situations,…
While the ‘Cloud’ has forever changed how applications, storage and web hosting has worked over the last few years, what exactly the term is and how it works is still lost on many people. This blog tackles this misunderstood question – what is cloud hosting and how does it work? What is ‘Cloud Hosting’? In traditional web hosting, a website is supported by a single server. In ‘Cloud hosting’ on the other hand, a website…
69% of enterprises are going to use a multi-cloud strategy by the year 2019, according to 451 Research. Still, few of them are aware of multi-cloud potential risks and ways to prevent them. In this article, you will learn what is multi-cloud and how to secure your business when working with multiple cloud providers. What is Multi-Cloud? Multi-cloud is the usage of many cloud computing services at the same time, often from various providers. While…
