Tis’ the season for NaviSite Dedicated Hosting’s Shared Load Balancer

Posted by William Toll

NaviSite small business Dedicated Hosting customers know that this time of the year Internet traffic begins to pick up measurably. Ecommerce begins to soar as consumers begin researching and buying goods and services online. Financial and insurance firms experience an end of the year rush to prepare for the new year of taxes. Small businesses run end of year reports.

Given the explicit cost of attracting clicks and visitors, businesses need to make every visitor count! Every request to a dedicated server is important! Delays, time-outs and server slow-downs are not acceptable, this time of the year or any time of the year for that matter! Read more…

Clearing Up Cloud Computing

Posted by Chris Patterson

The biggest industry buzzword over the last year has been “Cloud Computing.” Every software and service provider has rolled out offerings that they say will put your business “in the cloud,” but each has a different definition. There has been so much confusion around the term that on the Wikipedia page for Cloud Computing, you can almost see the white-out.  To simplify it further, we would like to take this opportunity to weigh in on our definition of the term using as few buzzwords as possible. Read more…