In business, downtime is unavoidable. Even restaurants have to close occasionally to fumigate or deep clean, so it’s no great shock that websites sometimes suffer from downtime as well. However, it’s important to differentiate between planned downtime and service blackouts. When you plan downtime for maintenance or upgrades to your website, you have the opportunity […]
Continue ReadingTraditionally, businesses have relied on customers visiting stores in order to purchase goods or services. This meant having posted business hours and ensuring that the store was open on time to welcome customers. These days the internet has significantly changed the way many companies conduct their business operations. Certainly brick-and-mortar stores are still popular, but […]
Continue ReadingRemember when you created your first AOL account and you could use your real name (without a slew of numbers behind it) and create a simple password that was a mere four or five characters longs? Nowadays, you’re John_Smith260548 and your password is some crazy combination of letters and numbers you can’t possibly remember. This […]
Continue ReadingThe cloud offers many advantages. Cloud service providers often handle the hassle of updating software, operating systems, and hardware. They also typically provide turnkey solutions for smaller shops ready to jump right into work that requires an IT infrastructure. One of the best advantages of using the cloud, though, is that it offers small-to-medium sized […]
Continue ReadingIt’s happened. You just received a call from one of your IT employees that a server has gone down. It’s non-responsive and nobody knows what caused the problem. What is that down time going to cost you? The answer is: it depends. To calculate how much it costs you when your server goes down, you’re […]
Continue ReadingThanks to the advent of the Information Age, our lives have been made a lot easier when it comes to compiling, aggregating, and analyzing data. Unfortunately, with that great privilege comes the great responsibility of ensuring that information systems are secure enough to withstand an attack from unethical hackers who seek to cause mayhem, steal […]
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