Firehost Enhances Transparency Over Their Performance
Firehost, one of the managed hosting providers focussing more on security, today announced enhanced visibility and control for their customers on their servers. Yes, this is a cloud blog and Firehost is not a cloud provider per se. However, there are certain use cases for which Cloud is not 100% ready yet. One such scenario [...]
Know When Your Server Will Fail Before it Actually Happens
When your server goes down, it’s bad enough –even worse if you have to keep on trying to reach support in vain, then if you finally get through, you’ll have to convince them there’s trouble. If you have such a host, run! (and I can even tell you where to). So whenever I ran into [...]
About that Second “S” in SaaS – Awesome Service
”There is an app for that” – say the Apple commercials. “There is a plugin for that” – was my conclusion, while lookin for the rigth tools to move the Enterprise Irregulars blog to WordPress a few months ago. Seriously. The WordPress ecosystem is simply amazing, things that a few years ago required messing with [...]
Dubious SaaS Awards
SaaS Directory has announced September’s most popular SaaS companies. The top 5 are: September’s top 5 US winners are: #1 – Gogrid #2 – WebECS #3 – CariNet #4 – Rackspace #5 – American Data Technology That’s a strange list..or perhaps SaaS Directory has a strange definition of “SaaS companies” since the top 5 are [...]
Review – CannyBill
Accounting 2.0 at CloudAve In an ongoing series of reviews and analysis pieces, CloudAve will be taking a deep look into accounting software for the new world. See the other posts at this tag Introduction & Background From their site, CannyBill class themselves as a “complete web-based billing and invoicing system, perfectly suited to any [...]
Cloud Hosting – A Business Case
A week or so back, I posted a case study where a company called Imageloop managed to save 2/3rds of their fixed monthly costs by moving from web hosting to cloud hosting. The idea of tapping into the cloud for hosting purposes always had a strong business case even though many small businesses are not [...]
