Articles by Zak Boca
What a year! Things went by so swiftly we’re all just catching our breath. So I thought I’d put down some thoughts on 2012 which was our best year ever, and marks another step along the path of growth we’ve been on since creating the company back in 2006. Our revenue grew by 35% over [...]
I am proud to announce that we have closed on our first outside investment, with Boston’s Battery Venture Partners. To date, we have been 100% self-funded, so this quite an exciting event for us and represents great things to come! We greatly appreciate your loyalty and we look forward to continuing to improve our services. [...]
I began working on the Internet as an entrepreneur back in 1999, just dabbling around running websites. I ran an advertising network (NexAds), a web hosting directory (RateMyHost), and a few other websites before getting into the web hosting business. It was a really exciting time, because all of a sudden our generation, the PC-generation, had all of [...]
Haiti is one of the poorest and most under developed countries in the world. I suppose that is not a big surprise when you consider its history. It seems that Haiti has always been dealing with one crisis or another — be it humanitarian, political or natural disaster. As I am sure you have heard [...]
After several months of planning, and a number of very late nights from the dedicated staff at SingleHop, we’re happy to announce the expansion of our footprint in the Chicagoland area! The initial phase of this expansion includes space for over 2,000 servers, which we plan to grow to 10,000 servers in the facility. Highlights: [...]
I would like to start off by saying that I am not just an employee here at SingleHop. I am also a client. I have an e5200 server that I bought from SH a few months ago. On this one, and other servers that I’ve owned, I had 10-megabit connections. Although I wanted more capacity, [...]
As you look more into SingleHop, you will find that we focus on being extremely transparent on all fronts. This means that during the bad times, downtime, or any other form of service interruption, you can be sure that we’ll communicate as openly as possible and with as much detail as possible. It also means [...]
Google announced it’s anticipated browser, Google Chome, yesterday, and then quickly pulled it offline. Today they finally released it, and we were all anxious to try it out. Our developers of course, were anxious to see how it rendered LEAP. (screenshot attached below) We were all very impressed with how fast Chrome rendered LEAP. Windows [...]
Hardware is constantly outdated, which, normally, presents a big problem for dedicated hosting clients. You get a server today and in 6 months your provider will naturally be offering a replacement of your server for new clients – with bigger and better stuff. While we can’t entirely solving that problem, we decided recently to begin [...]
Sometimes here at SingleHop, we run into small speed bumps when migrating large accounts. We have encountered this conundrum more often recently due to the response of our $200 Cash Back Offer. The accounts can be large for numerous reasons: The customer does not realize how big their account is, or receives an unknown increase [...]