Articles by Dan Ushman
There are over 30,000 web hosting providers in the world, with over 18,000 of them in the United States alone. And that only counts web hosts. That figure doesn’t count other types of providers, such as those who specialize in applications or simply e-mail services – and that’s just today. The competitiveness of the industry continues to [...]
Everyone here at SingleHop enjoys talking about transparency—which is good because we get asked a lot about our innovative and apparently industry-leading approach to transparency and accountability. Much of the attention began early last year when David Strom, writing in the highly regarded tech pub ReadWrite authored an article about our policies that carried the [...]
We’ve always been a fan of lofty office space. We love the exposed brick walls. We love how the wiring and ventilation infrastructure is wide-open up-above. In our opinion, older buildings are better. But functionality and productivity are still number one. So when we ran out of space last year and needed to find a [...]
Anyone who has been anywhere near a television over the past 20 years has probably at one time or another seen the hapless cartoon character Homer Simpson: “D’oh!” That phrase may come to mind when you consider the logic of going beyond providing hosted infrastructure to also providing hosted applications. “D’oh!” While the super techies [...]
Regular readers know that I’ve previously written about the basics of cloud computing. In a sense it is something that most of us know backwards and forwards—yet it is a topic that we receive a lot of thanks for covering. From the enterprise space . . . as well as from small to medium-sized businesses [...]
The holidays are busy! Seriously, between trying to finish up work before taking some time off, shopping for gifts, cooking elaborate meals and kicking back with family & friends, it’s pretty easy to forget exactly how fortunate you really are. Sponsoring families for the holidays. Last week a group of about a dozen SingleHoppers went [...]
Earlier today, our CEO and Co-Founder, Zak Boca, took a few minutes out of his insane schedule to do an interview for TastyTrade’s Bootstrapping in America series. He talks about how we got started, what we do and whats made us successful at it. It came out to be an excellent look at the earlier [...]
Just a quick holiday update. This past weekend, a team of eight brave SingleHoppers competed in the Braintree Chicago Tech Dodgeball Tournament. Our brave warriors (yours truly, included) played long and hard, but were unfortunately defeated. Nonetheless we are proud to have participated in the charity focused event which raised $1,000′s for KIVA.org to help new entrepreneurs around [...]
I am very proud to announce that the Web Host Industry Review has selected SingleHop’s LEAP Mobile application as one of the 5 best mobile apps for managing hosting systems on the go. The Web Host Industry Review, or WHIR as it is commonly known within the industry, is the leading industry news and information [...]
Happy Halloween everyone! We’re continuing our series (and promotion) today with these two additional stories that touch on more hacking, mishaps and tricks. We hope you enjoy them. Have a safe Halloween everyone, and make sure to lock up your computer before heading home tonight. Found You Five years ago, he got rich. He’d managed [...]