Articles by Dan Ushman
If you’re in NY, NJ, a website, a business, a server in a data center there, and you’re down, or afraid of going down soon – give us a call; we’ll hook you up with as similar as solution as possible; on our dime. For 3-4 months, or whenever you’re ready to move back, whichever [...]
Executive Summary: Infrastructure as a Service consists of physical or virtual computers. The virtual machines form what is commonly known as “the cloud” through simulating the processes of physical servers. Estimates of the space savings from the virtualization of physical servers range anywhere from a factor of 20:1 to 40:1. This software simulation allows the [...]
Dear Readers: welcome to the first of three posts in the “SingleHop’s Scary Server Stories”. We’ve rewritten some of this year’s noted server failures, hacks, and general “OMG what have I done” moments by giving them a little “seasonal spirit”. We hope you enjoy the stories as much as we did writing them. -Team SingleHop [...]
This is Part Two of a two part series – to see the first article, “Making the Business Case for Infrastructure – Part I: Rent or Buy? (Capex vs Opex)”, click here – In this section, we’re going to discuss the world that CFO’s live and breathe in. But don’t be alarmed – even if [...]
There’s a rent or buy dimension to infrastructure decisions, and the direction you go has significant long term implications for a company, so it’s important to know the difference between the two. You can think of it like a car. Should you buy or lease? There are reasons why you’d do either. It’s a similar [...]
Summary: 10/8/2012 — Chicago, IL., SingleHop, LLC., a leading provider of cloud hosting, kicked off the Channel Partners program on Thursday 10/4/12. The program is designed specifically to help systems integrators, IT consultants, value added resellers and other IT related service providers to drive revenue and growth from the cloud. – Full press release: http://www.singlehop.com/about/singlehop-channel-program-launch.php
Summary: 10/3/2012 – Chicago, IL – SingleHop, a global leader in cloud hosting, launched a new and improved Data Center Outlet at singlehop.com/outlet – the Data Center Outlet has several unique features, including exact real time inventory from SingleHop’s data centers. The inventory figures are updated hourly on the page and there is also a countdown [...]
Come and kick the tires on SingleHop’s new trendsetting transparency. One of our core strengths is in our network uptime and rock solid data centers, and we’re willing to back that up with real-time, public-facing monitoring, which anyone is welcome to see: http://ot.singlehop.com It includes history – this week, this month, this year: The [...]
by Matt Kuikman (Click here to see Part One) Alright readers, rest assured your voices have been heard. You wanted to know more about SEO; so that’s exactly what we’re going to give you. That’s why we’ve decided to publish a collection of blog posts that dive into more detail about effective SEO that you [...]
SingleHop Joins Spiceworks! Spiceworks is a global community of 2 million IT pros, who use the site to do their jobs and learn about the products and services they need directly from the tech vendors who provide them. It’s the fastest growing and one of the most widely used network management web based tools on [...]