Articles by Dan Ushman
Some months ago our Co-Founder and Vice President, Dan Ushman, did an interview with TheWHIR TV about LEAP, our Server Manager Webtop. Below is the interview video…
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This is a big post and I’m very excited to be making it. Over the past year we have been developing a new control panel – a new customer portal. The system is finally ready for release and I wanted to explain why it is cool and some of its major advantages. LEAP is entirely [...]
I’ll keep this blog post very simple. We received word today that SingleHop has been awarded a coveted industry award from FindMyHost’s FindMyDedicatedHost.com. The award, which is for excellence and innovation in the field of cPanel Dedicated Hosting is the coveted Editors’ Choice Award. This is the third time SingleHop has been awarded by FindMyHost. Previous Editors’ [...]
It has been a couple of scary six months in the hosting industry. It seems as though we and our fellow hosting companies are always under attack, from all different directions, all the time. In the past 12 months alone there have been numerous data breaches and security problems at numerous hosting companies, including one [...]
Every once and a while someone asks me what he or she should choose to protect their data. There are a lot of choices: half dozen types of RAID arrays, second-disk-backups, off-site backups, network storage, and more. Before I discuss the various options, I want to take a moment to discuss the various levels of [...]
In this post, I will explore the various technical aspects that you should consider when launching a shared hosting company. I won’t discuss marketing or sales tactics, because that is an entirely different conversation. Many business people who want to start Web Hosting Businesses go for reseller accounts. Reseller accounts offer a very inexpensive and [...]
This may seem like an insignificant fact, after-all, almost every business is a member of the BBB. To SingleHop, however, it means that the BBB is recognizing our unique platform to provide highly personal, highly customizable and high quality hosting services to our members. To view our BBB accreditation page please visit this link: BBB [...]
Network Neutrality, the concept that all traffic on the Internet should be treated equally, is under attack in Congress. It has been for a while, largely due to lobbying efforts by large telecom and cable companies to allow them to prioritize, and shape traffic through their networks. Essentially, this means that (in theory) customers of [...]
Before I start, I want to give a little background. SingleHop operates a very comprehensive CRM (customer relationship management) system which generates a lot of information. We store this information in a MySQL database, and as the database has grown over time we have had trouble keeping up with our backup needs. Lucky for us, [...]