It is no longer a debate whether or not solid-state drives are ready for prime-time, or if there are any performance benefits you yourself can realize from adding an SSD to your setup. Be it a cheap, light-purpose netbook, a desktop, or a mission-critical quad-processor server, an SSD will absolutely show you some performance gains [...]
Welcome to the first edition of finance in the cloud. This will be the first of many posts in what I hope will be an informative and interesting series. First, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Chris Locke and I am the CFO of SingleHop. I have been a Hopper since May 2012. [...]
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 [...]
For those of you familiar with the craft beer industry, you know we have some amazing breweries here in the Midwest, and arguably one of the best in the country – Three Floyd’s Brewing. Three Floyd’s is located in Munster, Indiana, and what’s particularly fascinating about this brewery is that every year they release a [...]
A few months ago, I was asked by Bill, one of our Channel Partners to be a guest lecturer at DePaul University’s College of Computing and Digital Media. Bill is a partner with Telecomedic.com, a technology and telecommunications consulting firm that specializes in helping business with IT and communications challenges. Telecomedic recently become a Channel [...]
At SingleHop, we are always looking to the future of the web hosting industry; which almost certainly brings you face to face with the term “cloud computing”. Being new to the industry can be quite the challenge, so learning the proper meaning behind such terms and technologies is top priority. I’m lucky enough to work [...]
When you need to build a website, or expand on a current website, there are many things to consider when buying. Choosing the right hosting provider is the most prevalent, but there are also many other things to keep in mind. Like choosing the proper data center with the hosting provider, for example. Data center [...]
One of my most often talked about topics is the wonderful world of backups! Last week I spoke at HostingCon on this very issue, so I wanted to make sure I took the time to let those who were not in attendance know everything that was discussed. I spoke a lot about great information you [...]
Launching a web application has never been an easy. Regardless of what it actually is, if it will be used by people, it has to be reliable, scalable, and functional. The infrastructure that it lives on has to be affordable, easy to use, and appropriate for both where it is today and where it will [...]
If you’ve read my post on the value of good statistics-gathering, you may have guessed that SingleHop is gathering a lot of statistical data for our clients. In fact, we have very extensive performance data on VMs and their nodes — so extensive that it was overwhelming our ability to deal with the flood of [...]