If you think your website is fast enough, think again. Slow web pages lose customers experts at websiteoptimization.com have to say about the topic: Google found that moving from a 10-result page loading in 0.4 seconds to a 30-result page loading in 0.9 seconds decreased traffic and ad revenues by 20% (Linden 2006). When the […]
Backblaze has a history of releasing their storage designs, right down to drive models, chipsets and prices. It costs them about $11k to build 180Tb, $60/Tb, or 6 cents per GB. They are using the i3-2100 – the same as I am using in my HTPC. The CPU is still pretty powerful, but frugal on […]
new relic is a cloud offering, that help monitor and graph your server internals. You can get web response times, broken down into internet/database/php times, etc I am using this for a few other customers new relic is free – but they limit functionality, and only keep 24 hours of data – but that is […]
Human error, contract problems, payment problems, DOS (server attacks) etc etc. . can all lead to downtime, lost data, and damage to your brand. Business owners need to contemplate strategies to guard against these. The idea is to plan ahead, and have plans and strategies to deal with any issues. cloudconstulant helping out cloud/web business’s […]
When your site become more than trivial, shared hosting $4.95 plans just dont cut the mustard. When your site hits even more users, just opting for dedicated servers is not enough either. You need to optimize several layers. The idea is to make best use of resources. Reduce the size/time of web pages. Then using […]
OK – so its google, they are huge, and lots of firewalls, and the web page uses HTTPS. One compromised password though, if the CEO or IT manager, and they can wipe out accounts, and steal corporate secrets pretty quickly. Its difficult to control how people use their PCs, at home, on the road, at […]
The reason most think emailing passwords is bad, is because someone might be eaves dropping on the conversation. The real reason is, that its very hard to authenticate the request. Is it really your mate on skype or on email ? or someone that has gained access to his PC, and now trying to get […]
Not only does ios5 have loads of phone features, but it has iCloud. iCloud delivers on the promise of wireless computer usage. Music/data/contacts/photo are accessible from all devices mac/iphone/ipad instantly. You can wifi sync and backup your iphone – bye bye mr white usb cable. You can set your phone to backup to iCloud, via […]