The cloud industry is getting a lot of buzz lately with big players making major moves. VMware has a new hybrid cloud strategy while Dell dumps its plans for a public cloud service, opting to focus instead on selling private clouds.
In an earlier post, we talked about how you can prepare your business for transitioning into cloud technology.
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Gone are the days when people are merely passive spectators of marketing gimmicks and powerless recipients of products and services. Today, customers can say exactly what they think about a brand through a tweet or a Facebook post. Negative feedback can go viral quickly and, as a lot of even big companies can attest, taking a beating on social media is a PR disaster that’s very difficult to fix.
Businesses, however, can take advantage of this emerging era of customer empowerment. They can get their clients on their side.
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The bring-your-own-device or BYOD has been a growing trend among companies in recent years. BYOD means exactly that: employees can use their personal smart phones, laptops, tablets and other devices for work. The obvious advantage to this practice is companies can lower costs by not having to procure hardware. Employees meanwhile would presumably be happier with using their own gadgets, paving for a more mobile work setup and better work-life integration.
Problems have since cropped up with BYOD though.
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The quality of service your web host provides determines the success or failure of your website and your brand’s online reputation. Before availing of a web hosting package, make sure that your provider is capable of providing the service and support you need for your site.
The first thing to check out is customer support. You should have the assurance that you can get in touch with your web host anytime a problem occurs. Try calling the company’s customer service hotline and see if you get a satisfactory response.
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Cloud computing has been touted as the next best thing particularly for small businesses. For one, it eliminates the need for in-house physical infrastructure, investing in expensive software, and a full-scale IT department among others. But before you jump into the cloud bandwagon, here are a few things you need to consider for a smooth transition into cloud-based services:
Align cloud computing with your business goals.
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Build your website with your audience in mind. With this rule of thumb, you can create a site that’s user-friendly, has good content and consequently, will attract and retain visitors. So it’s time to retire the following practices that don’t help at all with these goals.
1. Auto-play videos. Whether it’s an ad or actual content on your site, videos that play automatically are intrusive and distracting.
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CPUs are like the brains of a computer, and a Linux-based system is no different. If a Linux system is busy with a process, it can’t process other requests. In the end, these requests will have to wait until the CPU is available. This situation becomes a bottleneck, and needs to be optimized. You can fix CPU-related performance issues by determining CPU utilization. In Linux, there are many utilities that can help you on this matter.
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This year is Singapore’s 46th Birthday, and Vodien is celebrating with a “I Love .SG” promotion! All new domain name registrations of “.sg” and “.per.sg” extensions will be only S$4.60 (for the first year)!
To grab your own domain name now at this special price, just register your domain name, and check out with the coupon code ilovesg!
This special offer is valid for new registrations only.
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Besides web hosting, and your website, domain names are very crucial pieces of your online identity as well. Ddomain names are also considered by most people to be the brand’s name, hence there is a need for promotion and protection of the domain name itself. The primary domain name is located between the first two dots of the web address.
For example, if we key in “www.example.com”, the word “example” is the primary domain name.
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A particular site had VBulletin installed within a sub-folder (/forums/) and it had a problem with parsing URLs. The following chunk of code was the contents of the .htaccess file. What it did was to redirect all non-www URLs to their respective URLs with www. appended to the front of the URL.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# This redirects non-www to www
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.
