When choosing a web host, there’s a lot to take into consideration. Do you need shared hosting, a virtual private server (VPS) hosting plan, or a fully-fledged dedicated server? Perhaps you are about to launch your business into “the cloud” with a cloud hosting service? Whatever kind of hosting you are looking for, one thing is for sure – your website is no good to anybody if it is inaccessible or offline.
Increasingly, web hosting providers make claims to offer so-called high availability, introducing service level agreements (SLAs) to guarantee that your web presence is consistently online. But what does high availability really mean? And if a web host promises high availability, high redundancy hosting, what is the tangible impact of this on your capability to serve customers?
Accounting for about 75% of all emails sent in a given day, spam messages are responsible for the loss of countless hours of productivity. In small quantities, spam is merely annoying, but when mailboxes are flooded with dozens or even hundreds of unsolicited messages, spam decreases productivity. More than that, spam is potentially dangerous – junk mail is notorious as the predominant channel for the propagation of viruses, spyware, phishing schemes, and fraud.