This past year I’ve been amazed by the use of social networking among my friends and family. In a way, it’s like Microsoft Bob for the Internet in how easy it seems for “computer challenged” people to understand and interact with what’s going on. When I first tried social networking at the beginning of this [...]
For Immediate Release – Hosting Nation moves to Softlayer facility in Seattle – October 23rd, 2008.
On October 21st and 22nd, 2008 Hosting Nation moved their servers to the Softlayer facility in Seattle. It’s handled via an internal transfer protocol that allows for lightning fast resolution, a process so seamless that it would hardly be noticed on the client side. The reason for the move was speed, by having servers in [...]
Protecting your Privacy the Hosting Nation Way
It’s hard to be anonymous these days. Not so long ago, anonymity was a fairly easy thing to maintain. Not total anonymity of course, not unless you wanted to live in a cabin in the woods with no power or running water. But the landscape has changed. Data mining has become a viable form of [...]
Virtualization within Hosting Nation
Virtualization has become one those solutions that hasn’t been destroyed by its buzzword hype. In fact it has led to another solution surrounded by buzzwords, Cloud Computing. Being mainly a Linux user, I have used virtual desktops and servers in both my personal and professional work. I first started using virtualization when the Workstation product [...]
Application Nation – Everything but the Kitchen Sync.
If you’re at all like me, you don’t just work off of one computer. Odds are you probably have at least one home computer (I have two) plus a work computer. If you travel (I don’t, but lots of people in my industry do), you’ll likely be working off someone else’s computer or out of [...]