In Part One of “can I have that for less?” we explored some of the concepts behind the vendor-client relationship of web development services and how expectations can clash with reality when things aren’t spelled out in advance.
In this part, we’re going to discuss some of the canned and affordable options available for non-existent and [...]
Can I have that for less? Part Two
Reseller and Dedicated Hosting Plans are Live!
I’m very excited about the launch of our reseller and dedicated hosting plans, it marks a key step in our expansion and growth plans. Normally, I might try and write a few thousand words extolling the virtues of our hosting plans. This time, they’re just so darn good that the thousand words I get from [...]
Client Profile – Leo Sawicki
Last week we completed a project for Leo Sawicki, Author and Life Management Consultant. Leo has worked both as a children’s author, publishing books such as Anytime and Anywhere Stories; and working in business and community development with aboriginal communities and institutions across Canada.
The scope of the project was to create a web site for [...]
Series One of Hosting Nation Fantastico Tutorials is Live!
We’re proud to announce the launch of our first in a series of video tutorials on installing the FREE applications and software that come with your shared hosting account using Fantastico.
There are over 10 tutorials in series one including:
Advanced Poll
Account Lab Plus
4Images Gallery
Crafty Syntax Live Help
b2Evolution
Coppermine Photo Galley
Moodle
Mambo
Help Center Live
Geeklog
Gallery
You can view the tutorials here. [...]
Put Your Money Where Your Mouse Is.
Hosting Nation is more than just hosting for humans, we’re all animal lovers too. Serious animal lovers. So much so that our servers (Dorian and Roma) are named after one of Randy’s alpacas and his dog respectively (Randy is our system administrator).
That’s why we chose the BC SPCA as a cause that we could all [...]
Free USB Flash Drive with every new Hosting Account.
It’s been a hectic December for us at Hosting Nation. Hectic might not adequately describe what’s occurred since September – chaotic, fevered, frantic and turbulent come closer to describing the general atmosphere around here lately.
A lot has happened for us. New office, new logo, new website with new features. A lot of lessons learned the [...]
Email Outages: November 25th, 2008
Dear Nation,
As a result of an automated mail system update in the early hours of Tuesday, November 25th, Hosting Nation Clients would have been unable to send or receive email.
The specific reason for this was that after the update, the mail system defaulted to a simple default configuration leaving out custom settings. As a result [...]
New Backup Technology Coming to Hosting Nation
In the next few weeks Hosting Nation will be activating a Continuous Data Protection backup solution to enable easier and smoother backups for our servers and users. We will be integrating R1Soft’s CDP solution to our arsenal of backup utilities in order to scale better as we grow and provide a better sense of comfort [...]
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 [...]
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 from [...]