So, you just paid to get rid of your old website and replace it with a brand new content management system.  You decide to try to host it on the old godaddy account that you have had since you started your business, and you realize the site is cripplingly slow.  Content Management Systems add lots of things your old website may not have had, like the ability to edit your content, display dynamic content, handle comments, and much more.  All the added features come with one more thing "more overhead" needed to run them.  All these new features doesn't mean your site will be slow though if you are able to find the right host.

If you have not already heard about Cloud Foundry, it is a recently hot and upcoming Open Platform as a Service project that allows for easy application deployment and scaling. The project is sponsored by VMware and has a hosted solution, which is currently in beta testing, found at cloudfoundry.com. Thanks to AppFog, PHP support was recently added to Cloud Foundry. With this additional support, Cloud Foundry is truly becoming a well rounded Platform which can support a NoOps approach to application deployment.

Ever since the Motorola Xoom and subsequently Galaxy Tab 10.1 have come out (sorry, not an Apple fan. Gasp!) I have been pondering two questions. One, can I find a good deal on Ebay? Two, and more importantly, can I replace my notebook and use the tablet as my every day computing resource?

Unleashed Technologies was proud to be a co-sponsor of the recent "Lunch and Learn" event that took place yesterday at our Data Center facility in Ashburn, VA.

I find it odd that in this day in age the public facing web presence of any organization whether it be non-profit or commercial is still perceived as a one time investment. Like all companies in the small to mid-sized business range the reality of budget is something everyone must work within.

One of the most common things I see amongst clients is there dissatisfaction with a current provider of some sort in the web space. This could be hosting, development, design, account management, and it doesn't stop their. One of the major issues I believe that facilitates this issue is that partners or vendors are "cobbled" together to take care of a single aspect of a project.

I've had the unfortunate happenings of helping several new clients that are coming from disaster based situations as it surrounds hosting and the availability of their applications/websites. The first major issue is truly the hosting firms themselves. Pretty much every web firm out there offers hosting of some kind. They do this in part for two main reasons;