Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Hosting’

Unlimited Bandwidth for Cloud Hosting

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

NerdWarehouse.com’s new and improved cloud hosting plans. How does UNLIMITED sound?  Never worry about bandwidth overages, traffic limits, or interruptions to your website again. All of the Nerd Warehouse cloud hosting plans now include unlimited bandwidth to make sure your personal and business websites are always at full throttle. Unlimited bandwith cloud hosting is included on every plan.  I may have to check this out.  Check out the packages:

Economy Plan
10 GB Space
Unlimited Bandwidth
100 Email Accounts
10 MySQL Databases

Deluxe Plan
150 GB Space
Unlimited Bandwidth
500 Email Accounts
25 MySQL Databases

Ultimate Plan
Unlimited Space and Bandwidth
1000 Email Accounts
Unlimited MySQL Database

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Miss Universe 2010

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Congratulations to Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete for winning the 2010 Miss Universe Contest.  In the picture below she celebrates with runner-up Miss Jamaica Yendi Phillips as she is crowned Miss Universe 2010 at the Miss Universe 2010 Pageant Final at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas on Aug. 23, 2010.

Miss Mexico Crowned As Miss Universe
Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

It was a great show and I loved watching some of the blunders like when Miss Philippines’ answer when asked what her biggest mistake in life was and how she fixed it. “In my 22 years of existence, I can say there is nothing major,” Venus Raj said. I thought it was funny because before the pageant, Raj was rated among the top contestants in an online poll on the pageant’s website.

How does Miss Universe 2010 have to do with the cloud hosting world and cloud servers?  How many people logged in to ABC and watched the pageant online?  According to random websites out there, there were 6 million viewers.  Those are all people watching online.  How much bandwidth is that to stream to all these people?  How many servers would it take to stream the same thing to 6 million people?  Do they have to keep those dedicated servers all year long for this one event?

With cloud servers you really don’t have to worry about that.  You can with the flip of a button up your server to be something that can handle this amount of traffic. Cloud servers are scalable and can have infinite flexiblity.  I highly recommend cloud servers for companies that have spurts of traffic.  Actually, I take that back… I think everyone should have cloud servers!

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Oracle Cloud Hosting

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Oracle has played a huge role in making Grid Computing, better know as cloud computing relevant to enterprises with ground breaking products such as Oracle Real Applications Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, and Storage Grid.

Oracle has brought Grid Computing to middleware with the Application Grid approach to infrastructure. These products/technologies make the enterprise IT infrastructure elastic so that it can grow incrementally without any theoretical upper limit, as well as provide the flexibility to move resources around in order to meet dynamic business priorities.

Companies that offer Oracle Cloud Servers:

  • Amazon EC2
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Terremark Cloud Hosting
  • Connectria Cloud Hosting
  • OpSource Cloud Servers
  • StrataScale

You know, I’m a big fan of the custom application. Something built from the ground up to meet the end user’s needs. That’s why I love ApEx so much, it makes making such applications so much easier than before.  I would not say I’m against SaaS. If you have a concept that’s generic enough, and a web based platform works well for it, then by all means go for it. I just hate ending up with bloatware of which I only use 10 or 20 percent of the features.

As for the cloud, I would imagine it would really contribute to the flattening effect that was the subject of the book The World is Flat. It would really empower the small to mid-size business that can not afford the IT Infrastructure necessary to meet all their needs.

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