04.03.08
Posted in Articles, Internet Industry, Email Hosting at 9:33 pm by john
Companies that offer email hosting service have seen quite a few changes over the years. Compared to years ago, spam is obviously more of a problem for everyone that uses email. To combat spam, we have employed special technologies on our network, and we have also used on-demand filtering services to pre-filter spam email before it comes into our network. Clients LOVE this service, because we are able to stop over 98% of spam before it gets to our customer’s mailboxes. While filtering spam has been has made email much more enjoyable, there are still other threats that can affect email delivery and spam. The biggest problems are mail-forwarding and catch-alls. In this post, I will explain what these are, and why they are so bad for email hosting providers. These two types of email accounts used to be OK to provide, but we have had to completely eliminate email forwarding over the last year. In speaking with other email hosting companies, I have discovered they have all had to make the same change, or are planning to. Find out why after the jump.
“we are able to stop over 98% of spam before it gets to our customer’s mailboxes “
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03.06.08
Posted in Internet Industry, Presentations, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO, Local Delaware, Google Marketing at 12:03 pm by john
Three years ago, I came up with an idea to get a little more local exposure for us, and to also help out area chambers of commerce. The idea was to have a business-to-business (B2B) trade show, where businesses that sell to other businesses could mix and market. On March 5th, we held our third one. It went great!
Thanks to all of our customers, friends, and partners that attended the Third Annual Delaware Expo Trade Show. The weather was perfect yesterday and we had over 1,000 attendees at the show. The exact number was close to 1,200. Our show is now the largest business-to-business networking event in the state of Delaware, with over 120 exhibitors. We got a lot of positive feedback on the show, and some ideas that we will use to make the 2009 show even better.
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10.09.07
Posted in Delaware.Net, Web Development, Internet Industry, Site News, Presentations, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware, Web Developer Tools, Adobe Dreamweaver, Mail-Logic at 2:49 pm by john
Adobe invited me to give and advanced web design presentation live online, and it happened today at noon EST. There were over 1200 attendees. The presentation will be available on-demand on the Adobe web site in about a week. I demonstrated how Delaware.Net is using the latest Adobe Dreamweaver and ColdFusion tools to build Web 2.0 web sites.
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10.04.07
Posted in Web Development, Articles, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO, Web Developer Tools, Blogs at 10:35 am by john
Blogs are continuing to explode in popularity. In a recent post, I explained why you need a blog, and how to set one up. If you aren’t familiar with blog software and what it is for, then you should read that post first. I also explained some of the pitfalls and potential misuses of your blog in another post. With this article, I want to give a bigger picture for folks that need a web site quickly, and who are considering blog software to run their ENTIRE web site. There ARE cases where blog software can work as the main web site for a business under rare circumstances, and I will go over this as well.
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08.02.07
Posted in Web Development, Internet Industry, ColdFusion, Web Developer Tools at 10:32 am by john
We just installed ColdFusion 8 on some new servers that arrived this week.
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07.09.07
Posted in Web Hosting, Internet Industry at 12:46 pm by john
Google just announced that they are going to buy Postini, a spam and virus-filtering company for over $600 million USD.
Delaware.Net uses/offers Postini services as a reseller, and the price is right - $1 per user. Postini catches almost all spam and viruses before they reach your inbox. This saves hosting companies time and money and allows users to gain access to the control panel that is doing the filtering, so that you can see the spam that is sitting in the quarantine on Postini’s servers.
It will be interesting to see if privacy advocates get up in arms about this or not. Postini routes the email of 5,000,000 users.
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07.05.07
Posted in Internet Industry at 4:59 pm by john
Here is a VERY interesting article that talks about Google’s build-out of 40-70 (wow) data centers, dark fiber, and how this is the tip of the iceberg to them becoming an ISP and cell carrier, and it will eliminate their need to use phone companies’ networks. I think that part of what this shows, is that there WILL be a Google cell phone, perhaps a free Google cell phone service, that is supported with advertisements.
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06.27.07
Posted in Web Hosting, Articles, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware at 3:58 pm by john
I participate on an email mailing list where other Internet company owners discuss local and national marketing strategies. Sometimes there are great ideas, sometimes not so much. Recently there was a post from someone in the industry about how a good local marketing strategy should contain marketing to not-for-profits and other good-natured word of mouth efforts locally that can help your reputation.
I used to believe that, but what I found is that they really don’t work all that well.
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06.25.07
Posted in Delaware.Net, Articles, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO, Real Estate Web Design, Blogs at 3:13 pm by john
Blogs. Certainly you have heard of a blog, but many people still don’t know what they are and why they are useful. In this article, I am going to explain what a blog is, why you need one, and how they can make you and your company a lot more money. Almost for free.
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