John McKown: President of Delaware.Net, Inc.
2007 is our best year ever for R&D
In late 2006 and into 2007, I hired a bunch of new talent for Delaware.Net, and we also improved our internal web development process greatly. This was due to customer demand for more responsiveness from us, and I am happy to say that we achieved this goal. The new team and our business plan is literally transforming our company and taking us to a whole new level.
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.
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.
Verizon had some serious network issues today, and it appears that interconnects from Cogent and other backbone providers also suffered today. When the latency was happening, major sections of the graph below were yellow and orange.
Choosing your domain name for your business is a very important decision, and it is the first step towards your online precense. Once you start to advertise your domain name, your customers will bookmark it. You can and should use the same domain name for both your web site AND your work email. Domain-based email addresses are one of the reasons why most people first register their domain names. Even before you are ready to build a web site, you can begin to use your domain name for email right away. This makes you look way more professional than using the free email address that is given to you by your Internet access provider. Also, if you change ISPs, your will still be able to use your own domain-based email addresses, no matter who your ISP is.
Your company uses its web site and online applications more and more as an integral part of your business. Your sites are getting bigger, and more applications are being integrated into them. Or perhaps you have grown from one web site to five or more sites. No longer is your web site merely a brochure for your company, it has now become “mission critical” to your business operation.This is the stage when many companies outgrow shared web site hosting from a web site hosting company. Shared hosting is when your site resides along with other web sites on the web hosting’s companies servers. Those other sites belong to other cutomers of the web site host. With your own server, your sites can enjoy more hardware processing power, more hard drive space, and you can also install your own applications on the server that may or may not be provided by most web site hosting companies.
The decision is… do you rent (managed server), or do you buy (co-located server)? The vast majority of companies think that collocated is better becase THEY own the server. But in all actuality, managed hosting is safer, less expensive, and less of a liability for your company.
Here’s why.
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