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Thursday 11 February 2010
70% of firms planning on extending their cloud or virtual hosting presence
By Fred Jones
IT decision makers are planning on extending their cloud presence, according to reports.
Interestingly, the fears that many executives had over adopting cloud services for their online backup and hosting needs are beginning to wane, with 62% of respondents who did not already use SaaS (software as a service) or virtualised hosting solutions having considered taking the plunge.
Analysts have argued that, as well due to increased media coverage of the business, time-management and green credentials of adopting virtualised hosting, that the reason behind the change of heart is that several of the IT big boys (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) were embracing the cloud openly.
However, despite the security concerns and wishes for better integration with existing systems that many firms seemed to have, a report (http://www.mimecast.com/events-press/press-releases/article/view/70-percent-of-companies-using-cloud-based-services-plan-to-move-additional-applications-to-the-cloud/396/) from US email management service Mimecast found that, of the ones who did take the plunge, 70% were planning on extending their SaaS usage, moving additional data and information onto the cloud.
As the representatives from Mimecast put it: "This shows that respondents that have used cloud-based solutions have seen their business and operational value and want to expand that success to other application areas."
The top three sectors that the study found were embracing cloud computing were also interesting, as they were also among those most sceptical about the merits of hosted solutions.
The report found that 76% of firms in financial services were wary of SaaS due to security fears, but the industry was the second biggest adopter of the cloud, with 40% having moved data onto online backup services.
In addition, 68% of those financial firms who had already adopted hosted solutions were among those who were planning on migrating additional data to the service.
The legal sector represented the third biggest investment in SaaS, with 37% of companies utilising the technology.
However, while this represented a lower overall stake in moving data online, a whopping 81% of those legal firms who took up cloud solutions were increasing their budgets for it.
Interestingly, the biggest adoption rate for cloud computing solutions came from the IT sector, with 53% of techies jumping onto the hosted bandwagon and three quarters of those increasing their connections to SaaS.
Host in the most secure data centre in the UK with ByteHouse's high standard physical and network security
IT decision makers are planning on extending their cloud presence, according to reports.
Interestingly, the fears that many executives had over adopting cloud services for their online backup and hosting needs are beginning to wane, with 62% of respondents who did not already use SaaS (software as a service) or virtualised hosting solutions having considered taking the plunge.
Analysts have argued that, as well due to increased media coverage of the business, time-management and green credentials of adopting virtualised hosting, that the reason behind the change of heart is that several of the IT big boys (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) were embracing the cloud openly.
However, despite the security concerns and wishes for better integration with existing systems that many firms seemed to have, a report (http://www.mimecast.com/events-press/press-releases/article/view/70-percent-of-companies-using-cloud-based-services-plan-to-move-additional-applications-to-the-cloud/396/) from US email management service Mimecast found that, of the ones who did take the plunge, 70% were planning on extending their SaaS usage, moving additional data and information onto the cloud.
As the representatives from Mimecast put it: "This shows that respondents that have used cloud-based solutions have seen their business and operational value and want to expand that success to other application areas."
The top three sectors that the study found were embracing cloud computing were also interesting, as they were also among those most sceptical about the merits of hosted solutions.
The report found that 76% of firms in financial services were wary of SaaS due to security fears, but the industry was the second biggest adopter of the cloud, with 40% having moved data onto online backup services.
In addition, 68% of those financial firms who had already adopted hosted solutions were among those who were planning on migrating additional data to the service.
The legal sector represented the third biggest investment in SaaS, with 37% of companies utilising the technology.
However, while this represented a lower overall stake in moving data online, a whopping 81% of those legal firms who took up cloud solutions were increasing their budgets for it.
Interestingly, the biggest adoption rate for cloud computing solutions came from the IT sector, with 53% of techies jumping onto the hosted bandwagon and three quarters of those increasing their connections to SaaS.
Host in the most secure data centre in the UK with ByteHouse's high standard physical and network security
Wednesday 3 February 2010
How clean is the UK? World's 'dirtiest' web-hosting countries revealed
Posted by Ramsey Dehani
There has been a lot of talk around the rising sophistication of malware writers and hackers recently, with companies like McAfee releasing statistics and even Google getting attacked.
In addition to this, countries such as China and Brazil have been accused of allowing the web-hosting of hackers and criminals.
But now network security firm Sophos has put the matter to rest with its own list of the 'dirtiest' hosts.
Now the ones near the top are no real surprise. It is hardly a shock to discover that the US hosts the largest number of 'dangerous sites' (37.4% to be exact) considering the wealth of content hosted in the nation.
But interestingly enough, web-hosting in the UK was found to be among the cleanest and safest of the major economic powers, with barely 1.6% of malware sites hosted out of the UK.
Whether this is a testimony to the security of the UK's web-hosting practitioners is among the best (a nice thought and one that we at Bytehouse would of course love to perpetuate) is unclear.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, commented on his company's findings: "These hacked sites are particularly dangerous because of the large amount of traffic they may already receive, and because visitors may feel they can trust any unusual pop-ups they see.
"One of the growing methods through which hackers exploited legitimate websites during the last 12 month was the placing of malicious adverts (known as "malvertising"). Websites that fell victim to malvertising attacks, and thus passed infections on to their readers, included the New York Times and technology website Gizmodo."
In Europe, Turkey, Poland and Germany were all found to host more 'dangerous' sites than the UK.
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There has been a lot of talk around the rising sophistication of malware writers and hackers recently, with companies like McAfee releasing statistics and even Google getting attacked.
In addition to this, countries such as China and Brazil have been accused of allowing the web-hosting of hackers and criminals.
But now network security firm Sophos has put the matter to rest with its own list of the 'dirtiest' hosts.
Now the ones near the top are no real surprise. It is hardly a shock to discover that the US hosts the largest number of 'dangerous sites' (37.4% to be exact) considering the wealth of content hosted in the nation.
But interestingly enough, web-hosting in the UK was found to be among the cleanest and safest of the major economic powers, with barely 1.6% of malware sites hosted out of the UK.
Whether this is a testimony to the security of the UK's web-hosting practitioners is among the best (a nice thought and one that we at Bytehouse would of course love to perpetuate) is unclear.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, commented on his company's findings: "These hacked sites are particularly dangerous because of the large amount of traffic they may already receive, and because visitors may feel they can trust any unusual pop-ups they see.
"One of the growing methods through which hackers exploited legitimate websites during the last 12 month was the placing of malicious adverts (known as "malvertising"). Websites that fell victim to malvertising attacks, and thus passed infections on to their readers, included the New York Times and technology website Gizmodo."
In Europe, Turkey, Poland and Germany were all found to host more 'dangerous' sites than the UK.
Host in the most secure data centre in the UK with ByteHouse's high standard physical and network security.
For more information visit are other blogs at http://blog.bytehouse.co.uk and http://ukvpshosting.bytehouse.co.uk.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Purchase the best dedicated hosting plans for your business
What is a dedicated server? How does it work?
A dedicated web hosting server or dedicated hosting service is a hosting plan where the client leases an entire server that is for their exclusive use. This is a far more flexible arrangement then a shared hosting or a VPS hosting platform where you have total control over your server or servers from what operating system, hardware, or specific software that is setup or running on your server. Thus a dedicated server it is much like having your own server except that you do not need a large initial investment to set it up but rather are renting the server from your hosting provider.
Managed and Unmanaged dedicated hosting
Dedicated web hosting comes in two forms managed and unmanaged. Generally speaking unmanaged hosting plans include providing you with just the hardware (as in the web server), an operating systems (either Linux or windows), and your internet connections. Managed dedicated hosting plans however include all the above and pretty much everything else so that the only thing you need worry about is your website and it’s content.
Your very own ungarnished resources and disk space
Ah the ultimate in luxury! Your very own dedicated web server that allows you to run your web sites without sharing space and resources and without the need of superfluous software that your website does not need garnishing resources and disk space! Ah the bliss of not having to reprogram your website to fit the server. Thus if cost is not the only determinant then having your own web server is always the ultimate in hosting experience!
Saturday 28 March 2009
Switching your hosting provider without any downtime
Ah, what to do, to switch your web hosting provider; below are 10 easy and straightforward steps to reduce the chance of your site going down whilst you transfer over to a new hosting provider.
Well before we start, remember however upset you may be with your existing hosting provider, don't cancel your old hosting provider until you finished transfering -- i.e. the very last thing you do!
Set up a new web hosting accountThis is the first thing that you should do, so find a hosting provider you are happy with, and sign up a new web hosting package that you are happy with, and that is offering the same set of features as your previous hosting provider to mitigate any future problems. Remember don't cancel your old account yet -- that is critical, that's why we're repeating it! Bare in mind that you should cho
Download/ Backup your entire website
Get the latest copy of your web site by either downloading the content of your entire website using a free FTP program such as FileZilla. If your are struggling with FTP programs and have paid for a control panel, than you can probably backup your site using Cpanel, or Plesk.
Don't forget to also export/ download the database or databases that you are using. Remember to maintain naming conventions otherwise you might create some problems later on.
Again, hold you finger off of the trigger, I know your itchy to cancel, but again hold off until the very end.
Upload your files onto the new account
Upload the files onto your new account making sure that you import the database and use the same naming convention as before using the new hosts FTP or control panel.
Setup your email accounts
To avoid losing any email when you change domain servers, or for emails to go down, then it is important to replicate all your old email accounts from your previous hosting providers that you were using. It is probably a useful excersise to have a bit of a spring clean whilst your at it, but in short make sure you have re created all the email accounts that are in use. If you are using Plesk, try using Plesk's inbuilt mail feature to make your life easier.
Check to make sure your site is fully functional
At this stage it is best to now check to see everything is working, make sure that yuo re-chmod your folders if you are running scripts and need to do so, and see that your site is fully functional. If you are using Plesk, utilize the site preview function to fully test out the site, making sure all your links, and pages work.
Changing your DNS (Domain Name Server) records
Once you are happy go to the control panel of the site where you registered your domain name and change your domain names name server by repointing the A records of your domain.
If you are luck enough to be using Plesk as your control panel, then this will be even more straightforward as Plesk's inbuilt control funciton should prove very useful.
Within 24 to 72 hours your site should propagate to its new IP address, check your site using nominet, or whois to see your current name server.
The very last thing; Canceling your old hosting provider
Now, just before you do finally pull the trigger and cancel your old hosting provider, it is wise to check one final time and make sure that the propagation is complete and that your site is resolving to the new IP address. Once this is done, you can now finally cancel your old hosting provider.
A Few final bits of advice
It is best at all times to have a backup of your site, just in case something happens to your site, it is a good habit to get into and provides great peace of mind!
If at any stage you are stuck, it is always worth asking your new hosting provider for some help, after all they are about to get your business, so they should have no problem in helping you!
Tuesday 28 October 2008
Welcome to ByteHouse's Blogger Blog!
Hi,
Firstly welcome to our blog. Wanted to let you know a little bit about ourselves. Bytehouse is a UK based web hosting company that hosts out of an ex Ministry of Defence Nuclear Bunker!
We specialise in providing cutting edge, premium, non-stop UK internet hosting solutions to discerning customers on the most powerful cutting edge technology we can lay our hands on!
Our dedicated hosting and VDS hosting packages are for those looking for that little bit extra! Our VPS hosting solutions are virtualised using Virtuzzo, and are housed on dual quad core blades. As you can see we do not spare an expense in providing the best solutions for our discerning clients.
Firstly welcome to our blog. Wanted to let you know a little bit about ourselves. Bytehouse is a UK based web hosting company that hosts out of an ex Ministry of Defence Nuclear Bunker!
We specialise in providing cutting edge, premium, non-stop UK internet hosting solutions to discerning customers on the most powerful cutting edge technology we can lay our hands on!
Our dedicated hosting and VDS hosting packages are for those looking for that little bit extra! Our VPS hosting solutions are virtualised using Virtuzzo, and are housed on dual quad core blades. As you can see we do not spare an expense in providing the best solutions for our discerning clients.
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