In the world of corporate websites, conversion is the only word that truly matters. A conversion is the seemingly simple act of attracting someone to your website and then having them perform an action which allows you to regard them as ‘converted’, or more simply, interested. In online retail conversions are obvious – the visitor …
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After a lot of hard work and dedication by the team here, we can today proudly announce the official launch of our latest web hosting facility in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. Australian businesses which are expanding into Asia can benefit from using our new Hong Kong facility to host content closer to their target markets. …
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One of the first things I learnt when I started to study network design, oh so long ago, was the importance of simplicity. This lesson has served me well over the years and it’s a surprise to me that there are still organisations building very complex networks that, when things go wrong, take days to …
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How quickly times have changed, the Internet used to be a flaky thing and people were used to waiting around. If things didn’t work, well that was OK they would just come back later. It’s not like that anymore and in this age of instant gratification users are much less forgiving than they have been …
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Disaster can strike at any time. A web server and database which is not prepared for a disaster can experience an outage lasting days or even weeks while replacement equipment is found, installed, and configured. Unfortunately, many organisations forego the protection of a disaster recovery plan due to it’s high cost and management overhead. When …
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Anyway you look at it, things aren’t so good for the folk running the PlayStation Network right now. A job administering a global online gaming network sounds pretty sweet, but I doubt they’re having much fun now that they’ve been hacked and 77 million user’s records were stolen. If you’re an engineer you can probably …
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