Owners of small and medium sized businesses have long been encumbered by the shared website hosting products offered by many mainstream hosting providers.
Such providers often host thousands, hundreds of thousands and for some of the larger ones, millions of privately owned sites, many of which are often run by children.

Today, for most small and medium sized businesses a website is a must and for many of them setting up and running their own server is not an option. It is either too costly or time consuming, or they may lack the required skill and experience to run a web server with all of the server hardening, security policies and disaster recovery processes in check.

For these reasons, many businesses outsource the running of their websites to hosting providers. The mainstream hosting providers, the likes of Fasthosts.co.uk and UK2.net, have tens, maybe hundreds of staff, including helpdesk operators, server administrators, systems developers…. the list is nearly endless.  Read more...

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According to a SEC filing by the publicly traded company RackSpace, the power outage that caused its servers to go offline for an extended period last month will cost the company up to $3.5 million USD in refunds. According to the report: “We have experienced power interruptions which have affected a portion of our Grapevine, Texas data center. We have posted updates on our recent power interruption on our website blog and our customer portal for the benefit of our customers. We are continuing to assess the financial impact of service credits due to these events. Currently, our preliminary range for the resulting one time service credits is estimated to be between $2.5 million and $3.5 million. Our website blog is located at http://www.rackspace.com/blog/ .”

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