Monday, May 26th, 2008
Novi, Mich. (May 26, 2008) – Future Hosting (http://www.futurehosting.biz), an Internet Solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and the developer of Future Engineer™, announced today it will begin offering Virtual Private Servers (VPS) in a Washington, DC datacenter facility—the latest extension of its worldwide VPS expansion initiative.
In adding Washington, DC, Future Hosting will be able to better target customers with connectivity needs along the East Coast of the United States. The site also offers more direct data paths to Internet Service Providers in South America and Europe.
(more…)
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
I’m always thinking about how things can be accomplished more efficiently, faster or with a higher degree of reliability. A recent episode at home provided the inspiration for this entry.
I was watching my daughter prepare a cake the other day. She mixed all the necessary ingredients in a bowl and then was preparing to pour the mix into a pan for baking. She had several choices for pan size and selected one that was too small for the ingredients. Unfortunately, she filled the pan and then poured some of the cake mix on the counter. It was a bit of a mess, but was quickly cleaned up. She had learned a lesson about measurement and I had a bit of an epiphany about bandwidth.
In the hosting industry “bandwidth” is always touted as the “gold standard.” In other words, one can often see an advertisement that attests to the fact that a hosting service’s large bandwidth insures a faster transfer rate and lower latency connections. The fact is that there is more to the equation than just the size of bandwidth. My daughter was baking a large cake and erred when she selected the pan size for baking. The capacity of the baking pan was exceeded by the mix.
Now imagine, for example a hosting service that advertises 40 gigs of bandwidth, but has 41 gigs being poured into it. There’s a problem! You see, it’s not about how large the bandwidth is as about it is about how much is being used. Even if only 99% of capacity is being used, there may not be sufficient room in my “pan” example for efficient data transfer.
The point of this writing is to point out that just because large bandwidth is being advertised, it may not always be the most efficient. One has to ascertain how much capacity is being used and how much remains. You can rest assured that Future Hosting is well aware of what the needs are for optimum transfer rates and wants your “cake” to be baked to perfection.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
You are currently browsing the Future Hosting blog archives for May, 2008.