Does your host run out of juice and your site is down at the time when you need it most? Bloggers who spend time writing a great article do get rewarded by services like Stumbleupon and Digg in form of huge number of unique visitors which is only good if site is online for them to read your article. If the site link reaches in top ten of digg, what we get is called “digg effect” which only a dedicated server and VPS can handle. This dig effect is the huge number of hits in short span of time causing servers to stop responding for some time and this means your new visitors will not get your website content but an error page instead. This mostly happens to those who are on shared servers. Shared server as name suggest is shared between hundreds and thousands of sites and hence it’s not able to handle extra load. If we remove all the other websites and let your website only to run on these servers, it would load fast and perform well even in extreme traffic conditions and this is better known as dedicated servers were a server is dedicated to host single site only. However for every website owner it’s not possible and practical either to go dedicated. I will strongly suggest VPS to those who need good performance and want their website to handle peak traffic load.

In VPS only CPU is shared while other resources like RAM is dedicated which means there is better traffic handling capability. It has Burstable memory which keeps resources always ready for any unexpected traffic. CPU can work efficiently even when they are shared because new generation server CPU’s are multi cores, multi threaded and are optimized to perform well in stressed conditions as well. So in general terms you can say that you will be getting almost dedicated like performance but at much lower price in VPS.

Usually Internet service providers have a team of qualified network professionals who keep a check on system for proper working, however BSNL which is India’s major ISP and also recently awarded as best ISP have no worries if their servers are effected with virus or do not respond normally. I have seen days when people are not able to login for whole day. Funniest thing I found yesterday night when many sites started showing 500 server errors and guess what, Google and Gmail domain was redirected to some landing pages!! While Yahoo, Bling and other major search engines work fine, BSNL always have problem with Google. Sometime you cannot open any Google site or it will open at speed of snail. Check the screenshots below and enjoy.

Yesterday I was working on my clients site transferring it from old tired and not so reliable hosting to new blazing fast and much more reliable host but my bad luck only half of the work was done and my internet connection conked off. I thought it’s a temporary problem and I took a break from work. Returned after few hours to see its still not connecting. Called up the ISP guys and they said they are fixing. Called several times and they kept assuring me that it will be fixed in few hours but day went and they could not fix it. Next day first thing I did was went straight to their office and lodged complain. Somehow in afternoon they were able to rectify the problem and I came online almost after 24 hours! Immediately I finished the transfer process and apologized to clients for the delay. Lesson learnt was when my work depends so much on Internet, I should have a backup Internet connection. I went to compare Internet service providers on various websites and found a site called saveology.com, which had the best information and actually helped me saving money that I would have spent on Internet plans which doesn’t match my requirements well. Because my current ISP provides good speed at down to earth rates but only problem is that its sometime not reliable, all I needed was a secondary net connection that is reliable and would bill me only for the use and no monthly bills. Also if this connection is portable like using Wi-Fi , 3G or any modern wireless technology then I can use this connection when I visit remote areas (which I do occasionally) where one can’t find cyber cafes. Also I am not comfortable using cyber cafes system as they are usually infected with virus and malwares. Using personal details on these systems means an open invite to trouble.

Lately I have observed then whenever I search for something in Google and on the very first page of results, the top ten sites are not much of relevance. Those on the right side of the page, which are sponsored listings, do match my query. Few days’ back I was searching for cheap hosting and only names I saw in search results were hosting review sites and some big names in hosting which are obviously not cheap. But I was looking for a cheap one. One look at the sponsored listing and I finalized; this was the cheapest I could find till date. Thing is people who deserve to come up in organic search results need to pay to get visible. Something is seriously wrong with Google now, people are easily able to optimize their crap sites to fool Google search algorithm and come up in search results. Taking example of someone like me searching for cheap hosting will like to see some really down to earth cheap hosting in top ten results and not hosting review sites which came up in result just because they had lots of relevant text in them but none of them will actually give you cheap hosting plan.

Information is the key to knowledge and when you are doing a business, each every details regarding it is important and it makes sense to protect it against prying eyes. Its even a bigger problem when your information is accessible online. Today when technology is within the reach of everyone, making use of it is good but we know there are pitfalls of every short cut. You send e-mail against regular snail mail to save time and money but don’t know that the same email somehow reaches your competitor’s inbox creating a big havoc in your business. Information security management comes to play its role here, it’s a kind of service which few people offer like Perimeter which is one big name in this field and very reputed. They offer large number of security services all under one roof so that you don’t have to go elsewhere and waste time.

Large banks benefit from their GLBA compliance and online banking security service and help bank in gaining trust from its customers. I would never have an account in a bank whose online banking service is not secure. All payments these days are done online and online banking has to be as tough as bank’s own security. Perimeter services are not only for large firms but small business will also find security related services that will suit them well. Taking example of a dedicated internet connection for your small business, it is common these days because small business rely heavily on internet but dedicated connection means frequent attacks on the network and hackers trying to steal data or just destroying for fun is a horror. Perimeter offer firewall service, which is cost effective, and give you complete peace of mind. In this age where Internet solves much of our problem, it also gives new problems, making your business secure is the only way to benefit from new technology and getting success.

Consumermate website has been a very helping hand while choosing various consumer products. It has let us compare different products, clear confusion on which product to go for etc. Good news is that this site is growing and we are able to compare many other new products that we were not able to do before. One such new product that you will now be able to find on Comsumermate site is Mobile Phones. Mobile phones are made by many brands and are available in so many models that it’s really hard for us to choose any particular model of phone and often end up buying wrong phone and then regret later when some friend or family member show his/her shiny new phone which is better than ours and lower priced. But now when you have mobile phones category on concumermate, all you have to do is input few basic requirements you want in your phone like phone type, brand in any particular if you like and the website shows you all the available phones in that range. This is better than randomly pickup up phones in electronics store and asking about its features because at end either you get tired of looking or the salesman. Here you get all the required information about the phone, its current price and in case your mind is struck between multiple phones, you can compare them at one place just by checking the compare option thus helping you in choosing the best one. I would also like to tell about Hot Deals on phones that you can check out on this website where you might find your dream phone at amazing price.