...researching various shared web hosts, I have narrowed my choices to three sites: Fatcow.com, Myhosting.com and Dreamhost.com. I am researching the basic plan for each web hosting site because I only have a small business. The first one, Fatcow.com, drew me in to its web hosting site because it has completely “gone green.” It powers its entire web hosting site with wind energy. Another interesting aspect to the web hosting site seems is the free shopping cart option, which allows my customers to purchase directly off the site (FatCow, 2010). As a second choice, I researched Dreamhost.com for two features with which the other web hosting sites could not compete. The two features include a lower price on the basic package at $2.95/month and a 97-day money-back guarantee. The other two web hosting sites only offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. Additionally, this web site is about seventy cents cheaper than the other two web hosting sites (DreamHost, 2010). My final selection, Myhosting.com, offers free spam filtering and web log analysis for its basic package. These two features are not offered on my other web hosting sites of choice. Spam filtering stops unwanted e-mails that would otherwise take up the company’s time and money through which to sort. This site also provides free web log analysis which is important when determining web site traffic; therefore, one can evaluate the progress of the business (SoftCom Inc., 2009). After looking at 2010 web hosting comparisons, I have come...
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...consumers (and businesses) to buy and sell with each other in an auction process. c. E-Commerce Catalog - E-commerce catalog is a high-speed web-trading site, which offers electronic catalog shopping and ordering for products, which are offered by many suppliers in an industry. d. E-Commerce Exchange - E-commerce exchange is a high-speed platform where buyers and sellers can interact to negotiate prices for products and services. e. E-Commerce Portal E-commerce portals are developed and hosted by third-party market maker companies who serve as infomediaries that bring buyers and sellers together in catalog, exchange, and auction markets. f. E-Commerce Success Factors: Some of the key factors for success in e-commerce include: selection and value, performance and service, look and feel, advertising and incentives, personal attention, community relationships, and security and reliability. g. E-Commerce Technologies: - Electronic commerce can be viewed as depending on six layers of technology: application services, brokerage and data management, interface services, secure messaging, middleware services, and network infrastructure. 2. What are the different types of web hosting alternatives? a. Shared Hosting - Shared hosting is the most popular and the cheapest website hosting method where many sites are hosted by different clients on the same physical...
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... Many hosting services offer on-site design tools to aid in the creation of the site. These tools can make web design much easier for someone who has no HTML, CSS or, Java experience. One example of a web hosting service can be found at http://www.ipage.com/ipage/index.html. With this particular hosting service is not completely necessary to have completed on your own using software such as Dreamweaver or other related programs. The service has built in software that enables a customer to create a site suitable to their needs. A good knowledge of HTML and CSS construction will be a highly beneficial skill to possess when using a service as such. The first step of publishing a new website through a website hosting company is to determine the purpose and the layout you wish for your website. Once a general layout of a site is determined one can start searching for a web host. Determining the layout, purpose, and overview has been completed the user should have a general idea of how much space and bandwidth will be needed for the site to run properly. This is a major factor in determining a web host service. If a site is expected to grow as time goes on and business continues, it would be prudent to choose a hosting service that has adequate space for the site’s needs. If the site proposed has downloadable content that end-users that will download on a regular basis, it is best to choose a host with sufficient bandwidth as well as storage. The hosting service...
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...the foundation and to explain and illustrate what it will take to build a web architecture to move the existing website for Tony’s Chips, with little to no down time, also to provide a disaster recovery strategy to guarantee the site is always accessible. I will also state the necessary steps to support the company’s migration from external to internal hosting. With the overall goal being to allow the customer the ability to order products in this case being a bag of chips from the website. Data migration will occur over a two week period with charts and diagrams to show the steps and timeline to accomplish the necessary tasks. The company is very concerned with redundant systems to ensure that there is no more than 5 minutes of down time in any given 365 day period. With web hosting fees going down over the past several years, it makes little sense for a business to host their own web site on their own computers. Web hosting companies do a large volume business it only makes sense to allow them to host for and it is cheaper than trying to do it yourself. The Advantages of using a web hosting company include but are not limited to, studies show that self-hosted site are down on the average two weeks a year. While outside web hosting companies boast an amazing 99.9 % uptime, and as a business you know that every minute your site is down you are not making money. Better security is provided by outside web hosted companies thus giving first rate protection from hackers. Another...
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...Website Migration Student’s name Institution Date Website Migration Introduction The process of moving the old Website from an externally hosted solution to an internal one requires a lot to be put in place. There is a need to follow the system development life cycle (SDLS) for it to be successful and have transformational effect on the company’s operation (Klein, S. 2007). If there is redundancy in the site of the company, some measures should be carried out to ensure that it functions well to serve the company’s information needs. There should be a back-up site available as a failover in case the main site goes down. There is also a need for the site to be redesigned to allow customers to order products online. The system development life cycle (SDLS) is involves seven phases or steps that are followed in developing an information system from conception up to disposition. The following is the seven-step phase of developing an information system by a software engineer: 1. Conceptual Planning 2. Planning and Requirements Definition 3. System design 4. Development and Testing 5. Implementation phase 6. Operations and Maintenance phase 7. Operations and Maintenance phase Conceptual Planning This is the first phase in the system development life cycle. In this phase the information system conceptual framework is constructed. This will include the evaluation and assessment of the system to be developed to determine the cost and risks associated with the system...
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...A step by step checklist for publishing a brand new website through a hosting company would be the following. First checking to ensure that the site hosting company will provide the operating system that will support he site, for example if you are going to run the site on Microsoft Windows or on Linux. After determining the operating system then we need to ensure they will provide adequate space for storage and applications such as Drupal, WordPress or .net. We need to make sure that the hosting company will allow support of the applications if it will be used to help create the site. Bandwidth requirements is also another important part when looking for a web hosting company, making sure that you have adequate bandwidth will ensure that you site is not slow or down when a lot of people are visiting the website. I choose Godaddy.com as a hosting site because they allow a person to choose the operating system and select the language support needed for the site. They also will support application add-in such as WordPress and Drupal which will allow me to select an add-in that I would like to support for running the site. Another reason I selected Godaddy.com is the price and what the office for the monthly price. For a monthly price of $5.99 a month they offer 150GB of space, unlimited websites and bandwidth, 500 email accounts which will allow me to have multiple mailboxes. Godaddy.com also provides free Google, Bing, yahoo and Facebook ad credits allowing me to advertise...
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...ISTM5010 – Integration of Information Technology and Business -1 Outsource Insource Final Paper Capella University December 14, 2012 ISTM5010 – Integration of Information Technology and Business -2 ABSTRACT The company in topic is BAILEYpc, Inc. (www.baileypc.com) and their recent organizational structure change for cloud hosting services centered on maintaining a premium service while being agile to industry change for both customer and provider. BAILEYpc offers web hosting as a re-seller through (Site5) rather than owning and maintaining their own server. As a consulting service first the model is not primarily a hardware company. So all services like domain name sales, web hosting services and website development are all outsourced. Web hosting is offered as a compliment service to business development consulting services with servers being leased from a company specializing in hosting rather than inhouse. ISTM5010 – Integration of Information Technology and Business -3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................................................... 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................... 3 SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................................... 4 CLOUD COMPUTING TRANSITION .......
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...Supporting a Global Leader in Cleaning Rock-solid hosting and responsive support cloud services • managed IT outsourcing securahosting.com Supporting a Global Leader in Cleaning Numatic International Ltd are perhaps most widely recognised in the UK for their iconic Henry vacuum cleaner but they produce a huge range of cleaning products and equipment. They are a global presence, with offices in the UK, Holland, Germany, France, South Africa and Switzerland. Secura have been working with Numatic since 2006, supporting their website and email with reliable, secure hosting, with a service and support wrap designed to make their web infrastructure as light-touch as possible. Garage to Global Founded in 1969, Numatic has grown continuously over the last four decades from an initial team of 6 engineers working in a workshop space no bigger than a garage, to a business that now employs over 700 people across 6 countries. Today’s Numatic factory and warehouse in Chard, Somerset, occupies 10 hectares and produces over 4000 products each day. A network of over 40 PCs and a sophisticated Oracle based ERP system control the important day-to-day processes, state-of-the-art CAD-CAM systems and Rapid-Prototype modelling facilities in the factory. The Henry Phenomenon Cleaning equipment is not usually a product category that creates a global community of devoted followers and collectors but Henry Hoover (and pals) have done just that. Numatic ...
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...along with its business. For the delivery of smiles, 1-800-FLOWERS implemented more scalable, centralized e-commerce platform to support its rapid business growth. Also the company fills its orders in two ways: through a network of florists and through drop shipments. It established a florist-to-florist network called BloomNet, and is one of several floral wire services in the country today. The company was among the first retailers to partner with CompuServe and AOL, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. In April 1995, the company was one of the first retailers to establish its own Internet sales site. In 1999, the company went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol FLWS and changed its name to 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, to match its web site address. E-Commerce Growth As the Internet started to become commercial in the 1990s, the early adopters were primarily tech-savvy males. So it only made sense that the first e-commerce business that launched on America Online was something that many men desperately needed: a 24-hour flower shop. 1-800-Flowers, a retailer that started with one flower shop in New York in 1976—and went national, thanks to its popular phone number—was in fact the first e-tailer on AOL in 1994. Today, more than half of the...
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...published in April, 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang as a website directory for friends. Currently, world’s best-known interactive web portal. Averaging over 144 million page views. Earnings of $2 billion on revenues of $6.4 billion. Employs around 11,000 people. Yahoo!’s services Communication Media Retail online shopping Entertainment Email and instant messaging Finance Stock alerts Personal stock portfolio tracking Games Yahoo!’s acquisitions RocketMail- email service provider eGroups- social mailing list GeoCities- free web hosting service Broadcast.com- streaming audio and video Viaweb- online shopping portal Yoyodyne Entertainment- direct marketing Business Model Revenue generation Advertisements Individuals and small business customer SWOT Analysis Strengths: •First mover advantage •Large number of services •Large number of users Weaknesses: •Weak search engine •Heavily dependent on advertisement •‘peanut butter’’syndrome Opportunities •Growing number of internet users Threats: •Major competitors(Google) •Low barrier environment Environment Specific environment Emergence of competitors with killer applications Rising demand for customization General Environment Dot com burst Economic recession Decreasing cost of technology Web Portal Industry Internet Service Provider portals Product Bundling portals Customized portals Social Networking portals McKinsey’s...
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...Grayson Global Shipping: Setting Up Website & Blog Prepared for Michael Roads Vice President of Operations Grayson Global Shipping Prepared by Temeka Heard, Web Designer Multimedia & Designing Team Grayson Global Shipping November 23, 2013 MEMORANDUM To: Michael Rhodes, Vice President of Operation From: Temeka R. Heard, Multimedia & Design Team Date: November 23, 2013 Subject: How to set up Website & Blog for Grayson Global Shipping Here is the report you requested November 15, regarding how to set up both a website and blog for Grayson Global Shipping. I thank you for allowing me the opportunity to show you by aid of diagram of how to set up both a successful website and blog. Grayson Global Shipping has been known for their reputations in striving to provide the absolute best for its customers. In order for Grayson Global Shipping to uphold its reputation and to stay ahead of its competitors, the creation of what GGS is missing is key. I hope that you approve of the steps I will outline. I will outline ten steps regarding the framework necessary to implement these changes. The steps will include a discussion of the resources necessary to implement the site, the timeline for implementation and the benefits of implementation into working shape. I do understand both the doubts and uncertainties our employees currently have. They reservations because they are unsure if the direction GGS is...
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...How to Choose the Best Web Hosting Provider Without the best web hosting, your ability to run a successful website is going to be seriously hindered. One of the worst mistakes you can make is to choose a web hosting provider at random. If there's a situation that calls for some thought, consideration and research, choosing a web hosting provider is it. There's a dizzying array of web hosting providers competing for your business. How can you pinpoint the best one? Start by keeping the following points in mind. Technical Specifications for Your Website Hosting The first thing you need to do when shopping for a web host is to evaluate your disk space and bandwidth needs. If your site will feature a lot of graphics, dozens of pages and get a lot of traffic, you're going to need decent amounts of bandwidth and disk space. Unlimited plans are available, and they make life easier. If your site is going to be simple and not generate a huge amount of traffic, you should be able to get away with smaller amounts of disk space and bandwidth. Keep compatibility in mind, too. In the excitement of looking for a website hosting provider, you might overlook one critical thing: the type of operating systems that are supported. You're not going to want to switch operating systems, so double-check this point before settling for a provider. Reliability and availability are critical characteristics to consider when shopping around for web hosting. The best web hosting providers offer availability...
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...YOUR HOSTING COMPANY (resources: Lessons uploaded in moodle) I. PROFILING: Name of Business: FASHION AND CREATION MANUFACTURING Nature of Business: PRODUCT DESIGN Brief description about the business: Our business deals with FASHION. A fashion industry which allows customers to choose from the designs available and design their own products which will be presented to other fashion design companies wherein those designs may be produce as an actual garment or attire. The business also a totally environmental friendly since we allows the customers to upload pictures of materials (junks) that may be chosen to create the recycled designs and precuts. Brief description about the product/services (you are planning to sell): Since it’s all about fashion, our products would mainly contain attire for both men and women of all ages. This attire would include shoes, clotting whether it is dress or shirt, accessories or jewelries, bags, and sport attire and accessories. These products are RTW (ready-to-wear) and some will be costumed made with the use of recycled materials given by the customer themselves that’s made clean and usable by the company. Our company would allow the customers to design their products and upload the photos and description of the product to our website. If the customer is lucky enough, we will present the design to our designer and other partner business fashion design companies to transform the design into actual attire. II. Choosing your web hosting...
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...Introduction This project is for designing, installing, and configuring a hierchical star computer data network for Retail/Wholesale Sales which will be used to provide data communication within the company and for facilitating online customer orders through an off-site web hosting service provider. The customer is looking to network a total of seventy-six (76) desktop computers on the wired LAN and five (5) laptops wirelessly. The breakdown of the actual LAN drops on each of the three (3) floors of the company is as follows; • Fifteen (15) on the basement • Thirteen (13) on the first floor • Forty-eight (48) on the second floor Project description The project will involve the acquisition, installation, configuration, and testing of one (1) Exchange server on a dedicated box with one hundred (100) licenses, one (1) ORACLE database server on another server along with McAfee Anti-Virus Software, one (1) forty-eight (48) port 10/100 GB switch, three (3) twenty-four (24) 10/100 GB switch, approximately eleven thousand feet (11,000’) of category 6 cable, three (3) twenty-four port network switches, three (3) twenty-four port patch panels, one (1) 600 VA line Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), seventy-six (76) wall plates with modular jacks, seventy-six (76) five feet (5’) patch cables, seventy-six (76) three feet (3’) patch cables and three (3) eight feet (8’) data rack on each of the three (3) floors to facilitate LAN connectivity along with three (3) wireless-G...
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...to each of these competitors. Strengths 1. Covad’s ClearEdge Pro is a fully hosted network-based VoIP service for customers with 10 to 250 users per site. The service makes the jump to VoIP easy for small companies that have not invested in an IP-based phone system and for mid-sized companies that must connect branch offices and want to offer a consistent feature set across all locations. ClearEdge Pro is compatible with IP handsets from Cisco, Polycom, and LG, as well as traditional analog handsets. 2. Covad ClearEdge IA is premises-based solution that works with customers’ existing PBX or key telephone system to deliver unlimited local and long-distance minutes, high-speed T1 broadband, dynamic bandwidth allocation, and e-mail and Web hosting services. ClearEdge IA allows the customers to set a “Business Continuity” feature to remain available to callers during power failures, outages, or when all office lines are busy. Covad’s ClearEdge Pro is a fully hosted network-based VoIP service for customers with 10 to 250 users per site. The service makes the jump to VoIP easy for small companies that have not invested in an IP-based phone system and for mid-sized companies that must connect branch offices and want to offer a consistent feature set across all locations. ClearEdge Pro is compatible with IP handsets from...
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