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Inside 1-800-HOSTING
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1-800-HOSTING employees post regular updates on both industry related and non industry related topics of interest.
Recent Posts
Focus Theft
Of the many defects which plague desktop usage, the one I find most annoying is focus theft. Focus theft occurs when any program, other than the one you are working in, steals the keyboard or mouse focus. This causes you to no longer be working in th...
A Little Security Goes a LOOOONG Way
Security is only as secure as your weakest link. It’s tough to imagine and believe, but in this business you just have to suck it up and believe it. You can have 50 hardware and software firewalls, but if you have 3 year old exploitable php ema...
Using Mac as a Work PC, the First 6 Months
As the CEO of 1-800-HOSTING, I certainly have some say in the type of hardware that we use at both the server and workstation level. That said, I was more than content using a Windows-based workstation for most of our early years. Around four year...
Drupal – Free Website Building Tool
The Drupal content management system is software that makes it easy to build a great looking website. With Drupal, you can create pages using templates and easily add content using the admin control panel. In my opinion, it is a good choice for all t...
How a 1-800-HOSTING Geek Maintains His Backups
Backups, backups, backups, everywhere you hear of backups. That is both a good and bad thing since backups can’t be stressed enough. You have heard enough about backups from a server stand point, but what about the most important machine, yours...
Social Networking – A Private Playground?
Today, just about everyone is on at least one of the social domination networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin, Twitter, etc. I would guess that 90% of the people I know post their daily activities on Facebook or Twitter for everyone to see...

