Unlimited Hosting, Fact or Myth?
When you walk into an all you can eat buffet, nobody expects you to eat all the food in the restaurant. You might fill up your plate three or four times, but you can not eat everything in sight. The same could be said for unlimited services you might see when it comes to web hosting.
What Does Unlimited Really Mean in Web Hosting?
While they say you have unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth – the average web site out there will never reach the real limits of the account. If you are running a web site for your local football team, your not going to get a world wide audience, people digging your web site, and surges of other traffic sources at you fingertips. You’ll serve your local niche.
Now over the long term, things could change. For an example, your web site might not have many pages the first month or even the first year. However, year after year you might notice your web site growing by leaps and bounds. At that point, if you are with a shared web hosting company, you might outgrow your web hosting space – but even then it is unlikely.
The real thing you have to pay attention to, or at least be aware of is spikes in usage or usage of system resources – such as RAM or CPU power. This often happens when you get a spike of traffic from a few sources, or your web site’s security is at risk. For most people though, that is still as likely as lightening striking you down as you listen to this podcast. It isn’t likely to happen.
So unlimited this, that or the other in web hosting is like the all you can eat buffet at your favorite restaurant. You can eat and eat all you want, but the human body (and web sites too) can only eat so much at one time.
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New Payment Address for Kyvon Customers
Please note: as of February 22nd, our billing address has changed. If you choose to send payment for your account via check, please mail them to the following address:
Kyvon
PO BOX 1348
St. Louis, MO 63188-1348
For billing inquiries, please email billing@kyvon.com.
New Year, New Look at Kyvon.com
Here at Kyvon, we’re kicking off 2010 with a fresh, new look. Our website has undergone quite a makeover in order to provide easier access to customer tools such as our Client Portal and Remote Support in addition to streamlining our service and Hosting package information to better educate future and existing customers. Stay tuned for 2010 updates to our other spots around the web such as Twitter, Facebook, and our blog.
What do you think about our redesign? Let us know in the comments, below.
Resolutions & Recommendations for Your Small Business in 2010
The new year is upon us, bringing a wave of resolutions for people and businesses as they strive to move forward into the next decade. As we creep closer to 2010, I find a surprising number of businesses still utilize free email and website accounts versus hosting their web presence via their own domain name. Even more surprising, eMarketer quoted an Ad-ology survey that found that 46 percent of small business owners do not have a Web site in 2009.
Between pint-sized laptops and smart phones, consumers are connecting faster and easier every day. Without a professional web presence, your company is missing out on connecting with those consumers. Our recommendation is that every business resolve to exit the dark ages and acquire (at bare minimum) the following services:
Domain Name
Protect your brand online and reserve your spot on the web by registering your domain name today. Registering a domain doesn’t automatically make your website appear when visitors enter your domain into a Web browser, so we’ll move on to item #2.
Hosting
Shared hosting allows multiple Web sites to reside on a single server that is connected to our high-speed Internet backbone. Shared hosting is the easiest and most affordable way to bring your website to the Internet. Your site is located on our servers – the equivalent of leasing office space. A certain portion of the building is yours, with your name on the door, and you can rely on the building manager (Kyvon) for security, maintenance and facilities management.
For companies requiring additional options, check out our co-location and dedicated services. Kyvon also offers discounts for your non-profit.
Once you have acquired your domain name(s) of choice, your company can create professional email accounts (such as name@CompanyName.com) by utilizing either Qmail or Exchange hosting. These accounts are compatible with third party email clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, or Apple Mail and can be set up on your smart phone for on-the-go access. What would you trust more: CompanyName@yahoo.com or name@CompanyName.com?
Happy Holidays From Kyvon
Kyvon wishes our customers & their families Happy Holidays! To celebrate the season, we thought it would be a treat to provide a wee bit of entertainment for you while you sit at your desk counting down the minutes until your holiday weekend.
Kyvon Voted One of the Best IT Firms in St. Louis
Kyvon was recently named one of the top IT Firms in St. Louis by Small Business Monthly. Each month Small Business Monthly polls their readers and asks them to help identify the best in the St. Louis area in a particular industry. Kyvon is included in SBM’s Best in Business list in the December edition, released December 1st. We are honored to be recognized for our service, and would like to congratulate our fellow St. Louis IT firms that accompany us on the Best in Business list.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for choosing Kyvon for their IT solutions for more than a decade.
How To: Set Up Hosted Exchange On Your iPhone.
Hosted Exchange may seem like a daunting task to set up on your iPhone, but with the correct information it is really quite simple. Lets get started.
1. Purchase a Hosted Exchange account through Kyvon.com or other HE provider.
2. Select the Settings icon on your phone.
3. Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Playing it Smart With Business IT
In challenging economic times like these, it’s best to go with the safe bet when modifying your IT budget. We recommend investing in disaster recovery, security, and remote access. Scrutinize new product purchases carefully and then prioritize on the technologies that deliver the greatest ROI.
We are as susceptible to the allure of flashy technology as much as anyone else, but we choose to invest wisely and avoid succumbing to the temptation. Instead, focus on security, efficiency and redundancy within your network. This is especially for small to midsize businesses with lean staffs and tight budgets.
Our “safe bets” for almost any office are remote access, anti-spam software, UPS devices, off-site data storage and backups.
Remote Access
You can limit the financial affects of business disruptions by enabling your employees to work remotely and access critical network resources securely, from any location, using any device.
Anti-Spam Software
Choosing a managed system to block spam provides a central location to manage and monitor your messages, therefore streamlining the process.
UPS Devices
Uninterrupted power is necessary both to keep systems up and running and to protect the data in those systems. Even small companies need to protect their equipment from power surges and outages, especially with the winter weather season ahead.
Off-site Data Storage and Backups
Storing your data off-site allows for remote access to your data by employees, even when your on-site company network is down. When choosing an off-site data center facility, consider whether it provides redundant conditioned power and air, reliable back-up power, security and fire safety to protect all hardware, network pathways and backbone connections.
Enhance Productivity by Enabling Remote Access for Your Business
As businesses strive to recover from a global recession, their number one mission is to keep their workforce productive. Business disruptions caused by weather, power outages or extreme traffic congestion can prevent employees from getting to work.
Add to this a projected* 40% absentee rate this winter as a result of the Swine Flu (H1N1 virus) and businesses have a serious problem on their hands.
You can limit the financial affects of business disruptions by enabling your employees to work remotely and access critical network resources securely, from any location, using any device. By integrating SonicWALL® Aventail E-Class SSL VPNs into your network, you will provide employees to work remotely and securely, avoiding these disruptions to your business.
Connect to Customers Through Social Networking
Kyvon recently joined the wave of businesses flocking to social media as a way to increase communication with current and future customers. By building our online community, our goal is to connect with our customers on a more personal level.
Connecting via the social networks they use daily increases the opportunities to educate and inform our customers. For instance, with over 300 million active users on Facebook alone, it was a no-brainer when deciding to create our Fan Page. Customers are now not only able to receive Kyvon news and updates through their social network of choice, but they also have the ability to network with each other within the communities we have built for them.
Throughout the past decade, Kyvon has provided the very highest standard in customer service, and by increasing and methods by which we do so, we can continue to build those relationships.
How do you utilize social networking tools within your business?
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