Weekly posts about web hosting and the web hosting industry. With HostDime updates and announcements.
If your marketing team is anything like HostDime’s, we occasionally have some crazy ideas in our Marketing brainstorming sessions. But sometimes crazy things work, like explaining web hosting with a pizza. So how do you know what’s a “good crazy” idea or a “bad crazy” idea? Here’s 15 questions to ask yourself which will help you find the answer to that question.
Security is essential in today’s world. HostDime is committed to giving our client’s peace of mind by inspecting each server’s security. All HostDime servers undergo a server security check before and during deployment. Here is HostDime’s 10 point web server security audit.
Since the news of PRISM surveillance and government based data collection processes has come to the forefront of the media, we have received many requests for clarification of our Privacy Policy and it’s connection to these and other such programs. HostDime.com, Inc. has not participated in any type of data aggregation government program nor do we have any pieces of equipment in our facility at this time which would enable this type of activity.
The time is 12:55 AM EST. My beloved Boston Bruins are STILL playing the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. This is the fifth longest Finals game ever, approaching 5 hours in the 3rd Overtime. I crave instant reactions for this sports rarity so I go to Twitter for my real-time fix. Facebook wants to change that.
More than 4.75 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every single day. Facebook wants to bring these important public conversations to the forefront with a slow rollout of #hashtags. This is available for most brands already; users may have to wait for a few weeks.
There were already tag-happy users including hashtags in their statuses before, but they were not clickable or served little purpose besides the linking ability between Twitter and Facebook. Now, these hashtags will be incorporated with Graph Search to help connect and engage people around the world. Instagram, acquired by Facebook for a cool billion last year, already uses hashtags for picture searching.
Facebook’s late adoption of hashtags will be beneficial towards your brand, but may be detrimental to your Facebook experience.
Christmas in June! Take a look at this giant shipment of new Supermicro servers and ample hardware that just came in.
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