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Web Design

30 Oct, 2009  No Comment

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Does your company have a website?  Does it say what you need it to say, the way you need it said?  If you don’t then you had better get that sorted right away.  A company without a website is like a car without wheels, it isn’t going anywhere.

Any technology aware Cape Coral business should be online and charming viewers with the quality of their website.  It is believed by some that almost all business will be online within the next ten years.  Now is not the time to be giving a bad impression with a substandard website.

The purpose of your site can be cover many things.  It may be an online store, open all the hours you aren’t and reaching audiences you could only dream of before.  It may be somewhere you can engage with your users, like a forum or message board.  It may just be a single page telling people you exist.

Whatever your site is used for, you need to think of it as your open door to the world.  The same as in real life, virtual visitors will make judgments about your site very quickly.  It is much easier to go to another site, than it is to walk or drive to another store.  This makes it doubly important that your website says what you want it to about you and your business.

If you don’t have a website, or you want a makeover then get in touch with The RT Design Group Cape Coral web design team and we can arrange a free consultation.  It’s a no hassle, no obligation chat about what you have and what you need.  Nothing heavy and no hard sell.

Here is a list of some of the services we offer.  Please ask if you want something not on the list.

  • Original, innovative web design
  • Facelift or redesign of existing site
  • Splash pages
  • Advert and banner design
  • Wordpress and Drupal theme design and implementation
  • Forum skins for phpBB, VB, SMf etc.
  • Graphic design

All it takes is one tree. One mature tree can provide enough oxygen for two human beings on this planet. A planet currently plagued by ecological damage. The IT industry alone accounts for nearly 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions attacking our environment. How can you help? By going green with your web hosting.

There are a number of “carbon neutral” hosting companies out in the market today. To be “carbon neutral” a hosting company must have a net zero carbon footprint – achieved by balancing the amount of C02 released with an equivalent offset. There are several ways to implement this offset. One is by replacing what is lost – for many companies this means getting involved in reforestation programs. Another way to offset is by funding projects that lead to the prevent of future greenhouse gas emissions, or by purchasing “carbon credits” to remove them through “carbon trading”.

The nice thing is you don't have to worry about sacrificing good quality hosting in going eco-friendly. Many green hosting companies offer the same products and services as their non-green competitors. This includes web site templates, site management tools, blogging programs, database options and often times free marketing tools and software. One top rated green hosting company is SuperGreen. Their accounts include unlimited space, unlimited traffic, a free domain name, and a $25 marketing credit for only $3.95 a month. Cr8change.org offers a plan for $7.00 a month and is committed to planting one tree every month for each account they host through the California Wildfire Releaf program. If you'd like a wind powered host, HostGator offers their accounts at $7.95 a month and includes all the bells and whistles you'd expect from other hosting companies.

Consider – this year alone wildfires in California have managed to destroy over 121,000 acres of forest and there seems to be no quick end at the moment. By hosting your web site with Cr8change, you could help reverse some of this damage by having 12 trees planted in the next year simply by hosting your account with them. Setting up an account with HostGator would create no carbon footprint as wind power does not create greenhouse gas emissions.

When it comes to what we want to leave for our children and their children, you can make a difference even within technology. Research the different eco-friendly hosting companies available and go green with your hosting!

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Myspace.com has started making use of SSD server HD's

14 Oct, 2009  No Comment

MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives

Posted on 14 October 2009

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MySpace’s new SSD servers use about 1% the power of its hard disk drive predecessors

Computerworld – Social networking site MySpace.com announced today that it has switched from using hard disk drives in its servers to using PCI Express (PCIe) cards loaded with solid state chips as primary storage for their data center operations.

The PCIe cards, from Fusion-io Inc., allow MySpace to replace multiple server farms made up of 2U (3.5-in high) servers that had used 10 to 12 15,000 RPM Fibre Channel drives each with 1U (1.75-in high) servers using a single ioDrive.

“In the last 20 years, disk storage hasn’t kept pace with other innovations in IT, and right now we’re on the cusp of a dramatic change with flash technologies,” said Richard Buckingham, vice president of technical operations for MySpace, in a statement.

MySpace said the solid state storage uses less than 1% of the power and cooling costs that their previous hard drive-based server infrastructure had and that they were able to remove all of their server racks because the ioDrives are embedded directly into even its smallest servers.

“We looked at a number of solid state solutions, using many different kinds of RAID configurations, but we felt that Fusion-io’s solution was exactly what we needed to accomplish our goals,” Buckingham stated.

MySpace’s new servers also replaced its high-performance hosts that held data in large RAM cache modules, a costly method MySpace had been using in order to achieve the necessary throughput to serve its relational databases. MySpace said its new servers using the NAND flash memory modules give it the same performance as its older RAM servers.

Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io claims the ioDrive Duo offers users unprecedented single-server performance levels with 1.5GB/sec. throughput and almost 200,000 IOPS. The system can reach such performance levels because four ioDrive Duos in a single server can scale linearly, which provides up to 6GB/sec. of read bandwidth and more than 500,000 read IOPS.

The cards come in 160GB, 320GB and 640GB capacities. A 1.28TB card is expected in the second half of this year.

“Social networking sites and other Web 2.0 applications are very database dependent. Our 320GB ioDrive can fill a 10Gbit/sec. Ethernet pipe,” David Flynn, CTO of Fusion-io, said in an interview.