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May 22, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center operator and managed services provider Peak 10 (peak10.com), and onsite disaster recovery company Agility Recovery Solutions (agilityrecovery.com), announced on Monday they have completed the integration of disaster recovery and business continuity services and made them available to customers in advance of the 2007 hurricane season. The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30, averages almost ten named storms per year. Many nationally renowned hurricane experts are anticipating that this season will be more active than usual, ranging anywhere from 13 to 17 named storms and a 74 percent chance of a major hurricane hitting the US. Florida, in particular, is predicted to be four times as likely to encounter a hurricane as in an average year. "Once disaster hits, it's usually too late if a plan is not already in place," says Monty Blight, Peak 10 VP of managed services. "People can have short memories and tend to think, well, there weren?t any hurricanes last year so we're safe. That is not a responsible reaction if the health of your business relies on secure, reliable IT functions, particularly if you?re in a high-risk location with crucial customer data on unsecured, non-redundant equipment." The partnership between Peak 10 and Agility enables Peak 10's customers to recover their business operations in a fully configured mobile office environment from almost any location. Agility's mobile offices are equipped with all the technology and satellite connectivity needed to access and utilize secure data hosted at Peak 10 data centers.
Peak 10 recently announced it hosted a live business continuity Webcast on May 17.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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