Big companies spend billions of dollars marketing their goods and services online each year. Although online marketing is crucial to the success of a small start up it is understandable that many cannot afford to have that same huge marketing budget.

Every couple of years, every industry sees a technological breakthrough which transforms an operation. The hosting world is no exception! Virtualisation has overtaken traditional forms of hosting in the race to achieve very high uptime.

Many ventures in life start off well but are never full completed; at times it may seem too hard or even impossible. Like every tragic I remember my first car, first kiss, more vividly my first domain name which was destined to begin my online domination.

Server security is something that many of us push into the 'too hard' basket - usually because we lack the time or patience to learn how to do it.