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19/05/2017

Bluehost and HostGator are two of the most veteran and well-known companies in the shared hosting space, both with millions of websites on their individual platforms. That being the case, people are often wondering which is the superior host of the two. In today's product comparison we will answer that question based on 5 metrics; performance, pricing, Wordpress capabilities, scalability, and customer support. [ 2,418 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/bluehost-vs-hostgator/

17/05/2017

The IaaS earnings reports are in for the big 3 cloud vendors, so it's time for another round of cloud market share analysis at Stratusly. Following the 3 quarterly earnings calls, AWS remains the clear-cut leader with $3.66 billion in quarterly revenue, up a whopping 46% from a year earlier. “This space is an oligopoly,” says Trip Miller, founder of Gullane Capital Partners “No one else of any meaningful size outside a handful of major players is getting into it because they can't afford to get into it.” He may be right. [ 497 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/cloud-market-share-update-aws-vs-azure-vs-google/

The IaaS earnings reports are in for the big 3 cloud vendors, so it’s time for another round of cloud market share analysis at Stratusly. Following the 3 quarterly earnings calls, AWS remains the clear-cut leader with $3.66 billion in quarterly revenue, up a whopping 46% from a year earlier. “This s...

16/05/2017

Dropbox has long been the most well-known company in the cloud storage world by being one of the first companies in the space to offer a dead simple UI and a freemium model that makes it accessible to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. But are they still the best out there? It's true that many still favor Dropbox as their cloud storage provider of choice, but there has been a slew of new contenders entering the market over the past few years from start-ups to Internet giants like Google and Amazon. [ 2,442 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/dropbox-alternative-google-drive-vs-box-vs-amazon-drive-vs-sync-com-vs-pcloud/

Dropbox has long been the most well-known company in the cloud storage world by being one of the first companies in the space to offer a dead simple UI and a freemium model that makes it accessible to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. But are they still the best out there? It’s true...

16/05/2017

An effective DNS (Domain Name System) infrastructure is a critical component of system uptime, which is essential to the viability and continuity of web services. For complex websites, a third of page load time can be attributed to DNS lookups. Inadequate or improperly configured DNS can have a potentially catastrophic impact on a company’s online presence. Why is DNS Important? [ 3,450 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/best-dns-hosting-cloudflare-dns-vs-dyn-vs-route-53-vs-dns-made-easy-vs-google-cloud-dns/

An effective DNS (Domain Name System) infrastructure is a critical component of system uptime, which is essential to the viability and continuity of web services. For complex websites, a third of page load time can be attributed to DNS lookups. Inadequate or improperly configured DNS can have a pote...

11/05/2017

People generally don't like to think about things like backing up their hard drive until its too late. It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when you will suffer a hard drive failure... and when that happens the result can be catastrophic if you haven't taken a few simple steps to backup your files remotely (and ideally to a local drive as well). [ 3,115 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/backblaze-vs-crashplan-vs-carbonite-review-best-online-backup/

People generally don’t like to think about things like backing up their hard drive until its too late. It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when you will suffer a hard drive failure… and when that happens the result can be catastrophic if you haven’t taken a few simple steps to backup …

04/05/2017

Cisco has been on an acquisition spree recently, buying nearly 20 companies since 2015. Today marks acquisition number 19 as they announce the purchase of cloud-based SD-WAN vendor Viptela for $610 million in cash. Viptela was founded in 2012 and has raised more than $108 million with its most recent round of $75 million happening just last May. The company, based in San Jose, California, makes a software-defined wide area network delivered in the cloud. [ 301 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/cisco-acquires-sd-wan-startup-viptela-610-million/

Cisco has been on an acquisition spree recently, buying nearly 20 companies since 2015. Today marks acquisition number 19 as they announce the purchase of cloud-based SD-WAN vendor Viptela for $610 million in cash. Viptela was founded in 2012 and has raised more than $108 million with its most recen...

03/05/2017

Box Platform recently introduced a new simpler pricing model designed for technology startups have grown accustomed to the 'pay-as-you-go' model made popular by companies like AWS and CloudFlare. In the new pricing model, you only pay for the level of resources you anticipate your app will consume. Box Platform is available in bundles of resources which include MAU licenses, API calls, bandwidth, and storage. [ 215 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/box-introduces-new-flexible-pricing-model/

Box Platform recently introduced a new simpler pricing model designed for technology startups have grown accustomed to the ‘pay-as-you-go’ model made popular by companies like AWS and CloudFlare. In the new pricing model, you only pay for the level of resources you anticipate your app will consume.…

26/04/2017

Next generation cloud security companies like CloudFlare have made it easy for anyone with minimal technical abilities to secure and accelerate their website. And with simple low-cost (or free) pricing options, it has become accessible on any budget. But the popularity of CloudFlare has left some looking for alternatives. The low barrier to entry of getting on CloudFlare's platform has lead to millions upon millions of people moving their websites over, and some believe this has lead to network congestion and lower cache-hit ratios, especially for those on the lower level or free plans. [ 2,363 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/cloudflare-alternative-incapsula-vs-sucuri-vs-stackpath/

Next generation cloud security companies like CloudFlare have made it easy for anyone with minimal technical abilities to secure and accelerate their website. And with simple low-cost (or free) pricing options, it has become accessible on any budget. But the popularity of CloudFlare has left some lo...

26/04/2017

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered next-generation endpoint protection, today announced the launch of its operations in Latin America to expand regional sales, marketing, and partner and business development support. The company is rapidly growing its customer base across the region, attracting new customers in sectors such as retail, telecommunications and manufacturing. “Neosecure selected CrowdStrike as our go-to market partner to strengthen our next-generation endpoint security offering and provide customers with a cybersecurity platform that enables visibility and protection where traditional solutions are failing, allowing us to raise the security standard for our customers” [ 514 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/crowdstrike-expands-latin-america/

25/04/2017

The cloud storage market is getting crowded, with new players entering the ring seemingly every month. There are now dozens of providers available to you, from startups to Internet giants like Google and Amazon, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this article, we will review the top 5 cloud storage providers of 2017, each at the top of their respective category. [ 3,247 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/best-cloud-storage-providers-pcloud-vs-dropbox-vs-sugarsync-vs-sync-com-vs-backblaze/

The cloud storage market is getting crowded, with new players entering the ring seemingly every month. There are now dozens of providers available to you, from startups to Internet giants like Google and Amazon, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this article, we will review the top 5…

21/04/2017

The New York Times, Spotify, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook, and more trust Fastly to Deliver Reliable Customer Experiences, Scale on Demand, and Mitigate Security Threats SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2017 -- Today, Fastly publicly unveiled its edge cloud platform, which empowers the world’s most popular businesses to deliver consistently secure, fast and personalized digital experiences. Fastly is also debuting three new services, available today on its edge cloud platform: the Fastly… [ 601 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/fastly-unveils-edge-cloud-platform/

The New York Times, Spotify, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook, and more trust Fastly to Deliver Reliable Customer Experiences, Scale on Demand, and Mitigate Security Threats SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2017 — Today, Fastly publicly unveiled its edge cloud platform, which empowers the world’s most popular b...

20/04/2017

Oracle Corp. has acquired digital measurement firm Moat Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2010, Moat assists advertisers and publishers manage and track online advertising with a range of tools, starting with a free search engine for display ads through to paid services including ad measurement, analytics, and intelligence. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, the company serves over 600 clients including some of the world’s largest brands including Nestle, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever, ESPN, Facebook, NBCUniversal, Snapchat, and YouTube. [ 276 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/oracle-snaps-digital-measurement-firm-moat-fill-marketing-cloud/

Oracle Corp. has acquired digital measurement firm Moat Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2010, Moat assists advertisers and publishers manage and track online advertising with a range of tools, starting with a free search engine for display ads through to paid services including ad measurem...

20/04/2017

Microsoft has announced it has partnered with broadcaster NBC for its Azure cloud platform to help deliver cross-platform multi-streaming coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games, reports Telecoms.com. The Azure cloud platform will help NBC deliver more than 4,500 hours of coverage from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games throughout August. According to Microsoft, it will be providing cloud encoding and hosting with video workflows for the NBC Olympics’ production of the Games, and will assist with live and on-demand multiplatform streaming coverage. [ 241 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/microsoft-azure-deliver-2016-olympics/

Microsoft has announced it has partnered with broadcaster NBC for its Azure cloud platform to help deliver cross-platform multi-streaming coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games, reports Telecoms.com. The Azure cloud platform will help NBC deliver more than 4,500 hours of coverage from the Rio de Janeiro...

04/04/2017

An increasingly common topic in the arena of web performance is the growing beast that is China. Delivering solid web and application performance within the Great Firewall can be a challenge for even the most seasoned IT professional and with a population exceeding 1.3 billion and a growing middle class, it is becoming ever more important. In fact, according to Mashable… [ 1,004 more word ]

https://stratusly.com/china-web-performance-best-practices/

An increasingly common topic in the arena of web performance is the growing beast that is China. Delivering solid web and application performance within the Great Firewall can be a challenge for even the most seasoned IT professional and with a population exceeding 1.3 billion and a growing middle c...

31/03/2017

At Stratusly we commonly do product comparisons among CDN and cloud providers but today we will dive into the realm of web hosting, or more specifically, shared hosting. Shared web hosting is the entry point into doing business online for those on a budget or those without the technical ability to manage a cloud hosting environment. It is the best option for regular people who want to get their blog or store online fast without having to mess around with Linux commands or write code. [ 3,875 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/bluehost-vs-hostgator-vs-godaddy-vs-siteground-vs-dreamhost-vs-inmotion-hosting/

At Stratusly we commonly do product comparisons among CDN and cloud providers but today we will dive into the realm of web hosting, or more specifically, shared hosting. Shared web hosting is the entry point into doing business online for those on a budget or those without the technical ability to m...

30/03/2017

The European Commission is set to release new rules in September, which will aim to tighten up how OTT’s such as WhatsApp and Skype are regulated in the European markets, according to the Financial Times. How Over-the-top players are regulated has been a point of contention within the European markets in recent years, as it does fall into a grey area currently. [ 870 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/europe-looks-set-new-rules-ott-september/

The European Commission is set to release new rules in September, which will aim to tighten up how OTT’s such as WhatsApp and Skype are regulated in the European markets, according to the Financial Times. How Over-the-top players are regulated has been a point of contention within the European marke...

30/03/2017

Oracle Corp. aims to make it cheaper and easier for companies to migrate data to its cloud with the launch today of what it claims is the world’s first service that integrates public cloud with on-premises network-attached storage systems. The new service is called Cloud Converged Storage, and it comes with the latest Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance release. Cloud Converged Storage is designed to enable organizations to “easily and seamlessly move data and/or applications to the cloud,” while simultaneously eliminating the need for external cloud gateways, Oracle said. [ 326 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/oracle-launches-industry-first-cloud-converged-storage-service/

Oracle Corp. aims to make it cheaper and easier for companies to migrate data to its cloud with the launch today of what it claims is the world’s first service that integrates public cloud with on-premises network-attached storage systems. The new service is called Cloud Converged Storage, and it co...

21/03/2017

Google Cloud came a little late to the cloud platform provider game. Unfortunately, this gave cloud platform provider giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS) plenty of time to expand their datacenter offerings to multiple locations all over the world by the time Google Cloud got its humble start. However, being one of the first cloud platform providers to offer access to an AI neural network engine has helped Google Cloud to really step up its game in catching up with other major cloud platform service providers. [ 1,608 more word ]

https://stratusly.com/google-cloud-vs-aws/

16/03/2017

New Product Helps Online Retailers Improve Website Speed And Increase Conversion Rates Waltham, MA—March 15, 2017—Yottaa, Inc., the leading SaaS platform for accelerating eCommerce, today launched Rapid CTRL, a new solution to help online retailers improve web performance by better managing and sequencing third party eCommerce applications. In a recent study on the impact of third party eCommerce applications, Yottaa evaluated over 600 sites to determine how those applications affected web performance. [ 732 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/yottaa-introduces-rapid-ctrl-improve-performance-3rd-party-ecommerce-apps/

New Product Helps Online Retailers Improve Website Speed And Increase Conversion Rates Waltham, MA—March 15, 2017—Yottaa, Inc., the leading SaaS platform for accelerating eCommerce, today launched Rapid CTRL, a new solution to help online retailers improve web performance by better managing and sequ...

15/03/2017

In this showdown we will analyze 2 of the largest players in not just the CDN world, but the Internet as a whole. Akamai is the originator of the content delivery network, and in 2017 has over 6,000 employees and 200,000 servers deployed across the globe. Their 2015 revenue was over $2 billion and they still serve many of the largest web properties in the world, including the majority of the top 50 ecommerce sites. [ 2,064 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/cloudfront-vs-akamai/

In this showdown we will analyze 2 of the largest players in not just the CDN world, but the Internet as a whole. Akamai is the originator of the content delivery network, and in 2017 has over 6,000 employees and 200,000 servers deployed across the globe. Their 2015 revenue was over $2 billion and t...

10/03/2017

If you're a user of Wordpress you (should) know that security is a large and growing problem. With Wordpress now powering 25% of the Internet, it has become a primary target for hackers due to the sheer volume of sites using the platform. This means as a Wordpress publisher you are more vulnerable to things like DDos attacks, application attacks, malware, and brute force attacks than those using other CMS (or custom built) platforms. [ 1,857 more word ]

https://stratusly.com/wordpress-security-sucuri-vs-wordfence-review/

If you’re a user of WordPress you (should) know that security is a large and growing problem. With WordPress now powering 25% of the Internet, it has become a primary target for hackers due to the sheer volume of sites using the platform. This means as a WordPress publisher you are more vulnerable t...

09/03/2017

Note: The post An In-depth Analysis of the AWS S3 Outage Impact appeared first on Catchpoint's Blog. Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) S3 web-based storage service in North America experienced widespread issues beginning at 12:37 PM EST on February 28. As reported on Amazon’s status dashboard, “high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1.” This was the only explanation provided at the time. [ 794 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/depth-analysis-aws-s3-outage-impact/

Note: The post An In-depth Analysis of the AWS S3 Outage Impact appeared first on Catchpoint’s Blog. Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) S3 web-based storage service in North America experienced widespread issues beginning at 12:37 PM EST on February 28. As reported on Amazon’s status dashboard, “hig...

22/02/2017

PacketZoom.com recently analyzed the top 100 websites (according to Alexa) and compared it with the top 100 mobile apps to see if there were any differences in vendor choice between more traditional web properties and the more modern mobile space. The data unsurprisingly shows that Akamai is still leading the market with around 35% market share and Fastly, Verizon, and Amazon CloudFront combined owning a roughly equal portion. [ 322 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/cdn-market-share-top-100-websites-vs-apps/

PacketZoom.com recently analyzed the top 100 websites (according to Alexa) and compared it with the top 100 mobile apps to see if there were any differences in vendor choice between more traditional web properties and the more modern mobile space. The data unsurprisingly shows that Akamai is still l...

22/02/2017

Google has rolled out in beta a new cloud service that allows users to rent Nvidia GPUs running in Google data centers for machine learning and other compute-heavy workloads. While relatively few companies outside of a small group of web giants like Google itself use machine learning in production, there’s a lot of development work going on in the field, with computer scientists building and training machine learning algorithms and companies mulling various business cases for using the capability. [ 317 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/google-launches-bare-metal-cloud-gpus-machine-learning/

Google has rolled out in beta a new cloud service that allows users to rent Nvidia GPUs running in Google data centers for machine learning and other compute-heavy workloads. While relatively few companies outside of a small group of web giants like Google itself use machine learning in production,…

15/02/2017

On Stratusly we've written our fair share of CDN reviews and comparisons but none that are specifically tailored to the Wordpress CMS which now powers a whopping 25% of the Internet. In our other product comparisons we primarily focused on aspects like performance, feature offering, ease of use/UI, and security. In this writeup we will be mainly be looking at 2 things; low cost and ease of integration with Wordpress. [ 826 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/wordpress-cdn-cloudflare-incapsula-vs-keycdn-fastly-cdn77/

On Stratusly we’ve written our fair share of CDN reviews and comparisons but none that are specifically tailored to the WordPress CMS which now powers a whopping 25% of the Internet. In our other product comparisons we primarily focused on aspects like performance, feature offering, ease of use/UI,…

08/02/2017

StackPath, the latest security-as-a-service startup on the market, today announced its acquisition of Highwinds, one of the oldest and largest Content Delivery Networks (CDN) in the world. This is an interesting move considering Highwinds is known to most as a legacy CDN that serves mostly gaming and media clients due to their high throughput performance. StackPath says Highwinds’ services and platform will be integrated with existing StackPath offerings to create a single global platform. [ 583 more words ]

https://stratusly.com/stackpath-acquires-highwinds-ongoing-effort-beat-cloudflare/

  StackPath, the latest security-as-a-service startup on the market, today announced its acquisition of Highwinds, one of the oldest and largest Content Delivery Networks (CDN) in the world. This is an interesting move considering Highwinds is known to most as a legacy CDN that serves mostly gaming…

03/01/2017

Note: The post 50 Mobile Performance Stats You Need to Know appeared first on Catchpoint's Blog. Your customers’ experiences on mobile are more important than ever. These 50 mobile performance stats say it all. MOBILE PERFORMANCE Mobile pages make an average of 214 server requests, and nearly half of all server requests are ad-related. [i] The average weight of the content on mobile sites is 1.49 MB, which takes 7 seconds to load over 3G connections. [ 888 more words ]

http://stratusly.com/50-mobile-performance-stats-need-know/

Note: The post 50 Mobile Performance Stats You Need to Know appeared first on Catchpoint’s Blog. Your customers’ experiences on mobile are more important than ever. These 50 mobile performance stats say it all. MOBILE PERFORMANCE Mobile pages make an average of 214 server requests, and nearly half o...

08/12/2016

Note: this post appeared first on Catchpoint's Blog. One of the most challenging aspects of optimizing web page performance while using a CDN is the handling of the base page delivery (also referred as HTML, Homepage, Landing Page). Part of the what makes this so difficult is the perceived “non-cacheability” of dynamic base pages. Historically, the base-pages were considered to be dynamic because they changed very frequently or were unique upon every request. [ 417 more words ]

http://stratusly.com/need-cache-base-page/

Note: this post appeared first on Catchpoint’s Blog. One of the most challenging aspects of optimizing web page performance while using a CDN is the handling of the base page delivery (also referred as HTML, Homepage, Landing Page). Part of the what makes this so difficult is the perceived “non-cach...

11/11/2016

The Internet is an ever-growing repository of data – data which can be accessed publicly, and data that is either personal or highly classified which can only be accessed by those authorized to do so (in an ideal world, at least). There are a number of ways in which this data can be stolen or altered by hackers; the worldwide web cannot guarantee the safety of your data unless you ensure it is transferred and stored securely. [ 930 more words ]

http://stratusly.com/web-performance-101-ssl-web-security/

The Internet is an ever-growing repository of data – data which can be accessed publicly, and data that is either personal or highly classified which can only be accessed by those authorized to do so (in an ideal world, at least). There are a number of ways in which this data can be stolen or …

29/09/2016

Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) recently added its own product to the influx of live streaming offerings on the market, announcing its Live Streaming Solution at the 2016 International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. VDMS also introduced a number of upgrades to its portfolio intended to support better integration of the new solution. VDMS has had the Live Streaming Solution in beta mode for the past several months and it has already been used by major broadcaster clients. [ 421 more words ]

http://stratusly.com/vdms-releases-integrated-live-streaming-solution/

Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) recently added its own product to the influx of live streaming offerings on the market, announcing its Live Streaming Solution at the 2016 International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. VDMS also introduced a number of upgrades to its portfolio intended to…