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By Darren Dahl | Apr 28, 2011 Here's a look at the kinds of questions and issues you want to think about before deciding where to host your website. Gone are the days when having a website for your business was optional. In fact, many businesses these days can't afford even a few minutes of downtime where their customers can't access their site. That means that choosing a reliable web hosting service has become mission critical for most business owners. But that can be easier said than done given the hundreds of options out there that range from local mom-and-pop providers to national providers like Go Daddy and Rackspace , all of which range in terms of their price and service offerings. But how do you know whether you need to spend $10 a month versus $100? What follows are 10 tips, from business owners and experts alike, about the kinds of questions and issues you want to think about before deciding where to host your website. 1. Support Ask yourself what type of suppo

Here are five tips for managing information technology across multiple offices, all while maximizing efficiency, security, and cost. By Dave Smith | @redletterdave | Apr 18, 2011 One location, for a growing business, is typically not enough. With enough personnel and capital, many businesses prefer to set up multiple offices to attract different regions of customers. With separate offices how can your business install a network so all the locations can work, communicate, and share information easily, instantaneously, and effectively? The technologies that allow this are rapidly changing. Even a few years ago, most consulting companies would recommend you install legacy infrastructure (servers, databases, etc.), capital expenditures that required large time and money investments. But in the past year or so, new advancements in communication technology—including improvements to virtual private networks, remote desktops, and the cloud—allow instantaneous information and file sharin

If you thought you had to rip out all your existing company telephone equipment and go on a spending spree to get VoIP, well, good news: You don’t. That concern has, in fact, kept a number of small businesses from even considering VoIP -- “Yeah it’d be nice to save the money, but look at all the stuff we’re going to have to buy. Forget it.” According to officials of Avad Technologies, with a switch to VoIP, “company telephone equipment doesn’t become obsolete. Although there are dedicated small business pbx systems, the system can be used with traditional telephones.” And please, let’s put another silly myth to rest: You don’t have to work a VoIP phone any differently, just make a call the normal way. All your customers, vendors and other incoming callers can dial your number just like they did before -- hey, they won’t even know your phone system’s changed unless you tell them. Avad officials mention their One Number Follow Me feature, which might interes

Una de las últimas veces que fui a visitar a mi hermana me llamó la atención de que sus hijos nunca apagaban sus computadoras , y sé que muchos de ustedes quizás no lo hagan. De acuerdo con una encuesta reciente, aproximadamente 55 por ciento del total de la muestra aprovechan el que sus dispositivos tienen características de ahorro de energía ; sin embargo, el 97 por ciento de todos dijeron que quisieran empezar a usar dichas características. Pues bien, afortunadamente en cuando a las computadoras no es nada difícil: basta con que sigas estas 10 indicaciones que vienen de la Climate Savers Computing Initiative: Usa administración de energía tanto de monitor como de computadora; hacerlo puede reducir la marca de CO2 que se genera, y reducir una cantidad significativa de dinero al año. No uses un protector de pantalla: estos no son necesarios en monitores actuales, y estudios muestran que de hecho consumen más energía que si el monitor estuviera en modo de espera. Si vas a comprar una