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Hosting for High Traffic Sites on Cyber Monday

Horror Stories in Web Hosting: RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) and NatWest, 2013. Up to this point in our blog series, we’ve relived the mistakes made by retailers whose providers weren’t prepared for hosting for high traffic websites. In Part 3, we look at what happens when a bank makes the same mistake… Chaos! What…

High Traffic Hosting Solutions for Cyber Monday

Horror Stories in Web Hosting: LOFT and Ann Taylor , 2011 As we saw in Part 1 of our Cyber Monday Hosting Series, even powerhouse retailers can experience nightmare scenarios over the holidays if they don’t choose a provider with well developed high traffic hosting solutions. In Part 2 we provide yet another disaster story — one that happened…

Most High Traffic Websites Struggle on Cyber Monday

Horror Stories in Web Hosting: Best Buy and Sony’s Website 2013 In Part 1 of our Cyber Monday Hosting Series we look two of the most famous names in retail: Best Buy and Sony, and the sales that were lost on Cyber Monday in 2013. As an e-tailer, we look forward to the ramp up…

Cyber Monday Infographic: Prep Checklist

9 Point Preparation Checklist for High Traffic Websites on Cyber Monday According to Statista, the 2013 Cyber Monday was the biggest day ever for U.S. online retailers, with online sales totalling 1.74 billion. What’s more, last year there was a 20.6% increase in online sales over the year prior, and the five days between Thanksgiving…

Best Hosting for High Traffic Websites on Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday – The marketing term coined for the Monday after Thanksgiving in the United States. The online world’s version of the brick-and-mortar’s Black Friday, the unofficial kick-off to the holiday shopping season and our busiest online day of the year. It’s an online retailers’ blessing, but without the best hosting for high traffic websites…

8 Reasons Why Your Servers Should Live in the Cloud

Applied Innovations is proud to announce our launch of Awesome.net Cloud Hosting, built on top of Windows Azure Pack. Check out our infographic on 8 Reasons Your Servers Should Live in the Cloud:

5 Tips On Using Pinterest For Business

Does your business make use of Pinterest—a social media site that lets you “pin” images to boards for followers to share and view? If not, you’re missing out on the millions of users that browse Pinterest daily. With such a number of people amassed, your target audience is probably among them. Let’s looks at some…

Best Practices for Submitting Tickets to Support

Our support team is available 24 hours a day, year round and we make every effort to resolve support issues in the most efficient manner possible. So in order to help get your issues resolved in the best and fastest manner possible, here are some best practices when submitting tickets: 1. Make sure you are…

5 Things to Know About Your Website to Determine the Best Hosting Solution

Oftentimes we’re asked to spec out a hosting solution just based upon visiting a URL, but unfortunately doing that only tells us a very small piece of the story. So what information helps web hosts understand what your website needs to perform at its best? 1. Software/Technology Used Websites can be built upon many different…

Why it Pays for Brands to be Responsive on Social Media

Recently, we have seen a lot of social media missteps and a lot of brands getting bad media coverage because of them. It seems to have stirred up a bit of apprehensiveness towards being really responsive on social media and engaging with customers. Some people feel it’s just too easy to make a mistake and…