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Why We Use Enterprise Drives in our Managed Servers & Private Cloud Servers
Many low end dedicated servers on the market are desktop computers that are stacked on metal shelves or put on roll-able baker’s racks and sold as dedicated “servers”. At Online Tech, desktop computers aren’t what our clients are looking for in a managed server. Our clients need managed servers with 24×7 reliability to run their [...]
The Six Principles of PCI Compliance
This is the second in the series on PCI Compliance by guest blogger Adam Goslin, an experienced consultant that assists companies with achieving and maintaining PCI Compliance. PCI compliance is important for all of our clients who hold and handle credit card information. The series explains the six objectives of PCI DSS, what to look [...]
How Social Media Has Helped Online Tech Improve Server Hosting Customer Service
Sometimes it seems so obvious after the fact. That’s the case when we started using social media tools to improve customer support in our managed data center business. Online Tech is fairly active in the social media world when it comes to marketing our managed servers and colocation products to make sure the world knows [...]
Managed Dedicated Servers or Colocation? A Look at the Spectrum of Managed IT Options
Managed IT can mean different things to different people. Many prefer to differentiate 2 separate options – managed dedicated servers OR colocation. I prefer to think of Managed IT as a spectrum of options. On one end of the spectrum is raw colocation - where the client gets power, network, and rack space – and [...]
Online Tech Wins a Top Dedicated Server Hosting Award
Announced Yesterday, Online Tech was awarded top position in Top10DedicatedHosting.com’s Top Dedicated Server Awards: Online Tech is a premier Managed Data Center Operator in the Midwestern United States with 15 years of expertise delivering outstanding products and service levels. Online Tech, offers full range of managed colocation, dedicated server hosting and managed servers for clients [...]
Online Tech Sells Web Site Hosting Business to IGD Solutions
Online Tech’s Rapid Growth Forces Focus on Managed Data Center Business (Ann Arbor, MI – July 21, 2009) Online Tech, Michigan’s largest data center operator, announced that it sold its shared web hosting business to IGD Solutions, a full service website design, development, and hosting company for small and mid-sized businesses. Online Tech sold its [...]
Online Tech Offers Rackspace Customers a Soft Landing
100% Uptime, No Fanatics Allowed (Ann Arbor, MI—July 8, 2009) In a response to numerous power outages at Rackspace, Online Tech is offering Rackspace customers an easy transition plan to managed servers in its SAS-70 audited data centers. Online Tech is waiving the setup and first month fee for all Rackspace customers that upgrade to [...]
Hosting Downtime and The Customer
Yan Ness weighs in on the discussion surrounding Rackspace’s recent outages The Poor Customer You can’t simultaneously stand up for Rackspace’s (RS’s) and claim you’re customer-centric. We feel terrible for the many customers who were promised and sold uptime (self-healing networks, world-class data center etc.) only to have power to their servers lost. Our hearts [...]
Aging Data Center: Time to Remodel or Outsource?
By Online Tech on February 25, 2010
The recent economic downturn has put tremendous pressure on data center operators, as it has on most everyone else, to cut costs and avoid expenses wherever possible. Despite the economic turmoil, however, demand for data storage space and computing power has not diminished. As a result, companies have been faced with an increasingly difficult decision: [...]
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