Are you feeling the credit crunch? Most Americans are affected one way or the other. Higher grocery bills are hard to ignore at the checkout and many of us know of someone who has lost their job in 2008.
     In my opinion, downsizing is a sign of the economy turning around. Companies realize that they need to cut-back and reorganize, and not continue the spending spree of the last decade. They are finally learning that to be more profitable in today’s economy a company needs to stick to its core competencies.

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According to a variety of online sources, unsolicited email - otherwise know as spam, is responsible for up to 90 percent of all email messages sent and received. A pair of high profile spam lawsuits and prosecutions are shining a spotlight on the tactics used by spammers and the efforts of legitimate email providers to thwart them.

In the first case at hand, a Detroit man is accused of fraud and money laundering charges after he admitted to earning over $3 million by sending millions of unsolicited email messages to inflate the price of certain Chinese stocks and then selling the stacks at a profit.

Mr. Ralsky is accused of using not only illegal email spamming means such as botnets, but also many legal means of tricking email recipients such as: placing false and misleading headers in the email messages, using proxy computers to disguise the email’s source, and using falsely registered domain names to send spam - thereby implying that the emails were legitimate.
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It’s a safe bet that the Web hosting industry of the future will look very different from the one today’s hosting providers are used to, and that’s certainly cause enough…

Over the past year, plenty of signs have emerged that indicate the face of Web hosting is already starting to stretch and shift in new directions. No, the new winds of change include acquisitions of companies that deliver more than just additional hosting customers, a fresh generation of startups that look nothing like your father’s Web hosting company, and experiments with innovative ways to sell hosting to the next wave of customers.
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Part 3: Come and Get Your “Geek ON”

     When was the last time that, the “Daddy’s” of this world, invited you to tour their datacenter? My guess is probably never. The Dolphini team is always proud to show off our state-of-the-art local datacenter in Cummins Station.

     There is something to be said about a hosting company that has a REAL person answer the phone, again when was the last time you called just about any company and had a LIVE person answer? That is probably few and far between. Hopefully the friendly voice of our Office Goddess, Liz Mackender, makes you smile when she answers the phone. Occasionally you will get our CEO, Michael Krause, answering the phones just the same.

      So if you want to come to Dolphini, see an awesome datacenter, with Dell Poweredge servers, and CISCO routers to get your “Geek-on” – feel free! We would love to have you and you can actually see where your website is hosted and know the people that are behind your business everyday!

Exchange hosting has become a popular solution for small- and medium-sized businesses that want the same class of messaging and collaboration as large corporations, but cannot afford the expense of hosting their own exchange.  Even large corporations have begun to view Exchange hosting as an alternative for maintaining quality while lowering overhead.  By using Exchange hosting, companies are able to save a significant amount of money.

In order to host their own exchange, a company would need to purchase all of the hardware, including everything needed to create the security and redundancy level needed for the company.  With a dedicated IT staff, it can take as long as 30 days for a company to get their internal exchange system fully operational.  Maintenance of an in-house exchange system can often take well over 80% of the senior technician’s time, making it necessary to have IT personnel specifically for the exchange. 

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