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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     On this Thanksgiving Eve, the Dolphini team would like to wish all of our friends, twitter followers and clients, a very happy Thanksgiving.

   We are thankful for each and every one of you.  Without you, Dolphini would not be what it is today.  We are also thankful for our great, dedicated teammates - who work hard to keep our network up, secure and our clients happy.  Our teammates, make Dolphini who we are - a great datacenter, and a great place to come to work everyday. 

     As you travel this holiday season to see your loved ones, please practice safe driving and we wish blessings on you all.

What are you thankful for???

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!

Choosing a web host for your business is a very important decision.  Most people take it for granted, but it is much more than uploading some files to the Internet.  What do you really need to know about where your website is hosted?

Part 1:  My Mother Always Told Me to Share

            Are you on a shared server or are you on a dedicated server?  Shared hosting is an affordable way to host your website; you don’t have to worry about maintaining a server, and you have a cPanel interface to make managing your website simple and fast. 

           The downside to shared hosting is sharing resources of a server with other sites.  If one site gets a sudden burst of activity, then the other sites could slow down or even worse, go down altogether.  The great thing about Dolphini Shared Hosting is that we do not over-provision our servers like the “Daddy’s” of the world.  As a result, websites have great speed as well as ample disk space with minimal downtime.

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