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Managed, or Dedicated Hosting?

Article supplied by Mark Randall, Rackspace Hosting

Managed, or Dedicated Hosting is most suited to organisations looking for high uptime guarantees, security, the backing of a comprehensive support team and the ability to customise their environment. Organisations with compliance requirements, such as ecommerce providers are often a good fit for Managed Hosting. As these solutions are designed and built to meet individual customer specifications, they are suitable for most businesses. The costs associated with managed hosting mean that these solutions are better for critical systems, rather than discretionary or “nice-to-have” infrastructures.

The three challenges for retailers going online

By Aidan Tudehope, MD of Hosting, Macquarie Telecom

With the rise of consumer migration online, Australia seems to be right on the cusp of true internet retailing adoption. There is in fact a huge potential for online retail in Australia that is not being exploited.

The growing penetration of internet and broadband services in Australia means that there’s an increasing appetite for online shopping, media entertainment, travel and news and all aspects of digital media consumption by consumers and businesses.

10 Harsh turths about corporate websites

In my first  experience as a web manager involved in the development and implementation of a fully integrated e commerce website with real time inventory I  faced numerous roles as the arbitrator between designers, technical team, and managing directors preferences.

One of my intentions when launching internetretailing.com.au, was to write a piece about this as I am sure that many web managers would identify with some of the challenges I faced. Well while researching some supporting material for this, I came across this article from one of my favourite writers on Web design, Paul Boag, of Headscape Designs and Boagworld based in the UK, so instead of reinventing the wheel here it is... thanks Paul.