Almost 1 year to date I did an interview with Julian Stone of Proworkflow to discuss his business model and software as a service. During this interview he discussed the future of his organization and I wanted to follow up with how things have transpired over the last year. In case you didn’t get a chance to read the first interview you can jump over to that post below.

November 2006 Proworkflow Interview

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The other day I stumbled upon a fascinating article at www.techworld.com on the growth of servers running business applications using Linux. Of course, this is based strictly on predictions by CIO’s in the tech industry, but nevertheless, is actually very surprising. What’s more is they predict that by the year 2012, 50% of all Enterprise level companies will be running mission-critical applications on Linux based servers! This is a significant jump from previous years as Microsoft has been the dominant leader by cornering the market with their flagship product – Windows. Personally, I think this is great news for the industry as a whole.

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Have you ever seen a service provided by FastServers.Net and you wanted to see the functionality before adding it to your server? Well, we’re now in beta mode of demonstrating some of the products and services we provide. FastServers.Net has acquired the GoToMeeting software for this purpose.

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by cPanel Inc. with Comments by Travis Schaffner of FastServers.Net

As we all know, dedicated server security is a never ending battle. Security is very important to keeping your business up and running and your customers in place. Unfortunately, security and customer friendliness / usability are usual inverses. Luckily, there are a few simple steps you can take to lock down your cPanel dedicated servers without forcing your customers to log in from a bank vault with armed guards at their side. For this article in it’s entirety with links, instructions, and more information, please see http://www.cpanel.net/security/commontips.htm

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I’m sure we’ve all seen that joke sign, “PLAN AHEad”, where the words take up too much room and the last few letters are smaller and smashed together to avoid running off the edge of the sign. It’s an excellent visualization of the importance of planning and forcasting when choosing a dedicated server. You don’t want to quickly run out of room when choosing CPU power.

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