Archive for December, 2010

IP Switch…

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

The world is abuzz with the new IPv6 coming to replace the old IPv4.

OK maybe not abuzz but we all know its coming and has been for years but is this going to be a problem?

Well though there obviously has to come a time when a change over is required to carry on moving forward  and keep up with the ever increasing demands on technology. Once this change over occurs, there will be enough ip addresses to have millions of addresses for every person on the planet.

Estimations of the time I.P.v4 will be exhausted vary from around 2011 to 2012. At the time of writing we are expecting the switch to start occuring in mid 2011.

With the new features of v6 we can see a much faster and more flexible net for the future, of course only time will tell.

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Take-a-way.co.uk growing fast

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Website success story:

Take-a-way.co.uk has hit 20 thousand vistors per month for the first time through natural Google positions. The idea was born in 2008 and as a startup they looked to Adire for guidance on how to make their business a success. This success is in part due to it’s graphics design coupled with it’s ease of use and general simplicity which we feel has helped it to gain recognition and familiarity amongst it’s many returning users. Of course without the many many hours of hard work put into the project by the take-a-way team themselves, the site would have had no content and no users.

We wish the take-a-way.co.uk team every success in the coming year.

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Free range hosting…

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Do you ever feel like you’re waiting in line? Like you’re crowded in and are just another number? Or perhaps you’re not quite getting the attention you deserve from your hosting providers? Well maybe it’s time you moved.

We have a lot of reports from people who come over to us for hosting that the servers they were on were slow and they didn’t get the kind of speed they were hoping for. This is because some providers put you on a server with as many as 1000 other websites! That means if each sites has just 200 visitors a month (and we both know some will have tens of thousands) then you’re looking at more than two hundred thousand page loads. Lets face it, the other people on the server might not be that savvy with making their website efficient…

We are shocked that this still happens now and so we have introduced our free range web hosting. This means we strive to keep an average of 50 sites per server and never more than 100.

Every business should have room to grow.

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Since you asked… Static Content Servers

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

After last weeks blog post we received questions about what exactly it is our SCS (static content server) is and does. This is a great thing, our staff here love nothing more than when people show an interest, after all its easier to nod and pretend to know than actually ask and learn.

Well our SCS is known by a few different names. Let me tell you some of the names as well as what they stand for:

SCS (static content server)

Image server

These are all different ways of saying that this server only serves images, CSS files, javascript files and anything else that is unchanging. This enables us to have the webserver doing smart things with PHP, handling log ins and e-commerce transactions while the SCS simultaneously serving the static information.  This speeds things up greatly.

Hope this clears things up!

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Head in the clouds…

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

So what is cloud computing and what does it mean to you?

Cloud computing or “the cloud” is a system in which a system is spread across a number of different servers, ideally across the globe, but behaves like it’s a single resource. This of course leads to certain risks as well as benefits that may be outweighed one way or the other depending on the size of the business and its IT needs.

Some of the advantages are the…

Resilience to natural disaster or heavy traffic.

The “cost according to use” element prevents unnecessary spending.

The round the clock availability of data as well as the ability to change the scale of the operation at any time.

On the other hand…

In the event of theft of a part of “the cloud” you cannot guarantee that none of your data was taken with it. This however, is something that can be a risk of any off site data storage.

Security may also be risky due to the sheer number of servers and users. This issue is being addressed with the use of passworded accounts but still poses risks.

The cost can be higher if usage is not monitored.

Whether or not the cloud is for you, it is a futuristic development in technology that only promises to improve.

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Super fast high resolution images

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

So why is our Image Server so good?

It allows for super fast page load times by assigning this server just one task. Unlike normal servers that deal with emails, databases and the text content of websites as well as other files, this server only has images to worry about. So we can have larger high definition images loading quickly and reliably every time.

Its this fast efficiency that gets our programmers so excited about using high quality images to provide stunning visuals and keeps us on top of the competition when it comes to hosting. Google prefers faster loading websites and content, so using a fast loading service such as ours will increase your effectivenes  on Google.

If you have any other questions relating to our image server, please get in contact.

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Apple is not flashy…

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

Apple have decided that they are no longer going to support flash on the iPhone and will instead use HTML5, something that is supported by the majority of other devices too. There is debate as to which is better with each side building a decent argument, however with the two competing there is a risk of a divide forming on the internet. And, with the growing use of Apple hardware to do so HTML5 may hold the edge.

The ability to surf the web on the move, is an important part of the business world, allowing people to continue working while out of the office. The number of people buying on-line grows yearly and mobile internet is now as standard as texting, allowing people to have the full force of the internet behind them on the go.

The bottom line is the customer expects a certain level of usability from a site and to have half your market unable access yours could prove crippling.

In order to stay ahead of this curve, we at Adire have decided to make the move to HTML5 whenever possible. This ensures that the majority of visitors to any of the sites we produce have full functionality.

-Joey

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