July 6, 2011 — Network security solutions provider StillSecure announced on Wednesday it has launched StillSecure PCI Calculator, a free online tool for retailers. According to the press release, the tool is designed to “help Level 1 though 4 retailers examine, and potentially significantly reduce, the costs and complexities associated with PCI compliance.”

Secret CIO: Making The Most Out Of A Flawed Budget Process I’ve been through many budgeting processes in my career. At the simple end of the spectrum, you estimate the costs of the items you know about, take an educated guess about what you don’t know, add the two, and that’s your budget. Then, as the year unfolds, you do what you need to do and spend what you can afford.

Web Hosting News – GLASGOW, UK – iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), the managed hosting and cloud computing services company, has today acquired the entire issued share capital of Titan Internet Limited, a leading UK managed server hosting company, for £3.6M cash on completion with a further amount of up to £0.6M payable in April 2011. Titan Internet has become one of the UK’s most respected and technically advanced hosting companies, and has achieved a well deserved reputation for excellent customer delivery and service. Titan is focussed on delivering highly reliable complex managed and virtualised hosting solutions and has built an impressive client base, currently managing over 1,000 servers on behalf of clients ranging from SMEs to large corporates.

Web Host News – San Francisco – Modius Inc., the leading provider of unified performance measurement solutions for monitoring critical infrastructure equipment in data centers and distributed computing facilities, today announced the introduction of an innovative migration package for users of legacy data center monitoring solutions.  Modius is offering financial incentives combined with a package of integration modules that retrieve and convert data from existing deployed solutions during legacy upgrades. “Every day we hear from data center managers who are struggling with the economics of maintaining their legacy monitoring systems.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: BurstNET CTO Joe Marr Comments on Blogetery Shutdown News: Dell’s Andy Rhodes on What Hosters Need to Know About TCO News: Getting to Yes in the Cloud: Creating Contracts that Work, with David Snead News: Practical Acquisitions Advice: Process, Pricing, and Trends: Panel Discussion Blogs: Easy Strategies to minimize litigation in the Cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After building out huge data centers around the world, Dell has gained a considerable knowledge of how companies are using IT. In his Tuesday HostingCon keynote, “TCO From the Cloud – What Hosters Need to Know,” Dell global marketing director Andy Rhodes presented a list of lessons Dell has learned about total cost of ownership by working with a new category of customers that have been emerging over the past few years. “They were buying and deploying devices on a scale never seen before,” Rhodes said, noting that it forced Dell to re-examine some of its ideas on IT services.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: BurstNET CTO Joe Marr Comments on Blogetery Shutdown News: Dell’s Andy Rhodes on What Hosters Need to Know About TCO News: Getting to Yes in the Cloud: Creating Contracts that Work, with David Snead News: Practical Acquisitions Advice: Process, Pricing, and Trends: Panel Discussion Blogs: Easy Strategies to minimize litigation in the Cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After building out huge data centers around the world, Dell has gained a considerable knowledge of how companies are using IT. In his Tuesday HostingCon keynote, “TCO From the Cloud – What Hosters Need to Know,” Dell global marketing director Andy Rhodes presented a list of lessons Dell has learned about total cost of ownership by working with a new category of customers that have been emerging over the past few years

The one who is planning to have an economic web hosting plan, knowing what services he/she requires, the amount that he/she should pay for them can help one pick out hidden costs that could launch one’s selected cheap hosting plan into an expense that one just can’t afford. The following are some of the points to keep in mind while selecting a cheap web hosting for personal or business web site.

A La Carte Pricing

One should not be pulled in by impossibly low prices. Due to intense competition and due to resellers ,the prices of web hosting have came down to just bottom, still one should expect to pay for quality, dependable, professional web hosting services. A la carte prices can give an impression that a web hosting plan is incredible good deal, but one should be prepared to know exactly what he/she needs and what he/she will be paying for it. When one add in setup fees, upgrade fees and additional monthly fees for things like scripting support, a mySQL database and php support, one can end up paying far more for his/her affordable plan. Thus it’s better to opt for a little expensive plan but which is without any hidden costs.

Read the Fine Print

One should read through every little entry in the comparison chart to see for what one is being charged for, and what fees he/she might incur if he/she will go over his/her monthly limits. In case there is anything not clear or is not listed properly, one should immediately email the company to ask what they charge for particular services and if there’s a setup fee. Thus it will tell one more than just how much the services cost. Not only will that one also get an idea about the effectiveness of support and help of the provider.

Is Unlimited really Unlimited?

One should be very careful while selecting host reading glasses away yet. If a host provider is offering plan with ‘unlimited traffic’, then one should be very sure to check what does unlimited mean for them .Mostly web hosting providers use ‘typical usage patterns’ to define what unlimited means. If one’s web site becomes popular enough to exceed what’s normal for other web sites of one’s size, then he/she has to be prepared for paying extra for bandwidth and in that case the word ‘unlimited’ is just meaningless.

E-Commerce Ready Sites for Cheap Prices

Often one gets attracted with the above given article. But one should check to see what’s actually included in that cheap e-commerce ready site. Does it include access to their secure server, or will one have to purchase his/her own license? Is there a good deal on bill-collecting services and credit card access, or will one have to arrange by him/her own? Thus one should be very sure to know what he/she is getting for his/her money so that he/she can plan his/her web hosting expenses in a better way.

Generally there are lots of justifiably good web hosting deals to be had, but just like any other purchase, it also requires one to do his/her homework in a better way to make sure that one gets the most affordable, most professional and best web hosting deal .