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Bluehost vs HostGator

Bluehost and HostGator are two of the most veteran and well-known companies in the shared hosting space, both with millions of websites on their individual platforms. That being the case, people are often wondering which is the superior host of the two. In today’s product comparison we will answer that question based on 5 metrics; performance, pricing, WordPress capabilities, scalability, and…

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Cloud Market Share Update: AWS vs Azure vs Google

Cloud Market Share Update: AWS vs Azure vs Google

The IaaS earnings reports are in for the big 3 cloud vendors, so it’s time for another round of cloud market share analysis at Stratusly. Following the 3 quarterly earnings calls, AWS remains the clear-cut leader with $3.66 billion in quarterly revenue, up a whopping 46% from a year earlier. “This space is an oligopoly,” says Trip Miller, founder of Gullane Capital Partners “No one else of any…

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Dropbox Alternatives: Google Drive vs Box vs Amazon Drive vs Sync.com vs pCloud

Dropbox Alternatives: Google Drive vs Box vs Amazon Drive vs Sync.com vs pCloud

Dropbox has long been the most well-known company in the cloud storage world by being one of the first companies in the space to offer a dead simple UI and a freemium model that makes it accessible to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. But are they still the best out there? It’s true that many still favor Dropbox as their cloud storage provider of choice, but there has been a slew…

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Top 5 Best DNS Hosting Providers of 2017

Top 5 Best DNS Hosting Providers of 2017

An effective DNS (Domain Name System) infrastructure is a critical component of system uptime, which is essential to the viability and continuity of web services. For complex websites, a third of page load time can be attributed to DNS lookups. Inadequate or improperly configured DNS can have a potentially catastrophic impact on a company’s online presence. Why is DNS Important? Choosing the…

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Backblaze vs Crashplan vs Carbonite Review: Best Online Backup

Backblaze vs Crashplan vs Carbonite Review: Best Online Backup

People generally don’t like to think about things like backing up their hard drive until its too late. It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when you will suffer a hard drive failure… and when that happens the result can be catastrophic if you haven’t taken a few simple steps to backup your files remotely (and ideally to a local drive as well). We insure our cars and our health with no second…

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Cisco Acquires SD-WAN Startup Viptela for $610 Million

Cisco Acquires SD-WAN Startup Viptela for $610 Million

Cisco has been on an acquisition spree recently, buying nearly 20 companies since 2015. Today marks acquisition number 19 as they announce the purchase of cloud-based SD-WAN vendor Viptela for $610 million in cash. Viptela was founded in 2012 and has raised more than $108 million with its most recent round of $75 million happening just last May. The company, based in San Jose, California, makes a…

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Box Introduces New Flexible Pricing Model

Box Introduces New Flexible Pricing Model

Box Platform recently introduced a new simpler pricing model designed for technology startups have grown accustomed to the ‘pay-as-you-go’ model made popular by companies like AWS and CloudFlare. In the new pricing model, you only pay for the level of resources you anticipate your app will consume. Box Platform is available in bundles of resources which include MAU licenses, API calls, bandwidth,…

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CloudFlare Alternatives - Incapsula vs Sucuri vs StackPath

CloudFlare Alternatives – Incapsula vs Sucuri vs StackPath

Next generation cloud security companies like CloudFlare have made it easy for anyone with minimal technical abilities to secure and accelerate their website. And with simple low-cost (or free) pricing options, it has become accessible on any budget. But the popularity of CloudFlare has left some looking for alternatives. The low barrier to entry of getting on CloudFlare’s platform has lead…

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CrowdStrike Expands into Latin America

CrowdStrike Expands into Latin America

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered next-generation endpoint protection, today announced the launch of its operations in Latin America to expand regional sales, marketing, and partner and business development support. The company is rapidly growing its customer base across the region, attracting new customers in sectors such as retail,…

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Top 5 Best Cloud Storage Providers: pCloud vs Dropbox vs SugarSync vs Sync.com vs BackBlaze

Top 5 Best Cloud Storage Providers: pCloud vs Dropbox vs SugarSync vs Sync.com vs BackBlaze

The cloud storage market is getting crowded, with new players entering the ring seemingly every month. There are now dozens of providers available to you, from startups to Internet giants like Google and Amazon, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this article, we will review the top 5 cloud storage providers of 2017, each at the top of their respective category. Factors being…

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Fastly Unveils Edge Cloud Platform

Fastly Unveils Edge Cloud Platform

The New York Times, Spotify, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook, and more trust Fastly to Deliver Reliable Customer Experiences, Scale on Demand, and Mitigate Security Threats SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2017 — Today, Fastly publicly unveiled its edge cloud platform, which empowers the world’s most popular businesses to deliver consistently secure, fast and personalized digital experiences. Fastly is also…

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Oracle snaps up digital measurement firm Moat to fill out its marketing cloud

Oracle snaps up digital measurement firm Moat to fill out its marketing cloud

Oracle Corp. has acquired digital measurement firm Moat Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2010, Moat assists advertisers and publishers manage and track online advertising with a range of tools, starting with a free search engine for display ads through to paid services including ad measurement, analytics, and intelligence. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, the company serves over 600…

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Microsoft Azure to deliver 2016 Olympics

Microsoft Azure to deliver 2016 Olympics

Microsoft has announced it has partnered with broadcaster NBC for its Azure cloud platform to help deliver cross-platform multi-streaming coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games, reports Telecoms.com. The Azure cloud platform will help NBC deliver more than 4,500 hours of coverage from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games throughout August. According to Microsoft, it will be providing cloud encoding and…

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China Web Performance Best Practices

China Web Performance Best Practices

An increasingly common topic in the arena of web performance is the growing beast that is China. Delivering solid web and application performance within the Great Firewall can be a challenge for even the most seasoned IT professional and with a population exceeding 1.3 billion and a growing middle class, it is becoming ever more important. In fact, according to Mashable, there are now as many…

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Bluehost vs HostGator vs Godaddy vs SiteGround vs Inmotion: Web Hosting Showdown

Bluehost vs HostGator vs Godaddy vs SiteGround vs Inmotion: Web Hosting Showdown

At Stratusly we commonly do product comparisons among CDN and cloud providers but today we will dive into the realm of web hosting, or more specifically, shared hosting. Shared web hosting is the entry point into doing business online for those on a budget or those without the technical ability to manage a cloud hosting environment. It is the best option for regular people who want to get their…

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Europe looks to set new rules for OTT in September

Europe looks to set new rules for OTT in September

The European Commission is set to release new rules in September, which will aim to tighten up how OTT’s such as WhatsApp and Skype are regulated in the European markets, according to the Financial Times. How Over-the-top players are regulated has been a point of contention within the European markets in recent years, as it does fall into a grey area currently. Although telcos are under guidance…

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Oracle launches ‘industry-first’ cloud converged storage service

Oracle launches ‘industry-first’ cloud converged storage service

Oracle Corp. aims to make it cheaper and easier for companies to migrate data to its cloud with the launch today of what it claims is the world’s first service that integrates public cloud with on-premises network-attached storage systems. The new service is called Cloud Converged Storage, and it comes with the latest Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance release. Cloud Converged Storage is designed to…