Small Business Chronicles, by Jack Brandt

Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

A big thanks to GearHost.com

Posted on December 28, 2008

I wanted to send out a big Thank You to Peter Radizeski who turned me to to GearHost.com during my VPS dilema last week.  Their platform seems to fit the bill for the needs of the project.  The platform connected immediatly to my developers toolset, and we should be well on the road to developing our application.  Not only did I sign up as a customer with GearHost, their CEO spent quite a bit of time on the phone with me explaining their platform.  After about 30 minutes on the phone with the CEO, I was confident that this platform would not only work as a development environement, but am about 95% sure this will be an excellent production enviroment as well.

Blogging, General, General Small Business, Small Business, Web Development, Web Hosting |

I’m upset, bootstrapping a startup, and VPS providers can be horrible!

Posted on December 23, 2008

I am bootstrapping a startup company, which will remain anonymous for the time being, however, I have to rant about a few things:

First, I have been trying to buy a Windows based VPS for some development of a new product over the past three weeks.  What a horrible experience.  The first vendor I purchased a Windows VPS from is a hosting company which I believed would be a good fit.  Read the rest of this entry »

Announcement, Blogging, General, General Small Business, Small Business, Web Development, Web Hosting |

Should you consider creating an IPhone compatible Website?

Posted on August 17, 2007

Well some people think so.  In an article about optimizing your site for the IPhone on the WHIR (Web Hosting Industry and Review)  they discuss why it might be important for you, a few companies that are doing it, and how you might think about doing it… I thought it might be worth mentioning.

General, Marketing and Advertising, Portable Technology, Small Business, Web Development, Web Hosting |