As I write a while ago in this Mosso review is my new company I’m using to host all my websites and all my client’s websites.
What I really liked since the beginning was their control panel, simple and intuitive. They already had at that time a newer control panel in beta test but 3 days ago they totally redesign that one as well and it will be launched officially in about two weeks.
This is a big release for Mosso and it users in a brand new, dynamic framework designed to power modern web applications. You’ll notice several new features:
Sites, clients, and other items are no longer listed 10 at a time. Now you can view and sort all your sites and clients together in one scrollable list. This is really helpful if you are hosting a lot of sites and client’s sites.
Some lists even allow you to quickly search for items, with results appearing as you type.
Through the magic of ajax, pages appear faster and load dynamically. You’ll be able to get to the things you need with more speed and efficiency.
Fully redesigned the interface to allow for two-level navigation, with the main topics along the top and the sub categories down the left side.
An all-new online file manager allows you to browse, add, and modify files and folders right through the control panel. You’ll be able to zip and unzip files and change permissions. This is another great features for those times you are not in front of your computer and you need to do basic operations on your sites.
I just started using it now, even if it hasn’t officially launched yet, so I might write more things about it in the future.
Remember that if you want to learn more about Mosso or give it a try (they have a fully refundable 30 days test drive) you can check their official website here and please add my referral code REF-THIRTYNINE that will give you $50 credits toward your first month of hosting.
Few weeks ago (I wanted to try it before writing about it) I decided to give a try to Mosso.
Mosso is an hosting company backed by Rackspace Managed Hosting, and they offer what is called “cloud computing” or “grid computing”. Basically your website isn’t hosted on a single machine but on a network of servers interconnected as if in a grid running in parallel, sometimes using the technique of virtualization to maximize computing power per server.
The main advantage of using cloud computing to host your website is that it’s the easiest hosting to scale, even if just temporarily. If your site will hit Digg’s homepage it’s much harder to shut down a network of machines than a single one.
Wikipedia summarize the pros of using cloud computing in six points:
Location of infrastructure in areas with lower costs of real estate and electricity.
Sharing of peak-load capacity among a large pool of users, improving overall utilization.
Separation of infrastructure maintenance duties from domain-specific application development.
Separation of application code from physical resources.
Ability to use external assets to handle peak loads (not have to engineer for highest possible load levels).
Not have to purchase assets for one-time or infrequent intensive computing tasks.
I would also add:
You can use PHP, ASP, Ruby or whatever you like one the same hosting account
There’s no hardware to buy and you only pay for what you use.
Great live support
It’s a Rackspace Managed Hosting (but way much cheaper)
I haven’t personally tested Mosso scalability but I really hope to try it soon.
Another cool feature about Mosso is that they offer a fully white label hosting platform for your business and they make really easy to bill your clients for hosting services.
If you want to learn more about Mosso or give it a try (they have a fully refundable 30 days test drive) you can check their official website here and please add my referral code REF-THIRTYNINE.
Important Update!
Using my referral code you are going to have an immediate $50 toward your credit.
More than once I had to try to explain Twitter to some of my less techy friends.
Well I found on Common Craft this very cool video: Twitter in Plain English.
Of course I’m being sarcastic. C’mon… seriously? They are trying to play cool introducing a device big as a table with almost the same capabilities that we can find in a small object big as the iPhone.
I was reading the article on PopularMechanics.com where they show an interesting video about this device and I was thinking: do I really need a table to share my photos? And beside that, they were showing how easy was to connect on the fly both a camera and a phone… but they didn’t show how hard was setup those two devices…
For sure it’s a great product, and will be perfect to be used in stores and other places where the usage is limited, but for sure won’t be the device that will change our life. It was hilarious when they said it could be used to interact with our tv… it doesn’t seem really comfortable, at this point I’d rather prefer changing channel and “interact” using my iPhone…
The question is simple: is the iPhone a SmartPhone or is it something different?
I’m not the only one looking for an answer for this question. AbiReserch is trying to analyze pros and cons of the Apple product, announced but not yet released.
The first point we have to focus on is that iPhone is a close device, so even if the operative system is a reduced version of OS X , the user won’t be able to install 3rd part applications not approved by Apple. AbiResearch conclusion is that iPhone isn’t a SmartPhone because it doesn’t fit the SmartPhone definition, which is a device with an operative system where the user has the opportunity of installing third part applications. This definition was useful to distinguish smartphones from traditional devices, but it doesn’t help us with the iPhone. Because the iPhone isn’t a smartphone but it’s much more.
There isn’t any other smartphone using the same operative of a desktop machine, beside very few Linux based devices. There isn’t any other smartphone having the capacity to be used as 3 different devices (phone, iPod and internet device). There isn’t any other smartphone that has the ambition to fly so high.
For the final answer to our question we have to wait until iPhone will be released, till then we are just talking about air…
