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Looking for a PBX? Consider the Cloud.

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve spoken of the virtues of a cloud PBX on many an occasion.  The reality is for the last 8 years, I’ve been running my phone system / PBX in a cloud for many reasons.  The most important is redundancy. The system has had no downtime except for when I was applying maintenance upgrades.  My…

The Cloud or Regular Servers, a Technical and business comparison.

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Percy Kwong

We all here about “The Cloud” today and Virtual Private Servers.  The reality is 10 years ago, virtualization as a technology was still in it’s infancy.  While it seemed like a good idea, the reality is, it wasn’t ready for prime time business.  It was more of an exploration of technology, the next logical step;…

Hosting Moved to Linode

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Percy Kwong

Well, it’s been about 2 weeks since I’ve moved my blog to a new host and I really have to say that the folks at Linode are really great.  I’ve been very happy with the service.  Keep in mind that Linode is *not* a blog hoster, but a VPS host provider.  It basically allows me…

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