Technology

What is Hosting and Why do you Need it?

Hosting is the service provided by a third party entity to “Host” your website files on your behalf for a monthly, quarterly or yearly fee. Traditionally, websites were designed on a local computer and though theoretically it can also be hosted on your local computer, there are 3 main drawbacks as to why this would not be a wise decision. Your computer would need to be on 24 x...

The Power of Video Marketing

In 2006, Google paid  US$1.65 billion in stock to buy YouTube. I remember this quite vividly thinking how much of a large sum it was but no one disagreed on Google’s thinking of the value that YouTube had on the internet. At the time of acqusition, it was ranked number 5 most visited sites in the world. Today in February 2015, its sitting at number 3 with Google and...