Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Best Hosting found

So I have finally found a hosting site I am happy with... I am actually quite surprised to find that the best Hosting company I could find is in Vancouver, BC; not even in the US or Europe. The company is WebServe Hosting and the main reasons I went with them as a hosting provider are as follows:
Cost - $10 a month you get a SharePoint environment with one administrator and 100 users.
Product - SharePoint Enterprise, not Foundation.
Security - SSL is an option you can add and they will even apply for the certs.
Storage - the $10 package comes with 5GB storage
Upgrades - If you go over your package Quota they will move you to the next package no hassles.
Support - They have been great for support, even gave one of my clients (a church) free code review.

I checked a lot of different hosting companies out there and none of them came close, so check them out before you buy hosting, I am glad I did.

BTW. if this sounds like an ad for them it's not, I get nothing for this referral other than knowing you took the time to read my blog and it might help you save some money.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Office 365

Well it has been a while since I posted last, having a baby takes up a lot of time... I thought I should post some information I think is very important if you are planning an Office 365 SharePoint Site. If you were considering Office 365 for small business and professionals (P1), you need to realize that SSL capabilities are not part of that package. This means that you essentially have no security in anything that you do with the P1 package. Microsoft doesn't seem to care, but I can't recommend the product to anyone I do business with with such a glaring security hole. Don't get me wrong, Microsoft might think this is acceptable for their "low end" offering, but the reality is they are saying small business and professionals don't need security. I hope they rethink their stance on this as I for one will go to a third party hosting site for this specific reason.