Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

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Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

New Orleans Award Program Honors the Achievement

NEW ORLEANS April 23, 2014 — Lord & Griffin Web Solutions has been selected for the 2014 New Orleans Award in the Web Hosting Company category by the New Orleans Award Program.

Each year, the New Orleans Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the New Orleans area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2014 New Orleans Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the New Orleans Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About New Orleans Award Program

The New Orleans Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the New Orleans area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

The New Orleans Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.

Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

 

SOURCE: New Orleans Award Program

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New Orleans Award Program
Email: PublicRelations@recognitionawarding.com
URL: http://www.recognitionawarding.com

 

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There are various varieties of hosting services suitable for different web portals with regard to the system resources or the hosting platform they demand. To select the most adequate hosting service for your web site, you need to judge what server-side software programs it requires, how many hits per day you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other special requirements that may need to be satisfied. Lord & Griffin IT Solutions offers the following Hosting Services:

Shared web hosting – Positive Signs

The most appropriate alternative for small sized web pages with a few hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting solution. With this form of web space hosting, each client pays only for their plan, which diminishes the total price per client seriously. There are different web hosting plans differing from one hosting supplier to another, supplying different amounts of hard disk storage and traffic, different mail address account quotas and so on. The privilege is that you can buy a plan that will offer the specs your site really requires. You will not have to pay a lot for an account you will not avail of, or end up with a small scale plan that cannot accommodate the web portal. Lord & Griffin IT Solutions offers an extensive collection of hosting accounts suitable for private or small business web pages that even provide pre-installed script-powered systems such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress – to make things easier. If you begin with a low-price plan and you need more system resources, upgrading to a high-end account takes just a click.

Shared website hosting – Negative Signs

A weak side of the shared web hosting environment is that the web servers have some software programs installed on them and you cannot install new software applications. Given web pages, mainly online stores, require software applications to be available on the web hosting server for them to perform, and with a shared website hosting platform, you can install only software applications that do not need full root access. With Lord & Griffin IT Solutions’ web hosting packages you will get an array of free gifts that will help you get your blog, CMS, image gallery or e-school get online within minutes, and manage its popularity and accessibility right from your Control Panel.

Virtual Web Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers

For web portals that require server root access, or if your website has many thousands or even 1 000 000’s of visitors per day, what you demand is a Lord & Griffin IT Solutions’ VPS or a dedicated server. A VPS server is a software emulation of a dedicated solution and it works in strictly the same way.

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Both environments usually come with root-level access and can be rebooted through a software interface by the user, independently from the hosting company. Akin to the shared website hosting packages, the VPS and the dedicated server web hosting packages come with diverse specs depending on what the hosting supplier offers. A private virtual web hosting server package contains guaranteed server space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can at times be extended for short intervals of time if there are unused resources on the physical machine. With a dedicated server, the only limiting factor is the hardware equipment it is making use of, and it can be configured by altering or appending components. A virtual private web hosting server is easier to administer as it includes a virtualization console, which can be utilized to reboot it, to install applications, examine stats, and so on. The management of a dedicated hosting server is more complicated, so such a plan would rather be utilized by more knowledgeable clients.

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Lord & Griffin IT Solutions’ Linux dedicated web hosting services will grant you large amounts of hosting resources for accommodating your constantly growing web presence. You won’t need to comply with other web hosting customers on the server, because you will have a complete server at your total command. Our dedicated hosting servers provide you with a robust hardware setup, powerful server features and reliable network characteristics.  Each dedicated server arrives with an OS installation of your choosing (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS). With root access to your dedicated server, you will be able to set up and configure any software you need. You can also take advantage of a user-friendly Control Panel (the free Hepsia Control Panel, cPanel, DirectAdmin) installation option. You can also take a look at our optional backup, custom software installation and troubleshooting services. Certain hosting companies provide managed dedicated hosting services where they implement hosting server management procedures and manage servers on behalf of the customer. This can be a part of package or at minimal cost as an extra feature. Contact Us directly for more info.

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Picking the right hosting plan is crucial as it can affect the proper performance of a website or portal. Prior to picking a package, weigh the pros and cons, inspect thoroughly all the requirements for the online portal to operate properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still unsure which is the best hosting service for you, consult with our live chat operators or call us – our sales reps here at Lord & Griffin IT Solutions and we will be glad to assist you and answer all your questions.

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Good Web Design Practices should never be taken lightly. Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. When approaching web design, Planning is everything. You should have a blueprint or layout. Hence, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

 Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion. Remember the rule: Keep It Simple. “Simple” doesn’t mean boring..

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into separate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies to web standards at http://www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible*. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

*Use CSS to style your page content because they save alot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.

Lord & Griffin Web Solutions, Division of Lord & Griffin IT Solutions,  is a full service, award winning, web solutions company. Lord & Griffin Web Solutions strives to provide all-inclusive web hosting services, which includes (but not limited to) professional services in the following fields: Web Hosting, Web Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing and the utmost in customer service and support.

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Lord & Griffin IT Solutions provides one of the highest levels of security and stability thanks to its partnership with the leaders in the Information Technology Industry. We strive to ensure maximum data protection and uptime for our customers’ web sites. We strive to ensure maximum data protection and uptime for our customers’ web sites, that’s the reason why we have added a specially designed anti-DdoS device to protect our network from unfriendly outer attacks.

All our servers in the US data center are now part of our new cloud hosting platform whose main goal is to minimize all possible downtimes and to offer a significant increase in the performance of both your Control Panel and your website. Here is just a short list of the benefits you will enjoy in our US data center with our cloud hosting platform:

• enhanced service stability – we store different services (emails, MySQL databases, etc.) on different servers so as to make our overall platform less vulnerable to hack/DDoS attacks.
• faster servers – we have recently upgraded our network to 10 Gbps, which means that our servers are faster than ever and so will be your website
• faster maintenance – by ensuring spare servers, we have simplified server maintenance procedures and hence minimized frustrating service interruptions and downtimes
• migration to SSDs – all web hosting users who are using less than 1 GB of storage space are now located on fast SSDs. This means that they will enjoy much faster read/write speeds and faster website speeds. We are planning to move all cloud hosting accounts to SSDs as well.
• web accelerators (Memcached, Varnish, Node.js) – our web acceleration tools will help you boost the speed of your website even further.

As a valued web hosting client of Lord & Griffin Web Solutions (a division of Lord & Griffin IT Solutions), you will enjoy all the benefits of a state-of-the-art data center located in Chicago, Illinois, and owned by the well-known US company Steadfast Networks, which also provides the physical environment necessary for keeping the servers up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Fully Redundant Network
The internal network of the data center is composed of redundant Cisco 6500 (SUP720) core routers/switches, Cisco 3560-E series distribution layer switches and Cisco 2950/2960 aggregation/customer layer switches. The network is fully meshed and redundant with several major backbone providers and an international peering network.

Optimal Route Selection
As a Tier 1 ISP, the owner of the data center where our servers are co-located, has established extensive public and private peering relationships. Peer points currently include the Pacific Bell NAP and the Palo Alto Internet Exchange. BGP4 is used for optimal route selection and automatic fail over.

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The data center where the servers are co-located has an excellent peering network, including major backbone providers, such as Layer(3), NTT and nLayer, which are among the top network service providers. BGP is used for optimal route selection and automatic failover.

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The in-house operation center is staffed with skilled technicians that are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The service is backed up by an industry-leading 100% network uptime SLA.

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Our own server network includes a vast number of servers, which are being monitored 24/7/365. We maintain basic production servers, backup servers, as well as administrative, spare and dedicated servers.

 

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