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We all know how important the data backups are. At the same time many of would eventually end up loosing data at any point. It happened to me twice within the last 15 years. Fortunately I had back up of the important documents and the information lost was insignificant. At the time I have started writing this article I did not have a cloud backup of my data, expect the free iCloud account where I use to store my contacts and some pictures I used to keep on my phone device. I had image of my Mac in my Time Machine and some files backed up on an external hard drive. Shortly before I got this text published I already signed up for backup hosting service and I considered iCloud paid service as well.

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Hosting

Domains

GoDaddy, probably the world’s largest domain registrar has been sold last week for $2.25 billion dollars. This is a hell of a deal. I can not believe that an Internet company would cost that much. Internet is an intangible business and it is really hard to believe that anyone dot-com based company could cost billions.

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Marketing

I have recently spoke to an owner of a well-established VPS hosting company who told me that he would like to start using his company’s Instagram account for branding purposes. According to him the web hosting industry is in process of transformation and a thousands of providers would be acquired or would just bankrupt by the end of 2016. He said that he did not pay a lot of attention to the social networks and his company has always been more focused in direct sales.

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