In one of my previous blog posts, I wrote about the different types of web hosting, and why making the right choice matters for both nonprofit organizations and businesses of any size. But a question I get asked quite often (including this morning), is the question,...
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Introduction to DNS and IPv6
DNS. Just another acronym thrown about by information technology professionals that doesn't mean anything to the "average Joe." But what is it, and why should you be concerned about it? This, among other related questions, are ones that I will answer in this blog...
Why Big Websites Fail and What Nonprofits Can Do About It
Yesterday, Amazon.com, arguably one of the world's most popular websites, went down for a period of time. There are no indications (yet) that other websites were affected. As many network engineers know, Amazon maintains massive data centers around the world in order...
Routers, Switches & Firewalls: What Are the Differences?
We've worked with multiple clients who are confused about the differences in routers, switches and firewalls. Each kind of device has advantages and disadvantages over the others, and each have different purposes. In this blog post, we will identify the key uses for...
“The Gig”: What it means for Chattanooga
As many of our readers know, we are located in Chattanooga, TN, the first city in the Western Hemisphere (and one of the only cities in the world) to have gigabit-speed internet available to all homes and businesses in the region. With high-speed internet come many...
Free Password Management Tools
In recent blog posts, I've written about methods you can use keep your information secure. I also wrote about the importance of keeping your passwords safe. However, I haven't given any practical tools one can use to protect their data. Several utilities exist for...
Securing your Website
A trusted website such as your nonprofit's is the last place from which you'd expect visitors to get a virus. After all, it’s your website, and your organization built it (or relied on a volunteer to build it or paid a trusted individual or firm to build it). Why...
Password Security & User Accounts
In last week’s blog post, I explained just three ways you can keep your organization’s data safe. There are often times, however, that an individual or organization uses an online service. In these cases, while the data is certainly yours and only you have access to...
Information Security: 3 Ways to Secure Your Data
Information is the lifeblood of any organization, whether that organization is a nonprofit or not. For example, a nonprofit might have a large donor database with mailing addresses, email addresses and phone numbers for all of their constituents. What would happen to...
What is “Cloud Computing”?
In this post, we try to briefly introduce "Cloud Computing," and what it means to nonprofit organizations. Cloud Computing (or "The Cloud") is a term that is constantly used by individuals and organizations about technology products and services. But what does it...
Why Choose Barred Owl Web?
The Barred Owl Web team is technically proficient, extremely responsive and provides a high level of customer satisfaction. We highly recommend Barred Owl Web for web development, technical, and customer support.
– Enrique Fiallo, Director of Technology, NET Institute
Barred Owl Web is the hosting company to call first for nonprofits. Their solutions-oriented, customer – and client – focused approach to web hosting provides agencies the ability to consistently and reliably get their messages out to those who need to hear it. You can count on Barred Owl Web to be responsive to the unique needs of your agency. Barred Owl Web’s customer service is exceptional, and it is kind. Contact them and see for yourself!
– Rebecca Whelchel, Executive Director, Metropolitan Ministries (MetMin)
Barred Owl Web has always been responsive to our needs as a small nonprofit. They have helped us immensely with issues like Web server security updates and PCI compliance.
– Evan Donovan, Web Developer, Tech Mission