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Managing Internet connectivity for a small business can often be an exercise in frustration. It is a balancing act involving keeping costs down and reducing complexity. Regardless of the size of a business, an online presence has the same minimal requirements.
- A domain name and a way to manage it.
- A website and a means of maintaining it.
- Electronic mail and the ability to manage mailboxes and forwarding.
- Internet connectivity for your servers and your end-users (not necessarily the same thing).
- Security.
Even the smallest of companies need to implement security measures in today's online maketplace. At a minimum, email needs to be filtered for spam, viruses and trojans. Servers that interact with the Internet need to be protected at a network level as well as an application level.
Trans-IP inc. is a new kind of Internet service provider. We offer high-end, scalable hosting and access solutions for growing companies. We provide our customers the advantages of dealing with a local Internet service provider as well as the affordability of web-hosting companies. We also believe that security is not an optional component to be added as a line-item in every bid. Security is something we offer from day one. Our customers have chosen us because they know we do things right, the first time.
Simple Invoices is a neat little PHP/MySQL project that we have been following that can manage billing and invoices for a small business. It is very easy to use and is perfect if you have outgrown the excel spreadsheet management but are not large enough to justify use of a larger full featured accounting package. Another advantage is that this platform can be made to be accessible from anywhere.
All you need to do is:
Pixel Qi
These guys seem to have it going on as far as LCD screen technology goes. Something to watch for. As per their site:
Its unreal how the prices of houses are so cheap in Detroit. You can find a wide variety of property for under $10,000 USD that is in pretty good shape. Some can even be had for several hundred dollars. Supposedly this kind of thing is happening in a few other US cities as well (like Cleveland). This may be worth following for investment purposes.
http://www.homes.com/For-Sale/MI/DETROIT/minprice=1&maxprice=10000
We finally got around to updating this thing. Its long overdue and we promise to be more interactive with all of you. Enjoy!
