Rackspace providers Fanatical Support®

A good web development company, with clients nationwide, needs a Website & Application hosting company that provides reliable service, affordable pricing and high-quality support.

We spent nearly a year researching web hosting providers for our second 10 years of business and one stood head-and-shoulders above the rest: RackSpace.

Rackspace product line includes Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting, Email & Apps as well as Hybrid hosting to its customers.

Rackspace provides fanatical support to VickeryHill

Their offerings let us decide what level of service we need for a particular client application and give us the flexibility to upgrade individual or group services on-the-fly. Their assistance to us in moving existing client sites and creating new web applications has been nothing short of their oft-stated Fanatical Support®

On April 11, 2011, VickeryHill inked a Unified Partner Agreement with Rackspace, which should bring even better support and more exciting opportunities for the future.

Birth of the Internet Plaque - thanks Bob Metcalfe et al.

Interzone, Internets, the 'Cloud', whosit?

Yeah, we know, all the acronyms and names can be confusing. Seems like ever since Al Gore 'took the initiative in creating the Internet', everyday people have been inundated with names, terms and letters that no normal human should have to remember.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Here's a (very) brief history (along with acronyms) to help you better get along in this crazy modern world:

10,000-8,000 B.C. - original native americans use smoke to signal distant fellow hunters in North America

1800's - Hans Christian Oersted, Joseph Henry, Cooke & Wheatstone, Samuel Morse & Alfred Vail bring telegraph technology into the world - allowing near instant connectivity of humans over great distances.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the first practical telephone

1880's onward - the Public Switched Telephone (PSTN) network builds to connect nearly every house, business and person with copper wire and eventually fiber optic cables.

1960 - J.C.R. Licklider explains his ideas of a global Man-Computer network

1962 - the U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) mandates connectivity of defense department's mainframes at Cheyenne Mountain, the Pentagon and Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters.

October 29, 1969, 22:30 Pacific Time - UCLA & Stanford connected via the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). A researcher typed a letter "L" and asked on the telephone if the other end saw it. They did. They then typed a letter "O" and it was seen on the other end. Then the letter "G" was typed, and the system crashed...

1973 - Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) with Bob Metcalfe, David Boggs, Chuck Thacker & Butler Lampson create "Ethernet", TCP/IP using the OSI networking model, defining wire and signal standards for network computer communications.

1980's - NASA develops the first multiprotocol wide area network (WAN) called the NASA Science Internet (NSI).

1984 - The Organisation Europeene pour la Recherche Nucleaire or European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) interconnects computer systems in different locations

1989 - CERN opens first external connections to the network using TCP/IP protocol.

1989 - Tim Berners-Lee creates first communication between a client and server using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) via the 'Internet'

FTP, Gopher, eMail, domain names, Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Network Solutions, worldwide internet connectivity, ICANN, the '.com boom', Yahoo!, Google, online banking, the International Space Station (ISS) connected to the internet.....the rest is still unfolding.