Q: What is a Hosted Solution? What exactly at I getting? How is Earthgrid different from a 'regular' website? | A: Earthgrid's global hosted solution is designed to operate as a robust, secure and highly scalable environment.
To achieve this, Earthgrid is fully integrated with a Content Delivery Network (CDN). The Content Delivery Network spans over four independent data centers, set in different geographic locations thus accelerating the content delivery from any part of the world.
Each data center is located in a state-of-the-art facility equipped with terabytes of storage arrays, gigabit connectivity to tier1 providers, fire suppression and power backups. By applying regular software updates and off-site backups our servers are always secure and highly reliable.
To offer the best possible user experience, our CDN is locality-sensitive - i.e. it will always serve the content from the data center nearest to the user. The network's peak utilization is automatically monitored not to exceed 80% from the capacity, thus ensuring fast loading time for all users. As Earthgrid's popularity increases and user base expands, we perform regular capacity upgrades of our data centers to meet the growing demand with the same top performance. Earthgrid's global hosting infrastructure is proactively monitored 24/7 by our NOC, ensuring optimal performance in any condition.
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Creating an Enlightened Planetary Civilization by Connecting People with Events, Services and Information.
Note: this Report was written in 1998 and updated in 2006. It contains Excerpts from the Book "Net Gain" by John Hagel III and Arthur G. Armstrong - publ 1997 and appear italicized in this report.
What is a Virtual Community?
"We know the rules of community, we know the healing effect of community in terms of individual lives. If we could somehow find a way across the bridge of our knowledge, would not these same rules have a healing effect upon our world? - It is our task - our essential, central, crucial task - to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. It is the only way that human evolution will be able to proceed." - M. Scott Peck - The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace
Values of Members:
- Participate in common practices;
- Depend upon one another;
- Make decisions together;
- Identify themselves as part of something larger than their individual relationships;
- Commit themselves for the long term to their own and the group's well-being.
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Earthgrid Mobile
With 2.2 billion cell phones in use today, mobile is the wave of the future. Several of our clients are now using Earthgrid Mobile to keep in contact with their customers. Our unique mobile messaging system enables you to rapidly use online and mobile text messaging to keep in touch, rather than using e-mail. Earthgrid mobile is now available for licensing for your site.
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Earthgrid E-mail :: IMAP Protocol
IMAP is a much more advanced protocol that allows you to see all your folders on
mail.earthgrid.com, and quickly view subjects and message bodies of emails, but delay downloading of larger emails (such as those with attachments) to a later time if you want. IMAP also allows you to synchronise mail folders between your home machine and
mail.earthgrid.com on the web, so that you see the same folders and messages wherever and however you access your email.
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