Cloud Status for iPhone App Now Free

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (PRWEB) November 23, 2010

WatchMouse, a global industry leader in self-service website and application performance monitoring, today announced the acquisition of the utility app, Cloud Status for iPhone created by Alasdair Allan, noted author, software programmer and expert iOS developer. WatchMouse also announced that it has made the app free to download in the Apple App Store, in conjunction with an updated version 4.4 release of the application including support for iOS4.

The Cloud Status iPhone application reports on the performance of popular cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, Google Apps, Microsoft Windows Azure, and Rackspace Cloud. It allows developers and IT managers who utilize these services to quickly check the availability of all of these services and their components in real time using an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device. Each of the supported cloud services has a separate page and details the status for the various services provided. A quick read indicator denotes the status for each service: the status for the service is good, there is a problem with the service, or the service is down. Clicking on each service component provides further information as to the current status of that component, and any problems it might be experiencing.

The Cloud Status for iPhone version 4.4 release includes the following features:

Cloud Status for iPhone App Now Free

MailChimp Launches Status Page to Keep Users Up to Speed

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 26, 2011

MailChimp today announced the launch of its MailChimp status page. This page displays access times across 26 servers distributed around the world. As MailChimps subscriber base has grown it has become essential to monitor the users experience around the world. This tool now makes this information available directly to all subscribers.

The MailChimp Status Page gives more than a red light, green light rundown of the servers, providing users with an accurate display of how fast MailChimp is performing in certain key geographic regions. Manchester, Sydney, New Orleans, New York, and Buenos Aires are just a few of the many locations.

In the spring of 2010 MailChimp began using Akamais Web Application Accelerator solution to improve performance for remote subscribers. Currently more than 45% of MailChimp subscribers are international. Before deploying the Akamai solution solution, it was difficult for subscribers in New Zealand to complete their tasks using the MailChimp web application. With the Akamais accelerator service, the application performs well around the world with all of MailChimps servers based in the US. Currently MailChimp has data centers in Virginia and New York and in November will be adding three new data centers (one in New York and two in Dallas) to support the continuing subscriber growth.

The Status Page is run using the application monitoring service provided by Webmetrics (http://www.webmetrics.com/). This service strategically places computers across the globe and performs a preset series of actions within MailChimp. The service times the average completion of these operations. The Webmetrics service logs in, checks the dashboard, opens a campaign screen, opens the reports screen, views a campaign report, returns to the dashboard, and then logs out. The average times are then displayed next to the current cycle times at each location. For example, one can see Atlanta’s last cycle took 5.62 seconds, but the average for Atlanta is 7.05 seconds. This makes for an easy point of reference for users, who can see if it’s them or if it’s MailChimp that’s running slowly. If MailChimp appears to be running fine, there’s a connection speed test module located on the status page to test the user’s Internet connection quickly and efficiently.

MailChimp’s performance status can always be checked via @mailchimpstatus on twitter.

Links:

http://status.mailchimp.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/MailChimpstatus

http://www.webmetrics.com/

http://www.akamai.com/waa

http://blog.mailchimp.com/speeding-up-mailchimp-with-akamai/

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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WTG Awarded G-Cloud II Supplier Status

London, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 7 December 2012

WTG, a specialist IT consultancy and bespoke solutions provider to the UK Public Sector has become an official supplier on the Governments G-Cloud store.

G-Cloud is a cross-governmental programme aimed at introducing cloud-based ITC services to the Public Sector, especially central government departments and local authorities. This is achieved through a new procurement framework, G-Cloud, now in its second phase of development. The framework provides 4 categories of services (Infrastructure, Software, Platform and Specialist Services) from different suppliers that can be compared and purchased on the CloudStore.

Following application under the rigorous OJEU process, WTGs offering on the CloudStore covers: Proof Of Concept, Drupal and WordPress Development, Bespoke Cloud Application Development, UX Design Consultancy, Episerver Cloud Development, Information Assurance Services, and Cloud Consultancy, which can all be purchased by Public Sector organisations under lot 4 (Specialist Services) at very competitive prices.

WTGs entry into the Cloud Programme supports the Governments strategy of increasing SME procurement to breakdown IT contract size and reduce Public Sector costs. As an example, WTGs Cloud Consultancy solution, WTGs Tiger Team, offers savings of thousands of pounds compared to similar consultancy services by the big Systems Integrators.

WTGs aspiration is to expand their current offering on the next framework update with additional value for money solutions. G-Cloud III will be launched in May next year.

ABOUT WTG

WTG is a leading IT consultancy and bespoke solutions provider to the UK Public Sector, specialising in the design, build & management of secure web applications. We have an excellent track record of working with large government organisations such as the MOJ, MPS and the Home Office. We provide high quality IT solutions for secure environments that drive efficiency and cost savings.

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Building Up High-Converting Keywords and Author Status: James Schramko Shares Internet Marketing Tips in Latest Video Update

Sydney, AU (PRWEB) September 27, 2012

What you should be doing is focusing on your high converting keywords. This is the first tip that Internet marketing authority James Schramko shares in his latest video update on SuperFastBusiness.com. The online business expert offers advice on how website owners can take advantage of these keywords:

If you track conversions and you should track conversions from any other traffic source such as pay-per-click marketing or articles or press releases then you should use those key phrases to create brand new posts. Those brand new posts should be the target of your campaign. I suggest you rotate your target key phrases every month and keep building up an army of blog posts that work for you, Schramko states.

In addition to focusing on high-converting keywords, Schramko also advises website owners to manually create blog post titles and Meta descriptions for articles to further enhance website rankings in search engine results. He shares that WordPress blog owners can easily do this using plugins:

[For WordPress blog owners,] you can write the title that sells and then usually underneath your blog post you will have the SEO override. If youre using a plugin like Yoast, then you can actually write your own Meta description and your own title for that post thats different to that headline in the post so you can get the copywriting version for the customers and the SEO version, Schramko shares.

Schramko proceeds to encourage website owners to further improve SEO results by continuously publishing blog posts. He shares that providing content on a regular basis can help bring more visitors to websites, even to e-commerce stores:

According to Schramko, If youre looking for a simple action step, this week, create three new blog posts around three new phrases and publish them. Keep publishing new blog posts even if youre an e-commerce store. Create how-to guides and video demonstrations [because] this is how you drive traffic even to an e-commerce store.

Another way to boost website rankings, states Schramko, is by building up author status. He shares that this can be done by strengthening the social signals of a website and by using pictures in social networking profiles, particularly for Google+ accounts. The latter is particularly important since author mark-ups can be seen along with content that has been created by the author.

Schramko then shares more information about a new SEO video package from SEOPartner. He invites online entrepreneurs who are interested in using videos to enhance search engine results to simply outsource SEO services to the experts at SEOPartner. Schramko shares what the team can do for website owners:

What you can do is make videos and just give them to us. We will upload them to your [YouTube] account and well put a really good video description. Well make sure the title is perfect. Well put tags and then well create original content and support your video by linking back to the video. It will push your video up in the YouTube search results, it will push it up in the Google video search and youll get more traffic to a high converting medium, Schramko explains.

He shares one particularly attractive advantage of working with his team: the low cost. He states that the average cost of SEO for other companies may be in the thousands, while his team can do the same for much less: Today I saw on someones website that they charge $ 5,000 for a keyword research report and an SEO audit. We charge $ 799 for that. Thats why more than 80% of our customers are on a re-order.

Schramko ends his video by inviting viewers to check out the newest version of Traffic Grab, a product that he released last year. Members of Traffic Grab will also find new videos from Schramko detailing the best and most up-to-date traffic strategies.

Building Up High-Converting Keywords and Author Status: James Schramko Shares Internet Marketing Tips in Latest Video Update