The Hostwinds Team is all about boosting office morale with mini celebrations and the holidays are the best time to do so. How did the Hostwinds Team celebrate this week, you ask? UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER PARTY! (*Musical Notes *) “It’s my ugly holiday sweater party and I’ll cry if I want toooooo” (*Musical Notes*). What’s...

Alright friends! Today we are going to learn to be DJs! Let’s set up a Shoutcast Server, get a song up there, and get it streaming! First thing is first! Go to Https://hostwinds.com and log in! Next, we are going to head over to services, drop the menu down and select SHOUTCAST. I selected the...

Today in Tech History: Here at Hostwinds we are constantly innovative, and we are looking forward to launching this new monthly series, where we will give you a piece of Technology history! Since today is December 13th, and there was a pretty cool thing that happened on this day in Tech history, I think it...

Welcome back to Hostwinds’ second edition of our Front-Line Team interview blog series. Last week we interviewed Hostiwnds’ Director of Front-Line Operations and this week we are moving on to Hostwind’s Data Center Manager. Here is a little context about how such Front-Line Team member fits within the Hostwinds Family.   About Dustin Dustin is...

Well hello there! How is your week going? What’s that? Better now that you are in the Hostwinds blog world? Wow, I couldn’t have put it better myself! There is a lot to be thankful for right now and it is a great time to be alive. In the spirit of the miraculous life journey...

The cloud! The omnipresent, overarching, everything-is-stored-there, buzzword that has saturated the market so completely, almost everything you can do on your computer these days is “cloud-based” or “cloud supported.” But, what in the world does that actually mean? Does it mean satellites? Microscopic droplets of water, forming above our heads in gaseous monstrosities, ready to...

Email Spam, there is just one thing to say about it: UGH! Amiright? Literally, no one wants this crap in their inbox, and yet here it is, every day, hundreds and thousands of, at best, the internet’s equivalent of throwaway mailers for maid services you will literally never employ. At worst they can be threatening,...

Hmmmm…thinking, thinking, thinking…what is on the Hostwinds Team’s mind during the holidays? FOOD! Wait, let me think about that for a couple more seconds before giving the final answer. Thinking, thinking, thinking…IT’S FOR SURE FOOD. Since the second it turned December 1, we can’t stop talking about all our celebratory holiday recipes here at Hostwinds....

Aloha! Seeing as it is December and those of us in the Hostwinds Family’s Seattle, Washington office are in the heart of another one of Washington’s very cold winters, I have been thinking non-stop about that warm and sunny Island life. I have those gorgeous and sun-drenched archetypal places like Hawaii on my mind day...

The Hostwinds blog is kicking it up a notch this December by debuting our coding tutorial series! By the end of the blog series, you will have all the direction and guidance you need to create your very own website from scratch. SPOILER ALERT: It’s going to be awesome. ELABORATING ON THE SPOILER ALERT: It’s...