This is a guest post written and contributed by CloudFlare. CloudFlare makes it easy for any site to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants. CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with Orpheum Hosting Solutions! If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, our value proposition is simple: we’ll make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats. Today,...

Hi folks, We wanted to provide an update on some of the things we’re working on here at Orpheum Hosting Solutions. CloudFlare Integration CloudFlare is a really neat service that provides enhanced redundancy, security, and analytics for websites. The next version of SiteWorx will have a plugin to allow for native CloudFlare integration for your website. This means that, with the flick of a switch, it’ll be really easy for you to...

There was a time, even just a few years ago, when entrepreneurs had little choice in how they got a new website going for their business. First it wasn’t seen as a necessity (it is now), and second it looked/sounded expensive (it was, and still is depending on what you want). Thanks to new tools and new ways of doing things, this is largely no longer true… at least, not when it comes to simply building a web presence for your...

Study after study has shown that Canadian small businesses are lagging in their spending on information and communications technology (ICT). When speaking with Orpheum’s existing and prospective clients, this has definitely rung true. In fact, our team is at the tail end of a year long effort to help one local business modernize a large part of its infrastructure. That has involved migrating from their old web host over to Orpheum, their...

When the campaign was on to get Q and Jian Ghomeshi to come to London, Orpheum followed on rtraction’s heels by offering a charity 5 years of free web hosting. Well, London won the right to host Jian and Q, and the companies involved are following through on their promise. Spearheaded by rtraction, Orpheum is happy to join in the search for Canada’s Worst Charity Website (or CWCW, if you prefer). The rules are really simple and all...

As part of our efforts here to demonstrate the value we provide our customers, we’re going to begin highlighting the results behind the promises we make. So without further ado, our uptime report! Our Clustered Hosting Platform comes with a 100% uptime guarantee, and that’s exactly what we delivered in January. Pingdom checks orpheum.ca every 5 minutes to ensure we are up and running. orpheum.ca is hosted on the Clustered Hosting...