Rackspace offers a solid scalable cloud architecture that is ideal for WordPress blogs having ever-expanding traffic needs. Here are some of the compelling reasons for preferring Rackspace Cloud over other cloud hosting providers:

		Fanatical Support® For All:Rackspace is known for its commitment that the last thing any of their customers ever need to worry about is their hosted environment. No matter if you’re a one-person shop or a global conglomerate, they do it all, including the worrying, for you as a customer.
		The World’s Leader in Hosting:All Rackspace does is hosting. They have set the standard for Cloud, Managed and Email Hosting with our support, expertise and diverse solutions. They are positioned as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting.
		Global Presence:They are not a local or regional telecom provider. Rackspace is a business with customers, offices and data centers across the globe. They create solutions these impact users’ global IT needs for the future.
		The Safe Hosting Choice:There’s a confidence that comes with trusting your business to the hosting provider that is stable and secure. Rackspace is financially sound and have the expertise, support, services and solutions we and you need now and ten years down the road.
		A Toolbox of Hosted IT Solutions:For every business and budget there’s a unique need. And Rackspace deliver a portfolio of solutions like Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting and Email Hosting, each with a diverse mix or products.
		Experts by Any Definition:Hundreds of certified experts, consistent industry awards and recognition and strong technology partnerships all translate into one thing—Rackspace are the experts who can help tech savvy customers or those who are just starting to learn.
		100% Network Uptime Guarantee:Rackspace’s Network™ guarantees nothing less than 100% Network Uptime.
		A Greener Way of Doing Business:From cost-effective green servers to company-wide conservation programs, Rackspace’s Greenspace™ initiative is dedicated to doing business in an eco-friendly way. Not to mention in a budget-friendly way for customers.

Network & Security:

At Palcom we recognize our clients’ increasing concerns around security in today’s environment. Our security model for Datacenter Hosting is designed to address these concerns with security strategies and capabilities designed to harden different layers of the solution. For Datacenter service, Palcom combines virtualized Cisco firewalls, shared switches, dedicated VLANs, common network intrusion detection and dedicated anti-virus scanning to provide a security-rich hosting infrastructure for the Client development environment.

• Cisco firewall appliances, in a redundant failover configuration, are configured to provide each customer with a pair of dedicated virtual firewalls. These firewalls are monitored 24 x 7 by our personnel with the intention of detecting, reporting and correcting problems.
• Each cabinet housing customer servers is equipped with a pair of Cisco switches configured for high availability and used by all the customers in that cabinet. Ports and VLANs on these switches are dedicated to a customer.
• All of the incoming traffic passes through a common set of network intrusion detection appliances which are monitored and analyzed around the clock.
• Anti-virus monitoring and reporting for Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® is also included.

Power & air-conditioning:

The total incoming power is a multiple of what is required to run the datacenter. There is an ATS (Automatic Transfer switch) in place to automatically kick in a generator in case of a power failure. The datacenters are also equipped with redundant UPS systems to ensure clean power. Redundant Air-conditioning systems, each running at a fraction of their capacity, keep the server rooms cool. The units are alternated so that each one is kept in optimal condition.

Advanced Smoke Detection & Fire Protection Systems:

The datacenters are equipped with specialized fire detection and protection systems meant specifically for protecting servers as using ordinary water based systems would cause just as much damage as fire.

Fire Security:

• Automated System;
• Fire resistant tiles;
• Fire Retardant Doors and Glasses;
• CCTV Monitoring;
• Controlled Access

Second Level Of Risk Mitigation:

• Fire Alarm System
• FM 200 Fire Suppression Systems
• VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus
• Water Leak Detection System
• FAS (Fire Alarm System)
• GAS Suppression FM200 (For Fire Suppression)
• VESDA Smoke Detection System
• Public Address System
• BMS System

Other Security Measures:

• Rodent Repellent System
• WLD (Water Leak Detection)

Physical Security:

• Pest Repellent
• Rodent Triple Agent

Three levels of access authentication:

• 1st. Level: Manned security provided on 24 X 7
• 2nd. Level: Authentication based on access cards
• 3rd. Level: Palm Based Biometric Access to Server Hall
• 4th. Level: Palm Based Biometric Access to Cadge Area

Palcomonline is a leading provider of premium web hosting products and data center services.

Operational since 1998, Palcomonline’ S growth has been fueled by providing unmatched managed hosting services to small and medium businesses all over the globe. Our focus has remained web hosting services over the years and this has given us an edge over our competitors in terms of specialization on Dedicated and shared web hosting solutions. We’ve set the standard for Managed Dedicated and Shared Hosting with our support, expertise and customized solutions for small and medium businesses.

Unlike other hosting providers, Palcom believes that for a Good Web Hosting Provider, a pro-active, alert, well-trained and robust Technical support infrastructure is more important than to own data center infrastructures.

Palcomonline is a one-stop shop that enables individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence for them.

Palcomonline has established a world class 24×7 Support Team that is professionally trained and available for you 24 hours every day. There are always expert Support engineers to serve you round the clock. This includes a dedicated Network and Server Monitoring division that monitors and pro-actively responds to and troubleshoots any issue that is identified including network, hardware and infrastructure or application level issues.

Our 24×7 Support allows our customers to focus on their core business knowing their websites and applications are in competent hands.

• Persistence: We never give up and this fuels our ability to keep going through all resistance, no matter what. We encourage our people, demonstrating a “can-do” attitude and fostering a collaborative and mutually supportive environment.

• Stewardship: We fulfill our obligation of building a better, stronger customer centric organization, honoring our commitments to all stakeholders, acting with an owner mentality and developing our people.

• Customer Value Creation: We aim to enable customers to become high-performance individuals and businesses and creating long-term sustainable relationships by being responsive, communicative and relevant to them.

Atahualpa: This framework lets you configure your custom theme: Fixed or flexible width layout, with min/max width, 0 – 4 sidebars, very browser safe (incl. IE6), create custom widget areas, import/export styles (several styles included), color pickers, over 200 options.

The Buffet Framework: It is a theme framework designed not only for the theme developers who will be using the theme actions and filters to create the child themes, but also for the end users who would be able to add and remove what they want.

Carrington Blog: A rich blogger friendly theme with customizable header, colors and AJAX options; and developer friendly theme with atomic templates and an elegant override hierarchy.

Thematic: The ultimate in SEO-ready themes, Thematic is a highly extensible, WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, drop-down menus, grid-based layout samples, plugin integration, shortcodes for your footer, & a whole lot more. Perfect for any blog and the starting point for theme development.

WP Framework: A Rapid Theme Development Framework.

Hybrid Core: It is a WordPress theme development framework for creating solid parent themes. It allows theme developers to forget about all the complex functionality and dive straight into coding their theme’s HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Sandbox: It is a very rich with powerful and dynamic semantic class selectors, Sandbox is a canvas for CSS artists.

PressWork: The PressWork Toolbox lets you style any theme in a live preview environment without any code, drag & drop to set your layout in seconds, add Google fonts, and much more.

K9 Canvas: Howling Dog Themes is NOT like other Themes & Frameworks. Our Controls are packed with intuitive features that allow you to control EVERY aspect of your custom theme. No non-sense, just quick and easy themes!

WordPress is an open source application, this simply means that all of its code and files are free to use and available for customizing. This enables WordPress to get a large community to continuously support its ever-enhancing—WordPress technology. There is a vibrant and dynamic community harnessed by thousands of people from curious individuals to technology enthusiasts and from freelance professionals to large technology companies, they all contribute to the evolution of WordPress to its present day form. Today WordPress has many powerful features, these include a templating system, workflow, search-engine friendly link structures, advanced content categorization, and more being added everyday through the thousands of plugins, widgets and themes. Yes, WordPress has got one limitation and that is only your imagination!

WordPress is most popular also for its packaged application, which you can download for free at WordPress.org and installed anywhere as a platform and structure for a full-fledged website. There is also a free blog services available online at WordPress.com.

This is why we all say “WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.” and we all love WordPress!

Instant WordPress solves many of the problems a WordPress user faces in learning how to install and use WordPress. It provides an easy to use WordPress experience out of the box.

Step 1: Download Instant WordPress 4.1
Step 2: Double click on the InstantWP executable that you just downloaded.
Step 3: Choose an installation folder by clicking the Browse button.You can even choose a USB folder. This means you can carry your WordPress Instance on a USB drive.
Step 4: Click the Install button. Instant WordPress will be installed into the selected folder.

The default Username for WordPress dashboard is “admin” and password is “password”. You can also access important folders like theme folder and plugins folder from this software.

What makes Instant WordPress wonderful?

• It does not add anything to your systems registry or otherwise. It is fully portable and runs from within the folder where it is setup.
• It can be installed on a USB drive and will run from there equally well.
• You can rename the folder in which it is installed and you can have several installations on the same machine or even the same USB drive.
• This software contains some dummy posts so you don’t need to install them.

I have also started using Instant WordPress, Hope you too enjoy using it!