LoHud.com is a news and culture Web site serving the Hudson Valley in New York that hosts more than 50 blogs, including the LoHud Yankees Blog, which has been highlighted on ESPN and in Sports Illustrated. The site was experiencing a problem plenty of other sites would love to have: it was getting too much traffic, and was experiencing slow load times as a result.

Gossamer Threads’ experience in developing and troubleshooting high-traffic CMS installations proved to be the perfect solution to LoHud.com’s problem.

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It’s no secret that people are concerned about information security while doing business online. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is list of protective, preemptive measures enforced within organisations which process credit card payments.

So, what does PCI/DSS have to do with you?

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Gossamer Threads is proud to unveil our hosted version of the powerful Bricolage CMS. When running on Gossamer Threads’ platform, the Bricolage application excels in speed and stability.

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Gossamer Threads acquired a new toy for our data centre – well it’s not ours, but we’re allowed to play with it! Take a look at our new Google Search Appliance!

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Part of our managed hosting service includes the active monitoring of your servers. If ever there is a bottleneck or a slow down in your website, we can tell you exactly where it is occurring and how to remedy the issue. Our consultation also allows for you to anticipate growth, plan for the future, and handle the mass amounts of traffic that you might expect.

We’ve now added MySQL performance monitoring to give you more information at your fingertips, so you can know exactly what is going on with your site.

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