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Box or cloud
The differences and costs between an on-site appliance and a cloud service.
- Box or cloud4 min readThe cloud says "99.9%"; how do you measure continuity on a box?What a cloud portal's 99.9% uptime covers and what it leaves out. Which indicators show continuity on an on-site box. An honest comparison of both.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readLogin quotas and per-user fees: how to read a SaaS priceHow to read monthly login quotas, per-user fees and SMS bundles in a guest Wi-Fi subscription, and what happens at the cap. A line-by-line guide to any offer.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readRent or buy? The five-year billA yearly subscription with a "free SMS" bundle, or a perpetual licence with pay-as-you-go SMS? One year's price misleads. Here is how to work out the five-year total.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readHotspot software on a PC or an appliance? The invisible billHotspot software on a spare PC looks cheap. Add the OS licence, a PC that never sleeps, disk, backup, UPS and upkeep, and the sum changes. We count the items one by one.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readThe contract ends. The inspection does not.When your cloud service ends, how do you reach two years of archive? With the box, the archive stays on your premises. The questions to ask any provider before you sign.Read more
- Box or cloud3 min readBox or cloud? Choosing a guest Wi-Fi solutionBoth approaches are right somewhere. The decision comes down to where your records live and what happens during an outage.Read more
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