Are you scared of taking the first step toward website accessibility? You are not alone, but you needn’t be scared. Some aspects of accessibility conformance are more technical than others, but many of them are common sense, best practice, or just require a little bit of effort.

Start taking accessibility seriously in a simple but high impact way: test your site’s color scheme for those who experience color blindness or “low vision”—such as those with glaucoma, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, or macular degeneration. 

To build a website today, there’s a lot to get right: performance, scalability, security (including HTTPS), functionality, search-engine rankings, and more. These come down to getting fresh content into the hands of site visitors—and doing it fast. CDN-based edge caching goes a long way to helping here, but it’s only as effective as the cache hit rate.

Challenge: Always-On, No Matter What

With millions of customer visits a month, Aeroméxico needed to innovate web and mobile development, ensure high performance, and strengthen critical availability and reliability. The airline also sought to align design standards to support cross-promotional campaigns with Delta efficiently.

Rensselaer Polytechnic University (RPI) in Troy, New York, has long been renowned as a pioneer in educating future engineering and science leaders. It hosts one of the most powerful university-based supercomputers in the world and spends over $100 million annually to support undergraduate and graduate research that benefits both the private and public sectors. 

Founded in 2000, K​yriba ​provides SaaS treasury solutions to over 1,000 clients globally. As a leader in cloud-­based Proactive Treasury Management, Kyriba’s marketing website is not only the face of the company, but is also an important educational resource for treasury professionals, as well as an interactive platform for prospective customers. After a series of downtime incidents and realizing the need for stronger hosting backup, Kyriba’s global webmaster Lisa Mettam decided it was time to make a change.

In 2013, The New Republic was up against their biggest deadline yet—they needed to launch their new website, print magazine redesign, and a related PR campaign all on the same day. Publisher Chris Hughes was set to appear on all the morning talk shows as soon as it went live. They needed a website management solution that could handle a heavy load. Nothing could go wrong.

When GSATi started as a web development agency, they were determined to offer web hosting as part of their client services. For Erik Bodor, GSATi’s Co-Founder and Sr. Director, it seemed the sensible way to keep control of every aspect of each project. The agency ran the gamut of the hosting industry—from shared hosting, virtual private servers, dedicated servers, cabinet co-location, private cloud, to their own cage and approximately $250,000 in equipment.