Recently, arkOS has started a crowdfunding campaign to explain how individuals share data on the Internet. Earlier websites, emails and cloud data such as calendars, contacts, and files are shared by the users on the Internet via centralized platform services such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Rediff, Orkut, Twitter, Dropbox and many more.

There is no competitive alternative to these services available to the users as users are more concerned with privacy and safety issues; with this, they also want to remain in close contact with their friends and family. The main objective behind launching this campaign is to provide excellent security and privacy to their internet users. Markos said after this campaign’s successful completion, they would offer many exciting new features, such as email hosting, compatibility with the Tor network, and much more. With this, they will also radically improve the stability of the main applications and make it possible to run them on a much broader scope of hardware.

Markos provides you with an independent solution for hosting your data, and most of the time, it offers you this facility from your home on the hardware, which is available at a low price through its associated outreach program, The Citizen Web Project. The company will bring everything to your place and under your control. You don’t need to worry about the kind of data you have – images, webpages, files, photos, emails or any other form – it will make all the data and other things available at home and under your control. ArkOS consists of an operating system and software that allows users to host websites independently from beginning to end.

The arkOS framework uses those services already available for Linux and provides a streamlined and intuitive interface to manage them. For this, you don’t need to touch the command line, and there is no need to be an IT expert. Markos provides several benefits, such as allowing you to run your self-hosted server as quickly as a desktop computer or a smartphone, ease of use, and excellent security and privacy for its users. It includes an automatic firewall, restricting access from specific networks or people to whom the user does not want, and an integrated defence system that anticipates intrusion attempts and employs countermeasures against them.

Data security is essential for end users from the extensive platform services. Still, these users also want to share important things with their friends and family. When your data is stored in one place, for Google, it provides a ‘single point of failure’, which is a terrible tactic from the security point of view. Archos will decentralize these structures as it puts all your data at your home and under your control. Famous web services like WordPress and own Cloud on very cheap and power-saving Raspberry Pi microcomputers appropriately run as an alpha version of the software they released.

Nexcess, a leading WordPress, Magento, and Expression Engine hosting company, recently announced it ranks 245 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. It shows that Nexcess comes in the 245th position among the 500 fastest-growing companies in North America, which belong to technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology. During this period, Nexcess rose around 388 per cent. During the period of economic recession, the company has grown very well, which strongly indicates the outstanding performance of the company and its core commitment to offering hosting solutions to its customers, especially for the e-commerce sector.

The company is also very proud as it is recognized as one of the 500 fastest-growing companies in the US. The company was founded over a decade ago and has shown consistent growth from its start to date. It currently provides hosting services from two wholly-owned data centres in Southfield and Dearborn, Michigan, and international operations in the UK and Australia. The companies under the 2013 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 face tough market competition through innovation.

In 2013, Nexcess improved its Magento eCommerce hosting platform, adding new and more powerful Secure Isolated Platform servers and augmented eCommerce cluster packages. Nexcess has developed and released the Turpentine plugin for Magento, which helps Magento users benefit from the performance gains of using the Varnish web accelerator with their eCommerce store. Nexcess has expanded its optimized eCommerce and WordPress hosting services into Australia.