Jon McDonald

About The Author

Jon McDonald

Jon brings more than 15 years of writing and editing experience to the HostingAdvice audience. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Santa Fe college and his articles have appeared in New York Times publications and numerous online media outlets. Jon likes to keep individuals and entrepreneurs informed on the data trends impacting their industries while keeping complex topics easy to understand. He enjoys covering industry segments, including cloud hosting, digital security, and mobile platforms, among many others, and he is always looking to share new technologies with readers.

Latest Posts

132 posts written/edited to date
StrikeForce: An Innovative Cybersecurity Leader Focused on Secure Video Conferencing Solutions for Businesses

StrikeForce: A Cybersecurity Leader That Keeps Clients Safe
StrikeForce Technologies has been a leader in cybersecurity solutions for more than two decades. Since it launched, the company has seen the internet become... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
4/12/2022
Teleport: An Open-Source Platform That Helps Increase Infrastructure Security and Lower Costs for Businesses

Teleport: An Open-Source Infrastructure Security Platform
Teleport is an open-source platform that allows developers to quickly access their computing infrastructure from one dashboard. The company addresses growing... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
3/29/2022
Namecheap: A Leading Domain Registrar That Offers SMBs Hosting Options and a Suite of Support Apps

Namecheap Offers Hosting and Support for SMBs
Namecheap is an accredited registrar and technology company that manages more than 14 million domains. Its product and service offerings include shared and... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
3/29/2022
Concrete CMS: A Free, Open-Source Platform Built on Simplicity and Contributor Collaboration

Concrete CMS: An Open-Source Tool Built on Simplicity
Concrete CMS is a free content management system that helps clients of all sizes run effective websites. The team at Concrete CMS uses an open-source model... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
3/28/2022
No Coding Skills Required: How WebSite X5 Simplifies Web Building and Publishing for eCommerce Entrepreneurs

WebSite X5 Simplifies Site Building for Entrepreneurs
WebSite X5 is an offline software package for Microsoft Windows environments that allows the easy creation of websites, blogs, and online stores. The product... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
3/17/2022
From Cloud to Container — Red Hat Offers Enterprise-Grade Open-Source Solutions for Businesses that Need IT Infrastructure

Red Hat Offers Open-Source IT Solutions
Red Hat is a leading provider of enterprise open-source software, and it takes a community-powered approach to development. The company helps its customers... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
3/14/2022
Coder Kids Classes Teach Young People Worldwide Valuable Computer Programming Skills

Coder Kids Teaches Computer Programming Skills

Teaching children to code provides many benefits and helps them develop creativity, logic, and problem-solving skills. And children can start learning to... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
3/8/2022
BoldGrid Delivers Flexible Software and WordPress Templates That Simplify Website Building and Management

BoldGrid Simplifies Website Building and Management
BoldGrid delivers a suite of WordPress plugins, themes, and services to help website builders create and manage WordPress sites. The platform offers simple... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
3/8/2022
BEMO Helps SMBs Meet Their Complex IT Needs With Cybersecurity Tools, Cloud Solutions, and Managed Services

BEMO Helps SMBs Meet Their Complex IT Needs
BEMO is a cloud-based IT managed services provider (MSP) that caters to small businesses running Microsoft productivity applications and cloud-based... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
3/2/2022
How Virtualizor Simplifies VPS Management for Businesses Through its Intuitive Cloud Control Panel

Virtualizor Simplifies VPS Management for Hosts
Virtualizor is a web-based control panel software built by Softaculous that changes the way businesses manage and deploy VPS. The system’s interface allows... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
2/28/2022
Firebird Open-Source Database Management Provides SMBs with Flexibility by Integrating with Legacy Applications

Firebird Open-Source System Offers SMBs Flexibility
Firebird is an open-source relational database management system that offers modern features for in-house app development. Its solutions run on a wide range... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
2/21/2022
How HOSTKEY’s Dedicated Servers and IT Infrastructure Solutions Help Businesses Operate With Agility and Streamline Operations

HOSTKEY Helps SMBs Manage Hosting and IT
HOSTKEY provides dedicated and cloud hosting services to help SMBs grow and enterprise customers scale. Its offerings include bare metal dedicated servers,... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
2/16/2022
How Caddy Simplifies Infrastructure With Its Open-Source Web Server and Auto HTTPS

Caddy Offers Simplified Open-Source Web Servers
Caddy is an open-source web server that automatically uses HTTPS. The latest version, Caddy 2, is written in Go and designed for seamless use anywhere. Caddy... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
2/16/2022
Cognite: An Industrial DataOps Platform that Helps Global Enterprises Leverage Data to Collaborate and Scale

Cognite: A Global DataOps Platform for Enterprises
Cognite is a global SaaS provider that supports full-scale digital transformation for customers in asset-heavy industries. Its flagship Industrial DataOps... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
2/9/2022
Typewise: A Virtual Keyboard App That Leverages AI to Offer Professionals a Robust Privacy-Focused Productivity Tool

Typewise: A Virtual Keyboard App for Professionals
Typewise is a virtual keyboard app developed with a proprietary hexagonal matrix layout that minimizes typing errors on mobile devices. The app also... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
2/3/2022
SixFifty’s Automated Legal Expertise Solutions Simplify Compliance and Privacy for Businesses Worldwide

SixFifty Simplifies Affordable Privacy Law Compliance
SixFifty takes the headaches out of making sure websites comply with strict and ever-changing privacy laws around the globe. The company’s several tools were... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
1/19/2022
The Notion SaaS Platform Empowers Individuals, SMBs, and Enterprises to Collaborate

Notion SaaS Platform Fosters Collaboration
The Notion SaaS platform is an all-in-one collaboration and knowledge-sharing workspace that combines docs, notes, and project management tools for more... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
1/18/2022
Microverse: An Online Software Development School That Allows Students to Pay Fees When They Find Work

Microverse: An Online Software Development School
Microverse is an online school for remote software developers worldwide, and its students pay no fees until they find a job after completing the program. The... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
1/18/2022
Trading FX VPS Offers Dedicated and Virtual Servers Optimized for Traders in Foreign Exchange Markets

Trading FX VPS Offers Servers for Currency Traders
Singapore-based Trading FX VPS offers enterprise-level VPS and dedicated server options designed for traders operating in foreign exchange markets. The... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
1/11/2022
CEO Ryan Gray on NameHero: How the Host Continues to Deliver High Performance and Impressive Uptime for Customers

High-Performance Hosting from NameHero
NameHero makes it easy to create or migrate a website to its servers while allowing customers to easily scale their website as it grows at affordable costs.... read more »
Jon McDonald
By: Jon McDonald
1/11/2022

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