Written by Ken Quigley

October 19 2023

Recently Act! LLC advised us of some changes to their licensing system that would impact our hosting provider. For context, Hosting Providers have historically been given what’s called an “Uber key” that would license the Act! software on their servers sufficient to support all the users hosted on them. These license keys were version-agnostic...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 16 2023

Keystroke has always tried to be forward-leaning when it comes to privacy issues & the security of our customer data. When the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) was first introduced in 2014, we came out with the Opt-in Manager, which allowed customers to easily and efficiently harvest opt-in information for marketing purposes. We also...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 08 2023

In May of this year Act! launched the new Canadian servers for Act! Premium Cloud. This was a huge development for Canadian Act! users that are in industries that require their data to be hosted domestically. For this reason, Keystroke has offered database hosting here in Canada for years, but the emergence of Act! Premium Cloud services in this...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 15 2021

Keystroke is pleased to announce the release of our new Act! Hosting Calculator called the Hosting Konfigurator. We recognize that there are many considerations to go into database hosting, so the objective of the Hosting Konfigurator is to simplify all those options, and to help you arrive at a cost that reflects your needs. The reality is most...

Written by Ken Quigley

June 01 2019

If you’re currently an Act! subscriber paying $300 per seat (or less with loyalty), the math on getting your team’s database hosted is pretty simple – add $120 per user/year. And while there are many advantages of outsourcing the Act! hosting, here are the top five reasons that move a majority of our customers to entrust us with their...

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