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I should probably state for the record that I might be a little bias on this one because I currently serve as a member of the Client Advisory Board at Rackspace and provide feedback on various aspects of their hosted email applications. But, as I am sure a lot of you realized today, there was a disturbance in the force. Rackspace experienced an outage today and as a result, a lot of websites and email accounts experienced … [Read more...]
Yesterday The Planet Datacenter experienced a widespread outage that affected literally thousands of clients around the world. Since our network is housed at The Planet our clients experienced a brief outage. The details of the outage still aren’t for certain, we know that it had to do something with a router that was not functioning correctly. The timing for this outage could not have been any worse, our server administrator w … [Read more...]
I thought that it was pretty interesting that Google posted these tours of their new container data center storage facilities on YouTube. If you are a nerd like me and you look at a Data Center Tour like others would a trip to Disneyland, you will love this… I got a kick out of how advanced this data center is laid out, and all of the research and planning that went into it, pretty much under the radar screen of a lot of us in the i … [Read more...]
This is a practice that has been going on for a while now but is just starting to get some attention. Apparently some of these Muslim extremist websites that are touting anti-American sentiments are actually using web hosting infrastructures located here in the United States. I personally know of at least two other incidents similar to this where websites were being hosted that were in support of Al Qaida. This is something … [Read more...]
I was just reading on WHIR this morning about GoDaddy’s most recent denial of service that brought down several thousand of their clients websites yesterday. In their response they noted that even though it was several thousands of websites, it only represents a small percentage of their clients. This is one of the downsides to bargain website hosting in my opinion. Granted, any webhost can fall victim to a denial of service attack, b … [Read more...]
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