Posted in hosting on October 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
http://www.slicehost.com/…
Congrats to the SliceHost team on their sale! I’ve had a chance to do some hosting there and I was really impressed with what they did. It’s pretty incredible what a few very smart people who clearly love their field can do in just two years.
That said, I’m not sure that this is the best [...]
Posted in hosting on June 1st, 2008 No Comments »
My former host, ThePlanet.com, is working through a major outage that had them take down 9000 servers in their data center. Apparently a transformer caught fire and the fire department came by and told the staff that they were not allowed to activate their backup generators so 9000 servers and 7500 customers are out of [...]
Posted in hosting on January 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
http://www.joyeur.com/…
If you haven’t been following the Bingodisk/Strongspage, you should because it is an interesting one. Basically after updating its Sun server they started to experience some issues and took the services offline. At this point it’s been about three days, and it’s been noticed by a lot of people. The people at Joyent apparently encountered [...]
Posted in arghyle, hosting on November 26th, 2007 10 Comments »
This blog is over a year old, and for the entirety of that time it has been hosted on Media Temple’s Grid. The Grid (from the best I can tell, opened two days before, on Oct 17 2006, so I have been on it since about Day 3. As for me- I am not a [...]
Posted in hosting on November 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Data Center Tour
http://qualityhumans.com/images/data_center.mov
Building a cluster
http://qualityhumans.com/images/cluster_build.mov
courtesy of Engine Yard
Posted in hosting on July 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Media Temple’s two main hosting services, for the past few months, have been the Grid and Dedicated Virtual (dv) hosting. The Grid is their cloud system that takes the place of shared hosting, but is super scalable and can theoretically host any size size. The dv is a virtual system on a shared server, but [...]
Posted in hosting on July 10th, 2007 No Comments »
After a few weeks of looking into Amazon’s EC2 service I finally decided to sign up for a beta account and give it a test run. Right now I don’t have any specific need for it, but I am always researching ideas and interested in learning about new technologies and services. I was going to [...]
