Archive for the ‘ISP / Hosting’ Category
Monday, September 29th, 2008
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I have just spent the weekend helping a friend to build servers and setting up a hosting facility. It was a weekend of cables, kernels and RAID driver patches!
A few months ago we sat down and started a planning session to evaluate the needs of ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Traditionally, if you wanted to setup an online business you needed money...and lots of it. With the advent of commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers the economics of the internet startup has changed....for the better.
In the past if you came up with the next ‘killer app’ you would be ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
We were lucky enough to get a visit from Tony Lucas from Flexiscale at the last meeting of the AWS user group.
Tony told us the story behind Flexiscale and how he decided back in 2004 that what the world really needed was a proper utility computing infrastructure, so he and ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
My excitement for Cloud Computing is not matched universally...it is not the answer to everybody's problems. I already described on the AWS user group discussion list how it is not helpful for small web sites. Well, perhaps it is true that distributed computing 'as a service' is not suitable for ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Blacknight Internet
"If you are looking for a hosting provider or a Co-Location partner, let me save you some valuable research time. Blacknight is the gold standard by which all others should be judged."
If you are looking for a hosting provider or a Co-Location partner, let me save you some valuable ...
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