Tag Archives: datacenter

July, 2009

• 6 July

  Extreme Makeover: Data Center

  In a parody of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, an American TV show where families in need receive free home renovations, a few happy-go-lucky folks from Microsoft redesign an outdated server room. Though the Pentium 200 chips mentioned in the video are definitely outdated, I’m one of those people who likes …

May, 2009

• 26 May

  Apple Building Secret Server Farm in North Carolina

  Everyone knows Apple for the iPod and iPhone, but few would believe that the company is investing £628.4 million ($1 billion USD) to build a server farm in the eastern United States. No details about the server datacenter itself have emerged, but news of the plan has trickled out through …
• 20 May

  Should Web Hosts Pay for Downtime?

  Yesterday, American datacenter customers received a landmark £1 million settlement from their provider after experiencing up to several weeks of downtime. This leads to the question: should hosts be held accountable for downtime? A good host will have an uptime of at least 99.5%. This translate to roughly 1.8 days …
• 20 May

  Datacenter Customers Get £1 Million Settlement

  A federal judge in Maryland today approved a £1.07 million ($1.67 million USD) settlement today for nearly 5,500 customers of NaviSite, a datacenter that suffered long downtime after several servers were accidentally unplugged. NaviSite had told its customers to expect downtime for a server upgrade. Instead of upgrading the servers, …