the planet – Internetblog.org.uk https://www.internetblog.org.uk Web hosting, Domain names, Dedicated servers Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:05:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 https://www.internetblog.org.uk/files/2016/01/cropped-favico-32x32.png the planet – Internetblog.org.uk https://www.internetblog.org.uk 32 32 Customers of The Planet experience outages https://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/1270/customers-of-the-planet-experience-outages/ Mon, 03 May 2010 20:18:02 +0000 http://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/1270/customers-of-the-planet-experience-outages/ dedicated servers
Dedicated server owners at The Planet’s facility in Houston, Texas, experienced an outage lasting around 90 minutes last night. Customers were pleased to once again have access to their sites, only to experience more downtime this morning.

Since then The Planet has brought all its servers back online. The hosting company says a router issue in the core network caused the two outages. While the problem may be solved now, some customers wish more was done to update them on the situation.

Regardless of what ever happens, hosts have an obligation to keep their customers updated. It’s unclear if The Planet did a good job of this or not this morning and last night, but when choosing a host, check to see what sort of communication lines it has with customers. You definitely don’t want to be left in the blue if there is ever an issue.

Source | Data Center Knowledge

]]> How quickly can you put a server together? https://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/1094/how-quickly-can-you-put-a-server-together/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:39:34 +0000 http://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/1094/how-quickly-can-you-put-a-server-together/ Ever wondered how quickly you could build a dedicated server? That’s what visitors to The Planet’s booth at the SXSW Interactive will figure out this week. The company has set up a contest that challenges participants to put together an entire Pentium 4 server from scratch. The winner will receive a free ASUS Eee PC netbook.

In the video above, the demonstrator completes the task in just under 50 seconds. This includes installing the CPU heatsink, RAM, ribbon cables, and putting the cover on the system case. However, participants may install the components in any order they wish and are given two attempts.

I’m curious to see how this turns out, but let’s just hope The Planet doesn’t host any customers using this server after the show ends!

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