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Everyone knows how annoying it is to spend hours thinking of a good domain only to find out it’s taken. In the YouTube video above, Internet entrepreneur and amateur comedian Chris Pirillo pokes fun at this unfortunate fact of life. Using Wordoid as an example, he points out how useless …
February, 2010
January, 2010
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27 January
CENTR releases video explaining DNS
Ever wanted to show a less-than-tech-savvy friend or family member how DNS works? CENTR, the Council of European Top Level Domain Registries, has released a new video detailing the inner-workings of the system. In case you didn’t know, DNS stands for Domain Name System. It is essentially responsible for converting …
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21 January
The coolest home server setup ever
Home servers are starting to become commonplace, but ever meet anyone with an entire data center in their house? In the video you see here, the owner has a home server room that contains a wide array of equipment. In all, there are 9 server racks– more than many businesses …
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13 January
Tour the MasterCard data center
Few data centers are more important than the one owned by MasterCard in O’Fallon, Missouri. Millions of people swipe their credit cards every day, purchasing anything and everything from coffee to cars. However, few take into consideration the raw computing power that makes all this possible. This YouTube video shows …
December, 2009
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29 December
Data center construction- Lego style
When people think of data centers, they often envision large rooms full of loud servers. This YouTube video shows the data center in a much more innovative way– its construction from start to finish, all with Lego bricks. With high-speed connections and millions of pages to visit, I think too …
November, 2009
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24 November
Video explains cloud computing
Confused about what cloud computing is, or need an easy way to explain the new technology to a friend or coworker? The above video does a great job of introducing the topic without being too mundane. Cloud computing is great for business because of its scalability. No matter how much …
September, 2009
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30 September
Meet the explosion-proof data center
You’ve seen data centers that can survive a nuclear blast as well some of the most secure data centers in the world, but how many server rooms can survive the impact of a direct explosion? The video above shows a bomb-proof data center design in action. Dubbed LSR 18.6E, it’s …
August, 2009
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7 August
Watch a live domain auction
We hear about domain auctions on a daily basis, but rarely does one get the chance to see such an event live. The video above shows the sale of Ad.com during T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley in April. The winning bidder was Divyank Turakhia, who paid £946,137 ($1.4 million USD) for the …
July, 2009
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23 July
Al Gore makes appearance in .eco promo video
As if his starring role in An Inconvenient Truth wasn’t enough, former Vice President Al Gore appeared in a promo video today launched by Dot Eco LLC for the .eco gTLD. The .eco domain extension is one of many to be proposed next year when the new gTLD system goes …
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23 July
Web hosting gone wild
In this heart-wrenching saga, a man sets up a server in his home. His wife is fine with it at first, but soon, the servers seem to multiply and after some time, the guy is running a full-fledged web host from his home. There are two lessons to be learned …