VPS & Dedicated

IP exhaustion, or the increasing scarcity of the IPv4 addresses needed for the web to function, has been a problem for quite some time. ISPs are being pushed to move to IPv6, but thus far few have budged. As things currently stand, the current supply of IP addresses is slated …

L.L. Bean may be famous for its outdoor products, but now it’s also known for bringing the outdoors into computing. The New England clothing retailer recently finished work on an 18,000-square-bart facility that is a step up from the drab design of most server rooms. Located in Freeport, Maine, the …

Last week, I covered what is undoubtedly one of the most secure data centers in the United States, if not the world. But a UK facility, dubbed “The Bunker,” may give the Americans a run for their money. The government-owned data center is located in Kent and sits 30 meters …

According to Allison Watson, corporate vice president for Microsoft’s worldwide partner group — there is a mouthful — businesses in Asia and Europe seem to be more willing to adopt their Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) — another mouthful — faster than those in the U.S. This international market, Watson …

As the setting of Sun Microsystems nears and the company prepares to be absorbed into Oracle, Sun is wheeling and dealing to make sure its server hardware survives the acquisition. IBM and HP have been busy offering Sun customers deals to leave their hardware and Unix-like operating system, Solaris for …

Server.com recently sold at auction for £460,830 ($770,000 USD). Considering how cut-throat the hosting industry is, this domain could provide a huge competitive advantage to a provider. The name is old, too, dating back to 1994. As previous discussed, this age makes it more attractive to buyers, but with this …

Yes, even the mighty New York Stock Exchange can’t operate without its share of servers and switches. A 400,000-square-bart data center is currently being constructed in Mahwah, New Jersey to support risk-management software and complex algorithms for traders. The center is located only 35 miles from Manhattan to ensure there …

Villains beware. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the mother of all supercomputers that could be used in the fight against botnets and other massive computer attacks. Their supercomputer, called Thunderbird is made up of a 4,480-node high performance cluster. Each cluster ran 250 virtual machines, each running the …

It may not look like something out of James Bond, but a new government data center in Culpeper, Virginia may be the most secure yet. Hosting provider Terremark constructed the data center for the United States government as a cloud computing facility. Built like a bunker, the center boasts reinforced …

In what is a blatant advertisement for its products, HP makes a cool demonstration of its failover server technology by blowing up a data center. The technology demonstrated in the video is used by more than a few companies, including Google. Essentially what happens is when a data center goes …