VPS & Dedicated

Quincy, Washington, is a small town home to no less than 5,044 people. Would you believe that this former railroad camp is attracting investment from companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google? Because of heavy tax incentives and cheap power, technology firms are flocking to Quincy. The town’s proximity to a …

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has announced a change to the White House’s Recovery.gov website that will save the government some $750,000 USD. What did it do, cut half the site’s staff and lease out excess server space? No, the feds simply switched the site to cloud computing. The change will …

Earlier this week, Amazon’s EC2 cloud service experienced yet another power outage. This time, a car crashed into a local utility pole and knocked out the power. The generator transfer switch failed. A number of East Coast customers lost service for about an hour. A very similar incident occurred in …

Need a dedicated server in a flash? Normally a server can take up to two days to deploy, but a number of hosts specialize in instant setup. Imagine having your server ready just a few seconds after ordering! Instant servers are generally carry a price premium over their slower-to-deploy counterparts. …

As part of an advertising campaign, HP has released a rather funny video of… a hot tub in the data center. Three IT admins are having a meeting in the tub, which was supposedly bought with savings from buying HP management software. Of course this video isn’t meant to be …

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 …

Own a large number of servers or never have time to check up on your websites? If you don’t use a website monitoring service, you’re bound to run into trouble. A site monitoring service is just what the name implies. In the event your site or server goes down, it …

Warren East, CEO of Arm Holdings revealed that he expects servers based on ARM multicore processors to arrive in 2011. ARM processors are best known in the mobile device market, especially smartphones, because of their low power consumption. Normally, low power consumption equates to low speed, which is fine for …

As firms scramble to build more and more data centers, Dell recently surprised the industry with its announcement that it may never build another data center. The Texas computer company has found that it is cheaper to make use of existing resources rather than expand. Using virtualization, Dell has increased …

Data released in a report by TeleGeography shows that things are looking good for the data center industry. A total of $3.2 billion worth of switches were sold last quarter and international bandwidth usage has increased by 60%. Most of the growth in network traffic was seen in the Middle …