With power becoming more and more expensive, data centers are having problems keeping up with the cost. One data center in Florida recently had to pay a £237,220 ($387,000 USD) power bill for one month of usage after the local utility company increased rates by 26%. To add insult to …
Read More »SSH Remote access to your website
While FTP is the most common method of transferring files to your website, there many be times when you want a secure method of manipulating your files directly on the server. Secure Shell or SSH is one method of accomplishing this. It was design as a secure replacement for Telnet …
Read More »Amazing data center remodel
Unlike the extreme server room makeover posted on Monday, the remodeling in this video is real. The time-lapse playback shows a huge renovation to Concordia University’s data center in Portland, Oregon. More than 200 meters of fiber optic line and 1 mile of copper cabling were laid. While the remodel …
Read More »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TV show where families in need receive free home renovations, a few happy-go-lucky folks from Microsoft redesign an outdated server room. Though the Pentium 200 chips mentioned in the video are definitely outdated, I’m one of those people who likes …
Read More »Fire takes Seattle data center offline
Seattle residents experienced more than a little summer heat today when a small fire took a downtown data center offline. A number of services were affected by the outage, including the Port of Seattle’s mail servers, a local hospital’s IT system, as well as thousands of websites. Some local residents …
Read More »What is on your web host's servers?
Your web host might have the right features for the right price, but before putting your bart in the door at any provider, make sure you know what sort of sites it allows and disallows. Many hosts, for instance, ban proxies. These sites take up a large amount of resources …
Read More »Email forwarding, aliases and autoresponders
Three common email services that a good web host offers to its clients are: forwarding, aliases and autoresponders. All three can be very useful for both individuals and organizations. Forwarding allows the user to keep his current email account, possibly on another domain, and redirect emails coming to a new …
Read More »Save money on hosting by paying in advance
Web hosting is cheap enough as it is, but if you’re willing to pay for as little as three months up front, you could save a good deal of money. Many dedicated and shared hosts will offer promotions where you might get a month free for paying for six, a …
Read More »Search engine submission services
Many web hosting companies offer search engine submission services. It is important not to be mislead by claims and to evaluate the cost effectiveness of the services being offered. Generally speaking, there is a good chance a search engine that uses a crawler will index your site without the need …
Read More »Net Craft Releases Web Survey Results
Internet services company Netcraft released its monthly web server survey yesterday, aptly titled June 2009 Web Server Survey. The survey monitored some 238,027,855 sites over the last month. It tracked a wide variety of things, including server platform market share and the number of websites hosted by these servers, which …
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