Pleth doesn’t host any websites at Rackspace, but we do however house some of our clients email solutions there.  Usually when there is a major NOC failure like this I like to find a nice tight hole and crawl into it, fortunately these situations rarely happen. When they do it’s a helpless feeling for those of […]

Yesterday The hosting providers talking about their systems were down.  I put two and two together and figured that a lot of these providers were probably all housing their infrastructure at the planet as well.  A few minutes later Kevin from Planet updated his status to let us know what was going on with the […]

This is a practice that has been going on for a while now but is just starting to get some attention.  Apparently some of these Muslim extremist websites that are touting anti-American sentiments are actually using web hosting infrastructures located here in the United States.  I personally know of at least two other incidents similar […]

I was just reading a post on Data Center Knowledge this morning about a blog hosting service that I had actually heard of, Journalspace, who is apparently shutting their doors after they apparently lost all of their clients data due to one of the poorest backup strategies I have every heard of.  This is yet […]