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 […]
Kudos to the Planet
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 […]
Google Container Data Center Tour
I thought that it was pretty interesting that Google posted these tours of their new container data center storage facilities on YouTube. If you are a nerd like me and you look at a Data Center Tour like others would a trip to Disneyland, you will love this… I got a kick out of how […]
Extremist Websites Using US Hosts
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 […]
GoDaddy Denial of Service
I was just reading on WHIR this morning about GoDaddy’s most recent denial of service that brought down several thousand of their clients websites yesterday. In their response they noted that even though it was several thousands of websites, it only represents a small percentage of their clients. This is one of the downsides to […]
Data Loss Dooms Journalspace
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 […]
Mailtrust Advisory Board
I am going to be on the Mailtrust Customer Advisory Board for the next 6 months. I was talking w/ one of their representatives today about how Mailtrust’s Noteworthy product is probably my most favorite SAAS solution on the market! I didn’t really realize how handy the webmail interface was because I usually download everything […]
Wal-Mart Website Issues
I was out of state visiting family over the holidays but still managed to catch wind of this one on CNBC black friday. It appears that Wal-Mart’s website went down due to heavy traffic and slow pageload times. There are no estimates as to how much revenue was lost during the outage but with wal-mart.com […]
Valuation of Annual Accounts
Several times my partners and I have played around with the idea of acquiring a smaller hosting company that was for sale on the open market. We have the infrastructure to accommodate several times over the number of clients we currently have and purchasing a smaller company seems like a logical choice for us to […]
Hosting Locations of Busiest Websites
Being a partner and co-founder of a managed hosting company, Pleth Networks, I try to stay up with what’s going on in the industry. I stumbled onto Netcraft this morning and found this hosting research data pretty interesting. Notice how big a piece of the pie our datacenter, The Planet, has in comparison to the […]