Twitter to Build Data Center to Beach the Fail Whale
july 2010 by sogrady
an interesting decision on Twitter's part
datacenter
hosting
twitter
reliability
scalability
july 2010 by sogrady
Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs
january 2010 by sogrady
i'll give this a try, but unless it's free streaming, Dropbox is still the better option for me
google
dropbox
storage
hosting
backup
january 2010 by sogrady
Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts - Amazon RDS, MySQL, Hmm?
november 2009 by sogrady
"Kudos to Amazon. Having them run a database service won't provide the "high end" sort of usage that keeps the folks who tune databases in business, but there certainly are a lot of users for whom this type of service will work just fine.
mysql
rds
amazon
hosting
cloud
memcached
november 2009 by sogrady
We're all ops people now
june 2008 by sogrady
yes we are, but there are many who'd prefer not to be
development
infrastructure
sysadmin
puppet
agile
deployment
hosting
toread
aws
cloud
git
june 2008 by sogrady
Joyeur: Cloud Nine: Specification for a Cloud Computer. A Call to Action.
may 2008 by sogrady
wherein the Joyent gang proposes a scoring system for would-be cloud players
cloud
computing
hosting
infrastructure
joyent
s3
utility
may 2008 by sogrady
Red Hat Prepping Managed Services Strategy | MSPmentor
april 2008 by sogrady
this is interesting
redhat
managed
services
cloud
hosting
partners
april 2008 by sogrady
Virtualization and Personal Web Hosting (by Jeremy Zawodny)
february 2008 by sogrady
"I essentially said that when my existing web servers--those physically hosted up in a data center in San Francisco--finally give up, I'll probably replace them with a few VM images running on a yet-to-be-discovered virtual machine hosting provider." - di
virtualization
jeremyzawodny
hosting
amazon
ec2
february 2008 by sogrady
Joyeur: Bingodisk and Strongspace: What Happened?
january 2008 by sogrady
whereing the Joyent gang details their response to the outage, the causes, and the compensation - which includes the open sourcing of two assets. looks like i'll have to find a new home for my Strongspace stuff, but it was comp'd so i have no complaints
backup
bingodisk
cloud
customerservice
economics
hosting
internet
joyent
strongspace
january 2008 by sogrady
Cohesive Flexible Technologies - Elastic Server Info
january 2008 by sogrady
another cloud management third party. some of these folks will eventually be snapped up.
amazon
ec2
hosting
server
virtualization
management
january 2008 by sogrady
Simplifying Web Framework Deployment on Shared Hosting
january 2008 by sogrady
an important question, given the role of shared hosts as a gateway to ubiquity, although b/twn virtualization and HaaS, it may become less so over time
deployment
hosting
web
frameworks
ruby
rails
python
january 2008 by sogrady
isabel wang's blog: Can hosting partners make any contribution to the Microsoft cloud?
july 2007 by sogrady
"Ozzie's vision reminded me a lot of Amazon Web Services, for which its evangelists have built a vibrant developer ecosystem. Why, in contrast, would Microsoft want to sign up hosting partners who are not at all equipped to advance its cause?"
microsoft
rayozzie
amazon
s3
ec2
hosting
isabelwang
july 2007 by sogrady
» Should you switch your biz to Google’s e-mail domain hosting service? We did | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com
april 2007 by sogrady
Berlind's account of switching MassEventsLabs over to Google Apps
davidberlind
masseventslabs
google
apps
hosting
messaging
collaboration
april 2007 by sogrady
Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : Google Apps Premium Edition is Here: $50/year for 10 GB Gmail + 24/7 Phone Support
february 2007 by sogrady
Isabel digests the Google news' impact on the web hosting market; it's interesting, because i wouldn't even consider email and so on from a GoDaddy - they're not an option
hosting
google
apps
appsforyourdomain
february 2007 by sogrady
Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : Newsflash: Servers Consume More Power Than Missisippians
february 2007 by sogrady
if there's someone doing a better job covering the extended hosting market, i don't know who it'd be; Isabel breaks down the numbers on power costs
isabelwang
hosting
servers
power
economics
costs
amd
carr
february 2007 by sogrady
Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : If You Find That You're Losing Hosting Business To Amazon, the Reason Will Be...
february 2007 by sogrady
i concur; Jeff is a one man force for Amazon
jeffbarr
isabelwang
amazon
ec2
s3
hosting
evangelism
february 2007 by sogrady
Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : ServerBeach Rocks; Time for Other Dedicated Server Providers to Catch Up
february 2007 by sogrady
case study from the hosting industry of the value of corporate blogging
hosting
isabelwang
serverbeach
blogging
transparency
february 2007 by sogrady
New servers for WordPress.com « Barry on WordPress
january 2007 by sogrady
lots of interesting tidbits in here; good read on what scaling means from a hosting perspective
hosting
serverbeach
servepath
joyent
TextDrive
debian
solaris
zfs
january 2007 by sogrady
John Sequeira's Weblog
january 2007 by sogrady
John's thoughts on Amazon's EC2/S3 offerings
s3
ec2
hosting
sequeira
amazon
january 2007 by sogrady
Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : Could Sun's New Partnership with Intel Lead to Solaris Servers in Your Data Center?
january 2007 by sogrady
"Might it be possible that you'd be called upon to support Solaris servers in your data center in the not to far future?" - a very good question indeed
intel
xeon
sun
solaris
opensolaris
hosting
january 2007 by sogrady
(mt) Media Temple - (mt) weblog » Blog Archive » Anatomy of MySQL on the GRID
january 2007 by sogrady
i'm going to have to talk to the Media Temple guys about their GRID offering eventually, but this is an interesting case study of running MySQL in a cutting edge environment
GRID
mediatemple
mysql
hosting
virtualization
january 2007 by sogrady
Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : How Amazon Won the On-Demand Hosting Game (And What You Can Do to Catch Up)
january 2007 by sogrady
some interesting feedback on S3 etc from the web host perspective
webhost
s3
amazon
haas
hosting
wang
january 2007 by sogrady
Userscript.org and Amazon S3
december 2006 by sogrady
fascinating: S3, not just EC2, as a legit web host - for the Greasemonkey script repository, no less
via:Awsblog
s3
amazon
ec2
greasemonkey
userscripts.org
hosting
case
study
december 2006 by sogrady
ElasticLive - Clustered Grid Server Web Hosting: Home
november 2006 by sogrady
fascinating: clustered grid web hosting layering on top of EC2 - i'm more of a believer in that every day
ec2
amazon
elasticlive
clustered
grid
web
hosting
virtualization
xen
via:Barnaby
november 2006 by sogrady
WordPressMU « WordPress Codex
october 2006 by sogrady
i'd like to use this, but the "limited functionality" thing worries me a bit
blogs
hosting
WordPress
mu
october 2006 by sogrady
christopher baus.net | 2006-10-26 | New hosting setup
october 2006 by sogrady
christopher's new hosting setup; good info in here
hosting
email
ec2
rosehosting
tuffmail
baus
october 2006 by sogrady
Joyeur: Google Analytics is very very very nice (now)
august 2006 by sogrady
i'll have to give Google Analytics another whirl, but like the commenters i don't buy the Kiko to Mint comparison; apples to oranges, and the plugin architecture makes Mint very sticky for us
mint
google
analytics
web
hosting
august 2006 by sogrady
Collocated Unix Server - $65/Month || kuro5hin.org
may 2006 by sogrady
they're old and possibly outdated, but some very nice testimonials for Johncompanies from the kuro5shin crowd
johncompanies
hosting
customer
references
case
studies
testimonials
may 2006 by sogrady
Lunarpages - Read This BEFORE You Sign Up - Lunarpages Review
may 2006 by sogrady
i know most companies have pages like this out there, but this is pretty brutal and all too believable
lunarpages
hosting
reviews
reference
case
study
may 2006 by sogrady
Zimbra - Zimbra Hosting
march 2006 by sogrady
initial round of Zimbra hosters is here; that's the good news - can't find much info on their websites, alas
zimbra
hosting
saas
messaging
march 2006 by sogrady
Zimbra - Blog
september 2005 by sogrady
Zimbra's Dietzen on hosting versus on-premise consumption of messaging
zimbra
dietzen
hosting
asp
deployment
smb
saas
september 2005 by sogrady
Syncing With Rsync — Strongspace™ Weblog
september 2005 by sogrady
ah, so there is a sync option; will have to give this a whirl when i get back from my trip
rsync
hosting
backup
textdrive
september 2005 by sogrady
Secure File Storage and Sharing – Strongspace.com
august 2005 by sogrady
i like the idea, but need some sort of sync rather than FTP; how well does rsync work over a WAN, i wonder
backup
basecamp
saas
hosting
ruby
rubyonrails
textdrive
web-service
service
august 2005 by sogrady
Feld Thoughts: Acceptable Downtimie
august 2005 by sogrady
a must read for service providers of all stripes
availability
economics
hosting
reliability
saas
software
service
august 2005 by sogrady
Netcraft: Solaris Remains Top Choice Among Fortune 100
november 2004 by sogrady
interesting look by web server survey of OS popularity amongst the bigger enterprises out there
linux
netcraft
solaris
windows
hosting
market-share
popularity
november 2004 by sogrady
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