I’ve been dealing with various Datacenters mostly from mainland US for over a year now and I want to share with you my Top 5 Datacenters.

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Their network has been down for over 3 hours now and the last chat with their support told me that they have no estimate to when they will be back up. We have around 30 sites hosted their and an extended downtime means less profit since these sites are e-commerce sites.

Here’s a screenshot of our chat earlier.

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A new Silicon Valley startup called International Data Security (IDS) has sent some big waves through the data storage industry by announcing (PDF) its intent to set up a fleet of data-serving cargo ships. These floating data centers will come equipped not only with standard storage services like SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network Attached Storage), but also with amenities such as private offices, overnight accommodations, and galley services.

To save money, IDS is purchasing decommissioned ships that were scheduled to go to the scrapyard, then refurbishing them in drydock. According to founder Ken Choi, the first ship—which will also house the new IDS headquarters—is scheduled to come online in April, and it will be parked at San Francisco’s Pier 50 along with its sister ships. Each ship has approximately 200,000 square feet of usable space. The company plans to deploy as many as 22 ships in North America and 50 ships worldwide.

read more | source: Ars Technica

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My blog was down for a couple of days due to an issue with a plugin that I put last week, i removed the said plugin just now (I wasn’t able to check my site for 2 days) and my blog is now running smoothly.

I APOLOGIZE to all of my readers and visitors.

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