RAID Explained with Bottles of Water
Great post from Olivier on iWeb’s blog. If you do not understand what a RAID array is, bottles of water might help.
Am I blogging right? And Habs are out !
Damn it ! The Habs lost ….
I am not a Carey Price fan and his latest games are nothing to make me a fan. I never understood the press about Price while we had Huet that was doing a good job. Why did Montreal finished first on the division ranking? Because Huet and Price were the same, they were good half of the time and bad the other half so when you mix them together you had a good goaltender almost all the time because when Price was bad he was replaced by Huet and the same for Huet. I liked Huet a lot better because of what he accomplished in Montreal. They should have sent Koivu to Washington … anyway now they lost. We’ll talk about hockey again in September.
That’s not why I wanted to post.
I had a management meeting this week and Eric my partner was thinking about blogging because people always ask him if he has a blog. He doesn’t. His blog would be at ericchouinard.com which currently redirects to our iweb.com web site. Eric thought he should have a blog but said he would be able to post something maybe once a week. Everyone at the meeting told him he shouldn’t blog if he could not post at least daily. They also turned at me and told me that I really was on the limit, ok I admit I am not really a good blogger.
I have tons of things to talk about but I never have time to post although you are at least 32 to follow my blog daily according to feedburner. I frequently forward interesting stuff I read to my staff but I do not always take the time to post it on the blog, maybe I should.
By the way, we are just opening a new executive position, good salary and the person will be working directly for me. I can’t give me details now but if you are interested email me !
That was me blogging on a saturday night … nothing really interesting to say, but I guess it’s better than not posting ! Have a good night thinking about the Montreal Canadians loosing 4-1 to the Flyers. Brière must be happy he went with the Flyers now.
Thank you .. I never would have expected that !
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iWeb Competition Watch
Today’s iWeb Competition Watch Report : Two interesting dedicated server companies merging. Read more here Layered Technologies aquires FastServers.
Un Inbox vide? Incroyable.
Je ne peux pas y croire moi-même … mon inbox est vide. Ce n’est pas une erreur, je n’ai pas pesé DELETE sur tous mes mails par erreur et le compte fonctionne bien et est accessible. Il est bien vide.
Niet. Zero. Vacio. Vide. Empty.
Je ne vous montrerai pas ma liste de TODO, elle déborde, mais mon inbox vide ça fait longtemps que je n’avais pas vu ça.
Ce n’est pas facile de s’organiser et de bien traiter des mails sans y passer 12 heures par jour mais cette semaine je me suis organisé un peu avec des outils assez intéressants qui me semblent prometteurs. J’utilise rescuetime.com pour essayer de contrôler mon temps dans mon inbox, une version de Blue Smiley Organizer que j’ai légerement modifiée et installé sur un compte d’hébergement web de iWeb (pas évident a comprendre au départ mais une fois modifié un peu et compris c’est pas mal complet comme software), Taskpaper et un peu de logistique.
Je dois remettre en question mon organisation a chaque 3 mois. Et vous? Comment vous organisez-vous? Et est-ce que vous avez une solution permanente?
Google Datacenters Secrets
Very intresting for people interested in web hosting and datacenters. DataCenterKnowledge compiled a FAQ of known facts about Google Datacenters. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
The 3 page article is definitely a must read … a lot of interesting content. Here’s an excerpt (I removed the details about each bullet … go and read it on datacenter knowledge).
How does Google decide where to build its data centers? Here are the factors that are known to influence Google’s data center site location process:
- The availability of large volumes of cheap electricity to power the data centers
- The presence of a large supply of water to support the chillers and water towers used to cool Google’s data centers.
- Distance to other Google data centers.
- Tax incentives.
Business model …. Google policy change effects.
Is your business model dependant of a third party?
A record $160-million VC investment. A rich Web strategy. A quirky founder. For a few weeks last spring, Guelph, Ont.’s Geosign had it all. Then mighty Google stirred. And it was over.
You must read this story about arbitrage and effects of Google policy changes from the Financial Times : Cover story: Blown away. What once was an easy way to make money (you still needed to invest a lot of time to make it work) is now gone. Will other businesses that were relying on arbitrage be able to change their business model and survive?
Manage your Time with Rescue Time
I discovered Rescue Time last week … and I think I will like it a lot. I just started and it is really nice to track what you actually do while in front of your computer !
New Zoho : Zoho People
This new service by Zoho looks really interesting as an instant team management solution : Zoho People - HR solution on demand
iWeb.com now online, maintenant en ligne
J’espère qu’il n’y aura pas trop de burn out dans notre équipe après ce projet de fou ! / I hope no one of our team will be affected by a burn our after this crazy project !
The new iweb.com is here.
Le nouveau iweb.com est ici.
Plusieurs mois de travail, une nuit blanche de mise en production pour Hugo, Philippe et Eric un nouveau nom de domaine (enfin sur iweb.com), un design digne du web d’aujourd’hui (good job Jérôme) et des nouveaux produits. En plus ce n’est qu’un début … plusieurs nouveautés pourront découller de ce nouveau site. Et une grosse gang qui a travailler sur ce projet (Merci tout le monde, je veux pas nommer tout le monde pcq je vais en oublier et ce serait chien mais tout le monde du DEV et du MKT … et des infrastructures et du service technique … bref tout le monde). Je suis très content.
Bienvenue sur mon blog. Welcome to my blog. Si vous êtes ici, c’est que vous me connaissez d’une certaine façon. If you got here you know me in some ways.