Turkish hackers recently redirected requests to ICANN’s and IANA’s web sites to a warning page of their own. Scary when you think that those organizations control Internet domains. More at Hackers Hijack Sites of Internet Organizations.
I was reading this article from Datacenter knowledge : Is Your Data Center Ready for the Summer? - Data Center Knowledge and it made me think we had our first taste of the summer some days ago here in Montreal. Heat inside a datacenter is critical and as you can imagine it is harder to cool a datacenter in summer when it’s 30 degrees (celcius) outside. At iWeb our datacenters are growing and filling up so fast that thinking about how our datacenters reacted to summer temperatures last year has nothing to do with how they will react this year. Well, so far so good, some air conditioning units reported errors and we already planned some adjustments but no real problem, our infrastructure team did a good job!
While there is no human talent available, iWeb needs to hire sysadmins, customer service representatives, web developpers, a customer experience director, a new communications officer and more. At the same time our biggest competitor, The Planet, lives through an explosion at its H1 datacenter and Layeredtech, another big competitor causes a commotion (and a 600+ posts forum thread) after its decision to raise its server pricing of about 20-30$ per server for every customers. It is interesting to see that it’s easier for customers to accept 2 days of downtime, then a price increase. Thank you Layeredtech, we never expected you would gift us customers like that. Good luck The Planet (and congrats for the communications you kept with your customers). There are a lot of things going on in the web hosting space and we would like to be able to catch all the opportunities. The real challenge is not to get the customers, it’s to get the human talent to serve them well.
Great post from Olivier on iWeb’s blog. If you do not understand what a RAID array is, bottles of water might help.
As see on a Web Hosting forum….
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Wow. Thank you! Ahahahah. The guy puts a link to my blog in his forum signature saying there are good man present on earth. I think I will need to pay this customer. Thanks again Desilime.
Today’s iWeb Competition Watch Report : Two interesting dedicated server companies merging. Read more here Layered Technologies aquires FastServers.
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.
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.
What web analytic tool do you use?
Do you use those products? Or something else?
Nice reading if you are interested by data centers or the web hosting industry. It also gives a good explanation of what is the specifications of a Tier1 vs Tier2 vs Tier3 vs Tier4 datacenter. Here is it : Datacenter Standards Overview.
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