Vancouver Datacenters and city wide power outage

Vancouver Datacenters and city wide power outage

Author JoeDigital | 14.07.2008 | Category Hosting, Telecommunications

A full day of power outage basically has halted hundreds of online businesses and thousands of hosted clients. At approximately 9:30AM PST July 14th 2008 a BC Hydro substation literally went up in flames causing thousands of businesses to lose power downtown Vancouver. A major test of infrastructure and failure that surprised everyone was the Harbor center and as everyone knows in Vancouver this is the primary meet me point and internet hub for most telco providers. their diesel generator lasted for a whopping 20 minutes before it kicked the bucket and shut down leaving data centers such as Peer1 without power for upwards of 6 hours (Harbor center apparently came back online around 5PM). The only datacenter that seemed to be spared in the area was the Primus datacenter where Netdigix hosts most of their infrastructure and clients. Power is still out in Downtown Vancouver and is not supposed to return until late Tuesday night.

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Web Hosting

Author JoeDigital | 09.01.2008 | Category Hosting

Different varieties of web hosting and other services related are being offered by InfTek Hosting. Prices for web hosting starts at just $3.99 per month, users are able to buy domain names, e-mail accounts are unlimited that are set up along with host websites on servers that are reliable.

There are other services which includes search engine optimization and web design. Hence, in order to fine tune websites across all aspects InfTek can be used by customers. Preference of customers is to have professional look like websites along with customer service with efficiency and web consulting that is knowledgeable. Web designing packages are very popular among the InfTek services as customers nearing 40 percentages not only use hosting from InfTek to host websites but also use the web design service of the company. InfTek offers different packages for logos to help designing and websites. HTML, CSS, PHP, My SQL, ASP, Java Script and Flash can be used for web designing.

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DiscountASP.NET

Author JoeDigital | 11.12.2007 | Category Hosting

DiscountASP.NET is a provider of web hosting has gone ahead and integrated Card Space from Microsoft and control panel of ASP.NET. The Card space from Microsoft’s beta launch enables Version 7 of Internet explorer and Card Space in order to use personal information cards with out any password login to their control panel hosting in personal computers. This move replaces the manual enter of Password and User Name which is traditional and enables users to manage their identities that are digital better. This also helps them to be protected from identity theft of various forms. These attacks can be phising, password attaches with brute attacks. In order to access this feature, customers will need to login onto the hosting panel in order to bind the info card with the help of feature called information card binding feature in to their account. Microsoft shared hosting provider, is windows based and is from DiscountASP.NET offers SQL database hosting and ASP.NET hosting.

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want to be your own domain registrar?

Author JoeDigital | 01.12.2007 | Category Domains, Hosting, World Wide Web

Finally I can be my own registrar without dishing out 70,000$ to ICANN. New Canadian startup company myrebel.com gives you the option of becoming your own registrar without paying the huge fees (yet to hear back from myrebel.com about the actual cost). How do you ask is this done? Their solution is a leasing program that allows you to control a registrar dedicated entirely to you at a flat monthly rate with no other upfront costs. The new service features a user-friendly interface with a log file that details all domain operations. Users have the power to execute on any command – from registration to deletion to transfer – and My Rebel said this provides the highest level of security as no names can be adjusted without the user’s approval. Godaddy watch out! I might just take over as top registrar soon ;-)
Full article can be seen here http://www.dnjournal.com/articles/companies/myrebel.htm

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