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16 August 2006 56 Comments

So You Want to Host My Servers? 8 Requirements for a Data Center

A good system or cluster of systems is absolutely essential for reliable uptime for a website or service. Even more importantly is the quality of the data center provider that is supporting your servers. This may be as close to any kind of “from the horse’s mouth” as you’re going to get but we have [...]

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28 June 2006 2 Comments

Data Center Power Outage

Technosailor and all of the b5media sites have been experiencing several critical issues lately. You’ve probably noticed it. It’s been a perfect storm of sorts with a bunch of unrelated, but highly important problems.
1) First, we discovered we had a degraded RAID array on one of our servers. Because this server was RAIDED we were [...]

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