We have started to look into purchasing long haul Dark Fiber in an ever developing effect to get lower cost high bandwidth.
Definition of Dark Fiber (by Wikipedia)
“In fibre-optic communications, dark fibre or unlit fibre (or fiber) is the name given to individual fibers that have yet to be used within cables that have been already […]
We need to keep Net Neutrality on the minds of the people who are affected by it and that is you, me and everyone who uses the Internet. The Internet should be available equally to all who use it.
Current Net Neutrality Bill
Here is an update posted by Engadget:
“Since the start of the 110th Congress in […]
Well we had a jam-packed day full of datacenter tours yesterday. We drove all over Minneapolis and St. Paul to look at 6 different datacenters. 10 Hours of touring and talking about places to co-locate some of our equipment.
All of the datacenters we visited were quite different, both in the facilities and the people of […]
Say goodbye to your old WEP 128-bit keys and say hello to AES and WPA2. If you want to really secure down your Cisco Aironets follow these settings.
*Personal with Pre-Shared Key*
In the Windows Client (If you have your SSID Hidden and you are using Microsoft’s Zero Config)
1) Do properties on you wireless connection
2) Go to […]
I have started playing with Amazon S3 in the past day or so to see what they can do for the company I work for. We currently use a couple of CDN networks as well as our own network to distribute content.
I started looking into Amazon S3 as an ultra low cost file hosting network […]
We have been digging into some of our downloads at work lately and have seen a ton of Error 416 - Requested Range not satisfiable in the logs. I had never see the 416 error before and since there were so many of these in the logs I become alarmed.
Official Definition is: The server returns […]
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There was a DDOS attack against Go Daddy on Sunday March 11th that lasted for 4 or 5 hours. This attack affected sites and email that Go Daddy hosts but was not a total outage.
Go Daddy hosts a ton of sites so if you had problems on March 11th this might have been the […]
I guess there is a new concept being shown at cebit for protecting your datacenter from fire. You reduce the amount of oxygen that is in the air in your datacenter. Air typically has about 21% oxygen in the air and you can keep most fires from starting by reducing the oxygen levels to around […]
I read an article today in the St. Cloud Time that was about the benefits of running you tech company out of St. Cloud Minnesota and almost fell off my chair laughing.
The only way to benefit from putting your datacenter in downtown St. Cloud is if you are hosting it somewhere else in Central Minnesota. […]
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