When it comes to the data center, one of the highest priorities for the IT department is security. IDC’s Frank Gens, Senior Vice President & Chief Analyst said, that security ”is always the number one concern of IT.” Gartner and Forrester studies also put security up as one of the high priorities that a data [...]

Website hosting, vps, and dedicated servers are all shifting rapidly. The added uncertainty of the worldwide financial crises has created a new sense of urgency for hosting providers to adapt to this rapid change and thrive. What can we expect in the future for website hosting? Below are the expert opinions of four veterans of [...]

Early in the morning, red lights go off and the network administrator once again has to address the problem of a server in the throes of death. An onslaught of terminated connections assaults the web site as the admin desperately tries to bring things back online.
Although this type of thing happens to a lot of [...]

From time to time I like to try out new technologies or explore established web publishing techniques that I just haven’t tried yet. And so it was that I had set up a dedicated hosting server, loaded up the Plesk control panel from Parallels, and launched a test website.
In the process of learning how to [...]

Let’s take this opportunity to think about two totally unrelated, yet oddly enough, very much related things: cell phones and milk.

When I was in the Army there as this phenomenon we called the distant end’s problem. At first it seemed like a reasonable conclusion drawn from the evidence at hand, however, after further inspection, "the distant end’s problem," ended up being a catch phrase for I am too lazy to identify the true problem or [...]

Of all the companies and services showcased at ISPCON Fall 2006, I can only think of a small handful that actually impressed me. One in particular, a company called OpenDNS, who has taken the complicated job of updating the building block of the Net, DNS.

I had a Plymouth Sundance. A lot of people hated that car, but I thought it was one of the best cars I ever drove. It didn’t go very fast, in fact I use to joke that it kept me honest on the freeways since I had to drive the speed limit, the sundance couldn’t [...]

Even though rootkits have been around for a very long time, they have only recently garnered popular view when Sony used a rootkit in order to maintain their CD copy protection.