Archive for March, 2008

Comcast caves, goes back to “normal” traffic management

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

As a follow up to my previous post about Comcast, in which I jumped on the blogger bandwagon, Comcast seems to have had a change of heart. According to this press release, Comcast has agreed treat peer-to-peer file sharing protocols with the same priority as any other packets. ...

Godaddy censors the internet… again…

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

WIRED is running an article entitled "GoDaddy Silences Police Watch-dog Site"...  On many occasions in my hosting business, people flock to Godaddy to buy their domains, against my advice.  Yes, they're cheap, and cheap is always good (their cost of $10 per year is below my cost through a reputable wholeseller).  ...

99.9% uptime

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

After being out sick since Saturday, and coming back today to find 687 unread items in my RSS feed integrator, I found an interesting post on Slashdot, entitled "Why is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?". Within the first sentance, the original poster mentiones five-nine's (99.999% instead of the three-nine's (99.9%) ...