A couple of months ago, one of Rackspace’s data centers ran into trouble when a truck crashed into a power transformer and caused a major power outage. In general, power outages are a frequent cause of data center trouble and other service interruptions. Even if safeguards are in place, there is always a chance that [...]

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Ok, we’re one day late. Yesterday, on January 1, it was exactly 25 years since the precursor to the internet, ARPANET, switched over to TCP/IP. Google celebrated this (and the arrival of 2008) by changing their logo for the day, and included a nice little Easter egg. The handshake sequence of the TCP protocol was [...]

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