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It seems like everyone posted their best-of-2007 lists early in January. We like to be a little bit different, so we’re doing it now instead. In February… We had a hard time deciding on what articles to include, but we feel that we ended up with a nicely mixed bag of goodies and food for [...]
We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabling in the past, but this time we figured it was time to do the opposite: Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art. Courtesy of Digital:Slurp. — Courtesy of ChrisDag. — Courtesy of mbm3290. Swedish colors! How could [...]
We found this picture and couldn’t believe our eyes. This can’t even be called a cable mess. This is cable CHAOS. “Hmmm… Where does this one lead…?” Hopefully this isn’t your data center. Not tired of cable messes yet? Want more? Then check out this excellent, but kind of scary collection.
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 [...]
Usually downtime on the internet is a Bad Thing ™, whether it is network downtime or server downtime or any other malfunction. But let’s face it, there are some things we would happily see go down. Spam servers If spam would end, even for just a while, the mail servers of the world would heave [...]
Who hasn’t had a problem accessing a website on the internet? Our guess is that there isn’t anyone out there who has had an error-free experience of the web. But what are the main reasons for all these problems? We decided to find out. Since Pingdom is a website monitoring service with thousands of customers [...]
The DNS root servers, the backbone for handling all domain name queries on the Internet, used to all be located in North America. Not anymore. Thanks to the anycast technology used by six of the root server adresses, the actual locations of the servers have been spread all over the world and their numbers increased [...]
PING is one of the most popular programs ever created, but where did it come from? Here are five things you probably didn’t know about PING. PING was created by Mike Muuss in December 1983 on a BSD UNIX system to find a network problem. Muuss had to code ICMP support into the BSD UNIX [...]
The press has started to take notice of how useful GIGRIB is to find out facts about network outages and website problems. Back when GIGRIB was under the Ipwalk umbrella, GIGRIB was already being used by several members of the press to get facts about site outages, for example the extensive AllofMP3s site problems, to [...]
