So I work primarily with smaller to medium sized affairs. Their web presence may be strong but in general they never require more than a few servers, often 1 or 2 suffices. The temptation is strong to use one’s chosen ISP for all internet servers. If you start a hosting arrangement with anyone chances are [...]

Categories: hosting · nvo

Another couple o’ awesome things happened while I wasn’t blogging - Google launched AppEngine and Amazon released the word that they had rolled out persistent storage to a select few and this would become a regular feature. These are both big noise in the world of cloud computing.
An interesting thing about these two services [...]

Categories: amazon · google · hosting · web service · yahoo

While it may not be true that there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, it has been my experience that there are extremely few free lunches to be had. In the tech world this is especially so - everything is tradeoffs, I’ve never seen a silver bullet that didn’t come with it’s own [...]

Categories: hosting · review

There’s a wide variety of hosting services that handle dedicated servers (not shared or colo) - for my purposes I group them into two bunches low cost and high cost. The difference between the two is generally defined by the Service Level Agreement - how quickly they guarantee they’ll help you out and how much [...]

Categories: hosting · rant · review