It has been an open secret for the past few weeks or months that United Internet was looking to acquire Arsys, the Spanish Domains, hosting and cloud provider, however today it was officially announced in a press release that they had bought Arsys for 140 million Euros. What effect will this have on the Spanish…
Tag: cloud
Some shots from the DC
Sorry about the quality, but the iPhone is not noted for it’s camera (come on you 920 I’m waiting for you). This is a couple of shots of the first CS5 servers that we launched at PoundHost, This is what Dell servers look like when their specifically designed for the data centre environment, no pretty bezels or mouldings. The servers you…
The lifespan of storage media
Cool info graphic from http://www.crashplan.com showing the expected lifespan of storage media over the years.
Is the cloud starting to loose it’s appeal?
“I really worry about everything going to the cloud. I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years. With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away” through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider…
Cool App I stumbled accross
I was going through some Tweets and wondering how people find time to put all the information on the web, when I came across this cool app mentioned “http://www.wordle.net”. Looked cool so I tried it with the Meta keys from the VPS page and this is what I came up with. Personally I think it…