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March 22, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet statistics provider Ipwalk (ipwalk.com) announced on Wednesday it has launched the beta version of its free uptime monitoring service, GIGRIB. The service uses a global, distributed network of clients to provide reliable uptime monitoring of sites selected by its community of users.
Similar to SETI@home and other distributed technologies like BitTorrent, GIGRIB relies on its community of users sharing a small part of their bandwidth and CPU to contribute to a greater whole. In return, GIGRIB users can check uptime statistics for any site on the Internet for free.
GIGRIB hopes to provide uptime statistics for all the Web hosting companies and Internet service providers in the world on a server and network level, allowing future discussions about company uptimes to be solidified by public facts rather then speculation.
Installing the GIGRIB client on a computer enables the user to become part of the global GIGRIB network of distributed clients that are used to monitor sites selected by its users. Sites are checked from multiple locations, providing very accurate information. As more users download the monitoring service, GIGRIB will become more powerful, enabling it to collect and distribute more uptime data.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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