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August 22, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Online auctioneer eBay (ebay.com) confirmed Thursday that it experienced a power outage in its Web hosting facility that resulted in the entire auction service being down for nearly three hours.
The power outage occurred on Wednesday night between 8:55 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
According to reports, the power outage took place at a Qwest (qwest.com) facility in Santa Clara, California, a location for many of eBay?s Web servers.
The power outage came amid reports that eBay is seeking to bolster its redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities through the diversification of facilities to other geographic regions.
The company is said to be currently seeking nearly 200,000 square feet of facility space in the Denver, Colorado area for Web hosting and server space.
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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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