Posts by Edward Dore

Linx outage caused by upgrade

THN not LHC

The power problems were in one suite on the ground floor of Telehouse North, not the London Hosting Centre.

Adaptec sacks sales chief, boots CEO from board

Web-site outage

I wonder if their web site and both DNS servers being down for hours yesterday has anything to do with this...

IBM Warwick data centre has a lie down

Equifax

This took out Equifax's credit referencing services as well as killing ISDN equipment at the BT exchange!

Lucky we believe in backup systems, even if IBM don't ;-)

Are Dell's Energy Smart servers really smart at all?

Re: Quite a timely article for me this one...

Take a look at the Dell Data Centre Capacity Planner at www.dell.com/calc

BitTorrent busts Comcast BitTorrent busting

Re: "155MB central from BT costs £316200"

The BT central connection is the connection from the BT Colossus ATM network to the ISP's network. This is just the handover of traffic from BT to your ISP. The ISP still has to pay for the bandwidth from their network onto the internet, not to mention maintaining their network etc.

It has been mentioned several times by ISPs that the price BT charge for the "central" handoff is ridiculously expensive but Ofcom refuse to do anything about it.

Rackable kicks Xeon 7000 chips into fresh, beefy server

Re: Storage is a bit weak

Not with 2.5" drive bays it can't