Google is many things… an advertising company, an ISP, email provider, a cloud pioneer and even a mobile phone maker (almost), but one thing it is not is an energy waster.  To prove that, they recently unveiled Google Green – The Big Picture, a website that highlights the many ways that Google uses its brain [...]

Take a peek inside a Google data center to see how the big boys do it (personal transport device included).

Following on the heels of a recent DNS issue, SurpassHosting was hit with another challenge… a power outage at their offices in Orlando.  As a result, many customers are reporting longer than usual response times to tickets.  The data center appears to be unaffected and customer servers appear to be online. Those tickets likely are [...]

Anyone who has tried to find a local data center for collocation, hosting or other services knows that it is not always easy. An easy to use and navigate website, datacentermap.com makes that search easier. And, because users can update their database, new centers can easily be added as they go live. Here are the [...]

It appears that Surpass Hosting has experienced yet another outage, on a weekend. Many customers, including Wright PC Consulting noticed server loss of connectivity just after 8AM CDT.  Once users were able to reconnect to their servers, many of us noticed that they had been rebooted, some more than once. So, we must ask again: [...]