When Six Apart acquired Danga / LiveJournal, my first thought was that they were buying the expertise they needed to scale. The fine folks at Danga had published a wealth of information on building scalable services and open sourced a bunch of helpful tools, such as memcached. Now we see Joyent buying TextDrive to bring […]
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Scaling via Acquisition?
29Nov05Google Frees Urchin
14Nov05If you’d been wondering what Google planned to do with Urchin, now we know: Google Analytics. It looks like the successor to Urchin 6 On Demand, now free with no limits for Google Adwords account holders and up to 5 Million page views per month for anyone else. Prior to the Google acquisition this service […]
Hosting Conned
26Apr05OSI Hosting.net: Deception in Texarkana. Newforge explains how they were duped into writing two stories about a hosting company that falsly claimed to have 12,000+ dedicated server customers, 16,000 new dedicated orders during a 3-4 week period, to have ordered 1,000 servers from Apple, 25,000 servers from IBM, planned to open 485,000 square feet of […]
What RSS Bandwidth Problem?
01Feb05The so-called RSS Bandwidth Problem is a meme that just won’t frickin’ die. I think Joel Spolsky started it way back in October of 2002, but it may be even older than that. The supposed problem was quickly resolved using Conditional GETs — a scheme that sends a simple 304 Not Modified message back to […]
Now serving…
13Oct04I’ve finally got my own server. I had been planning to get one from Server Matrix — last week’s WHT special was pretty good — but I ended up getting a substantial discount from my employer. Officially we don’t get a break on dedicated servers, but… I convinced the sales manager to credit the price […]
Peer 1 Buys ServerBeach
12Oct04Peer 1 Network is buying ServerBeach for $7.5 million cash. If the claim of 4,200 unmanaged dedicated servers is believable, the M&A climate for hosting companies is worse than I thought. Press release. [via Netcraft]
Speaking of the Slashdot Effect…
30Apr03A recent Ask Slashdot ponders other sources of massive traffic spikes.
While I lived in Germany, I got called in to troubleshoot a New York television station’s web server. They noticed that their home page would take a minute or more to display whenever the weather was bad. Bad weather leads to more weather reports, which […]
Dear Jakob Nielsen
30Apr03Please move your web site to a facility that can handle the load of Slashdot. The company that you began hosting with has been merged or acquired three times in the past five years. Their facilities are forgotten relics, nobody on the outside knows that they exist.
The good news is that the resulting corporate entity […]
