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June 17th, 2009 by Jeff P.
Yesterday Opera Labs unveiled Opera Unite, which essentially turns the Opera web browser into a web server. Over at their blog, Lawrence Eng writes:
Our computers are only dumb terminals connected to other computers (meaning servers) owned by other people — such as large corporations — who we depend upon to host our words, thoughts, and images. We depend on them to do it well and with our best interests at heart. We place our trust in these third parties, and we hope for the best, but as long as our own computers are not first class citizens on the Web, we are merely tenants, and hosting companies are the landlords of the Internet. (http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/06/16/)
But is “landlords of the Internet” an appropriate epithet for hosting companies? Consider for a moment what hosting companies bring to the table:
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Tags: opera unite, security, uptime
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June 16th, 2009 by Bill M.
INetU has recently become one of the first web hosts to add the Dell PowerEdge R710 to our Sales Offering. The R710 is part of Dell’s new line of 11th generation servers.
I love being part of the team that previews new hardware to add to our standard offering, and I’m very excited that we’ve become an early adopter of the R710. Of course we use a very high-tech method for selecting devices to sell:
If it looks cool, USE IT! 
And these do! Really cool! Check out the sleekest, sexiest Dell server to date.
But all joking aside, Dell has really stepped up their game in design engineering. They listened to the feedback from customers and users to engineer a really solid offering. Here are some of the reasons that we knew we needed to add the R710 to our arsenal:
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Tags: dell, labs, server hardware
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June 10th, 2009 by INetU
Every month INetU invites you to Think Outside the Server® with a Brain Byte riddle. If you subscribe to our monthly newsletter, you can answer the puzzle to enter for your chance to win a prize.
This month’s Brain Byte
Johnny Appleseed just came in from gathering a bushel of apples. He poured the apples out on the table to divvy them up into the apple-themed things he was preparing for the week.
- He decided that a third of the apples would be put aside for juicing.
- One quarter of the apples would be used in gift baskets he was preparing.
- One sixth of them would be baked into an apple pie.
- And one eighth of the apples would be stewed into a jar of applesauce.
Johnny was delighted to see that he still had a few leftover apples to eat with breakfast. If his basket can hold no more than 30, how many apples did Johnny have left for breakfast?
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June 3rd, 2009 by Rich H.
It’s every IT person’s dream: you’re lounging on the beach in the Bahamas, sipping piña coladas from a tall glass with the little umbrella, laptop in hand, getting all of your work done remotely. Remote administration grants you the flexibility to turn that dream into reality.
But don’t book that flight without first considering the differences between “administration” and “remote administration.”
Whether your plans including moving to the Bahamas, or even just working from home in your PJs every now and again, we should talk about the security best practices for remote administration that will get you there.
- Use strong passwords for ALL logins.
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Tags: https, remote admin, security, vpn
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June 2nd, 2009 by INetU
We’re once again honored to not only place in Netcraft’s Top 10 Hosting companies, but to also be Number 1 for May 2009!
Netcraft explains that our site responded “resiliently” to their performance collectors throughout the month without a single failed request. Of course, we wouldn’t have such great success if it wasn’t for our amazing infrastructure team managing our network and facilities.
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Tags: awards, managed hosting
