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What’s Up With Apple’s Hosting Infrastructure?
August 6th, 2008 : Rich MillerIs Apple's data center infrastructure not up the challenge of scaling a new service like MobileMe? Read More
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Steve Jobs: MobileMe Launched Too Early
August 5th, 2008 : Rich MillerApple CEO Steve Jobs says that the troubled MobileMe hosting service was launched too early and "not up to Apple's standards." Read More
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SiteMeter Crashing Popular Blogs
August 2nd, 2008 : Rich MillerA number of large blogs are reporting that their sites are crashing when viewed in Internet Explorer, and are attributing the problem to code from The Internet metrics service SiteMeter. Read More
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Cuil Launches, Crashes, Recovers
July 28th, 2008 : Rich MillerThe new search engine Cuil launched last night and crashed shortly afterward. It's back up now. Read More
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Vancouver Power Outage KOs Plenty of Fish
July 15th, 2008 : Rich MillerAn underground circuit fire caused a major power outage in Vancouver, resulting in a generator failure at the Harbour Centre telecom hub. Read More
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iTunes Activation Servers Overwhelmed
July 11th, 2008 : Rich MillerMany early purchasers of the new iPhone 3G are unable to activate their phones through iTunes because the activation servers are overwhelmed. Read More
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Dealing With Downtime
July 11th, 2008 : Rich MillerFinding the right way to acknowledge and manage downtime can be crucial to maintaining the confidence of your users, according to companies that have weathered outages. Read More
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Power Outage Affects Rackspace Customers
July 10th, 2008 : Rich MillerSeveral customers of Rackspace report being offline for several hours Wednesday night due to power problems at a Dallas data center. Read More
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Breakthrough Failures That Help Sites Scale
July 7th, 2008 : Rich MillerFor growing web sites, a sudden burst of enormous web traffic is almost always accompanied by learning experiences. Here are some examples of sudden success that led to scalability challenges. Read More
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
