by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 13, 2016 | Server Administration
When Netflix faced an outage in 2011, they had to offer a 3% credit to their customers. The outage was due to a resource crunch in the Amazon cloud they were hosted in. It’s tough for a business to survive if such outages happen frequently. A cloud hosting...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 10, 2012 | Server Administration, VMware
Virtualization is no longer a niche market. It is now a pre-requisite for success in webhosting industry. Gartner’s server virtualization report of 2011 mentions a virtualization market penetration of 40% for x86 server work loads. A study by Tier1Research on...