Hosting

Data centers and the physical location of web sites tend to be a black hole for a lot of people. Have you ever wondered where the server your web site runs off is actually hosted and what it might look like? Forum One partners with Rackspace for our clients' hosting needs, which lets us leverage a world class hosting infrastructure.

Everyone suffers from clouded judgement from time to time; thankfully, there are tools that exist that may help correct your fat-fingered mistakes. Suffice to say, I had to delve into this subject recently and I thought I would share my method of recovering some important files from a ReiserFS partition.

Rackspace announced just this week that they have acquired VPS (Virtual Private Server) provider Slicehost.

You say the word DNS and you see the eyes of the people you're talking to turning blank, maybe a little cringing and generally lost focus. DNS is one of those fundamental, "hardcore" technological building blocks (some would say hurdles) you have to work your way through in the process of getting your web services launched. Over the years I've tried many times to explain how and where DNS fits into the overall process of building and launching a web site or service, with varying success.