Monthly Archives: March 2016

Facebook Data Centers: Huge Scale at Low Power Density

When Facebook was launching the first data center it designed and built on its own, the first of now several Facebook data centers in rural Oregon, Jason Taylor, the company’s VP of infrastructure, expected at least a little fallout from the new power distribution design that was deployed there. Continue reading

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First Annual State of the Cloud and Service Provider Ecosystem Survey

When HostingCon began in 2005, the landscape of the hosting and IT services industry was much more clear. Pureplay hosting providers were the norm, break/fix “IT guys” helped businesses with their computer problems and the cloud hadn’t yet begun to rain on the hosting parade. Now, 12 years later, theā€¦ Continue reading

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Friday’s Five: A Handful of Tech Headlines You May Have Missed, Mar. 11

This week’s edition features the latest numbers on global server revenue, a new data center for a Canadian web host, and a look at the container wars. Continue reading

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What Obama Thinks of Privacy vs. Security in the Age of Apple vs. FBI

In an hour-long conversation at SXSW, Obama weighed in on several topics, including the controversial Apple vs. FBI encryption case. Continue reading

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Out of the Office: WP Engine Founder Jason Cohen on Why Enterprises Love WordPress

The WHIR visited WP Engine in its office in downtown Austin and sat down with founder Jason Cohen to talk about why enterprises have fallen for WordPress, how marketers have taken over the driver’s seat of tech decisions, and what’s next for hosting, even if hosting providers aren’t acting fast enough. Continue reading

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