[RTC List] Precision Media meltdown

[Dwight Winegar]

Sorry to hear about this and how it affected local Redwood Coast  
businesses.  I found this a bit coincidental (ironic?) to be reading  
about this though, from down here in SF today.  At our Apple meeting  
today, the subject was "Running your Apple applications and Business  
Website on Co-Lo [Services]."  Many of us were not aware that anyone  
had done this specifically for Apple apps, or just what the  
implications of this could mean, - although we had heard of Mac mini  
server farms for lease.  This was different, it meant that if someone  
needed the power of an Xserve RAID with Xsan, you could have someone  
else do it for one's business miles away on "shared time."  One  
example we were looking at was of LA businesses where the Co-Lo was  
in Las Vegas.

I'm still a little unclear though, IF we could do something like this  
on the Redwood Coast due to our Bandwidth problems (by the norm that  
is).  Also I bring this up as an RTC topic here on the list to get  
some discussion of Co-Lo for informational purposes, to what extent  
our local providers might be able to offer such solutions, as  
something that could benefit local businesses.  This is more than  
"web-hosting" that I'm referring to - as in using the "power" of an  
outsourced server in a cooperative  or share environment.   Anyone  
here with the technical knowledge of this want to help explain it  
better in basic business user terms?   (and how it fits into our  
scope of current infrasturcture?)

- Dwight

On  08 Nov 2007, at 18:38, Peter Krueger wrote:

> Hello Fellow RTC'ers
>
> Yes there was a crisis - Most  of  Precision Intermedia's web  
> hosting clients were among the  approximately 170,000 to 450,000  
> websites globally that were affected by a horrificly botched data  
> migration of a major data center this past weekend and into this week.
>
> This was not a "Precision Media Meltdown"  (That's not even our  
> name) and certainly NOT the