Network Solution goes down in UK
It is being reported that the NetworkSolution's UK branch has gone down.
While there seems to be no issues in the US network, clients are reporting the outage on a number of hosting foruums. Network Solution.com makes no mention of any service inturuptions on their US website.
Network Solutions has a history of ownership change and growth. After going public in 1997, they were aquired by Verisign in 2000. They have been purchased since by 3 other owners. Today they are presently owned by General Atlantic.
We will continue to update the status as it becomes available
Update August 1 2008 10am
Networks Solution continues to have issues.
Idcdc reports: For what is worth, it's down in Romania as well.
Update Aug 1 2008 6:24
Network Solutions is back online :>)
Hosting company CTN1 France down
Hosting company CTN1 in France is down for the third day.Initially it was rumoured to be a server migration to a new data center....well three days would be excessive.
Maybe they could plug one in and update their clients. Just a thought.
CTN1 WebLog
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Issues at One9host
It seems that One9host .net is having issues. It is being reported that they have been down for 2 days. We have attempted to contact the site admins in both New Jersey and California, but so far have got no response.
Acqusition of HostVector by MILLENNIUM DATA Leaves Clients Frustrated
The following press release was taken in part from the Millennium Data site:
Vaughan, Ontario Canada – July 18, 2008 – Millennium Data Systems, an emerging Canadian managed services company announced it has acquired the assets of HostVector (www.hostvector.com ), a Toronto based managed hosting provider.
“HostVector’s array of hosted network services which include; dedicated, virtual and e-mail hosting will complement Millennium’s current managed services offerings”, commented Tony Di Benedetto, CEO of Millennium Data Systems.
It continues.... Management expects HostVector assets to be fully integrated by August 2008, with no disruptions to HostVector’s 1000+ clients however history shows otherwise:
The Reality of the situation
"About 26 hours ago my email client stopped pulling email from my Hostvector account, where I host multiple websites.
This morning I got a call from a client that their website (that I host through Hostvector) was down - their ebay listing pictures, oscommerce site etc are all unavailable - and still are.
I called into HV's tech support and got a frontend voicemail message announcing a DNS change and that all should be well soon - or at least by midnight tonight. There was no way to reach a live person.
To offer them patience/benefit of doubt, I wait until midnite - no services. On hold again with them"
We knew the web was big...
How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages. Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day.
So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don't know; we don't have time to look at them all! :-) Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite -- for example, web calendars may have a "next day" link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a "new" page. We're not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what's a useful page, and there is no exact answer.
We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.
To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States. Except it'd be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections.
As you can see, our distributed infrastructure allows applications to efficiently traverse a link graph with many trillions of connections, or quickly sort petabytes of data, just to prepare to answer the most important question: your next Google search.
from the google blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/...b-was-big.html