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Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)... amazing music + terrible politics?

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:06:01 -0400

Let's be honest: I love Pink Floyd's old music (Dark Side Of The Moon, The Wall etc) & I had the amazing privilege of having floor seats to his performance at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday Sept 12th!

To hear Roger Waters play his old Pink Floyd music is a dream come true for a fan like me. Knowing that he has recently released new music, my sole hope for this concert was that he'd play old music and none of his new music.

I was relieved to read in the pamphlet (which was placed on my seat) that the line-up for the night was 2 sets - the first set being a random assortment of old Pink Floyd music and the second being Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety with the original Pink Floyd drummer, Nick Mason!

The show started off amazingly, the music was amazing, the crowd was amazing and the song selection was amazing. Then Roger decided to let us know he'd be playing a new song "leaving Beirut" the song was literally just a musical version of a comic strip he wrote]... ok.... the words are obviously political and slanted... then comes "Oh George! Oh George! That Texas education must have f***d you up when you were very small" WHAT?

At that point I was furious... the song ended with half of Madison Square Garden booing Roger Waters. Politics aside, no one is paying to hear Roger Waters' political views or propaganda - everyone at MSG was there to hear his old Pink Floyd music, period.

The show progresses and during a lot of negative words/parts of songs, ("All that you hate"... "All that you distrust" etc) big pictures of President Bush were shown. Once again, politics aside, no one purchased Roger Waters tickets to hear his political views.

There is a reason that these people are musicians and not politicians. Musicians like him are simply abusing the fact that people like their music to portray their agendas and views.

I still love Roger Waters' old work & the Pink Floyd music, but boy do I hate the fact that he thinks he can use it to push a political agenda.

The story goes that the concept for "The Wall" came to Roger after he spit in the face of an unruly fan... perhaps it's time that the fans start spitting back.

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Uptime Institute Says Power to Cost 300-2250% More Than Server Hardware; What Does This Mean?

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:31:00 -0400

I came across Uptime Institute founder Ken Brill's CIO Magazine article via 3tera VP Marketing Bert Armijo's blog.

Ken says while hardware prices are falling, total cost of data center ownership is headed through the roof. 5 years from now, the purchase price for a rack of servers will drop 27.5% from $138K today to just $103K. But while it only takes 15 kilowatts to power that rack right now, the energy requirement will rise to 22 - 170 kilowatts by 2012. It could cost as much as $2.3 million to power/cool $103K worth of gear throughout its 3-year lifespan.

(I'm not sure if this figure includes switches and routers and such. A recent Cisco/APC/Emerson study shows that servers/storage/cooling consume 76% of data center power, with 11% going to networking equipment, 3% lighting, and 10% power conversion losses. If Uptime's calculations didn't take the other 24% into account, Ken's $2.3M becomes over $3M!)

I've been thinking about Ken's stats and trying to understand what they mean. As a point of reference, I was looking at Dell's website, which advertises the 4U PowerEdge 6950 dual core, dual processor Opteron server for about $9K. Is Ken saying that:

(a) This particular machine will cost 27.5% less 5 years from now?

(b) 2012's late model machines will sell for 27.5% less than what's on the market today?

(c) The amount of server hardware that fills up 4U of space will be available for $6500 in 2012?

If we assume he means (c), and we accept Sun's claim that "server performance, power and space efficiencies are improving at up to 40% annually on average, and could double every 2 years", then 4U of space may be able to accommodate not one but 4 servers that each feature 4x more processing power and 4x greater energy efficiency.

In other words, $6,500 could buy you 16x more computing resources than that dual Opteron! If that's the case, you might even be able to afford $1M per rack per year in electricity. But only if you virtualize like crazy. No more leasing data center space per square foot or per rack. No more dedicated servers, either. The average customer won't need 4x more processing power in 5 years, which means you won't be able to justify turning on a whole entire server just for them.

You'd also have to replace hardware early and often. Sun recently announced a refresh service for swapping out your servers at least 3 times over 42 months. At first I thought that sounded wasteful, but if server power efficiency is improving at 40% per year, holding on to old gear might end up costing you more. Again, virtualization would be a must. You wouldn't want customer apps to become attached to machines that will be phased out before long.

Bert from 3tera says changes in data center economics will make it increasingly difficult for enterprise CIOs to justify operating their own facilities. But they won't outsource to traditional colo or dedicated server providers. Instead, he agrees with Cassatt CEO Bill Coleman that in the near-ish future, you'll be "paying for data center horsepower the same way you pay for electricity or gas". I think so too. How about you?

PS - On a somewhat related note, eWeek says Intel will release its "Clovertown" chips today. The quad core processors have a 50 watt thermal envelope, versus 80-120 watts on earlier models. That's a 38-60% drop.

PPS - Also, speaking of the Uptime Institute, check out this SearchDataCenter.com interview on how they've helped The Planet save $10K/month on electricity. The Planet, the article says, is looking to expand beyond Texas into the Midwest.

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> Just to refresh your memory I am pasting our email exchange

> and how I was solicited to purchase hosting from you, which

> I obviously did, tried to make it work, and when I saw that

> there was no way to make it work I requested a refund -

> money back, whatever you wish to call it. The hosting that I bought

> from you was in the price range that I paid with Earthoster.

> When I saw that it didn’t work, you told me that this is not a reseller

> account and to buy a reseller one. Unfortunately your prices

> are way to high and we chose to call it quit, and leave.

>

> I was told to wait until Monday and when I requested it again

> on Monday (yesterday) I received your email bellow??

> So, as you can see, I really do not plan to give you my cash

> as a present, and am requesting refund ASAP.

>

> Your answer here:

>

> “>> Your account does not qualify for the refund as you are not the first

> time

>>> tryer of the server. Refunds and money back guarantee is only offered

>>> to

>>> brand new members who had no connection with the service. You were a

>>> hosted on our server before therefore you are no longer considered a

>>> new

>>> member of the service.”

>

> is definitely not correct, and I will fight it until I see my money back.

> Not only, I am telling you that I will make this entire story known

> online, and how you threat your customers, and try to cheat also.

> If you do not issue the refund I’ll send this story to my credit card

> within a few hours from now.

>

> Reply and refund my money ASAP please

>

> Thank you

> ……………………

>

>

> “……………

> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:47:03 -0500

> Subject: Fw: Biggest-Hosting:Contact Us.

> To: …………………

> From: “………………

>

> Hi,

>

> In order to help I need to know from whom did you purchase that reseller

> account?

>

> Best Regards,

> Biggest-Hosting.com

> ………………….

>

> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:58:57 -0500

> Subject: Re: Fw: Biggest-Hosting:Contact Us.

> To: ………………………

> From: “……………..

>

> Sites are saved in the back up server for the next 48 hours. So you

> have to order a plan within that range for us to still have your files.

>

> Best Regards,

> Biggest-Hosting.com

> ………………..

>

> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:33:34 -0500

> Subject: Re: Fw: Biggest-Hosting:Contact Us.

> To: ………………………

> From:………………

>

> Earthhooster has cancelled with us, therefore all his accounts are in

> the process of getting deleted. If you like to have your sites back

> online please sign up for any of our reseller plans. We will also move

> your sites to a faster server.

>

> Best Regards,

> Biggest-Hosting.com

> ………………..

>

> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:14:23 -0500

> Subject: Re: Fw: Biggest-Hosting:Contact Us.

> To: …………………..

> From: “…………………..

>

> He already canceled and his billing date has expired. As you see your

> sites are already offline.

>

>

>

> Best Regards,

> Biggest-Hosting.com

> ……………….

>

>

>

> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:24:41 -0500

> Subject: Re: Fw: Biggest-Hosting:Contact Us.

> To: ………

> From: “support@……..

>

> Hi,

>

> In order to have more than one domain hosted you need to click addon

> domain icon in the cpanel. Then paste that other addon domain and

> point

> it to a different folder where that other domain’s files are hosted

> in.

> That way each addon domain wil have its own different location and one

> hosting account will support multiple domains.

>

> Yes, your password can be rest for all those account that were hosted

> under your reseller so you can download them and upload them to your

> regular hosting account. But you will have to change folders so each

> site is in a different folder to have multple domains in one account.

>

> Best Regards,

> Biggest-Hosting.com

> …………

>

>

>

> From: “………………..

> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 7:40 AM

> Subject: Re: Re: Fw: Biggest-Hosting:Contact Us. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE REQUESTED ASAP!

>

>

>> Well mister,

>>

>> I definitely hope that you are making a joke.

>> I had never heard of you people nor of your web site

>> until you started soliciting me to buy your hosting

>> or, otherwise you will delete my sites from the server.

>>

>> For your info - I was hosted with EartHoster and never

>> with you. Never any dealings with you, so I can never be

>> an existing client of yours! And you are trying to steal my money!

>>

>> You are trying to turn things your way, and keep my money

>> but it will not work as this is CHEATING!

>> It is stated on your site that I have money back guarantee

>> and I want to leave, and with my money

>>

>> As I purchased an account that I thought was a reseller

>> account and it was not. I tried to make it work and could

>> not use add on feature you have. End of story. I am gone

>> and I demand my money back.

>>

>> I will otherwise make this story known online, write

>> about it on forums and on my web hosting blog, and

>> will call my credit card to have my money refunded.

>>

>> Answer and refund my money ASAP please

>>

>> Thank you

>>

>> …………

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> —– Original Message —–

>> From:
>> To:
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:01 AM

>> Subject: Re: Re: Fw: Biggest-Hosting:Contact Us.

>>

>>

>>> Hi,

>>>

>>> Your account does not qualify for the refund as you are not the first

>>> time

>>> tryer of the server. Refunds and money back guarantee is only offered

>>> to

>>> brand new members who had no connection with the service. You were a

>>> hosted on our server before therefore you are no longer considered a

>>> new

>>> member of the service.

>>>

>>> Best Regards,

>>> Biggest-Hosting.com

>>> ……….

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Web Hosting Mergers and Acquisitions - November 2007

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:41:00 -0400

In case you missed a few - here are some web hosting and related merger, acquisitions and noteable transactions from around November 2007.

AxisHOST Montague, MI acquired VPS solutions provider, BuyAVPS.

BBS Technologies Houston, TX acquired R1Soft, a data recovery software firm.

Cenicola-Helvin Enterprises Las Vegas, NV acquired Florida based Lpanel.net Corp consisting of Web hosting customers.

DevStart, Orland Park, IL acquired ServerSeek.com, a server company directory.

Eventi Capital Partners Inc., Toronto, ON acquired equity stake in Brian Shepard's Canada Web Hosting.

Fat Jack Hosting Suwanee, GA acquired budget hosting company NWAHosting.

Ben Neuman’s Los Angeles, CA based Globat.com acquired virtually all assets of HostAWay.net.

HostedToday.com Charlotte, NC picked up shared hosting provider TheGreatHostingCompany.com.

Interoute, London, UK acquired Sweden based hosting and managed services company, pi.se.

Mountains West Exploration, Inc. Downers Grove, IL acquired Secured Digital Storage LLC online backup data storage.

Nettlinx, Limited Union City, NJ (Subsidiary of a firm from India) acquired Host Department, LLC.

Raincity Studios Vancouver, BC picked up the community publishing platform and hosting company, Bryght.

Ultraspeed UK has completed merger with Hostroute.com, hosting some 50,000 websites.

Webair of Los Angeles, CA purchased Montreal, Canada-based web hosting provider Wisol.

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On the Wal-Mart-ized Web...

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:39:00 -0400

Liam says this week's most important trend is web hosting providers' continued expansion of data center footprints. The strong demand for hosting facilities seems like a good sign. At the same time, there are a number of outside-world developments that folks in the hosting business ought to keep an eye on.

1. On Wednesday, in addition to officially releasing RHEL5, Red Hat announced that it will soon launch an open source marketplace called Red Hat Exchange (RHX). As Business Week reports, Red Hat will guarantee the compatibility of RHX products with its platform AND provide tech support for each and every 3rd party product on the exchange. In addition, RHX will allow end users to submit ratings, read reviews and compare notes.

2. Later that afternoon, Microsoft said it will buy Tellme Networks. The Associated Press thinks the deal is worth $800 million to $1 billion.

3. Less than a day later, Cisco announced that it has agreed to acquire WebEx for $3.2 billion (or $2.9 billion, if you deduct WebEx's $300 million cash balance).

4. And last but not least Google sort of confirmed that it's working on a mobile phone.

It's a Wal-Mart-ized web; every Big Co wants to assemble a broader range of more seamlessly integrated products for a wider and better networked audience. This leaves less and less of a market for old school vendors who sell standalone widgets to isolated prospects.

For instance, consider 1&1's recent survey of 765 small business owners. Andreas says 100% of the respondents agree that the absence of a company website is bad for sales, but there's much more to these customers' operations beyond setting up a web presence. Might they not benefit from Zoho or ThinkFree powered productivity apps? SharePoint based collaboration? CRM?

More importantly, Andreas counts "hundreds of thousands of US small businesses" among his customers. As such, one super valuable feature that he's uniquely positioned to deliver is a 1&1 social network through which customers can connect with potential vendors, partners and buyers. I feel like 1&1 is really missing out by amassing a sizable community without leveraging it for its members' benefit.

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The Future of SaaS, and What Puts ThinkFree Ahead of Google

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:30:00 -0400

ThinkFree is way cool! I signed up for an account earlier this week, and its web-based spreadsheet, word processor and slide presentation apps work beautifully. TJ Kang, the company's founder, has been developing office productivity software since the 1980s, and it shows.

Founded in 1999. ThinkFree spent its early years as a desktop software company. Its online edition was released in April 2005. Now the LA Library offers it on 2,200 computers across 71 branches, and NHN, a Korean telco with 20 million subscribers, has integrated the product with its email system. In addition, over 250,000 individual users have signed up for accounts.

Unlike Zoho, which offers an amazing breadth of hosted services, ThinkFree focuses on three applications - but makes them available in more forms than you can imagine. Let's count them:

1. The ThinkFree-hosted edition

2. The server edition (for self-hosting by enterprise customers and on-premise hosting by telco and ISP partners)

3. The iPod edition (so that you can travel with your sales presentation, but not your computer)

4. The USB edition (which allows you to edit documents on someone else's computer without leaving any trace of your work after you disconnect)

5. The upcoming premier edition (which allows synchronized online/offline document editing), and

6. The also upcoming SMB edition (which allows companies to create groups for different sets of employees to share different documents).

All of the above offer round trip compatibility with Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint.

But I think what makes ThinkFree really, truly awesome is the company's idea of what SaaS should be like. VP Marketing Jonathan Crow says that one of his most important priorities is DocExchange, a shared repository of user-submitted documents. Because there's more to online collaboration than sharing documents with people you already know. It's also about leveraging and building upon the enormous amount of collective knowledge out there - knowledge that would have been inaccessible without SaaS. SlideShare and Swivel will have to watch out; as DocExchange evolves, ThinkFree users will be able to view public slides/datasets/documents - and reuse them on the spot.

This is as exciting as Amazon's EC2 machine image sharing announcement earlier this year. As Amazon puts it, sharing accelerates community-wide innovation. Not coincidentally, ThinkFree's document viewer runs on EC2, and DocExchange files are stored on S3. (SlideShare is an S3 customer as well.)

Earlier today Dennis Howlett wrote that being a Connector (in the Tipping Point sense) is part of every service provider's job description. Some connections are specific (you could introduce two customers to each other), others are sort of self-organizing (SlideShare making customer A's knowledge accessible to B, C and D through tags, auto-recommendations, etc), and still others are implicit (Freshbooks making aggregated invoice data available to customers within the same industry).

In the future of SaaS, I think, winning vendors will get ahead by being the best Connectors rather than the snazziest technology providers. (Which is why biggest community wins.) ThinkFree is well on its way. Google will most likely catch up. And Zoho; I'd bet on that. 1&1 CEO Andreas Gauger tells eWeek that he hopes to generate more SaaS than hosting revenues within 3-4 years. Could it happen? While he's got a sizable customer base, he's far from being in the Connector business. If I were him, I'd give TJ a call :)

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In Case You've Read Otherwise, SmugMug Still Loves S3

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:01:00 -0400

Last Thursday night, I came across this SearchStorage.com article via the Storagezilla blog. Beth Pariseau wrote that Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) has had "performance and reliability issues serious enough" to prompt second thoughts among early adopters. In particular, SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill recently decided to move hot storage back in-house.

The instant I finishing reading the article, my RSS reader lit up with Don's response. He still loves Amazon, even if S3 hasn't solved the "speed of light problem". It takes at least 60-80ms for bytes of data to travel the distance between SmugMug's west coast location and Amazon's east coast data center. There's no getting around that. He moved hot storage closer to his web servers NOT to solve Amazon's performance problems, but to reduce those thousands of miles to inches. Don also tracked down the Storagezilla post and added a comment there.

Fast forward to this morning, when someone sent me a snippet from a Tier 1 Research news brief in which Dan Golding wrote about Amazon's disillusioned users. I gave Dan a hard time for basing his article on the same two customers Beth interviewed without giving her credit. Dan argued that attribution isn't customary in the analyst world. Besides, we shouldn't even be having this conversation. As a non-subscriber, I should have deleted any T1R content that came my way upon receipt.

Ironically, during his HostingCon presentation last year, T1R founder Andy Schoepfer's key message was "don't be an island". It's important for web hosting providers to connect customers to external ecosystems like eBay and Amazon, because no e-business can thrive in isolation. Given T1R's Hosting 2.0 advocacy, Dan's reaction seemed... Analyst 1.0-ish. But towards the end of our conversation, he did promise that an upgrade is on the way. As a point of reference, Burton Group, Dan's former employer, has a great blog that links to external sources. Same goes for Forrester. And at least 220 other research firms, including T1R parent company The 451 Group. Raven Zachary, who leads 451's open source practice, is even on Twitter!

Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now and back to Amazon. I think every web hosting exec needs to read Don's blog post - along with Robert Cichon's post on customer satisfaction metrics. Robert said a hosting provider has done a good job if (a) the company gets written testimonials, (b) customers refer other customers because they're happy with service quality, and (c) customers defend the company against negative remarks. Amazon gets three points based on Don's reaction. What's your score?

Finally no new year’s list for a hosting service should exclude blogging. The blog is probably the most powerful marketing tool ever invented. Online entrepreneurs who are not using this amazing tool to communicate their special qualifications to host a certain type of client. By using the right keywords and blogging strategy a web hosting service has a chance of getting an instant huge targeted audience.

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