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Adhost Partners with EarthLab
Posted in Company NewsAdhost is proud to be the official hosting partner for EarthLab.com. EarthLab.com is a leading climate crisis community that provides a practical guide to green living through community interaction, exclusive environmental news, advice from experts and key analysis. Check out EarthLab’s personalized Carbon Calculator, the first Carbon and Lifestyle Calculator of its kind - a unique three-minute survey that generates a carbon footprint score (ECP Score), which you can then save, work to reduce and track your success over time.
posted by Amy R 1:39 pm July 10, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
Adhost’s 4th of July Schedule
Posted in Company NewsThe Adhost business office will be closed on Friday, July 4 for the Independence Day Holiday; however, our technical services office will be on our regular 24 hour schedule. You can reach technical support by phone at 206-404-9500 or 1-888-234-6781 or by email at support@adhost.com. Happy 4th of July!
posted by Mark K 2:40 pm July 2, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
Unix Web Farm Hosting
Posted in Company News- Complete redundancy of all critical systems, including file storage and configuration, with automatic failover
- Load balanced Web servers ensuring high Web site availability and response
- Integrated PHP and Perl/CGI scripting capability
We are currently planning to migrate all existing Unix hosting plan customers from their current servers to the new Unix hosting cluster in the near future. This relocation will give our customers the availability, reliability and redundancy they’ve come to expect from Adhost.
posted by Mike Sweetser 1:47 pm June 30, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
ColdFusion 8 Hosting
Posted in Company NewsAdhost is now supporting ColdFusion 8 and PHP 5.2.6 on our server farm. Here are some of the new ColdFusion 8 features:
- PDF features: dynamically generate and interact with PDF documents
- Ajax features: provide data to existing Ajax applications
- .Net integration: specify any .NET object for your ColdFusion applications
- Interactive debugger: make it easier to debug application code
See a full list of ColdFusion 8 features and learn more about our hosting plans.
posted by Mike Graves 1:15 pm June 27, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
Plaza East UPS Event Update
Posted in Company NewsAt approximately 4:35 AM (PDT) on Saturday Morning, June 21, 2008, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) that provides service to approximately 20% of the servers in our Plaza East Data center experienced a significant failure. This UPS unit is in a suite which is dedicated to this purpose and is separate from the Adhost Plaza East Data Center. Very early indications suggest that the underlying nature of this failure was a significant drop in amperage from the battery strings which might have caused, for an as yet unknown reason, the unit to go into an uncontrolled over-voltage situation to compensate. Full analysis of this event will likely take at least several weeks. In any case, the end result was significant heat and smoke damage to the UPS unit.
The heroes at the Seattle Fire department were dispatched based on a smoke alarm, and, with assistance of on-site engineers, were able to get the electrical service to this UPS and the one next to it shut down without injury or other damage to the facility. This caused the “A & B” circuits that are fed from these two UPSs, and which serve the above mentioned portion of our Plaza East Data Center, to go dark at approximately 4:52 AM PDT. No other UPS systems on the floor or anywhere else in Plaza East were affected by this shutdown (including the UPS systems located within the Adhost Plaza East Data Center and other UPS systems owned and operated by Fisher Plaza on the floor).
Adhost and the Fisher Plaza engineering team were able to restore bypass power to the affected circuits in the Adhost Plaza East Data Center (and to other portions of Fisher Plaza East) by approximately 6:15 AM PDT. Adhost personnel then began the process of powering systems back up and working with affected customers to get their systems back to full operation.
Why did both UPSs get shut down? These two units are in close proximity in a suite dedicated to this function. The second, originally unaffected UPS drew in a significant amount of smoke and other possible foreign material through its intake/cooling fans during the event. It was also probably subject to significant heat which may have compromised the components in the device. At this point, the engineers and the manufacturer are unwilling to certify its operation.
In our initial release to customers, we termed this as a fire, as that is what we initially had to work with. Although there was significant heat and smoke, there were no actual flames and, aside from the two UPSs, there appears to be no long term damage that is not easily redressed. The building has had a restoration company in the building around the clock to address the issue of the smoke and odor which resulted from this event. We are also going through not only our data center in this building, but also our offices which are located on this floor and we find little or no remaining evidence of damage, with the obvious exception of the power status.
So, where are we now? The loads that are affected are currently only backed up by generator power. This means that, in the event of interruption of service from Seattle City Light, the load will drop for 30-60 seconds until power is restored by the generators. Our engineers have been in close contact with Seattle City Light and they are well aware of our situation and have agreed to do whatever they can to minimize or eliminate any work on their power distribution plant that might have an adverse impact on our service. Our thanks go out to them for their understanding and cooperation.
Now, there is some good news. Normally, replacing UPS units like these is a question of several weeks or months. However, two new UPS units were recently installed on the floor which are available for us to use. We are working with the building and our vendors to map out a plan for getting the load moved onto these UPSs as quickly as possible. We do not have an exact timeframe for this because there are several components that are currently hard to predict (exact availability of materials, permitting and inspections, etc.) but we are pushing this process as fast as it is safe (and legal) to do so. We’re hoping to set a target date of this weekend. We will make a formal announcement to the affected customers when we have that exact timing. We will, of course, work with our customers to minimize any impact that this transfer may have on their service.
We apologize for any impact this event may have caused to our customers or to their customers. We thank our customers for their understanding as we work through this situation. We also would like to thank the multitude of players for true excellence during this trying time including, the Fisher Communications engineering team, the Egis engineering team, the Adhost engineering and systems administration teams, Prime Electric, the Seattle Fire Department and Seattle City Light. With their collective effort and knowledge, this potentially very bad situation was made considerably better.
We also are very thankful that no one was injured during this event.
posted by Will R 9:50 pm June 24, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
Seattle Server Colocation Advice
Posted in Company NewsOver the past year, Adhost has written a series of articles for Media Inc. They recently published our latest article about mistakes to avoid when choosing a colocation service provider.
You can read the full article at: 4 Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing Server Colocation.
posted by Amy R 10:36 am May 20, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
New Adhost.com Design and CMS
Posted in Company NewsWelcome to the newly designed Adhost.com Web site. In addition to our beautiful facelift, we’ve transferred all of the content (450+ pages) to the new Adhost Content Management System (CMS). As our lead developer says, “We’re eating our own dog food.”
We’re excited to be using the same great CMS features that many of our development clients are using:
- a WYSIWYG editor which anyone on our staff can use to update pages on the site from any computer
- the ability to easily add on pages and sections
- search engine friendly URLs
- control over meta tags
- CSS driven design
- and much more! Check out the full CMS feature list.
A big thank you to everyone at Adhost who has worked so hard on this project.
posted by Amy R 4:48 pm May 14, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
Hosting Technology Upgrades
Posted in Company NewsWe are now offering ASP .NET 3.5 on our Windows server farm. We’ve also been working closely with Microsoft as an early hoster of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with IIS7 and are excited to be part of the official launch. During Microsoft’s Windows 2008 Launch this spring, take advantage of our WS 08 hosting offer.
posted by Mike Smith 2:33 pm March 31, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
Windows Server 2008 Hosting Launch
Posted in Company News, IndustryToday is the official launch of Windows Server 2008. According to our sources at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer is using a quote from Adhost’s very own Mike Graves during his keynote speech at the Los Angeles Convention Center today. The quote is from a case study interview we did about our experience as a beta hoster for Windows Server 2008. Learn more about our Windows Server 2008 dedicated servers and Windows Server 2008 hosting packages.
posted by Amy R 1:08 pm February 27, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
Windows Server 2008 Dedicated Servers
Posted in Company NewsAdhost has been working closely with Microsoft on launching our Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 hosting service. We’ve already deployed our first dedicated server clients using Windows Server 2008. Learn more about Adhost’s dedicated server packages.
In addition, we’re also offering complimentary WS 08 beta hosting on our “Windows Server 2008 with IIS7″ server farm until the official launch of Windows Server 2008 by Microsoft at the end of February. Test it out for yourself and experience the improved security, modular architecture, and helpful error reporting for developers. Microsoft also provided us with Windows Server 2008 training materials which we’d be happy to send you if you’re interested. Learn more.
posted by Amy R 2:52 pm February 12, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
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