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The Sad Case of Blogetery

July 30th, 2010 . by Jonathan

If you were once a customer or user of the blog host Blogetery, you aren’t now. On July 9th the site, along with the 73,000 blogs it hosted, disappeared, never to return. It was something of a murder mystery for the Internet. Initially, the site’s host, BurstNet wasn’t making matters any easier and was effectively [...]

Server Monitoring Services Reviewed

June 5th, 2009 . by Jonathan

If your site goes down at 1:00 in the morning, will you find out about it? If so, when? Though large corporations routinely have infrastructure that alert administrators to outages, smaller webmasters may not get any alerts at all. Even managed web hosts don’t always actively monitor connections, waiting instead for customers to report outages [...]