Web, Hébergement, Technologies, iWeb, WebDépart : Martin Leclair

What happened at VMware?

martin_ml — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:52:11 +0000

Here are some speculations about VMware’s CEO departure : VMware Bombshell: The Day After - Data Center Knowledge

ICANN & IANA Hacker Takeover

martin_ml — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:05:05 +0000

Turkish hackers recently redirected requests to ICANN’s and IANA’s web sites to a warning page of their own. Scary when you think that those organizations control Internet domains. More at Hackers Hijack Sites of Internet Organizations.

Summer + Datacenter = Potential Problems

martin_ml — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:22:53 +0000

I was reading this article from Datacenter knowledge : Is Your Data Center Ready for the Summer? - Data Center Knowledge and it made me think we had our first taste of the summer some days ago here in Montreal. Heat inside a datacenter is critical and as you can imagine it is harder to cool a datacenter in summer when it’s 30 degrees (celcius) outside. At iWeb our datacenters are growing and filling up so fast that thinking about how our datacenters reacted to summer temperatures last year has nothing to do with how they will react this year. Well, so far so good, some air conditioning units reported errors and we already planned some adjustments but no real problem, our infrastructure team did a good job!

Download Firefox 3.0, it’s Download Day.

martin_ml — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:35:46 +0000

Even though I’m a Safari user, I’ll probably try Firefox 3. Get it today and be part of a new world record the Mozilla team wants to beat : Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

Web Hosting going Crazy

martin_ml — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:59:13 +0000

While there is no human talent available, iWeb needs to hire sysadmins, customer service representatives, web developpers, a customer experience director, a new communications officer and more. At the same time our biggest competitor, The Planet, lives through an explosion at its H1 datacenter and Layeredtech, another big competitor causes a commotion (and a 600+ posts forum thread) after its decision to raise its server pricing of about 20-30$ per server for every customers. It is interesting to see that it’s easier for customers to accept 2 days of downtime, then a price increase. Thank you Layeredtech, we never expected you would gift us customers like that. Good luck The Planet (and congrats for the communications you kept with your customers). There are a lot of things going on in the web hosting space and we would like to be able to catch all the opportunities. The real challenge is not to get the customers, it’s to get the human talent to serve them well.

RAID Explained with Bottles of Water

martin_ml — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:34:42 +0000

Great post from Olivier on iWeb’s blog. If you do not understand what a RAID array is, bottles of water might help.

Am I blogging right? And Habs are out !

martin_ml — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:49:21 +0000

Damn it ! The Habs lost ….

I am not a Carey Price fan and his latest games are nothing to make me a fan. I never understood the press about Price while we had Huet that was doing a good job. Why did Montreal finished first on the division ranking? Because Huet and Price were the same, they were good half of the time and bad the other half so when you mix them together you had a good goaltender almost all the time because when Price was bad he was replaced by Huet and the same for Huet. I liked Huet a lot better because of what he accomplished in Montreal. They should have sent Koivu to Washington … anyway now they lost. We’ll talk about hockey again in September.

That’s not why I wanted to post.

I had a management meeting this week and Eric my partner was thinking about blogging because people always ask him if he has a blog. He doesn’t. His blog would be at ericchouinard.com which currently redirects to our iweb.com web site. Eric thought he should have a blog but said he would be able to post something maybe once a week. Everyone at the meeting told him he shouldn’t blog if he could not post at least daily. They also turned at me and told me that I really was on the limit, ok I admit I am not really a good blogger.

I have tons of things to talk about but I never have time to post although you are at least 32 to follow my blog daily according to feedburner. I frequently forward interesting stuff I read to my staff but I do not always take the time to post it on the blog, maybe I should.

By the way, we are just opening a new executive position, good salary and the person will be working directly for me. I can’t give me details now but if you are interested email me !

That was me blogging on a saturday night … nothing really interesting to say, but I guess it’s better than not posting ! Have a good night thinking about the Montreal Canadians loosing 4-1 to the Flyers. Brière must be happy he went with the Flyers now.

Thank you .. I never would have expected that !

martin_ml — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:38:50 +0000

As see on a Web Hosting forum….

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Wow. Thank you! Ahahahah. The guy puts a link to my blog in his forum signature saying there are good man present on earth. I think I will need to pay this customer. Thanks again Desilime.

iWeb Competition Watch

martin_ml — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:21:25 +0000

Today’s iWeb Competition Watch Report : Two interesting dedicated server companies merging. Read more here Layered Technologies aquires FastServers.

Google Datacenters Secrets

martin_ml — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:45:25 +0000

Very intresting for people interested in web hosting and datacenters. DataCenterKnowledge compiled a FAQ of known facts about Google Datacenters. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

The 3 page article is definitely a must read … a lot of interesting content. Here’s an excerpt (I removed the details about each bullet … go and read it on datacenter knowledge).

How does Google decide where to build its data centers? Here are the factors that are known to influence Google’s data center site location process:

The availability of large volumes of cheap electricity to power the data centers

The presence of a large supply of water to support the chillers and water towers used to cool Google’s data centers.

Distance to other Google data centers.

Tax incentives.