Rackspace, world’s major dedicated server hosting provider suffers severe outage for hours

rackspaceRackspace, one of the MAJOR dedicated server hosting providers of the world, went down severely for more than an hour yesterday, resulting in with many popular websites going down like eventbrite.com, Timberlake's blog, Malkin's blog and etc. As Rackspace was found quoting,

We are having an issue that is affecting part of our DFW data center. No details yet. Will update as we get more information.

But even with that, people are asking why was there a single point failure (SPF) for something as big as Rackspace. Apparently one out of Rackspace's nine global datacenters went down, which still consists of a scary number of websites having suffered the unexpected breakdown from a sevice that promises 100% uptime. The outages also affected the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cluster hosted by Rackspace, apparently making e-commerce and other functions that depend on SSL inoperable for Rackspace-hosted sitesrackspace-on-twitter Full article (405 words) »

Looking for Unmanaged Dedicated Web Hosting Providers

My minimum requirements are:

  • Pentium Core 2 Duo
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 X 160GB SATA II Harddisk with Hardware RAID 1
  • 1500GB Bandwidth
  • 10Mbps with option to easily upgrade to 100Mpbs in future
  • Remote Reboot facility
  • 5 usable IP Addresses
  • Price lock for at least an year or more.
  • CPanel / Plesk not required

Note: It would like to have CentOS installed and RAID-1 configured. Any option to cheaply purchase additional IP in future will be great. Any monitoring facility will be icing but not required.

Few questions:

  • Where is your DC located?
  • Are you a reseller?
  • What is your uptime guarantee? Can you give it in writing?
  • What kind of power backup do you have?

Please respond using the contact form or comment form below. Comments may not be published on this post.

Any suggestions are welcome.

LayeredTech, Dedicated Web Hosting Provider, Suddenly Increases Price by 26%; Twice in 12 Months

I am a long time LayeredTech dedicated server customer. Today out of the blue LayeredTech increased the price by 26%! None of the "service improvements" directly benefits average customers like us: Full article (264 words) »
Protected by Comment Guard Pro