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Why is there a system change freeze – especially on black monday and black friday?

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

When I started working in systems, one of my first client was a major bank.  Yes, this was back in the mainframe batch processing days.  They never did any system updates when they ran the month end, quarter end and especially year end.
I always thought that they just weren’t confident in their system folks and [...]

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Tags: Down Time · hosting

Black Monday

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

E-commercre Report; Several of the most popular online merchants have struggled to cope with the heavy holiday traffic, a survey shows.
Ok, that was NYTimes 2003 – what about now?   This season there have already been several announcements of ecommerce snafus.  Sears.com site shut down for a couple of hours and there have even been [...]

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Tags: hosting · monitoring

Utilizing google apps email as a web host – sign of strenght or weakness?

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

PrometHost offers best of class hosting for websites, databases, and other services such as email, domain registration, spam filtering, etc. We have recently made a decision to focus on three things for our hosting offering:
- security
- [...]

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Tags: Installation