Hosting Nuggets has its own dot-com domain name

You might have already noticed it by looking at the URL but Hosting Nuggets is nowreachable under its own dot-com domain name: www.hostingnuggets.com. It was quite fortunate that the hostingnuggets.com domain name was still free and I really like that name. So there was nothing else to do that just to buy it and enable it in the settings of blogspot. No worries, you can still reach the Hosting Nuggets blog through its old address hostingnuggets.blogspot.com. In fact the nice thing is that the blog will always be reachable under these two names...

Failed managed servers really make the difference - Part 2

In my previous post of yesterday entitled Failed managed servers really make the difference, I was so amazed that a company could have failed servers showing on their special offer banner that I overlooked another problem with that very same advertisement: a typo in the text! So if you have a closer look at the bottom text of their banner, you will read: "* valid for singale server and new customers only." as highlighted in pink below.

So to summarize, there are three servers that show signs of hardware problem or failure and even the little text that there is contains a typo... Could it get any worse? Well, I hope not but I would really be interested to know how many people go for that special offer!

Failed managed servers really make the difference

Imagine you are looking for a dedicated managed server with a hosting services company... How reassuring would you find it, if such a company would display a banner for their managed solutions with half of the servers on that ad showing an orange display as signal for a warning, fault or failure of the server's hardware?

Well well well, one american co-location and managed hosting services company was courageous enough to do that. In fact, that banner for managed solutions on their homepage shows 6 servers, among them 3 DELL PowerEdge 1950 or R300 with an orange display signaling a presumable hardware problem... The other 3 servers on the top, most probably DELL PowerEdge 1850 or R200 are fine (although not that sure because the last one hasn't got its LED turned on so it might be flashing orange which would again mean: hardware warning or fault).

One might simply not notice these three faulty servers and of course one has to know a minimum about DELL's hardware, but orange or red is pretty much always a bad sign for any kind of server... Of course it could just be that those 3 servers have 2 redundant PSU and one of the PSU is not connected, but is it really wise to take the risk and promote a service with hardware showing signs of warning?

Hosting Nuggets tweeting on Twitter

Hosting Nuggets is now on Twitter! I will mostly use Twitter to tweet about interesting and novel websites I have found around the web as well as great articles from various technology related blogs which are worth to read.

The URL to the Hosting Nuggets Twitter is: http://twitter.com/hostingnuggets and I would be very glad to have you follow me or hear about you on that micro blogging platform.

Easily find websites related to yours using the google search engine

Have you ever wondered who are your website's rivals? Or are you just curious to know what other websites have a topic which is related to yours? Or are simply looking for other websites with a related topic? If you answer yes to one of these questions, well you are lucky because one of the most famous search engines, google, provides you with a special function which simply enables you to do that directly in its search box. This special function is called "related:" and can be used by adding it before your website's URL in google's search box. Let me show you an example using the famous Swiss hotels booking and holidays in Switzerland website called go trotting: this website has the www.gotrotting.com address so if I wanted to see any websites with a related topic (holidays in switzerland, travelling portal or Swiss tourism) I would just enter the following query in google's search input field:

related:www.gotrotting.com

In that case it gives me about four pages with various websites with the same topic as what I am looking for. Isn't that great?

DELL PowerEdge R210 cheaper on internet

What a discovery today... I called in DELL a few days ago to ask for an offer for the most basic and cheapest version of their PowerEdge R210 server. I received their offer and was amazed to see that it would cost me 962 CHF to get it from their sales agent. I could remember checking this exact same model and configuration on the DELL website and could get it there for just 634 CHF. This is a difference of more than 300 CHF! Usually going through their sales agent for a PowerEdge server would have the benefit of getting a small discount making it most of the times cheaper than ordering directly on the net but this has just been proven false for this very small configuration. The lesson is clear here: always double check the prices online and don't believe any sales representatives who promise you the best prices.

Back from relaxing and enjoyable holidays

After some wonderful and relaxing holidays in an amazing and hot country I am officially back home and already working on some new fun projects. I hope that in the mean time you have found out my holiday's destination, if not there is an extra clue in the picture below.

Soon, I will post some new blog articles about interesting topics and as well as websites. So keep tuned for more...

Hosting Nuggets officially on holidays

Yes, you will have noticed, we are now finally in summer and it is arriving although very slowly in our beloved country. After having spoken of holidays in Switzerland a few posts ago on my blog, it is now time for me to go on holidays with my wonderful girlfriend. I leave you the puzzling task to guess which amazing and sunny country I am going to. A small hint for you: it is right now 34°C there and it is full of water and sand, as you can see on the picture below...

Enjoy your summer holidays to all of you and see you again on my blog in three weeks!