Tag Archive: Datacentre


Web Hosting Support and India

Filed Under: General
Aug.06, 2008

There seemed to be a big booming industry for web hosting support in India about a year ago, but now it seems that it is hopeless, because of several reasons. People from India having to manage servers in the US face a 300 ms latency, which is quite a lot when you want to get a big work done. At times this latency goes up due to a network congestion, and this could mean hours of delay in the larger scale. And people in India dont have the skill to get things done effeciently, and all that they are fit for is something like in a BPO or a call center job. You will find that all employees are let very loose thru the employment screening processes everywhere.

Handing a server to an irresponsible guy would prove to be hopeless, and it is always better to take support from the datacentre itself if possible.

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A new office

Filed Under: ubuntu
Jul.27, 2008

Im in the process of setting up a new office for a new kind of business that not many would have tried to start up and run independently. Well, Im gambling a bit, and am starting up a stand alone adfarm. I have rented a few servers from a Datacentre at Singapore, got a few publishers accounts from here and there, and got plenty of domain names to spare, and all I need is some 30 people, 10 in a shift, working for 6 days a week in the strategy that I have developed to make a substantial income for the office to support itself, and give me a good share of the money.

I have the office ready, and am currently in the process of buying office furniture, and computers as well. I should then look for some good decorators to give the place a good look. Since the office would be open 24 hours a day, a lot of things should be done to keep the environment just the same in all 3 shifts.

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Tata Indicom Broadband Sucks

Filed Under: General
May.13, 2008

It really does. They have all sorts of weird billing systems, and they dont provide you service. Their local server at Pondicherry sucks big time, and it never works. Yesterday all day my sites were not opening. Only the most popular sites like yahoo and msn were opening and nothing else really was. Torrent downloads seemed to be working though, but it was not a connection exceed problem or anything like that. The sites were not working even when all downloads were stopped.

And today, absolutely no data is being transfered, and the modem lights are just standing still. I dont understand what sort of service they are providing, and how they are still managing to be in business. I wonder how well their datacentre is maintained. I know a lot of people are hosting their websites with the VSNL datacentre in various parts of India, and have heard that they normally dont go down, and if they go down, they wont come up for a couple of days.

They dont accpet payments with credit cards, they dont accept cash. They only take cheques. In an advanced age where people are using only credit cards and electronic clearing systems to pay bills, Ratan still needs cheques and make the banks work hard.

How do they manage to stay in business? Ratan Tata is funding the copany out of his own pocket? Due to this, I have revoked my BSNL connection, and have stopped the initial cheque that I had issued for a new tata indicom connection. They would be calling me in 2 days, and I would be asking them to return the cheque and take their modem and wires away. If they want to go legal with the cheque, I would be going legal against their services too.

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Mail Servers

Filed Under: General
Apr.20, 2008

For personal use, gmail is great. But when it comes to commercial use, when you receive 10s and 100s of mails every second to various mail boxes in your domain name? You cannot trust google apps with that. What would happen to your mails if they suspend your account. And even if they wouldn’t it is always advisable to go for your own mail server when you have huge volumes of mails being transacted, and have so many different ids on just one domain, and if you would like your mails to be private than at someone elses mercy.

A mail server can be any web server that is colocated at any datacentre, installed with mail boxes and a mail server software. A mailserver doesnt usually come with apache and other web publishing or FTP provisions installed on it, as these would affect the performance of the mails.

A regular Pentium 4 Mail server can be used to handle over 500000 mails per hour, while, an optreon or a core 2 quad server can send upto 10 million in an hour, and process the same amount in receiving as well.

This kind of mail servers are for large companies that send out mails to several people outside their company, such as news letters or personalized stuff to various people.

A medium level software development company, having around 2000 employees need 2000 induvidual ids for the staff, and about another 1000 business ids, and let ssay every id sends out a mail every 2 mins, that is about 9000 mails every hour, and apart from the resources that you need to send out this many mails, you need to filter out the bounce mails, spam mails and forward the incoming mails to the appropriate mail boxes.

For all these, a Pentium 4 server should do great, provided it is not installed with anything other than the mail server software.

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Application Servers

Filed Under: General
Apr.20, 2008

There are more things to servers than just plain web hosting. Out of the 15% market share of Windows servers, about 10 % are application servers and only the other 5% comes to Web Hosting. If you have a large company that has various branches around the world, and would like to keep the billing cnetralized, instead of hosting a server in your own office, paying for the internet and maintaining it, you could get it from a datacentre in the US, who would take care of everything for you in the hardware side.

These servers can be pointed to by a domain name, and an email service be installed in it, and the application that has been designed to take care of the billing or anything that it is supposed to take care of is installed on the server. When a billing PC of the associated company in any part of the world needs to fetch data, which would always be connected to the internet, it will do so from the centralized data on the server.

Logistics companies use centralized servers to run theri tracking applications, and make it available on their websites for the clients to view the progress. Airline companies, shipping companies, railways and even bus companies run their ticket booking services thru a server, and it is no longer thru phones thru which bookings are confirmed between various stations that a bus would pass thru.

Most of the application servers that I have seen are on Windows, as windows seems to be good at running single sites, if it is protected well from viruses. It comes with a remote desktop and it is easier to mange. And as long as Windows is only used by a closed group of users who know what they are doing, it is safe enough.

Have I told you that I was using Windows XP from 2002 to 2005 without a single virus infection, or having the need to format the hard drive, and that too without any virus, spyware or adware protection? Thats because I have always known the problems with windows, and what not to do to save it from getting my PC into trouble. Though I couldnt do much of that for my servers, since it was on a multi user environemnt and I had no control over the files that the clients would upload and share.

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