HP crafted a clever attention-getting for its current marketing campaign: they basically blew up a small datacenter. Why? Well actually it wasn’t just to start an arms race with Mythbusters. They suggest that if your company uses HP networking and server products, you will also magically be able to withstand having a bomb hit your datacenter. If you plan for it, of course.

Link to video from HP

What else can we take away from this?

• HP’s new spin on going Green: fight energy-users with explosives
• If you use HP products, you may want to blow them up too!
• HP has a lot of extra money that they would rather not invest in R&D and driving sales (this could be argued either way, but as a stockholder I don’t think I would be happy with a company that wastes its own products).

Regardless, HP did have some success because tech bloggers and writers around the world are talking about it. From a logical perspective, I don’t see this being a very effective marketing pitch. Any network, regardless of specific manufacturer, can be made redundant. Especially if you are carefully planning for an exact failure at an exact time. The challenge in the real world is to build redundancy on multiple layers, while weighing costs and benefits to create a network setup that is as redundant as possible from human error, geographical locations, complexity problems and hardware failures.

Raleigh, June 12 – Raleigh-based Tranquil Hosting, Inc. announced today that ROUThost has become its newest client. ROUThost.com is a fast-growing web hosting company, hosting websites for thousands of customers with a wide variety of needs.

“We are excited to partner with the ROUThost.com team. We look forward to helping ROUThost with their service offerings to stay at the top of this competitive industry,” said Mark Price, President of Tranquil Hosting.

Tranquil Hosting will provide ROUThost.com with hosting service. More specifically, Tranquil has setup ROUThost with a dedicated server equipped with an impressive 6 Terabytes of storage capacity. As with its other clients, Tranquil Hosting supports ROUThost with managed services and a 24/7 comprehensive monitoring system. This is just one way Tranquil Hosting shows its commitment to its customers and their long-term success.

About Tranquil Hosting

Founded in 2002, Tranquil Hosting is a full-service web hosting company that prides itself on offering service with a high level of personal support and service. By providing its customers with proactive and preventive services, Tranquil Hosting helps to ensure clients obtain success while saving time and money. Tranquil Hosting serves clients both local and from all around the world.

About ROUThost

ROUThost.com, a privately held company in North Carolina, is dedicated to providing web hosting services for customers with various needs. A profitable and debt-free company, ROUThost.com is owned and operated by a group of young, educated and energetic people. From hosting plans to design layouts, it offers webmasters around the globe what they need to be successful.

I was surprised but also pleased to read that SixApart has announced that they will open-source their trademark blog platform Movable Type. When we first started doing blog hosting in 2002, Movable Type was hands down the most popular blog software. Although it was not released under an open source license, the software was free for personal use. The company later pulled in the reins and started charging for updated versions of its software. This alienated a lot of MT’s user base, and fueled the growth of open source Wordpress.

New features in Movable Type 4.0:

• Open source license, commercial support available
• WYSIWYG editor allows for pictures, videos, etc
• New dashboard - but it sounds like the Wordpress dashboard

One big advantage MT has over Wordpress is that you can run multiple independent blogs from one centralized MT installation, allowing for one single back-end system.

links

• New features in MT 4.0
• Info on the MT Open Source effort

In other news, Google is now offering Radio Ads to its adwords advertisers.

Need to backup your mysql databases in a pinch? Here is a quick script for making backups of the mysql databases on a hsphere db server:


#!/bin/bash
#
#
TODAY=`date +%m-%d-%Y`
for i in $( ls -l /var/lib/mysql/ | grep drwx | awk '{print $9}' ); do
/hsphere/shared/bin/sudo -H -u mysql mysqldump -Q --opt -u root $i > $i.$TODAY.sql
done


It will put the database dumps in the directory where you run this script.