Kosydor Adventures

The site finally has a new look and feel. Let me know what you think. Cousin Mike and I talked several times about getting this site more functional for our adventures and a place to archive tons of old photos. Ok guys get your photos ready.

Jalbum is up and running and WordPress is blogging.

For my relatives and friends info—I currently operate web hosting services for my own projects on two different dedicated servers. One of my boxes is in Downtown Chicago located at Lakeside Technology Center, the same building in which Equinix is located. Steadfast Networks is keeping me connected there. My real valuable sites (money making) e-commerce sites are located on this box.
More long haul fiber goes through Chicago than any other city in the United States. Most of the fiber connecting the East and West coasts of the United States goes through Chicago, giving Chicago ample network capacity as well as routes that offer low latency to both the East and West coasts.

The connection speeds coming out of downtown Chicago is awesome for my sites there.

My second box is in Downtown New York and the monthly lease payment goes to Interserver. Check out their pipelines around New York City in the following pic. These guys are also wired into the big boys and a hub for the global crossing lines.

These boxes aren’t cheap but I have been running with the big boys myself the last couple of years. You gotta pay if you wanna play. The preferred hosting software for me is Cpanel and WebHost Manager. I can launch a new website within minutes on either one of these dedicated server boxes. I also have “redundancy” back up in case New York or Chicago gets blowed up by our wacko friends across the oceans.

The hot set-up for me is the Raid Hardware Packages. I like the peace of mind knowing if there is a hardware crash that my data is mirrored.

RAID is a way of combining multiple disk drives into a single entity to improve performance and/or reliability. There are a variety of different types and implementations of RAID, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. For example, by putting a copy of the same data on two disks (called disk mirroring, or RAID level 1), read performance can be improved by reading alternately from each disk in the mirror. On average, each disk is less busy, as it is handling only 1/2 the reads (for two disks), or 1/3 (for three disks), etc. In addition, a mirror can improve reliability: if one disk fails, the other disk(s) have a copy of the data. Different ways of combining the disks into one, referred to as RAID levels, can provide greater storage efficiency than simple mirroring, or can alter latency (access-time) performance, or throughput (transfer rate) performance, for reading or writing, while still retaining redundancy that is useful for guarding against failures.

Did you get all that??