Five 9s is telcom and data center lingo meaning 99.999% availability. It’s equivalent to 5 minutes of downtime per year. The PSTN (public switched telephone network) is designed to five 9s going back to the days of fanatical engineers at Ma Bell. Remember when we all had AT&T and Bell Telephone? [...]
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Our Resurrection web sites are currently hosted on a pair of dedicated servers at Vine Hosting in Philadelphia. (Vine Hosting is affiliated with Web Empowered Church, which has received major funding from the Methodist Foundation for Evangelism.) Vine Hosting’s data center is colocated with XO Communications in a massive carrier hotel at 401 N. Broad. [...]
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Don’t let the mild-mannered appearance of this group fool you.
We’re in our last day of Arena training before go live on Tuesday next week. Chuck is teaching the Report Builder in SQL Reporting Services. With these eager students, his first exercise was to simply select first and last name and then run the report. [...]
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