Richard Yoo’s Weblog

You can see a Streetview car in action here:

How the NewEgg warehouse works…

Inside Newegg NJ

• @candieb rasterbator is your friend http://tinyurl.com/2egvf I suppose the most expensive part was the 15mins I spent on it. #

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I pretty much agree with most of this blog post:

What Web Hosting is For

Nobody puts any attention on email hosting, and everyone is giving it away for free. And all the free services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc are remarkably good… much better than what you could roll on your own, or buy from any for-pay email hosting companies.

Personally, I’ve stopped hosting any of my email on my own servers about 2 years ago.. which I’m sure surprises lots of people since I love managing email servers… but the reality is that its just a huge pain, and its a 24×7 service that you can’t live without - and frankly, Google/Yahoo/Microsoft are all really good at it and I have other things to do.

Lately, I’ve also grown fond of the web-based interfaces from Google/Yahoo/Microsoft… I find them much more useable than OutlookXP/2003/2007 and even better than my all-time favorite Eudora. I’m getting really close to going 100% web on my email - maybe this summer… hmm…

A quick video showing how Bump Keys work… your locks are not safe.

Now this is a how you build a datacenter… wow!

• 407,000 square feet of space
• 250 MVA Switch owned substation
• 146 MVA of generator capacity
• 84 MVA of UPS supply
• 30,000 tons of system plus system cooling
• 4,500,000 CFM
• 30 cooling towers
• 100% heat containment using thermal-scif™
• Designed for 1500 watts per sq. ft. density
• 7000+ cabinets

http://www.switchnap.com/pages/products/the-supernap-video.php

More coverage here: Huge Data Center Going Up In Sin City

• @maslowbeer Don’t ask me, I haven’t been there in years. If I was still there things would definitely be different. #
• @sweetums Its actually really cool - it does a really good job. I’m impressed. #

Posted by richardyoo on Natuba

So now we have these new-fangled “crazy ants”… wonderful.

The good news? They eat fire ants, the stinging red terrors of Texas summers.

But the ants also like to suck the sweet juices from plants, feed on such beneficial insects as ladybugs, and eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered type of grouse known as the Attwater prairie chicken.

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

• ouch, its days like this I’m glad I’m not working at a hosting company day-to-day anymore. http://tinyurl.com/4mbhku #
• Hummer H2 doing to be discontinued in 2010. Chevy Avalanche and Cadillac EXT also getting canned. http://tinyurl.com/5m8zmt #
• You down with BOC?! Ya you know me! http://tinyurl.com/5neah3 #
• @jimyang interesting… we’ll see what we can do with that.. thanks! #
• @pud id-10-t, I like it! #

• @RakeshAgrawal Dunno what caused the power problems. [shrug] #

• Power just went out at the house, and the generator automagically just kicked in… ATS trasfered over, and everything is back online! w00t! #
• @gdruckman still don’t have power… been on generator for about 30mins now… its pretty sweet! most important thing is that I have HVAC #
• @akpoff I have both DSL and Cable here and both seem fine (still on generator) #

• @lalorek Thanks, we’re working our tails off over here! #
• @lalorek you know, you’d think that… but these guys I’m working with are determined to make something even bigger than Rackspace! #

• @candieb Thanks! @Natuba is much more of a challenging biz to run than Rackspace! #
• http://natuba.com/p/BeMILl/ - Multi-wan on soekris 4501 with openwrt #
• @economysizegeek Yes, setting up failover - it seems that with two people working from home, minor hiccups in internet are painfully obvious #
• @economysizegeek Also the 4501 has more horsepower than a WRT unit for more agressive QoS and VPN stuff #
• @economysizegeek You can balance, I’m just setting up failover. You can get 16meg connections in Houston. http://www.natuba.com/photo/0X … #
• @economysizegeek oops. http://www.natuba.com/photo/0Xo37R/ #
• @economysizegeek fast up-speeds make uploading photos a snap. I wish FIOS was in town, 45+mbps! #

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