• Uptime vs. downtime

    The media loves bad news. It’s a sad but true fact of life.3995277067_f48fa1f576_o

    For example: Server administrators love the word “uptime”. Most normal people love uptime, because it means that things are working the way they should. Uptime is a positive word.

    “Downtime,” however, most server administrators really hate. The shit has hit the proverbial fan, unless it’s planned downtime, of course. Downtime is a negative word.

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  • The top 5 TLD flops, ever

    With the Internet growing rapidly over the years, the number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has increased from just a handful to about twenty, with many more proposed or in planning. Some, such as .com and .edu, have seen widespread adoption and are a useful contribution to the Internet. Others haven’t been quite as lucky. You could say they have flopped.

    From domain extensions that never made it past the planning table, to those that make little sense at all, there are probably more flops than successes. Here are five of the worst TLD flops in Internet history (in no specific order).

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