Yeap, the problem is the economics changes every time so they have to reexamine the ROI each time they expand their hosting facilities.
We used to use a company called Genuity, if I remember the name correctly. They went public toward the end of the IPO craze. Had a bunch of "black rocket" commercials after they went public. You have to love the whole "we have your mystical black box solution" concepts that flew in the .com era. Anyway, I wasn't an operations guy, but they did have nice glass spaces and airlocks and the halon fire extinguishing systems, not to mention the huge backups... and then they went bankrupt... or maybe that was just everyone else. :) LOL. Peace, -Mike On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:24 AM, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:10:31 +0100, Michael Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's quite interesitng. They're probably growing their rack space. > Brokering new deals for server space and then installing new > indrastructure. We went through a bit of this back in the day. You > buy up some new facilities or lease out some rack space... you > develop it... you sell solutions until you fill up... then you buy > some more. They probably got behind because they were groing so fast. And they might not have staff to handle another room of servers. And the increase in revenue from another server location might not cover the additional cost in staff... I doubt the profit margins on webhosting are very high. - Andreas -- <URL:http://www.solitude.dk/> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
