A day in the life of Datacenter Disasters

Open Query currently hosts a large part of our infrastructure at Linode. We are extremely happy with their performance, stability and support. Unfortunately any chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link. This week, there was a major thunderstorm near the Hurricane Electric datacenter (anyone else think that name is funny in combination with [...]

Oracle Blamed for Laws of Nature

A catchy headline, and I believe more accurate than Oracle Puts the Squeeze on SMBs with MySQL Price Hike (Network World) and MySQL price hikes reveal depth of Oracle’s wallet love [MySQL Jacking up MySQL Prices] (The Register). Slightly more realistic is Oracle kills low-priced MySQL support (again The Register). First, let’s review what Oracle [...]