Web Hosting Strategies
Analysis and review of the web hosting and managed services industry by Doug Kaye.
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The Commission Model. As I mentioned a few days ago, I'm an advisor to CanXCentral, a Toronto-based company that helps clients locate colocation and managed service venders, based on a commission model. Tonight I received a message from Andrew McMaster at FindMyHosting, a new service that is using the same business model at the low end for shared and dedicated web hosting. The site is refreshingly clear of ads, and there are no "recommendations." FindMyHosting claims not to be associated with any particular vendor. Like CanXCentral, they are trying to build a "level playing field" marketplace. Looks promising.
Posted Friday, March 01, 2002 10:29:52 PM 
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Teetering Tier? Is Tier 1 Research on long-term hiatus? Their web page, including "Featured Companies," hasn't been updated since 10/11/01. There used to be interesting stuff there.
Posted Friday, March 01, 2002 5:56:07 PM
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Matrix Event Advisory Weekly Summary. I like reading Matrix's advisories. They remind me that all ISPs have their problems, which is why you need more than one. For instance, between 06:45 GMT and 08:00 GMT on 26 February, Matrix monitoring nodes in North America detected 100% packet loss and total reachability failure to Infonet nodes in Europe. The performance losses were isolated to the peering point between Alternet (WorldCom) and Infonet in New York, NY. Infonet's peering router in New York experienced packet loss of up to 88% for 1.25 hours.
This performance loss affected North American Alternet (WorldCom) traffic destined for Europe and passing through the Infonet peering point in NYC.
Posted Friday, March 01, 2002 3:38:30 PM
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