July 11, 2008—We wanted to let you know that the Rackster Hosting Inc Managed DNS Services are not affected by the DNS vulnerability recently identified by US CERT ( The Computer Security Response Team, a division of the Department of Homeland Security ).>
The vulnerability is limited to recursive servers. Rackster Hosting Inc External Managed DNS Services are authoritative only and do not provide external recursive DNS services for any domains. Therefore, these name servers are not vulnerable to cache poisoning in any way.
Rackster Hosting Inc has just completed an upgrade to its data center operations in Kelowna British Columbia.
July 10, 2008—Rackster Hosting Inc now provides Gigabit Ethernet connections as a standard service offering.
Rackster Hosting Inc has just completed an upgrade to its data center operations in Kelowna British Columbia.
Local tech talent is available as shown by the recent Disney purchase of Club Penguin for $350 million cash.
Amy Holland, Senior Sales Associate of Rackster Hosting Inc, states: "Corporate customers are increasingly seeking large bandwidth, resilient data centers to provide primary hosting, business continuity and disaster recovery services. Market trends such as the massive growth in Internet traffic and evolving needs of business have resulted in growing numbers of new customers. There are increasing requirements from existing customers, which are also driving the increase in demand for multi-gigabit connections.
"Rackster Hosting Inc has invested millions in its Green Dream Data Center operations and this further demonstrates our commitment to providing our customers with the highly secure space, facilities, services and connected environment they require."
You do get what you pay for. When designing and building our Data Center Infrastructure, like any endeavor, success is largely a result of getting more things right than wrong. Only experience, tells us what can go wrong, and how to ensure that it doesn't.
At Rackster Hosting Inc. we offer ingredients that are easily blended in any combination to offer a range of Gig-E products and services for clients who's Internet requirements are 200% vital to their business.
Introduction to Upcoming Rackster-Vision
July 9, 2008—A
Web-based On-Demand television channel for the entire Meet-Me-Room and Core
Interconnection industry.
Rackster-Vision brings a web video archive of interviews, presentations and information
covering multiple dimensions of the industry from numerous senior level sources
into one central location. The mission of Rackster-Vision is simple; to be a
web video resource for all to share and learn from.
How can Rackster-Vision benefit you?
If you area buyer of network services this is an easy channel to access and
gain insightful information about the various providers, technologies and
services available in Meet-Me-Rooms around the world. This knowledge will help
you make more informed decisions that will improve your overall network
performance and reduce your costs.
If you’re a supplier of network services Rackster-Vision will assist you in
getting your message out to the marketplace in one of the most efficient and
cost effective manners possible.
Rackster-Vision provides On-Demand access to leading industry experts and
cutting edge information through:
• Unique one-on-one interviews
• Major industry conference sessions
• Customer presentations
• Service provider video promotions
Rackster-Vision services include:
• Videography
• Script writing/editing/consultation
• Video editing
• Producing
• Hosting
• Provided as a value-added service to our customers
Rackster-Vision, keeping our eyes on the future
For more information on scheduling a Rackster-Vision interview please contact
Sales 888-717-0765
Rackster Hosting Inc announces the Grand Opening of its Super Green datacenter in Kelowna, BC. All electrical power is generated by hydro electric equipment at various dams in British Columbia.
July 7, 2008, Kelowna, BC—Rackster Hosting Inc announced the launch of its Super Green datacenter in Kelowna, BC. All electrical power is generated by hydro electric equipment at various dams in British Columbia.
The company's internal network has been designed for maximum network performance, featuring 20 Gigabit connectivity to each server rack. The location's initial cabinet installation utilizes Dell PowerConnect 6248 Multi-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
"We've deployed Cisco and Dell 6200 series switches in our datacenters. Every upstream network port is multiple GB and every rack is terminated with 20GB of connectivity one 10GB connections to the public Internet and one 10GB connections to our Direct Private Network," said Amy Holland, Rackster Hosting Inc.. "This level of redundancy and throughput is ideal for hosting, grid, content delivery, clustering, and high performance computing, and demonstrates our commitment to these emerging technologies and to providing enterprise services to the masses."
What is also clear is the Rackster Hosting Inc commitment to the future. "While most hosting companies boast 100 Mbps Ethernet to the Internet, we are delivering 20GB to every rack," said Joop Cousteau, Senior Rackster Hosting Inc Consultant. "When the install of our racks is complete in late August 2008, it will utilize over 800 1GB ports, and we project 10GB at the server level will take that number significantly higher."
The exceptional level of connectivity supports escalating demands for Rackster Hosting Inc's rapidly expanding managed storage services... With Content Delivery, SAAS, Web 2.0, and streaming media applications driving the need for higher performance storage, it has become critical to have higher bandwidth between servers and storage. "We expect to have several MMO and SAAS companies with large server farms utilizing direct fiber connections to Secure Storage Bin over the Direct Private Network. Having 10GB from the rack to the storage fabric is critical for maximizing their performance and uptime," said Joop Cousteau Senior Rackster Hosting Inc Consultant. "This network design has been approved on our test bed."
About Us: Rackster Hosting Inc was formed to provide a cyber bivouac for a group of individuals who have been meeting together to develop data centers and content delivery strategies all over the world for nearly two decades.
It is a meeting room of IQ, but IQ-HQ just didn't do it for us. Often virtual, but always global, we are basically a think tank. Rackster Hosting Inc brings its friends, its clients, and sometimes its cohabitants on Earth the best ideas in whichever sectors we choose to operate.
We here at Rackster Hosting Inc do not pretend that we can solve the world's problems - yet. We do not presuppose that we are the "be all end all" whatsoever.
What we can say is that we will continue to provide innovative, useful tools that always come with a large appreciation for the tenuous grip that we humans have on our planet.
We do not, and will not, show off our impressive list of clients. Why? Because their business is their business, and ours is working with them.