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Houston Getting 50 Mbit residential connections early 2010

Sep 20, 2009 by Paul White

One of my neighbors works in management for Comcast here in Houston.  After talking with him it would seem that Comcast has big plans for Residential Service in Houston.  Like 50Mb/sec type of plans.  Or for those of you who prefer to think of data transfer in Bytes.  6.25 MB/sec downloads.

Core i7 WorkStation revised

Sep 20, 2009 by Paul White

A few of my friends wanted me to blog a little more about my computer setup.  With the recent addition of a 30 inch Samsung SyncMaster 305T monitor to my displays, I thought this would be a good time to update the world on what I am running.

SuperMicro 1U Rack Server 6014H-32 needs extra card for RAID 10

Sep 18, 2009 by Paul White

For anyone who thinks its a great idea to buy a 1U rack server and colocate their own box.  I have a few thoughts about SuperMicro and how they setup their 6014H-32 superserver.  Basically if you want RAID 10 you have to buy an extra card.  else you are stuck with RAID 0, or RAID 1.  Which are great, but when you have 4 SAS drives naturally you want to use RAID 10 for both speed and redundancy.

Sending our Jobs to India but not our datacenters or servers

Sep 13, 2009 by Paul White

Today as I was working on my blog, I noticed a google ad that was advertising Colocation and Dedicated Servers.  I just happen to be in the market for such products, so naturally I clicked the ad to learn more.  What I found made ma laugh.  Its obvious that the managers of the datacenter, don't have a clue when it comes to IT. 

fixing The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x80070057

Sep 11, 2009 by Paul White

If you are running Windows Server 2008, and IIS 7.  Then the chances are you might have seen this mystery error. The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x80070057.  After reading multiple forums, I have found the solution.

So if your event viewer is full of errors like this

Base:
System.Web.HttpException: The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x80070057. at System.Web.Hosting.IIS7WorkerRequest.RaiseCommunicationError(Int32 result, Boolean throwOnDisconnect) at System.Web.Hosting.IIS7WorkerRequest.ExplicitFlush() at System.Web.HttpResponse.Flush(Boolean finalFlush) at System.Web.HttpResponse.Flush() at System.Web.HttpWriter.Write(String s) at System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter.Write(String s) at ASP.photo_aspx.__Render__control1(HtmlTextWriter __w, Control parameterContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildrenInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ICollection children) at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer) at System.Web.UI.Page.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControlInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter) at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter) at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

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Reason to upgrade to SSD Hard Drives

Sep 10, 2009 by Paul White

After some thinking about SSD hard drives, and looking for a logical reason to upgrade to them in my system, I have finally found the reason.  Conservation is the name of the game.

Godaddy Dedicated Servers equals Low Open Rates on your Email Campaigns

Sep 10, 2009 by Paul White

After parking some of my larger websites on Godaddy's Dedicated Servers about a month ago.  I have found where Godaddy is weak.  To say the least By Nov 1st I plan to shutdown my godaddy Dedicated Server, and move them to a colocated box with a local Data Center here in Houston.

Do Mail Servers penalize for not including Plain Text Email Content

Sep 5, 2009 by Paul White

This was a question I asked myself recently.  Its hard to believe that there are still people out there that don't accept HTML formatted emails.  But do mail servers from major providers punish emails that don't provide some old school plain text formatting for the 5 people in the world who are still get their email via compuserve?  So I will be experimenting to find out.

SLR camera settings for nightclubs and low light venues

Aug 27, 2009 by Paul White

Every photographer eventually finds themselves in a dark place ( nightclub, concert, bar ) trying to get some cool photos.  But we get home only to find all our shots were under or over exposed.  This is the time when you realize that you didn't spend grands on your camera body to take pictures in AUTO mode.  After trial and error and reading multiple blogs, and forums, I have found the perfect settings for great nightclubs photos from your SLR camera.

Using PING times to pick your hosting provider

Aug 24, 2009 by Paul White

Recently I moved a few of my clients to Godaddy.  Even though I hear lots of bad things about godaddy, my websites are running faster than they had been running on HostMySite.  Turns out that this speed increase might have more to do with PING times than the hardware they were hosted on.