[geeks] Good, Competent UK Managed Web Hosting?

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>>> Funny. Thankfully our server on their network is running NetBSD so the
>>> OS is at least *less* likely to be the issue :P
>> I was thinking less of OS issues, than the recent and ongoing Sidekick
>> outage and associated data loss, which turned out to be because MS were
>> too impatient to complete a fresh backup before they started an OS
>> upgrade on the server farm.
> 
> To add further insult to injury, weren't Danger's servers running NetBSD
> before the Microsoft buyout?

afaik, they're not running on a Microsoft OS now.  That server farm is
Sun, EMC and Oracle.  Naturally, MS has been trying to blame Sun, EMC
and Oracle for the data loss...


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