ServerBeach Farewell to YouTube

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Steve Chen, Founder“When YouTube first started to experience its exponential growth and our hosting needs changed, ServerBeach offered us great flexibility. They continually redesigned our streaming architecture for optimum performance while keeping our hosting costs in check.”
YouTube’s beginning days were with ServerBeach. They grew at an incredible speed and ServerBeach, a PEER 1 company was [...]

Tags: Angela Ramirez, Comedy, Hardware, hosting, Network, Parody, PEER 1, Self-managed hosting, ServerBeach, Steve Chen, un-managed hosting, Video, YouTube

Choosing a dedicated hosting provider.

Around 2002-2003 I wrote an article about choosing a dedicated hosting provider. Working for a hosting provider (both managed, un-managed, and co-lo), I get asked about this a lot. I figured it’d be good to post it again.
What are your main concerns when searching for a dedicated hosting provider?
MAIN CONCERNS:
1. Having a large enough [...]

Tags: dedicated hosting, hosting, managed hosting, PEER 1, ServerBeach, un-managed hosting, unmanaged