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New Server Status Information for GCS Clients

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:39:49 +0000

GCS servers are monitored around the clock by Monitis monitoring services and you may now view this information live at status.gibbtech.com. If we are experiencing any network or server outages you will see it reflected here and we’ll update our blog with specific notes in the event of a failure or unplanned maintenance.

Backups vs. Disaster Recovery

admin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:24:39 +0000

Your company backs up regularly, right? If you do, you are probably under the misconception that a good backup is all you need to recover in the event of a disaster. Unfortunately this is not the case. In the event of a server failure how would you access that backed up data until your server could be repaired (which quite often can takes days)? How would 2 or 3 days of complete downtime impact your company? What about a week?

Backups are simply not enough, your growing business needs a disaster recovery plan in place. How will you access and make use of those backups if you don’t have functioning hardware to run them on? These and other questions are vital to your business surviving even a minimal systems failure.

GCS can help you develope a disaster recovery plan from the ground up. Good backups are only the beginning, let us help you put systems in place that will reduce or elliminate downtime in the event of a failure.

Call us at 303-617-6442. GCS provides IT support for the Denver metro area and surrounding communities.

Our Computer Services now available on Thumbtack.com

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:47:05 +0000

GCS can now be found on thumbtack.com, a service for finding qualified professionals in your area, click here to review our list on Computer & Technology support for small business

Email outage resolved, email flowing again

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:17:36 +0000

We experienced a problem with our SMTP queue today that caused email delivery to be delayed shortly. The software error at fault has been resolved and email is now flowing properly, no email was lost.
If you have any questions please contact us via the support link above.

Network outage impacting email

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:46:03 +0000

We have a network outage that is impacting several of our clients this afternoon. We are in the process of diagnosing the problem and will update the blog when we have an ETA on the repair.

Windows outage resolved

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:03:32 +0000

An application pool error has been found and resolved, all impacted sites are back online.

Windows hosting outage

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:37:32 +0000

We have an outage we are researching on one of our Windows servers. This is only impacting a couple of websites hosted with GCS, but if your website resolves to the server ending in .13 you will experience some outages today while we work to resolve this issue.
We will update the blog with information as it is available.

PHP upgrade this weekend

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:45:13 +0000

We will be upgrading PHP to 5.3.8 on our windows web servers this coming weekend. We’ve already been in touch with customers utilizing PHP and do not anticipate any outages or problems with the upgrade. If you have questions or concerns please contact us.

Virtualization benefits and Disaster Recovery

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:51:07 +0000

When considering whether or not virtualized technologies are a good fit for your small business, ask yourself how an extended outage would impact your business? What would happen to your employees productivity in the event they couldn’t use their computers for several days? How long could you afford to be down while sytems were rebuilt from a backup?

Virtualization addresses these and other concerns. With our latest offerings we can spin up virtual versions of your servers offsite in the event of a catastrophe (fire, theft, complete hardware failure). Best of all, virtualization is now affordable for the small business.

Contact GCS if you are looking to improve your disaster recovery plan (or let us help you create one if you don’t already have a plan in place). Although GCS has been offering virtualized solutions for some time, we’ve recently added solutions based on Oracle’s Virtualbox to the mix and are now supporting:

Microsoft Hyper-V

VMWare ESXi

Oracle VirtualBox

Email us at info@gibbtech.com or call us at 303-617-6442.

The dawn of a new Internet

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:47:19 +0000

In the not too distant future, you might start to see websites that end in .food or .microsoft.

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In a special session on Monday, June 20, the Internet’s governing body voted 13-1 to allow, in theory, an near-infinite number of new domain endings.

ICANN, known formally as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, calls it “one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet’s Domain Name System.”

There are currently 22 top-level domains, the most frequent being .com, .org, .net, and so on. With this change, website names will be able to end with almost any word in any language.

Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of ICANN, explained the gravity of the announcement on ICANN’s website: “ICANN has opened the Internet’s naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today’s decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the domain name system to better serve all of mankind.”

Tech commentators and marketers see this an immediate opportunity for corporations, which will certainly rush to apply for branded domain names, such as .coke or .microsoft.

As for the Joe Sixpack who wants to register www.joe.sixpack, he’s going to need a brimming bank account and a good lawyer. The change comes with a few restrictions:

It will cost $185,000 just to apply for a new generic top-level domain name
Approval will take months and may involve governments and other agencies
Applicants must show a legitimate claim to the name they are buying

Learn more: http://www.icann.org/